Town Meeting Favors No Cars for Freshmen CHRONICLE STAFF May 5, 2000 Amherst Town Meeting representatives last week adopted a resolution backing University efforts to discourage first-year students from bringing cars to campus. The April 27 vote also calls for the University to ban first-year students from bringing cars beginning in the 2001-02 academic year. Supporters of the ban say it will help address concerns about environmental problems and traffic congestion. Campus officials, while stopping short of implementing the ban, have promised to limit first-year students to parking in peripheral lots and to do more to promote use of the bus system.