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Show NOTICEl, ROAD CLOSEDiK ON OR AFTER p SJLLRDAy SIJ 24th t PLEASE FIND f ALTERNATE ROUTE ;': I Block I seating is back le;'i by REX NUTTING Chronicle Staff Block seating for Saturday's i: game has been re-established by a vote of the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU) As-sembly. As-sembly. A special meeting was called by the members of assembly to discuss the issue, v The vote, 31-10, continues the plans already made as an "experi- ment" to see if the student want block seating. Groups may pick up their block seating tickets by call-W call-W ing ASUU and making arrangements arrange-ments to get them there. Some tickets tic-kets will be delivered by hand. Individual In-dividual students may get their tickets tic-kets at the gate before the game. Norm Albiston called the meet- ing to order, saying the emotions involved were somewhat similar to 1) those involved when the assembly 1L discussed the Vietnam War last spring. Steve. Rich, chairman of Programs Pro-grams Board, explained what the block seating would involve. Blocks j will be scattered throughout student stu-dent seating, with individual seat-f seat-f ing interspersed. Mr. Rich explain-.j explain-.j ed that to "improve the way the University comes across to the public, the studentbody must be solidified." He also called it "more beneficial to the overall view of the i student section and to the indivi- . dual student." t Bill Thurman called block seat-V seat-V ing "a classic example of infringement infringe-ment of basic constitutional rights." 1C. Equal protection of the law is denied to individual students, ac- The closure of Penrose Drive is only temporary, bur during the nine months it will be closed, other roads must carry extra traffic. cording to Mr. Thruman. "It caters I to special interests, there's no get-: get-: ting around it," said Mr. Thurman. Clark Campbell argued for the proposal, saying, "It is a great big ; hassle to stand in line for a tic-. tic-. ket." He claimed that the line the ! average student stands in would be j shorter because students in block j groups wouldn't be in them. Mr. i. Campbell also claimed that it was not discrimination against the in- dividual student because the people I in block groups would have to stand I in line just like everybody else. "If anybody should represent the stu-: stu-: dents, we should," continued Mr. : Campbell. The issue will again come up be-! be-! 'ore the next home game on Oct. ; 28. |