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Show Harris Pole Si. tynnost September 30,1980 page 2 Parking: Tickets vs. Stickers That Is The Question If you asked 100 students at WSC what one thing they dislike more than anything else about this campus, what do you think would come up most often? How about the cafeteria's excuse for food? How about the little guy that sits in the administration building day and night figuring ways to confuse the schedule enough to keep us here five years instead of four? ... Wrong on both counts. During the first week of school, I conducted a survey about this very question. Granted, asking myself the same question 100 times is not as scientifically accurate as other methods. But one fact is clear. Time after time throughout the survey, the same complaint came up: The Security Department. Some of you might be think ing that my past experience with that particular department would color my views. You may think that after 67 parking citations since the first of the year, I might be prejudice. You might even be led to believe that after having my car towed away and impounded three times, that I would let past experience cloud my vision. You're damn right. But, as is so often the case, I was victimized. First, due to my background of honesty and integrity, I just assume that when you paid for an hour in a parking meter, you actually got an. hour. Wrong. I've often wondered if some of those long-winded air-bags over in Social Science have conspired with the Security Department to hold class for the full fifty minutes, thus relishing the rare time that HP Professional Calculators. Because the most critical time inyour professional career isrightnow j I l0iffU fYJr C I "ENTER! CHS fEEX cLX I . iiijT pis vJr' iflllllS tt; t ( wrhr l-A -n Art bsposimkc 1 ifl (lUWJLlIllB f tTILlaXT'- life . '. W" It Pf Ask any professional about Hewlett-Packard calculators. You'll discover they're the ones dedicated to solving your problems. 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Having come to full repentence during the summer, I decided that what my hero Dick Nixon would call the "right thing to do " would be to buy a parking decal. One must be mindful that such radical departure from the norm is very uncommon, and often indicative of a sick mind. My gesture of goodwill was met with a proverbial kick in the shorts. Not only was the whole place rearranged, it had undergone some drastic changes. Today it costs exactly twice as much to park exactly twice as far away. "A" stickers are thirty dollars. Can you believe that??? Thirty dollars! ! ! "B" stickers are now fifteen dollars. I can remember when I wouldn't wish as "B" sticker on a Democrat! But, the clerk says with a smile on her face (and no doubt an Alka-Seltzer in her pocket) there is one alternative. For a nominal fee, one can have his own parking space reserved twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. That nominal fee consists of several hundred dollars. One other thing. A friend in the Mathematics Department tells me that the probability of being given a ticket on any given day is about five to one. If one has any luck at all, this translates to one ticket per week. This means ten tickets per quarter. . And that means thirty tickets per academic year. And, as everyone knows, the annual amnesty program allows students to pay off tickets at a dollar a piece during a certain week. That means that one could park right by the front door, and not have to worry about what the ducks did last night, and it would still only cost thirty dollars a year. Class Rings, marked 10K. Paying SW to S 1 0 0 . Also. buying ai y tonr, ol gold or silver. 2958 Washington Blvd.. Ogden Utah. |