Daily Sundial 1976-12-10

a i I y ~f!!s!!!!cy~¥!d!---------Fn-.da-y-, -Decem--ber-t-0,-1-~-6--- AS to pay $7 ,000 for space in University Student Center by Sergio Caponi "So, $3-11,000 are taken out by the Chancellor's Office before we eveu see the student money.'' said AS may have to pay more tlum $7 ,000 a year for Austin: He said the rest of the funds are U8ed occupying sj>ace in the new University Student primarily for maintenance and to pay custodians, Center scheduled to open next year, according to guards, administrators end utilities. AS Business Manager James 'l'hrower. Austin said just the utility bill that the center Thrower said both AS and the student center are will have to pay next year will average $125,000, auxiliary, non-state funded entities at this school. according to Southern California Edison. The He added that according to a bond resolution . student ienter is exoected to have a yearly budget concerning two auxiliary corporations, when one of $1 million plus, with half of that sum to be used provides services to the other, the one receiving the just to meet operational costs. service has to pay for the costs involved. In other words the AS has to reimburse the student center Austin said one of the problems the center will for the services provided there. have to face is that student fee money is a fixed income. I ts input Wm be significant, he said, but The reimbursement will be based on the number decreasingly effective because of the higher costs of square feet AS will occupy in the center. and the inflationary squeeze the center will be The money involved in the AS-center deal is subject to. student money. The $10 fee that every CSUN Austin said the entire operationof the center will student pays at the beginning of each semester is cost approximately 83 cents a month per square used to support both AS and the student center. foot of the area occupied by the building. This means that students are partially paying Off-campus outlets, such as hamburger stands for the construction and maintenance of the and shops, to occupy the student center's space student center and will also pay Uu:ough AS, for will be expected to pay a normal commercial rate of the space to be occupied by AS in the center and for 55 to 60 cents per square foot, plus some per· the various facilities such as loungesand swimming cent.age of the revenue they receive through their pools provided there. operations. Center Director Bud Austin said the total sum Auston said AS will reimburse the center, in student center fees for next year is projected as paying about 35 cents per square foot of the space $540,000. it will occupy. Thrower said AS is presently conducting a He said this sum goes directly to the Chan- research which will establish how much money AS cellor's Office to be disbursed in several ways. corporations in other CSUC campuses are paying First, $275,000 are used for debt retirement, for occupying space at the local student center. since the center borrowed $4. 7 million in bonds for The Christmas tree atop Sierra Tower will be l•d its construction to be repaid in 30 years. Thrower said such information will give AS an 011 ay lighted next week, during the evenings until Another $15,000 are taken out from the idea of whether it is getting a fair deal. He said he 1• ft around New Year's Day, according to Dick students' contribution for administrative costs. does not anticipate any problem when the 1lg fS Hostetler, electrical supervisor at Plant and finally $21,000 go into the building up of an negotiation of the student center lease will be Operations. {Photo by Suzy Leathers) emergency reserve of $500,000 to be used for repairs completed. and unexpected expenditures that may arise. The lease will be renegotiable from time to time. Groundsworlcer answers rebuke by filing grievance by Lee Whitney uniform requirement. Among them are to provide a "positive means of It said the board made a "detailed analysis of the identification," establish an "e8prit de corps" among_ the A CSUN groundsworker has filed a grievance with the problem" in response to "serious discontent among the workers and to exhibit a neat appearance to the public. A • ative Action Office, saying he has been unfairly non-clerical Plant Operation personnel on the uniform In closing its Sept. 9 memo, the representation board reprimanded by his supervisor for refusing to wear a requirement issue." The memo was obtained from the "respectfully" suggested "that if the university wishes Plant Operation identification patch on a uniform he is Office of Admissions and Records. to have the Plant Operation employes in uniform, it take forced to buy with his own money. Among the board's findings were that "none of the 16 positive steps to obtain reimbursement for the em- ~ James Allen,groundsworker,said he has been unfairly CSU campuses which replied to our inquiries require the ployes." singled out. purchase and maintainence of uniforms at the employe's In his Jan. 29 memo, BucJc said it was necessary for Allen received a written reprimand from David Buck, expense.'' _employes to purchase their own uniforms because Plant director of Plant Operation, dated Dec. 7 in which Buck Allen and Rudy Sanchez, also a groundsman, Operation lacked the funds needed to buy the uniforms told Allen he was the ''only groundsman'' who had not questioned the validity of Plant Operation regulations for its employes. complied with oral reminders to dress in proper uniform. - in light of new guidelines adopted last July by the State Dr_ Jeanette Mann, Affirmative Action coordinator, Allen said several groundsmen have come to work Industrial Welfare Commission. said that, because Allen has filed a grievance she will dressed in violation of regulations, but have never As report!ed in the Valley News and Green Sheet on discuss the matter with Buck in an attempt to resolve received written reprimands. July 29, "Employers will no longer be permitted to the issue. According to Allen, the proper uniform is khaki shirt reqtjire workers to furnish their own tools or uniforms." Should that fail, Mann could take the problem to and pants. Although.Plant Operation regulations require Sanchez said the uniforms issue is one which has Cleary. the shoulder patch and a name tag, Allen said the surfaced repeatedly in the past and it is time for a ·Allen said if he is not satisfied with the results ob- University has no right to demand that he wear them if s·olution. tained through the Affirmative Action Office, he will the university is not paying for his uniform. In a memo dated Jan. 29 from Buck to Hal Byrd, pursue several other grievance forums. A memo dated Sept. 9 from Dottie Hilliard, chair- director of judicial affairs, also obtained from the Office Allen said he would go to the National Association for person of the Staff Representation Board, was sent to of Admissions and Records, Buck said uniforms were President James Cleary dealing with the question of the required for a number of reasons. Please turn to page 20 ffirmative Action coordinator criticizes school's hiring by Boni Johnson 1975-76 school year. year are lecturers on a one-year can't find them," Mann Said. Approximately 23 blacks, 27 contract rather than tenure tract. Mann, who has been on the job CSUN's record of hiring Asian-Americans and 30 "This is very typical of a for six weeks, said she's talked to mi norities and women for Spanish-surnamed teachers nationwide pattern of approximately 12 department 1€a:ching and staff positions worked full-time last year. programming women and chairpersons in addition to ''couldn't get much worse," Although official figures have minorities into the revolving door various high level academic A. · ative Action Coordinator reportedly not been computed for so they never get into positions of deans and administrative per= Jeanette Mann said in a recent this year, Mann and staff ser· power," Mann said. sons. Sundial interview. vices technician Rick Hofman lnaddition,the hiring of women Mann said she serves as an According to Affirmative ·d that the situation has not and minorities, especially as information gatherer for the A.ction Office figures, only 191 of measurably changed. lecturers can be misleading, as it Affirmative Action Board, which Northridge's 837 full-time Mann added that for instance must be checked against the makes recommendations to Professors were women in the 19 of 20 female teachers hired this number that have been ter- President James Cleary. minated to come up with the There are several reasons for difference, Mann said. the school's poor record on According to a paper released minority and female em- Su~ial by Man11, between 1973 and ployment, said Mann. ily talces early IJrealc June, 1976, 99 blacks have been Internalized racism and sexism Today will be the last issue of the Daily Sundial for this hired for and 137 fired from full- is involved, said Mann. emester. time teaching positions and both "Almost all the department The Sundial stops publication shortly before the final exam full- and part-time staff jobs. chairmen and upper level deans period each semester and the next publication date will be for When asked why more and administrators are white the Registration Issue on Jan. 25. Regular publication will minorities and women are not in males, and they may have racist resume on Feb.

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