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Show Union Director States Views On Huddle People By FRANK ERICKSON Ernest L. Bebb, Jr., is the director direc-tor of the Union Building. He entered en-tered the position in March. For nine months previous there had been no director. He came from the State University of New York, College at Oswego, where he had been director of Hewitt Union. He has been associated with directing di-recting college unions since his undergraduate days. He has a B.S. from the University of Nebraska and an M.A. from Michigan State. What does Mr. Bebb think of the University Union after serving as its head for a month? A Good Union "It is a very good Union and it serves its purpose well. It operates oper-ates on the theory that all student activities, not just Union activities, should take place in the Union, and this is a theory I subscribe to." What about the recent controversy contro-versy over the Huddle? "I can't say that no drugs have ever passed through the Huddle, but I don't believe it is the center of drug traffic in Salt Lake. The series, because the threat of an influx wouldn't be present." "I don't go along with the theory that the Union is tax built so all tax payers can use it. Hill Air Force Base is built from taxes, but I can't use it."' Mr. Bebb talked about the planned plan-ned expansion of the Union Building. Build-ing. "We will be expanding in two areas, on the west end and the north end." "On the west end, a new Panorama Panor-ama room and dining room will be added, a 500 person banquet hall and ballroom, and a world affairs lounge with elaborate television facilities." "In the expanded north wing will be a publication suite of 12 rooms in which the Chronicle, Pen and Utonian will be housed. The student activities center will be moved into this section, and the space where the activities center is now will be converted into meeting meet-ing rooms." "A stairway will be built from the Commons to the stairway by the Huddle Ticket booth, also." Cost of the expansion will be nearly $1 million. Bids will be open Wednesday. Mr. Bebb gave credit for the planning of the Union expansion to his predecessors. "Most of the planning was done before I got here, and it has all been carefully thought out. Huddle is used by people as a symbol sym-bol of the current drug problem in colleges across the country." Point the Finger "People read something in the paper about the hippie movement somewhere and then they point their finger at the Huddle. "To my knowledge, there has never been a drug arrest in the Huddle. There are places in the city, I imagine where there have been drug arrests, and yet people don't point to them as the center of drug activity." What is the policy concerning police? po-lice? "The campus security aren't required re-quired to come to my office to gain permission to enter the Union. If the building were on fire, we wouldn't require the fire department depart-ment to gain permission before putting put-ting it out, and the policy with police is the same." "We do like to know what is going on in the building however, and so we have requested the police to contact our office. High School Problem Are high school students a problem prob-lem in the Union? "High school students could use the Union facilities to the point where they would deprive University Univers-ity students of their use, but at present they don't." "The Union is to serve the students, stu-dents, faculty, staff and alumni of the University. The alumni and guests don't have ID, and to make an issue of ID would possibly promote pro-mote ill will. We also like to extend ex-tend the cultural facility of the Union to the community." "However, occasions where there might be a large influx of high school students, like stomps, we do require ID. We wouldn't require them at something like a lecture ' V . , f fit l' sr I i 7 i EARNEST BEBB ... Union Director |