TAKING IT TO THE LIMIT — Tony Jetton, a professional skateboarder, "shoots the curl" at one of Southern California's growing number of skateboard parks. Skateboarding has become a popular activity across the
An ad in Wednesday’s Daily Twjan said, “The future of your radio station will be decided tonight ...” The radio station is KSCR and on Wednesday night, its future was decided.
The Campus Activities Allocation Board (CAAB) unanimously approved KSCRs long-delayed funding request at its meeting Wednesday. Now it’s just a question of time before the university's student radio station is back on the air.
KSCR will receive $18,448 from the allocations board.
"I was so overjoyed,” said Bob Sayegh. general manager of the station, when the money was allocated.
“I really wasn't expecting (to get that much). I was honest with the board ... I told them KSCR does need the money because KSCR is a good thing to have.
“The money they gave us is invested for a long time to come. They have a good investment in KSCR.”
The station is made up of student volunteers and currently has a staff of 87 people.
He estimates it will be between two and three months before the station is on the air.
“We hope to be on the air early next semester,” he said.
He emphasized that there is no big rush to get on the air. “We re going to be careful in the way we spend the money. We want to make CAAB proud of us . . . We want to spend it just right.”
When it does hit the airwaves. KSCR will be using a new system. Installation of the system will delay the
University attempts to
By Carla Schalman
Staff Writer
Letters have been sent to students still on the waiting list for housing by the Office of Residential Life to see if the students still intend to live on campus.
About 500 students were still on the waiting list Monday.
The letters ask students to inform the office if they still want fall or spring housing. They also ask students to enclose a current address. If students are no longer interested in housing their $75 deposits can be refunded.
If students do not respond to the letters by Tuesday their names will automatically be removed from the
list.
The dormitories are completely filled and fewer people have wanted to be released from contracts this year, said Sharon Kettler, residential assignment coordinator. She attributed this to the economics of living in the dormitories and the greater number of out-of-state students attending the university.
“It is cheaper to live in the dorms than in apartments,” she said. “Companionship is also
country and has passed the .point of being called a fad. More photos of the pros in action on page five. DT photo by Doug Gray.
station’s going on the air.
The system is called Low Power Broadcast. The station's signal will be transmitted via telephone lines to buildings in and around campus. Small transmitters will be in each building, sending out the signal so listeners can pick it up on their radios.
The frequency the station will be heard at has not yet been determined, but it will be on AM radio, Sayegh said.
In past years, the station would just send its broadcasts by telephone line to an amplifier in a receiving building, such as Birnkrant or McDonald's. With that system, the station could only be heard in one room of the building.
Two student senators who moved from their constituencies were determined ineligible to serve on the President’s Advisory Council by the Commission on Credentials and Elections Thursday. The decision does not affect their senate seats.
fill housing requests
important. Everyone wants to have a sense of belonging.”
A student who wants to be released from his housing contract usually has to wait until someone is found to take his place. Because of the demand for housing this year, students have been automatically released.
Kettler said some students come into the office twice a day inquiring about housing. When an opening in the residence halls occurs, the staff has difficulty deciding which students need housing more.
Housing will still be a problem next year, she said. If admissions rise, housing shortages will continue.
This year the Office of Residential Li fe received 1,000 more housing applications than in the previous year.
The university hopes to alleviate possible housing problems by buying apartments in the area. The office is looking for buildings without student occupancy so that students who already live there will not have to leave, Kettler said.
By buying the apartments, the university hopes to add 500 additional housing spaces, she said
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20 million do it; sidewalk surfing becomes a sport
By Mike Simpson
Assistant City Editor
At one time a skateboard was a slat from a peach crate with roller skate wheels attached and the sport was practiced mostly by third and fourth graders who didn't mind falling off every time they went over a crack in the sidewalk or collided with a pebble.
Today skateboarding is a professional sport and a business that grosses $300 million annually.
Despite the fact that 20 million Americans of all ages practice skateboardiing today, here at the university the growing cult of skaters (as skateboarders like to call themselves) still get strange looks from the majority of pedestrians and bicyclists.
“Yeah. I get some pretty off-the-wall looks,” said Warren Daniel, a junior in business. "They may think it's juvenile, but who cares?"
Jeff Russel, a junior in business, attributes the skateboard boom to the invention of the polyurethane wheel three years ago. "Roller skate wheels evolved to chalk or clay composition wheels in the 60s, but every pebble on the sidewalk made you fall on your nose,” he said.
Polyurethane, a plastic compound, makes wheels that roll over anything, grip the surface and give you a much smoorther ride, he said.
Skateboard manufacturing has been refined to a science. Russel said. A special kind of ball bearing, called a precision bearing, has been designed especially for skateboard wheels and new designs in the skateboard truck, the axel-like turning device that connets the wheels to the board, are coming out all the time.
Like cars, shoe's and shampoo, skateboards come in various models for the different appeals and uses of skaters. Russel’s company, Woodline Products, makes boards in varying degrees of weight and flexibility out of alder, mahogany, rosewood, almond and oak.
“You can get a plastic board for about $10. but the top price on skateboards today is about $125." Russel said.
Skatebaord riding is still practiced on sidewalks (students who skate to school claim that they can travel just as fast as a bicycle), but more advanced skaters have moved into new skateboard frontiers, such as drain pipes and empty swimming pools.
Skateboard technology might be a science, but riding is an art. “These guys can go up a 20-foot vertical wall, turn around on one wheel and ride back down again." said Marco Marcantoni, a junior in business.
“Some of the stunts performed in swimming pools would “blow your mind." Russel said. 'When you reach the top of a vertical wall you feel weightless — it’s like free-falling." he said. Some skaters can go straight up the wall and over the top. turn in mid-air and. still on their boards, reenter the vertical wall and ride back down. Russel said.
Finding an empty swimming pool is admittedly not the easiest task for skateboarders, even in Southern California,statisically the American mecca of back\ard. swimming pools. A creation called a skate park has sprung up throughout Southern California and the rest of the country as an alternative to the drain pipe or swimming pool.
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Lisa Boyd and Fay Van Blake were elected last spring as student community and commuter representatives, respectively.
Both accepted positions as resident advisers and now live in Marks Tower, which has changed their status.
John Schunoff. chairman of the commission, said the decision was based on a section of the PAC bylaws which states, “A counselor or executive committee member is not eligible for that position when he ceases to hold the status to which he was elected.”
The commission was designed as a part of the PAC to determine the eligibility of its members. Only commission members are allowed at its meetings.
Fifteen PAC seats are filled by Student Senate representatives. The senate chairman and two vice-chairmen (one graduate and one undergraduate) automatically fill the first three seats. The other 12 seats are elected by the senate itself.
The 12 seats must be divided between six graduate and six undergraduate students. No more than two of the undergraduate students may be from the same constituency.
“The senate will officially receive a letter from the commission notifying them of the decision," Schunoff said. The senate will then have to vote to fill the vacated seats. Providing the senate is notified in time, the issue will be on Tuesday meeting's agenda.
The students’ eligibility on the senate is independent of the committee’s decision and is subject only to the senate’s own bylaws.
Schunoff said in order for the senate to reconsider the matter they must receive a recall petition with the proper number of signatures.
Daily # Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXXII, Number 38	Los	Angeles, California	Friday,	November	11, 1977
KSCR given power to return to air after approval of $18,000 allocation
By Marc Corman
Staff Writer
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2 student senators ineligible for PAC membership, credential group decides
By Gail Asayama
Staff Writer