Beer pub to open on campus in fall
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Volume LXXVII, Number 5 University of Southern California Friday, June 29, 1979
By Ron Farmer
Students and faculty will have a new place to gather this fall when a pub facility opens in the Student Union.
Beer, pizza and snacks will be served in the pub, which will be located in the "no smoking” section of the Trojan Grill. Besides food and beverages, patrons will be able to enjoy live entertainment.
Proposals to build a pub have existed for five years, said Jeff Gates, chairman of the Student Senate. It took that long for the Environmental and External Affairs Research Actions Unit to make the present proposal a real-ity.
Susie Nora, former chairman of the Student Senate, first appointed the pub committee of four students and four faculty members in February.
One of the student members, Diane Cairns, helped to formulate the present proposal. Cairns had worked at a pub at Cal State Fullerton and she said that her practical research helped the committee.
Funds for the $70,000 pub will be provided by Auxilary Services. The committee had first suggested that the Student Se-
nate authorize a 50 cents surcharge on students' fall fee bills since it was thought that additional funds would be necessary to make sure the pub met with the student body's expectations. The idea for the tax however, has been set aside.
The committee thought that students would resent financing a project that would mainly benefit Auxilary Services other source of funding will be sought in the near future, Cairns said.
Although the pub is currently being funded by Auxilary Services, the majority of the operation will be under student supervision. There will only be one non-student administrator, v/ho acts as manager of the lounge. The remaining staff positions, such as waiters and bartenders, will be held by students.
The pub will be self-sustaining with a percentage of every beer paying for entertainment, Caims said.
Actual construction of the pub is scheduled to begin sometime in July after the examination of construction bids, she added. The pub could be completed by the time school begins in the fall, but no later than October, she said.
Redevelopment projects alter university community
By Bobby Watson
The neighborhood around the university has seen many changes since the founding of the school nearly 100 years ago. What was once a rural, mustard-plant covered plain grew into an exclusive neighborhood of large mansions. During the ensuing decades, however, this once posh community became the city's most run-down area and was turned into a redevelopment project.
The city has made many attempts at revitalizing the several square miles that surround the campus, starting with the Hoover Project and expanding the efforts with the Normandie 4321 and Pico-Union Projects.
What sound like bizarre, complicated government schemes are merely different styles of redevelopment aimed at upgrading the community.
The Hoover Project has met with much criticism because it dislocated residents, bulldozed houses and then replaced the structures with facilities for the university, rather than community residents.
Rather than dislocate more residents and incur the rath of community groups, other types of redevelopment were planned for the areas to the north and west of the campus. The Normandie 4321 Project, which includes the area between Adams Boulevard and the Santa Monica Freeway from Figueroa Street west to Normandie Street (a distance
of several miles), has tackled the problem of revitalizing the area for community residents through small housing projects aimed at upgrading each street.
The Pico-Union Project, which lies just north of the Santa Monica Freeway and stretches from the Harbor Freeway to Hoover Street, is one of the most interesting
The Hoover Project has met with much criticism because it dislocated residents, bulldozed homes and then replaced the structures with facilities for the university, rather than community residents.
programs within Los Angeles. Rather than bulldoze structures and force residents out, the Community Redevelopment Agency, which is in charge of the project, has taken steps to ensure that the neighborhood change as little as possible.
The Pico-Union Neighborhood Council, comprised of residents of the area, was established to oversee and direct plans for the district.
What this group has helped to establish in their community has been a variety of residences and businesses
that will help alleviate unemployment, increase property values and make the area a desirable neighborhood.
Nearly 1,000 houses and apartment units have been rehabilitated within the area, and another 500 are in the process of being 'rehabbed' presently. Other houses, which were moved off of their original lots near Los Angeles International Airport, were brought into the area and placed on vacant lots.
PUNC, as the neighborhood council is known, has had a hand in building or planning 352 new residential units. These include 18 low-income rental units for families from the area, who had pay no more than 25% of their income for rent. Another large project for families is being built, in addition to a 115 unit senior citizen complex. Another 60 units of senior housing are in the planning stages. Future housing will also include federally subsidized rental units. Eighty-five of these apartments will be built on sites scattered throughout the community. By scattering the units throughout the community, officials hope that these will act as 'seeds' in raising the overall quality of streets and spur residents on to fix up their homes. Another 45 units of coperative housing, a unique venture whereby residents are eventually able to buy shares in their building and maintain it themselves are slated for the area. This will be a joint venture of the Los Angeles Housing Authority and PUNC.
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College of Continuing Education readies fall schedule
Bv Therese Wells
By J
Editor
Are you fed up with a schedule of dull, dry classes, but equally tired of Cinema 190?
Or do you just need a couple of units but can't register for a class that will take too much study time away from your major?
Perhaps you have an interest in cinema, music, art or the theatre, but lack professional level ambitions or talent.
If you've answered yes to any of these questions (or even if you haven't) the College of Continuing Education may have the solution for you.
Each year the college, in cooperation with the School of Performing Arts, offers one of the broadest and most diversified performing and fine arts programs in Los Angeles with a faculty that is generally recognized as among the most distinguished in their respective fields. _
And next fall, the program as it is tentatively shaping up, should
be bigger and better than ever, with new classes being added and old ones being improved.
In the fall, 65 classes are tentatively scheduled so far, an increase of twenty over the spring semester, according to Trina Ripley, performing and fine arts director for the college. As director, Ripley is responsible for creating new and attractive classes and finding the right people to teach them.
"I look for exciting teachers,'' she said, "People who are so in love with their subject that the students come to love the subject, in part because of the enthusiasm of the teacher.
"I try to bring in top professionals in the arts — people students could never reach on their own — and offer them a chance to teach and share what they've learned in their careers."
Ripley added that many of those she contacts are more than willing to participate because of the reputationof the university.
Many begin as guest lecturers in one class and end up teaching their own in following semesters, often on their own initiative.
Ripley herself teaches a class — Theatre in America — one of the most popular on the schedule. Theatre in America offers students a rare opportunity to observe the behind-the-scenes action of live theatre and meet individuals involved in the business.
The class takes advantage of current theatrical activities in Los Angeles (a rapidly expanding live theatre center) so each semester's schedule is different.
"People seem to need a personal introduction to the theatre, especially in Los Angeles," Ripley said, "so Theatre in America takes its participants to all kinds of theatrical performances. We deal with anything that's creatively worthwhile or stimulating.''
In the past, classes have attended such varied production as
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Art by Bemie Gruver, who teaches But I Can't Even Draw a Straight Line for the College of Continuing Education.