Architecture dean receives national award
BY LOUANN J. CHANTILES
Ralph Knowles, professor of architecture and interim dean of the School of Architecture and Fine Arts, has been awarded the 1974 Gold Medal for Research by The American Institute of Architects.
The medal is awarded to cne individual or organization for distinguished achievement in research in architecture or the environment and is the highest honor that the institute bestows.
Knowles' research concerns the effects of climate, new technology ana energy consumption on the configuration of buildings and on the use and development of land.
Knowles has also received recognition for his research in the areas of urban design, structural system and energy conservation.
On urban development,
Knowles found that since World War II, cities in America have evolved from rural areas to large cities because of constant building.
Today, cities can be pictured as .a pie cut into three sections, Knowles said in an interview. One section is devoted to housing, one section to commerce, and one to industry.
Knowles said that the poor people’s lack of mobility forces them to live in the center of the city where the three sections converge.
On the national average Americans spend one-third of their energy on transportation, one-third on building maintenance. and one-third on industry.
Knowles’ major concern is trying to reduce the energy used in building maintenance.
He said that how we shape,
structure, and orient our buildings can greatly affect the amount of energy needed.
For example, a cube-shaped building receives three times more heat in the summer than the winter, precisely when it is not wanted. Change the shape of the building, and you can change the amount of energy needed to cool and heat it.
Interaction in building is also important. For example, Knowles referred to an incident in Los Angeles where a 14-story building was erected near a niehgborhood of $85,000 homes. The homes had pools and received quite a bit of sunlight.
However, when the building was completed, the homeowners found that their homes were in the shade much of the time. Their pools could not be used as much and, in time, the value of their homes decreased until the
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land became more valuable than the home that rested on it.
In discussing Los Angeles’
growth in particular. Knowles said that the city is coming to the end of its expansionary growth and a new growth mode called internal growth or recycling will take its place. In this, housing, commerce and industry will be built within one another. The purpose of this will be to provide a more diversified community life, Knowles explained. Human, as well as natural resources will be conserved because people won’t have to travel great distances to reach other areas.
However. Knowles believes that Americans are in danger of building a mass transit system patterned after the freeway system. which would discourage this integrated growth. People would not want to move from their present sites if this type of system was built, he said.
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University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI, No. 96
Los Angeles, California
Friday, March 22, 1974
CHICKEN MAN—A representative of Rockathon, a fund-raising drive co-sponsored by Circle K and Alpha Phi Omega, sought student support Thursday. The goal is $4,000 to fight multiple sclerosis and for Troy Camp.
The 24-hour Rockathon will take place in front of Tommy Trojan, March 27-31. DT photo by Gehrig Ikeda.
Student Union Board hopes to increase student office space
BY STELLA MORABITO
In an effort to provide more office space for student groups, the Student Union Board examined plans for structural changes in the Student Union building at a meeting Thursday.
Removing the walls between offices on the third floor to provide one large room, which student organizations would share, is a plan being considered by the board.
This remodeling of the Student Union could possibly take place by fall, depending on finances and approval of the plan. The expenses have not yet been determined.
Another proposal being considered by the board is to move the School of Journalism, located on the fourth floor of the Student Union, to another location.
More campus groups could gain office space through the plans, the board believes.
The advantages of the reconstructed third floor would include increased interaction among organizations, more office space and an area easy for
students to find, with one secretary in the middle ofthe room.
All phones and files would have locks with keys given to the president of each organization. More typewriters would be available under such a plan, because the room would include typewriters bolted to desks.
For student groups that need privacy, it was suggested that these groups could meet in Student Union 415, which is presently occupied by the Community Action Coordinating Council.
An additional possibility would be to place a wall in the center ofthe large room, to provide some wall space, thus breaking down such a large space.
There are roughly 20 office spaces for student organizations in the Student Union, of which first priority is given to student government agencies.
Political groups and nonstudent groups would not get office space.
One student said. “It is irrational to consider that students are not interested in political
campaigns.” He said political groups should be given office space because they are an active part of student life.
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Monetary limit slows council campaigning
Campaigning for student seats on the President’s Advisory Council has been limited, but this is not a sign of low morale, John Griffith, executive secretary to the council, said Thursday.
With a $50 limit on how much can be spent, campaigning is limited mostly to leaflets and mimeographed sheets, Griffith said.
“Because the election is divided by constituents, campaigning can be done quietly, on a personal basis,” he added.
Griffith said that most of the candidates were planning to talk to the people in their particular constituency. Those running from the fraternities and sororities planned mainly to speak at house meetings; those running from the residential halls planned to try to speak at dinner.
“A few candidates have asked me about rules for campaigning, such as whether they could put things on cars. I referred them to the Student Literary Code, which doesn’t seem to have anything against it.” Griffith said.
Statements from the candidates will be on the ballots which will be mailed Saturday. Griffith feels that this is another reason for the non-activist type of campaigning.
“I wonder what the other people are running for,” said Alan Friedenthal, a freshman in political science. Friedenthal. who said he noticed only three others campaigning besides himself, is running as a representative from the residence halls.
“I think that the kind of soap-boxing campaign, the speech giving and all that, has a bad effect on people. The only viable way I could see myself campaigning is if I had thought of something unique,” said Michael Slattery, freshman in political science and philosophy who is running as an independent or commuter student.
“Because no one else was campaigning, I didn’t feel it was necessary,” Barbara Barton, a sophomore in general studies, who is running from the residential halls, said.
Nearly all of the candidates submitted 100-word statements for the ballots.
Deadline for the return of ballots is April 8. Ballots must be returned in the envelope provided in order to be eligible.
Pay hike not expected to affect budget
The increase of the California minimum wage to $2 per hour is expected to have only a slight effect on next year’s university budget.
Colin MacLeod, director of financial services, estimated that the wage increase, which became effective March 4. will cost an additional $60,000. Rises in utility rates and insurance costs will be much more severe, though.
Utilities will cost approximately $530,000 more next year, and Social Security costs will rise $410,000.
The minimum wage increase will constitute only a
small portion of the $2 million that is being allowed for imposed increases in
expenses.
These expenses, which the university essentially has no control over, were anticipated when next year’s $139 million budget was planned.
G. Robert Sullivan, controller, said the wage increase will have only a slight impact on the budget of the university because only a small percentage of the workers were earning less than $2 per hour when the increase was approved.