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Show How to end parking problems BY GLEN LEONARD The time has come to apply some electronic wizardry to a critical problem on the University campus. The crisis, of course, is parking. And the problem for the student stu-dent is in finding an empty stall before the other one and two-tenths persons who statistically statisti-cally share each carefully-marked site. Perhaps we should employ some computer technology in this machine-age riddle. What Uteville needs is a Campus Oriented Parking Park-ing Programmer, or COPP for short. Into the COPP would be fed the class schedule of every qualified student. The programmer program-mer would also need to know each student's parking preference and class rank. Within minutes every upper-classman upper-classman registered for daytime classes would be assigned to a specific slot in the parking plazas. The COPP would know when the student auto arrived and when it left. This electronic marvel would' obviously solve a lot of problems. Yes, what this campus needs is a good COPP. A well-programmed COPP could end the frustration of being late for class because of filled parking lots. A COPP-punched card would instruct the student driver where to go for optimum parking and would place each coed as close as possible to her first morning class. Each morning the student driver dri-ver would insert his COPP ID card in a scanning slot upon entering the parking lot. The COPP would recognize his arrival and note any ' absences, immediately making unused un-used slots available for visitors and fringe-area drivers. And students who failed to check out of 20-minute parking areas within the prescribed time limit li-mit would receive an immediate citation-instantly recorded on student records in the COPP's central cen-tral memory bank. It's amazing these days what a COPP can do! |
