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Magee leads Irvine over SJSU ... page 6 Spartan Daily Volume 78 No 8 Serving the San Jose Community Since 1934 Friday, Febuary 12, 1982 Ballroom gets Fleshtone test Lively arts board By Holly Fletcher of chairs and make it clear there's no dancing, drawings of possible solutions for reinf urcement. runs out of funds The saga of the bouncy Ballroom floor, it's OK," said Rolland. Three engineers on campus were consulted in which began last semester, may end as early as "If there's chairs available, people will the decision and the board narrowed the choices By Jon Swartz next fall. usually sit down," he added. down to the plan that "seemed to suit our needs," The lively arts section of the A.S. Program Board has spent all of its "The goal is to have dancing in there by the Adrienne Robison, A.S. scheduling coor- Barrett said. money through March 10. beginning of the fall semester," said Ron dinator, said there is no danger with vibrations The proposed plan includes new supports for The money crisis results from AFI-imposed budget cuts, from Barrett, Student Union director. "Anything from the music, only in rhythmic dancing. the columns in the Ballroom and an open web money-losing events from last semester and from funds currently tied up earlier than that is impossible." According to T.Y. Lin International, the firm joist underneath the floor which would extend in future events. However, this optimistic prediction hinges responsible for the structural design of the S.U., down into the snack bar area below. The lively arts section of the board is comprised of dance, classical, upon, among other things, the estimated cost of preliminary estimates for the cost of reinforcing "This type of system will increase the arts in residence and contemporary art activities. reinforcing the floor. Last semester it was the floor for dancing is between $60,000 and ridgidity 10 times," said Barrett. According to AS. Controller Angela Osborne, who acts as a liasion discovered that the floor was unable to withstand $90,000. The board must study the impact of this between the program board and the board of governors, if the new shows the stress created by "pogo" and "slam" dan- However, the board has approved only the reinforcement on the lighting fixtures, don't bring a profit, "the lively arts section would need to funnel money in cing. cost of the survey to determine possible solutions sprinklers and acoustical tiling on the snack bar from one of the two other program sections, films or forums." Although dancing has been banned, the and the process "can stop at any time," said ceiling. "If they do not choose to do that they would need to concentrate on Ballroom has remained in use. A concert is Barrett. programs other than the lively arts," she said. scheduled for today at noon in the Ballroom He said the board could decide the cost is too Although the extension will not interfere As of now, the films budget is $2,500 and the forum's budget $4,500. featuring "The Fleshtones". prohibitive and refuse bids by contractors. with movement, as it is not at height level, the Bill Rolland, A.S. Program Board director, said the budgetary woes Preventive measures will be taken to ensure However, Barrett believes the board is hoping board "may have disagreements over whether began when the Automatic Funding Initiative was incorporated for the that there will be no dancing during today's free for a "realistic expense" so the Ballroom can be or not we need a false ceiling," he said. 1981-1982 budget. concert. used for dancing again. "We were allocated $89,000 by the budget committee for 198041," Chairs will be set up, covering the entire The board has a contract delegating T.Y. Lin Funds for the repair, which is hoped to take Rolland said. "But with AFI, our 198142 budget was reduced to $77,000, floor, to discourage dancing. And if that fails, the to perform a preliminary study for specific place this summer so as not to disturb regular monetary-wise 412,0001 it was, the greatest cut suffered by any Fleshtones will be asked to tone down the beat of proposals, consultation of the dynamics of the classes, will come from either of two sources, he program." their music, according to Bill Rolland, A.S. floor and production of working drawings which said. Money will come from local reserve funds "So while the AFI did affect certain programs favorably, such as the program board director. contractors could use to base bids on. of the S.U. or from the repair and replacement Spartan Daily and KSJS, it hurt other programs such as the program "They banned dancing, but if we put in lots T.Y. I.in gave the board four preliminary fund at the Chancellor's Office in Long Beach. board. And, because of that, we had to turn down some significant events." Some of the events that weren't turned down produced significant losses last semester. The Samoa Spectacular in Morris Dailey Auditorium lost ap- proximately $3,000. Beatlemania lost $2,000 because the program board "had only two weeks to promote the show," Rolland said. "On the first night we had 95 percent capacity, but that dropped to only 75 percent on the second night." And the free noon shows which take place in the S.U. Ampitheater lost $10,000 and will be reduced by one-half this semester in hopes of saving money. Right now the program board has $2,000 tied up in the One-Love concert scheduled for Feb. 20 in the S.U. Ballroom. Another $7,000 is invested in other events, $3,350 of it in a concert featuring classical pianist Phillip Glass. Allocation of $ 550 aids AFI waivers By Lenny Boman While the issue was debated by A move to provide students with the board, questions were raised Automatic Funding Initiative (AFI concerning the efficiency of waivers received a needed boost Osborne's plans for distribution of from the AS. Board of Directors the waiver. Wednesday night. "We have a large population of The board agreed to allocate this campus that doesn't ever pick $550 to the production and up the Spartan Daily or Independent distribution of the forms around Weekly, but they still pay their campus, beginning the end of next $2.50," said Bo Buhisan, director of week. The waiver is part of the AFI inter-cultural affairs. By David Nuss package approved last March in the Buhisan suggested sending the AS. elections. waivers out with registration The Women's Gym lets off some steam Thursday morning as Fisher, Leonard Roehrick and George Grant sweat it out amidst AFI provies for money to be packets. Business Affairs Director workers strive to complete a re -roofing job atop the complex Bob the steam as they complete the task credited trutematically from the A.S. Clark Meadows disagreed. budget to certain groups on campus, including the drama program, KSJS "The people that look at the Camera's eye catches cars crossing; and the Spartan Daily. The money Daily and the Weekly are the ones comes from registration fees and that will be interested in AFI," amounts to $2.50 per student. Meadows said. "I think it ( the plan) bike-lane conflicts conclude in courts The waiver gives students the is a good idea." option of removing their $2.50 from Osborne's plans call for the waiver By Phli LaVelle Street waiting for their turn at the parking garage. AFI appropriations and returning it forms to appear in the papers over a It's been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. A photo ap- The photo, by Spartan Daily staff photographer David Nuss, caught the to the AS. general fund. period of three weeks, beginning pearing in last Tuesday's Spartan Daily may end up as evidence in traffic eye of University Police officer Alex Dourov. Dourov directs traffic at the A misunderstanding between Feb. 18. Flyers posted around court, and it may elicit just one word from the judge guilty. busy intersection of San Salvador and Seventh Streets during the early the board and AS. Controller Angela campus will alert students to The photo shows a bicyclist whizzing by a long line of cars on Seventh morning rush hour. Osborne prevented the waivers from the waiver and completed forms will be turned in to Dourov has cited about 10 motorists in the last week or so for driving in being distributed earlier. Both the A.S. Offices. The proposal the bike lane there, two of them said they would contest their citations in expected the other to take respon- still has some court. sibility for delivering the forms to problems to be worked out, namely a "They both said they don't think they should have been cited because, students, but agreed Wednesday to way to tabulate students who have they said, nobody uses the bike lanes," Dourov said. work together on the new plan. already voted to avoid any chance of the photo clearly shows that bicyclists do indeed use the lanes. Dourov Once the waivers are available, duplications. said if the motorists argue that the lanes aren't used, he'll present the photo students will be asked to fill them as evidence. out, stating their preference for the "It will probably be done by Dourov said the problem of motorists taking advantage of bicycle lanes handling of their money in the fall checking and marking student IDs, to cut through traffic jams occurs only during the rush hour, as far as he '82 semester.