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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, October 27, 1982
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KIMitlmi ||;f.W YORK — A dramatic
drov^ the Dow Jones industrial
' ,amage back over the 1,000 mark as
woolly’ action
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■ history recovered from its worst
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♦ HALLOWEEN I ■The Dow J ones industrial average
climbed 10.94 points to 1,006.07
Tuesday after being down more than
14 points at midsession.
On Monday, the Dow plunged
36.33 points in its steepest setback
since Oct. 28, 1929, following an un
precedented 260-point surge the pre
vious 10 weeks.
Tuesday’s New York Stock Ex
change volumejumped to 102.08 mil
lion shares from 83.72 million the day
before. It was the seventeenth 100
million-share day in the rally.
“This is a bull market and you
many times have nasty, short set
backs,” said Ralph Acampora, Kid
der, Peabody vice president. “The
major thrust of this market is up and
it’s going to keep going to new all-time
highs.”
The Dow hit a OVa-year high of
1,036.98 last Thursday and came
within its all-time peak of 1,051.70 set
on Jan. 11, 1973, before beginning a
41.85 retreat the next two sessions.
The Dow rebounded from a 14.45-
point deficit Tuesday afternoon
when rumors spread that the Federal
Reserve, which disappointed many
investors by not cutting its discount
rate last Friday, would reduce its
charge to member banks this week.
Other observers suggested the
board might wait until after next
Tuesday’s elections to make the slash
from the present 9!/2 percent level.
Most observers say the Fed wants to
keep interest rates low to pull the eco
nomy out of the recession.
There also was speculation there
would be a $300 million drop in the
nation’s money supply in the Fed’s
Friday report following an increase of
$3.2 billion in the previous reading.
Investors also were encouraged
federal funds rates banks charge one
another for overnight loans dropped
to 9’A percent Tuesday after jumping
up to the 9‘/2 percent level the pre
vious session.
“There is a lot of money out there
that’s going to come into the stock
market regardless of when and
whether the Fed cuts its discount
rate,” said Ricky Harrington, vice
president of Interstate Securities in
Charlotte, N.C.
“I think the Dow will move up to
1,130 by Thanksgiving,” Harrington
said. “Everybody is talking about a
correction (a sustained decline in
prices). But I don’t think we’ll get it
until after we hit that new high.”
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niversity growth
spurs more parking
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by Lisa Macan
Battalion Reporter
^ Houston engineering firm has
been chosen to conduct a $60,000
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I ANTASIA iThe firm will study alternatives
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guts for present parking lots. The
Sniversity’s growth is forcing the con-
®icdon of buildings on surface
p - lots.
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file west campus, he said. Remote
★ could be restricted for stu-
dem classifications.
Texas A&M is one of the few major
versities without a parking garage,
sons said.
Tf they can afford it, why can’t
” he said.
■One way to finance a parking gar-
p would be to raise the parking fee,
ujich has not been increased since
173. Parsons said he does not advo-
bte such an increase unless it might
■prove Texas A&M’s parking.
\ more feasible way of financing
uld be a transportation charge
(id by all students at registration,
rsons said.
lA parking garage could be located
at the parking lot by Rudder Tower,
said. Parsons said the garage
liuld be run like a shopping center
Irking lot — ticket stubs would be
Jven at the entrance and paid at the
exit.
Faculty and staff cause more traffic
problems than students, Parsons said.
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Some staff members drive to G. Rollie
White Coliseum at lunch to exercise
instead of getting their exercise walk
ing there, he said.
Off-campus students should be
able to get to campus on time with as
few traf fic problems as possible, Par
sons said. Dormitory parking lots
should be used for day students and
dorm cars should be moved across
Wellborn Drive, he said.
The major problem with staff lots is
the lack of flexibility, Parsons said.
When no car is there, the space is
wasted. When a student can’t find a
space in a designated lot and parks in
the empty staff space, he ends up $ 10
poorer because of a ticket, Parsons
said.
Too many staff members are
granted numbered, reserve spots, he,
said.
“It’s like having tenure,” he said.
Staff lots have too many vacancies,
Parsons said. But he said he is work
ing to alleviate that problem.
Parsons reduced the reserved staff
parking from four rows to three rows
in parking annex 50 across from
Zachry Engineering Center because
the four rows were not used frequent
ly. The extra row was opened for stu-
clent use. Parsons cut the staff rows in
parking annex 51 from seven to four.
Between both lots, 200 spaces were
converted to student parking.
Another 535 spaces in other lots have
been converted to student use.
He also opened such streets as East
Main for bicycle and motorcycle
parking.
Another problem regarding staff
lots is the assignment of specific lot
numbers to stickers.
“I believe we’re being taken with
duplicate permits,” he said.
Students register roommates’ cars
under one name and the two pay only
one initial fee and a lesser duplicate
fee. Action to alleviate this problem
takes time but he says students are
being caught.
A possible solution to this problem
is using transferable permits. Parsons
suggests hanging tags on rear view
mirrors. Students using two cars may
transfer the tag.
Police say parking
tickets declining
staff photo by Jorge F. Casari
University police crack down on unauthorized motorcycles
parked in a tow-away zone.
Alteration of permits is another
problem. Different shaped stickers
are used for each semester and some
students cut old stickers to the shape
of new stickers. The alteration is not
spotted easily but officials are being
warned to look more closely.
by Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
The increase in towing and the
addition of six parking lot attendants
to the University Police force may
help decrease the number of parking
violations at Texas A&M University,
the University Police director says.
Thomas Parsons said the general
feeling among the police officers is
that the number of violations per day
is decreasing. The number of tickets
issued in October has not been re
leased.
During September, however,
17,411 tickets were written — an in
crease of about 1,200 over last Sep
tember. But because September is the
first month of the semester, it
shouldn’t be used to judge yearly
trends, Parsons said.
“It’s hard to measure yet, but we
think there’s a decline (in tickets writ
ten) due to the six new parking atten-
dents and our towing policy,” he said.
The six new parking attendents
have been working since Sept. 1. ETach
attendant issues tickets in one parking
lot for an extended period of time.
People are reluctant to park illegally
in a lot if a police officer is writing
tickets in it. Parsons said.
The number of cars towed this year
is much higher than last year. About
200 cars a month are towed from the
campus, Parsons said. In the 1981-82
fiscal year, about 1,500 cars were
towed. The majority of the cars are
towed for unpaid violations.
“Basically, according to University
regulations, a vehicle with three or
more unpaid violations may be
towed,” Parsons said.
But a person usually will have four
or five unpaid violations before his
name goes on the tow list, and it is not
uncommon for someone to have a
dozen unpaid tickets before his car is
towed, Parson said.
Nobel prize winner
to speak today at 4
Nobel Uaureate Dr. Sheldon Glas
how will present a public lecture here
today entitled “Mass of the ‘Tau’
Neutrino.” The lecture will be in
Room 146 of the Physics Building at
4 p.m.
Glashow shared the 1979 Nobel
Prize in physics with two other scien
tists for contributions to a unified
theory of weak and elctromagnetic in
teraction.
Glashow received national media
attention recently when it was re
vealed that Texas A&M was attemp
ting to hire him away from Harvard
with what has been termed a “Jackie
Sherrill package.”
In January, Sherrill accepted an
offer from Texas A&M estimated to
total $1.6 millon over six years.
Glashow has said: “There have
been discussions at a very general
level about a permanent assignment,”
but he denies that a firm offer has
been made.
More cranes to fly
into Aransas park
Vehicles parked in numbered re
served lots or in front of fire hydrants
and dumpsters also are towed, he
said. Any vehicle parked in a hand
icapped parking space without a per
mit is towed.
Once the decision has been made to
tow the vehicle — and the decision is
made by the administrative personnel
at the police station — the contents of
the vehicle are inventoried to guard
against theft.
If any contraband is found — con
trolled drugs or firearms — the vehi
cle is impounded. Otherwise, Parsons
said, “once we turn it over to them
(the wrecker service), we’re not in
volved in it.”
The University Police receives no
revenue from tow'ing cars. The $25
towing fee is paid directly to the
wrecker service.
The money collected from parking
tickets goes into a reserve fund.
In an attempt to clear some of the
unpaid tickets, the police department
is sending out 5,477 notices to people
who have not paid for their violations,
he said. One of the bills is for $495, he
said.
If a student’s tickets are not paid by
the end of the semester, his registra
tion can be blocked, Parsons said.
When students do pay their tickets,
the police department cashier collects
the money. Parsons said the cashier,
Becky Abernathy, probably puts up
with more abuse than any other
cashier on campus. Violators some
times vent their frustadons on Aber
nathy.
She said the women violators are
the worst when it comes to complain
ing about tickets.
“The guys usually don’t get that
upset — they sort of joke abut it,”
Abernathy said. “But the girls are
kind of hostile.”
Directories
available
Oct. 27
If you’ve had trouble finding old
friends’ new numbers, your problems
soon may be over.
The Texas A&M student director
ies will be available at the Student
Publications office in 216 Reed
McDonald on Oct. 27.
The directories can be picked up
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday with a fee slip or can
be purchased for $3.50 over the
counter.
Student listings will be included as
well as the faculty listings included in
the faculty directory distributed ear
lier in the year. Also included is a
University calendar and men’s and
women’s intercollegiate athletic
schedules.
staff photo by Octavio Garcia
Flipped Over Soccer
Chris Malinowski, a freshman civil
engineering major from Houston practices
with his teammates for the Thursday
intramural soccer tournament on the drill
field in front of the Memorial Student
Center.
United Press International
ARANSAS NATIONAL
WILDLIFE REFUGE — Sixteen of
an expected 77 whooping cranes have
completed a 2,600-mile jaunt from
Canada to make their winter nests in
Texas.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offi
cials for the second year are monitor
ing the migration to determine
whether the birds use the same route
to their wintering grounds at the
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge on
the Gulf Coast about 35 miles north of
Rockport said Doug Slack, a Texas
A&M University wildlife and fisheries
scientists.
He said 16 of the endangered birds
had arrived by Tuesday.
“They breed in Canada, but they
always winter in Texas,” Slack said.
“They should all be here by mid-
November and will stay until April.”
Some of the birds — believed to be
the largest group of whooping cranes
in existence — have radios on their
backs, making it possible for an air
plane to trace their path, Slack said.
The Texas group is one of two
flocks in the nation, he said.
Another group of 17 birds raised in
Idaho annually migrate with their
surrogate parents, sandhill cranes, to
the Bosque Del Apache National
Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.
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Continued clear and dry through
the weekend. High 70, low tonight
in mid 50s.