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Dozing Dozers: Heavy equipment occupies part of
the Carmichael Building parking lot as the first
day of construction on the -new lower lot ends.
Photo by Pam Walker
Parking solution?
$1,000 a spot lot
By Anna Paulette Witt come from both parking ' ticketed, they are still
News Editor fees and from parking fortunate in having to
There doesn't seem to p^y ^^ly $16 a yea? in
be any cheap solution ^ recent meeting parking fees, said
to UNCA s parking pro- the Kaleidoscope Millar.
. staff, UNCA Chancellor He said that some UNC
William Highsmith said campuses charge as much
UNCA's new parking lot that so far this as $78 per year for
is costing the institu- yggr monies received parking privileges,
tion $1,000, said Sam fj-Qm parking fines equal
Millar, head of univer- palf of the total fines
sity engineering.
The new lot, located year,
below the existing Car- UNCA Vice Chancellor
michael Building lot, foj. student Affairs Dr.
"will be completed by Ej-te lovacchini, said
mid to late November," the main reason for the
said Millar. increase in ticketing is would cost us $3,000 a
UNCA has to borrow that UNCA Campus Secur- slot to construct," said
the money to build the jty has a new employee Highsmith. He said that
lot because the state writing tickets from 8 means that the 100 slots
won t pay for parking a.m. to noon Monday soon to be opened on
facilities," Millar'said. through Friday. campus would cost UNCA
He said that the funds However, though UNCA $300,000 instead of the
to pay off the loan will students may be often present $100,000.
Highsmith said that
the main reason UNCA is
taken during last school not building a parking
garage is that it would
make it necessary to
raise parking fees at
UNCA.
"A parking garage
Kaleidoscope
fVolume 3. Number 8
Thursday, October 13. 1983
Alcohol law gives police new DCII authority
By Leigh Kelley
North Carolina's new
Safe Roads Act which
took effect Oct. 1, has
two tough measures pro
viding police with
stiffer means of en
forcement .
.Boadhkick Provision:
Police now have author
ity to use roadblocks
to discover impaired
drivers.
•Arrest Provision:
If a person btows a .10
on a breathalyzer or
has a .10 blood alcohol
content the person au
tomatically loses his
or her driver's license
for a minimum of 10
days.
A1 Hyder, spokesman
for the Asheville po
lice chief says he
thinks these actions
win effectively deter
drunk driving (DUI's),
if people don't forget
about the law.
"It's too soon to
tell about any increase
or decrease in DUI ar
rests as a result of
the alcohol law because
this is a honeymoon
period," he says.
Ml
Sprite or Light?: Cheri Cagle,
their beverage preferences.
Melanie Cagle and Elizabeth Hill indicate
Photo by Pam Wadker
"If there is a de
crease now it's probab
ly due to all the at
tention given in the
media. I feel that this
wiU be only temporary
however, because people
will forget and start
their old behavior pat
terns ."
Hyder says he doubts
the police will use the
roadblock provision be
cause a driver's li
cense road check is
easier and causes less
controversy. The police
already do this and it
is up to the officer's
discretion whether to
administer tests to
drivers suspected of
being drunk.
In a report on the
Safe Roads Act, James
C. Drennan of the
University of North
Carolina Hill Institute
of Government cites
other provisions.
Anyone underage con
victed of trying to buy
alcohol with a false
I.D. will lose their
driver's license for a
year. Drennan says it
is now a criminal of
fense if anyone under
age gets caught driving
under the influence of
any amount of alcohol.
There is also a
modification involving
drunk driving deaths.
The act reclassifies as
a felony deaths result
ing from car accidents.
P r e viously, conviction
resulted in a misde
meanor charge.
Finally, Drennan
says, the act prohibits
drivers from drinking
any alcohol at aU
while driving, although
passengers may drink.
UNCA is adapting its
own policy to the pro
visions .
UNCA student activi
ties director Sharyn
McDonald says the
school's alcohol policy
affects aU student so-
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