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Quote of the Day “If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” - Earl Wilson Page 6 'CIlC 03MtOtk Friday, April 14, 2000 >. Travis Lynn Photo Editor •>K The City Garage on Gervais Street is where cars end up when the USC Police Department authorizes their towing. Parking PERILS by Mackenzie Clements Staff Writer , Both the campus and city police departments take parking tick ets seriously. In fact, let the unpaid tickets add up and your car will be towed. “I was towed by the Columbia Police Department,” said Olivia Gillcrese, a math junior. “It was a very, very bad experience. It cost me about $115 to get my car back out of towing and to pay unpaid parking tickets I didn’t know about.” Students can apply for reserved parking in any of the many garages around campus for $160 a semester. Student lots on the edges of cam pus are also available, for a lesser fee. But students who park at any of the numerous meters around campus should be careful when it comes to parking tickets. According to Parking Services, an accumulation of $50 or more or unpaid parking violations gives USC the lawful right to re move and impound vehicles. In addition, students who fail to pay their parking fines before the end of the semester might not be able to register or get a tran script or diploma. Myleata Eldridge, a biology freshman, had her car towed from a meter on Bull Street because she had 13 unpaid parking tickets. “It’s a bad feeling to walk out and find your car gone,” Eldridge said. “It really hurts.” It cost her $145 to get her car released. Police officers will tow cars for a variety of other reasons, in cluding parking in a handicapped space, in a fire lane, at a fire hy drant, at a yellow curb, in a reserved space or in a parking garage without a permit. Campus police officers authorize the tows from campus lots and lease fee to the towing company. Cars towed by the USCPD are always taken to the City Garage on Gervais Street. Cars towed by the city police department, however, will be tak en to Elgin’s Garage. Darryl Elgin, owner of Elgin’s Garage on Laurens Street, said: “If you don’t pay those parking tickets, they’ll add up, and they’ll tow your car. The city of Columbia really handles that.” Eldridge contends that poor on-campus parking led to her tick ets. “There’s nowhere else to park,” she said. “One hundred sixty dollars for the parking garage ... that’s too much money. It’s ridicu lous that you have to pay that much money. It’s sad that students don’t have access to good parking.” Parking Services was unable to provide any statistics concern ing the number of cars that are towed each semester. meters, such as the area in front of Patterson Hall, whereas the city police officers authorize tows from city streets and me ters. Once cars are towed, stu dents are required to pay all un paid tickets, as well as a $40 re ‘It’s a bad feeling to walk out and find your car gone. It really hurts.’ Myleata Eldridge biology freshman Campus Notes Blood drive to be held next week The sisters of Omega Phi Alpha, in spon sorship with area businesses, the Resi dence Hall Association and the National Residence Hall Honorary, are holding their second annual Spring Rescue Blood Drive from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in the RH Ballroom. For more information, call 777-0088 or 777 0780. Earth Day celebration to last one week The School of the Environment and Stu dents Allied for a Greener Earth will spon sor this year’s Earth Day celebration at USC. The main activities will be April 19, but a weeklong celebration will hon or the 30th anniversary of this worldwide event. SAGE is still looking for people or student organizations who are inter ested in participating. For more infor mation, call the SAGE headquarters at 799-2408. The Shining’ < to be shown on DVD The Creative Music and Film Society will present Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shin ing” on DVD at 6 p.m. Sunday in Gam brell 153. Afterward, a 25-minute docu mentary on the making of “The Shining,” directed by Kubrick’s daughter Vivian, will be shown. The films are free and open to the public. For more informa tion, call 791-7378. Homecoming applications available Homecoming applications are available in the Program Office, RH 235. Appli cations are due by 5 p.m. April 26. For t more information, call 777-7130 or e mail USCHomecomingl@aol.com. Briefs for Campus Notes can be sub nutted to RH 333 or e-mailed togckfea tures@yahoo.com. ■ CORRECTIONS The phone number The Gamecock List ed Wednesday for information about the showing of “The Shining” was incorrect. The correct number is in today’s Cam pus Notes. 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