Vocal Minority Protests NCR Living Conditions

Vol. 19 No. 21 Daily Sundial ^ ^P^California State University-Northridge IViday|'r , October 11. 1974 Student Center hits snag $2.5 million overbid jeopardizes building By DEBBIE GOFFA Quincy Jones and Associates. Assignment Editor The USC Board was per and mitted to spend up to $6.6 MIKE SEARLES million, 15 per cent beyond the News Editor original estimate, by the CSUC After student contributions Board of Trustees. The lowest of nearly $3 million, the long- bid came in at 40 per cent over promised University Student the estimate. Center (USC), the most am Dr. Patrick Smith, Director bitious project ever undertaken of the Center and an Assistant by CSUN students, has suffered Dean of Students, called for an a perhaps fatal setback. emergency meeting with the At a bid-opening session Chancellor's Office next week to Thursday, it was revealed that try and find a solution. The Center has been on the drawing board for more than 13 years the sprawling three-level After the bid announcement. complex would cost nearly $2.5 Smith met with the architect IN JEOPARDY-The planned University projected costs. Pictured is the architect's million more than was projected and several CSUN ad Student Center suffered a setback Thursday at conception of the proposed center, however some by architects, a sum accepted ministrators. the bid-opening session when it was revealed cutbacks will probably have to be made. by the USC Board of Directors. Smith explained that certain that the lowest estimate was $2.5 million over The Center has been on the "deductible alternates" could drawing board for more than 13 easily be cut from the structure on the building means a time a self-tax in 1968 to fund the Mark Tuchman and Steve years, has been handled by six and an additional unspecified delay since the architect has to Center, they were told con Holtz, both members of the political entities, has had two portion of the main building redraw the master plan and a struction would be completed in USC Board of Directors, also union directors, and underwent may have to be eliminated. time delay is money." 1971. That fee, separate from attended the bid-opening. two student referendums. According to Smith, if A.S. President James Conran the $10-a-semester A.S. charge, $124,000 budget Cost estimates construction is not initiated, or reacted to the announcement eventually grew to $20 a year. Since its inception, that Cost estimates, ranging from if the reworked drawings have saying, "I am very disap Since then, there have been at Board has been channeling USC $8.1 million to $9.1 million, were not been approved by Feb. 1, a pointed. It is a great loss for the least two additional delays. The funds into other campus ac submitted by four competing $4.5 million dollar government students and I think it requires latest prediction by Smith for tivities. This year the Board's contractors. A $5.7 million subsidy bond to help finance the a great deal of looking into by groundbreaking was early this budget totals $124,000. projection had been submitted Center will be lost. the appropriate areas." fall with completion in Fall The Board has also spent by the Center's architect, A. Smith explained, "A cutback When students first approved 1976. over $20,000, including a $4,000 Some of the delay can be allocation this year, to travel traced to continuing ad the country, researching the ministrative shake-ups which Center, and attending student Vocal minority protests eventually took control of the union seminars. Center out of the hands of A.S. The expenditures have been with the formation of a separate criticized by former A.S. UCS Corporation in 1972. President William Watkins, NCR living conditions Only incorporated union who sat on the Board, and have CSUN's student center is the been defended by the USC By ROSALIE McCORDIC She complained that to the student without a car. and although other living "How do you get to school if JUDIGUNTHER arrangements are available to you live in an apartment?" she 7 am very disappointed. It is a Staff Writers new students, they are not asked. Conflicting ideas exist in the always practical. great loss for the students.' operation of Northridge "They're not forcing you to Schwartz pointed out that Campus Residence, not only stay here, but where else can although students are not between management and you go," she said. "I thought forced to live at NCR, they only incorporated union in business coodinator, l\ichman, students, but within about commuting, but I knew I would not receive many of the California. who went on several of the management itself. couldn't because of rain and dorm's accommodations Smith explained the unique research journeys. elsewhere. situation in a Sundial interview Disagreements over rent, cold factors...the whole Meanwhile, the CSUC Board last semester saying, "Unions food and lack of student ser situation is righteously "NCR doesn't force anyone to of Trustees will make a final are student oriented. Student vices are secondary to dif crummy. live or stay here," he said. "We decision as to whether any of government is politically ferences in philosophy. Transportation problem are the only dorm but we didn't the submitted bids will be oriented. That was the primary Mark Schwartz, director of The transfer student from put ourselves in that position." accepted. thing that came out in our the only dormitory available to Los Angeles City College feels More attention CSUN students, feels that "the that finding a compatable research." silent majority is reasonably roommate for apartment living He added that students CSUN administrators at the Editors Note: The Daily happy with living conditions." away from campus is both time outside the Northridge area and Thursday meeting included Sundial will continue to explore Vocal minority consuming and difficult. She freshmen cannot devote the Edmund Peckham, dean of the future of the University "If the vocal minority needs added that compatability time to "both keeping house students; David Buck, director Student Center. Arrangements help, we'll be somewhat between roommates cannot be and going to school." Han of plant operations; Richard are now being made to attend helpful," said Schwartz. forced successfully. dicapped students, he said, Purcell, director of campus an important decision-making However, Sheila Anderson, Even if a roommate could be receive more attention at the planning; and Warner Masters, meeting next week at the home economics junior and part found, Anderson feels that dorm than they would get vice president for business Chancellors office. See Sundial of the vocal minority, disagrees. transportation poses a problem Please turn to page 5 affairs. editorial next week. From singing Who is this Keeping to CSUN school for? Score see page 2 see page 4 see page 15 Page 2-Daily Sundial-October 11, 1974 THIRD WORLD Abbey Lincohi shares her talents By GEORGE WANAMAKER for the immediate future. Staff Writer "1 really wasn't looking for a Her eyes are bright. She teaching job, but like so many paces the room like a cat, ad things in my life the move back monishing her charges to feel to Los Angeles was decided by a free to show their emotions and phone call," she said. get involved in the group Moseka had gone to San discussion that is becoming Francisco "to live" and to do heated. some work as a vocalist in an Her dress, somewhere bet environment that is more ween African traditional and conducive to the artistic present day hip, gives her temperment she possesses. audience some hint of the past "The same energy 1 use on inherent in her name. the stage, either singing or But the audience are acting, I use in the classroom. I members of a class and don't really follow the academic Aniinata Moseka, also known approach in my lectures. as Abbey Lincoln, is making her "I'm constantly comparing first attempt at a new career, notes with the members of the teaching, in a life that has class through discussion. Most included many. of the time I act as a director, a For the record Moseka sort of catalytic force, only AMINATA MOSEKA formerly Abbey "The Lion and the Jewel," at CSUN this teaches Pan-African Studies occasionally becoming the Lincoln addresses Pan-African studies theatre 462, African-American theatre instructor," she said. December. class. Moseka will direct a student production, Sundial photo by Jim Yeager and PAS 461, African Art in the Those discussions sometime New World. Off the record she take the form of spirited en "The people here have really named Mike Roemer chose her god of love. Aminata also brings to the class her own counter sessions with students made me feel welcome. I've for the lead in "Nothing But a means mother, so my name can philosophy on how to survive in expressing their views on a fallen in love with the Pan- Man." The film and her per be translated to mother god of the most competitive of number of topics besides acting, African Studies department," formance were widely acclaimed love. businesses and still maintain performing and art. she says smiling. by the national press and was "1 had been looking for a ones values and direction. Moseka beams as they are Aminata Moseka, formerly her first exposure as a film traditional African name but One might ask why she isn't drawn into this exchange of Abbey Lincoln, formerly Gabby actress. It was one of the first you can't give it to yourself, teaching a class in Black music, thought and most days she Lee, originally Anna Marie films to deal with ordinary someone must give it to you," having been one of the pioneer continues the conversations in Wooldridge was born in Black people coping with she explained.

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