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VEHICLE REGISTRATION
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All staff, faculty, and students are required
to have their vehicles registered by September 1,
1994. Citations for unregistered vehicles will be
issued beginning September 1, 1994. Parking on the
grass, "creating" parking spaces that interfere
with traffic flow, parking in handicapped spaces
and fire lanes, and illegal parking in lots A, A1,
and B will be cited beginning August 22, 1994.
Effective this fall, parking permits have been
changed from a stick-on type to a hanging type
permit. Permits are to be displayed by hanging
them from the rear view mirror inside the vehicle,
where they are visible to others. Permits are now
limited to one person. Therefore, multiple permits
will not be issued to the same person. If you have
more than one vehicle, transfer your permit as the
need arises. With this new "one person, one permit"
rule in effect, there will be no discounts for
multiple permits purchased by the same household.
Each facultly, staff, or student member of a
household may purchase one permit for him/herself
and must pay full price. The hanging permits should
benefit you in three ways: (a) they will not damage
your bumper or rear window, (b) they will relieve
you of the need to come to the Police Department to
get a temporary permit if your normal vehicle is
unavailable to you, (c) they will assist in relieving
overcrowding in the parking lots because each person
will be issued only one permit and can have only
one vehicle on campus at a time.
Also effective this fall, parking regulations
will be enforced in resident student lots 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week and will be enforced in other
lots from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
Please note that a parking permit does not
guarantee a parking space. While there are
sufficient parking spaces on campus for faculty
and staff, the number of residents purchasing
permits exceeded the number of resident student
spaces available for the first time in 1993-94 and
commuting students permits have been oversold by
over 300% for several years. Absent funding to
provide
sufficient spaces, our only option is to vigorously
enforce parking regulations. Commuting students
are urged to carpool or use public transportation.
Lot X across Langdon Street from Vance Hall is
available for the overflow parking and is rarely
full .
To avoid citations and long lines, we urge
you to purchase your permit before Fall registration
begins on August 12, 1994.
t>y Sean C. Robinson
Courtesy the Challenger
In the three decades that have passed since our great African-
American heroes (like Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm
“Malik Shabazz” X) have stood in protest against racial segregation,
minority lynching and the onslaught of racial slurs that have been aimed
at our culture, very little has changed. We, as a people, sometimes
“turn the other cheek” to willingly and allow others to consciously
employ attempts of genocide and racial degredation against us. The
tables of justice have not been turned in our favor, but rather tilted on
such a scale that we are deceived into believing that justice will, one
day, find us and share it’s bounty with our future generations. Wake
up! What about my generation and the sleeping society of today?
Most recently, AT&T, which serves as America’s largest
telephone, telegraph and multi-communications company, was found
to be the most offensive of all Fortune 500 companies after allowing a
cartoon which depicted a monkey using the phone in Africa to appear
in its company newsletter. Admittedly, this probably would have been
considered a lighthearted joke by the thousands of minority workers
there had it not been brought to the attention of several major race
organizations who offered protest and demanded an apology. AT&T,
thinking that this “smack on the wrist” could be easily compensated
for, offered their apology, reprimanded the few employees involved
and, as a gesture of kindness, ran a full page advertisement in all the
prominent minority newpapers across America. This simplistic
apology was ineant to soothe the African-American conscience and
render peace and harmony before the holiday season—a season that
meant billions of dollars for AT&T.
Of course they apologized! Do you know how mu''h money they
made off of that same “forgive and forget” monkey audience during
the Christmas holidays? Do you think that the opinion of the personnel
involved in printing that same “comical” strip has changed? Because
of this overnight attempt to satisfy the African-American ego and its
immediate success, we no longer appear as stupid apes, but merely
trained chimps in a game of financial conquest! Sadly, this is a game
we can neither win or lose because we are not the players, but rather
manipulative pawns! Had that same strip been allowed to circulate in
the communities of the late 1960’s, there would have been an organized
protest and boycott on AT&T! One ad in every paper would not have
satisfied the racial injustice done to African-Americans of that time
period, and it should not have been taken so lightly by my brothers
and sisters of today! Why have these same papers been ignored in
every other advertising strategy concerning the positive promotion of
such a well-to-do company? Surely, they realize that the minority
market across America is responsible for a sizeable amount of their
income and should not be ignored in their adverfi'ing campaigns!
Target marketing through these newspapers should be a necessity, not
a calculated recourse!
There are similar services offered by other companies for
(sometimes) more affordable rates. If Rosa Parks didn’t mind walking,
then I definitely don’t mind dialing 1-800-COLLECT! We fought not
to take the back seat then, and shouldn’t so easily give up the fight
today! I only hope that those still using AT&T take note, re-think
their decision and “stay tuned” to Channel Zero.