News Scrapbook 1986

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341,840)

USD: ~J>llege Cab' picks up students' tab Continued from B-1 difficult situation where they feel student name and number) and then and we_ only keep the receipts for a free ride home, courtesy of the uni- versity ar:d tud nt government. threatened or unsafe. sign the receipt at the end of the ride. accounting purposes. But if one stu- (Swanke, a senior at USD, was last Students are not required to ex- dent number .starts to appear fr~- seen alive at ahout 2 a.m. Nov. 20, plain why they need the cab to cam- quently, ~e might call that student m

MAR 1 o 198e

.Jlllf'rt • P. C B I H.~·x / USD offers ~s5" bf are to stude ts B} lich, el colt-Blair .'llrf Writ r Sally was attending a student party c I bra..ng anotber Unive~{lr. (lf San Diego ha ketball team VICO· r but ally v uncomfortable and g ttmg more uncomfortable by the minute Her dat , a fellow USO student, h d dm en her to the party, but he was tting drunk. Now he wa on th other side of town with very little mcney in her purse, and her drunken date was her ride home. It 1s not an uncommon situation. ay official at USD. b t the campus 'tud nt body governm nt nd stu- dent erv1c s hav found an uncom- mon solution Uy (n t her real name) simply picked up th telephone. called Orang Cab Co of n D• go, and got ·e U on Pag1 B-8 I t

Called' Col,ege Cab," it is believed to be th<> ft st comprehensive free cab service to the nation to be devel- oped between a university and a cab company. Other schools have programs at- tempting to offer similar assistance, although they are considerably smaller in scope. Both SDSU and UCSD have escort services within their campuses, officials said. "Other universities provide cam- pus transportation for special event~, such as an annual ball, for students who get into difficulty, but we be- lieve th1 i the first time that stu- dents have been able to get a free cab out of a dtfhcult situation from anywhere m the city," said Gaye "I and m ny other people here could give you dozens of examples of situation imilar to those experi- enced by Sally," said Soroka. "Many young women students fre- quently find themselves in a difficult situation, yet they don't want to make a fuss or accuse their date of being too drunk to drive. And nobody 1s forgetting that acquaintance, or 'date rape,' is on the increase in the nation," she said. The service is not just for party goers. Mindful of the murder of USD hon- ors student Anne Swanke, the new cab service is available to students who find themselves in any kind of Soroia, dinator.

and see if there are oth~; problems that we can help resolve, she said/

1984, carrymg a can of gasoline back to her stranded car. Her body was found four days later by a hiker on a

pus authorities and are not called up~n to reimburse the e_xpense We find ourselves in a d1choto- mous position," said Soroka. "In some ways it looks as t~ou_gh we ~re

hillside in Spring Valley.)

"Under the new service, Anne could have gone to the nearest phone, condon~_g excessive drmk_mg, whic~ got a free ride home, and taken care we d~fm1tely ar~ not, yet 1f we don t of her car the next day," said Soroka. provide the service, we know we are Paul Briggs, a student government turning. our backs o_n stud~nts w_ho ff . 1· · th Ph. K a Theta are going to get into d1ff1cult1es o 1cer ac 1ve m e I app · t" f t t told of a recent whether we condon~ 1t or_n? .- c:a~fr~it/ap!~~ \,here five party . The student services d1v1S1on con- felt the had drunk too much to s1dered several alternaltves before goers Y settling on the cab. be safe on the road. "We thought of making campus ·we simply called a cab and sent transportation available, but quickly them all home free of charge. It is realized that we could not be in all much safer for them and everyone places at all times of need." said else," said Briggs. Soroka. The program is being Jointly fund- "Then we remembered the free ed l>y $500 from the student govern- cab ·er ·ices (lffered by local compa- ment through tudent fees, and $500 n cs during rational holiday week- from campus funds, to provide a ends when there is a lot of traditional $1.000 fund for this semester. The celebrating. We wondered if we program is also being promoted by could reach agreement with a local BACCHUS, an acronym for Boost Al· cab company on a more permanent coho! Consciousness Concerning the basis," she said. Health of Univ rs1ty Students, a na- The Orange company gave the uni- honal peer alcohol education group. versity a price break, and the service Bacchus was the Greek and Roman went into operation at the beginning god of wme and revelry. of February. If the program is successful this •·we have not had a lot of use yet semester, add1t onal funding will be and there is no evidence of any made available officials said abuses," said Soroka, who said he

realizes a student could use the ser- vice for other than emergency situa- tions. "We don't have any formal plans for checkmg on abuses at present,

When using the cab, stud~nts must provide their student card for the driver (if they have forgotten their card, the driver can call campus se- curity 24 hours a day to confirm the

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Dally Transcript (Cir. D. 7,41 5)

Chuck Hatch OfDunphy Construction Co. Tells How Pre-Engineered Buildings May Save Time, Money For Their Developers You can get a suit made by a tailor or take it off the rack. ance, another plus

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for pre- engineered structures is the rapid construction timetable. "Both mtenm financing and labor costs are l hus cut, another benefit to the bottom line," he says. Hatch points to an eye-opening statistic. "More than half of the low-rise, non-residential structures of up to 150,000 square feet built in the U.S. in recent years utilize pre- engineered metal building sys- tems. They're usually known as 'Butler buildings' although the systems themselves are produced by a number ofmanufacturers." (In San Diego, Dunphy Con- struction utilizes systems pniduced by Butler Manufacturing Co. of Kansas City, Mo., for its pre- engineered construction.) Hatch says that among the ready-made systems currently gaining a lion's share of the low- nse market are those for industrial and R&D plants, warehouses, shopping centers and malls, office buildings, community buildings, schools and churches. "Every building," Hatch points out, "is a complex system engineered to compensate for forces acting on the structure. The skeleton, roof and walls can be thought of as the major sub- systems. "The pre-engineered approach is essentially different from the con- ventional approach in that the elements of each subsystem and the subsystems themselves are in- tended to work together from the outset," he said. "Each component, down to the smallest fastener, is designed to meet the structural engineering demands of the building. Then, components are pre-cut and, ideal- ly, pre-punched and delivered to the site. "These components can rightful- ly be called 'systems' when all of the elements are designed and fab- ricated by one manufacturer so the parts work together, mutually supporting and bracing each other. "The components should, therefore, be sized efficiently to minimize mat •rial waste while providing op imum strength and security," he said. "Properly carried out, the sys- tems approach is the result of ex- tensive and verifiable research ap- plied to the efforts of professional engineers who prepare designs and specifications for the systems. "Among the factors studied in the systems utilized by Dunphy are wind and rain loads, heat transfer, seismic conditions, air and water infiltration, solar radiation, salt air and humidity, and other envir- onmental conditions." Hatch said another surprising

benefit of pre-engineered struc- tures is the wide choice of exterior wall coverings possible. "This is because the high struc- tural integrity of a pre-engineered steel structure removes the re- quirement for exterior walls to be load-bearing," he said. "Walls do add to the resistance of the build- ing to horizontal stresses, such as high winds, but their chief purpose is to provide a weather-tight, secure enclosure. "Virtually any material, in- cluding wood, glass, concrete (pre- cast or tilt-up), brick and other ma- sonry may be selected by the owner or his architect." Hatch said pre-engineered build- ings usually are constructed on a design/build or turnkey basis, where the full responsibility for the project, from conception to oc- cupancy, rests with a single firm answering directly to the build- ing's owner. This is the practice with Dun- phy's pre-engineered systems divi- sion. Because the contractor con- trols the entire construction pro- cess, he can offer a program that includes a guaranteed maximum cost for the project. The owner, therefore, is in the enviable posi- tion of knowing up front exactly how much his project will cost. The design/build contractor of a pre-engineered project can often reduce by up to one-third the time needed for construction. Construc- tion can actually proceed in steps as portions of the working draw- ings are completed. "As more and more developers and owner/users recognize the effi- ciency, economy and beauty possi- ble with pre-engineered systems, the _greatly expanded use we've noticed in the past several years will continue to accelerate," Hatch concluded.

You can get a building done the same way - designed, engineered and built from scratch at the site, or you can get it pre-engineered, factory manufactured and merely assembled at the site. AB with a suit, the ready-made is usually less expensive, equally functional and often just as attrac- tive, says a local construction ex- ecutive. There's a tad more status with a tailor-made suit, certainly. But, for many men, that doesn't make up for the considerably greater cost. Chuck Hatch, manager of the pre-en&ineered systems division of Dunphy Construction, has specified and built pre-engineered structures for more than 12 years. Many devel-

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opers and build- ing users might save money, reduce mainten-

"Pre-engineered or 'Butler buildings' have been given an un- fair onus by some contractors who build exclusively tailor-made," Hatch said. "While dead wrong, that's still understandable," he said. "When factory-made buildings were first produced a couple of generations ago, they tended to be in the 'tin shed' category. I guess a similar situation was true in the ready- made suit business. "But it isn't so anymore. There is total design flexibility and we can go as high as 10 stories," he said. ''Some of the finest industrial and commercial buildings in San Diego, and in the country, are pre- engineered, although few persons beyond the design and building teams realize it." In San Diego, Hatch said, some of the better pre-engineered struc- tures built by his firm are the Cubic Corp. engineering building, General Dynamics Electronics Division bmlding and its recently completed Data Services Division computer center, the Kaypro Corp. computerized storage facility, the Spruce Street Office Building, the Spectra'! Dynamics office and assembly building, and the Uni- versity of San Diego's physical plant building and Guadalupe J Hall. Hatch said that, in addition to initial cost and reduced mainten-

153 feet wide, demonstrates the versatility possi- ble in pre-engineered structures. Its entrance is at right background.

General Dynamics Data Sy terns Division com- puter center on Kearny Mesa, one of the largest buildings in an Diego County at 513 feet long and

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