City Council halts adult-only housing
By Gina Becchetti
Assistant Gty Editor The ordinance prohibiting adults-only apartments in Los Angeles, overwhelmingly approved by the Los Angeles City Council two weeks ago, is not going to have any great initial effect or. the housing market in the university area or the city in general, sources said.
"It won't change a lot right away," said Charles Feltman, commuter housing coordinator for the Office of Residential Life, which assists university students in finding housing.
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how landlords in this area will react to the ordinance," Feltman said.
"Most landlords in the
area have not accepted _____
children in the past."
"I don't see this (ordinance) having a great effect. The answer to the overall problem is for government to get their paws out of housing and let it work in an unrestricted way," said Jim Harmon, editor of Apartment Age Magazine, a trade magazine for apartment owners.
The only help for the housing problem is to increase the building of apartments to meet the needs of the public, Harmon said.
About 71% of all rental units in Los Angeles refuse to accept children. Families with children make up less than a third of the renter household population.
The ordinance basically prohibits the advertisement of "adults only" apartments, the refusal to rent to families with children, and the eviction of tenants on the basis of pregnancy.
The ordinance will not force the university to open student housing to families with children, said Larry Kaplan, spokesman for Coundlwoman Pat Russell, who first introduced the proposal in 1977.
In addition, the ordinance does not apply to senior citizen s apartment complexes, retirement hotels, federally-subsidized senior and handicapped housing, dormitories, boarding houses, owner-occu-pied housing, and certain larger housing projects which have a majority of senior citizens.
Though the university has a married-student housing complex which accepts children, there is a four to six month waiting list and children must be under six years old because of space limitations in the complex.
People with no children outnumber those with children by at least two to one, said Barbara Feraci of Auxiliary Services. Most of the people with children are graduate students, she said.
Feltman roughly estimated the number of people with children who go to his office for help finding housing in the university area at 7%.
"We are going to use public relations with landlords to get them to accept the notion of children in apartments," Feltman said, noting that landlords seem to fear two things.
"I think landlords seem to have real concern that children are
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Board to decide new procedures for presidential search process
Staff photo by Richard Lcvt
OLD FACES, NEW NAME— The 37th Street Elementary School was officially renamed the Lenicia H Weemes Elementary School. Students and faculty attended dedication ceremonies held at the school yesterday.
Elementary school changes name
Past principal’s work honored
By Rhanda Kahawaii
Staff Writer
The Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary School, formerly known as 37th Street Elementary School, was officially dedicated Tuesday in a special ceremony held on the school's campus.
The Los Angeles City Board
By Susan Pedersen
Assistant Gty Editor
With the withdrawal of David P. Gardner as the last candidate for the university presidency, both the search committee and the Board of Trustees -'.tust soon reach a decision regarding how the remainder of the presidential search is to be conducted.
When the search committee met Feb. 1, suggestions relating to the process were made, and these suggestions may be considered in today's regularly scheduled Board of Trustees •nee ting.
Before the search committee offered their ideas on the search, two lists of possible candidates were presented to the members. These lists are .omprised of people who may have been previously contacted by the committee and others who have not.
Committeee members said that this was the first time that a composite list of candidates had been presented to them. Prior to this time, the members had ;->een exposed to the names in groups, sources said.
Some people on the committee also mentioned that there were some very excellent candidates still remaining on the lists.
"We are not without resources or superlative candi-
dates," said James McBath, committee member.
One of the points stressed by committee members at the meeting was the importance of quickly resuming the process to find a candidate as soon as
within the
possible, sources committee said.
Another suggestion was to conduct further stages of the process at off-campus locations in order to avoid adverse pub-(Continued on page 8)
of Education unanimously approved the name change on July 10 to acknowledge the outstanding leadership qualities of Mrs. Lenicia Boggs Weemes, who served as principal of the 37th Street Elementary School from 1969 until her death in June of last year.
Margie Levy Roberts, school improvement program coordinator and coordinator of the dedication ceremonies, said the. idea to change the name of the school was generated among the faculty and members of the community following Weemes' death because of her contributions to the school and her involvement with the community-
Weemes' mother, Mrs. Clarke Boggs Richardson, her husband John and son Steven attended
CAMPAIGNING
Junior seeks Assembly seat
By Pat Franklin
Assistant Feature Editor
While most students attended class on the first day of the semester and decided which courses to drop and add, Mitchell Shook, a junior in business, was shaking hands in Huntington Park.
The venture into the largely Hispanic community marked the beginning of a political campaign for Mitchell Kenneth Shook, 20, who is running for the ,47th District seat in the State Assembly.
The Democratic candidate first became involved in running for office by ironically meeting his eventual opponent. By working on a business communications project dealing with the state assembly as a career choice, Shook interviewed Assemblywoman Theresa Hughes.
"I asked her in the course of the interview what she had done for the students in this district and what she had done for USC," said Shook. "She said she hadn't done anything for the students in this dis-(Continued on page 11)
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the dedication ceremony, which featured a speech by Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, county supervisor for the 4th district, and the dedication litany led by Judge Billy Mills.
The unveiling of an oil portrait of Weemes, donated by the school's Parent-Teachers Association through Shelton Williams of School Pictures, highlighted the program. A granite plaque inscribed "She Lovingly Exemplified And Demanded 'Excellence'" was also presented to the school by the community at large and student body, and will be laid as a cornerstone at a later date.
Weemes was responsible for implementing a number of reading programs at 37th Street Elementary School, which raised the reading scores of first, second and third grade pupils from the lowest in the district to the highest of Title I schools throughout the nation, Roberts said.
She increased the amount of in-service training for teachers, teaching assistants, education assistants and school volunteers and brought volunteer tutors to the school through the university's Joint Educational Project. University students have been tutoring pupils in a variety of subjects at the school since ,1974.
"Under her guidance, various programs to meet the needs of the children were implemented and many avenues of education were explored and utilized," Roberts said.
The response to change the name of the school was overwhelming because Weemes gained a great deal of respect from all the people she worked with, Roberts said. "There is not a person you could talk to that would not have a positive impression of her."
Thelma Turner, a volunteer worker at the school since 1973, said she, like other members of (Continued on page 8)