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Southern hospitality Yuletide South American style spirit rekindled American volunteers aid poor Holiday tips and tales PAGE 4 See special Christmas supplement SP Volume 83, No 65 Serving the San Jose State University Community Since 1934 Friday, December 7, 1984 Furniture Eye confess Rec Center delay delivery increases cost by delayed By Dewane Van Leuven 5 percent margin Daily staff writer Students living in the furnished Spartan Village apartments have yet to receive their couches and chairs, But no cuts in REC services, and delivery of the furniture is not ex- pected soon, said Willie Brown, direc- architects assure SU director tor of Housing. By Mary Green costs have increased and that stu- The furniture, that was to arrive Daily staff writer dents would have gotten $700,000 Nov. 15, has been delayed by the sup- Architects working on the Recre- more Rec Center." Barrett said. plier California Prison Industries, ation and Events Center project have Construction costs for the project Brown said. all but assured Student Union Direc- were estimated at about $14 million. Brown said the delay is not the tor Ron Barrett that students will get Because the project has been delayed first one the Housing office has in- the facility they voted for despite a one year, inflation has added 5 per- cent to that curred when dealing with California one-year delay. figure. Prison Industries. In a telephone conversation yes- Barrett said the initial financial terday, Don Goodhue of the architec- projections were deliberately esti- apart- Opening of the furnished tural firm Hall, Goodhue, Haisley mated conservatively. The bond from the ments was pushed back and Barker told Barrett the entire fa- sales to raise money for the Rec Cen- start of the semester until Nov.1, due cility will fit on one site (the ROTC ter were estimated at 12 percent. to the furniture delay. Brown said he field), making use of the Old Wom- Currently, bond sales range from 9 to was committed to open the furnished en's Gym space unnecessary. 10.5 percent. apartments then, even if all the furni- Barrett said Goodhue gave his SUBOD chairman Jeff Coughlan ture hadn't arrived. assurances after workshops for re- said he doesn't expect the bond sales Brown said the Housing office vising the Rec Center program were to rise to the figure of 12 percent, and will offer a rebate to residents in the conducted by the architects. that the estimated total expense furnished apartments. Goodhue told the Daily he and his should not rise. associates are studying both options The furniture and the rebate "Realistically, I feel we are a REC on the ROTC field only, or a should arrive before the end of the going to have more than enough REC on the ROTC field and the Old year, Brown said, but he isn't giving money to construct the project," Women's Gym to give to SUBOD any guarantees. Coughlan said. next week. SUBOD will review the "Nov. 15 was the longest we The Rec Center project was de- architects' proposals on Dec. 11 and thought we would have to wait for the layed one year because students forward the approved plan to the Cal- furniture," Brown said. "We're obvi- voted last spring to put a halt to the ifornia State University Chancellor's ously way behind that, so I'm hedg- construction. This fall students voted office. ing my bets as to the delivery (of the in favor of restarting the construe- furniture)," he said. In addition, Barrett said cost in- lion. creases will not result in the elimina- Students living in the furnished The original Rec Center plan did tion of any aspect of the Rec Center apartments expressed dismay at the not include an aquatic center or a or in an increase in student fees. way the furniture issue was handled. larger events arena. During a meeting of the Student Civil engineering junior Robert "It could be argued the delay was Union Board of Directors Tuesday. Spano tried other ways to solve the a good thing," Barrett said. Henry Orbach, associate executive problem. It now includes an aquatic cen- vice president of Facilities and Oper- "We tried to rent a couch and two ter, a smaller arena and more recre- ations, presented a letter he received chairs, and have the Housing office ation space, he said. from the architects on Nov. 30. reimburse us," Spano said. "They "I think the students got a better ( the Housing office) said no, and The letter indicated that some Rec Center because of the delay," were pretty rude about it." changes may be necessary, due to Barrett said. space limitations and construction The rebate given will not be a The Rec Center plans include a cash rebate, but will be in the form of cost increases. Steve Capovilla Daily staff photography, 5,500 seat arena, 10 racquetball a credit to apartment dwellers. Orbach said either the budget courts, a weight room, two multi-pur- Brown said the rebate will be taken Joe Del.appe, a graphic design junior, puts into the computer keyboard would need to be increased or some- pose rooms, an aquatic center with off the final rent payment of the year. type their sins the finishing touches on the "video thing would have to be given up. an Olympic-size swimming pool, div- Rent for the Spartan Village fur- confessio- and their penance appears on the top nal," a cum "At the )SUBOD) meeting, ing well, sun deck and a snack bar. nished apartments is $165 a month, puler exhibit in room 237 of the screen. Henry was simply pointing out that Total cost of the plan, beyond con- and the last payment will cover rent Art Building. Offenders wishing forgiveness due to the project delay construction, struction costs, is $20.9 million. for May 1985. Brown isn't sure of the dollar amount of the rebate. "It depends on how long they (the Raid nets guns near SJSU residents) will go without the furni- A.S. approves ture," Brown said. "If we get the fur- By John McCreadie of guns," Guy said. The documents niture right now, the rebate won't be Daily staff writer which led agents to the Seventh as much as if they don't get the furni- homecoming act Federal agents raided a house on Street house contained information of Federal agents found ture the whole year," he said. Seventh Street, about eight blocks a conversion kit for a machine gun south of the SJSU campus, where ma- that agents have not found. seven machine guns, The furnished apartments have By Kevin Mendoza ton said. Stephanie Duer was this chine guns and silencers were alleg- "He either has the gun or sold yet to recieve two chairs, two lamps Daily staff writer year's homecoming chairwoman. five silencers and edly being manufactured, according it," Guy said. "We have to be pre- and one couch per apartment. The The tradition of homecoming at The event is of such importance to federal officials. pared for the worst and assume he lamps have arrived, but will not be SJSU was ensured Wednesday when that a 5,000 rounds of relatively large committee the arse- has it." installed in the apartments until the the Associated Students Board of Di- Agents, who confiscated membership is necessary, Houston weapons early Guy added that the guns recov- rest of the furniture has arrived. rectors established an official A.S. nal of homemade ammunition. said. The act specifies that the com- morning, were led to the ered in the raid were well con- Brown said this is for security rea- Homecoming Committee. Wednesday mittee will be comprised of at least 14 Seventh Street house through docu- structed weapons. sons. At its last meeting of the semes- members, which includes 10 student- ments of various Georgia gun firms, "Apparently this man knew what ongoing nationwide investigation "Students have told us they want ter, the board unanimously approved at-large positions. according to Jess Guy, resident agent he was doing," he said. started several years ago because il- notice before maintenance men enter to add a homecoming act to the A.S. A provision in the act states that in charge of the federal Bureau of Al- The house had been under sur- legal weapons, similar to the ones their apartments," Brown said. "We constitution. the reigning homecoming king and cohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in San veillance by federal agents for the found here, were turning up all over don't want to inconvenience the stu- queen automatically assume two of The purpose of the act is to estab- Jose. last two weeks, Guy said. the country. dents (by entering their apart- the student-at-large positions. lish the existence of a homecoming Three federal agents and two San According to the federal agent. ments), especially during finals," he Houston said he intends on run- The Georgia firms currently committee with a set of rules to guide Jose patrolmen entered the small Castro's family, including four chil- said. ning for the committee's under investigation by the Bureau of its operation, said Jeff Houston, A.S. house at 1020 S. Seventh St. with a dren, were also living in the coverted chairmanship. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are The lamps have arrived because vice president and SJSU's reigning search warrant and found seven garage. Guy said that neither the "I'd like to get banks to sponsor Euclid Armanents, S.W.D. and LIIM the Housing office contracted with homecoming king.