Thirty-nine new campus telephones will be installed by the spring semester of 1987, according to Roxanne Shelly, co-director of the Center For Student Advocacy.
The installations were announced during last Thursday's Associated Students Legislature meeting in which the campus press and the AS elections were also discussed Shelly said 19 of the phones will be installed indoors and used for on campus calls.
The other 14 phones will be located outdoors and provide direct access to the Department of Public Safety.
Shelly said each phone could cost from $2,000 to $3,000, including installation costs.
Payments will be spread over a 10-year period.
Earlier last week, AS President-elect Celia Esposito said she will no longer speak to the Golden Gater this semester.
Esposito said inaccuracy and an unfair editorial policy led to her decision.
AS objections to the newspaper began last semester when Student Activities and rights chairman Bob Geiger felt he was unfairly criticized in a Gater editorial about his attempts to make the intersection at 19th and Holloway avenues safe for pedestrians.
Esposito severed relations with the Golden Gater this semester because of an editorial by David Plotnikoff, that accused the legislature of, among other things, a misuse of funds.
Esposito was chair of the finance committee for the 1984-85 school year.
Esposito said she feels she has an obligation to talk to the campus press but she chose not to speak with the Golden Gater because of past inaccuracies.
She said she will speak to the newspaper next semester.
Paul Miller, managing editor of the Golden Gater said Esposito's actions are "non-professional." "She's not just blocking out us. She's blocking out the campus."
Also at Thursday's meeting, the legislature answered a complaint legislature answered a complaint made during the recent AS elections by VOTE candidate Eric Logsdon.
Logsdon, who was elected representative-at-large, had contested the conduct of the elections, clairding: Extended Education students were not allowed to vote.
A faculty member was not always present at the voting table, as required by election rules.
Both slates violated a California Education Code policy by handing out campaign leaflets within 100 feet of the voting table.
John Cruikshank, AS Elections Committee chair, said Extended Education students have never been allowed to vote because they do not pay fees to the AS.
Regarding Logsdon's second complaint, Cruikshank said the two slates had agreed to allow AS Omslates had agreed to allow AS Ombudsman Derek Gilliam to replace Penny Saffold, associate provost of Student Activities, when she was unable to observe the voting.
Saffold said the ombudsman job description permitted Gilliam to take her place as election observer.
Geiger responded to Logsdon's third complaint, saying both slates had waived the Education Code policy by agreeing to distribute leaflets no closer than 60 feet from the polling table instead of the required 100 feet.
In other issues concerning the elections, the committee considered throwing out the results of two amendments approved by a 4 to 1 margin by student voters.
The committee said the wording of the amendments was confusing to students.
One amendment changes the AS election date from March to "not later than the last day of November.
"The other amendment lowered the required grade point average for legislature candidates to 2 from 2.25 and the required units candidates must carry to six from seven.
But Saffold, prevented the committee from disregarding the student votes on the amendments.
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