The Towerlight, September 4, 2000

tl20000904-000 "www.towson.eduitowerlight/ e �miler Published twice weekly by students of Towson University 9/4/00 New hall draws complaints 3 Rave reviews for techno party 11 Tigers roll over Fordham, 36-13 19 TU women off to best start ever 21 Departments News 3 Campus briefs 6 Nation 7 A&E /1 In a Theater Near You.13 Sound Bites 16 Sports 19 Fast Break 19 Athlete of the Week....22 Op/Ed. 26 University backs off on parking for first week Warnings will be handed out instead of tickets, crackdown to begin next week Mike Morris The Towerlight Despite warnings that ticket-ing for parking violations would begin on the first day of classes Thursday, University officials have extended a week-long grace period to allow students to adjust to the new parking scheme. As of yet, only warning tick-ets have been issued regarding failure to display permits, although tickets have been issued when dealing with safety issues such as vehicles blocking handicap spaces and fire lanes. ""It takes people a while to find where the parking lots are and where the best places to go are,"" said University President Hoke L. Smith, who suggested the grace period to Auxiliary Services. ""We want to warn people so they don't think we are not enforcing it, but we don't want to get them paying fines bef6re they really learn the system,"" Smith said. Currently, all 800 resident and core resident (juniors and seniors that live on-campus) permits have been sold, and there are only several hundred commuter permits available, which officials expect to sell out within a few days. ""We have had a number of students express concern when the resident permits sold out and we expect the same when commuter permits sell out,"" said Joe Oster, associate vice president of Auxiliary Services. Once all commuter permits LOT FULL ADDITIONAL PARKING AT Chns Henry/The Towerhght Auxiliary Services has extended the grace period for parking and will instead hand out reminders this week. are sold the University will begin selling safellite parking permits to a lot behind the Towson Library about a mile north on York Road. After plans to extend the Uniyersity shuttle bus system to the 100-space lot fell through, students will have no choice but to walk to campus from the lot or find alternate transportation. ""That's messed up,"" com-muter student Monique Montague said. ""I don't like that at all. It's not fair to give stu-dents no other options."" Oster said there would be approximately a 10 to 15 minute walk to campus for students who have satellite permits, which will cost $150, the same as an on-campus commuter per-mit. ""This lot is the next closest See PARK, page 6 Chns Henry 'The Towerhght In a week, reminder notices like the ones above will be replaced with real tickets, some from new electronic ticket-writing machines. Today High 87 Low 63 Tuesday High 73 Low 43 Wednesday High 67 Low 46 Thursday High 74 Low 53 "