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----~ ---~- ~--~~~-------------------~ --- ~---------~- ------ On The Inside COUP report ... page 3 Little Big Screen ... page 5 serving the notre dame -st. mary's community Vol. VIII, No. 71 Monday, February 4, 1974 Campus rooms allocated Poll released: to help future 0-C students Lottery results by Butch Ward would be willing to complete the Editorial Editor questionaire so that studens now seeking housing off campus can avoid some of the problems already ex A questionnaire concerning off perienced by those students now living campus students' opinions of their in the surrounding area. posted Friday present housing situation was released Questions dealing with rent, landlord today by The Observer. cooperation, food prices, and other The questionnaire, drawn up by expences are aimed at allowing sophomores Ed Byrne and Stan Car campus dwellers some measure of by Clyde Iverson Edwards hall must leave campus. If 20 denas of Alumni Hall, attempts to comparison in their quest for housing. Staff Reporter students decide to leave freely then compile information athat will be Byrne hoped that perhaps hall tenants only 5 students will be forced to leave. useful to present on-campus students now faced with the possibility of being The results of the off-campuslottery Following the 3-2 Senior-Junior ratio who are now faced with the problem of forced off-campus will find some were revealed last Friday, February 1, established by the university three finding off-campus housing. direcion as a result of the poll. by John M. Mulcahy, director . of seniors and two juniors will be asked to Results of the poll, which will be Both polling students pointed out that Campus Residence and Student Affairs. ieave the hall. compiled by the two students, should aquestionnairereleased by the housing Lists of students whose names were "We realize that this system isn't be delivered to either The Observer office earlier in the year received poor included in the lottery were made perfect," said Mulcahy, "but so far it is office on the third floor of LaFortune or response, but they hoped that providing available to their hall rector. The the best we have been able to come up to the Off-Campus Housing Office in 315 drop-off points instead of asking for ,·ectors were then asked to post those with." Administration Building. All results mailed responses would increase the Usts in their respective halls. "Just about everyone had an op- should be turned in by Ji'riday of this percentage of answering students. "As far as I know the results of the portunity to contribute any ideas they week. Extra copies of the poll can be ob lottery have been posted in every hall had. We talked to Student Government, Both Byrne and Cardenas expressed tained from either the Housing office or with the exception of two. Those halls the Student Life Council and the Hall the hope that off-campus students i The Observer·~ have not determined so far if they are President's Council and a computer going to use the outcome of the lottery lottery seemed like the fairest for room picks or not," commented approach," he observed. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIUIIIIUIIIDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDUIIIIIUI- Mulcahy. "Those subject to the lottery include Mulcahy stressed the importance male sophmores and juniors, people on Off-Campus Questionnaire of students confirming their status with scholarship and athletes. We try to be the Housing Office. He explained, "If as fair as possible," he said. your name is not among those who However, later he pointed out that r.1ight be forced off-campus and you girls and athletes will not be forced off last name first name m.i. i.d. number class wish to remain on campus then you campus. He claimed the first was due r.1ust do two things: return your con- to university edict, and the second to a tract signed to the housing office by NCAA regulation. April15, and preregister which involves "Girls have not been included in the O·C address phone number a $50 dollar deposit." lottery yet and NCAA regulations If a student fails to either return his prevent us from forcing any athletes signed contract or preregister he will off-campus," said Mulcahy. He pointed Names of co-residents: be automatically eliminated from his out that for lottery purposes athletes (last names only) hall lottery list. "We will assume that a are "treated just like anyone else," but student has elected to live off-campus if if it turns out that some are to be forced he fails to fulfill these two stipulations," campus he would just increase the of- noted Mulcahy. ficial quota so as to include the athletes. "Of course there might not be a need If for instance three athletes were to force anyone off campus. It all iotteried off campus the official quota Total number or residents: depends upon how many yoluntarily which is 883 might be reduced to 880 so move to private housing," said as to include the athletes. "No student Number of rooms? Monthly cost of rental?---------- Mulcahy. "We determined that 883 will be forced off campus because of an students must live in non-university athlete, we will simply increase the Cost of utilities? ____ Average total cost per student per semester? _____ housing, if that many students, of thei.r total number of on campus students to own volition decide to live off-campus If include them," he explained. General condition of house? good__ fair __ poor __ hethere will be no problem." This is possible because the Although at this point it seems university maintains a cushion for What is your cost for food per week? ------------------- unlikely that 883 students will volun- unexpected situations. "We have a tarily move off campus, it is even more build in cushion of about 20 beds." said What do you use for transportation? car· bus _ bike _ other------ unlikely that anywhere that number mulcahy. will be forced off. Predicting how many Father Mulcahy noted that for those students will want to move off campus students who will have to move· off Do you pay 12-month rental or do you only pay for the months you actually occupy the and how many will have to be forced campus a list of available private house? has proved to be almost impossible. housing can be obtained in the housing "We simply can't predict how many office by February 18. Also a waiting students are going to live off-campus on list for those who still desire to live on How many total rooms does your house have? _____ bedrooms? a year to year basis.We won't know campus should be available by April16. until the April 15th deadline," said Fr. Mulcahy concluded that he didn't Do you have any money-saving gimmicks to pass on? -------------- Mulcahy. know if the same system will be used However, once that deadline does next year. "Obviously some aspects of 1 arrive the number of students who will the lottery can be improved, but if it 1 be forced off, according to Mulcahy, works well this year we will probably 1 will be "vastly decreased". As soon as use it as long as we have a housing 1 the housing office knows how many problem" Have you had to make repail"s with your own money that the landlord should have made? students will voluntarily move to Finally he said he would recommend private housing their names will be that the female population be increased _____ What were they? ---------------------- l removed from the hall list on a hall by unless a new dorm was built for them. hall basis decreasing the number of "Increasing the number of females on Do you feel your landlord has fulfilled his legal and personal responsibilities to you as his people tha't will have to be forced out of campus without increasing the tenant? l the hall. available housing would not add to the ~ For example, 25 students from St. problem we have now." Why or why not? ____ by Art Ferranti Sinatra, l~ Bob Hope will appear with Where do you feel the university could help you in .dealing with off-campus living problems? guests Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds Reynolds February 25 at the ACC announced John Plouff, managing director of the ACC, Friday. Ticket sales and show times Do you have any questions you would like asked in future surveys? --------- 1 join Hope have yet to be announced .and l representatives of Hope, Sinatra, and Reynolds are expected to come onto the campus in a few I I forNDshow '--.-nti&IX-S&I&ii il& ii!liii weeks. ·= a • 1 ~__j ----------------~~~-~------ -----~----- - --- --- . ·. ·.. ~· ~- ,.' ...~~ '· ', the observer Monday, February 4;-1974 Alun1ni, Farley take warld SHOE top Tolkien treasures SALE Stephen Boy hopes to break even briefs by Susan Divita or go above their $35,000 Staff Reporter budget. Boy says construction costs have risen about 30 per cent Imported Men's HOUSTON (UPil- The Skylab 3 astronauts took one last Alumni Hall with it's eerie, yet since last year' and they are using spacewalk Sunday in their almost finished record trip to realistic spider web and Farley every method to tighten security 1etrieve rolls of valuable pictures of the sun and comet Hall, incorporated into a glistening and make sure all the money is Shoes and Boots Kohoutek. Gerald P. Carr and Edward G. Gibson spent about castle, share the first place slot in allocated into the right places. five and a quarter hours outside the spacelab, whilt:: William R. the booth competition of Mardi To get into Mardi Gras on a week Brown Suede Boots Pogue remained inside to control the 118-foot station.