SET YOUR PHASERS TO STONED. PAGE 6 VOLUME 45, ISSUE 14 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG TRANSPORTATION LIBRARIES StandingÊ ShuttlesÊFaceÊPotentialÊCuts DesksÊWillÊ beÊInstalledÊ inÊCLICS By Zev Hurwitz Contributing Writer Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs Mac Zilber announced plans for standing workspaces in the planned Center for Library & Instructional Computing Service lecture hall at A.S. Council’s meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 26. Zilber estimates that there would be only between three and 10 total standing workspaces in a new CLICS lecture hall. These standing workspaces are individual podiums where students can stand and take notes during a lecture instead of at traditional sitting desks. They are meant to aid students with disabilities. CLICS was shut down June 10, 2011 after $3 million in library budget cuts. Zilber said that there are health benefits for users of standing work spaces. “The issue of standing desks came to my attention around a year ago when there was ANDREW OH/GUARDIAN a major study that came out that came to the conclusion ... that [said] the amount of time that a person spends sitting has a strikingly By Natalie Covate increase revenue by raising the prices of parking converts a student from someone who is actively large effect on a person’s mortality,” Zilber Staff Writer permits and citations. According to Parking funding the system to someone that is actively said. “The data suggests that people who sit and Transportation Services, since parking and using a resource.” more than six hours a day have an increased tudents may no longer receive free bus transportation share one source of income, Powers served as the A.S. Undergraduate rate of mortality of around 30 percent.” fare or city shuttle service if Parking and possible solutions are limited. Representative to the Transportation Policy After assuming his position Transportation Services decides to decrease “Obviously, nobody wants to pay higher Committee for the 2010-11 academic year. His as AVP of Academic Affairs, Sthese services in order to offset its multi-million permit prices and, in fact, Transportation term ended Nov. 1. Zilber began bringing up the dollar deficit. Services has noted that when prices get too high, Last week was the first time the Transportation standing desks idea in meetings with the Parking and Transportation Services is people convert to using public transportation Services problem was brought to this year’s A.S. University Registrar, heads of the Academic considering two options to manage its deficit, as an alternative,” former Transportation Policy Council, although it had been discussed in Spring Senate and the AVP of Undergraduate which is running in the millions of dollars. One Committee undergraduate representative Adam Quarter 2011. A.S. President Alyssa Wing said Education, only be told that there was option would be to decrease costs by cutting Powers said. “However, due to the fact that public likely not enough funding for wide-scale transportation services. The other option would transportation is currently free, such a switch See SHUTTLES,Êpage 3 implementation of standing workspaces. Zilber then took the idea to the Office for Students with Disabilities, which was ACROSS THE WORLD IN SONG AND DANCE planning to build more standing desks in response to the American Disabilities Act’s Standards for Accessible Design. The ADA’s standards code, enacted last year, calls for the availability of such seats. Zilber said that while the reasoning for his advocacy for the desks is health-based, students with disabilities would be priority. “It’s unclear whether this would be strictly a disability-based thing or if there would be a number of standing desks that people could use,” Zilber said. 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