By John Antczak
Beer is a very popular beverage among many students at the university. Yet there is no place on campus where a student can find that foamy thirst-quencher.
The university does not have a student bar or pub and there is no great clamor for one. But the idea has been proposed and considered by several groups from time to time.
"We actually wrote a proposal for a pub two years ago but some members of the Student Senate discouraged the plan." said Jim Dennis, director of campus life and recreation. He added that they were no longer on the board.
Dennis said the university had never formally applied for a liquor license because with the number of localities nearby they felt they were not likely to receive a license.
However, recently, members of the Student Union Board and the Coffee House have been interested in the pub idea, he said.
Dennis said it would provide a safer place for entertainment and socializing. They would not have to drive or walk off campus, but it would be much stricter than off-campus bars in terms of who would be served and there would be much less abuse in the pub itself because it would be university-run. Dennis said.
He pointed out the liabilities might overshadow the benefits. “The concern of liability slowed us in our discussion. Who is actually liable today in terms of people being involved in traffic accidents?” Dennis said, referring to recent California court decisions
that have made bar owners liable for damages if they serve liquor to an intoxicated person who causes an accident. “It might not be a business for the university to be in," he said.
A student pub would not make the university unique. Other colleges and universities run such bars successfully.
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California State University at Long Beach opened a pub in early 1976, shortly after the trustees of the California State Universities changed the system’s policy in June, 1975. “The Nugget” serves beer six days a week and is doing well.
Doug Richie, manager of the campus shops, said there was no opposition to the pub and that when the
idea was proposed, the four students on the board of directors approved. He said the pub is centrally located in the main cafeteria and has become part ofthe social center of the campus.
“A good cross-section of students come in and it’s a very social kind of activity. There’s a good interaction between faculty and students,” he said. He added that perhaps because wine is not sold, not as many women as men go in.
He said there have been only one or two incidents at “The Nugget” that called for campus security intervention.
In a random sampling of student opinion at USC, most were in favor of the idea. There was also some agreement that student behavior in the handling of alcohol should be a consideration.
Ruben Marquez, a freshman, said a pub is a good idea but wondered whether the university would want to accept the responsibilities.
Citing the high rate of alcohol use among students and in society as a whole, Jeff Uncapher, a junior, was not in favor of a university pub. He feels that the university would have more than just the legal responsibilities. “If that (a pub) was implemented, an alcohol awareness center should be established also," he said.
Although it is not certain who would actually make the decision if the idea were formally proposed, Dennis said it might be considered a concern of student affairs. “It is not illegal and those who choose to drink should be able to if they are of age," he said.
MAY USE RESERVE FUND
Proposal calls for all-male Birnkrant
By Lynn Sprenger
SUIT Writer
Daily m Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXXII, Number 63 Los Angeles Thursday, January 12, 1978
Single parents may be allowed to reside in married students housing
By Marc Corman
Staff Writer
Birnkrant Residence Hall could be converted from a coed to an all-male facility if Thursday’s proposal made by the Housing and Assignment Patterns Task Force meets final approval.
Although not necessarily in its final form, the plan also calls for changing the currently all-male Men’s Residence West to a coed facility and allotting the entire first floor of College-University Residence Hall to men, according to Randy Rice, director of residence halls.
Rice emphasized that the
committee can only make recommendations and that the proposal was incomplete at this stage since it hasn’t been through official channels.
“Everything done there (at the meeting) was done verbally and it’s not unusual for something to be altered before it’s submitted in writing,” Rice said.
The plan may be changed by Hans Reichl, director of the Office for Residential Life, before he submits it to James R. Appleton, vice-president for Student Affairs, this week or the next. If Appleton approves it, the proposal will go to the Board of Trustees for a final decision.
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The Petition and Policy Advisory Board is discussing the possibility of allowing single parents to live in the Married Students Housing Complex, said Sharon Kettler, a board member and coordinator for residential assignment.
The current policy states that applications from families with children will be accepted only if both parents will be living in the apartment.
The discussion of a possible change was prompted by the university’s refusal to allow Sharon Smith, a single parent, to apply for housing in the complex.
Smith, a full-time student and mother of a three-year-old daughter, was twice refused permission to apply and she then made an appeal to the board to “correct the situation.”
She wrote an appeal letter to the board saying: “I have asked why the university instituted a policy that keeps women (or men) in my circumstances from the kind of housing we need.. I find the policy unfair.. Because of this unjust regulation, my daughter and I have been forced into substandard and overpriced off-campus housing."
Kettler said the board is presently reviewing the policy and is looking into possible changes.
She said the board will approach people at the Married Students Housing Complex to see how they feel about the situation. Then the appeal may go on to higher authorities.
Randy Rice, a board member and director of residence halls, said no policy changes are anticipated. He said there has been a lack of demand for change in the present policy and that in the four years he has been at the
university only one other student has tried to apply as a single parent for housing in the complex.
According to Smith, just one person being hurt by the policy is enough to change it.
Rice also said letting a single parent in may displace a two-parent couple both going to school here. He said that wouldn't be fair to them.
Under the present policy only one member of a coupie has to be a student here.
Smith feels the current policy is not only unfair, but also illegal.
“According to Legal Services and other professionals I've talked to. the current policy is in violation of basic student rights." she said. “They have, in fact, denied on-campus housing for me."
Kettler said the board will meet today and may discuss the issue.
AFTER THE STORM—The only things normally found in the rain puddles left around campus are soggy shoes and fallen leaves, but this one captured the reflection of the Von KleinSmid Bell Tower. DT photo by Marsha Traeger.
No health fee increase planned
No increase in the student health fee is planned for next year, the Student Affairs Committee of the President’s Advisory Council has decided.
In its meeting Wednesday on budget recommendations, the committee outlined the possibility of using a contingency reserve fund from this year's budget to supply the revenue needed for expected increases in Student Health Center costs. That reserve fund comes to almost $70,000.
Money in the fund comes largely from salary costs saved by using employees with Comprehensive Employment-Training Act grants. The reserves gained by using employees with such grants amount to almost 6*7r of the total Student Health Center budget.
The committee decided the fund would be sufficient to cover the extra costs without increasing the current $37 student fee.
The committee also said that an increase in enrollments, increased utilization of fees for services to nonstudents and “hard management" could also
decrease the need for raising student fees
In addition to the decision on student health fees, the committee recommended that summer orientation fees be increased from $30 to $35 for day participants and from $36 to $42 for overnight participants.
Reasons for increasing the orientation fee were given as increases in food and housing costs, increases in printing and mailing costs, personnel expenditures and the expansion of the summer orientation program.
The committee said the recommended increases are enough so that no increases will be necessary for at least another year or two.
A price increase on student ticket books will be discussed at the committee’s next meeting. The committee is expected, at that time, to make a decision on whether to increase the price of the books from $20 to $22.
Final budget approval for 1978-79 will be made in March by the Board ofTrustees Budget Committee.