University of Southern California
Volume LXX, Number 23	Los	Angeles, California	Thursday, October 21, 1976
FENCE SITTER—Mickey Mouse was the most popular third-party candidate in the shirt and tie polls this week. In an election year with Fritz, Grits, a Hawaiian pineapple and a used car. . .why not The Squeak? Photo courtesy of El Rodeo.
Student Senate wraps bylaw vote in red tape
BY CLARA GERMANI
Staff Writer
A special meeting of the Student Senate to amend its bylaws never got off the ground Wednesday as senators entangled issues in an hour-long discussion of procedural red tape.
The action was carried over from last week’s regular meeting in which several of the amendments were approved, article by article, by a simple majority vote. Under a ruling by Glenn Sonnenberg, senate chairman, final approval of the bylaws as a whole would be by a two-thirds vx>te as called for in Robert’s Rules of Order.
At the meeting, Narbik Man-ukian, a senator, questioned the legality of such a ruling. He claimed approval of each article must be by a two-thirds vote, which implied that the accomplishments of last week’s meeting are void.
Terry Hillis, a senator, explained that the simple majority vote on each article of the bylaws was only to agree on changes in wording to eliminate disagreement in the final vote of approval on the bylaws as a whole, when a two-thirds approval is required.
Sonnenberg said since the decision of the chair was not overruled at the last meeting, procedures for amendment should remain the same.
This sparked an argument on parliamentary procedure and senate priorities. During the meeting, only one section of an article in the bylaws was approved before the quorum was lost. This set the senate back, leaving it with a thick pile of articles to consider and the rehashing of procedures to face at next week’s regular meeting.
Before the quorum was lost, the senate did manage to appoint two students to posts within it. William Dauster, a junior in international relations, economics and political science, was appointed to a position on the senate’s Financial Affairs Unit.
Dale Head, a student senator, was nominated as the chairman of the senate’s review board which regulates the Campus Activities Allocation Board and the New Activities Service Agency.
“My main complaint is that the senate is spending too much time on bylaws,” Sonnenberg said. “Throwing Robert’s Rules of Order around is not good. I believe we need a vote of confidence. It’s not in good faith to agree on procedure at one meeting and disagree at the next.”
Charla Rolland, another student senator, disagreed, saying that if one procedure was illegal she didn’t want to continue along the same lines.
Sonnenberg went on to say the senate could sit on technicalities all year and not get anything done. As it stands, he said, much ofthe senate’s structure is not set up in the bylaws, and the amendments are designed to bring the bylaws up to date with the senate’s activity.
“We’re a body without rules, between old bylaws and new ones,” he said. The senate as it is, will function whether or not the bylaws are passed, he added
Sonnenberg expressed concern that the senate could not settle down to solving substantive issues like tuition increase and parking problems. “Its time for the senate to move on to more important things,” he said.
Some senators are not showing enough interest in their constituents and are simply dealing in “piddling structural issues,” he said.
“They just aren’t interested in dealing with matters of substance.”
Sonnenberg also cautioned senators about lack of regard for their responsibilities. “Some senators are on the verge of being removed from President’s Advisory Council committees for nonattendance and there are a lot of people who would like their jobs.”
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Trojan
Students to get increase of spaces in Structure A
BY MARC GROSSMAN
Staff Writer
Parking in Structure A, the subject of the “Great Parking Controversy,” will be reapportioned in favor of students effective today.
The structure, located at 3667 McClintock Ave., was divided by fences last week to allow for 50% faculty parking and 50% student parking. Commuter students complained because only 25% of the faculty spaces were being utilized.
The new plan gives three-quarters ofthe structure to students and one-quarter to faculty.
“If we’ve given too much space to faculty and staff, then there will be a change,” Trisha Gordon, administrative assistant for Parking Operations, said last week.
“That’s exactly what happened,” John F. Lechner, director of Campus Security and Parking Operations, said Wednesday. “I overestimated and gave faculty and staff more space then they needed. The whole thing was on a trial basis anyway.”
Lechner’s office received a number of complaint letters during the week, ranging from helpful suggestions to “telling me what I could do with my parking structures.
“It’s almost impossible to make everyone happy,” Lechner said. “When everyone is unhappy, then I assume that things have been done about as fairly as possible. When one group is happy, then I’m probably showing favoritism.”
With all the furor surrounding Parking Structure A, Lechner found it odd that Lot One and Parking Structure B (behind Dedeaux Field) are used by commuters as last resorts.
“A student will drive around searching for a space in A, when he could save a lot of time by
driving right into B and parking his car,” he said.
“People say Lot One and Parking Structure B are too far from their classes. On the campus map. it looks like a long way from B to the Law Center, but in reality it's only about a 10-minute walk. Unfortunately, we can’t park everyone at Tommy Trojan.”
Lechner also said that as the university expands, parking will become more of a problem.
“WThen Jefferson Boulevard is finally widened, an entire rowr of parking spaces will be wiped out,” he said. “We are going to have to provide more spaces as the Davidson Conference Center becomes more popular. We can t really plan for these things because of all the construction. We have no idea of what the City of Los Angeles is going to do, until just before they do it.”
When students compare the parking system here to that of other universities. Lechner is quick to point out that “even an elaborate system like UC Santa Barbara’s, complete with pass keys that allow students to enter certain parking areas, went through a struggling phase.
“UCLA spent millions on its parking operation and it is probably more screwed up than ours,” Lechner said.
He would like to see a transportation system that would take students to and from classes," he said.
Lechner added that “parking should not have to be the first thing on anyone’s mind. If you go to Disneyland, you don’t want to think about the parking, but about the highlight of the day, namely Disneyland. It’s an unfair comparison to make, but there you give the guy 50 cents and you park your car.
“Students can’t do that here, but the highlight of the university should be getting an education.”
Apartment parking policy toughened
REHEARSAL—Final preparations continue for the Symphony and Opera Workshop's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which opens Friday night and continues to run Saturday and Oct. 29 and 30. Tickets are available at all Wallich's and Liberty Ticket
Agencies and the School of Performing Arts Ticket Office in Booth Hall 1 10. The prices are $5 and $3, and $2 for students and senior citizens with I.D. cards. DT photo by Mark Kariya.
BY CARLA SCHALMAN
Cars parked illegally in Cardinal Gardens and Troy Hall lots will be impounded, said John Lechner, director of Campus Security and Parking Operations.
In the past, those who parked in the lots of the university-owned apartment complexes were warned and issued citations.
Students living in university-operated housing are required to pay the $37.50 parking fee every semester. The problem is that students who aren’t authorized to park in the Troy Hall and Cardinal Gardens lots are parking there, said Susanne Hughes, Cardinal Gardens manager.
The Los Angeles Municipal Code requires that apartment building owners provide one parking space per unit, Lechner said.
Cardinal Gardens has 210 apartments and 238 spaces. Troy Hall has 138 units and 149 parking spaces.
Lechner said there are more automobile owners living in the apartments than there are parking spaces. In order to alleviate this problem, Troy Hall residents can park in Lot B on Jefferson Boulevard and Cardinal Gardens residents can use Lot 1 or Parking Structure B near Men’s Residence
West.
The university is investigating a proposal to build a parking lot on 30th Street west of Troy Hall, Lechner said. This land, however, is owned by the Hebrew Union College.
Lechner said that the university must accommodate all of the cars in the apartments, or restrict the use of vehicles.
Other universities have limited the use of cars to juniors and seniors in order to ease parking problems, Lechner said.
It is also possible that in the future, prospective residents will be more carefully screened in order to select people without cars, he said.
The price of the student parking permits was raised from $25 to $37.50 in order to pay for the two new parking structures. Lechner said. He added that parking fees throughout the university also went up in price.
Lechner said that the apartments were built by private developers and then purchased by the university.
The apartments were originally designed for private residents, and so they are not as suitable for student needs as they would have been had the university been involved in the planning, he said.