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v • Wednesday, March 21,1984/The Battalion/Page 3 Towing Alert A&M police begin cracking down on all campus parking violators Seniority system to be used for pre-registration in April 7 By SARAH OATES Reporter You’re late for class again and are caught in a 9 a.m. parking lot battle, jockeying for posi tion in a long line of cars with each student de termined to grab the last available parking space. Unfortunately, an equally resolute pickup driver has just zipped in ahead of you and claimed it for his own. The only space available is marked off for use by handicapped students, but you park I there anyway, reasoning that after class you I can come back and move the car. But when I you return, you’re dismayed to Find it has teen towed. "We try to uniformly tow all cars in viola- | don of parking regulations,” said Elmer I Schneider, chief of the Texas A&M University I Police Department. Schneider said University Police officers I continually patrol all campus parking areas to | check for violations. Cars are towed 24 hours I a day and an officer on each shift is assigned to make sure the policy is enforced. ■ If an illegally parked car is not towed, the I officer must explain why in his daily written I report. The reports are submitted to Schnei der and his assistant, Mike Ragan. Schneider said that sometimes wreckers are not available to tow cars right away, which is why an illegally parked car occasionally re mains parked until a wrecker is available. The University Motor Vehicle Regulations pamphlet lists violations for which a car can be towed: • Spaces reserved for handicapped per sons and numbered reserve spaces can only be used by vehicles with the appropriate permits. • Students, faculty or staff with six or more parking tickets can have their cars towed at anytime. • Students, faculty and staff are not al lowed to park in areas designated for visitors. • Vehicles parked in short-term parking areas, such as those marked “30 minutes,” can be towed if left in the space after the time limit has expired. • Vehicles parked in any way that obstructs the flow of traffic, such as in bus stops or load ing zones, can be towed. • Parking at curbs is prohibited, unless signs or pavement markings specifically indi cate that parking is permitted. • Motorcycles and scooters should only be parked in designated areas. Motorcycles should not be parked in bike racks, unless a “MOTORCYCLE” sign is displayed. Mopeds may be parked in bike racks. • Where parallel parking is permitted, the vehicle must be parked within 18 inches of the curb and must be headed in the direction of traffic. “Handicapped space abuse is high,” said Maj. Boris Maddox, assistant director of ad ministration of the University Police Depart ment. “We’ve gotten lots of complaints from handicapped students.” He said that reserve space owners can re- See TOWING page 9 Rollins discusses changes By TRICIA PARKER Staff Writer Pre-registration for the fall semester will be slightly differ ent this Spring. Students will still have to see advisers and wait in lines but card packets will be eliminated and a seniority system will be implemented. Donald Carter, associate reg istrar for admissions and re cords says the IBM computer cards will be eliminated in favor of a standard eight and a half by eleven inch form. Rushing to the Animal Pavil ion at 8 a.m. Monday is also a thing of the past. Students can present their forms only on the day specified in the schedule. Carter says the IBM cards are being eliminated because the machinery used to process them is obsolete. “We started our first automa ted system in 1969 and we’ve modified it considerably over the years. It’s so antiquated now that it’s working from sheer brute force on our part to make it work, he said.” Another change is in the way the information will be fed into the computer. Terminals in the Pavilion will replace the old sys tem of manually pulling cards, thus making the system more accurate, Carter said. “We are not changing the sys tem,” Carter said, “just the method of collecting the data. This method should be quicker and there should be fewer er rors.” The changes are all part of an interim registration system designed to help the present outmoded system cope with the preregistration rush and to help pave the way for a new software system which is being planned. Carter says the University is in the process of buying a new software system which will help not only with registration but with admissions, records and fi nancial aid as well. He says the new software should be fully operational in 18 to 24 months, at which time an entire new way of preregistering may be needed. The new schedule for prere gistration is as follows: April 9 — Graduate students April 10 — Seniors with last names beginning A-K. April 11 — Seniors with last names beginning L-Z. April 12 —Juniors with last names beginning A-K. April 13 —Juniors with last names beginning L-Z. April 16 — Sophomores with last names beginning A-K. April 17 — Sophomores with last names beginning L-Z. April 18 — Freshmen last names beginning A-K. April 19 — Freshmen last names beginning L-Z. April 20 — All students. with with 45* MSC ARTS COMMITTEE PRESENTS Corps’ aim is higher grades \ extra juld dois with the I By SUZY FISK Reporter Chuck Rollins, who will be _Jorps Commander beginning > that its iext semester, says he wants to n slogai ee changes in the Corps that get a fa rill lead to higher grades and he part); viewed pride by the cadets. The Corps is already pushing :or higher grades this semester nan attempt to raise its overall act that! iverage. The Corps is more ac- le ands ive during the football season tmpus,ii md so cadet grades usually are (1 runt ow er then, Rollins says. hesfj He sa y s he P lans lo continue ™o“push grades" to keep the av- jrage above a 2.3 GPR, the jorps’ present average. Several years ago when the dorm i diversity was all Corps, grades were not a problem, Rollins lays. However, trying to com- xte with the rest of the Univer- lity is a big change. He has seen a definite im- fina/fy*#r0rement in grades since last lemester and wants to keep hem from becoming a critical ssue again. Rollins says if the by putti ;rades drop the Corps will find t more difficult to survive. “If grades drop below the Jniversity’s average then it might be said that (being in the 'forps) hurts grades,” he says. for out 8: campai] ng my ter the si /s No ng...at ts the b Chuck RoUins A key to improving grades is continuing the study time re quired for freshmen and sopho more cadets, Rollins says. How ever, juniors with inadequate grades (below a 2.0 GPR for the semester) now are required to “sit CQ.” “CQ” or “call to quarters” is a three-hour period Sunday through Thursday when fresh men and sophomores must study. Rollins says he also plans to work on the internal attitude of the Corps. He wants “to get ev erybody feeling good” about be ing in the Corps and to get rid of any doubt as to why they are there. He says the morale of the Corps is low because of a “per secution complex” that exists. He says there is a feeling that people are out to get them, and he plans to use the push for grades as a way for the Corps to gain confidence. By matching grade point averages with the University, he says, attitudes will improve. Another concern will be to improve the retention rate in the Corps, which now has 1,871 members. Rollins says roughly 250 freshmen have withdrawn from the Corps for various rea sons, mainly grades. In the fall there were 2,100 cadets en rolled. A drop to 1,871 cadets is “a little low,” but not abnor mally low for the Corps, Rollins says. “People think there’s a magic number but there isn’t,” he says. Rollins says he has no prob lems with Corps policy in elimi nating “fish bites” and “quad- ding.” However, he is trying to negotiate a compromise with Corps Commandant Col. Don ald Burton to allow the Corps to run major runs in combat boots and company runs in tennis shoes. The Corps is running all Corps and company runs in tennis shoes on a trial basis now. Rollins, a junior civil engi neering major from Pensacola, Fla., is the third generation of Rollinses to attend Texas A&M — his grandfather and father were both in the Corps. Although Rollins is Corps sergeant-major this year, he says he doesn’t believe he has al ways been a leader. “You’ve got to be a follower first, so you’ll know how your people feel under you,” Rollins said. MSC ARTS COMMITTEE PRESENTS Juried Student Arts Competition. Entries ac cepted during March 19-23,10 am-2 pm Edible Art Contest. 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