Returning residents guaranteed same housing
By Chuck Coppola
Staff Writer
Returning students currently living in university housing will be guaranteed housing in the same residences said Mike McCarthy, assistant director of auxiliary services.
This is the biggest advancement in assigning housing priority, he said.
McCarthy said students who desire to room together this fall will also be guaranteed housing together.
The Auxiliary Services “guarantee" is the result of a Housing Policy Advisory Committee subcommittee's recommendations to eliminate quotas in university housing.
Last year, only 55% of all students could return to university housing. .
The remaining 45% was made up of new residents.
The subcommittee, made up of McCarthy, Sharon Kettler, assignments coordinator, and three students made the recommendation to eliminate quotas after 120 retur-nine residents were denied housing last year.
Originally, 400 returning residents were denied, but McCarthy said special allowances were made to try to get housing for as many residents as possible.
McCarthy said the housing crunch around campus is far from being solved and that this doesn't infer that there are enough spaces for all those wanting housing.
“All this means is that those students who have a top priority situation are guaranteed housing," McCarthy said.
McCarthy defined one top priority situation as a resident who wishes to return to his same apartment for the fall.
A second priority situation
would be if a student wanted to move from one apartment in a complex to another one within the same complex.
The lower the priority, the slimmer the chances of getting particular complex.
“If two students want to room together and one lives in Cardinal Gardens and the other doesn't, if they applied for Cardinal Gardens they'd have a low priority,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy warned that applications must be filled out properly
and turned in on time for anyone to take advantage of the revamped priority system.
“We can’t be responsible for those who can't fill out the applications right or tries to put down that he lives in Troy Hall when he really doesn't,” McCarthy said.
Housing applications will be available March 7 to 23 at each housing complex desk.
McCarthy also said students who want to apply will first have to have their rent paid in full.
McCarthy advised students
waiting for financial aid to come in o see Ron Wilkinson, manager of collections and assignments “so something can be worked out.”
McCarthy anticipates many questions about the new priority svstem and has set up three nights 'or students to come and ask questions about housing procedures.
A meeting will be held at 7 and 8 p.m. from March 12 to 14 in various complexes. Details may be obtained in the Auxiliary Services Building.
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Baptist director claims followers of Rev. Moon enslave recruits
By Alice Ragenovich
Staff Writer
"The Moonies have taken any questioning ot their beliefs to be persecution,” said Randy Deering. director of the Baptist Student Union.
“Belonging to the Unification Church is not a part-time commitment. The Unification Church becomes your life. People who join the church become enslaved to Moon, and thinking and evaluating for themselves becomes impossible,” he said.
Deering, an ordained Baptist minister, has done extensive reading and has studied the teachings and followers of Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
\ campus organization, the Collegiate Assn. for the Research Principles (CARP), has launched a crusade to spread the teachings of Moon, who also founded the Unification Church.
However, when the group came on campus they did not want to be connected with the Unification Church. They were recognized as a religious organization on campus only after they admitted their affiliation with the Unification Church, Deering said.
“The ultimate goal of the members of CARP is to get people involved with the Unification Church, not just in CARP, and pretty soon they’ll become disin-volved in school," he said.
Involvement in the Unification Church is total. Most Moonies don’t hold regular jobs and they are required to spend 10 to 12 hours each day fund raising, Deering said.
They all live together communally, which makes a normal college lifestyle impossible, he said.
"About 95% of the reaction to the Moonies has been negative because the lifestyle is so different. People have been taken away from their families," he said.
One man’s daughter has been missing since Feb. 9 and was last seen raising money for CARP. This man goes around to different CARP rallies and passes out flyers with his daughter's picture saying he just wants to know if she is all right.
One former member of the church who had to sneak out of the commune to get away, said he was isolated by CARP. Once he joined he was separated from everything else. Members programmed and indoctrinated him with beliefs that countered everything he had always been taught, he said.
“CARP exists for the Unification Church. It does not exist for the students. To say that it is just another campus organization is wrong," Deering said.
Those who show any interest in CARP are badgered. They are taken out to dinner; they are taken to weekend retreats and not left alone for a single moment. There is psychological coercion, Deering said.
Possible recruits are bombarded with compliments on their looks, their personalities and their dress. Deering called this a false love, but it is for those who have never experienced love before, he said.
Indoctrination comes about through a series of workshops that last anywhere from 3 to 120 days, he said. The drop-out rate in the first 6 months is 50% because the lifestyle is so different; after the first year it's less than 10%.
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DT photo by Marc Corman
RADIO FREE TOMMY — KSCR, the student-operated radio station, will be broadcasting from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. this week from Tommy Trojan in an attempt to increase its audience.
AN EYE ON CAMPUS
Students forcibly evicted
A student’s housing contract at Webb Tower was cancelled last Friday, but the reason for the eviction is unknown, despite the fact that it became a very public event.
At about 4 p.m. last Saturday, a crowd of students and Campus Security officers watched as a male student picked up clothes and books from the sidewalk next to the housing structure and packed them into his car.
David Lee. director of housing, said he was not at liberty to say why the student was forcibly evicted. He did make it clear, however, that the cancellation of his contract had nothing to do with the usual problem of rent not being paid or the student encountering financial problems.
“It was a difficult situation,” Lee said. "We made an administrative decision to protect the well-being of the students at the university.”
Lee said the evicted student had not done anything wrong, adding that the circumstances for the eviction were not clear-cut.
Campus Security officers at the scene refused to comment on what had occurred. Sources said Campus Security was there because the student had previously been asked to move out and had failed to do so.
Rumors said the evicted student was having problems getting along with other people in the building.
Since the incident, a blanket ot "no comments” has fallen over the case.
“Getting evicted >s a very personal matter,” a spokesman at Webb Tower said. “We have to be careful to protect the student’s rights.”
KSCR campaigns for listeners
By Bob Conti
Staff Writer
Tucked away in the southwest corner of the Social Science Annex is a radio station. The facilities are small and they do not broadcast to a large audience. But they are in operation. They do have listeners, and they have a volunteer staff of 60.
KSCR, the university’s student-run, student-oriented radio station, is spinning its turntables and announcing campus news and events to those able to hear them.
The station does not broadcast to all campus facilities due to overcrowding on the A.M. frequency. Instead, KSCR sends its radio signals through transmitters placed in the electrical systems of selected buildings.
Its listeners want a station to broadcast and reach the student community which includes the Row and apartments.
But a license from the Federal Communication Commission is necessary for this to occur. Susanne Whatley, KSCR general manager, said student licenses are not being issued at this time.
If the station did receive an over-the-air license the university would have to accept responsibility for the
station as well.
“They don’t seem to want to take on another station,” Whatley said. KUSC is a public broadcasting station, under university auspices.
In an effort to be more visible to the university community, KSCR will be broadcasting this week in front of Tommy Trojan.
The first day brought on curious passers-by who started pawing through the various albums the station was selling.
Many people said they knew about the station, but hadn’t listened because they were commuter students or didn’t live in buildings that had the special transmitters.
Bill Nuttycomb, a sophomore in biological sciences, said he was planning to listen to the station, now that they had installed a transmitter in Cardinal Gardens.
“I think it’s a good idea to have a student-run station here. Now that KUSC is no longer affiliated with the students.”
What makes the station different from others of the rock and roll musical format is its attempt to serve the student constituency.
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