FACILITIES ASKED
Senate votes not to raise fees
LAPD aids Campus Security in crime prevention.
By Bob Conti
Staff Writer
The university has received a reputation as an easy target for crime, not only among persons in the immediate vicinity, but in all
of Los Angeles County.
Leonard Bivens, a captain with the Los Angeles Police Department, Southwest Division, said crime suspects come to the campus from different parts of the
Los Angeles area, especially the southern district near 100th Street.
Items stolen from the university have been found as far away as Long Beach.
Currently, the LAPD is working in cooperation with Campus Securitv. A special unit of uniformed and undercover police officers, has been assigned to campus. The officers' duty is to look for crimes in progress and observe suspicious persons.
Bivens said the university is an easy target because of the lack of preventive measures taken by students. These measures include securing cars, apartments and taking extra precautions when moving around the campus at night.
With increased awareness, Bivens said cnme on campus could decrease 20%.
The most common crimes involve automobiles. Bivens said there are manv opportunities to steal from cars or take entire cars.
Bivens said one afternoon officers placed brochures on the
windshields of 200 cars.
Two police officers who patrol the area regularly said things left in cars often draw the attention of thieves. Items such as tennis rackets, musical instruments, coats and books become the focal point of the thief.
Items taken from the exteriors of cars include car covers, rear-window louvers and gasoline caps.
Between late last December and mid-March, there were approximately 140 break-ins. a report from the LAPD said. Foreign cars, such as Volkswagons and Datsuns, plus older Ford Mustangs and late model Chevrolets are popular targets.
Los Angeles police said some of the ways to prevent auto thefts are bv locking doors, parking near the guard houses instead of (continued on page t>)
UOP coach may take USC hoop job
By Mike Ventre
Assitant Sports Editor
Stan Morrison, w'ho resigned his head basketball coaching post at the University of the Pacific earlier this vear is expected to accept the head coaching job at USC.
A story' appearing in the San lose Mercury Monday-indicated that Morrison had come to terms with the USC athletic department and would be named at a press conference at 3 p.m. todav.
Dan Hrubv, sports editor for the San Jose paper, quoted "a reliable source' as saying Morrison turned down a lucrative job offer from the Granada Royale hotel chain at twice his former salary' to take the USC job.
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"I've always prided mvself on adhering to principles, but I can’t give up coaching. The USC job is the chance of a lifetime," Morrison said in the storv.
Richard Pern, USC athletic director, was in Salt 1-ake City, Utah for the NCAA tournament and was unavailable for comment. The sports information department w'ould not comment on the situation.
Morrison's future seemed set until last Saturday. According to Hrubv's story', Morrison was approached by the Granada chain and had accepted a position in the firm. He reportedly took "a whirlwind tour of the firm's holdings, visiting El Paso, Texas, Omaha, Nebraska and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He had business cards printed up. He bought
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By Shari Cookson
Assistant Citv Editor
The Student Senate has voted not to raise the Student Activities Center fee, charging that the center has inadequate facilities and is not serving student needs.
lames Appleton, vice-president of student affairs, and Jim Dennis, director of campus life and recreation, had asked the senate to consider increasing the current S2 fee to $4.50. Technically' the administration could override the senate's decision to freeze the fee, but the issue is probably closed, Appleton said.
Some of the funds created bv an increased Student Activities Center fee would be used to maintain the building which is running down, Dennis said.
Other money would go toward the expansion of the intramural sports program, he said.
The senate, how’ever, said the fee should not be increased until the university does something to improve facilities.
The Student Activities Center should be a place for activities, said Sharon Caulfied, an undeclared sophomore.
"We shouldn't pay more unless we're going to get a place where we can go. No one goes to the Student Activities Center; there's nothing to do there except watch stop operas," she said.
Dennis said he didn’t understand how anyone
Engineering student designs cement boat
OT photo by Marsh* Tr—Q+r
HEAVY LOAD — Paul MacNeal smooths out the sides on Traveller 4, a concrete canoe MacNeal, a senior in Civil Enaineenng and president of the university's chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, is the canoe's principle designer and creator The canoe will be entered into next month's concrete canoe races at San Jose State University
By Ralph Sanchez
Staff Writer
Yes, it will float.
It will weigh 300 pounds and will be made out of concrete, but it will stav above water nevertheless. When finished, it will be named Traveller 4.
Traveller 4 will be the university's entry into next month’s concrete canoe races at San Jose State University. The canoe is being put together by the university's chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Its principle designer and creator is Paul MacNeal.
MacNeal, a senior in civil engineering and the president of the society here, is supervising the construction of the 4-man canoe that will race canoes from other California schools on April 22.
"I am not a naval architect." MacNeal said. "I looked at some books on naval architecture and studied a lot of the formulas, since Traveller 4 is my first attempt at designing a canoe."
MacNeal decided the design of his canoe should approximate the basic design of a Coast Guard cutter.
Traveller 4 is 18 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 13 inches high. I he skeleton of the boat is almost complete. The next step will be to pour on the concrete.
The shape of the canoe has been formed by applying 630 feet of wooden molding over plywood templates. The canoe is reinforced with half-inch square steel wire mesh. The wire mesh covers the length of the boat, and is responsible for holding the whole canoe together.
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could find the Student Activities Center lacking in student activities.
He cited the lounges, the copy center, the Outdoors Activity Center and the meeting rooms, which accommodate a number of student activities, such as the blood drive, as well as religious and international student groups.
Appleton said the recommendation to increase the fee yvas no big deal and that the administration was just "trying some ideas out" on the Student Senate.
"Why should we pay more for a place to plav pinball?" said Mary Stancill, an undeclared sophomore
Students pay the mortgage of the Student Activities Center with the current fee so they should have more to say as to how it is used, said Don Greenwood, senate chairman of financial affairs.
The administration decided to move the information center into the building without consulting students, he said.
Dennis, however, said the information center was moved to the Student Activities Center after the approval of the Student Union Board, an advisory group composed of students.
Greenwood said students can't use the meeting rooms because they are often occupied bv administrators or locked.
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VANTAGE POINT — ATrojan bust and a second set of eyes on his crest watch over the track stadium construction from atop the Physical Education Building.