The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 11, Ed. 1, Friday, November 16, 1979 Page: 2 of 23
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Longer hours
The Students' Association announced this
week: plans to research the feasibility of ex-
tending the open hours of the Campus Center.
SA president Ron Holifield said the Senate
decided to pursue the project after receiving
several requests from students for later
Campus Center hours.
We commend the SA for its efforts to
research the situation before making a
proposal to the administration.
The project is worthwhile because students
are going to stay out until curfew time and
they need to have some place to meet during
these later hours. Their only alternative now
is to go" to Brown Library .'And even that is not
a good alternativebecause the library should
be used for study purposes not visiting.
John Tyson and Danny Beasley will be
conducting the research which will include
discussing the economic aspects of the
suggestion with Dub Winkles director of
auxiliary enterprises and obtaining ad-
ditional student response to the situation.
They also will attempt to determine how many
students are using the Campus Center during
the later night hours.
The Campus Center currently closes at 10
p.m. Sunday through Thursday and at 11 p.m.
Friday and Saturday. Holifield said that an 11
p.m. closing time throughout the week has
been the time suggested most often so far in
the situation but that the closing time also will
require additional research.
Holifield says thatTCeririeth Roach director
ofiitbMries.and instructional media says it
seems that a large number of students come to
the library about the time the Campus Center
closes every night.
The SA also may request to use the
remaining weeks of this semester after
Thanksgiving break as a trial period for the
later closing time Holifield said. Student
response to the experiment would give the
Senate a basis for making a decision.
The Senate's concern in researching the
suggestion before taking it to the ad-
ministration indicates some valuable
leadership qualities. We urge the student body
to give the SA feedback so that the situation
can be handled in a way that will benefit both
the students and the university .
QSo Optimist
Cindy Stocking
EDITOR
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CARTOONIST
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FACULTY ADVISER
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. Laurie jLee: Women's Sports Editor
Yvette Moore: Forum Editor
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Talk's not cheap
The Texas Public Utility Commission's
approval last week of a rate increase for
Southwestern Bell Telephone customers is
maddening it seems that Ma Bell's in-
creases never stop.
The approved increase will add $138.7
million to the phone company's revenue over a
12-month period. The hike of $1.15 per month
in residential rates will bring the monthly
charge in Abilene to $6.90. It also will mean
that the rates for pay phones will be increased
from 20 cents to 25 cents.
Telephones are one of the most convenient
forms of instant communication across long
distances. Phones have become a way of life
if not a necessity in our society. Ma Bell is
well aware of this and seemingly takes ad-
vantage of the hold she has over her
customers.
The approved rate hike wasn't even as much
as Southwestern had requested. The initial
request would have added $145.2 million to the
company's revenue. Only one commissioner
dissented in the action and he said that Bell
should only get $96 million in added revenue.
We can understand the company needing to
increase prices because of the effects of
general inflation but requesting $145 million
is a bit much unless the company can provide
a sound case for such an increase. As far as we
can determine from news reports of the
situation the company did not provide such a
case.
Tsk tsk Ma Bell. It's not nice to fool your
customers.
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verilcatlon but only the name will be published. Letters
must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Monday of the week of
publication.
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Breaking the rules
By CINDY STOCKING
Optimist Editor
An incident this week that brought the
student vehicle registration policy to my
attention makes me wonder if such rules
were "made to be broken" or if indeed
there is some reason for them.
Tuesday afternoon
two faculty members
needed to unload
some lumber near the
Don H. Morris Center
but found the loading
zone blocked by a car.
The vehicle they
said anrjeared to be a
student's vehicle even rhnneh it Hid not
have a registration sticker in the window.
The professors called the security
department to see if the car could be
towed away but were told that it could
not. Steve Meyer security director was
in the office and after receiving a
description of the car was able to check
his files of previously issued tickets to
find out who owned the vehicle which
was not registered.
Meyer told the faculty members the
owner's name and said that the student
probably was in the pottery room of the
building. He then offered to find the
student and make him move the car.
Within a few minutes after the phone
conversation the student moved the car.
The faculty members said they did not
think that the student was given a ticket.
They didn't understand this because the
student was clearly in violation of one of
the university's parking rules.
I checked with Meyer to see if the
student was ticketed but Meyer said he
"didn't have time" to issue a ticket. He
said he thought the urgency of having the
car moved was "more important" than
issuing a ticket. He finally did admit that
he "probably did have time but just
didn't think it was necessary. "
That in itself is a problem but even a
larger problem is the fact that many
students seemingly are getting by with
not registering their vehicles.
Meyer said that even though the
university catalog and handbook state
that all student automobiles must be
registered with the Traffic and Security
Office a large percentage of students
don't register their vehicles. (The
registration fee is $15 per year. )
"They are required to (register their
vehicles)" he said "but we can't make
them do it." Meyer said that tickets
issued to vehicles without stickers in-
clude the registration fee but added that
most of the students just don't pay it.
Why do we even have the policy if it
can't be enforced? It seems that if the
administration believes that the
registration fee is necessary it would
take some measures to ensure that it
could be enforced unless of course
rules really were made to be broken.
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