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NEED SOME HELP?—King Kong, a somewhat unusual helper, made a surprise visit to campus Wednesday to help publicize Helpline, a student information-rap-crisis service. Student staffers man telephone lines daily between 2 p.m. and 2 a.m. DT photo by Mike Ito.
By Sherie Stark
staff writer
After five years of unsuccessfully attempting to gain official recognition, the Gay Student Union has finally convinced the university’s administration to sanction it as a campus organization.
“The recognition is an opening up on the part of the university that has been a long time in coming. We’re more or less being made room for in campus activities,” Sal Licata, chairman of the Gay Awareness Program, said.
“Mainly, the recognition means that we will able to meet on campus now, rather than at the YWCA, which is not as centralized, or as familiar as the Student Union. Also, we are now allowed to publicize on campus with posters.”
Last December, the organizations charter was submitted to James R. Appleton, vice-president for Student Affairs. From there, it was passed on to
Prices at campus eating facilities increase due to food, labor costs
Students who eat on campus will be paying more for their food this year.
Prices in the Commons complex—the Commons Cafeteria, the Gtrill, the Sidewalk Cafe and Commons Restaurant— have gone up 7%% this semester, said Ken Bridges, director of food services. The price of meal contracts in the residence halls has also increased.
Bridges attributed the rising prices to higher food and labor costs. A 5ViVc salary increase for food-service workers and a university-wide salary increase of 5 to 8% is responsible for most of the increase, he said.
Last year the Commons complex recorded an overall loss, and the facilities in the residence halls “more or less broke even,” Bridges said.
Students who bought the standard 20-meaI-a-week plan in the
residence halls paid $492 this semester—or $52 more than last year. A 15-meal-a-week plan costs $348 a semester, a $48 increase, and it entitles students to three meals a day, Monday through Friday in the Commons 1 complex.
Bridges said the 20-meal plan was sold out on Sept 11. Since then only the 15-meal plan has been available to students who have the option of buying the meal contract.
“I hope there will be no more food price increases this year,” said Bridges. “I feel there is a point of no return on prices that the students can pay. But we (food service) can’t absorb all the increases; we have to pass them on.
“We’ve seen a 35% increase in the past few years. Only half of that increase has been passed on to students. We have tried to offset the raw food and labor in-
creases by creating new types of food service.”
Examples of these services are the sandwich deli, the pizza stand in the sidewalk cafe and a new deli that is about to open in the Commons.
Food from the vending machines located all over campus will also cost more. Bridges said he approved a slight increase in the price of vending machine food on July 1. This increase was a direct result of product increases.
Students who eat in the residence halls are guaranteed that they won’t have to pay another price increase by their contract, but students who eat in the Commons may have to share any further cost increase the university experiences, Bridges said.
the Board of Trustees, where it had been unresolved until late summer.
Licata said that he thought the passage of a state bill legalizing all forms of sexual behavior between consenting adults had a positive effect on the board’s decision.
The board realized that the Gay Awareness Program would have the financial support to sue the university unless given recognition, he said.
Appleton said that the trustees made a previous ruling in 1970 against the formation of a Gay Student Union.
The members took the controversy to court, but the case was never tried because it was delayed too many times.
Licata said that probably the most important effect of the recognition will be the supportive atmosphere that the sanctioning encourages.
“Being recognized by the university as an above-board, legitimate organization helps to minimize the stigmas—political, academic and social—still present in our society,” Licata said. “The stigmas are what keep more gays from coming out, and a supportive move such as this one is a step in the right direction.
“Almost every other major university has had an accepted gay program for two to four years. Perhaps because of more open, receptive atmospheres, schools such as Long Beach State and UCLA have stronger programs, with 50-75 solid members.
“Another thing is the strong peer groups in the dorm and fraternity living groups. It makes coming out with your gayness a harder decision to make.”
Licata said that although the students are living in one of the country’s three gay meccas, (the other two being New York and San Francisco) undergraduates cannot take advantage of the gay social life because they are under 21.
He said that the graduate students presently make up an overwhelming percentage of the organization, and that ironically, they are the students who need the organization the least because of the other ties they can develop in the community.
“I’d like to see more undergraduate students come to the meetings, and take a more active role in the organization. It really has the most to offer them, in terms of social contacts.”
Also, very few women have taken part in the campus movement because of a difference in attitude, Licata said. He said that lesbians are not generally as free in their approach, and that they tend to admit their feelings later than male homosexuals.
“Women have called me, wanting to know about the organization and where they could meet people, but few have come to the meetings. It’s a shame,” he said.
Licata said that the organization is already feeling some of the benefits of being a recognized campus organization, in questions of participation in campus activities.
“Last year, there was a large amount of controversy as to whether or not we would be involved with the Student Health Fair.
“This year, it was just taken for granted that, as a student organization, we would have a table at the Activities Fair (Sept
24	and 25). We’re hoping to have a VD clinic, as well as information about the organization.”
The group will meet every Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in Student Activities Center 201. Today two gay porno filmmakers will discuss their movies and gay life in general.
Licata will be teaching a course in sexuality in the spring, either on homosexuality in the Experimental College as he did last year, or on the history of sexuality in the History Department.
Admissions figures are corrected
An article in Wednesday’s Daily Trojan incorrectly reported that the number of undergraduate admissions to the university this year had declined.
In fact, the number of admissions increased by seven—from 6,980 to 6,987—Conrad F. Wedberg Jr., dean of admissions, said Wednesday.
What had declined, Wedberg said, was the number of certificates of intent to register returned by the applicants admitted.
Wedberg said a precise figure for the number of certificates returned was unavailable. But the decline was apparently not reflected by the number of students enrolling this fall, which is about the same as last year, he said.
OH, THOSE PRICES —Students may have to dig a little deeper into their pockets to pay for their meals at campus eating facilities this year. Those who are famil-
iar with this bulletin board in the Grill will notice that prices have gone up — again, because of increased costs of food and labor. DT photo by Bob Selan.
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVIII, No. 3	_Los Angeles, California_ Thursday, September 18, 1975
Gay Student Union gets university recognition
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