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du L.ac revisions discussed in forum The with Bender Jake Morrl88ey When a case comes before the Staff Reporter J-Board, the defendant would select one juror, the Dean of Student Body President Dave Students would pick one juror and Bender outlined the proposed ju three others would be chosen at Observer dicial board revisions at the du Lac random. It is hoped, Bender said, an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and st. mary's forum held last night in the that this would be "fairer to all LaFortune ballroom. concerned." The procedure now requires that students sit on the Vol. XII, No. 13 Thursday, September 15, 1977 "We took du Lac and started over," Bender said. "And at the board along with faculty and ad same time tried to preserve the ministrators. original framework of it." "We Bender divided his proposal for want to clarify it," he added. the du Lac manual into two sections: hall rules and university A new proposal for the Univer rules. "Hall rules and regulations Students favor 0-C apartments sity Judicial Board was also pre would deal with pareitals and . sented. The principle behin4 it, hall-related violations," Bender Bender explained, is to give stu told the sparsely attended meeting. dents an alternative to the Dean of graduate students, among which apartments, while men were "Universtiy level violations would by Phll Cackley · Students. Senior Staff Reporter are many Jaw students. Most ofthe chiefly concerned about the safety be more serious, such as theft." he units at Campus View are two-bed of their cars, she said. If the new proposal is put into said. Added security and more favor room, with a living room, dining The two-bedroom units at Notre effect, students would not be Bender also hopes to standardize able rental rates are two reasons room, kitchen, and one and one Dame Apartments are completely allowed to sit on the Judicial Board. the hall judicial board selection for a notable increase in the half baths. The units have central furnished and include a living Instead, a group of 12 "commis procedure. "By having them all number of students living off heating and air-con room, dining-room, kitchen and sioners" would be appointed by chosen the same way," he re campus at Notre Dame Apartments ditioning. In the apartment com bathroom. The complex itself has either the student government or a marked, "we'll have qualified and Campus View Apartments, the plex, there is a room for meetings no additional facilities. member of the administration. people." two major apartment complexes or gatherings, as well as a pool. nearest to campus. ''Our main goal is to eliminate Campus View has no vacancies oppressive authority," Warner for the first time in three years, and said, commenting on the new Notre Dame Apartments, while management, "and just try to help reporting eight vacancies as op people. ""We don't want to be posed to last year's no vacancies, dictators," she commented. has experienced a dramatic in crease in women student renters. Security a Factor Of 96 one or two-bedroom units at Campus View, 91 have been rented to students, said Gayle At Notre Dame Apartments, 34 Warner, assistant to the manager. of the 42 bedroom units have been With two to four persons per unit, rented, making a total of over 130 there arc over 350 students there. students there. Candace Bullard, This represents a climb of almost resident manager, said that there one-fourth from last year, when 20 were no vacancies last year. The units were vacant. decrease was linked by Bullard to a The inclusion of utilities in the raise in rent by the owners. monthly rental rate and a change in Last year's monthly rental was management were two important $260 per month plus electricity for causes of the increase cited by all apartments. This year, the rates Warner. have been hiked to $280 per month plus electricity for the lower level units, with upper level units at $300 Price Option per month plus electricity. "People are more concerned This year, students have two with security," Bullard said, ex options on prices. The first is plaining that they feel safer living paying the 1976-77 rates, which are in an apartment complex than in a house."We've never had a break $230 per month plus electricity for Wl''l' ,., .• ,, • a one-bedroom apartment, or $300 in, an assault, or anything of that sort," she stated.She attributed per month plus electricity for a SBP Bender chaired the forum concerning du Lac revisions last night in Lafortune. two-bedroom apartment. All prices the good record to "good lighting, [Photo by lisa BeckerJ are for a nine - month lease. good locks" and patrols which are The second choice available to made in the area by the South Bend students is the inclusion of utilities police. On university life in the rent. The one-bedroom unit The sizable jump in the number then costs $275 per month and the of women students from a male-fe Committee makes recommendations two-bedroom unit is $340 per male ratio of one to one last year to month, with all utilities included a split of four women to one man by David O'Keefe which examine the report med last provement is needed in the total except for telephone. this year -- could be linked to the Features Editor May to the Committe to Evaluate situation." Warner pointed out the advan concern for security, Bullard in Coeducation. Couasellng tage of including utilities, es dicated. Women renters were EDITOR'S NOTE:Thls Is the thlnt Many of the recommendations Citing "widespread confusion ... pecially electricity, because heat interested in security aspects of the In a three-pari series of articles made by the Committee, stemming concerning the separate services ing at Campus View is all-electric. from their investigation, were not provided by the Counseling Center addressed directly to the issue of The change in management has ~; ~ f and Psychological Services," the coeducation, but to the University probably affected the increase, ,r44~· ' Committee recommended a feasi according to Warner. "We worked as a whole. bility study of the possible consoli closely with the Housing office at Although these recommend- dation of the two organizations. the beginning of the year and were ations seemed to lie outside the The Committee also saw the in daily contact with them," she Committee's assigned jurisdiction, need for the establishment of an said. "We attempted to do things Sr. Miriam Jones disagreed. office responsible for "the inte to match up people. We were "You can't evaluate co-educa gration of choices and responsi willing to go farther in acco tion as it is integrated into the bilities involving carreer and modating students," she added. University scene," she said, family.~' The proposed Office of Along with the increase in ren "without evaluating the University Career Development would work in ters, a change in character has itself." cooperation with, but would not be taken place among them. "The Such general recommendations part of, the Placement Bureau. attitude is different," Warren re resulted in five of the fifteen areas lated. "The attitude is more considered by the Committee. Minority Students adult." The students are more Academic Guidance responsive to activities being plan Although the Committee's study In the Freshman Year Program, involved minority women, their ned by the management and "they' guidance was judged as "good" or recommendations applied to the re picking up after themselves. "excellent" by over 60 percent of "The general conduct is better," issue of minority student represen student questionnaire respondents. tation in the student body as a she added. In the upperclasses, however, whole. One recommendation sug counseling received much lower gested that the Office of Admis marks. This finding prompted the More Women sions "continue and expand" its Committee to recommend that the efforts to attract qualified minority colleges and departments find students to Notre Dame. The number of women students ways to improve guidance for Another of the recommendations at Campus View has increased students in upperclasses, which the resulted from the Committee's to a male-female ratio of one to Committee called "uneven." one, according to Warner and Although there were some sub contention that financial aid cur "both sides »-!em pleased with the stantial differences between sexes rently available for minority stu . Attempted beautification fails! These trashcans creating an dents is simply· "not adequate." even split." She also noted the eyesore are left from last week's urney '77 picnic. [Photo by in their evaluation, the Committee large number of transfer and (continued on page 71 IL Lisa Becker I nevertheless co&tended that "im- Thursday, September 15, 1977 2 the observer The Observer Is publllllecl Mon· day tllrough ·Friday except durtftt exam and vacation perlocls. 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