Daily ft Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXXI, Number 20
Los Angeles, Californio
Wednesday, March 9, 1977
Statewide drought prompts 50% water cut on campus
California’s drought has prompted the university’s physical plant to reduce water consumption by 50^. said A1 Palmer, research analyst for energy conservation.
Palmer said the physical plant is concerned with the water shortage, and. even though the problem is not yet desperate in the Los Angeles area, the university is doing all it can to save water.
“We have a responsibility to do our part, but we also must keep the millions of dollars of plants, shrubs, trees and grass looking good." Palmer said. “But we are able to water them less than is normal for this time of year and still keep them looking good, especially now since it's not real hot.”
Palmer added that a little more waterwill have to be used when the weathergets hotter. “The grass is looking a little yellow some places, but that’s all right. We just don't want it to turn brown.”
All the university's fountains have been turned off. and Palmer said they might be turned on for special occasions, but not on a full-time basis until the shortage diminshes.
Other major cutbacks have occurred in the area
of hosing down patios and sidewalks. The gardeners are now using brooms and rakes to gather leaves.
Palmer’s office is asking students, staff and faculty to help the physical plant by giving suggestions for energy conservation. Suggestions should be addressed to Arnold Shafer at the physical plant. Fora more immediate problem.the physical plant may be called at 746-2351 until midnight each night.
In addition to the water conservation, the physical plant is also working on the cutback of gas and electrical usage.
“We hope to cut back on electrical power about lO^r in the next two or three years. It's hard to do all at once, but we’ve made plans for the next few years,” Palmer said.
The physical plant has already cut back about 25°7c of electrical usage since 1972, based on a consumption-per square feet of building space rate. Those areas of reduction include less lighting, air conditioning, heating, water pumps and exhaust fans. He said most of the cutbacks occur during the evening and on weekends.
City asks university for job project ideas
By Lynn Sprenger
In anticipation of the passage ofa job bill currently makingthe rounds in Congress, the City of Los Angeles has asked the university to submit proposals for public service-oriented projects it wishes to undertake.
The projects are meant to produce as many jobs as possible on a short-term basis of one year or less and must be definite tasks or groups of tasks with service-oriented objectives. They are
not meant to expand existing programs.
The new legislation is an amendment to the Emergency Employment Act of 1974. which appropriated funding for Title VI of the Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973 ^CETA).
This legislation extends funding for Title VI for one year. It differs from the original Title VI in requiring groups of people be hired to do specific projects as
opposed to individuals filling in various slots in the Public Service Employment Program under Titles II and VI.
“This is a chance for every department in the university to submit a proposal for a project,” said Angelo V. Basco, a technical assistant to Barbara M. Pearson, director of the Office of Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action, which handles the university’s CETA contracts.
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Photo Club entries on display through March 18
CHANGING MOODS — These are samples of the diverse entries in a photography contest being sponsored by the Photo Club. The works of photographers here and at four other universities are on display in the Annenberg School of Communications lobby through March 18. Judging will be held from 12 to 1 p.m. Saturday.
BUMP AND GRIND — Deloris Thomas, a student at Manual Arts High School and a part-time belly dancer, chose to entertain one student in particular on the lawn of Alumni Park. Her demonstration was a part ofthe Women's Faire activities. DT photo by Scott Footlik.
Marks Hall to become coed intercultural center
By Gary Maloney
Staff Writer
Marks Hall will be converted next semester from an all-male residence facility to a coeducational intercultural hall specifically serving the needsofintemational resident students,the office of Residential Life reported Tuesday.
The creation of the International/American student residence hall was approved Friday by the Student Affairs Committee of the President’s Advisory Council. Alvin Rudisill, chairman of the committee, said that final review has been completed and preparations for the conversion may proceed.
The Board of Trustees approved the change from an all-male to a coeducational facility earlier this year. The hall will consist of one male and one female floor. Security provisions are still in the planning stages and may include the installation of a 24-hour desk plus changing of locks in Marks Hall, Hans Reichl, director of Residential Life said.
In all, 104 students will participate in the internationalized hall, with a ratio of one-to-one between American and International students.
Assignment for the hall will be handled jointly by the Residential Assignment OfTice and the Office for International Students and Scho lars.
Returning students will have a separate option for next year’s assignment, Reichl said. “Residents who wish to, may stay on for next year,” he said. Reichl cited that in past years, about 25-30 students have reapplied for Marks Hall, the lowest rate of all dorms. “Those who wish to move will have a different priority than those in other halls, as they will not have the same setup nextyearas the last choice.”
The assignment policy of matching International and American students will be strictly enforced in the double-occupancy rooms, and each triple room will have two Americans and one foreign student.
Marks Hall was considered the most manageable of the residence halls with its low occupancy capacity and extensive programming and recreational facilities on the first floor, the proposal stated. The International students office will use the lounge as a focal point for campus activities.
Marks Hall will be left open for all vacations during the regular academic year, in much the same way that university apartments are available overChristmas and Easter. This will meet the specific needs of international students residing in the facility, Reichl said.
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Women, men adjust to sharing dormitory floor
By Wendy Zimmerman
On the “freeway floor” (as its residents call it) of College-University Residence Hall, men and women are living together on the same floor for the first time in a dorm here.
Eighteen men were assigned to the floor when the university agreed to house more men than it actually had room for. Along with an increase in men’s requests for housing in the residence hall came a decrease in the number of women applying. So the male overflow was housed last fail on the first floor of College University, which was previously for women only.
The situation was continued into this semester because there was"still abigdemandformen’s housing but not for women.” said Sharon Kettler, housing coordinator.
So what happens when 18 men are living in one hallway just a few feet away from 18 women in the next hallway?
Well, there was a period ofget-ting used to each other and the situation, and a few problems to be worked out at first. The problems ranged from those that could be easily adjusted — the height of the mirrors and showers — to more serious problems such as what lock should be on the door to the men’s hall.
Jennifer Echols, the head resident. said the first several days the locks on both the men’s and women’s halls were the same. The women, however, would let their boyfriends in through the men’s hall, which caused a problem when the men found some of their belongings missing. It was also extremely difficult to maintain proper security and visiting hours.
Next they changed the lock so that it fit the men s complex key. but soon there were fartoo many men from different domitories roaming through the hall.
A key that fit only the men s (continued on page 2)