24-hour dorm visitation to be considered
BY ARNOLD BOATNER
There may be 24-hour visitation in the women’s dormitories if either of two proposals by the Residence Halls Coordinating Council are approved by the university.
At the present time, one proposal for 24-hour visitation in coed residence halls and another for the women’s residence halls are being evaluated by the Office of Residential Life, said Karen Chappell, associate director. No final decision has been made regarding either plan.
Another proposal for the spring semester is an optional board contract for women similar to one that is already available to some men. Because women will be housed in Harris Plaza next fall, and kitchen facilities will be available, this option will probably be offered to those women living there.
The council is an advisory board to the Office of Residential Life. It is composed
of 12 student members elected from the dormitories. An adviserwho ison the staff ofthe Residential Life Office also sits on the board and acts as a liaison between it and the Residential Life Office.
The adviser is not elected but is appointed by the Office of Residential Life. The council meets every Monday to plan dorm activities and also hear recommendations from students about possible proposals that it could submit to the Office of Residential Life.
Margaret Kronauer, chairman of the council said that adoption or rejection of the various proposals usually depends upon the individual issue involved and the branch of the university that will make the final decision.
Kronauer said that the office has been very helpful in working with the council regarding various proposals that the council has presented in the past.
The Office of Residential Life has also
come up with several new proposals for this semester.
One proposal is for extended food service for Thanksgiving and semester breaks. At the present time the dormitories remain open during breaks but food service is not available. The final decision will depend upon whether enough students remain in the dorms during recesses to make the proposed food service viable. That decision will be made by the Office of Residential Life in conjunction with Kenneth E. Bridges, director of food services.
Another proposal would bring about a change in university policy towards the painting of dormitory rooms. The policy would allow students to repaint their rooms using paint provided by residential life. A $75 deposit would be forfeited if room were not repainted standard dormitory colors by residents prior to termination of housing contracts.
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SLOUCHING SATIRIST—Art Buchwald took a break Tuesday while on campus to give a speech. Buchwald, a nationally syndicated columnist answered questions in an open-forum session in Bovard Auditorium. DT photo by Shuji Ito.
57 candidates vie for Student Caucus seats
students are running for three seats representing the Row Ballots will be mailed to students on Tuesday and must be returned postmarked no later than April 25. Results will be announced April 30.
The first student election was held last year when 47 students ran for the 12 seats.
The elections of three representatives from The Graduate School will be held today at 4 p.m. in the Town and Gown Foyer.
Fifty-six students and one write-in candidate are running for 12 undergraduate seats representing the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences on the Student Caucus.
Any LAS undergraduate with a 2.0 grade-point average is eligible.
The number of positions a-vailable is based on where students live. Thirty-three commuter students are running for six seats on the caucus. Sixteen students are running for three seats representing the dorms. Seven
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Volume LXVII, Number 103	Los Angeles, California Wednesday, April 9, 1975
Buchwald speaks in open forum about politics, education, humor
BY BRUCE CARR
Art Buchwald, satirist and nationally syndicated columnist, kept a crowd of about 150 amused during his speech at noon Tuesday with anecdotes about politics, education and educational TV.
The address, given in Bovard on the set of Li'l Abner, was by Buchwald’s choice an open forum session, with members of the audience offering topical questions for which Buchwald furnished humorous answers.
Buchwald. who attended the university from 1945 to 1948 before leaving for Paris with no degree, spoke about his youth and his early days at the university.
He said he had not finished high school when he left to join the Marines during World War II
When he returned from the war, he decided that the only way to survive was to have a college education.
He came to the university and "waited in line with about 4.000 ex-GIs."
He said it was about a year before the administration realized that he did not finish high school.
While attending the university. Buchwald served as managing editor of Wampus, the campus humor magazine and wrote a regular column for the Daily Trojan.
Buchwald answered questions from the audience about the humor business, his favorite comedians and political races.
On the humor of President Ford. Buchwald said, “Jerry Ford is obviously not in the Bob Hope class. Unfortunately, the things he does are usually much funnier than anything he says.”
He said he likes Mel Brooks, Woody Allen. Carol Burnett and M'A'S'H. among others. However, Buchwald said he thought if Lenny Bruce were performing today, he would still be playing in night clubs.
When asked about possible presidential candidates for 1976, Buchwald said. “If the economy gets turned around, the Republicans will have to nominate Gerald Ford—unless they dump him. If they don’t drop Ford, they’ll have to dump Rockefeller.”
Buchwald said he uses his column to speak out on issues that bother him, such as educational television. Educational TV shows are not on educational channels, but rather on the big networks, he said.
Watching television today. Buchwald said. “You can learn how to make a bomb; you can learn how to open a safe, you can learn how to attack somebody; you can learn how to tape sumebody else: and ifyou miss something, the the police will tell you their (the criminals') mistakes."
Buchwald said that he never answers his mail because it is usually from students asking, “I am doing a paper on the European economic situation. Would you please answer the following 30 questions?—I need it by Thursday.”
Watergate, above all. served to damage the credibility of politicians. Buchwald said.
"I used to make things up, about Watergate, then about three weeks later. I’d find out these things were true.
"People now will believe everything,” he said. “Instead of laughing, people will nod their heads and say, ‘yeah, that’s right.’
“It is hard to be in the humor business when your government is doing all the humor.”
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW—As the sun broke through the clouds during a break in the storm late Monday, a colorful rainbow appeared stretched across the can^>us.
DT photo by Bob Chavez.