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University of Southern California
Vol. LXXII, No. 32 Los Angeles, California Thursday, Nov. 3, 1977
1,500 students may not get Rose Bowl tickets
As many as 1.500 students may not get tickets to the Rose Bowl — if USC participates in the game — it was announced at Tuesday night’s Student Senate meeting.
Ron Oestreich. a senator representing the residence halls, made the announcement as the senate discussed the question of ID checks at the Coliseum.
Sales reached a total of 13,940 after two additional activity book sales sessions. When the additional books were sold, however, the Ticket Office had said some students might not be able to attend the game.
Edward Partridge, director of the office. said this week he doesn’t know how the question of student seating will be resolved if the university goes to the
Recall petition’s completion seen by month’s end
By Mike Schroeder
Staff Writer
A petition to recall Faye Van Blake, a commuter student senator, is expected to qualify for a student vote by the end of the month, said a student heading the petition drive.
The petition contains 140 signatures after about three days in circulation, said Tim Platt, a sophomore in biological medicine, who is heading the drive.
Platt expects the necessary 939 signatures to be collected by Wednesday which would require a recall election by the end of the month.
“We picked up 25 signatures today at. one parking structure and only two of the students approached did not sign.” Platt said. He noted that the students who rejected the petition did so either because they didn't care about the recall or didn’t have enough information.
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Rose Bowl. USC. at 3-1, is in a three-way tie for second place in the Pacific Eight behind frontrunner Stanford, which is 4-1.
Anthony Lazzaro, vice-president for business affairs, said. “In the event USC goes to the Rose Bowl, the number of seats available in the student section will be determined by the Rose Bowl Committee.
“The only specific information we have regarding the number of seats in the student body section is that last year the Rose Bowl Committee allocated 10.783 seats for the student body section.”
Valid IDs would have to be checked and stamped when students turn in their Rose Bowl coupons, according to an amendment passed by the senate Tuesday.
The amendment was part of a motion recommending the return to a previous policy on activity books. According to the old policy students are required to present both identification and paid fee bills when purchasing activity books. It also recommends that IDs not be checked at the Coliseum gates this year.
A student could bring in up to eight paid fee bills and purchase eight activity books this year without presenting any IDs.
Some senators feared this led to scalping and prevented some students from obtaining activity books.
Partridge said the Ticket Office has utilized fee bills in the past because many people don't have student IDs at the beginning of the year. He said he considers ID checks a measure which would protect students.
Bill Dauster, Student Senate chairman. said Lazzaro had told him more Coliseum gates could be opened if the senate believes ID checks should be implemented.
The senate felt it would be unfair to require gate checks this year, but did not decide whether to recommend that they be implemented next fall.
GO FOR IT—The Sailing Team is selling chances to escape in a Hobie Catamaran and has scheduled the drawing for Dec. 1. Chances can be bought in front of Bovard Auditorium or at the Sailing Office in Heritage Hall. DT photo by Renee Cottrell.
Architects allot departments room in new LAS complex
• By Lynn Sprenger
Staff Writer
Architects are still deciding which departments will occupy specific floors in two new Letters, Arts and Sciences buildings planned for completion in 1979 and 1980. said John Marburger, dean of the College of Letters. Arts and Sciences.
In addition, a committee of department heads from the Division of Humanities has been organized to study how space left behind by departments
FORGOTTEN MAJORITY^
Commuters seek their place on campus
By Andrea Ignatowski
They come by car, by van. by bus, by bike, on foot or by skateboard. They come from as far away as Ventura and Orange County and as close as around the block You see them in the school's jam-packed parking lots about five minutes before class, frantically searching for that most valuable piece of real estate on campus — the parking space.
“They” are the commuter students, the university's forgotten majority.
More than 60*7r of the student body make the often long, arduous trek from home to school and back each day. While some do live in the immediate area and can walk or bike, the average commuter resides at least 10 miles from campus and spends 20 to 45 minutes on the road
Commuter students brave the daily traffic jams and crowded freeways rather than live on campus for a number of reasons. A few are forced to commute due to the lack of satisfactory on-campus housing. Some are better off financially commuting, while others just want to be close to family, friends or job.
Commuters face problems not encountered by those who live on campus, of which parking is the most obvious and the biggest. The increase in enrollment this year has also increased the number of cars on campus, making the job of finding a parking place even harder than ever.
“Simply finding a place to study can also be a hassle,” one commuter said. “Without the luxury of a dorm room or off-campus apartment, commuter students often have to make due in the library, outdoors or inside the often noisy
and inadequately furnished Student Activities Center if they need to study at school."
A lack of concern for the commuters is also a problem. “There's so much apathy on this campus concerning commuters and it's all the university’s fault,” one commuter complained.
Problems such as these and the students’ determination to remedy them led to the formation of the Commuter Students Organization a couple of years ago. As the only organized body of commuters on campus, it functions as a social unit aimed at getting commuters involved with the school and themselves, as well as serving as a voice through which commuters can air their grievances.
"Resident students just don’t realize the problems commuter students have when it comes to being socially active on campus." B.J. George, chairman of the organization, said.
“Students in the dorms have parties and activities planned for them, while many commuters simply come to school each day without getting to know anyone or taking part in any social events."
The organization's proposals include the possibility of opening up the Coliseum parking lots and other such facilities to accomodate mass invasion of midday commuters. It also aims to improve the tram system that many commuters depend upon to transport them between the parking lots and their classes. The inclusion of a special carpool card to be found in every student’s registration packet, beginning next semester, is also a direct result of their efforts.
moving into the new buildings can be used by division programs. Marburger said.
The two buildings are the $12-million Seeley G. Mudd Building and the $4-million Grace Ford Salvatori Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Salvatori pledged roughly $2 million for the construction of Salvatori Hall. Marburger said the university is working to raise money for the remainder of the project.
He said the university had been planning to construct a small building of classrooms prior to the Salvatoris’ gift but that their pledge made it possible to build a larger structure.
“We wanted to design this building to have some student space — space for studying and lounging and perhaps for student organizations," Marburger said.
The three-story building will house the Department of Linguistics. School of Journalism, Department of Speech Communications and Letters. Arts and Sciences Advisement. The first three departments are being housed together because they are all communications oriented.
The building will have a 150-seat lecture hall on the ground floor and a library to house department materials on the third floor.
Departmental space on the third floor will include a laboratory to train students in electronic print journalism. The computer system for printing, editing and composition will also be used by the School of Journalism for publishing jobs.
The majority of' Salvatori Hall's 32.000 square feet of usable space will lie classroom and student areas on the first two floors, along with Letters. Arts and Sciences Advisement.
The present Letters. Arts and Sciences Advisement building will probably be used by the Division of Humanities programs. Ma r burger said.
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