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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1986 VOL- - 95 NO. 71 .1. council to District pairkiirog in neighborhoods Students will have to find other spots mi adjoining Primary Children's Medical by Dee Naquin Staff writer The University of Utah recently added another episode to what may be its most persistant source of student outrage and administrative headaches campus parking. Last April, the Salt Lake City Council approved a residential parking program which will restrict non-neighborh- motorists from parking in specific residential areas. Lynn Erickson, residential permit parking coordinator, said the program will be implemented in the "near future." More specific information may be available within a month, he said. The program allows residents of neighborhoods near the U. to petition for a special restricted parking district. University Street, parts of 1300 East and Douglas Street will eventually be restricted, as well as areas north and west of the U., said Erickson. Center and will go into effect next month. Specific steps are followed in creating the parking district, said Erickson. First, some residents must initiate the petition to be signed by at least 60 percent of the residents within the designated neighborhood. The petition is then verified and a study performed by a transportation engineer. This study is done to determine which areas of the neighborhood are "impacted" by being 70 percent full for four consecutive hours, he said. After final results of the study, recommendations are made to the public works director. The public works director then sets a public hearing, where all residents are given an opportunity to voice opinions about proposed changes, said Erickson. If a parking district is formed, residents will have to buy permits, probably window stickers, for long-terparking, he said. Vehicles parking without permits would be I I i I 2'' mm m Hironnlr photo ticketed. One restricted parking district has already been approved for neighborhoods , Parking isn't the only problem though. continued on page four Swvc tlnllin Salt Lake City ordinance may soon prevent students from parking in neighborhoods near the U. without a specialized permit. A Seeing a movie is costing most people a lot more by Donn Walker Staff writer Have you seen a movie at a Plitt theater lately? If so, then you already know what the rest of the country is quickly finding out: it's costing most people a lot more. You also know, then, why Plitt suspended indefinitely its popular practice of providing discount movie tickets. And chances are you also know that means the Union Building's main desk is bombarded daily by surprised and perturbed students wanting to buy the outlawed tickets. Chances are good, though, you don't know the reason why those tickets are now movie theater history. As one official of Cineplex Odeon Corp., the Canada-base- d company that acquired the Plitt chain last year, put it, there were serious problems with and abuse of the discount ticket program. "Any company that would continue such a ticket program with the blatant misuse of the ticket distribution process that we were seeing would be completely irresponsible," Cineplex spokeswoman Linda Friendly said last week. When pressed to explain the situation further, Friendly declined to do so. "I am not at liberty to discuss it. It's corporate policy not to talk about it," she said, adding that it would be possible a senior Gneplex official could do so. But during the rest of last week and as the Chronicle went to press Sunday, a senior company official was unavailable for comment. Friendly did say,' however, that the abuse occurred before Cineplex bought Plitt. It was after the takeover late last year that Gneplex officials looked at the program and decided to do away with it. Friendly also said the company's Los Angeles office has received "a lot of calls" from the Salt Lake area with regard to the discontinued program. Utahns who are curious as to why it's costing a lot more, almost double, to see a movie at a Plitt theater now probably include a lot of University of Utah students. And for a good reason: the main desk in the U.'s Union Building was one of the biggest distributors of Plitt tickets in the Salt Lake area. Records show that between July 1984 and July 1985, the desk sold 206,134 discount movie tickets at a cost of just over $566,000. Those figures, however, represent all movie tickets soldincluding those to Mann and Century theaters, as well as for Plitt. But more importantly, Plitt sales accounted for 75 to 80 percent or about 160,000 of all movie tickets sold at the desk, said Ernest Bebb, Union Building manager. One of the reasons Plitt offered a discount ticket program was probably not out of kindness, said Ryck Luthi, the U.'s coordinator of student programming. Rather, with the program, the company received the money from ticket sales up front in large chunks. These were tickets that may not have been used for up to six months. Plitt then could invest the advance money and actually earn more than the difference between the two ticket prices, which at the end was $2.25 (discount tickets were $2.75; admission to Plitt theaters is now $5 for adults). But then Cineplex acquired the Plitt chain and decided, for whatever reasons, to discontinue the program. Early in December, Cineplex officials notified the U. of their decision, Bebb said. Union administrators decided then to continued on page four Group helps students find jobs in foreign development mwtmmmmmm Tfi by Amy Page Staff writer University of Utah students interested in careers in international development may find opportunities for employment through a newly-forme- d student organization. As part of the Overseas Development Network, Inc., (ODN), the International Development Network was established at the U. last December. ODN is based in Cambridge Mass. and the U. division is one of forty campus affiliates nationwide. f- Steve Pierce, a U. graduate student and Spanish teaching assistant, founded the campus chapter within one month after reading a New York Times article about the subject and the foreign student started it. At the U., Pierce serves at IDN president. Daria Castiglione is the treasurer while Rod Peterson is the secretary. All are graduate students in development - I administration. James Mayfield, political science professor, serves as adviser to the group. The organization seeks first to expose people to Chronicle photo by Bill Brussard Steve Pierce, a U. graduate student, says he hopes his group can educate students about world development issues. development issues. "In the United States ignorance is rampant," Pierce said, "especially in this valley." To combat this ignorance, IDN is planning a series of open houses where slides of current work in developing countries will be shown. The first open house is scheduled for the end of winter quarter. The second objective, he said, is to seek jobs and internships for students abroad. IDN has access to a list of 50 agencies looking for qualified people to work in development and Pierce said they are already sending out applications. The U. also has an exchange program set up through the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, with the Bolivian Catholic University. Raising money for the U.'s own development project is the third objective, Pierce said. This project will be a project in Bolivia. The purpose, he community self-he- lp a will be to "help community define their problems said, and come up with individual solutions, not just impose Western solutions." Trust is a main factor here, Pierce said, because the people are, "wary of you because you have white skin." Trust building is defined at step one in working with people of other countries, he said. There are two upcoming ODN projects in which the U. chapter will participate. One is a leadership conference sponsored by the Ford Foundation to be held in '86: Appalachia during the summer. The other is Bike-Ai- d a Pedaling for Progress. This will be nationwide going from coast to coast and passing through Salt Lake City. IDN also has plans to make a documentary film in Bolivia during the summer. This will serve to better educate people and help them start caring about the issues. 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