CLAREMONT - The City Council and the Claremont Colleges are on their way to restricting freshmen and sophomores from being able to park their cars on campus. Council members on Tuesday will vote on an ordinance that would prohibit freshmen and sophomores at undergraduate colleges in the city from parking vehicles on campus. The ordinance would be added to the city's Muncipal Code.
The council unanimously approved a first reading of the ordinance earlier this month.
"I'm very very pleased that it went through unanimously," Mayor Linda Elderkin said. "All of the council members supported it. This is a very long time coming and a very important change in our code." [Editor's note: Remember her next time she's up for re-election.]
The ordinance helps the community push sustainability goals and encourages students to use alternatives to vehicles, such as bicycles, walking, transit and sharing vehicles. [Editor's note: Right, because it's not like we live in L.A. County...] Another benefit, according to a city staff report, is the colleges can build more compact and walkable campuses without parking lots, which take up lots of land.
Scripps, Pomona, Pitzer, Claremont McKenna and Harvey Mudd colleges qualify for the parking reduction.
"The city ordinance recognizes Pomona College's efforts and those of the other Claremont campuses to reduce the number of cars and their impact on the surrounding community," said Bob Robinson, assistant vice president of Facilities and Campus Services at Pomona College. Pomona College officials instituted a no car policy for freshmen in fall 2009 and continued that policy this academic year, Robinson said. Pomona, Claremont McKenna and Pitzer colleges have attempted to stop their students from having cars on campus and "indicated that their policies have produced positive results freeing up large amounts of parking and facilitating more sustainable forms of transportation while generating few compliance issues with students," according to the report.
Editor's note: This is such a lie. Parking ninjas have just not registered their cars. Had this passed when I had need of a car to get to a polling place, you can bet I would have been livid.
The City Council meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Council Chambers at 225 Second St.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Freshmen Reps Should Run on Restoring Parking to Sophomores
Some Things Don't Need Saving
Another week, another bit of activism from our friends who profess to speak for all "ethnic" students on campus. What are they protesting this time? Why, a bill that bans "ethnic studies" (read: racism and parochialism) in public schools. Stanley Fish has a mixed assessment of what's really going on here, but suffice it to say, it seems as if this is just an effort to teach American children the lessons of America and not victim hood.
Of course you can still study victim hood here at the Claremont Colleges. In point of fact, you can even major in it!
From: "Ernie Mendoza" <ernie_mendoza@cuc.claremont.edu>
Date: September 27, 2010 9:45:03 PDT
Subject: Save Ethnic Studies Planning Meeting
You are all invited to help plan a protest against the Arizona House Bill 2281 and support the Save Ethnic Studies organization. We will be collectively deciding on our plan of action this Friday, October 1st from 4:00-6:00 pm at SCORE (Scripps Communities of Resources and Empowerment) located in the Routt/Frankel Annex on the Scripps campus. Come join us and take action!
Sally Pipes on the Truth About Obacamare (Courtesy of C-Span 2)
Sally Pipes, CEO and President of Pacific Research Institute, delivers a speech on the themes and facts of her new book, The Truth About Obamacare. I confess that I haven't read Ms. Pipes book as yet, but it is next on my list. If this speech, broadcast here from the Heritage Foundation thanks to CSpan-2 is any indication of the book's content, then I hope you add it to your list as well.
