Security gets new undercover cars
Campus Security patrolman Gary Powers arrives on the scene in his spiffy early-model unmarked convertible.
Rumor has it that the car was purchased to allow security men to better fit in on the campus.
Powers is shown looking
cool in his official Policeman’s Special Dark Surveillance Glasses as he keeps an eye on Barbra Streisand and other movie types who invaded campus Friday to do a new film.
Note the special rear deck ornament on the car. An uninformed source reported that
the security men originally wanted a wobble-headed dachshund, but settled on the bust of a little man.
The new cars do not include such superfluous instruments such as flashing lights, sirens or radios, but they do have running boards to facilitate fast exits. DT photo by Danny Alaimo.
DIFFERENCES TO BE DISCUSSED
Panel may resolve governance
By Peter Wong
associate editor The current impasse on university governance most likely will be resolved by a small panel of students, faculty and deans. President John Hubbard’s office indicated Tuesday.
“The various proposals will £e examined by a committee, obviously,” Phillips Copeland, Hubbard's executive assistant, said.
“The university will move ahead and we will come up with something. But I don’t want to say no, I don’t want to say yes (about what the composition of such a panel would be).”
Met with faculty Hubbard indicated the formation of such a panel Monday after meeting with the executive committee ofthe University Sen-
ate, the representative body of the faculty.
The committee members explained to Hubbard why they believed some 60 of their colleagues, at an all-day meeting Oct. 28, favored something other than the plan for an assembly of more than 100 members as the key university decision-making body.
The assembly plan was developed by a commission appointed by Hubbard in September, 1971, and headed by Henry Reining, Jr., dean of Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs. It was approved Sept. 21 by the Council of Deans.
Council favored by senate
However, faculty members favored a plan in which a senate
ASSC vote deadline set
Monday will be the last day that ballots for the referendum on the future of the ASSC will be accepted.
Students are beingasked whetherthe universityshouldcontinue to recognize the present ASSC structure as representative of the student body or whether the university should form an interim board to administer the programs ofthe ASSC while students work to reconstitute the structure of student government.
The university is expected to announce its decision on the referendum next week.
As of Tuesday 4.000 ballots had been received. Because of a lack of correct student addresses, several students have not received ballots. Those who haven't may pick them up from Carl Emerich. assistant to the vice-president Cor student affairs, in Student Union 201.
with solely faculty representation would be established, along with a 15-member university council of students, faculty and deans to resolve matters of mutual concern.
They accepted elements of both a faculty senate plan, approved Oct. 22,1969. and a university council plan developed by a committee appointed by President Norman Topping in February, 1970, and headed by Paul Hadley, dean of University College and Summer Session.
The panel that will probably be formed to work out the differences between the groups will examine the proposals that have been offered in the past 4 years and try to combine elements of each plan.
Difficulty seen
This may be difficult to do if the advocates of an alluniversity assembly hold out for their plan, and if its opponents do likewise, which is entirely possible.
Hubbard has said on several occasions that he would like to see the assembly plan put in operation, but in this situation, he said last week he would not be tied to any particular concept of university decision-making.
He has also said he will try to involve students in the discussion about the assembly plan and its alternatives, and student membership on the small panel may fulfill his objective.
Editor criticizes cost of graduation photos
Seniors may be paying too much to have their graduation picture appear in El Rodeo, said Angela Curcuru, yearbook editor, said Tuesday.
Curcuru said the contract for pictures had been given to Garfield’s Studio again this year and that graduating seniors who wished to be in the yearbook were required to have pictures taken only at Garfield’s.
Garfield’s offers a choice of two types of photos. The first is a color selection of four different poses. The charge is $6.50. The second is a black and white selection of the same type of poses for $3.95.
Curcuru said that the choice between black and white and color is where students are being misled. Students apparently thought that it was necessary to have the more expensive photo and have been paying the extra fee.
“There is no need to have color prints made since they will appear in El Rodeo, Angela Curcuru, yearbook editor, said Tuesday.
Apparently the only reason anyone would want the more expensive color picture would be for family and friends.
Curcuru said she believes that perhaps students were being given the wrong information when they appeared for their sittings at Garfield’s, and were paying extra for the unnecessary service.
“We intend to initiate an investigation into the business practices of Garfield’s Studio,” Curcuru said.
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Trash fire in Apartment Towers: damage small but inconvenience great
Half the population of the Apartment Towers building poured onto the streets at 6:40
a.m. Tuesday when a fire alarm rang.
The fire was caused by a cigarette thrown into the trash chute, which runs through the center of the building.
Mike McGroarty, manager of the complex, said, “There was no damage done, except to my sleep.” He said the fire also made a small brown spot on the trash can at the bottom of the chute.
As two fire trucks arrived and began squirting water on the trash receptacle, students milled around in pajamas or hastily-thrown-on clothes.
Many students didn't know whether the alarm was real and had stayed in the building until they saw smoke in their halls. They were still tricklingdown the emergency stairs when the fire was out.
The elevators were crowded as the students returned to their rooms, since the doors from the emergency stairs to the halls locked as students rushed outside.
About 20 minutes later, the fire alarm rang again. This was caused by the firemen refilling the sprinkler system. “Whenever you change the pressure in the system, it reactivates the alarm and there’s nothing you can do to stop it,” said McGroarty.
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Loan program suffers setback
By Dennis Spirgen
The ASSC Student Emergency Loan program has been temporarily discontinued because students are not repaying their loans on time.
The program was initiated last year to help students in need of emergency financial aid. Students could apply for loans up to $250, to be paid back in 90 days at 1% interest.
The Office of Student Aid currently has 146 loans outstanding, worth more than $18,000. Half of these loans are overdue.
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Pamela Walbom, director of the Office of Student Aid, said that most of the students whose loans are overdue woirld pay them off if they could.
“Last spring the ASSC board
voted to extend the deadline on all loans due during the summer to this September. I think that was probably a bad decision. After paying their tuition, the students just don’t have the money to pay off the loans.” Walbom added that the program would be restarted as soon as half the outstanding loans have been collected. She expects this to take until the first of the year.
“It’s hard to put a definite date on it. The money keeps coming in on a now-and-then basis.” Since the suspension of the ASSC, the loan program has been running without a governing body. Walbom could not predict how the recent referendum on student government would affect the future of the program.