Energy crisis loosens its grip: fountains, night lighting on again
By Clara Germani
In the 1930s, the Depression meant tightening belts and pinching pennies. In the 1970s, the energy crisis brought long lines for gas and a rush on sweaters to wear in reduced-temperature rooms.
And while it may not be time yet to break out in a chorus of Happy Days Are Here Again, the grip ofthe crisis on the university has loosened at last, officials say.
The stable life signs are evident in the spouting fountains and night lighting being used around campus—the first breakaway from the rigid controls established during the crisis.
In the past, the fountains have been used sporadically for special occasions, but Arnold F. Shafer, executive director of university facilities says it is actually more economical to use the fountains than allowing them to deteriorate.
“Using the fountains actually saves money,” Shafer said. “Fountains rust and corrode when they aren't in use. Thus keeping them running, if only for a few hours a day, is much cheaper than not running them. Repairs on the Crocker Plaza fountain were S800 because of its inactivity.”
Shafer said the fountains are operated from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday when the most people are on campus. “We're getting our initial
investment back through the enjoyment that students get from the fountains,” he said.
During the energy crisis, every unnecessary energy use was curbed and architectural lighting was one cutback.
However, Shafer said this type of lighting is being resumed on campus because it will curb security problems, and in the case of the Von KleinSmid Center belltower and sphere, lighting projects the symbol of the university to the downtown area and the freeway.
“The merits of this are worth the cost because it gives the university community visibility again.” Shafer said.
The amount of energy used to operate campus fountains and architectural lights is rather insig-nificiant, Shafer indicated, but during the energy crisis everyone was in the spirit of conservation and the university was trying to save money. Discontinuing some of the night lighting and turning off the fountains was an appropriate compromise.
Shafer said the university is already saving $500,000 on conservation. He said he justifies turning the fountains and lights back on for short periods of time because they provide the atmosphere intended for students.
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Volume LXVIII, No. 69	Los Angeles, California	Friday, February 6, 1976
Convicted Pepperdine chancellor to study here as part of sentence
By Diane Slezak
Staff Writer
M. Norvell Young, chancellor of Pepperdine University, will draw from personal experience when he conducts a six-month study at USC’s Safety Center on alcohol-related traffic accidents.
Young, who was sentenced to spend a year in county jail after being convicted of manslaughter in connection with the traffic deaths of two elderly women, received a stay of sentence for six months and was ordered to take a leave of absence from Pepperdine to devote his time to research and lecturing with the center.
Young was unavailable for comment. Kobert M. Canady, director of the Safety Center said, “Dr. Young will be performing a public service by participating in this program.
“He is most excited about the contribution he can make toward accident prevention.”
Canady said that Young would serve as a guest lecturer in courses offered by the center and would also talk to civic groups, schools and other public organizations.
“A major portion of his effort will be in the area of research,” Canady said. “As a result of this, he
will help develop other courses for the center.
“The intent of these efforts is to better understand both the extent and the effects of alcohol in traffic accidents. Particular groups of individuals will be studied for their personality types and the stress they suffer as it may relate to alcohol and driving. We are especially interested in the highly effective performer who gets involved in accidents,” Canady said.
Much of Young’s research will be based on a book by R.M. Rosenman and M. Friedman entitled Type-A Behavior and Your Heart. In this book, Canady said that Rosenman and Friedman describe “type-A behavior” as someone who is “hard-driving, fast-acting and works under stress. This person is often multi-phasic in his activities, that is, he often does more than one thing at a time, like writing a letter and talking on the phone. The type-B person is more docile.
“It is this type-A behavior which we hope to study in relation to alcohol and its effects on this type of person,” Canady said.
Rosenman’s and Friedman’s book does not deal with alcohol-related problems, but instead deals
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SHALL WE DANCE?—While most students were of the ballroom dance team waltzed their afternoon struggling their way through drop-and-add or figuring away. DT photo by Rick Stern, out ways to avoid the first week's homework, members
LET THERE BE LIGHT—This scene of the lighted bell tower at Von KleinSmid Center has been a rare one in recent years. Outside lights are again being Ii1 at night and the fountains are again running, signs of the loosening grip of the energy crisis on the university. DT photo by Mike Seedman.
to simplify for housing
able spaces: 186 for men and 150 for women.
Reichl said first of the three lotteries will be held on March 1 and will apply solely to the new housing facilities.Students who want to be placed in these facilities must pick up a housing application and lottery card from the Residential Assignment Office on March 1 and return the application the same day.
The lottery will be drawn on March 2 and the results will be posted at 2 p.m. that day in the Residential Assignment Office Students can come in on March
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Piof appointed 10 school boaid
Howard B. Miller, professor of law, was appointed to the Los Angeles School Board Thursday to fill the vacancy created by the death of Donald Newman.
The six remaining school board members voted 5-1 to select Miller on the second ballot.
He was chosen from 10 finalists selected from the 332 persons showing interest in the position.
Miller said he will be an advocate of greater community involvement in schools so that “everyone can feel they have an input.”
New lottery procedures
By Marcus Oviatt
Stall Writer
Plans for a lottery system aimed at simplifying housing procedures for the fall semester have been drawn up, said Hans Reichl, director of residential life.
The new system, formulated by the Residence Halls Coordinating Council and the Office for Residential Life, is composed of a series of three lotteries. It will apply to students who wish to remain in university-owned or leased housing facilities.
Reichl said he estimates that 65% of the students who are currently housed in university facilities will request to return to the facilities in the fall.
He said the new lottery system will place 50^ of these students in university housing and place the remainder on a waiting list. However. Reichl said about 15% of those who submit applications for university housing facilities actually cancel their applications by Sept. 1, so he does not anticipate a waiting list for returning students to still exist in September.
Two housing developments presently under construction will create 964 new spaces in the fall. The apartment complex being built near Jefferson Boulevard and McClintock Avenue will provide 628 new assignable spaces: 364 for men and 264 for women. The complex being built on the University Mall will create 336 new assign-