Lion's: THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY DELAWARE COUNTY CAMPUS, MEDIA, PA. October, 1976 Everyone Loses In Traffic Problem By: Lloyd Vernon Ever come to school ten minutes before class and find out that it takes you at least the same amount of time to find a parking space? Well, according to Mr, Eugene Cloud the Business Manager, fellow students who park their unregistered cars on the lot are the cause of the overcrowding. “Kids see how long they can get away "without registering,” said Mr, Cloud, “It is a constant battle to register the cars,” Sometimes students accumulate many tickets and get away with it for weeks until they are caught. The students who parked illegally cause the guard to spend his time writing out tickets while his main job is to try to protect the cars from vandals, Most persons who park legally must wonder where that $7.50 goes each semes- ter, With a 750 car lot it adds upto Students Escape To Mall By: Lisa Boheler During their free periods, students go to the mall, but why? After asking some of the students this question, I found that a lot of their responses to be similar, Some of their reasons for taking refuge to ‘‘Granite Run’ are as follows: “Uusally just to eat lunch, To get away from school for a while, to kill some time, Just to forget about school for a while - you get so bored around here,” ‘‘Because,,.a, I don’t know, I just like to look around, to get something to eat... Im always hungry. For two hours you have to find something to do,’ “Uusally so I ean go out to eat, See what good records are on sale, It gets boring here,” “To eat lunch,” ‘“Usually to get something to eat, You starve eating slop here.” “This place is boring,” ‘“To get away from school,’ ‘A change of scenery,’ “Nothing better to do around here, All’s there is to do here is eat and (Continued on Page 2) many . $5,625.00 each term, Well, all that money goes to University Park along with the parking money from all branch campuses and it is put into a general fund to help build parking lots, The trees you see along rt. 352 and in the parking lot were purchased with money collected from student parking fees. All money collected from parking fines is given to USA. Another problem which involvesdrivers ‘is the traffic mess that occurs at the intersection of rt. 352 and Yearsley Mill Road, When coming to school on 352, from around Granite Run Mall, there is a dangerous hill which students go over to make left turns. Although there is a shoulder to use on the right side, a car might be going too fast to stop, and hit a car in the line for the left turn, Mr, Cloud told me for now they are asking for a reduced speed sign to slow oncoming motorists. They have also asked for a survey onthe sit1ationby Middletown Township, but it is usually done during the summer and at off-peak hours of traffic, A solution to help ease the problem is the consideration of a policeman to direct traffic at busy times during the day, according to Mr, Cloud, Another suggestion has been to open: another exit-entrance at the other end of the campus, According to Mr, Cloud, the school has offered to give up some space for the widening of the road but the township hasn’t acted on the suggestion. This reporter made two suggestions, One, a numbered parking system, a sug- gestion which Mr, Cloud said must come from USA, The second, a warning sign indicating a left turn seemed to be ignored, The administration seems to be working on these problems, but slowly, The only way to get something done is to have the USA and students to put pressure on the administration so they can jump on the township for these improvements before someone gets seriously injured or even killed, New Library Planned By: Karen Wallace Upon being introduced to the Delaware County Campus of Penn State University, I found only one academic inadequacy; the library facilities. Often I cross the threshold preparing to finish an assignment or study for a . test, only to find a capacity crowd, one of whom informs me there is standing room only, For myself and others whohave encoun- tered this problem, there is a light at the end of the hall, or should I say the apple orchard. Yes, it’s true -- a new library building, The plans for this new building have been drawn up by the architectural firm of Geddes, Brecher, Qualls & Cunningham of Philadelphia, Though, at the outset it will contain 50,000 volumes, it will be constructed to expand as the campus grows. There will be adequate seating, an audio~visual divis- fon and facilities to aid handicapped students, Also within this structure are planned classrooms, faculty offices, a faculty staff lounge and student lounge. The library will be located in a small land indentation on the campus. There are several attractive trees blocking plans for a walkway, To preserve the trees and add to a picturesque setting, alterations are being considered, Since the plans are still going through the review committees, a tentative advis- ory board meeting has been planned for November 3rd. It is the hope of campus officials that, the president of Penn State, Dr. John Oswald will be available to join the board, and possibly participate in an informal ceremonial ground-breaking, Though ground-breaking may take place in November, actual construction will probably not begin until early 1977, This $3.1 million state-funded project will take place approximately two years to complete. While the present student body will not be at this campus to use the new library, We can always return and refleet on the ‘good old days’’ of a one-room library, Who knows, by that time there may not even be such a thing as a modular unit,
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