By John Frith
Staff Writer
Officials at the university's Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies expressed confidence that the Los Angeles City Council will approve a lease for a facility' on Terminal Island.
The city's Harbor Commission voted 3-1 last week to grant the lease at Fish Harbor, despite opposition of the city Planning Department.
If approved, the $1.5 million complex will house the Harbor Research Laborat ory, the Sea Grant Marine Advisory Service and the Oceanographic Instrumentation Calibration Laboratory. There will also be berths for the institute's boats.
The move is necessary because the present building in Wilmington has been declared unsafe.
That building, which once was the base
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of the "great white steamers" to Catalina, is half on land and half on pilings over the water. The portion over ‘he water is slowly breaking away from the rest.
One official of the institute said he thought this was because the harbor department overdredged the harbor and left no foundation for the pilings, which then began to slip
While the building has been declared unsafe, officials think the building wili stand for "a good many years."
Scott Ralston, a graduate student in biology who works at the facility, doesn't think it is that unsafe.
"There have been a few cracks and a few
missing beams, but no signs of sagging." he said.
"It sa wooden structure so it's flexible ."
He said the city has been repairing its structure and added that it will become unsafe only if it isn't fixed.
The official said the university can remain in the building if it indemnifies the citv against loss if the building collapses. The university has begun action to stay in the structure.
The Harbor Department asked the uni versity to leave the building in September, but a move then would have interrupted almost $1 million in contract research.
Opposition to the Fish Harbor site.
which has traditionally been reserved tor commercial fishing interests, came from lessees, an ice house and a machine shop that presently occupy part of the site, from the planning department and from a man interested in operating a fish reduction plant.
An institute official said the planning department was opposed because its master plan set aside Fish Harbor for the fishing industry, marina-related activities and recreational boating.
But. as the official asked, "Have you ever seen a master plan that wasn't changed?"
The university has loaned the institute 5600,000 (at 6% interest) to begin work on the complex. This monev is to be repaid with the SI.5 million to be raised for the institute in the Toward Century II cam-paign.
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University of Southern California Volume LXXVI, Number 18_Wednesday, March 7. 1979
Proposed registration sites cause conflicts
By Marsha Johnston
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Despite the Physical Education Building's acknowledged unsuitabii-itv to house registration, groups advocating relocation of registration find other options such as the Davidson Conference Center improbable and limited.
The Student Senate, physical education department, athletic department and the enrollment system user group committee have al! advocated another location for registration especially when the new computer system is ready for use in spring 1^80. Fred Dear, associate registrar, and other universitv staff members, have discussed the feasibility of other facilities for registration and deemed the Davidson Center and the Student Activities Center as the only possibilities.
The senate passed a resolution last week to hold spnng 1980 registration in the Davidson Conference Center because it contains tw'o "ideal" auditoriums (carpeted and soundproofed), affords better security and has proper heating and cooling facilities. Problems with inefficient heating and air cooling, hauling new computer equipment up the stairs, enforcing proper security and conflicts between registration and physical education class scheduling are most often cited reasons for vacating the Physical Education Building.
"If we decide to use the gym again, we must determine if the equipment can withstand the temperatures there," said John Osborne, registrar. Osborne related an incident about eight years ago when a student majoring in physics had measured the temperature in the Physical Education Building at 112 degrees.
Moving heavy' computer equipment up several staircases in the Physical Education Building increases the risk of damage from banging or dropping the machines
"They dropped one of our computers down a stairwell last time," Osborne said. Getting up to the second floor in the building is also a difficulty for handicapped students.
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BAROQUE AFTERNOON — Musicians practice a few tunes that never made the Top 40 Authentic renaissance instruments aren't so common these days
Historian's stroll down memory lane brings out university's past
By Ralph Sanchez
Staff Writer
The sight beheld from the steps of Von KleinSmid Center looking down Universitv Avenue toward the Coliseum is one that has been frozen in time for 50 years. The buildings that stood there in 1930 stili border the age-old avenue, a reminder that some things never change.
Lighting up his wooden pipe, John Reynolds leans back against his office chair in the basement of Bovard Auditorium and thinks about that avenue.
Surrounding him are files full of photographs and negatives from almost every vear in the university's history, dating back to 1880. Indeed, there is plenty of evidence in this room that things do change and Reynolds wili attest to that
As the universitv reaches its 100th birthday, a hundred-vear pictorial of its history will be put together. The book, expected to be well over 300 pages * *
Eviction rare despite strict policy
By Gail Harris
Staff Writer
Although housing contracts list numerous grounds for termination, the university rarelv evicts student residents
Housing officials said forcible contract releases result onlv rrom unusua! circumstances or after a problem student has failed to negotiate with authonties.
This year one student who lived in an on-campus facility was evicted for undisclosed reasons.
Djvid Lee, director of housing, said he was not at liberty to discuss the situation
He did make it clear, however that the contract cancellation had nothing to do with the usual problem of delinquent rent payments.
The 1978-1979 apartment and residence hall contract lists several regulations for students living on campus.
Contracts stipulate all persons residing in university housing must be registered for a minimum of 12 units for undergraduates and 8 units for graduate students.
Students w’ho drop units after the ninth week of classes must get approval from the head resident in order to retain the housing assignment.
Another term of occupancy included in the contracts states that unauthorized room or apartment changes will
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result in termination without a deposit refund.
The contract may not be sold, transferred, assigned or sublet.
In addition to this, the assigned facility mav not be used for business or other nonresidential purposes without permission from the director of residence halls, the contract states.
The contract also lists a number of items not permitted in university-owned complexes.
These include firearms, explosives, fireworks and gas or spring-operated guns.
Illegal drugs and alcoholic beverages (except in rooms with residents 21 or over) are other grounds for contract termination
Residents may not engage in such activities as setting off fire alarms, vandalizing, making telephone threats or tampering with electrical or telephone equipment.
Another contract rule states the university mav relocate or terminate assignments of residents who continually cause roommates to vacate or complain
According to the contract, later rent payments, the most frequent contract violation, will accrue a S3 late fee after 10 days
If a student refuses to pay rent, the complex manager
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JOHN REYNOLDS
long, will show, in photographs, the birth and grow th of Troy. Reynolds is in charge of putting the book together.
"I'm not the USC historian," Reynolds points out flatly. "I don't think there is such an animal. But if there is, there'are others better qualified."
Reynolds singles out other people who have closer contacts with the universitv archives locked in underground rooms of Doheny Library and Stonier Hall. But it is Reynolds who collects a universe of photos that tell the storv.
He pulls out a large, aerial photograph of the university’ taken in the early 30s, and quickly begins
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