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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Volume 95 Issue 51
PARKING
Five floors of parking heaven Mary Margaret Halford Printz Writer On Thursday, 1200 new parking spots became available to the faculty, staff and students of Southern Miss when the parking garage officially opened to the public. So far, all reactions to the parking garage have been positive ones. Students living in Century Park are especially pleased with the opening of the new structure. Johnna Chislom, a freshman from Hurley, Miss. living in Century Park, said that since the parking garage’s opening she has not had to park in the Hillcrest lot. “It has been great,” Chislom said. “Most of my friends that I have talked to have parked in it. We no longer have to circle around the parking lot waiting for a spot to open up.” Chislom added that before the parking garage opened, she often had to park in the Hillcrest gravel lot and walk to Century Park. “I was always really cautious walking from the gravel especially when it was late and I
was by myself,” Chislom said. “It made me nervous because it isn’t lit well. The new garage is lit well and so close and it’s nice not having to worry about walking back at night.” Amber McCraine is a sophomore living in Hillcrest, and she says that though she does not plan on parking in the new structure, it has greatly improved her parking situation. “The people from Century Park that used our Hillcrest parking now go to the parking garage which is nice for all of us living in Hillcrest,” said McCraine. “Before the parking garage, the gravel lot was often full and now there aren’t many people there at all.” Campus residents aren’t the only people who benefit from the new parking garage, however. Commuter Kimberly McRaney, a junior from Raymond, Miss., says that finding a parking spot is usually an incredibly difficult task on this campus, but with the parking garage that has changed. “I usually drive around for fifteen minutes looking for a
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President Martha Saunders speaks at the opening of the recently completed four-story parking garage from its top level on Thursday.
ON CAMPUS
Cookie Monster strikes in the Fresh Visitors to the Fresh Food Company in recent days have had no reason to scream since the ice cream machine there has been removed as a result of mechanical problems with it. Bruce McVay, the director of
operations for the “Fresh” said the case of the missing confection boils down to logistics. “The soft-serve machine we use isn’t really made to handle the volume of customers that come through the Fresh Food company every day,” McVay said. Elizabeth Cobbins wasn’t a fan of the ice cream in the cafeteria before but the absence of another
treat has come up on her radar. “I did like the cookies,” she said. Cobbins and her friends had speculated that cost-cutting was one of the main reasons for the mysterious disappearance of the ice cream machine but she also pointed out that she noticed the machine was often out of service. Joe Thomas, a freshman from Slidell, La., said he also noticed
the loss of the popular desserts. He eats in the Fresh Food Company twice a day and said he is saddened by the sudden loss. He also concluded that the machine was removed to try to save money. McVay clarified that the way the cookie crumbles, the problem is mechanical, not monetary. “This isn’t a matter of us trying to save money or to be cheap; the
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machine is just broken,” he said. “We’ll have a replacement one in there as soon as possible until it’s fixed.” Thomas feels that that excuse doesn’t hold milk anyway. “It takes money to fix it, which they don’t want to spend, even though we pay for them to keep
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