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Dorm Opening Delayed Lond Tagged asXollege-Orient^' Five Areas Financing Designated VALLEY STATE COLLEGE Holds Up in Restudy Work Start By Chris Thomas By Mor/ Sue Westland Tbe City Planning Commission DAILY The doors to off- cUmaxed a year of deUberattcm campus dormitories and debate on tbe Northridge Land Use Restudy Thursday by for 972 students will designating five secUons of land not open until after the near the campus "for coUege- beginning of the fall orlented use." semester, according City Planning Director Calvin SUNDIAL to Ron White, presi Hamilton told the DaUy Sundlal the city zoning administrator Is dent of Student Resi now authorized to give first pri dence , Inc., in an ex ority to developers planning col clusive report to the lege-related buildings for this Daily Sundial Thurs land. day. The first property to be named It is impossible for us to make "college-oriented" at the Van tbe fall semester deadline,* be Nuys Legion Hall hearing was said. a strip bounded by Zelzah Ave., constmction of tbe co-edu Lassen and Plummer Streets. cational dormitories, which has The westem demarcaUon line not started, can be completed falls two lots west of White Oak possibly by Oct. 1 but more Ave. lUcely by Nov. 1, White said. Sharing this title wlU be a Both Campus BuUdlng Co narrower section of land located ordinator Richard PurceU and east of Zelzah between Plum Housing Coordinator Donald Bush mer and Prairie Streets. agreed that the $3.5 miUion com The Commission also desig plex cannot be completed untU nated "for coUege-orlenteduse" the middle of the fall semester. the future locaUon of a $15 mU- The date for groundbreaking, Uon off-campus housing complex. originally set for Feb. 15, wUl The College Site Development be announced Wednesday, White Co. was condlUonaUy granted said. Tbe delay was necessi permission March 3 to build tated so tbat financing could be on this 27-acre parcel between made final, be explained. Lindley Ave,, the flood control Tbe developers had previous channel and Zelzah Ave, ly assured coUege officials tbat Dr. Melville Branch, commis tbe dormitories would be ready sion president, commented, "To by the fall semester. day's vote, in effect, agrees with White admitted that because of this action." the delay in opening «we probably The easterly two-thirds of the won't f IU it (the housing complex) block bounded by Lindley, Hal- up." He theorized that commut stead, Superior, and EUwanda ing students who ml^t have plan Streets wiU also be set aside ned to move Into tbe dormitories for college-related uses. The next faU could carry out their northwest comer of the area was plans wit h UtUe adjustment. He not Included because local re said he hoped that other stiKlents sidents requested tbat the Com could arrange temporary living mission create a buffer zone be quarters. tween college - use land and their NEW BATGIRL—Valley state batsmen wUI cbooee major; Suale Slayback, frealunan physical ed- The yearly fee for room and homes. one of tour co-eds as 1966 "Miss Batador" ucatUn nuijor; Candy ColdweU, sophomore bus- board. Including 20 meals a week, The Devonshire Downs area in their annual contest to select a team mas- Ineas major and Diana Salzmann, freshman drama had orlglnaUy been estimated at north of Romar St. and west of cot. Those entered In Uie event are: (left to major. (DaUy Sundlal Pboto by Paul Levy) $1,090. White said the fee would Zelzah Ave. was the last pro right) Carol Priebe, freshman home economics be reduced according to the num perty approved by the Commis ber of days remaining in the aca sion for "college-related use." demic year when the housing The majority of tbe commission opens. ers expressed hope this secUon I Allen to Speak at Forum The coUege has received 75 would be developed as pubUc 26tb Congressional seat recenUy inquiries about the faculties ac land or given to Valley State Controversial personality cording to Bush, who said he wUl completely. Steve Allen wUl speak on *current faceted by James Roosevelt. His candidacy hinged on the answer letters explaining'the de- City Planner Hamilton explaln- affairs, from the gubernatorial lay. Several applicants for po campaign to Vietnam" at 1 p.m. date of tbe special election in tbe (ConUnued on Page 2} 26tb District, since be was re sitions as resident assistants wUl Monday, according to NeU also be notified, he said. snyder, S(Vhomore class presl' quired to be a registered mem FORUM DUE dent. ber of the Democratic Party for Bush explained that he never AUen wUl lead ott Uie fifat a certain length of time and an (Continued on Page 2) ON VIETNAM formal use of VaUey state's new early election meant tbat be could open-air forum west of tbe book not legally run. A delayed elec WEATHER students for a Democratic So store and south of the cafeteria. tion date would have aUowed him ciety (SDS) wUl bold an open forum The event is under the joint to be a candidate and as thepoUs SAN FERNANDO VALLEY- on Vietnam and tbe draft at noon sponsorship of the Sophomore and Indicated, an almost-certain vic The Weather Bureau forecasts today in the area west ofthe book Freshmen classes. tor. mosUy sunny weather today with store and south of the cafeteria. Snyder said that there is a Because It was a special elec variable high cloudiness. The The open-air forum wUl be tbe tion, it was tbe prerogative of expected low temperature is 38- first of its kind on the VaUey posslbUlty Allen may also speak on his thwarted attempt to be Gov. Pat Brown to set tbe date, 46 degrees and the high 77-82, State campus. but the date was set for a time come a candidate for Congress The Campus Weather Station re All students and faculty mem that shut him out. AUen's en corded a low Thursday o f 51 and his future plans in that area. bers wUl be given an opportunity suing plea to move the date for degrees and a high of 77. The to express their views on tbe Allen was unable toqualUyasa STEVE ALLEN ward was turned down in the wind velocity recorded at 5 p.m. topics. candidate In the election for the courts. was 19 m.p.h. ^^•^-..rTiJbi^, ..Mm^mi0e'*mm Page 2 VaUey State DaUy Sundlal Mar, 18. 1966 -NOTES IN BRAILE- WORLD »WIRE: Blind Youth Seeks B.A •By Ron Hale- •A blind person needs assts- Asked bow be solved tbe in-o- less tban one would suspect. San tanoe—and it is this assistance blems of being blind and going to ders depends upon a teacher or coUege, Sanders said it was mer :i^mw^^^mii(iiiiif!m!mii'imMm^m^smitba t he's looking for, not pity.' feUow stodent to read his mate These are tbe words ot Ralph ely a matter of accommodation— rial and to discuss any material Sanders, a blind, freshman jour a long process of gttong used to tbat may have been written on Uie nalism major at VaUey. State. every thing and every place. By board.. As far as maps are con SubmarineFinds Lost Bomb Sanders came here last semester learning tbe layout of tbe cam cerned, be makes use of reUef after completing secondary pus, tbe general locatfon of buUd maps, whlcb respond to touch as PALOMARES BEACH, Spain (AP).The U. S. midget sub schooling at tbe Arkansas School ings and specific landmarks, he is weU as Bight. marine Alvln bas fbund the long and anxiously sought hydrogen for Uie Blind. able to get around campus on bis bomb that was lost two months ago in an American bomber-tanker Sanders attributed this feeling own. He does his notetaking In plane crash over Spain, otUctal sources said Thursday. of pity to tbe wrong Idea that most •As Ume goes on and I walk bralUe with a sUte, a smaU They reported it was spotted with its parachute stiU attached people have about blind people. with more and more people, I plasUc object resembling a sUde 2,500 feet under tbe surface of the Mediterranean Sea, five mUes He says a blind person wants am able to learn new routes and rule, whlcb makes IndmtaUons on offshore. friendship, help and, most of shortcute,* Sanders commented. heavy paper wben pressed with a The weapon was reported aniarently intact—indicating no lethal aU, to be equal with otber stu Fear is something tbat a blind metal pencU caUed a stylus. leakage in the waters of this hoUday resort. dents. person bas to forget about, San Sanders finds notetaking in ders continued. Walking across bralUe is slower than a normal VSC Sammies Win streets and up and down stairs are person writes, but be is able to things most people would be take sufficient notes. Only the Full Chapter Status frightmed to do without sight. most noteworthy items are taken SCLU Conference The VaUey State Colony of Sanders said a blind person has down; the rest be commits to Sigma Alpha Mu NaUonal fra to learn to do tbese tMngs like memory, ternity wlU be instaUed as a any other person. It is Just a national chapter Sunday. matter of being a UtUe more Sanders is working <m the for Sigma Alpha Mu whlcb came careful and depending more on mation ofa new service club Planned at CSCLA on campus as Sigma Sigma Tau hearing. "Otherwise, I Just as for tbe visuaUy handicapped.