The Daily
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Mississippian
Vol. 102, No. 146
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Parking services plans for positive changes BY LOGAN KIRKLAND thedmnews@gmail.com
University of Mississippi Parking Services continues to develop plans for the upcoming school year to improve campus parking. Parking Services Director George Michael Harris said his department is looking to improve students’ and faculty’s experience with various outlets. Harris said numbers and statistics from the past were taken into consideration in order to better plan for the upcoming semester. “We are going to limit those commuter tags,” Harris said. Harris said based on last year’s numbers there will be a 10 percent decrease of people parking on campus, leaving a significant number of spaces open for drivers compared to last year. “This will take a strain off of the central campus,” Harris said. The new parking garage will add 500 open spaces that will be paid for hourly. Around 300 of those openings will be divided between faculty and staff. The
remaining spaces will be designated to graduate assistants and students based on classification. Harris said students would be given the opportunity to purchase a pass for the parking garage even if they have purchased a tag already. “You would just pay the difference,” Harris said. “I think it would hopefully cut down the traffic.” Students will also be able to take advantage of the Park and Ride option the university offers. There is an abundance of space for students, Harris said, and additional services have been added to make Park and Ride a viable option. “We are trying to get people to those open areas,” Harris said. Those who decide to use Park and Ride will have a bus that shuttles them from their cars to campus from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and there will be an extra bus introduced this fall to help improve the service. Harris said for students who
FILE PHOTO (DEXAVIER STURDEVANT) | The Daily Mississippian
Students get on an Oxford-University Transit bus on campus.
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Challenge of Cochran win still days away JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — It could be days before Chris McDaniel challenges his loss to six-term Sen. Thad Cochran in Mississippi’s June 24 Republican primary runoff, an attorney for McDaniel’s campaign said Monday. The attorney, Mitch Tyner, said representatives of the campaign were in most of the state’s 82 counties on Monday to examine ballot boxes, including absentee ballots. He said they were looking for examples of people who might have violated state law by voting in the Democratic primary June 3 and the Republican runoff June 24. Mississippi voters don’t register by party, but state law bans people from voting in one party’s primary and the other party’s runoff in the same elec-
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tion cycle. “When I vote, and there’s an ineligible voter that also votes, he dilutes my vote, he dilutes your vote,” Tyner said during a news conference at the Hinds County Courthouse. Tyner said it could be days before he reviews what the McDaniel representatives have been finding during their examination of ballot boxes. After that information is available, state law says a first challenge of election results would be filed with the Mississippi Republican Party executive committee. Tyner said that 10 days after a challenge is filed with the party, a lawsuit could be filed in state circuit court to seek a new election. McDaniel, a state senator from Ellisville, has said he inSee COCHRAN, PAGE 6
Chris McDaniel addresses his supporters after falling behind in a heated GOP primary runoff election against incumbent U.S. Senator Thad Cochran on Tuesday, June 24, 2014.
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