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WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY — President James H. Zumberge Monday ad-ressed the audience at the first Academic Honors Convocation saluting the university's outstanding faculty, students and staff.
Academic awards given to faculty, students, staff
By Marc Igler
Staff Writer
The university presented its scholastic version of the Academy Awards Monday in Bovard Auditorium as it recognized the distinguished achievements of 30 individuals with the Academic Awards Convocation.
The awards ceremony, which will now become an annual event, honored faculty, staff and students for what President James H. Zumberge said were “consequential achievements in their fields.”
“The university takes pride in rewarding these distinguished Trojans who have performed extraordinarily in the past," Zumberge said.
The ceremony, in addition, included a special tribute to Zohrab A. Kaprie-lian, the dean of engineering and former executive vice president who died Dec. 30. In his closing remarks on Kaprie-lian, Zumberge announced plans by the university to build a new engineering facility in memory of the late dean.
“Kaprielian's high standards in every-
thing he did were a cornerstone in the school he was building. From him we have all learned to dream large dreams,” said George Bekey, a professor of electrical engineering and a close friend of Kaprielian.
The hour-long ceremony offered some touching moments as the Distinguished Emeriti Awards were presented to Clarence Berne, Floyd Ruch, Charles Hirt and Martha Boaz.
After Joeseph Van Der Meulen, vice president of Health Affairs, had recounted some of Berne's accomplishments, Berne, with the help of two fellow professors, summoned up the strength to stand and receive the audience's applause.
Ruch, dressed in a flowing academic gown and mortar board, as was the rest of the faculty assembled on the Bovard stage, sat stoicly in a wheelchair as Donald Lewis, chairman of the psychology department, described the contributions Ruch made to the university during 31 years of service.
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Volume XCI Number 53
University of Southern California
Tuesday March 30, 1982
Library science school to relocate
Budget cuts, enrollment drop cause move
By Yolanda Austin
Staff Writer
Due to proposed university budget cuts and declined enrollment, the School of Library and Information Management and its library will vacate Montgomery Ross Fisher Building at the end of this semester.
However, the school will remain active in creating new programs and expects enrollment to increase, the school’s dean said Monday.
Cornelius Pings, vice president of Academic Affairs, said
administrators decided on the move to meet budget cut proposals.
Tentative plans to move the school into Waite Phillips Hall and the library into the Education Library have been scheduled for June, Pings said.
“The size of the building is out of balance with the current size of the faculty and student body of the school,” Pings said.
Pings said ihe administation has not yet decided what the Library Science Building will be used for, but the decision
will be made soon.
“It is a fine building that will certainly be used productively,” Pings added.
Roger Greer, dean of the School of Library Science, said enrollment has declined from 408 in 1973 to a current enrollment of 153 in the masters program and 35 in the graduate program.
“In effect, the school has not utilized all the space in the building for a number of years,” Greer said.
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Senate election results in; voter turnout increases
Student Senate elections concluded last week with approximately 1,287 students casting their ballots.
Although the number may seem small, the voter turnout increased from 8 percent last year to 10 percent in this election, said Marie McGrath, Joint Election Credential Committee chairman.
Students were able to vote all last week for a candidate within their constituency. These constituencies are commuters, Greeks, dorms and the student community.
The new senators will have an orientation meeting on April 14. where the chairman of the Student Senate will be elected. The new senators will also be sworn 1.1 by President James H. Zumberge on April 21, the day they officially take office.
They new Greek senate representatives are Rob Campion. Ann Drevno, Doug Holte and Tony Manos.
Commuter representatives are Mirtha Rodriguez. Richard Scotti, Julie Spezia, Kirbv Tanimura, and Karen Wong.
The new senators from the student community are Mark Decker. Peyton Fisher, Brian Johnson and Lupe Valdez.
Dorm representaives are Dan Dunmoyer, Gigi Fairchild and Patty Minor.
SAYS LEGISLATION INSTITUTIONALIZES FLOW OF CHEAP LABOR
Lawyer denounces Reagan’s undocumented alien bill
By Alan Grossman
Staff Writer
In discussing the problems of undocumented aliens living in the United States, Peter Schev, a lawyer with the National Center for Immigrant Rights, said Monday that the Reagan administration and Congress are attacking immigrants and refugees in this country.
Speaking at the Law Center, Schey, whose agency focuses on helping refugees and immigrants without legal documentation stay in the United States, said that two similar bills before Congress, one introduced by Reagan, the other by Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.J, call for a tightening of existing immigration laws.
The president has said the purpose of the bills is to grant amnesty to the four million undocumented workers in the country, but Schey denounced that idea.
“Neither of these bills pursue an amnesty. They seek to institutionalize the flow of cheap labor to employers,” he said.
But the aspect of the bills that has garnered the most controversy thus far is the section calling for a national identification card for all citizen-workers as well as alien-workers in the United States.
“There are of course a lot of long-term implications to this,” said Schey, who later questioned how the government could develop such a program.
“Just how many people would actually subject
themselves to the process of getting a card?” he asked.
Schey said that the bill calls for sanctions against employers who hire person without cards and suggested that any possible financial penalties might be passed on to workers via lower wages or speedups (an employer forcing his workers to produce faster but at the same hourly wagej.
Schey added that undocumented workers would be especially hurt by an increased number of raids by immigration officials. With the danger of being discovered heightened, immigrants would be more susceptible to mistreatment by employers. Many immigrants, he said, would be told to work harder for less money or face being turned in for deportation.
“When you double the raids, you double the exploitation factor,” he said.
“Sixty-nine members of Congress have written to Reagan, calling his bill totalitarian, and they don’t use that kind of language very often,” Schey said.
He also talked of other reasons why the bill would hurt rather than benefit aliens and refugees.
“The bills would call for no appeals in political asylum cases.” he said. “The decisions of whether or not an applicant is accepted would be made by an employee of the immigration service — just one employee.”
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