Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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CAMPUS NEWS New construction alters Stanford landscape . . . again Above — MEM CLOCK : It may not look like much now but this 45-foot tower will soon house the original Memorial Church chimes and clockworks. Four dock faces below the bells will give students no excuse for being late for class! Left — LAKEFRONT PROPERTY: The Elliott Program Center of the newly-opened Governor's Corner residence complex offers room for classes and other activities as well as gorgeous views of Lake Lag. By ALAN TRIPP Daily Staff Writer Most of us are aware of having grown in various ways during our time at Stanford. And as we have grown, so has the University. Completed construction, projects currently underway and those still in the planning stages seek to beautify, improve and facilitate the experience of living and learning at Stanford. Fall quarter saw the completion of an extensive building project when the Sociology and Communication Departments were moved into their new location in Building 120. The project, which has been underway for several years, was the final step in the renovation of the Quad's northern facade. A modern TV production studio is among its many modern facilities. Currently under construction is the Braun Music Building which will relocate the Music Department to a more central location behind Dinkelspiel Auditorium. Plans for a new building have been under consideration for some time now and the Music Department faculty is looking forward to leaving its current location on the Knoll — the original residence of the University President which has no central heating and serious structural defects—for a building which was specially designed with the needs of the Department in mind. Another project nearing completion is the clock tower across from the old engineering corner of the Quad. It will house the original clockworks which fell from the Memorial Church steeple in the earthquake of 1906. The construction of what some students are already starting to call Mem Clock was made possible by an anonymous donation. Yet another anonymous donation was recently made specifically for the purpose of renovating the Inner Quad. The project is still in the planning stages but the million dollar donation will most certainly go toward improving lighting, plantings, irrigation systems and possibly paving the historic heart of the campus. University planners hope to have the renovation finished in time for the University's centennial. Plans to renovate Tresidder Union as well were approved by the Tresidder Union Board winter quarter. By August 1984, the Board plans to replace the bowling alley with an enlarged version of the Store, expand the Coffee House and move the video game room into a sound-proofed area. There are also plans to redesign the kitchen and service area of the Coffee House and to move several of the businesses which rent space from Tresidder to new locations within the building. BELIEVE IT OR NOT: Students actually do follow the new bike lanes! Go with the flow Returning to campus autumn quarter, students were surprised to find that the University had finally decided to do something about the chaotic pedestrian and bicycle traffic through White Plaza and along Lasuen Mall on the eastern side of the Quad. The du-bious solution: Mem Funnel . For some inexplicable reason, the lanes marked by white lines and cute little traffic signs met with more than a little resistance from students who were not accustomed to being told where they could ride. The fact that it was simply impossible to remain within the narrow lanes at rush periods didn't help things. Despite their initial contempt for the system, students now seem to have adjusted to it and try to remain within the lanes where possible. University administrators admit that there have been problems but claim that their experiment has been a success. They are looking to modify the lanes in the future to improve traffic flow and safety conditions. — Alan Tripp News Review 25

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CAMPUS NEWS New housing springs up on Lake Lag By DOUG JEHL Daily Staff Writer Students returning in the fall were greeted not only with picket signs but also with the sight of partially completed Governor's Corner, a tremendous new housing complex on the shores of Lake Lag. Some buildings were still hardly more than skeletons, but three, the so-called independent houses, stood complete with red-tiled roofs and all; they opened in time for 180 undergraduates to move in before classes started. Named for Gov. Leland Stanford, Governor's Corner fills two voids: it brings student life to the far side of Lake Lag and adds significantly to the chronically pressed student housing pool. Indeed, when the project is finally completed in Fall 1983, 800 new student spaces will have been created. By the end of Winter Quarter, even with the 360-student Sterling Quad dormitory six months from completion, Governor's Corner had taken on the appearance of a miniature city. The “suites had opened in January, bringing in 260 students — mostly from the trailers — to perhaps the most desirable residences on campus: each well-furnished suite contains a large living room, a bathroom and an individual room for each student. Residents there were enjoying meals in student-managed eating clubs, where sandwiches and beer were sometimes the Sunday night fare — a far cry from food service. For residents of the spacious independent houses, the novelty seemed not to have worn off. Most agreed with what one sophomore had said on moving-in day: “They're the nicest houses I've ever seen on campus. Jealous visitors were wowed again and again by their friends' large bedrooms with practical but comfortable furnishings and — for some — stunning views of a nearly full lake. Adding to the community feeling was a student program center, where classes and other activities are scheduled and where students' post office boxes are located. Not at all was paradisaical, of course. Late furniture deliveries plagued residents in the fall, detective fire alarms did it in the spring. Said one student: “If the fire alarms at 4:00, 5:00 and 7:00 don't get you, you can't miss the bulldozers at 8:00. And throughout the year, when it rained, mud seemed inescapable. The new' housing opened hundreds of spaces in Man-zanita Park's trailers for graduate students, but that was no consolation for many. When it was announced that housing rates would increase by 14.5 percent, mostly because of Governor's Corner, they challenged the policy that requires them to subsidize undergraduate housing. And, once again, they urged the University to commit itself to building new graduate housing; none will be forthcoming until at least 1990. The new housing will soon mean a four-year guarantee of on-campus housing for all undergraduates. Many just wish they could spend all those years living next to the lake, in Governor's Corner. ... as old walls creak While spotless new' walls in Governor's Corner were still being admired and decorated for the first time, older ones across campus were beginning to show their age. Late one October night, first-floor residents of Wilbur Hall's Trancos House were startled to hear creaking and cracking from a bedroom wall. Not only were it and others making noise, they discovered, but they were also bending before their eyes. Most found the warping walls amusing, but firemen summoned later didn't think it so funny: they ordered the dorm evacuated. For more than an hour, some 90 worried freshmen huddled in the cold while firemen, policemen and top-level University officials inside tried to make some sense of the situation. For a time, it seemed that the students would have to find somewhere else to sleep. But at 2:30 a.m., officials decided to let residents return. There is a problem, but not a serious problem,” the University's Bob Mibach told those gathered in the lounge. Most trekked dutifully off to bed, but some did so with a bit of trepidation. Said one student: “Maybe I'll move my bed into the center of the room. A structural engineer w-ho inspected the dorm the next morning agreed that it was structurally safe. Later, the University disclosed that officials have known about wall problems in Wilbur for years. But no one said anything about Stern, where, in January, another wall-bending act took place. That affair, in Serra House, worried some residents, but was received more calmly by the University. This bending seems to be a characteristic of this type of wall, Mibach said then. Plans are for the University to renovate the most seriously damaged w'alls, but none have yet been replaced. As the dorms grow older, it seems more and more students may have to be content with walls that bend and make noise in the night. — Doug Jehl 24 News Review

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CAMPUS NEWS Strike welcomes students back in fall BY DAVID AZRIN Daily Staff Writer Students arriving on campus September 27 for the beginning of the school year were greeted with lines of picketing workers who had been on strike for more than two weeks. Members of United Stanford Workers (USW), which represented 1350.carpenters, plumbers, painters, machinists, custodians, food-service workers, delivery personnel, gardeners, and storekeepers, voted 465 to 172 to strike September 10 during a meeting at Dinkel-spiel Auditorium. They claimed the University's contract proposal which called for wage increases of 14.5 to 17 percent in the first two years was unacceptable. The union had previously presented a proposal which called for wage and benefit increases of 24.1 percent in the first two years. During the course of the 30-day walk-out, students here were faced with a number of inconveniences. University Food Service, which provides meals for the majority of students including all of the freshmen, served only sandwiches for lunch and dinner during the four days of orientation activities. Food Service then closed down altogether and did not re-open until four days into the quarter, when two of the kitchens were reopened serving breakfast and lunch on a cash-only basis. Students who had bought meal plans received weekly cash refunds. As a result, most students were forced to forge for them selves during mealtimes. The Coffee House and Tresidder Memorial Union were crammed with students. Many dorms travelled as groups to such favorite hot spots as Mountain Mike's Pizza and Jack-in-the-Box, while others survived on catering services. Some resident fellows invited students to eat in their homes, and cooperative houses invited students to eat meals cooked by residents. The lack of dorm meals was particularly unfortunate because they traditionally provide important social and intellectual interactions for freshmen students. Garbage cans began to pile high in some dorms because of the lack of maintenance workers and grass grew tall in some areas. The strike also caused de- lays in construction at the new Governor's Corner housing project and Braun Music Center where picketers blocked independently hired contractors. Besides the inconveniences, the strike also created deep divisions between labor and management here. And as the strike grew longer, relations grew worse. During the first week of the strike, before most students had arrived, there were some cases of vandalism reported. Numerous scuffles occurred along the picket lines and, after two weeks, more than 24 picketers had been arrested and charged with vandalism, obstructing traffic or unlawful assembly. Among them was USW leader Michael Baratz who was arrester! on charges of blocking traffic at the entrance to SLAC. Throughout the strike, the University took a hard-line bargaining stance, refusing to make any new proposals or to submit the issues to advisory arbitration. Union and University negotiators met four times during the strike. They finally reached a settlement during around-the-clock negotiations at Rickey's Hyatt Hotel, and brought an end to the longest strike in Stanford history. The final contract was little improvement above the University's proposal which was offered all along. The contract provided for 17 percent increases in wages and a $5 a month increase in medical benefits during the first two years. Union members approved the contract 420 to 100, but not because most of them were happy with the proposal. During the union meeting, leaders said there was a lot of pressure from the membership just to get workers back to their jobs. The University saved at least $1.23 million in unpaid wages, although it incurred other additional costs including overtime paid to policemen and managers, vandalism repairs, delays in construction and legal costs. In the end, the University had been forced to make few concessions to the union. Labor-management relations had been badly damaged. But most members of the Stanford community —students, workers, managers, and faculty — were glad to see the University running smoothly again, and most had a better appreciation of the men and women constantly working behind the scenes. STOPPED IN ITS TRACKS: United Stanford Workers strikers block a truck delivery to Tresidder Union. Campus '82-'83 Sepl. 23-27 — The USW strike welcomed students back to the Farm; New independent houses opened in Governor's Corner; New bike lanes caused controversy. Oct. 9-10 — The Grateful Dead played to sellout crowds of 9500 in Frost Amphitheater in the first campus concerts in three years. Oct. 11 — The USW strike was settled when workers approved a pact, 420-100. Oct. 29 — Students fled warping walls in Trancos Hall. Nov. 4 — Negative reactions were voiced in a hearing on the Stanford West housing project. Increased transportation problems and damage to San Francisquito Creek were the concerns most often stated. Nov. 5 — Residents of Branner and the Residential Management Office battled over artwork carved into newly-poured concrete in front of the hall. Nov. 19 — Five students were hit by a sports car which plowed through the Big Game Rally in San Francisco. Nov. 24 — Stanford Daily staffers circulated 7000 copies of a mock Daily California headlined NCAA awards Big Game to Stanford” around the Berkeley campus. Dec. 1 — The University granted 26 News Review