University of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 55
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1971
The Daily Trojan will not publish Thursday and Friday due to the Christmas vacation.
Publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 4.1972.
Taxpayers' cost of mall totals $95,000
Student Court to elect chief justice
the last minute because of costs, said Monrov.
"I don t believe the building will be completed until next fall or 1973." said a Hillel staff worker.
The Hoover Redevelopment Project is authorized by a Los Angeles ordinance. According to the plan, three of the major purposes are. “(It to eliminate the conditions of blight existing in the project area. (2> insure. as far as possible, that blighting conditions will be either eliminated or protected against and (3> provide a cohesive neighborhood environment compatible with the functions and needs of USC. "
Monrov said that his major difficulty has been appropriations. “We have not received sufficient money from the Department of Housing and Urban Development in order to finish some of the work." he said.
Some of the Hoover Project's accomplishments have included urban housing, widening streets, undergrounding utilities and landscaping the area.
“Within a year, nearly every-
thing in the Hoover Project will be under construction. Monrov said.
The Hoover Project in conjunction with the USC Campus Development agency is planning to construct a main entrance to the university. The commerical businesses, such as-
Silverwoods. College Bookstore and Security Pacific Bank, will be relocated on the northside of Jefferson Boulevard creating a shopping mall from Hoover to Vermont.
Once the area is vacated by these stores. USC Campus Development can start another stage of its “Master Plan." The plan will close down several streets and demolish several stores in order to improve the vicinity.
According to Anthony Lazzaro. associate vice-president for business affairs, the potential plan estimates completion of the new entrance by 1976. But Lazzaro believes that if the businesses are relocated and the university acquires the land sooner, the entrance could be finished within three years.
removed from his position. He remains chief justice until tonight's election, and he may be reelected. The court's votes of censure and no confidence and to hold a new election were less strong than possible removal of the chief justice.
Knowles, who may not run. said his present feeling is that, if he runs and is not reelected, he may resign from the court.
Mitchell said that he and Wilbur don't want the position
and that the movement against Knowles on the court is strong, so the identity of the new chief justice is up in the air.
Mitchell attributed the court s action to a philosophical clash between some of the justices and Knowles. Knowles, on the other hand, saw it as a personality clash and said that the suddenness of the action against him indicated possible political motives.
roy believes the mall will “socially unite the university with the community."
Presently located along the pedestrian mall is the USC Christian Science Organization, which will be demolished. Mon-roy believes it will be relocated on the southwest corner of University Aveue and 30th Streets.
The entire eastern side of the mall will contain 200 units of one and two bedroom apartments for students and faculty with a rent expected to range from $150 to $300.
Meanwhile, the Hillel Foundation's new office building will be built on the corner of University and Jefferson at the site of the old Trojan Barbershop and Alice s Restaurant. Hillel s original office was on 36th Street, but following its firebombing a year ago. it has moved both from Bruce Hall and an old Geology building to the Hebrew Union College.
The new Hillel building was supposed to be finished in August last year, but as a result of financial difficulties, the construction will be delaved until 1972.
“The land was conveyed, but the contractor backed out at
CRAMMING FOR MIDTERMS?—It s that time of year again for studying in the park and taking a really close look at those previously unopened books. Don't forget to check the fine print for clues. DT photo by Johnny Lindahl.
The ASSC Student Court will meet privately tonight at 8 to elect its chief justice.
Steve Knowles. Bruce Mitchell and Lee Wilbur, associate justices, and Jerry Reitman. who brought the accusations against Knowles, have all been mentioned as candidates.
Several justices said that Tuesday's Daily Trojan headline reporting the ouster of Knowles was incorrect and said that Knowles has not yet been
By RICH SIMON
A recent status report issued by the Hoover Redevelopment Project shows that the uncompleted University Avenue pedestrian mall located between 30th and 32nd Streets has cost taxpayers an estimated $95,000 to construct.
The pedestrian mall is plan-
ned to extend to Jefferson Boulevard and wind to the east where Tam s Bookstore is presently located Jaime Monrov. Hoover Project manager, said that the pedestrian mall serves a specific purpose. “We want to bridge things physically and aesthetically." he said Mon-
Grill: problem of quality vs. high prices
By DAVE DICKMAN
“Next."
“I'll take a hamburger and an order of fries, he calls out.
“Give me a cheeseburger, she says.
The scene is representative of many noon-hour diners at the Griil. The couple wades through a sea of people, waits in an outrageous line and is finally able to place orders. Once the food has been delivered. the two wait once again in a line for the cashier, and then spend several minutes searching for a table in the crowded dining area.
Finally seated, they begin to eat.
"Bov. this hamburger is terrible." he says.
“Yes." she agrees, "and the prices they charge here are ridiculous." indicating by her tone that the food would somehow tast^ better if the prices were a little lower.
But the two students, and others like them, are not the only ones concerned with food quality and prices. Certainly they are the customers, from whom the Grill's income comes, but their concern over approximately a dollar and somewhat less than a pound of food is dwarfed when compared with the concern of the men in charge of the Grill, who deal
with money in terms of hundreds of thousands of dollars and with food in terms of tons, not pounds.
The Grill is actually part of the Commons complex—the restaurant service of the university. Included in the complex are the Grill, cafeteria and Commons Restaurant. The complex is a business that depends on day-to-day service to remain out of debt. The Commons operation is grouped with the dormitory food service operation under the Office of Residence Halls and Food Service.
Although they are grouped together. dormitory food service and the Commons food service must be considered separately, for obvious reasons. Dormitory meals are paid for in advance. The money paid by the student remains with the university even if the student does not eat all the meals available to him. Therefore, there is no scramble to sell food in the dorms. The bulk of students might choose to skip a given meal and the dorms would not teeter on the brink of financial disaster.
Such is not the case with the Commons operation. It must remain competitive. Even though all food services are
grouped together for the sake of bookkeeping ease, the Commons operation is self-support-ing and financially independent as a whole. It receives no subsidy from university general
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funds. It depends solely on purchases for its existence. Because its business-like operation offers greater opportunity for comparison, only the Commons operation will be discussed at this time.
The man in charge of the Residence Halls and Food Service operation is Herbert Harbeson. director, who came to USC after
12	years as food service manager at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He occupies a modest office on the second floor ot the Information Center.
Harbeson seems to believe that only by involving himself directly in the physical operation of the plant can a manager work effectively. Therefore. he spends as much or more time out ot his office than in it
In charge of food service is
Steve Watts, assistant director, a European-trained chef with more than 30 years' experience in the restaurant business.
The two men oversee the entire Commons operation, an operation with a gross income in excess of $700,000 during the academic year.
As with any business, a restaurant operation must defray the cost of primary expenses (in this case, raw food' and overhead in order to operate at the break-even point. In a regular restaurant operation, where profits are the primary goal, cost of raw food is usually maintained at approximately 40', of the retail price of a given food item.
At the Commons, raw food cost is approximately 48'<.a figure that would reflect poor buying techniques at a restaurant. Watts says, but is reasonable for an operation whose goal is to provide service rather than to produce profits.
The Commons operationmust. of necessity, produce some profit. Elton Phillips, university vice-president for business affairs. says. One ot the main reasons for this, he said, is that the university must pay back a federal loan of $2 million that it
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Two concerts this week
Final entertainment events for 1971 will be two concerts, one today and the other tomorrow.
Today, the “Jump,” a four-piece rock group, will present a free noon concert at the Student Activities Center patio.
The group features an organ, two guitars and drums and has just returned from a tour on the East coast with the Floyd Brown Blues Band.
In mid-November, the band appeared at the Whisky.
Tomorrow, The Afro-Cuban Dance Club of Manual Arts High School will present a free noon concert at the Student Activities Center patio.
According to Jim Gross, the concert will present a colorful touch to the holiday season. The concert will last until 1 p.m.
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