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Show Greeks Given Word In a noon meeting Monday, Greeks were given the ultimate ultimatum regarding the fraternity-Federal Heights controversy. Along with a plea for understanding understand-ing the situation, affiliated students were handed a list of new rules covering everything from beer to-garbage and parking. , Greeks have been begging the administration for years to decide upon a location for a "fraternity row." For a time it looked as though land along Sunnyside Avenue would be made available for purchase by the organizations. This land was finally given over to a married students project. Groups which had for years held off desperately needed remodeling, waiting for word on an all-Greek development finally began remodeling, rebuilding and redecorating. Now that the hundreds of thousands of dollars have been invested in lifting the face of the Hellenic community, the Federal Heights residents 1 have decided that the time is right to crack down upon 1 group property rights. Among the hardest restrictions to bear are those relating to the parking of cars in the area of the frater- 1 nity and sorority houses. There will be no parking of Greek owned vehicles on Butler Avenue, Federal Way 1 or Wolcott Street at any time. The University has agreed to make available parking for 1,300 cars in the lots at the Kennecott Building, the Ore Dressing Lab and the Military Science Building on Monday nights only. But these lots are a great distance from homes near University Street, such as Delta Gamma, Beta Theta Pi, Alpha Phi and Kappa Alpha Theta. The police department has been asked to strictly enforce the two-hour parking restrictions on University and First South Streets, and will ban over-night parking. Again, students living in the Greek houses will be forced to use the above mentioned lots for all-night parking, and must move their cars very early in the morning to avoid being ticketed by Campus Police. It is alarming to note that girls returning home alone from meetings or work at a late hour will be forced to walk from these lots to their houses, which in some cases may be as much as two blocks away. Dorm officials have long recognized the dangers present pres-ent on this campus during the late hours and have passed regulations to safeguard female students. Evidently Evi-dently no such consideration is to be extended to sorority girls. It is interesting to note that many of the signatures contained on the petition submitted to the City Commission Com-mission protesting fraternities and sororities on the basis that they are not compatible with a home environment environ-ment listed addresses far, far away from any Greek housing, such as the 1300 block on South Temple, Virginia Street, and Penrose Avenue. The property owners of the Federal Heights area certainly have cause for some complaint. But many of their objections could be taken care of within the individual fraternity and sorority houses with a few lessons in common courtesy. These home owners must realize that the fraternity and sorority houses pay property taxes, in most cases larger taxes than those paid by the residents, that the majority of the houses were in their present locations long before most Federal Heights property owners moved into the area, and that the vast majority of the Hellenic homes are well kept and attractive. Certainly the Greeks are entitled to those rights guaranteed any other taxpayer-including on-street parking. |