MAKING DO — Tape has been resorted to in effects to patch the lighting panel in Hancock Auditorium. DT photo by Mark Kariya.
DISREPAIR SIMILAR TO BOVARD’S
Hancock said in need of renovation
By Gary Maloney
Staff Writer
Hancock Auditorium — like its sister complex, Bovard Auditorium — is in disrepair and needs renovation, though not on the scale of Bovard, the university stage manager said Wednesday.
“Hancock is used as a multipurpose hall like Bovard. but was built originally for music recitals. It doesn't do too well for anything besides that.” said Ed Carnes, who has managed both Bovard and Hancock Auditoriums since the mid-1960 s.
Hancock Auditorium, originally under the auspices of the Allan Hancock Foundation, was transferred as a responsibility to the university in the mid-1960 s. Like Bovard. Carnes said. Hancock suffers from the same division of authority in use and maintenance.
“This year has been a tremendously destructive one and there’s been little or nothing done to replace the broken materials and equipment,” he said.
Carnes said Hancock's needs are the following:
•Complete renovation of the outdated house and stage lighting system, which employs the “indirect lighting” concept of the 1930s popular at the time of the auditorium's construction.
“A speech might take 12.000 watts of power and still not sufficiently light the audience as would, say. fourfluores-cent lights employing a fraction of the power,” he said.
“Coupled with this, there is virtually no lighting for the stage itself — Hancock has only one dimmer. It's as if the
lighting arrangement was meant to I ight upthe music, not the people."
•	Improvement of Hancock s present electrical system, with the installation of circuit breakers. “During the dorm production ot' Godspell. lights brought from elsewhere would be plugged into the system and immediately short circuit the old fuses. Hancock's 1 ighting control was made before circuit breakers became popular.
••Godspell also left Hancock with a broken switch, which is presently taped together to hold it to the control panel.'
•	Climate control accessible to the groups using and maintaining the auditorium. Heating controls are locked in a room below the auditorium and accessible only to the Department of Operations and Maintenance.
“In Hancock, the temperature is either 50 degrees or 100 degrees, depending on the season and the heating. Carnes said.
•	Extension ofthe stage on the west side to the wall, allowing movement of the concert grand piano from the main stage area for productions.
“This has been harped on for years and nothing s ever been done.” Carnes said. “In the meantime the piano is a stumbling block, taking up the already limited stage space. In addition to these operational considerations, there is the matter of the downstairs greenroom, which has been used in recent years by classes ofthe Department of Biological Sciences.
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Trojan
By John Hughes
StafT Writer
Increasing the Student Programming Fee and making it less for graduate students than for undergraduates was recommended Wednesday by the Executive Committee of the President's Advisory’ Council.
The committee voted to accept the report ofthe Student Affairs Committee of the PAC with the amendment that the flat increase from $4.50 to $7 be tiered so that graduate students would pay only $5. said John Griffith, executive secretary’ of the committee.
In accepting the student affairs report, the executive Committee passed on the recommendation that a system for surveying the students' use of the fee be introduced.
Glenn Sonnenberg, Student Senate chairman and a member ofthe committee, said the survey will be used to determine what students would like to have sponsored and what they do not like about the present system.
Random surveys have been done in the past by the New Activities and Services Agency, and they are presently working with the Campus Activities Allocation Board, which distributes funds raised by the fee, to develop a full survey system. Sonnenberg said.
Allowing graduate students to pay a lesser fee was discussed and rejected recently by the Student Affairs Committee of the Student Senate when it endorsed the Campus Life Commission report.
The commission said it had rejected the tw’o-tiered fee be-
cause the rationale used to support it could be applied to other student groups as w^ell. It was also felt that charging a lower fee to one group might lead to discrimination by the allocations board against that group when it made an application for funds.
In other action. President John R. Hubbard’s preliminary proposal for the reorganization of the PAC was presented to the committee.
Hubbard told the committeeof his tentative plans for the reorganization of the PAC. Details of what he said to the committee were not released.
Jay Savage, PAC chairman said Hubbard, who was not available for comment asked the information not be released.
“His ideas are not firm yet,” Savage said, “and he does not want anyone to speculate on it.”
Reorganization recommendations were sought by Hubbard and Savage in a joint memorandum to the Executive Committee Feb. 24.
Chairmen of the deans, faculty, staff and student caucuses were asked in the memorandum to prepare a preliminary document that would focus on the concerns of each group.
At the time. Savage said the individual reports would be reviewed and used in developing recommendations for presentation to the PAC for consideration.
Hubbard’s proposal will be presented to the full PAC at a special meeting in the near future. Grffith said the meeting's date has not been set.
Man accosts 2 women in separate encounters
Two women were accosted Monday night by the same man in separate incidents about 15 minutes apart, said Campus Security.
The first incident occurred at about 8:30 p.m. in front of Ow'ens Hall. The woman was grabbed by an unidentified man. She immediately broke away and fled.
About 15 minutes later, a second woman was accosted in the mall between Stauffer Lecture Hall and Watt Hall of Architecture and Fine Arts. She was grabbed by the arm and also managed to escape.
William Burke,a Campus Security captain, said the man was the same in both instances. He is described as a 19-to21-year-old black male standing 5’8” to 510’’ and weighing between 140 and 150 pounds. He was wearing a w hite round-topped hat with a brim and a tan and beige sweater.
Burke said it is possible that the man is responsible for two earlier rape attempts, but without positive identification, there is no way to be certain.
There are no suspects.
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Volume LXXI, Number 31	Los Angeles, Californio	Thursday, March 24, 1977
Commuters seek own PAC unit, claim inadequate representation
By David Black
Assistant City Editor
Inadequate representation on the President's Advisory Council has prompteda possible move by the Commuter Students Organization to become its own commission under the advisory council, said Jackie Cargill, the organization’s cochairman Wednesday.
The organization is presently represented on the council through the Student Senate.
Cargill said the organization is leaning toward tlying to become a commission under the council, but is also considering the pos-siblility of becoming a task force under the Office of Residential Life Commission.
The move is underway as a result of a general lack of representation of the university's commuter students, she said.
“There are about 15.000 commuter students on campus but they're just not receiving the representation they should be.” she said. “They’re here, but they’re not here.
“This commission, if approved, would be strictly for them.” she said.
The move will be discussed further during a meeting Wednesday in the Student Activities Center. Although the time for the meeting has not been set, she urged all interested students to attend.
Those interested in becoming involved in the issue may contact her in the organization’s office at 746-5267.
The organization, also chaired by Sue Brown, may meet with the Residential Life Commission sometime in the near future to discuss the situation, Cargill said.
A meeting with Alvin Rudisill, the chairman of the Student Affairs Committee, has also been planned.
The commission would seek better programming activities for commuter students as well as
more recreational facilities, she said.
"We're looking for basic things forthe commuters. 1 ike places to go, and being able to check out educational equipment to take home, such as tape recorders.
“There's no place on campus for them to stay overnight. Such a facility would be helpful, especially during finals,” Car-
gill said.
Students are also needed to give their input and assistance on the newly formed Parking Task Force, which she and Brown also lead.
The force was formed following many complaints about parking problems on campus as well as the lack of security i n parking
structures, she said.
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LUNCHTIME SERENADE — A seemingly disinterested accordionist provides a little afternoon entertainment for patrons of the Sidewalk Cafe. DT photo by Paul Rodriquez.
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