Daily f§ Troian
Volume LXVII, Number 100
University of Southern California
_Los Angeles, California
Friday, April 4, 1975
Room, board costs will go up in two complexes
NOON CONCERT—Robin Reid, a folk singer, performed in a noon concert at the Student Activities Center patio Thursday. Students listened to Reid's music under sunny skies. DT photo by Shuji Ito.
BY NANCY BABKA
A $130-per-year across-the-board increase in the fee for the Men’s and Women's Complexes has been announced for next year. The increase, which reflects approximately a 9.4% inflationary hike, will raise the price of a room from $1,410 to $1,540 per year.
Guy D. Hubbard, director of auxiliary services, explained that students living in both the Men's and Women’s Complexes (with the exception of Birnkrant Hall) are now paying $510 for their rooms and $880forthe residence hall meal plan plus a $20 programming fee each year.
Next year, he said, the room fee will be increased to $535 and board will be raised to $985. The programming fee will not be raised.
Hubbard said that these rates do not apply to the residence halls outside of either complex, such as Men’s Residence West or the Married Student Housing.
He said that the increase of rates in buildings such as those will be anywhere from 4.9% to 11.9%, depending on whether the students purchase the meal plan.
Hubbard said the cost increase was originally going to be 15%, but the student and administrative representatives met recently and agreed to eliminate certain room cleaning services, thus reducing the increased cost.
Hubbard said the individual maid services provided in students’ rooms would be discontinued, but that cleaning in public areas—kitchens, bath-
rooms, recreation rooms, and lounges—would continue next year.
Hubbard attributed the increased rates to the cost increases in utilities, wages and food and to the lack of food and energy conservation on the part of students.
Hubbard said wages have increased 12%, food costs have increased 13% and utilities have increased 30%.
He estimated that the cost of electricity alone would increase about 80% next year, plus about a 6% increase for water and a 14% increase for gas.
Hubbard said that maintenance and repairs will increase about 13%, contracted services—pest control, equipment repair—will increase 15% by next year.
Hubbard said the number of meals served in the dining halls has also increased by about 2%, which means that less people on the meal plan are skipping meals.
He said if every person ate every meal that they were entitled to on the meal plan, then students would have to pay about $6 a day for food instead of the current $4-a-day fee.
Kenneth E. Bridges, director of food services, and Hubbard said the university would encourage both food and energy conservation next year to offset the cost increases.
Hubbard said a 90-day study was conducted on the amount of wasted butter, coke, and milk, and predicted that about $65,000 per year was wasted
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Parking: new structures to ease daily crunch
BY JOHN DIDION
StafT Writer
Each weekday between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. thousands of students. faculty and staff members enter the campus and begin to search for parking spaces.
A parking space, particularly one close to the center of campus, is probably one of the most sought-after commodities at the university.
This semester there are approximately 9,400 cars in the Los Angeles basin with USC parking permits on their bumpers. However, the administration estimates that the university’s parking lots and streets can only accommodate 7,000 cars.
The answer to the parking problem in recent years has been multilevel parking structures. However, the cost of a
structure is three and one-half times greater per parking space than that of a conventional lot.
Due to the cost of structures, the Board of Trustees has been asked to approve an increase in the current $5-per-month parking fee in order to pay for two four-level facilities.
Construction of the new' facilities is scheduled for July 1. An increase in the fee, if approved, would take effect July 1, 1976, as the structure nears completion.
The proposed increase in the fee will raise the $5-per-month permit to $7.50 for students, $8.50 for faculty and staff and $18 for reserved parking. A $6.50 economy rate for spaces on the perimeter of campus has also been proposed.
The parking fee was instituted in 1957 at the current rate of $5 per month, and the price has since remained the same.
“In a sense, parking at USC has been a luxury,” said Anthony D. Lazzaro, vice-president for business affairs.
“We have been able to keep the rate at $5 because our needs have been satisfied with surface parking facilities as opposed to parking structures.”
However, since the university has run out of available land for construction, it has had to utilize its parking lots for this purpose.
In the next few months, construction will begin on several new facilities, necessitating the construction of two parking structures. One structure will be in Parking Lot 33. The site of the other has not been determined.
A conference center located in Parking Lot B will remove 142 parking spaces. The Salvatori Computer Science Center in Parking Lot P will take 103 spaces.
The Schoenberg Institute in Parking Lot I will remove 35 spaces, and the creation of a pedestrian mall on Childs Way between Vermont and Hoover will remove 270 spaces.
The city is planning to widen Jefferson Boulevard, which will remove 171 spaces between Vermont Avenue and Figueroa Street.
The proposed structures will accommodate at least 1,800 cars and will cost $5.8 million to build. The existing parking structure, near the Women’s Complex, was built in 1972 and cost $2.2 million.
The increase in the parking fee will be used to pay for the proposed structure over a 10-year period.
“Based on the plans for building that we have now, we will not need another structure for 10 years," Lazzaro said. “I think that in 10 years, after the proposed structure is paid for, we may need another structure.” Since the parking fee was instituted, all revenue from the sale of parking permits has been used only to pay the salaries of the personnel in parking operations and maintain existing parking facilities.
This fiscal year, $787,000 has been collected from the sale of parking permits. From the funds collected, $220,000 is budgeted for salaries and $70,000 for
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Buildings will provide a new look
Editors Note: This is the last article of a three-part series on the older buildings on campus. Today’s story takes a look at the Performing Arts Complex and Touton Hall.
BY MIKE MEYER
Senior Staff Writer
When the final provisions of the 1961 Master Plan are implemented, the university will have a completely different look.
The various old houses and barracks that still linger on since the days of World War II will be gone. Most will be demolished. and the barren land that remains will eventually become the site of malls, recreation areas and modern, permanent buildings.
These will be buildings that will serve the university community in a way that the temporary ones have not—they will be attractive, as well as functional, comfortable and convenient.
There will be enough restrooms in each.
There will be hot water when needed. And plaster, paint, and ventilation shafts will not fall from the ceilings.
But until all ofthe temporary buildings are demolished—perhaps by the mid 1980s—the people who live and work in them will have to tolerate the problems.
A major step in the progress toward the Master Plan's fulfillment is taking place right now. The construction of the Performing Arts Complex, scheduled for completion in early 1976. will put a tremendous dent in the number of existing old buildings.
Alumni House, Widney Hall, the Audiovisual Building, the Xerox Center, Stop Gap Theatre and the Cinema Building will all be affected.
Some will be demolished immediately following the completion of the Performing Arts Complex; others will not.
But there is no doubt the structure of the university will change completely as the processes of construction, destruction
and department relocation reach their climax.
Anthony D. Lazzaro, vice-president for business affairs, said, “When the whole cinema complex gets cleaned up, the entire campus will open up. When we clear off these temporary buildings, the university in general will truly take shape."
The Division of Cinema will be moved out of its present quarters—originally a horse stable—and into the Jack Warner Cinema Building, which will be part ofthe Performing Arts Complex.
The building now in use will be demolished, but some of the old 34th Street houses that are part of the Cinema Complex may remain for as long as three years after the Performing Arts Complex is finished.
The houses where the Xerox Center, Instructional Media Services and faculty offices are located may have to retain their present use until an additional wing can be built on the Warner building.
Eventually the land will be cleared, and some type of recreation facility may be built where the old houses now stand, Lazzaro said.
Lazzaro said he envisions a permanent mall connecting Von KleinSmid Center with the soon-to-be-built Conference Center, which will be constructed on Parking Lot B at Jefferson Boulevard and Figueroa Street.
Lazzaro said he had hoped the Stop Gap Theatre could be torn down when a drama theater was built in the Performing Arts Complex, but now. he said, it will probably remain.
"It has been an interesting building in terms of how it serves the School of Performing Arts. It looked for a while that its use would be discontinued, but still, from what I understand, certain types of productions are just great for that kind of atmosphere,” Lazzaro said.
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