Special election will be held to fill vacant
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University of Southern California
Volume LXX, Number 37
Los Angeles, California	Monday, November 15, 1976
New vice-chairman elected for grad school assembly
BY MARC GROSSMAN
Staff Writer
A permanent vice-chairman for the Graduate School Assembly has been elected.
Stephen Harris, a second-year law student, was elected over Renee Jackson-White, the interim vice-chairman.
Harris, 25, also sits on the executive committee of the President’s Advisory Counsil.
“We really need good representation there because so few students sit on that committee,” said Glenn Sonnenberg, Student Senate chairman. “A person on that committee is really a key representative of the university.”
“I have a lot to learn,” Harris said. “1 spent about an hour Friday being briefed by Glenn, and after looking through about 100 pages of material, I should be ready to go.
“The most important thing we have to do is get organized. For instance, we still have three vacant seats to fill. Once we get organized, however, I think we will have a very successful year.”
Among the problems Harris said he will look into are parking
and student involvement on faculty tenure and promotion.
“Even though these problems are of concern to the entire university, the parking situation is especially of concern to graduate students,” he said.
Sonnenberg feels that Harris, with his law experience, will be proficient at handling expenditures. Harris added that he wants to make sure allocated funds are used for the good of students.
He said one of the first priorities is to get more input from graduate students.
“I want to make the Graduate Assembly an open forum,” Harris said. “I would like graduate students to talk about their problems and to feel free to call on us at any time. This all adds up to getting more grad students involved.”
Harris, who received his undergraduate degree in English at Occidental College, said he ran for vice-chairman because of the need for reorganization of the assembly.
“Renee did a tremendous job as interim vice-chairman and will continue to work on the Graduate Professional Schools
Committee,” Sonnenberg said. “Harris is extremely dedicated and I’m confident he will do an excellent job. The election was simply a choice between two very interested, hard-working people.”
Student Senate seat
BY DIANE SLEZA C
Assistant City Editor
Graduate students in the School of International Relations will vote in a special election during the next five weeks to fill a vacant graduate position in the Student Senate, said Greg Cole, senate parliamentarian.
The election will determine two electors from the school, who will meet with the other electors in the Graduate School in January to elect someone to the vacant position.
Cole is sending letters this week to graduate students in the department. The letters explain the election and encourage students to be candidates. The senate will take nominations until Dec.l Cole said the nominations will be under a self-nomination procedure.
Ballots will be mailed Dec. 6 and must be returned by Dec. 15. The results will be announced the following day. Cole asked that any graduate student in international relations who has changed his address recently contact Cole in Student Union 309.
The vacant post in the Graduate School resulted after the senate elections last spring. Two of the three Graduate School seats were filled by Renee Jackson-White and Narbik Manukian, but the third seat which was claimed by James Lamb, agraduate student in international relations, became enveloped in controversy. The senate received complaints over the way the election in the school was run, and Lamb was never seated.
A hearing was held over the summer by the Commission on Credentials and Elections of President’s Advisory Council (PAC). It was the commission’s decision to throw out the previous election results and reschedule it for the one school.
The problems surrounding the election have been compounded by the fact that the Student Senate’s Elections Commission has been virtually nonexistent this semester. Dennis Mulhaupt, commission •hairman. resigned because of his increasing duties as cochairman of the senate’s Academic Affairs Commission. Cole was asked by Glenn Sonnenberg, senate chairman, to run this particular election while potential members for a new Elections Commission are being sought.
Sonnenberg said the controversy surrounding the previous election brought out many points on how future elections might be improved. A memo from Margaret Harrington, chairman of the PAC election commission, to Jay Savage, PAC chairman, said the previous election was a very complex issue and that fault could not be assigned to any one group or individual.
It is not known whether Lamb will run for the position. He could not be reached for comment. But Sonnenberg said he hopes Lamb will run, because he hopes anyone who wishes to serve on the senate runs.
“My only concern as chairman is that a good representative be elected from the Graduate School as soon as possible, through as fair an election as possible, so we can get down to work and put our last election controversy behind us,” Sonnenberg said.
Low-income housing planned
Over 300 housing units for elderly citizens and low-to moderate-income families will be built just north of the university early next year.
A total of 170 of the units will be allocated to senior citizens. These units will be in an H-shaped complex three stories high, with wood frames and stucco. The minimum age for occupancy will be 62 years, said David Lewis, project manager for the Community Redevelopment Agency.
The structure will be built by the Tumast Foundation.
Another 151 units will be built for low-to moderate-income families. These are to be built in a Y-shaped pattern three stories high with a subterranean parking lot.
These units will be available to any family that meets federal income requirements. The pro-
gram will be subsidized by the government, so that no more than 25% of a family’s adjusted income may go towards rent and utilities.
The family units will be built by the Trojan Development Company, with Ray Watt Industries holding the major interest in the company.
Lewis said the complexes will take about six to nine months to complete. They will be constructed at an estimated cost of $3 million each.
The complexes will be built
over a city block bordered by 30th Place on the north, Orchard Street on the east, Jefferson Boulevard on the south and Vermont Avenue on the west, Lewis said.
Plans for the project were discussed at the Nov. 4 meeting of the Hoover Urban Redevelopment Advisory Committee. The committee is a major-appointed group acting in an advisory capacity to provide community input to the Community Redevelopment Agency, which plans and implements redevelopment projects.
Alleged discrepancy in location of campus polling places investigated
BY GARY MALONEY
The Los Angeles County registrar of voters is investigating an alleged discrepancy at campus polling locations that may have prohibited as many as 100 students from voting on Nov.2.
Anna Blanton, precinct clerk for the polling location in the lobby of Elisabeth von KleinSmid Hall (EVK), said Friday that students had come to her saying their sample ballot had listed their polling location as El Centro Chicano on Hoover Boulevard.
“The students said a man at the center had told them to go to EVK. However, we did not have the registrar’s log book verifying that they were registered voters,” she said.
“We called the Registrar’s office downtown, but they wouldn’t do anything for the students — and there were about 100. They passed the buck.”
Blanton, who has worked in local precincts in the Midwest, said many who knew of similar errors on the sample ballots were afraid of losing their position as deputy registrars, and the mistnirAc were never reported.
“These students had their registration slips and
ballots, and were deprived of their right to vote. Many were angry,” Blanton said.
A secretary in the county Registrar’s office said no word had been received about the polling mishap, but “the problem will be investigated as soon as possible.”
Rafael Magallan, assistant director of El Centro Chicano, said the building “has not been used as a polling place for IV2 years. There had been some earlier confusion between our place and the University Newman Center (on University Avenue), but it was never officially set for this fall.”
Students who were unable to vote because of the mix-up may report it to the registrar of voters, 808 S. Spring St., or phone 974-6771.
Combined from the Nov. 2 election for the two on-campus polls, the Newman Center and the Severance Street booth, were: Ford, 761, Carter, 523; and Hayakawa, 614, Tunney, 520. From the West 30th Street polling place, which included Cardinal Gardens and outlying areas of the community, the returns were: Ford, 942, Carter, 799; and Hayakawa, 764, Tunney. 753.
INFORMATION, ANYONE?—A kiosk, plastered with an array of posters and announcements, illuminates the night.