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Volume XCVII, Number 45	University of Southern California	Tuesday, November 6, 1984
Kerckhoff Hall may become faculty housing
Election Day
Students will be able to vote in today's general election in Marks Tower lobby at Childs Way and Hoover Boulevard and at the 32nd Street School library, across the street from the Troy Apartment complex.
All polls will open from 6:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Those unsure about their designated voting place should call the County Registrar-Recorder at 721-1100, or the City Registrar"s Office at 435-3581.
bring the mansion into compliance with building codes for condominiums. An outside architectural firm is preparing plans to determine this feasibility.
Conversion may prove to be too difficult because of the age of the house, Massey said.
Nlassey said he did not expect a decision on the proposed conversion in the near future. However, he said some action should be taken during the current academic year.
The home was built early in the 1900s by lumber magnate William Kerckhoff.
It was willed to the university by the Kerckhoff estate at the order of Kerckhoff's wife, Louise, for whom the house is now named. After the university acquired the house, it was used as a facility for medical research.
Massey was sure any such designation for use of the building would have expired, (Continued on page 6)
Students seek budget input
The Bungalows
Student Senate fails to launch initiative debates
More participation recommended in new Senate policy
By Karen Kucher
Assistant City Editor
A Student Senate committee is trying to have a new policy in-stituted that would make schools include more student input in forming their individual budgets.
Jon Burdick, chairman of the senate financial affairs committee, said that in the past, deans have devised their school's budgets themselves. His committee wants to open the budgeting process to students.
"This year Dr. (Cornelius) Pings has ordered faculty to sit on (the school's) budget advisory committees, so it seems like a good time to get students input
—	to put their foot in the door/' Burdick said.
In October, the provost's office sent a memo asking each school to "either have or bring into existence an appropriate constructed body to be sure faculty consultation in the framing of (the) unit's academic and budgetary plans is assured."
Last week Burdick sent a memo to Pings, provost and senior vice president of academic' affairs, asking him to contact the deans and directors.
Burdick said he is applying "pressure from above and below" by having senators and
By Steven Church
Staff Writer
After repeated rescheduling, a Student Senate-sponsored week of discussions on bailot initiatives was canceled without any of the proposition debates being held.
Bill Molinski, a university student who was in charge of the
Political Awareness Week, said it was canceled because of communication problems between members of the senate's political concerns committee.
The first scheduled discussion, to be hosted by Herbert Al-exander, director of the Citizens' Research Foundation, was called off Tuesday after he
went to the room he was told would be reserved for him in the Norman Topping Student Center, and discovered no one there.
"I was unable to find the room the event was to be held in," Alexander said. "The room was not reserved, and there was no one around."
The event had never been publicized.
Wednesday's party platform debate was canceled when Molinski could not get a speaker to represent the Democratic party. Political concerns committee members Krista Keller, Sylvia Kutz and Gina Frederick said they could not get in touch with
Molinski, and that they knew of no room being scheduled for the event.
On Thursday Molinski decided to cancel the last speaker.
Keller said, "When I talked to Bill on Tuesday (Oct. 23) he told me to tell (the speaker) to go to Topping, upstairs, on the following Tuesday, at noon."
Kutz said, "I think it was not very well organized at all. I don't know who to blame because there really is no one at fault. It was just a matter of those in charge of getting speakers not getting in touch with those in charge of getting rooms."
Molinski said problems started to appear two weeks before the beginning of Awareness Week when he could not get speakers organized.
"I really had no idea what I was doing," Molinski said. "The (Continued on page 2)
By Aaron Van Curen
Staff Writer
The Kerckhoff House on Adams Boulevard may become faculty housing under a proposal to convert the mansion to condominiums.
Approximately six months
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miniums, which would first be offered to faculty," Massey said. Faculty members would buy the condominiums.
Dale Adams, senior designer of architectural services, said the first step is to find out how much it would cost to
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committee members talk to deans and directors about the idea and by also pushing the issue from the administration's point of view by trving to get Pings' support.
"The intent of the memo was to make sure Pings offers his support," Burdick said.
"Last spring the Budget Advisory Committee asked that at the level of colleges and schools, students (be able) to have input," Burdick said.
"We want to set up a type of
Robert Biller, vice provost, said, "He (Pings) has made sure there was student participation on university-wide budget process."
Biller said each school should be able to understand what its academic priorities are and where its money should go. Some schools have developed a way to get student input into their budgets.
"It takes time and is not a simple thing to do, but it is helpful," Biller said.
Biller said each school should be able to understand what its academic priorities are and where its money should go.
ago, the university initiated a study to determine the feasibility of converting the three-story mansion into housing for university faculty, said James Massey, director of facilities planning.
"Our first priority is condo-
formal structure, and make sure that deans are not just looking at statistics. I want tQ_see that they have actual students giving input and telling what they want," he said.
Burdick has selected representatives in the School of Business and the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and is asking graduate senators to discuss the idea with the deans of their individual schools.
"I feel the deans will probably welcome the student input," Burdick' said.
John Curry, executive director of the university budget, said he feels it is extremely important to get student input on the university budget.
The School of Public Administration has used student advice in forming its budget for the last three years. Two students, representing the undergraduate and graduate student associations, are members of the school's steering committee.
"I think that having the input of every person affected by those decisions is a good idea," said Margaret Harrington, associate dean of the school.
Harrington said one drawback to the idea is the great amount of time required to build the "consultation organizations."
But student representatives sometimes bring to light issues that are not obvious to administrators, she said.
Final cut-out takes are about all that remain of the old cinema complex, affectionately known as "the bungalows." Though destroyed by bulldozers, cinema students say its character will live on. As for the land it occupied, campus officials are in the process of deciding its future use. The new cinema-television complex is soon to be dedicated.