Health center expansion seen by committee
By Laura Rodriguez
Assistant City Editor
A proposal to expand the Student Health Center facilities, which would add a three-storv wing and house all health and counseling services, has been presented by the Student Health Advisory Committee for approval to university President James H. Zumberge and James Appleton, vice president for Student Affairs.
After five months of deliberations, the committee compiled a student evaluation to inform students of the current inadequacies of the health center and demonstrate the necessity of additional space. Also included in the questionnaire was the estimated cost of construction.
The advisory committee concluded that with the increase in medical, psychological, preventive and educational programs through the health center, the expansion of the facilities was needed.
Currently, the programs function through various locations throughout the campus, none of which have sufficient spate to operate properly.
After observing the number of patients that utilize the health center, the committee found that approximately 350 students are seen daily in about 9,000 square feet of working space. And although special services are available, such as minor surgery, physical therapy, X-ray, doctors’ offices, laboratory and emergency room, it was decided that the existing area was inadequate, the proposal states.
The upper floor of the YWCA currently houses part of the USC Counseling Services, while an additional part is located in the health center. In the proposal, the advisory committee concluded that it is necessary for patients and staff to have access to the entire department in one location.
Other programs such as Outreach, First-Aid Training, the Health Advocate Program and the Helpline Service have found temporary shelter in the upper level of the
University Methodist Church, which makes it less accessible for student and staff use, the proposal says.
The expansion of the facility, as proposed, would require only partial redesign of the existing building.
A new wing and basement would be connected to the health center, but would take away some area of the adjoining parking lot.
Under the new proposal, emergency psychiatric services would be available on the same level of the building as legal and counseling services. Classrooms for the Health Advocate Program and the self-help clinic as well as optometry, handicapped student services and health education would be included on the first floor.
Space accommodations in the new construction also include a walk-in area, an immunization clinic and the orthopedic department on the first floor. A conference room, two multi-purpose rooms, medical library and the SHARE clinic would be housed on the middle level. The top floor would incorporate the administrative offices. Additional room and space needs would be distributed as the proposal allows.
If approved, the committee expects the project to take approximately four years to complete and estimates the cost to be $5 million, the proposal states.
At the time the questionnaire was distributed, committee members asked students if they would be willing to pay an additional $5 charge per semester to fund the new building. Although 65 percent of the students agreed to the additional charge, the committee was informed that they cannot request financial assistance from students for building construction.
The committee is currently requesting university assistance and financial support from off-campus businesses.
(Continued on page 8)
Students lose seats after ticket dispute
By Dave Fisher
Staff Writer
Approximately 200 students were forced out of their chairs and into the aisles at Saturday’s football game against UCLA when it was discovered tha* they had been sold tickets to seats already reserved for season ticket holders.
Patricia Tyner, Ticket Office manager, said the mix-up occurred when the person printing the tickets inadvertently printed too many rows for students in section 23. The mistake was compounded when the tickets were not voided but were distributed instead.
“If the tickets were supposed to have been student tickets, it would have been the other people who got displaced,” she said. “It’s just one of those things that happens. It was an error on the part of the Ticket Office. We just distributed the wrong tickets.
“We tried to put them (students) in other seats,” she continued. “As far as I know, most of the students were placed in other seats. We did have extra seats for that purpose.”
Some of the students were directed to seats set aside for such emergencies, but most were forced to sit in the aisles.
“It was terrible,” one student said. “People were spilling beer on me or getting in the way. Most qf the time I couldn't even see the game.”
Several arguments broke out between season ticket holders and students as they scrambled for seats.
(Continued on page 3)
General education to face criticism forms
By John Iki
Entertainment Editor
Students who believe that instructors are not effectively conducting general education courses will have an opportunity next week to officially complain to the Student Senate.
Curriculum and Professor Evaluation forms will be available beginning Monday at complaint boxes located at the main desk of the Student Activities Center, Birnkrant and EVK-Harris residence halls, Doheny Library and at a booth near Tommy Trojan from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“With tuition the way it is right now, we want to make sure that students are getting their money’s worth,” said Gina Handy, chairman of the senate’s Curriculum Committee, the branch of the Academic Affairs Research Action Unit that will review the com-
plaints.
“(The Curriculum Committee) is trying to get students’ input as to (the) classes they feel that the professors are not living up to their responsibilities (according to the Faculty Handbook),” Handy said. “We also want to encourage good comments.
“We’re not making up any new criteria (to determine) what a class should be like. We’re going back to university policy,” she said, adding that faculty teaching responsibilities were outlined in a 1978 decree from the Office of the President.
“No faculty members are going to be involved in evaluating this, so confidentiality is guaranteed,” she said.
, Handy explained that these forms, which will be evaluated by students on the committee, will differ from the university’s (Continued on page 7)
Volume XCI Number
University of Southern California Tuesday, November 24, 1981
Comedian delivers risque humor
Pairs comedy with musical parody
By Mark Grabow
Staff Writer
As a large, multi-colored banner bearing “Live on stage! As seen on T.V.! Laff! Songs!” was lowered from the stage scaffold of Bovard Auditorium Friday night, the crowd braced itself for the Martin Mull Show, which featured plenty of risque comedy and humor.
The stage setting depicted all the charm of "Fernwood To-
night,” Mull’s television comedy show. The love seat and lamp, similar, if not the same, to the ones used on the show, made it eas$ for any fan to reminisce. A piano was located behind the chair to the left.
Mull, with a Gibson jazz guitar slung around his shoulders, came out in the company of Wendy Haas, an attractive piano accompanist. The two immediately began a number
MARTIN MULL
in which Mull advised the audience, “Don’t ever leave things half-finished.” Like a true hypocrite, he stopped right in the middle. The crowd roared.
“I can’t tell you what an incredible thrill it is for me to be here tonight,” Mull said sarcastically. “You’ve already had one dollar’s worth of entertainment. When I first heard I was going to be on this program, I was of course worried. ‘Wow, would I be loud enough?’
“I took it very seriously because I realized that we are dealing not with your general riffraff off the streets of Los Angeles, but with people from as far. away as Watts.”
Explaining his first song, Mull said it was written about a girl he knew back in his college days. “Even though it’s been 28 years since I’ve seen her, I still think about her every morning. And I think you guys know what I’m driving at. Around my house, we call that playing tent.
“I’m sure at USC you have your own name for it,” he added. “Some of you freshmen are playing pup tent. Some of your professors on tenure call it revival tent.”
Mull procrastinated: “I think we have a great show for you and we’ll be starting pretty soon. Did anybody bring any books? You see, we're paid by the hour and I’d like to kill a couple minutes if I can.”
Sitting comfortably in the love chair and smoking the first of several cigarettes, Mull asked the students if they came to hear Bossa Nova music. “Incidentally, you’re probably (Continued on page 8)