Daily §p Trojan
Volume LXVII, Number 82
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Friday, February 28, 1975
Action on housing plans is postponed
BY JOHN DIDION
Staff Writer
Action to assign 100 single women to apartments in the Married Students Housing complex has been postponed.
A lottery to determine which of the single women would be assigned to housing with kitchen facilities has also been postponed.
This action came about as a result of a meeting Thursday between married students and four administrators: Hans Reichl. director of residential life; James R. Appleton, vice-president for student affairs: Guy D. Hubbard, director of auxiliary services, and Anthony D. Lazzaro, vice-president for business affairs.
A petition containing the signatures of 350 women and requesting the allocation of 50 spaces in Harris Plaza for women was presented to Reichl at a later meeting.
KUSC chief sees financial improvement
BY DOROTHY REINHOLD
Last semester KUSC was having severe financial problems that could have jeopardized its continuance under the guidance ofthe university, but the prob lems are beginningto be solved, said Wallace A. Smith, general manager of KUSC.
Last October. Grant Beglarian. dean ol the School of Performing Arts, who was then in charge ofthe station, told the Faculty Senate that KUSC's equipment and facilities were badly in need of replacement and repair. He also said there was tremendous pressure to bring the station’s facilities up to the Federal Communications Commission standards in order to renew KUSC's license.
KUSC is a noncommercial radio station and. therefore, all its operating money must come from the university and outside donors.
‘The university made a commitment for new studio space, studio equipment, a transmitter facility and equipment and a substantial increase in the operating budget,” Smith said.
“They realize that wnat we can contribute to this university in terms of alumni and community support is substantial.”
Smith said the university once considered transferring the broadcasting license to KCET, which was prepared to invest a lot of money in KUSC to upgrade the facilities. The call letters of the station would have remained KUSC.
However. Smith said he thought the university's decision to retain the license was wise.
‘‘The university recognized that broadcasting channels are scarce resources.” he said.
Richard W. Lewis, director of academic relations, the department that now has administrative responsibility for the station. said the university successfully renegotiated the license in January for another three years.
Smith said that although the station is “operating marginally in certain technical areas, there is no immediate threat to our license ”
Smith said a plan to move the station’s studios to the basement ofthe University Hilton on Figueroa Street when it opens was considered, but the move would not have represented an increase in space, so the plan was abandoned
Smith also said KUSC’s antenna would be moved from the Allan Hancock Foundation to a higher location.
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The petition also called for 100 spaces in the married complex to be divided between unmarried men and women.
Since the decision on whether to utilize 100 spaces in the married complex for single women had already been postponed. no action was taken on the petition.
The petition was presented by the authors ofthe Harris Plaza proposal. Wendy Donine. an education major, and Fran Berkowitz. a marketing major.
The rationale be'iind the petition is Title IX of the Education Act of 1972. which forbids discrimination in student housing.
Undergraduate women living in residence halls are required to pay for a meal contract with their rooms. Harris Plaza has kitchen facilities, and if it were made coed, women would then have the option to take board or not.
The male residents of Harris Plaza currently have this option. The option is also available to men in Touton Hall and Men’s Residence West. Currently, no women in residence halls have the option.
Concern has been expressed by the students circulating the petition that housing in the married students complex would not provide them with a true residence-hall atmosphere.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES—Both the tree and the building are symbolic of the general campus atmosphere. The tree, already in bloom, is a reflection ofthe spring-like weather. Waite Phillips Hall, one of the tallest buildings, typifies the general growth of the campus facilities. DT photo by Mike Runzler.
Washington D.C. Semester program called successful
The Washington D C. Semester, which offers an overview of basic government processes to students from various backgrounds. has developed into a successful program for the School of Public Administration after one semester, said June Muranaka. program coordinator.
Eighteen students have completed the program. They lived in Washington D.C. while serving terms of internship in the offices of congressmen and senators.
Although many participants worked more with staff members than congressmen or senators, some were invited back for future work, Muranaka said
“A lot of places want our students again because they did so well,” she said.
Besides the experiences students gained from their internships at the capital, recreational activities were a large attraction.
“There are so many things going on
there. Some students really took advantage of them.” Muranaka said. “A lot of them took cars.”
Many participants visited Boston. Maryland and the Smithsonian Institution during the semester.
Presently, 25 students from the university—13 men and 12 women—are in Washington D.C.
Participants are selected by faculty and staff members. The semester coordinators set qualifications for interns.
Muranaka said she looks for a combination of independence and maturity in the student when she is conducting interviews.
The coordinators help the new interns once they arrive in Washington. One handles academic, advisory and subject matter. The other places the intern, manages housing and counsels the students on general planning.
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Objections have been made to living near small children and the lacK ot security in the married students complex.
However, the future of Harris Plaza —which until recently was used to house unmarried women over 21—depends upon the decisions on the use of the 100 spaces in the married students complex.
“We don’t want to go over there (married housing) and they don't want us.” said Bob Chapman, president of Harris Plaza.
The recommendation to use the 100 married housing units for single undergraduate women was made by the Residence Halls Coordinating Council, a group of residence hall presidents, secretary-treasurers and food-and-housing representatives.
A meeting is scheduled for this morning at which Reichl. Appleton. Hubbard and Lazzaro will discuss the future use ofthe 100 spaces in the married complex.
KSCR awaits approval from administration
BY PETER BOYER
Staff Writer
KSCR. the proposed student radio station. has cleared a series of legal and financial hurdles. Only administration delay in approving the station stands in the way of its first broadcast.
In order to begin broadcasting, the station needs university approval to advertise and go on the air Bob Moore, a telecommunications senior and general manager of the station, said university permission is usually a matter of rubber-stamp approval.
But in the case of KSCR. Moore said the administration has been reluctant to cooperate, and he said he doesn't know why.
“All we re waiting for is for them to say. ‘Go ahead and do it'.” Moore said. 'Hooking up the lines would only take a couple of days.”
If the station broadcasts, it will do so on a current carrier, a line which would transmit the station’s signal to various points on campus, including the dorms and houses on the Row
Moore said the station had to resort to this system, which uses telephone lines, because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prohibited the use of KUSC’s frequency.
Although the station's audience would be limited. Moore said he anticipates no troubles in selling advertising time
The students running the station don't want to rely on the university for financial assistance and are seeking outside sources to finance the station in its early stages.
Moore said he and two other students, whom he declined to name, have taken out a $1,500 loan to help get the station started. “We're not asking the university for any money now, and we never have,” Moore said. “That's why I can't understand the delay.”
Moore said he is also seeking the university's permission to build a studio in the Commons Lobby.
“1 can understand a little reluctance to approve that," he said. “But we don’t need that approval to broadcast. They can give broadcast and advertising approval to us right now. and we can broadcast out of
Studio C.”
Studio C is a telecommunications classroom in the Allan Hancock Foundation, tion.
Moore blamed the delay in the approval on the administration's fear that the project will fail, saying. “Nobody wants to
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