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              Loyola University New Orleans The Maroon VOL. 78 NO. 10 ESTABLISHED 1923 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12,1999 broadwav battle With few available parking areas, many students who attend classes on the Broadway Campus find themselves with a dillemma: park on the main campus or face mutilple parking fines from the city. By Danielle Mastropiero Staff writer La atcly. many students who attend classes on the Broadway Campus have returned from class to find dreaded slips of paper tucked under their windshield. "It doesn't make sense. They don't post what the /ones are and people are getting tickets. They're giving a lot of ridiculous ones," said Beth Bracey, third year law student. Bracey's reaction to the parking situation reflects many students' frustration with repeatedly receiving parking tickets along the side streets surrounding the Broadway Campus. Students like Bracey say they park illegally because there are no available parking spaces on campus. Residential parking permits are necessary for unlimited parking and are available only to residents. All others are limited to two hours only. Robert Reed, director of Residential Life and University Parking Committee chairman, explains that this is due to direct action taken by the residents. "A lot of this is driven by the neighborhood planning /ones. People got tired of people parking in driveways and they pressured the city," Reijd said. Reed speculated that a sudden conspicuous ticketing increase has probably evolved Irom further pressure from the residents spurring the city toward a more stringent enforcement of the rules. "Broadway is an unusual situation because there isn't adequate parking. There never has been. There's never going to be. There's no possible way," Reed said. Nathan Abercrombie, third year law student, said he thinks attending class at Broadway is near impossible. 'There are only two blocks to park in within six blocks of this campus. How can you go to class if you have more than one class in a row?" Abercrombie said. Although most of the tickets awarded to students come from the city. University Police has upped its enforcement of parking violations as well. "I think that Public Safety (University Police) has been more vigilant in their enforcement of parking because of the situation we're in with larger enrollment," Reed said. Much of the commotion this year is due to University Police purchasing several additional immobilization boots. Boots are generally given for violations such as parking in a reserved or handicapped space or parking in a roadway or on a vehicle's second ticket. STAFF PHOTO BY LASHA HARDEN Many students who park on side streets surrounding the Broadway Campus have received multiple violations this semester for parking in residential zones. Religions predict apocalypse — again THE TEST OF TIPIE PRRTiOFH By Michael Giusti Editor in Chief They are called cults, factions, sects and any number of other names. Their members believe the end is eminent. The FBI watches them and most Americans don't understand them. They are millennialism movements, and with the approach of the year 2000, they are getting a lot of national attention. Scholars define a millennialist movement as a religious group that believes the world will soon change and a period of collective salvation will begin with or without the help of a messiah. These are not new phenomena and are not necessarily limited to ends of thousandyear periods, said Catherine Wessinger, religious studies professor. Wessinger has authored several books on the subject and has been widely quoted in the media. Her most recent work "How the Millennium Comes Violently." is due for publication next year. "After we pass the year 2000, we will still have plenty of millennialists," Wessinger said. "The year 2(XX) is just such a big, round number and it can really get people's imaginations going." The '90s have brought a renewed notoriety to millennialists, especially after the wave of violence associated with them. From Ruby Ridge to Waco, the FBI has tracked millennialist movements through the decade. Its most recent PHOTO COURTESY OF CONNECTICUT COLLEGE WEBSITE Albrect Durer, a German printer, did many works on the apocalypse. Board takes on proposed tuition hike SGA pushes for more input in process By Elizabeth Stuart Copy Editor A six percent tuition hike plus other fee increases may take effect if the University Board of Trustees approves the recommendation made by the ÜBC. The University Budget Committee will ' present the proposed tuition and fee increases and the proposed financial aid j budget and salary raises and benefit : increases to the Board's Finance ! Committee next Friday. While the proposed six percent raise is higher than last year's five percent boost, j it remains consistent with the student \ recommendation for tuition increases made last year. Last October, the Student Government Association recommended no more than a two percent increase above the Consumer Price Index, a price gauge for items such as food and other goods from year to year used to determine inflation. This year, the CPI is 3.6 percent, rounded off to four percent. Five SGA members met with Cartwright and the Rev. Bernard Knoth, S.J., university president, to discuss the budget earlier this week. At the SGA meeting Tuesday, some representatives said they wanted to be more a part of the decision-making process. Shannon Regeei, economics junior and SGA business representative; Tim Fanguy, communications junior and SGA Arts and Sciences president: Rosina Roibal. music education junior and SGA music president; Megan Pollman. biology junior and SGA vice president, and Mark Piazza, finance junior and SGA member-at-large, attended the meeting. Fanguy said he didn't appn Dve of the process this year. "The thing that upsets me is we really didn't have much say-so," he said. Yet, according to Rhonda Cartwright, vice president for Business and Finance, the students were included. "To the best of my knowledge, the students (SGA) were included in the budget process and learned of the recommendations and voted as part of the normal process," she said in an e-mail to The Maroon dated Nov. 11. Joe Bellows, finance senior and SGA president, will be the student observer to the Board of Trustees meeting next Friday. Moratorium on house parties met by confusion from Greek system By Katie Delaune Staff writer Much confusion has surrounded the one-year moratorium on Greek house parties, but many sorority and fraternity members think it is hurting the Greek system. Update Jim Eiseman. vice president for Student Affairs, issued a moratorium, last year due to several insurance violations by the fraternities. In other words, no party where aleohol is served is allowed in a fraternity house until the suspension is lifted. A separate month-long self-imposed probation for ADG was also agreed upon with Chris Cameron, director of Student Activities and the Danna Center and then director of Greek Life. Ness said hulk quantities of alcohol, in the form of kegs, was found at the houses. See PARKING, Pe.4 See MILLENNIALISM, Pg. 3 See GREEK, Pg.4 -GCAC CHAMPIONS* r"gcacZ flfc n T.7. * *• "$?! *3 Next week: The Catholic Church vs. "Dogma" JHHHBHH