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Volume LXVIII, No. 106	Los Angeles, California	Thursday, April 1, 1976
44 students register for 12 senate seats; election code refined
New services agency plans to open coffeehouse in Commons
By Wayne Walley
City Editor
Forty-four students have applied as candidates for 12 Letters, Arts and Sciences undergraduate seats on the Student Senate. The elections are scheduled for April 27 and 28.
Of the 44 candidates, a preliminary' tally showed that 23 students are running for the six commuter/independent seats; nine for the three residence halls seats; and 12 for the three fraternity/sorority seats.
. Jan Miyake, chafrman of the student elections commission, said each candidate would be contacted to determine the constituency and the eligibility of each candidate before a final breakdown would be available.
Miyake also said the elections commission has extended the deadline to Friday at noon for declared candidates to submit platform statements.
In a meeting Wednesday, the commission refined the elections code and finalized the timetable for the elections.
Copies of the elections code will be available in the Campus Life and Recreation Office in Student Union 301 by Friday.
In going over the code, Miyake said, the commission changed the method of voting from a mail ballot to on-campus voting booths, tightened the money control for campaign spending and redefined students living in off-campus, university-leased apartments as a part of the commuter/independent constituency.
Although mail ballots have
proved in the past to be more successful in getting a greater voter turnout in Student Senate elections, Miyake said the commission felt an on-campus vote would be more equitable.
“The Residence Halls Coordinating Council and the Row were both concerned about the possibility of stuffing the ballot box if a mail ballot system was used,” Miyake said.
“We are concerned with the voter turnout, but we are also concerned with the elections being fair.”
Miyake said to vote, students must have a valid Letters, Arts and Sciences undergraduate picture identification card and that the card would be stamped or punched to ensure that no one would be able to vote more than once.
The commission also limited campaign spending for candidates to $75. Last spring, candidates were allowed to spend $105.
Miyake said candidates may start campaigning Monday, but that all candidates must first submit any campaign materials and activity requests to the Campus Life and Recreation Office.
Three members of the commission must then approve the requests and the decision of the commission will be available 24 hours after submission, but not before this Friday, she said.
The commission also allowed two weeks for campaigning, starting Monday with a break for Easter vacation. Campaigning will then conclude on April 23.
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mons Restaurant, above the Commons Cafeteria.
Jimenez said the program has been tentatively scheduled for Wednesday and Friday nights to coincide with the DKA films. It should be open from 8 p.m. to midnight but the final details haven’t been worked out, she said.
The agency is currently in the process of building a stage and getting sound equipment. There will be different types of entertainment every week, and folk-singers, comedians or bands are planned, Jimenez said.
For more food-conscious students there will be different
types of fresh ground coffee and nights where a chef will go from table to table making crepes.
“There will be a limit on the number of people because we want a nice atmosphere,” Jimenez said. “You can’t fit too many people in or it would be wrecked.”
There will be an admission charge of about $1, she said.
“It’s a function we are putting a lot of work into. We want it to turn out well. It’s for the students,” she said.
Glenn Sonnenberg, a student senator who has been working on the program, said the students will have control over the
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Parking plan would include hike in semester permit price
By Dorothy Reinhold
Assistant City Editor
The Resource Management and Planning Committee is in the final stages of drafting a proposal about the structure and fees for parking on campus next year, which would include a substantial rate increase for both students and faculty.
If the proposal is approved, student semester permits would cost $27.50 or $7.50 per month and basic faculty semester permits will cost $42.50 or $8.50 per month. A $25 fee ($5 per month) is charged for both this semester.
The committee, in drafting the proposal, is considering an equitable way to allow certain faculty and staff individuals to have special parking privileges on campus, while still requiring that the privilege be paid for.
Currently about 160 specific parking spaces on campus are earmarked for an individual by a stenciled name on the space, but he pays the basic rate.
The proposal would divide faculty and staff parking privileges into two categories, a $12-per-month reserved area and an $18-per-month reserved named space.
The reserved area concept would guarantee parking for those faculty and staff who wish to pay the additional fee but it would not guarantee a specific space. The committee is also considering a requirement to this concept that those who want to buy this privilege must show definite need for it.
The reserved named space will have even more requirements attached. Those eligible for one of these include those with the rank of president.
vice-president, chancellor, dean or other positions recommended by their vice-president and approved by the director of campus security and parking operations.
The committee’s proposal also concerned abuses by faculty and staff of second-car parking permits.
J. Jerry Wiley, chairman of the committee, said, “Our impression is that a lot of second-car permits are not being used as they were designed to be used,” he said. “People sometimes bring both cars on campus at the same time when they have only paid for one parking space, or else they actually have no need for a second-car permit and sell it to someone else,” he said.
John Lechner, director of campus security and parking operations, said he thought there was substantial abuse of second-car permits.
“This proposal will ensure that if you want to have two vehicles on campus simultaneously you will have to pay for them,” he said.
Lechner said the faculty w ill probably be given a choice of either getting a transferable device to change from one car to the other, or using the current faculty parking decal if they do not have a need for a second-car permit.
“The added revenue from this proposal is a certainty if you consider that there are between 2.000 and 3,000 families with two cars on this campus. 1 think at least 30% to 40% of them would feel the need and have the affluence to purchase a second decal,” he said.
CAINT SAY NO—Ado Annie Carnes, played by Madolyn Smith, sings away in the campus spring musical, Oklahoma. The play opened Wednesday night and will run through Saturday at 8 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium. DT photo by Ed Moy.
By Peter Fletcher
Staff Writer
The much-talked-about and long-awaited coffeehouse is finally coming into existence. The New Activities and Services Agency, which is sponsoring the program, hopes to have it in operation the week following Easter vacation, said Liz Jimenez, a member of the agency.
The agency, which has been in existence for six weeks, has been working with Guy Hubbard, director of auxiliary services, to arrange facilities for the program.
The coffeehouse, which will have all types of coffee and entertainment, will be in the Com-
I ATE THE WHOLE THING—Dressed in bibs, contestants competed to eat more pizza than the other contestants on Wednesday as nonparticipants hungrily looked on. The contestants eventually left with their bellies full
and smiles on their faces. The pizza-eating contest was one of the festivities celebrating Commuter's Week and was sponsored by the Commons Pizzeria.