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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle Wednesday, September 28, 1994 -- Spare the trees; try software for paper airplanes BY LARRY BLASKO Associated Press The format, not surprisingly, g Any kid knows that three-rinnotebook paper isn't only incidentally for taking notes. It's really for making paper air- g ill en mzc r- -i WW n JLUiLzl - I you want to go. And for the most part, that's the airplanes. The airplanes are organized into five groups: Darts, Gliders, Jets, SSTs and Starships. Each planes. And any kid knows that group has its own flight and teachers really get pissed off folding characteristics. A word about folding. This is when a nicely- - made craft soars over a classroom or lecture hall. more difficult than the school darts. It's sort of That's half the fun. days' But kids grow up, get jobs airborne origami, and doing the and don't even think of using job right will take patience and their legal pads to make a plane repeated efforts. The nice thing is the software to sail past the nose of the Big chair gives you every available help. Guy sitting in that leather with his feet propped up on the If you wish, it will print out desk. folding patterns on your printWhich is a shame and a miser, including decorations. And a take that can be rectified with a 11 !I is that of a three-rinnotebook. You click on tabs to get where X) five-fol- CHRONICLE PHOTO program called The Greatest Paper Airplanes for Windows, by KittyHawk Software of - park from page 13 parking by the hour, according to sidered to be an auxiliary service, Brigham Young University does not have a shuttle system to transfer students from parking to classes. The Y. also does not have parking in either which means that it must pay for itself. A parking terrace for the U. has been considered, but it costs over $10,000 to build, according to Allied. The Medical Center's terrace cost $12,000. In order to build a terrace, Center. parking would cost around $60 a Moore. Cougar Stadium or the Marriott According to Lt. Rhodes of BYU traffic services, most students park on the streets. A shutde service has been talked about, but nothing definite has been planned. Students at BYU only pay $5 for an E U.'s the to R permit (similar permit), $15 for a Y permit and $40 dollars for a graduate permit. USU parking perand $25 mits cost $30 for for students, or $10 a quarter. s Joan Carpenter, a student at Salt Lake Community College's South City Campus, pays $12 for a yearly parking permit, or $6 for a quarter. "Eighty dollars for a parking permit? That's absurd. Thank God I don't go to the U.," Carpenter said. The supply of U. permits helped to fund the Utah Transit Authority pro- gram. The bus program costs $700,000 a year and is used by 6,000 students. There is not a significant amount of students using the buses; however, it is a significant number when considering month. Solutions to the parking problem are few and far between. It is like "trying to fit 10 pounds into a Allied said. Tucson, Ariz. The next time a student is waiting in a parking lot for an available space, perhaps his or her best solution is to park in a lot further away and walk. By the time a space becomes available to park in a closer lot, the student could have already walked to class. The software doesn't even pretend to increase productivity. It throws in a little history of and some basic aerodynamics, but the main paper-makin- g purpose is fun. model takes you step-by-ste- e p through the folding process. Sometimes that's a lot of steps, especially when you get into the Starships. Initial efforts convinced me they were designed by aliens who had more fingers to use, but persistence guided by the software see "planes" on page 16 SALT LAKE DEKHOCKEY ROLLER HOCKEY AND DEKHOCKEY!! REGISTER NOW FOR FALL SEASON five-poun- d Salt Lake Dekhockey offers sanctioned league play for Roller Hockey and Dekhockey (sneaker hockey) in a regulation indoor with referees, scorekeepers. and trophies for league champions bag," Moore said. "Students have a "mall" attitude toward parking. They want to park as close to class as possible. This isn't the case because there is such a high demand for parking. "Students should plan on walking 5 minutes. When I was at the U., I came early because I knew that I would be walking at least 5 minutes to class." Allied has a different take. We carry the area's largest selection Pro Shop equipment in our SALT LAKE DEKHOCKEY 3869 S. SIX, of street and roller hockey Stop in and eiptrience "the fastest growing sport in the country1." State (behind Matftr Muffler) m 84115 -(- 801)266-4575 10-1- 10-1- "President Smith made a good observation. He said that there are three things that people want One is close, convenient parking, two is cheap parking and three is a lot of parking. "At the most we can provide two out of three. So we have opted for relatively cheap parking and a lot of parking. UCLA offers a parking terrace for $48 a month, but we have twice as many stalls as they do," LEAGUES FORMING NOW FOR ALL AGES AND SKILL LEV ELS. SIGN-U- P AS AN INDIVIDUAL OR FORM YOUR OWN TEAM. CALL FOR INFORMATION ON PLAYING FREE STU DENT BOOK M Ifflfnb TRSCusa Bauer BofzZZ ssitjs en September 26-3- 0 a Mintis :ooam-oop- m Tb?KS TC (WITI 2010 Till cimm ISO 8. 0-0- " "" Union Den D 0 EJ ! MAiE INCOflPOflRT6D COR POAHT6 B real-tim- three-dimension- Does this look familiar? The parking situation on U. campus causes daily frustration for many students. But don't worry the Aggies and our pals in Happy Valley are going through the same thing. Good. the parking problem. "If we had 6,000 more people a day driving to school, we'd be in real trouble," Albed said. Parking services at the U. are con- d 15 |