Senate task force suggests more traffic regulation, tram service
A Student Senate task force report on the university's parking problem suggests increased regulation ot traffic and better tram serv ice as partial solutions.
Traffic hazards, campus access, security and lot availability were the areas studied by the task force, whose report was released Sunday at the senate cabinet meeting.
The report cited a lack of traffic lights, the distance of parking lots from the campus and the fear of the surrounding neighborhin>d as the chief matters involved in the university's parking situation.
Among the solutions suggested in the report were the regulation of traffic at the intersection of Menlo Avenue and Exposition Boulevard by either a traffic signal or a traffic officer.
Directional arrows in parking lots are also a measure advocated in the report,along with the operation of trams at 10-minute intervals to and from the lots.
An increased number of Campus Security patrols through the parking areas is asked for in the report.
Probably the most controversial of the solutions suggested bv the report is a freeze on the sale of parking permits.
The parking report will be presented to the Student Senate at its regular meeting Thursday, and
will be sent to university officials upon approval.
The cabinet also set up nine other task forces at its meeting. Subjects include:
Beer pub. It would work on gaining permission to open a pub in the Student Activities Center basement.
Student endowment fund. It would raise money for recreational facilities and programs such as Think Tank (a student academics program) and other student projects.
Community action. It would be involved with the YWCA in the projects to help the community, in projects like the recycling of old newspapers.
Loan program. It would deal with the establishment of Yale Plan loan program at the university. The plan allows students to repay their college loans on a sliding scale depending on their income after graduation.
Organization audit. It would audit the university's accounting system used by student organizations.
Teaching Assistant education. It would augment
the School of Letters, Arts and Sciences program in peer counselor advisement.
Student Services. It would look into the problems of student services based on student grievances.
WAITING FOR FREDDIE
I Lakerville
I By Diane Kessler
I: It could have been any July in I London but there was something §j remarkably different about the f| summer of 1978. It was the sum-| mer ofthe Great Queue and I was § a pa;c of it.
To queue up in Britain means §§ the same as to line up in America, fl The Queue had been formed by |s the intensive organizational ef-fort of hundreds of passengers awaiting flights back lo the I * ited States.
According to the London Times (Aug. 3, 1978), the backbone of the Queue is mostly Americans who all have one thing in common, to get home quickly and cheaply.
I fit into tnat category.
I had spent a month in Cambridge, England on the summer program along with 23 other USC students, but the sinking U.S. dollar changed my itinerary. I was headed for Los Angeles, while the other Cambridge students were heading for Europe.
My adventure began on a
- the only
drizzly gray Wednesday in Cambridge. As I wandered around the heavily touristed town, I checked flight prices of the many travel agencies, finding the price of a commercial flight to L.A. to be $600.
Since these were too expensive, my only other alternative was to go down to London and sign up for a Sir Freddie Laker SkvTraii. flight to New York.
I decided to take my chances in the Queue, even though I read a newspaper story describing it as a disorganized mess.
Upon arrival in London, I was greeted by pouring rain. I made my way through Victoria Station jotting down directions to the Queue that were posted outside the Skytrain ticket office.
I jogged in the direction of the park where the Queue began. It was 11:15 p.m. I had to find the end of the Queue, get on a group list, make communication arrangements for daily contact from Cambridge and find my way back to Victoria Station in time to catch the last train to
way to fly
Cambridge at 1:15 a.m.
After 20 minutes, I turned a corner and caught my first glimpse of Lakerville, as it had been dubbed.
Signs decorated the temporary shelters. "Welcome to Lakerville" adorned one plastic held together with masking tape and prayer.
Another tent featured international inhabitants. "This tent speaks English, French, German, Russian and Pig-Latin...sorry, no Chinese."
Down one bridge and up! another, I finally came to what appeared to be the beginning of a j newly formed group. The end of i the Queue at last. Several people had organized and began to put up a make-shift shelter from donated lumber and dear plastic tarps.
I breathed a little easier as I learned that this was Queue 10,1 group 23, which hopefully would be leaving the following Monday. Lach queue had 25 groups. Each group ivr utto fold was (continued on pave > >
Psychology researcher dies in plane accident
Joseph Rigney, director of the Behavior Technology Laboratory of the Psychology department died Monday in the crash of a Pacific Southwest Airlines jet in San Diegc that claimed 151 lives.
Rigney, 60, one of the top authorities in the country in training i osearch and human engineering, helped develop computer instructs.nal techniques for the U.S. Navy and the Office of War Research.
Rigney received his doctorate in psychology in 1953 and was involved in research at the university for more than thirty years.
He was an instructor in aviation safety for the College of Continuing Education, previously known as University College.
In 1975 he was named to the Advisory Board for Naval Research, a post he held three years.
He was once offered the directorship of the Navy's main researcn laboratory in San Diego but turned it down to remain at the university.
Rigney was selected as the University of New Mexico's most distinguished alumnus in 1977. He spent his undergraduate years there.
"He was a big, easy going man. He probably had a bigger reputation outside the university than inside. And he was an authority; he is not replaceable," said Don Lewis, a member of the psychology department.
Rigney was flying to San Diego to meet with Navy researchers. He is survived by his wife Dorothy and his children John, Josette and George.	___
A NOSE FOR BUSINESS - A member of the Asian American Tutorial Project tries a new recruiting device. DT photo by Marsha Traeger.