MASTER PLAN RECEIVES £1 MILLION
University goals bought and sold at trustees conference
By Valerie Nelson
Managing Editor
PEBBLE BEACH—At the university, there’s no such thing as the soft sell. Hard pitches followed hard facts at the Nineteenth Board ofTrustees Conference here Friday through Sunday.
•	Programs important to the university’s future, such as Toward Century II and the master plan for landscaping, were presented to about 140 trustees, faculty and administrators. The pitches — aimed at the trustees — were for money.
The university proved the hard sell works.
“It is all part of the long struggle to bring a good university to the edge of greatness,” said Zohrab A. Kaprielian, executive vice-president. “To go the last mile we must understand the problem of efficient organizing to achieve our goals.”
More than one-quarter of a million dollars was raised over the weekend for uni-
versity landscaping, said Paul W. Trousdale, a trustee. The gifts were made following a presentation by Michael Boc-chicchio, university architect, that showed what landscaping was necessary.
Major pedestrian malls will be constructed on the corner of University Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard, and between 34th Street and the Annenberg School of Communications. University Avenue will be redeveloped to eliminate the sidewalks and create a park-like atmosphere.
These changes are part of the university’s master plan, designed in 1962. Trousdale said more than $1 million has been donated so far, but an additional $900,000 is required to finish the projects. A total of $6.5 million is needed to finish the entire landscaping plans.
Anna Bing Arnold, a trustee, then donated $100,000 for the construction of a fountain for the performing arts complex.
Among those who spoke from the professional schools was Arthur B. Laffer, a finance and business economics professor, who supported the Jarvis-Gann Initiative. In stating his views, he told the trustees to think of a student receiving $20 less for his education but going home to a father who has a job, or a student receiving $10 more for his education but going home to an unemployed father.
Lower tax rates attract businesses; employment, taxes and income increase; and in 1V4 Jo 2 years, the state would have more revenue, he said.
“I don’t have the funds to support it. I want the trustees to know that. A transitional period of three years would mean a drain on our resources,” Kaprielian said.
If current proposed federal legislation is adopted, the university may lose $3 million for expenses such as students failing to repay loans, he said.
The energy crisis, the d ecline of the dol-
lar’s buying power, and Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s veto of the California State Scholarship increase have decreased the university’s power to provide financial aid, Kaprielian said.
He added the university needs to support the cause of private higher education in Sacramento.
“We are going to try and sell you on making gifts in your lifetime,” said Herbert Hazeltine, a trustee. He read a statement made by the late Kenneth Norris, former chairman of the board of trustees, that said, “I firmly believe individuals fortunate enough to accumulate private wealth have a public obligation to give the wealth back.”
Kenneth Leventhal, a trustee, proceeded to tell the trustees how they can give part of an asset to the university when they sell it and still make money from the transaction.	y .
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Volume LXXIII, Number 52 Los Angeles, California	Tuesday,	May	2,	1978
Hiring freeze may affect several departments if employees resign
By Michael Schroeder
Staff Writer
The effects of the university’s hiring freeze have not had a major effect here yet, but several departments face problems if any employees resign, said sources at the university.
Bookstore operations are already facing the pinch started by the freeze that began April 3, said Dennis Archambault, operations manager at the main campus store.
Archambault explained that
the freeze was not affecting the main store, at the present time but could cause problems if more than a couple of full-time staff members quit their jobs.
The only part of the main bookstore's operations that may be affected is summer hiring of students, Archambault said.
“Right now, if we lost one or two full-time people, we’d be able to cover by letting students already working work longer hours,” he said. “But if a big flu bug hits, we might be in trouble.”
The chief effects of the hiring freeze are occurring in the medical and dental schools, though an appeal has aided the medical school store in hiring additional cashiers, said Roger Reel, manager of the dental school store.
The freeze has left him with a bare minimum staff, and an appeal to hire additional staff was turned down. Reel said.
“I told the director (Steve Crossland, director of bookstores) that if we lost a staff member due to illness, we’d have to close down the store after noon,” he said.
Appeals for over 45 positions have been heard by an appeals committee formed to look a\ extreme cases of need within university departments, said a spokeman for John Schneider, director of personnel.
The committee heard 30 appeals from 20 departments at its initial meeting April 13. Twenty of the positions were allowed to be filled, while 10 were sent back to the departments for additional information.
Those appeals were acted upon again at the April 26 meeting of the committee, and nearly all the freezes were lifted, said a spokesman for the Office of Personnel. An additional 15 to 20 other requests were considered at the second meeting.
“Most of the requests came from the larger departments,” the source said, citing Student
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Housing officials claim complaints voiced late
By Pamela Samuels
Staff Writer
Although many students are complaining about the unfairness of the priority system used to select students for university housing, they should have been aware of it and protested earlier, said Sharon Kettler, residential assignment coordinator for the Office of Residential
Life.
Many foreign and out-of-state students who did not receive housing are upset because students who live within a 20-mile radius of the university received housing.
Teresa Tamura, a freshman in civil engineering from Seattle, Wash, is angry because she did not receive housing. “They should consider people from foreign countries and out-of-state first,” she said. “I know people who live in Torrance and Newport Beach who received housing. If worse comes to worst, I can commute, but I’m not happy about it.”
Kim Kramer, a freshman from Baltimore, Md. also complained that “people 10 to 20 miles away received housing.” She applied for an apartment because she does not like the dorms or the food. “For the money you’re paying it’s not worth it.. .1 just think the whole place is a rip-off. Now I have to cut my summer short to come back to find a place
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HELLO DOWN THERE—An aerial snapshot caught two students resting between classes. One reclines restfully against a slight tree, the other is apparently preparing — with some hesitation — to continue his daily routine as he props his books upon knees. DT photo by Paul Rodriguez.
Speculations made on LA Rams’ proposed move from Coliseum
By Robin Oto
Staff Writer
The university and UCLA are speculating the financial effects of the proposed move of the Los Angeles Rams from the Memorial Coliseum to Anaheim Stadium.
The Coliseum will lose approximately $700,000 in revenue if the Rams move, said Jim Hardy, Coliseum general manager.
Hardy said the revenue loss will not
affect the rent or ticket prices currently charged to both universities to use the Coliseum faciHties.
But the university has mixed reactions to the effects a Rams move might have.
“With one major tenant gone, there is a possibility our rent would go up. But if that should come up, and if we should become uncomfortable, we have many of the same options Carroll Rosenbloom (Rams owner) has,” said Richard Perry, university athletic director:
The Bruins will continue to use the Coliseum even if the Rams move, said J.D. Morgan, UCLA athletic director.
“I don’t like to speculate, the Rams aren’t gone yet,” Morgan said.
“But we played there before they (the Rams) came and we’ll play there
after they leave. But I would hope there would be no effect,” he said.
Morgan said UCLA’s Drake Stadium will remain a track and field area and the university has no future plans to build a new stadium.
“Obviously we’d rather play on our own campus but financially that’s not feasible in this day and age. Besides, all of Bel Air and Brentwood would be screaming about the traffic,” he said.
The Coliseum will not raise rents to cover the revenue loss if the Rams move, instead it will book new business into the Coliseum and “tighten its belt,” Hardy said.
“Our relationship with USC is in no way related to, nor has anything to do, with our relationship to the Rams. It’s the same with UCLA. We have a pleasant, ongoing relationship with both
universities,” he said.
Perry feels the Rams will leave behind fans who live in West Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley who will not commute to Anaheim. The Trojans may become an alternative football team to watch at the Coliseum.
“There’s a possibility we might pick up more ticket-buying population if the Rams move to Anaheim,” he said.
Although the Coliseum Commission has promised new elevators, better seating, parking and press facilities, Rosenbloom is said to be impatient because of the slow haggling with Coliseum management over his requested improvements, such as lowering the field and installing artificial turf.
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