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STARTUP AGGIELAND
Student valet service could hit Northgate
Nikita Redkar —THE BATTALION
Javier Cepeda (left) founded Good Bull Parking; which provides valet
service around Bryan-College Station.
Good Bull Parking starts to
pick up steam in 2nd year
By Nikita Redkar
^ In 2013, Good Bull Parking
^ president Javier Cepeda had
been working as a valet for two
years when he discovered an un
tapped market for valet parking in
College Station.
“Many predominant Texan cit
ies have designated areas with valet
parking, so why can’t we have it in
College Station?” Cepeda said.
Cepeda said people initially told
him a valet service in College Sta
tion wouldn’t work and there was
no way his business would survive.
Yet he persevered and official
ly opened Good Bull Parking for
business in March 2014. After one
year of operations and admission
into A&M’s student business accel
erator, Startup Aggieland, Cepeda
now plans to expand valet services
into the Northgate area.
“We know Northgate has been
looking for parking management
and on top of that, there’s a big
problem with alcohol-related inci
dents,” Cepeda said. “[Good Bull
Parking] has been in contact with
bars in the area and we decided to
add our valet service.”
Cepeda said he recognizes the
liability issue of handing an intoxi
cated person keys to his or her car,
and Good Bull Parking has been
working with CSPD and Mothers
Against Drunk Driving in order to
better determine the intoxication
level of a person and whether they
are in a state to operate their vehicle.
Cepeda said he wants students to
view Good Bull Parking’s presence
at Northgate as a safe zone.
“If someone is not in a condi
tion to drive, we’ll have their car
left overnight, hand over their keys
and get them a ride home with a
taxi or CARPOOL,” Cepeda said.
“They won’t get towed or charged
extra.”
Michael Pesek, mechanical en
gineering senior and Good Bull
Parking employee, said all mem
bers of the business have had an in
tegral part in determining the scope
of the expansion.
“Having the opportunity to be
a part of a student-mn startup is
more than a job,” Pesek said. “We
are all playing a part in the expan
sion to Northgate.”
Cepeda said he does not know
exactly when the expansion will be
implemented, but he and the busi
ness have been actively working
with the community and Startup
Aggieland to ensure the project’s
success.
“[Startup Aggieland] has spent
a lot of time discussing payroll
and tax issues with Javier, insur
ance needs, marketing initiatives
and community involvement,”
said Shelly Brenckman, marketing
coordinator at Startup Aggieland.
“We are big proponents of getting
involved locally.”
Cepeda said the expansion is a
way for the company to reach out
to fellow students and peers.
“I think we really have a shot
at making this town a little safer,”
Cepeda said.
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after racing in the 50-free and 200-
and 400-free relays last year. Bol-
leter comes into the championships
with a string of impressive perfor
mances throughout the year where
he set personal bests in the 50- and
100-yard freestyle. The junior beat
his personal records at the Ameri
can Short Course Championships
where he swam the 50 in 19.36 and
at the SEC Championships with a
time of 43.46 seconds in the 100.
With those times, the junior
holds the second and eighth fastest
times in Texas A&M history for the
50- and 100-yard freestyle.
The NCAA Championships will
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possibly think of could happen on this cam
pus.”
Paxton said a patrol officer begins the day
with a 45-minute briefing on campus happen
ings and things to be on the lookout for. Next,
the officer checks out equipment and loads up
the vehicles, including heavy armor in case of
a live shooter incident.
After that, Paxton said officers do a 20-min
ute inspection of UPD vehicles, including a
test of the siren and lights.
For communications officers, Tran said the
job is all about multitasking. Not only is it a
communications officer’s job to answer 9-1-1
calls, but also to monitor cameras and alarms
and answer non-emergency calls.
Tran said the largest task for communica
tions officers is acquiring information for of
ficers out on a call.
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“We have a lot of resources,” Tran said.
“We’ll stalk people on Facebook, we have
a parking database that parking lets us use to
find what kind of vehicle they drive, where
they park and in the emergency situations we
can go through a process of pinging their cell
phone and getting an idea of the general area
that might be in. That can only be used in
life-or-death situations. ”
No matter how detailed a description the
dispatcher gives, Paxton said the officer will
— without fail —- respond with another ques
tion.
“It never fails — after the dispatcher will
put the call out the officer will ask some ran
dom questions,” Paxton said. “It sounds crazy
but it’s because the officer is probably look
ing at the person and they are wearing some
strange color socks.”
Paxton said an officer’s task depends largely
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on the time of day. During the day, officers
tend to see cases such as theft, accidents and
welfare concerns.
“Evenings shift you’ll see a lot more acci
dents, you see a lot of hit-and-mn accidents,”
Paxton said. “Evening shift also starts seeing
harassment, stalking-type calls, that’s when
those start corning in. We also start seeing
welfare concerns and suicidal subjects. Now
night shift that’s the shift where it’s pretty
much officer-initiated stuff. They really get
out there and work traffic pretty hard, and
they are looking for public intoxication.”
Paxton said a large part of the job is fill
ing out paperwork. Every officer has to file an
incident report after speaking with someone
about a call. UPD files so many reports that a
room is dedicated to storing the paper copies.
Paxton said an interesting fact about the
department is that it has statewide jurisdiction.
“The way we get our authority is through
the education code,” Paxton said. “And it
states that any county where A&M owns, leas
es or rents land in we have jurisdiction of that
county and A&M has land in every county in
the state of Texas.”
Paxton said students should not hesitate
to call the department if they are concerned
about something.
“Don’t wait to call us,” Paxton said. “Ev
eryone waits five, 10, 20 minutes. I’ve had
some suspicious-person calls that come in an
hour or two after you’ve observed the person
and when you talked to the reporting party
they say, ‘Well, I went and talked to my pro
fessor and they said...’ Call us. If it’s nothing,
no big deal, but just by waiting five minutes
the chance of me or one of my officers getting
out there and finding the person you are talk
ing about decrease exponentially.”
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The Imitation
Game
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essentially
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