Volume XCiV, Number 32
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University of Southern California
Wednesday, October 19, 1983
Zumberge to discuss S. Africa trip with BSU
MICHELE DURANT/DAILY TROJAN Isaac Gilliard, director of the Black Students' Union Student Affairs Committee, has been successful in arranging a discussion with President James Zumberge concerning the administrator's trip to South Africa.
By Mark Lowe
Assistant Qty Editor
President James Zumberge will soon meet with members of the Black Students' Union in a publicly open forum to discuss both his September visit to South Africa and the university's investments there.
Isaac'Gilliard, director of the BSU student affairs committee, announced at the committee's regular meeting Tuesday that Zumberge has agreed to meet with members of the BSU and other interested students.
'Today I received a phone call from George Abdo (executive assistant to Zumberge)," Gilliard said, "and he informed me that the president would indeed grant the BSU a hearing."
The announcement was confirmed by Abdo, who said no date had been set for the meeting. Gilliard, however, said he hopes to hold the forum Oct. 25, Nov. 1 or Nov. 6.
Zumberge, who is currently in Chicago on a fund-raising drive for the university, was not available for comment. He will not return until next week.
Members of the BSU called for the meeting with Zumberge in a letter submitted to the president last week. They called for the president to discuss what he
Transfer students hurt by cuts
By Cornell Barnard
Staff Writer
Recent budget cuts by Gov. George Deukmejian are leaving California's 107 community colleges hard hit, an impact which may soon be felt by the university, where about one-half of the students are transfers from community colleges or the state university system.
"When academic classes and teaching staffs (at community colleges) are cut, it will begin to impact on four-year institutions, such as USC. This is because students won't be able to prepare themselves to transfer to universities," said Joan Nay, director of articulation.
"Real impact on the university probably will not be felt until next year, when community colleges start cutting academic teaching positions," she added.
The $232 million reduction in the $1.6 billion for the 1983-84 academic year has already resulted in faculty layoffs, the cancellation of thousands of class sections, and a reduced enrollment of about 100,000 students in the two-year colleges. Twelve college districts have said they may go bankrupt unless they receive more money this year.
Overall enrollment in the state's community colleges has plummeted 8.6 percent since the budget cuts went into effect. Further cuts in the community college budget—and concurrent decreases in enrollment—could, in the long-term, affect university enrollment, said Kathryn Forte, director of admissions.
"I'm not expecting cuts to continue to the community colleges from Sacramento, (but) if they do, the university will begin to see a decline in the number of transfers from community
"The public is becoming more and more aware of the ever increasing need for the educational system. Soon the public will feel the budget cuts, and when they do, they will understand the importance of two year colleges and the influence that they have on the community."
colleges as well as four-year institutions," Forte said.
"This decline will be a gradual one and I do not expect effects to show on the short-term of things," she added.
Transfer students, since they account for about half of the university's student population, are vital to the university. This year alone, 4,437 community college students applied here, 2,736 were admitted and 1,456 actually enrolled.
Nay said another impact that might be felt by the university is cancellation of classes at community colleges as a result of budget cuts. She said that if a university student wanted to take a summer school class at a community college that was needed for graduation, he or she might not be able to do this because of the cancelled classes.
Budget cuts are also forcing financially-strapped community colleges to reduce the hiring of staff, which has caused a reduction in the number of classes offered.
"Some of our students are coming back saying that many of those classes were full due to the fact that community colleges are not putting on additonal staff to allow more class sections to be opened," said Nay. She added that many university students encountered this problem
during the last summer session.
The cuts in the state funding were followed by a proposal by Deukmejian to force community college students to pay a $50 semester tuition fee. This, combined with the budget cuts themselves, may have contributed to the drop in community college enrollment, said Forte.
The nine-campus Los Angeles community colleges, the largest two-year college district in the country, reports an enrollment drop of 5 percent. This district has adopted a budget calling for the elimination of 2,400 classes, the laying off of several hundred employees, and a 6 percent cut in salaries.
Enrollment drop has occured at all kinds of colleges—large and small, urban, suburban and rural. Cerritos College in Norwalk dropped 14 percent between last fall and this semester. San Jose City College fell off 15 percent and Palo Verde, a small college in Blythe, dropped 17 percent.
"The public is becoming more and more aware of the ever increasing need for the educational system," said Forte. "Soon the public will feel the budget cuts, and when they do, they will understand the importance of two-year colleges and the influence that they have on the community."
saw in South Africa and how it relates to university investments there.
BSU members were outraged by Zumberge's visit to South Africa, both because of its government's policy of apartheid—the legal segregation of whites from non-whites—and because of university investments in companies dealing with the South African government. They contended that university investments in South Africa are a form of economic, if not moral, support to the government there and to apartheid.
Darryl Adams, president of the BSU, noted the university's stated goal is the "moral and spiritual improvement of man, yet we find ourselves indirectly and directly supporting a
country that's oppressing 80 percent of its population."
He said Zumberge's trip to South Africa was a "downright slap in the face," and said the president "added insult to injury when he came back and just sort of skirted the issue (of apartheid)."
Abdo, though, said Zumberge had not hidden any information about his journey, saying "the president does not make public statements about every trip he makes."
The letter to Zumberge read, in part:
"As you may recall through pre-vious discussions with members of our organization, the quality of life of many of the inhabitants of South
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University to get section of Hoover
By Joann Gekko
Staff Writer
The university may soon acquire outright ownership to .mother section of Hoover Boulevard, the on-campus street which has been closed to through traffic since 1969.
University officials are negotiating the agreement with the Los Angeles Qty Council, and the acquisition should take place within 30 days, the officials said.
The Qty of Los Angeles presently owns the section of Hoover which transverses across campus between 34th Street and Exposition Boulevard. The purchase of the boulevard between these two streets would give the university full ownership of the road.
That section of the boulevard is currently a public street, and a resolution will have to be adopted and recorded by the City Council before Hoover can be made into saleable dty property. City officials said the process should take several weeks.
"An appraisal of the street has to take place (to evaluate its monetary value), and in order to sell city-owned property, the council has to adopt an ordinance approving the sale," said Harry Sawada, a civil engineer for the dty.
Anthony Lazzaro, vice president for university business affairs,
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The university is moving to acquire the remainder of Hoover Boulevard from the Los Angeles City Council as part of the campus proper. The dty will notify the university concerning the proposal within the next several weeks.