Daily (gp Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, Number 87	Los Angeles, California	Friday, March 7, 1975
Parking structure to be built despite complaints
BY JOHN DIDION
Staff Writer
Construction of a new parking structure will proceed as scheduled despite the fact that several campus groups have questioned the plan.
Anthony D. Lazzaro, vice-president for business affairs, said the immediate need for additional parking space will not allow’ the university to delay construction, which is scheduled to begin on July 1.
Lazzaro has met and will continue to meet with university and community groups that have questioned the structure's safety, cost effectiveness, impact on the community and potential
TALKING IT OVER—Houston I. Flournoy, recently appointed university professor, conversed near Tommy Trojan earlier this week with Zohrab A.
Kaprielian, vice-president for academic administration and research.
Flournoy, former state controller and Republican nominee for governor last year, teaches a class in state politics. DT photo by Bob Chavez.
Ban on campus dances lifted, new policy will begin Monday
RV nOROTHY REINHOLD
The ban on campus dances is over, and a new policy governing dances will go into effect Monday, said Jim Gross, assistant director of student activities.
Three months ago. a ban on dances that were open to the general public was imposed because of several disturbances last semester. A campus security officer was shot at after a public dance in the Trojan Grill in December.
Paul Moore, director of student activities, said the ban was established to provide some time to work out a solution.
“The shooting crisis spurred us on to develop a policy,” Moore said.
Moore said that before the ban there was no policy relating specifically to campus dances.
“The policy in no way reflects the behavior of campus organization-sponsored events. It reflects the circumstances at this university," he said.
“In all instances, the disturbances were outside of the actual social function, and we think they were caused by non-students. The policy is to help student groups put on successful events." Moore said.
"The only thing wrong with the dances was a security problem. We don’t want to make it more difficult for a group to put on an event." Gross said.
Moore consulted a broad range of people to form the policy, including representatives from Campus Security. Food Services, the Office of Residential Life, fraternities, sororities, the Community Center and organizations that frequently sponsor campus dances.
Moore said everyone was not totally satisfied with the new policy, but all agreed to try it before suggesting revisions.
Moore plans to submit the policy statement to the Committee on Campus Life today for its endorsement. He said the policy will go into effect on Monday.
“I think it is appropriate to submit the policy to the committee. Policies shouldn’t be unilaterally developed and enforced without student and faculty support," Moore said.
“The committee’s endorsement will give the policy a legitimacy that will be useful to me as well as to the students. For instance, at a later date a student can go to someone else with a problem about the policy. They don’t have to rely on a given office,” Moore said.
The policy states the guidelines that must be met before a public dance will be allowed on campus.
Several of the new guidelines are:
•All dances must be registered at the Student activities Center on Event Calendar Confirmation Forms two weeks prior to the planned dance.
•If liquor or any alcoholic beverage is to be served, a request form must be filed with Robert L. Mannes, dean for student life. Alcohol may be served only if it is offered free of charge, and no admission is charged to attend the dance.
•All funds collected at a dance must be deposited at the Student Activities Center by 10:45 p.m. or with Campus Security after that time, for safe keeping. Funds may be deposited with the designated head resident for dances in residence halls.
A complete listing of the new guidelines is available in the Student Activities Center.
“I think this is a workable policy. I’m never happy to introduce more rules and regulations, but I think this can help solve our problems,’’ Moore said.
“Any students who have input or suggestions to improve the policy should let me know,” Moore said.
Although the policy will go into effect Monday, it can be revised according to student suggestions, he added.
multiple use.
“We are still very definitely in the planning stages,” Lazzaro said. "We’re trying to define all of the alternatives we have.
“In doing that, full consideration will be given to all of the concerns that have been expressed. We will then come up with a plan that will reflect all of the input to date.”
The parking structure plan was questioned last week by the Commission on Campus and Community Environment, a subgroup of the President’s Advisory Council’s Committee on University and Community Life. Half of the commission's members are community representatives.
The commission passed a resolution asking that Lazzaro meet with them and members of the Environmental Subgroup of the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning.
“The commission feels that the parking structure could create another link in the barrier between the university and the community,” said Steven M. Ward, chairman of the commission.
The commission was concerned that a seven-story parking structure on the west side of the campus would appear to be a wall separating the university from the community.
“A facility like that has little activity in it,” Ward said. “You park your car and go out. We would like facilities on the perimeter of campus to be active facilities.”
Lazarro said that the structure will be located on the inside edge of Parking Lot S, next to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Institute of Religion. It is planned that an academic building will eventually be built between Vermont Street and the structure, shielding it from the community’s view.
Lazzaro emphasized the need for new parking facilities that will accomodate at least 1,700 cars. The need is due to the planned construction of two buildings on existing parking lots.
A conference center will be built on a section of Parking Lot
B,	at the corner of Figueroa Street and Jefferson Boulevard. The Henry Salvitori Computer Sciences Center will be con-
structed on a section of Parking Lot P. near Heritage Hall.
The city is planning to widen Jefferson Boulevard before fall. The project will eliminate parking spaces from the three university lots adjacent to that street.
Although the original plan called for a single seven-story structure, it was suggested that two four-story structures be built instead.
Lazzaro said this idea is seriously being considered but that questions of cost and land availability must first be answered.
“Any structure of that size, in such close proximity to the community, presents the possibility of impacting the community with an inordinate traffic flow," said Thomas Kilgore. Jr.. President John R. Hubbard’s advisor for special community affairs.
“Facing the reality that with increasing enrollment we have to have some place for the students to park their cars. I would like to see not one large monolithic structure but two smaller structures,” Kilgore said.
An increase in the parking fee will defray the cost of the structure. The Resource, Management and PlanningCommittee is currently considering several proposals for a fee increase
Lazzaro said that existing plans for the structure would allow the top level to be used for recreational purposes when vacant. However, if one level were totally recreational, the proposed size of the structure would have to be increased to accomodate the need for parking space, he said.
The proposed structure would also house the Office of Campus Security. This is due to their need for better office facilities and the concern that there should be adequate security in the structure.
If construction is to begin in July, all the details must be finalized within 30 days. Construction bids will be taken on March 25 and completion is scheduled for September. 1976.
PROTEST OVER TENURE DECISIONS
IR students plan to go to Hubbard
BY SHERIE STARK
About 80 international relations students decided at a meeting Thursday to approach President John R. Hubbard about the tenure decisions concerning John Glaser and Michael Fleet, assistant professors of international relations.
Glaser was not recommended for tenure by the department’s tenure eomrnit-eral weeks ago. Fleet, who is an assistant professor of political science, was accepted by the Department of International Relations, but denied tenure by the Department of Political Science.
He is currently being reevaluated by the International Relations Tenure Committee, which consists of associate and full professors.
Glaser was not recommended for tenure by the department’s tenure commit-
tee because his publications were not judged to be sufficient to fill the research requirement, said Ross M. Berkes, director of the Department of International Relations and a member of the faculty :ommittee.
Fleet was denied tenure in the Political Science Department for basically the same reason.
The question of tenure generally comes up after a professor has been with the university for five years. If a professor is granted tenure, he is assured a position with the university until retirement, short of gross misconduct.
If he is not granted tenure, he is dismissed from the university after a one-year grace period.
Last Friday approximately ten international relations students went to speak
with Donald Lewis, the head ofthe Social Sciences Committee of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—the next level of tenure consideration after the department faculty committee.
"The meeting with Lewis was a little frustrating,” said Debbie Altman, a graduate in international relations and primary figure in the student movement.
‘He was nice enough, and he listened to our points, but I don’t get the feeling he was all that interested in our concerns.” Lewis, dean of the social science and communication division of the College of Letters, arts, and Sciences, is not a voting member ofthe Social Sciences Committee, but will relay the students’ position to the committee.
“I think that I listened to the students at Friday’s meeting and was aware of their
concerns,” said Lewis.
"The thing I tried to impress upon the students is that, although Glaser is a fine voung man. he does not meet half of the conditions of his role as a teacher— namely, the research requirement.
“However,” Lewis said. “I do think the students are appropriate in their appeal. The decision very much involves them, and they have every right to question the decision."
At yesterday's meeting, the students decided to approach Hubbard with their concerns before concentrating on the university level, the next level of tenure consideration after the Social Sciences Committee. It is headed by Paul Hadley, associate vice-president of academic administration and research.
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