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VOLUME 45, ISSUE 14
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011
transportation
Shuttles Face Potential Cuts
libraries
Standing Desks Will be Installed in CLICS By Zev Hurwitz Contributing Writer
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tudents may no longer receive free bus fare or city shuttle service if Parking and Transportation Services decides to decrease these services in order to offset its multi-million dollar deficit. Parking and Transportation Services is considering two options to manage its deficit, which is running in the millions of dollars. One option would be to decrease costs by cutting transportation services. The other option would
increase revenue by raising the prices of parking permits and citations. According to Parking and Transportation Services, since parking and transportation share one source of income, possible solutions are limited. “Obviously, nobody wants to pay higher permit prices and, in fact, Transportation Services has noted that when prices get too high, people convert to using public transportation as an alternative,” former Transportation Policy Committee undergraduate representative Adam Powers said. “However, due to the fact that public transportation is currently free, such a switch
converts a student from someone who is actively funding the system to someone that is actively using a resource.” Powers served as the A.S. Undergraduate Representative to the Transportation Policy Committee for the 2010-11 academic year. His term ended Nov. 1. Last week was the first time the Transportation Services problem was brought to this year’s A.S. Council, although it had been discussed in Spring Quarter 2011. A.S. President Alyssa Wing said See shuttles, page 3
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Left: The Grammy nominated Creole Choir of Cuba performed at Mandeville Auditorium on Nov. 1. Right: Students celebrated Mexican holiday “Dia de Los Muertos” on Library Walk through crafts, dancing and face paint on Nov. 2.
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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 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 large effect on a person’s mortality,” Zilber said. “The data suggests that people who sit more than six hours a day have an increased rate of mortality of around 30 percent.” After assuming his position as AVP of Academic Affairs, Zilber began bringing up the standing desks idea in meetings with the University Registrar, heads of the Academic Senate and the AVP of Undergraduate Education, only be told that there was likely not enough funding for wide-scale implementation of standing workspaces. Zilber then took the idea to the Office for Students with Disabilities, which was 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. CLICS is undergoing the transition from a resource center to a complex that includes a new lecture hall. According to a Sept. 30 A.S. Council press release, the new hall is expected to be complete by Fall 2012. Classroom Space Advisory Committee undergraduate representative Sammy Chang said that the new lecture hall in Galbraith will be more comfortable. “The new lecture hall will hold about 400 seats and will be more accommodating to disabled students,” he said. Readers can contact Zev Hurwitz at zhurwitz@ucsd.edu
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INSIDE As Per Usual...........................2 New Business.........................3 Free For All.............................4 Letter for Editor......................5 Beer and Loathing..................6 Sudoku...................................9 Sports...................................12