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_6 'Meter maid By BRYAN MIMS Staff Writer USC ? Already late for class, you drive a lessly around campus looking for a park space. Finally, you spot a meter with only 10 n utes left before the red "Time Expired" mess pops up. Unfortunately, you have no cha available, and your class is more than an 1 long. You park in the spot anyway, hop maybe you can avoid getting a parking tick Usually, that's just wishful thinking, /jw USC's diligent parking patrols will J| find you sooner or later. ||y Traditionally known as meter maids, these parking enforcement officers consider that name outdated. "I haven't heard that name in so long," said Pat Fuller, who laughed and quickly corrected a visitor who called her a meter maid. "That name goes back a long time." As she gripped her Ticket Track, a computerized device that records license tag numbers of illegally-parked cars, Fuller admitted that parking enforcement officers are often viewed as nuisances. But during her 19-year tenure at USC, that stigma ha never bothered her. Overall, people have no shown much animosity toward her. "Students who treat me ugly, I just sa) 'Have a nice day,"' Fuller said. "I don't 1< my job get me too stressful. If a student gel Frank Black Boo Racilay's The Br? Candysklns Chemiad The Church T Oada Dlliioa Fence Dinosaur Jr. F:shbona Fetor Gat)nei Gon-; rj Hoiiyfanh Noose and the Blow iT Coyote Lsmonheads Lenny ? > Midnsght Oil The Mighty Msg- k inch Nails Nirvana Pear! da Y Machme Ramones Rati Hot l. . Social Distortion Sou! Asylum 'Temple Plloto Sugar Matthew S II The Toad the Wet Sprocket Fx Suzanne Vega Violent Fern nice F u The Judybaic Smashing Pumpkins T? 620 Harden St. (next to th All ABC Regulations Enforced If you are i ! A REAI Mui TOOTIE & Weight Room | Justwh Semi-, "L/ r Thursi ] FREE F SUB SANI CHIPS & * Regist< Russell House U 7 Sponsored I ' Caroli | FREE FOOD FREE V ?h s' not just ticketin: me upset, I know it can be stressful to my sys- "You tern." she sai( lim. Before she came to USC, Fuller worked on ties. I lc ing the production staff in a General Electric plant, As tl ? but she always longed to work outdoors. When themsel nin. this job opened in 1974, she seized it. repeatec ;age "I wanted to get out in the fresh air," she them a nge said. "The money's not that bad. Everyone's putting l0ur making a decent living....You're in the public Offic >ing eye at every moment." parking Earnest Pryor, a retired military officer, took would 1 ?- the job for similar reasons. He, too, val- ing patr ues working outside and meeting peo- "We' f \ pie. Since he joined the parking are," sh enforcement staff in February, he has Althc encountered only one gruff student. congeni ^pssgar /Alio nt tnutu up apoio^iz,iii^, i i;ui gti uit said, taking a break from inspecting cars "We near the Russell House. "He just had a bad wasn't I / day, and me putting a ticket on his car just coffee f Mj|j added to it." Stude Pryor and his fellow officers arrive for paper a work at about 7:30 a.m. But before hitting incidenl Bp the streets, they gather in the USC Police basic di B Department on Main Street, drink coffee, cers set I glance over the newspaper and talk. By 8 lock yo' , B a.m., they climb into their one-seated have a 5 If Cushman vehicles with garnet and black your he t I stripes on the side and begin another day. inform ; Frances Derrick, who has worked as a "If y< I parking enforcement officer for four years, public, ;t I said she has engaged in many memorable con- Derrick ts B versations with students and teachers. public 2 [?| i i PTTTH 1 * i k * ?k M * 1 *k " " / k ? sede:^ " Buithoie Surfers Candlebox The The Cranberries The Cult The Cure Ft- yl Mealplow Faith No Mors Gutferbaf! PJ Harvey Hairnet ^ . , Juliana Hatfield Three Jupiter ^0} Aimaa Mann Chris Mars ilrSn/'Wl lc\S>3J h;d Honey Haw Order Nine \$ yl/ & ? 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Are i parking tickets on car windshields. \Anuf' er Dianne Bake, who has worked on the nacky^ enforcement staff for 14 years, said she ' st^jd^hey [ike to end the misconception that park- touches the ols are mean people. the lettuce re not bad people like they think we 6. Has Presid e said, shaking her head. bold or pos >ugh the officers said they always remain done in on< al toward the public, they don't always 5. Which is th same behavior in return. pedestrian have things thrown at us," Baker said. "I maintenam here but about 18 months when I had hot * * xiured on me at Preston Hall." vandalize c ;nts have also tossed balls of wet toilet one Qf theii nd pennies at them over the years, but exciting is i ts such as that are rare. Although their throwing be lty is fining parking violators, these offi- 3. Will NAFT/ ve other purposes. For instance, if you in the Wort r keys in your car, they can help. If you 2. Why is thei flat tire, they can help. 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