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Ohio Student Friday.Matchl2.1976 Voice me BG news Volume S9/Number 87 Board approves new rec center By Pal Thomas Zung presented preliminary News Editor drawings of the facility, which will be constructed on the southeast comer of A 6.6 pei cent increase in room and Sterling Farm field. board rates was approved and construction of the student recreation THE BOARD approved the center authorized in yesterday's Board planning and construction of (he of Trustees meeting. building, with estimated construction The rate increase, effective fall costs of 7.h million dollars. quarter. 1976 will raise room rates for most dormitories from $248 to $271 a In recommending that the board quarter. Offenhauer room rates will approve construction. University rise from $281 to $.504 a quarter. President Hollis A. Moore Jr. said "It's The price of mandated meal not just- a facility but a whole new coupon purchases will rise $5 next attraction for the campus." fall. He said such a recreational facility DR. MICHAEL R. Ferrari, vice was an appropriate one for a president of resource planning told the residential university, adding that board that the increases are direct "we're in an era of activity and results of the rising salary, utility and physical fitness." general service rates. He said declining interest income, Before the board voted on the mandated civil service pay mcieascs proposal, trustee Ashel G. Bryan said and increased costs of custodial and he objected to the proposal because of maintenance supplies necessitated the the additional cost its construction revised rates. will impose on the students. Fetran explained dial the increase The Board of Trustees approved the construction of a $7.6 million student in meal coupon costs does not reflect "WE'VE GOT to seriously consider a recreation center at yesterday's meeting. The facility was designed by Cleveland food costs, but the same utility and 10 million dollai addition.'' he said, Recreation center architect. Thomas T. K. Zung. (Photo Credit: Thorn Abel 1976. courtesy of general service increases which adding that related project costs would Thomas T. K. Zung Architects, Inc.) affected room rates. push the figure to the 10 million dollar range. An extensive discussion of the The facility will be funded by the proposed student recreation center students' facility and general fees. The followed a preseniation by Cleveland additional fees will be effective the SGA recommends districting architect Thomas T.K. Zung. whose first academic quarter the center is firm has been engaged 10 design die available for student use. By Norma Steele House Bill 335, which would piovidc building. To page five available foi booking performed, some should consider ihc information and Staff Reporter legal aid for all University students at of which may be coming to the release a statement of theli position. an approximate coal of three dollars. University. Jakeway said. "I don't think SGA should conic Snidcm Coveiimienl Association "I'm ic.ill) anxious foi it." Parrish out in favoi ol the hollow point," he (SGAI Election! and Opinions Boaid said. He urged SGA to make a A petition was circulated by said, adding il is uccess.us lo recommended the adoption of a slalenienl of support for the bill. Senator Mary L, Gainellia. The thoroughly study the subject proposal foi districting al Wednesday He said tli.it since t h e petition is in support of Ohio House night's SGA meeting, the last ol the Implementation of the "Sunahine Bill 455, which deals with Crowl reported on the Graduate quarter. law." opening meetings lo the public, handicapped and trainablc inctally Sludenl Senate (GSS) proposal lo it might be Interesting foi SGA retarded Students. Camellia said she Initiate a committee composed of llie pioposal divides undergraduate inenibets to sil on some city board favors the bill, with its lour members of both st;\ mil tiSS. the students into ton district*, wiih ihree mattings, tspeciali) those pertinent to amendments, one of which will commit tee would identify common senators clccied al large. According 10 the University. dasslf] special schooling under the concerns and goals, he said. Kathleen 1. Kama, board chairman, stale department of public education the pioposal provides the campus with "IT WILL be a chance lo gel but allow the schools lo remain The proposed committee would equal representation based on involved in some of the decisions." he separate, instead ot being phased into consist ol I'oui undergraduate SGA geograph) and student population. said. public schools. members and torn CSS members. Mary Helen I laniine. coordinatoi of I hen* novel has been cooper al ion SGA vice president David Crowl. academic affairs, reported on a trip to FOLLOWING discussion of the between the groups, < rowl said. who conducted the meeting, requested St. Louis In foiu SGA members in Police Community Advisory Maybe wa can gel logethci and lli.il senators make individual decisions ordci lo attend a mock United Nations subcommittee debate on police sponsor speakers oi oihei programs," concerning lliis proposal by the second convention. The University students bullets. Senator Brad Bower said SGA he said. week of April, when it will he represented Denmark, voting approved or rejected. and making decisions as they thought that country would make In an actual Injunction filed against "THE constitution then will have to situation, she said. be worked out. and worded out" Kim K. Jakeway. coordinator of Crowl said. Newly elected senators cultural affairs, reported on llie recent city by Haven House may be assigned districts if the trip to Washington D.C. to attend a proposal is passed. he said. National Entertainment convention By Sherry Kirkendall city tile lines lo be carried lo ihe made by four Student Development Staff Reporter sanitary station. In other business. Richard Parrish. representatives, two Cultural Boost Immediately following the fehruary coordinator of state and community members and three Union Activities The owners of Haven House Manor flooding. Valentine said he and the affairs requested SGA support Ohio Organization members. New acts limited, 1515 E. Wooster St.. have oilier plaintiffs installed, al llieir own filed an injunction request against six expense, two manholes wesi of the city officials forbidding the addition Haven House driveway, to gel lo the of any new users or any additional eight-inch city sewer line. load to be placed upon the sewer "We also have installed a shutoff Tax data abused system served by the sanitary lift valve which will automatically activate station at the comer of E. Wooster St. should the water ever back up again." WASHINGTON (AP) - Internal Alexander also said thai despite past and Mercer Road. he said. The valves were installed Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner abuses, he is opposed to formal curbs James Trautwein, Clarence Nopper between the street and the second Donald C. Alexander testified on White House access to individual tax returns. and Douglas R. Valentine are seckipg pumps. yesterday that the federal returns of the injunction following damages to Valentine said the flooding problem 6.704 taxpayers were turned over to "I would question whether proposed reforms might be more an 16 Haven House basement apartments. is caused by storm water entering an the Justice Department in 1975 for The damages were a result of the the prosecution of nontax criminal overreaction to past abuses than a already overloaded sewer system. He proper guide to the future," he said. mid-February flooding of the said it was the city's responsibility to cases. apartments caused by storm water and locate the faulty tile and replace it. Testifying before die federal Privacy Under the current practice, any sewage backup. "We (the plaintiffs) have spent Protection Study Commission. president can obtain a tax return by thousands of dollars al our own Alexander said federal tax returns are signing a request to the IRS and THE PLAINTIFFS claim more than expense correcting and providing what vital tools in the investigations of specifically designating which of his $30,000 worth of damages were aides should have access to the return. incurred in the recent backup. the city should have taken care of in narcotics traffickers and various types the first place." Valentine said. of white collar crime. Valentine said the apartments also Alexander said, "President Fold has suffered from Hooding and backup HE SAID THEY have not yet It appears that Jim Vieth. junior, seems to think that the adage. pressed suit to recover the cost of THE COMMISSION has not asked me for any tax return and I damages in 1973, 1974 and 1975, but "Take two. they're snail." is applicable to just about anything, damages to the apartments hul that recommended that federal prosecutors would be surprised if any such request said damages in those years were including these plants he borrowed from the Union to use as should be made." minimal. "we haven't waived the right to sue props in a TV program. Here he is returning the plants to their be required to get a court order before either." He said a damage suit had not obtaining tax returns for nontax law ''We flooded out about two or three rightful owners.