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No. 79 Bawling TSreen *5tate University Tuesday, April,/;A 1978 Rates not set Rec center council proposes fees By Terry Potosnak members is expected to assist in the COUNCIL MEMBERS also passed a said the number of married students is Assistant Copy Editor center's promotion of the center to motion allowing spouses of full-time less than five percent of the total them and could be collected through a students full rec center usage for half student population. The Student Recreation Center payroll deduction, McGuire said. the student fee. The council voted to accept the Council passed proposals concerning Faculty and staff are not required to McGuire said "to encourage motion as stated. usage fees for the Student Recreation pay usage fees for existing University students and their spouses to use the Center at its meeting Sunday. recreational facilities, but they will be center together, we must try to make it MCGUIRE'S RECOMMENDATION The proposals were based on a list of encouraged to use the center, he added. economically feasible for them to do requiring faculty and staff spouses to recommendations submitted to council so." pay a usage fee per quarter also was members last week by Dr. Ben MCGUIRE SAID about 250 faculty "The Center is for the students, and passed by the council. McGuire, recreation director and ex and staff users will be needed each they deserve some form of discount for However, those spouses also will officio council member. their spouses since they are all going to have the option to use the $1 guest fee Council notes, page 4 be paying a full fee for themselves," he plan. In initial business, the group passed added. "Faculty and staff have a higher a motion allowing University faculty quarter to aid in attaining the center's income base than students and their and staff members either to pay a annual income goal of $25,000. ALSO, STUDENTS' spouses will have spouses can afford to pay a full fee for yearly fee four times the quarterly "I think that's going to be difficult the option of paying a special guest fee usage." the recommendation reads. student fee or pay a quarterly fee equal initially," McGuire said, adding that of $1 each time they accompany the Warren J. Scholler, assistant to the student fee. recruitment of faculty and staff users student, council decided. professor of health and physical will require "a lot of promotion." A discrimination question was education and faculty representative to HE SAD) that although no specific But the proposed establishment of a raised by council members regarding the council, said, "If you get the wife amount of student fee increase for the faculty and staff intramural program, students who are married, thus having out, you get the husband out, and if you rec center has been set, the estimates to be operated out of the center for to pay two full usage fees. make it 'the usage fee) too high, she's fall between $22 and $30 a quarter. those who pay for its usage, will serve But Cary Brewer, acting registrar not going to come. She'll buy groceries The fee for faculty and staff as an added attraction, he said. and staff representative to the council, instead." SGA approves spring escort plan By Cindy Lelse the lounge, which would be located in Staff Reporter Litter clean-up day announced the current faculty lounge, but Mar- shall objected. University women probably will not the administration should provide the SGA academic affairs coordinator Frank countered with "they < • i have to fear walking alone on balmy funds for making the service known. Steve Frank's four proposals to im- wouldn't take long naps, we won't have spring nights this year. Senator Doug Marshall asked, "How prove study conditions in the Library beds, Doug." The association also heard a »S>^kir«f The Student Government can we limit something like this, will we also were approved. * Association (SGA) last night put their be escorting them (women) down to They include designating a quiet proposal by Bursar Joseph E. Martini area; providing classroom space for to send billings to dorms instead of Newsphotos by Larry Kayser stamp of approval on an escort plan for Howards?" University women which utilizes the However, Shirley Drew, a student conferences and group study; students' parents. SGA senator Jim University Police to direct calls to University student who helped develop opening extra hours and opening a Camellia will poll students on the Bear hug registered male escorts. the plan, emotionally defended the plan lounge area with vending machines, proposal this week in News ad- The plan, approved April 1 by and shunned coordination of the comfortable chairs, and perhaps even vertisements. representatives of SGA, Residence program by the University Police or the stereo headphones for student Steve Moyer, SGA coordinator of MIKE MOORE took advantage of yesterday's high temperature to give Life, the Commuter Center, Personal administration, saying, "this is our relaxation. elections and proceedures reported that his hapless teddy bear a workout in the front yard of Moore's home. The Development and Life Planning Center, chance to really do it ourselves, and do 60 persons have applied to be can- toy served as the villain for a game of Batman and Robin. University Police and the Student it right." The plan was approved and FRANK SUGGESTED that students didates for SGA offices next year, with Services office, was drafted to help $200 allocated for its promotion, almost could even catch a few winks of sleep in most offices having several applicants. prevent the rash of attacks upon immediately after her comments. University women. SGA also discussed providing escort service seven days a week, although Florynce Kennedy PAUL NICOLAISEN, a graduate Wolf cautioned that some men "might student employed by University Police, not be in a condition on Saturday nights Inside the News will coordinate the service. to escort anyone." According to Nicolaisen, the escort to speak tonight system will work as follows: IN OTHER action, SGA agreed to A woman can call University Police sponsor a campus Clean-Up Day, where One of the most outspoken leaders of six days a week, Sunday through students will be armed with a garbage NEWS...Every year, hundreds of books are destroyed at the the women's rights movement will Friday from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. A bag and stick to pick up litter left over Library. See Page 4 . lecture at 8 p.m. today in the Grand dispatcher will contact and assign an from the thaw of deep snow. EDITORIALS...Paul Lintern returns with his column. Today it's Ballroom Union. escort from a list of screened ap- Some senators questioned students' plicants. The escort will accompany responsibility to clean up litter, but about how to spend spring break on $19.95. Page 2. Florynce Kennedy, a 61-year-old the woman or women to any University most gave in to the plan when it was location. decided that refreshments and a type of SPORTS...The Falcon lacrosse team swept the weekend with black woman, is an attorney, author victories over Notre Dame and Chicago. Page 10. and lecturer. Her appearance is "AU in all, it could take 5 minutes treasure hunt or reward would be sponsored by the Union Activities from the call until he arrived," provided. Wolf suggested that coffee Organization. Nicolaisen said. and doughnuts be served after the litter pick-up, while other senators opted for Known for her candid vocabulary, ALTHOUGH THE plan for the ser- beer. Senator Bob Wagner suggested Weather Kennedy is the founder of the Feminist vice required SGA to do the bulk of that "57 kegs of beer" be the reward for Party and author of "Color Me Flo." publicizing and direction of the plan the clean-up effort. Partly cloudy and warmer (upon SGA president Bob Wolf's SGA also approved a contest for an hlgh70F(21C) low48F(9C) The lecture which originally was recommendation), some senators emblem for the new Student Recreation Center and $100 was allocated for 30 percent chance of precipitation Florynce Kennedy scheduled for February, is free. initially were hesitant about the ser- vice. Some said the University Police or publicity and prizes. Rosenthal opens J-Week events By Bill Lammers trials). But I think people would be said, "'there was nobody closer to address by P.A. Curtiss, director of Managing Editor bored to death very quickly by all of Richard Nixon than Haldeman and public affairs of the Standard Oil it," Rosenthal said. if Haldeman doesn't know what Company of Ohio. Curtiss will discuss "Selling the Alaskan Newspapers must strive to im- happened, then nobody does. I take Pipeline" and his department's role prove credibility with their readers HE DISCOUNTED claims that it as the gospel-according to to be successful, Associated Press cameras in the courtroom would Haldeman.