The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 55, Issue 2 - September 12, 1977

VoL 55, No. 2 Loyola Marymount University September 12, 1977 Election Committee announces preliminary Budget Ballot totals by Jim Fiedler Preliminary results from the second annual Budgeting Ballot were announced last Tuesday, September 6, by John Wolnisty, chairman of the Election Commit¬ tee. The results were tabulated more than Eve weeks sooner than last year’s totals due to “more efficient programming, “ Wolnisty said,- Planning for this year’s Budget Ballot tabulation began last May when ASLM Director Mark Brodka appointed Wolnisty chairman of the Election Committee. Wolnisty immediately began writing a com¬ puter program which was fully operational by summer * By Friday of Registration Week, all the 3,120 ballots had been keypunched onto IBM computer cards. After keypunching “it took four minutes for the computer to sort and calculate the results,’’ Wolnisty explained. “The hard work by the Election Committee members and those who helped keypunch in the ballots considerably speeded up the pro¬ cess,’’ he commented. The preliminary figres are sub¬ ject to a 15 per cent change because “student ID’s must be checked against those who have paid the ASLM fee,’’ he added. Ballots from students who regis¬ tered late will also be included in the final tabulations. The Reserve Fund, SAB Major Concerts, Movies, Formal Dances, The Black Students’ Freedom Alli¬ ance and the Biology Society collected the most money of the 85 ballot areas. Students were able to allocate $18 of their $20 tax, in whole dollar amounts, to three general areas: ASLM Services, Student Activities Board and University clubs and organizations. A total of 245 students chose to allocate their money to the Reserve Fund. The Fund total also includes money from ballots improperly filled out and from those with funds remaining when students allocated less than $18. The combined Re¬ serve Fund total was $4,228. ASLM Services received a total of $5,991 ($260 less than last year), broken down as follows: Commuter Lounge, $1 ,056; Mutual Ticket agency, $966; Direct Route Rental, $931; and Van/ Shuttle Service, $555. Refrigerator Rental was allotted $458; Duplicating Service, $401; Special Projects, $398; Typewriter Rental, $381; Recycling Program, $334; Travel Service, $288; Campus Flyer Service, $123; and Locker Rental, $100. The SAB received a total of $17,136 ($3,000 more than last year) distributed as follows: Major Concerts, $4,417; Movies, $4,172; Formal Dances, $1,924; Mayfaire, $1 ,51 4; Coffeehouse Entertainment, $1,369; Sports Events, $1,297; Afternoon Concerts, $1,162; Speak¬ ers, $779; and Special and Cultural Events, $503. More students, a total of 1,122, gave money to SAB Movies than any other ballot item. Clubs and organizations received the largest chunk of students’ money allocated to any one general area, a total of $26,365 ($6,000 more than last year). - 4 The BSFA received the largest amount of money, a total of $2,466, with 239 people giving an average of $10.32. This was the highest average allotment per student on any ballot item. The Biology Society followed with $1,859 being allocated by 404 students. More students supported the Biology Society than any other club. In descending order, the alloca¬ tions of the remaining clubs are: MEChA $1,408 (220 students gave to this area); Right to Life, $1227 (Continued on Page 2) Multi-purpose gym plan underway by Michelle Vranizan Final blueprints are now being drawn for a multi-purpose athletic facility to be built adjacent to the existing gymnasium, according to Richard Baker, assistant dean for Athletics and Services. The new athletic facility will be constructed just to the south of the old gym . The two buildings will be connected by a common lobby. The new center will contain a gym with a seating capacity of approximately 4,000. Three intra¬ mural volleyball or basketball games could be played on the main floor simultaneously. The new' facility will also have a balcony level, and when the bleachers are pushed back, this area could be used for additional play, or as weight rooms or athletic and dance classes. The original plans for the multi¬ purpose pavilion included 90,000 square feet of floor space. That figure has now been cut to 58,000 square feet because of rising building costs. According to Baker, much of the eliminated space would have included lockers, a subterrnaean level of offices and three indoor handball courts. Baker said that other activities, such as Fine Arts activities or concerts, could also take place in the new pavilion. The new athletic center will be built on land now used for intra¬ mural football and softball games. According to Baker, there will still be enough room on the other fields for up to three intramural games at a time. “You have to give up something in order to gain some¬ thing else,’’ he theorized. The existing gymnasium would be renovated to contain more locker space. Lockers would be built in the present office areas. The second floor would be extended over the existing lobby to house the athletic offices. An additional parking structure accompanying the pavilion had been considered, but those plans have been abandoned. The con¬ sensus of Kahn, Карре, Lotery and Boccato, architects for the project, and the University, was that the South parking lot would provide adequate parking for any sporting event or other activities. Inside Culture . . ... . . | . . . . . . . I . . . . Page 8 Summer is the height of California’a 365- day tourist season each year, and Features Editor Lillian Suffolk takes a humorous look at a family you might have seen looking vainly for orange, trees and movie stars to take snapshots of. Entertainment . 1 . . . ... .... . Page 10 Cary Darling interviews three avant-garde filmmakers who, with their production company “Focal Point,’’ are making a name for themselves with their socio-political documentaries. Some new parking will be built adjacent to the new center, how¬ ever. For many months, deciding the exact location of the new facility and cost analyses kept progress at a standstill. In June, the architect¬ ural firm was hired to start design¬ ing a floor plan of the pavilion. Before they could begin, however, an exact location had to be settled. Now that the location problem has been solved, work can begin on construction of three new tennis courts that had been planned last year. The courts could possibly be ready for this coming Spring. The University is now collecting $50,000 that had been pledged for the new courts. According to Baker, the start of construction1 for the new athletic facility “is directly related to money. Heavy funding for the building should be starting soon. ’ ’ Baker felt that the earliest possible date for groundbreaking would be 1980. “I’ve heard promises before, but this time I’m quite confident. The building site and cost ceiling of $4.2 million are settled. The plans satisfy our needs without giving up floor space,’’ he said. Kenneth Daponte , vice president for University Relations, is in charge of fund raising for the new athletic, pavilion. “We couldn’t move ahead until the siting of the building was settled. Now they’re going ahead with a construction model for fund raising purposes . A committee co-chaired by Donald Klosterman (Vice President and General Manager of the Los Ange- iles Rams and a Loyola alumnus) will be activated shortly to seek funds,’’ he reported. LEGALLY BLIND, LMU student Chris Wolfe depends on peripheral vision and sound to maneuver his bicycle around campus. Wolfe is waging a campaign against what he feels are inadequate facilities for the handicapped at the University. (Loyolan photo by Nels Israeison) Chris Wolfe leading the handicap crusade by Lynne Ingram A few years ago, there was a student who had an English class on the third floor of St. Robert’s Hall. He was in a wheelchair and every other day some of his friends carried him up and down the three flights of stairs. This is the type of problem that Chris Wolfe is fight¬ ing here at LMU right now. The unusual thing about Wolfe is that he can’t even see who he’s fighting. Wolfe is one of about 20 here on campus who are blind or otherwise legally handicapped . Wolfe has been a student here for two years and . came from a junior college where he carried 21 units with a GPA of 3.9. After transferring to LMU, he carried 15 units and his GPA dropped to 3.3. He experienced difficulty finding a place to live and now must work at two part-time jobs to support himself! “The paperwork concerning my classes is overwhelming. I also have state forms to fill out and all kinds of financial forms to keep track of,’’ Wolfe said. Wolfe has also run into some problems when it comes to getting around campus. He has fallen down the stairs leading to the Sunken Gardens and down the Chapel steps because no hand rails are provided. He has fallen into the pond in front of Foley more than once because no railings surround it. “There would be wheelchairs in the pond too, if they ever got out of control,’’ Wolfe said. There are other inconveniences on campus, such as no bathrooms for the disabled in any of the apartments or dorms . Even in the buildings on campus that contain elevators, the buttons are too high for a person in a wheelchair to reach, Wolfe claimed. Wolfe also complained that the handicapped have no priorities when it comes to registration. During fall registration, one person with a spinal disorder was forced to stand for three hours in line. As a result, she was ill for two days. When she returned to straighten things out about her schedule, she was forced to park in the South lot and walk all the way to St. Robert’s. This student was lucky when it came to registering, however. Since there are no wheelchair ramps into St. Robert’s, most handicapped students are unable to register at all. Wolfe has done multiple reports on how conditions might be im¬ proved here at LMU and has submitted them to the University throughout his two years here as a student. He has done all his own work on the studies and spent the entire summer of 1976 correlating a 54-page paper containing his pro¬ posals. Wolfe and many of the other handicapped students are trying to establish an Enabler program here at LMU. An Enabler program would provide services like taping textbooks for the blind, helping find housing, and providing driving services. It would also help handi¬ capped students to be paired with students in the same course of study to take notes for them. The program would also provide certain architectural advantages like providing ramps to all the buildings and making them acces¬ sible to handicapped students. According to Wolfe the only build¬ ing on campus that currently meets this requirement is the new library. The library was built to the new University and state standards which are now being put into effect. The Enabler program has been in effect at Los Angeles City College since 1957 and at many other (Continued on Page 2)