3 new designs offered for University Center
By Catalina Camia
Staff Writer
Three alternative designs for the proposed University Center were presented to two student senators Friday by Jon Strauss, senior vice president of administration. The designs would avoid building the center over the Olympic pool as originally proposed.
The Sll million original plan for the recreational facility, known as scheme one, was to build the center over the 50-meter competition pool, leaving a small parcel of land between the existing swimming complex and the West Complex residence halls open for future development.
The first alternative design, or scheme two, calls for the center to be built north of the pool to house primarily athletic activities, with non-
athletic functions placed in other university sites, particularly in the Student Union building where the bookstore and Commons Grill currently are. This plan, which is supported by Thomas Coffin, university architect, would cost a total of $9.4 million.
The second alternative design, scheme three, is an expansion of the first alternative, with maximum development of an area 40 percent larger in square feet. Scheme three has an estimated total cost of S13.2 million.
The last proposal, scheme four, would develop a structure that would provide for all University Center activities — athletic and non-athletic — and include a 10,000 seat arena. If this plan is accepted, a new property site would have to be selected for the center. This plan would cost approximately $20 million.
Mike Singer, undergraduate vice president of the Student Senate and one of the senators who met with Strauss, said he favors the third scheme because it allows for the maximum use of the site.
"I'm just concerned that if we go with scheme two, the additional footage will never be added,'' he said during Wednesday's Student Senate meeting.
Singer said that his meeting with Strauss gave him the impression that the administration is favoring scheme two.
Bill Lilia, president of the Student Senate, emphasized that these plans are in no way final.
''We need to conduct cost and space analyses to see if all of the needs in the original University Center plans are being met,” he said. “Scheme three looks like the best, but if we find that scheme two also adequately meets our needs, then scheme two would be fine.''
A study done by Coffin for President James Zumberge, said each scheme considered site impact, the ease and cost of construction, and how well the site accommodates the plans dictated by the University Center Committee, which had called (Continued on page 6)
Senate
endorses
holiday
By Catalina Camia
Staff Writer
After a long ideological debate, the Student Senate passed a resolution 13-8 Wednesday night endorsing Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as an official university holiday.
There were two abstentions.
An official university holiday would require the dismissal of classes and the dosing of most university offices for the day.
Controversy over the resolution began when Jim Chi-boucas, a graduate senator, asked if it was right to dismiss school for King's birthday, which became a national holiday in October.
The senator explained that there are many people who deserve recognition. King included, but there are many who are not recognized with a university holiday.
Many senators agreed, and advocated cultural activities to be held on King's birthday, while school is in session, in place of no school at all.
"It should be a day of remembrance," said Sharon Dolezal, chairwoman of the academic affairs research action unit. "It may be more beneficial to have activities on campus on his birthday to make students aware of King."
The arguments against the resolution centered on the fact that there are other noteworthy people who aren't recognized by national holidays.
Michael Moncure, an undergraduate senator and author of the resolution, justified the resolution by pointing to King's impact on sodety.
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Jefferson Boulevard, bordering the north end of the university, will be one of the streets affected by the changes made to accommodate Olympic traffic.
Major changes in nearby streets to accommodate Olympic traffic
By Mark Lowe
Assistant City Editor
Major changes in the streets surrounding the university will be made for the Olympic Games, but both university and dty offidals say the alterations will not harm university operations.
As early as next May, the dty of Los Angeles plans to convert Figueroa and Flower Streets into one-way streets, starting where the streets cross 11th Street near the Convention Center and ending near Exposition Park.
In addition, Vermont Avenue between Washington Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard will be set aside for buses and closed to cars, as will Martin Luther King Jr. between Vermont and the Harbor Freeway. Jefferson Boulevard will be closed completely between Vermont and Figueroa.
Streets won't be closed until just before the games begin, said Tim Crowder, transportation engineer for the Los Angeles dty transportation department.
The street changes will be an inconvenience for people who regularly use the avenues, and for people who live in tne area.
"It's going to have quite an impact," said Crowder. "Something that's to our advantage is that USC won't be in session then."
"I don't think that it's going to have a tremendously adverse effect on the university," said Duane Hickling, executive administrator for Olympic planning for the university, noting the summer session will end before the Olympics begin and the biggest changes take effect.
Hickling said the closure of Jefferson will not hurt the university, because the summer session ends the third week in July, and the north area of campus won't become part of the Olympic village until the games start the week of July 28.
"The changing of Figueroa and Flower is a positive one to handle additional traffic," he said. "It will reduce traffic in the area."
Figueroa and Flower will be changed long before the games begin to familiarize people with the difference, Crowder said.
"We want to get (the one-way streets) in early enough so that people who use those streets regularly will be used to it when the Olympic traffic is added," he said.
He said, though, that the dty "will try to delay anything that's restrictive to the last minute," adding, "There's no use putting in a bus street when there aren't that many buses."
Crowder said the dty decided to alter the roadways to better handle the massive traffic jams expected and to encourage people to ride to Olympic events in buses, rather than driving their cars.
"Basically, a one-way street has more capadty than a two-way street," he said, adding traffic can flow more easily since cars making right turns do not slow up cars behind them and because cars making left turns have no on-coming opposition.
He said the traffic department expects at least
80,000	people to show up for the events at the university or in Exposition Park each day, causing problems not only with traffic but with parking.
"We do know that if a lot of people don't ride
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Reagan set for military solution, professor says
By Annette Haddad
Investigations Editor
In the wake of the recent U.S. invasion of the Caribbean isle of Grenada, it is clear that the Reagan administration is prepared to seek a military solution to the unrest in Central America, said a university political sdence professor who spedalizes in Latin American studies.
President Reagan's success in impeding the press from adequately covering the maneuver coupled with the fact that the invasion is considered to be a "military victory" demonstrates that military intervention is the position of the Reagan administration, said Nora Hamilton, an assodate professor.
"(This) points to an increase in U.S. involvement in Central America," she said.
In her speech, Hamilton delineated the various approaches to Central American intervention that have helped to shape U.S. policy but focused on an alternative policy that would best affect the Central American states.
However, Hamilton, who has recently published a book on Latin America, Limits of a State Autonomy: Post-Revolutionary Mexico, said the Reagan administration has a confrontationalist policy of intervention in Centra! America that assumes the United States has a right to intervene militarily in other governments.
"Under Reagan, the confrontational view is predominant," she
said. "The defeat in Vietnam proved (to other nations) that the U.S. military is no longer suffident."
The overthrow of the governments of Shah Reza Pelahvi in Iran and Anastasio Samoza in Nicaragua, governments supported by the United States, helped to worsen the global image of the United States, Hamilton said.
"The Reagan administration's response (to the change in its image) is that we no longer have the will to defend our interest," she said, adding that the policy of the Reagan administration is that defense of countries, no matter how repressive, is necessary as long as they are friendly to the United States.
She said that Reagan has defended these confrontational polides in the name of national security, a result of the anti-communist orientation of the Reagan administration.
"The administration itself has a strong influence of right-wing ideologues," she said, adding that members of the Reagan admininstra-tion, past and present, have dose economic and political ties to some Central American states, particularly in Guatemala.
In the case of Nicaragua, Hamilton said the Reagan administration "sees no peaceful solution as long as the Sandinistas are in power'' and has rejected any attempts by the government for negotiation. She described a proposal by the Cuban government to withdraw its
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