The Current 1977-02-10

              New parking lot?
Board decides on immediate towing policy
By PENNY THOMAS
Several changes were made in The Board also passed a proposal appears to be finding out where additional parking lots are the
the G~CC towing policy by a to hire a consultant for the pur- and what size the lots will be. solution. Last Spring this was also
unanimous vote of Parking Board poses of conducting a study of The controversy at Friday's the question in people's minds, and
members last Friday. on-campus parking. The main meetingevolvedoverthisquestion now,fromWhite'sviewpoint,ithas
As expected, one new regulation ideas to be included in the of whether or not additional park- been skipped over in an attempt to
calls for the immediate towing of study are: ing is going to be necessary. De- get the bulldozers rolling, perhaps
any vehicle parked in a fire lane, •A master plan for parking nnis White, a faculty member of unnecessarily.
any area designated as a hand- which will examine the whole the Board, objects to the stand
icapped space, or any critical safe- problem including the Lea Hills lot taken by Dr. Earl Norman and
ty situation on the first offense. and take into account FTE fore- others that say there is not enough
Another policy change provides
for the impounding of vehicles
whose owners have acquired three
citations and have failed to pay the
fines involved. The previous limit
was five.
According to Nick Smith, park­ing
and security Director, the en­forcement
of the new regulations
will not full-scale right away. Signs
must be posted in the areas desig­nated
for first-offense towing, and
new citations have to be printed.
Once things get off the ground,
however, Smith assures that the
new policy will be strictly and
consistently enforced.
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By MARK D. STUMPF
Five student senators have re­quested
the suspension from col­lege
of ASGRCC President Teri
Reed and Vice president Charles
Firth for seeking confidential
academic transcript information
regarding 1.1 senators last quarter.
In a letter to Dean for Students
Earl Norman, the senators said
CHARLES FIRTH
Reed and Firth used their powers
to get the information in violation
of college confidentiality regula­tions
and the Buckley Amendment.
They requested the pair b.e sus­pended
and expelled.
"We expect action shortly by tl,le
Board of Appeals and college pres­ident,"
the letter said. It was
signed by Senators Pat Cimino,
Rob Draper, Bill Cole, John Hal­vorson,
and Raymond Fike. Form­er
Senator Gail Berg also signed,
casts. time to explore all the possible
•A review of various areas that alternatives to building a lot. Dr.
may be available on campus. Norman stated that some things
•One-line drawings for prop- have been tried, such as "pool it"
osed lots and a definition of light- and Metro bus schedule publicity.
ing, water retention, and landscap- He says not all the ideas have been
ing. exhausted but that something
•Estimates of cost. needs to be done soon.
•An environmental assessment. The emphasis of the meeting was
According to sources at the apparently put on when and where
meeting, the proposal was ac- the parking would be put in, rather
cepted only after a half-hour of than if it would be installed. This is
heated discussion. contrary to some earlier reports
Although the study by a profes- which said the meeting would be of
sional consultant (cost undeter- an advisory, recommendation
mined) is outlined as containing a type.
"master plan" examining the White was under the impression
whole problem, its main objective that it was not yet decided whether
que t
but requested charges against
Reed only.
Firth denied any personal
wrongdoing in the affair, and re­sponded
to the charges with criti­cal
letters to Senators Cimino,
Draper, and Halvorson describing
the move as "just another stab in
the back."
Reed has been home ill, and was
unavailable for comment. When
the charges were first raised sev­eral
weeks ago, she denied any
wrongdoing, saying she requested
the information from then-Chief
Justice Scott Sandmeyer in con­nection
with student government
workshops she conducted in De­cember.
·
Beyond saying it was for her
"personal use," she then refused to
explain why she neeeded such
data, and said she couldn't re­member
that the list Sandmeyer
gave her included the senators'
cumulative grade point average
(GPA), cumulative credits, and
current credit load. The CUR­RENT
has seen the list, and it did
include that data on the senators'
qualifications.
Through Firth, Reed seems to
have changed that explanation a
little since that interview a few
weeks ago.
Firth now says the incident
began when he noticed while
looking up senators' addresses fpr
a mailing list that one of them
apparently wasn't qualified for
office. (She has since completed
the necessary credits.) Firth was
looking in a summary of student
academic transcript data that was
then used as an open-access refer­ence
book ·by student government
personnel. That book included the
GPA and credits information, and
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access to it has now been restricted
for that reason.
Firth says he relayed his discov­ery
of the unqualified senator ~o
Reed as an indication that Chief
Justice Sandmeyer was not doing
his job, since the Judicial Board is
responsible for checking the qual­ifications
of student government
officers. Firth said Reed then or­dered
Sandmeyer to check on all
senators' qualifications. Sandmey­er
did, and gave the information to
Reed instead of the Judicial Board
because he had resigned from
office and "didn't know what to do
with it," Firth said. Reed then gave
the information to the new chief
justice, Wendy Jones.
Why did Reed give the CUR­RENT
the false "student govern­ment
workshop" in explanation?
"Somebody said 'you . weren't
supposed to do that,' and she got
scared," said Firth, and gave the
CURRENT the first legitimate­sounding
explanation she could
think of. "I think she's basically an
honest person,'' Firth said.
Cimino is trying to "build up his
name" with the charges, said Firth.
"I think he wants to be stud~nt
body president next year." He
charged Cimino was the one who
motivated the other senators to
sign, and said one he contacted
didn't even knowwhat he'd signed.
"I may or may not run for
office,'' said Cimino. He said he
wrote and circulated the letter
because he was "pissed off" at the
alleged invasion of his privacy.
Cimino is also currently circulat­ing
a petition demanding the recall
of Reed and Firth.
Two of the letter-signers,
Senators John Halvorson and Rob
Draper, said they were motivated
The meeting was closed to the
campus press and others not on the
Board itself. It has not been deter­mined
why this was the case.
Editors of the Current contend that
closing the meeting is contrary to
the open meetings law and protests
are being made to Dr. Norman by
Ed Eaton, newspaper advisor, be­cause
reporters were banned from
a meeting where formal business
was passed.
According to Dennis White, the
business at hand at the meeting
was of great importance to stu­dents
and staff at GRCC. White
feels that the question of expand­ing
parking has not been adequate­ly
presented to the people of Green
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by a combination of political op­position
to Reed and Firth and
genuine indignation that the confi­dentiality
of student records was
violated.
Norman, the dean for students,
said he will forward the letter to
the Board of Appeals, but said he
would take no action himself. "It
doesn't make sense to me that the
administration get involved in the
nitty-gritty operations of student
government." He said access to the
records involved has since been
restricted.
Norman said he couldn't say for
sure when the Appeals Board
would meet to hear the charges,
but indicated it could be as early as
next week.
John Wooden
here Tuesday
John Wooden, one of the most
successful college basketball
coaches of all time, will speak at
Green River Community College
in the Lindbloom Student Center
Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Wooden's record at the Universi­ty
of California at Los Angeles has
been unsurpassed in modern day
collegiate basketball. His teams
had a string of eight major college
championships in just 10 seasons.
When he retired from the coaching
ranks two·years ago, he went out in
style as his team astonished all
predictors and won the title.
His topic for Tuesday night is
one he is very familiar with, "The
Pyramid of Success."
The cost for the event is $2.50
general admission and $2.00 for
students.