Centenary College of Louisiana - Yoncopin Yearbook (Shreveport, LA)

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PARK WHERE? James Jam And Parking Tickets Go Together Have you ever been down- town in a big city during five o ' clock rush hour? No? Well don ' t worry, come by James Drom on any weekend night- what you see is comparable to Los Angeles! There are cars everywhere! Some belong to girls waiting for their friends to quit talking inside, some be- long to the guys waiting for their girlfriends to finish get- ting ready. One belongs to the pour guy waiting for his first date with a girl he barely knows and of course one is a Dominoes Pizza man. For those used to it, the jam is just part of the weekend ritual. Then there is the first day of moving in. Everyone in James Proper parks in the front by the hedges, in the hedges, and on the hedges! If the hedges are full, they park on the sidewalk. Among all the cars are people weaving through the mess with huge boxes of records, books, etc . . . now, the people living in James Annex pull their cars right up to the back doors. Ev- eryone fights for the spaces closest to their rooms. This can get very messy if it has rained recently. And just when you think you ' re finished, you have to move back out! Between the moving in and out and the weekends, there is the everyday chore of just parking your car. Juniors and seniors are relatively safe, they can park in the front of the girls dorms. The freshmen and sophomores, however, must take extra precautions. Either they walk across cam- pus from the lot beside Jack- son Hall or they park behind the tennis courts. Both places are usually well lit and there is a security guard on the loo- kout. Of course, during all of this, there is still the risk of the ever present parking ticket. Surely the security guards can ' t write them all! Maybe the tickets are kind of like grem- lins-they multiply fast, spread everywhere, and reek havoc wherever they go. This subject is up for debate. There must be order, especially when it comes to parking since there is so little space, but we pay to go to school here and it seems like we could park in places for a little while without having to pay a fine. To sum it up simply, parking is a problem. You can park without worry of a ticket, but with worry for your safety, and vice-versa. Or you could take a cab and not worry about safety or tickets-plus the dri- vers usually have a lot of inter- esting stories to tell. -KC Kirst Above: All of the cars parked in front of James Dorm is a typical sight on any day. Right: Smitty shows off the sign mak- ing sure people do not park near the SUB. 14

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-■; ; : Below: Lorin Anderson, Managing Edi- tor, works on the paper to meet the deadline. THE CONGLOMERATE Dedication And Technology At Work A few sympathetic looks, two musty rooms, a reject typewriter, and plenty of vi- sions for the future kept them in business — at first. But, Editor Amy Belleau, Managing Editor Lorin Anderson, and Associate Editor Brian Leach weren ' t about to let The Con- glomerate remain in the dark ages of technology. It took them just one semester of hard work and dedication to erase a leftover debt, increase advertising threefold, remodel the offices, double their staff, expand the paper from eight pages to twenty and install a state-of-the-art desktop pub- lishing system. The Conglom- erate borrowed enough mon- ey from the administration this year to buy two Macintosh Plus computers and a laser printer. The staff can now do their own typesetting and lay- out in their office. The editors hope to continue adding new terminals and software in or- der to keep up with the grow- ing number of talented staff members. Above: The bulletin board in the Con- glomerate office is always full of inter- esting articles to read and look at.

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Above: Carter Floyd and Joe D ' Artois parked their car on the sidewalk to make it easier to move in. 15