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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1977
Free tow bandito charges again
Heed this warning illegal parkers
>f the Northgate area.
On Monday, April 4, all cars that
are parked in the vacant lot at the
corner of Boyett and Patricia streets
will be towed away. So if you have
been using this area to park, for any
reason, know of someone who has or
see someone parking in this lot
which is located next to University
Cycles near the Campus Theater,
please warn them.
Those that do park there will have
to travel to the north side of Bryan
and pay A-1 Wrecker Service a fee of
$25 to get their cars back.
George Boyett, owner of the lot,
says that some construction is to
begin of that lot, but that the work
a ews are a week behind because
they have not been able to survey
the lot because of the cars that have
been in the way.
Boyett says that he has let persons
park on his property without permis
sion for quite a few months and that
he has not cared, but the time has
come for some work to be done so
the cars will have to move.
The “Hassle Free” program,
which is an off-campuws service or
ganization, is working with Boyett in
order to let the students know that
they are not to park at the corner in
the lot any more. Circulars have
been printed and will be placed on
the windshields of the cars that park
there today and during the
weekend.
The area around the Circle
Drive-in Theater is also under the
authority of Boyett and he says that
construction crews for the Northgate
Condominium will need to start
work in that area very soon. He was
also going to start towing from that
area on Monday, but after talking
with a Battalion editor, Boyett said
that he would wait until Wednesday
of next week so that a warning could
be given in Tuesday’s as well as to
day’s issue of the Battalion.
Boyett is not trying to make any
money, he will not recieve a cent
from any person who has his car to
wed. But it his is property, work
needs to be done on that property
and those that park there are tres
passing and have no justified argue-
ment if their cars disappear.
There have been a number of arti
cles and letters to the editor regard
ing parking on and around the Texas
A&M Campus. If the people don’t
know by now that they risk getting
their cars towed away by parking il
legally, they will never learn.
Many think of A&M Wrecker
Service, which places spotters and
tows illegally parked vehicles from
Culpepper Plaza and the Skaggs-
Albertson’s parking lot, as crooks.
Maybe, but Sparky Hardee, owner
of the wrecker service says that it is
good business and that he has no
qualms about towing violators.
Hardee says that be considers the
parking violators as thieves. They
are parking on one particular mer
chants’s lot and then walking across
the street and doing business with
Texas A&M University. “Skagg’s
provides parking space for its cus
tomers. . . Let A&M provide its
customers with the same service,”
Hardee says.
Well, it is easy to say and Univer
sity officials have been working on
solutions, but they have yet to come
up with one that can satisfy all of the
students. And it is not just the stu
dents who are parking illegally.
Many University workers, staff and
faculty, infringe on the property
rights of others just so they will not
have to buy a University hunting
permit. A permit that allows them to
hunt for the parking spot nearest
their work building.
We have heard enough of the
complaining. Now let’s get some ad
vise and solutions and inform the
people who can do something about
the parking situation...the Adminis
tration.
The rights of others are being in
fringed upon and too many people
are having to pay too much money in
towing fees and parking tickets.
Don’t you be the next to be find
your car towed away, don’t park on
the corner of Boyett and Patricia
streets on Monday.
No German womens movement
By HANS-ULRICH SPREE
BONN, WEST GERMANY —
There is no German equivalent for
Vis., the symbol of women’s lib
eration in the United States. That is
because, despite a generation of
democratic reforms, there is no or
ganized movement championing
women’s equality here.
Under the constitution, women
are supposed to enjoy the same
rights as men in employment,
salaries, social security payments
and other benefits. But if these
rights exist more on paper than in
reality, it is largely due to attitudes.
Surveys show that the majority of
women, even including young girls,
believe that their main careers
should be as housewives and
mothers. Or, as the old slogan has
it, a woman’s acitvities ought to be
limited to kitchen, church and chil
dren .
This view of the role of women is
shared by most German men. And
since the men are under little pres
sure to change conditions, progress
toward women’s equality has been
slow.
Exceptions to the rule exist, of
course. Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt’s cabinet contains two wo
men, one the Minister for Eco
nomic Cooperation and the other
the Minister for Youth, Family and
Health. But the latter does not di
rect the nation’s huge health insur
ance program, which is run by the
Minister of Labor, a man.
There is a woman justice on the
supreme court, and a woman holds
a top position in the federal bank.
By and large, though, few women
are involved in politics, which
Germans traditionally consider to
be a male occupation.
Of the 518 members of the legis
lature elected last October, for
example, only 38 are women. A
woman held the post of parlia
mentary president, but she was re
cently replaced by a man.
A few women are also prominent
in business. There is, in fact, an as
sociation of businesswomen com
prising more than 1,000 members.
For the most part, however, these
are women who have inherited fam
ily firms. Women managers of large
corporations are rare, partly be
cause stockholders are reluctant to
elect them to boards of directors
and also because the idea of a female
boss is still anathema to most male
employes.
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“Emma.” Its name was chosen to
symbolize the typical German
spinster, and the purpose of the
publication, as its advertising
claims, is to be “for women and by
women.”
Attempts can be observed here
and there to emancipate women. In
February, for instance a well-known
feminist and publisher, Alice
Scharzer, launched a new monthly
magazine modeled after the Ameri
can publication “Ms,” which sup
ports women’s rights in the United
States.
The new magazine is called
It remains to be seen how many
women will subscribe to the
magazine at $1.50 per issue. For the
real Emmas of West Germany earn,
on the average, 30 per cent less than
men performing the same work.
Since unemployment insurance and
pensions are calibrated to income,
those who are jobless or retired also
receive lower payments.
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New laws due to go into effect in
the middle of this year will also raise
the economic standards of women.
Under these laws, former husbands
will be required to make higher
alimony payments to divorced
wives, who until now have had scant
protection.
With all this, then the struggle to
improve the lot of women in West
Germany has a long way to go. But
it will not go very far until men and
the women themselves alter their
outlook.
Spree is a commentator on social is
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German radio network.
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