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Volume XCIV, Number 7	University of Southern California	Wednesday, September 14, 1983
Schoenberg heirs push for institute's closure
Parking now free on campus at night
By Joann Galardy
Assistant City Editor
The Student Senate has instituted a program that will permit students to park on campus free of charge between the hours of 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.
Students must register for "no charge parking" by giving their name, presenting university identification, and listing the make and color of their car.
"We hope this will encourage students to use the librarv and to take advantage of some campus activities," said Nancy Calle, head of the senate's Research Action Unit and the one chiefly responsible for implementing the program.
Registration will be held next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, in front of Tommy Trojan and continuously throughout the semester in the senate office. The program is scheduled to begin on Sept. 26.
Calle warns, however, that there will be penalties imposed for those students who don't observe the 5 a.m. deadline. They will receive a ticket which will increase by one whole ticket price with each additional ticket.
"If the cost of your first ticket is $5, the cost of your second one will be $10, and the third $15," Calle said.
Parking officials will be responsible for making the daily check and if they find the parking structures have more than fifty cars remaining from the night before, the program will be cancelled.
Calle has worked closely with Carl Levredge, director of security and parking operation, to implement the program.
"It's something we agreed to do as a further service to students," Levredge said. "The Student Senate approached us with the idea of how to better accommodate the parking needs of students,".
"Response (to the program) has been very good, so far," Calle said.
Levredge said that a similar program had been tried before. In that instance, night parking was offered at a discount, but the program was not well received by students.
Leveredge is optimistic that by modifying the program and eliminating the cost, it will be successful.
Parking operations has had a problem with people coming on campus at night who say they will be staying only a short time and actually spend several hours on campus without paying a parking fee.
"We think we have established a program which will meet student needs while giving us more control over what goes on," Levredge said.
The Senate is currently working to establish its position on other major issues affecting the student community.
"We are still in our planning stages," said Bill Lilia, president of the Senate. "Within a month we should be rolling," he said.
Another issue discussed by the Senate was the debate over the ombudsman's position, a position being considered to help students in the dealings with university administration.
"Students are not getting adequate treatment," Calle said. "We want to see if there are students who go through channels and don't get their problems solved."
In an effort to prove this to the administration, the Senate will be circulating a student complaint form in the Senate office and at various other campus locations.
"The most important thing is to define the position," Lilia said. "We must try to come up with ideas on how the position should be used. To have an ombudsman for the sake of having one is wrong," Lilia continued.
Other concerns on the Senate's agenda include financial aid matters, improvement of library facilities, and the proposed Coliseum seating changes.
Say they are dissatisfied with the use of composer's archives
Spanish Track I dropped
By Mark Lowe
Assistant Qty Editor
When the Arnold Schoenberg Institute was dedicated and opened six-and-a-half years ago, it was a time of high hopes for both the university and the heirs of the renowned composer.
Now, however, what began so optimistically has become a bitter confrontation. The Schoenberg heirs, dissatisfied with the university's use of the Institute, have charged the board of trustees with breach of contract and are on the brink of removing the institute's valuable archives.
There is much at stake for both parties. The angular, architecturally unique building, locat-
ed next to Heritage Hall, serves an important function for the university and represents a monument of personal significance to the Schoenberg family.
The composer's archives contain thousands of manuscripts, musical scores and books. All focus international attention on the university as a site for scholarly research. The institute also serves the interests of the Schoenberg family by providing a permanent memorial for the musical pioneer.
Schoenberg's heirs are now saying that the university is not holding up its end of the bargain by using the institute for purposes that were not part of the original agreement. The univer-
sity says that the heirs are being too picky and unpractical and that their charges are exaggerated.
Charge: shabby treatment
"What's happened is the institute building has come under the budget of the music department, so it comes under all sorts of music department functions," said Ronald Schoenberg, one of the heirs. "That wasn't the deal," he added.
Schoenberg said he and his brother Lawrence—the two children of Arnold Schoenberg living in the United States—have complained to the university several times about the handling of the Institute but with no result.
"Finally you have to do something about it," Ronald Schoenberg said.
And if the archives are taken away from the Institute, warned William Thomson, dean of the school of music, the building will become a empty shell without a purpose.
"The building is designed and built so that it fulfills a specific function," Thomson said. "If the archives are removed, the building would be a white elephant."
Schoenberg legacy
The Schoenberg Institute was dedicated in 1977 both to the memory of composer Arnold (Continued on page 2)
The Arnold Schoneberg Institute has recently become the sight of a heated battle between the late composer's heirs and the university. Schoenberg's heirs say the building is not being used for what it was originally intended.
By Joseph McDade
Staff Writer
Track I of the Spanish Department is slowly being eliminated in an effort to bring the department up to date and better prepare students in the language.
The program is being phased out beginning this semester because it has come into conflict with the objective of the Spanish Department — to prepare students for the Skill Level Examination (SLE), a test Spanish students must pass to receive credit for their Spanish requirement, said Karen Smith, assistant. professor of Spanish and Portugese.
Under the 12-year-old track system, the teaching of Spanish was divided into three groups
—	Tracks I, II and III. Under Track I, students were never required to speak the language.
All Spanish students will be required to speak the language under the department's new system,
Smith said the changes in the department were "designed to meet the language needs of the students — reading in the language, communicating at a sophisticated level, using the language for employment, writing letters and reports and truly understanding the language."
Smith said she felt that Track
I,	which only combined the listening and reading aspect of Spanish, had become insufficient.
'Track I only teaches reading and writing, and the student today has to leam reading, writing and communicating," she said.
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The Spanish Department has dropped their Track I program in hopes of upgrading courses and student language proficiency.