Volume XCI Number 65
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University of Southern California
Friday April 23, 1982
What has fur and flies? Not Arno from security
By Wendell Mobley
Assistant City Editor
Arno, one of two University Security police dogs, has learned — the hard way — that he cannot fly.
Arno leaped off the fourth and top floor of Parking Structure B one night during March, breaking his right foreleg. University Security Chief Steven Ward said Thursday.
“He tried to fly,” Ward said matter-of-factly. “He was just exercising. He rode up (to the top floor) in the car and we assume he didn’t know he was on the roof.”
The officers who were accompanying the dog were reportedly monitoring suspects. The dog, sitting inside of the officers’ squad car, jumped out of the auto. Arno, a 2-foot-tall German shepard, then leaped over the wall, landing in some ground cover. Ward said.
“The officers rushed down (to where he landed) and he was up and ready to go. They say he looked a little embarrassed,” Ward reported.
Authorities rushed the dog to a veterinary hospital in West Los Angeles where X-rays were taken and a soft cast was applied.
“We’ve been training them to go over walls to chase suspects,” Ward said. “But he w’asn’t chasing suspects.”
Ward said the dogs are supposed to perform only on command. The dogs, he said, will be further trained not to jump over a wall without a command.
LAW STUDENT BEGINS COALITION TO END VIOLENCE IN EAST LA
Former gang member fights for peace in barrios
By Susan Straight
The poster is a striking, unsettling collage of images: In the upper left-hand corner, five young boys crouch is front of a w'hite low'-rider. cradling shotguns and rifles in their arms. This is not El Salvador, but East L.A., and these are homeboys. This warfare is far closer to home.
In the lower right, oppposite the homeboys, stand Gus Frias and four young men wearing suits and cradling books in their arms. Separating the two groups is a wall that bears the University of Southern California inscription. And, high above all. the La Virgen de Guadnlupe looks down
Frias has buried three of the young
homeboys, all only 15 when they died. The most haunting part of the poster is the look on their faces as they crouch jauntily; they are smiling, assured, cocky and infallible in their youth.
Gus Frias has stood on both sides, the homeboy and the educated young man desiring peace in the barrio. It was a long, hard journey.
He leans back in his chair, seated in his office at El Centro Chicano at this university. The poster is behind him along with many others. One shows a young Chicano woman holding in her arms a young man in draped pants, with a thin moustache and blood flowing from a bullet hole in his heart.
Above Frias’ head is a large sign that
reads “California Coalition to End Barrio Warfare." Frias is the coordinator of the coaltion, which has approximately 100 members. They are dedicated to ending the senseless killings of young homeboys and the fights between Chicano n n which are the result of many elements: negative environmental conditions, neighborhood traditions that are strong and potent peer pressure.
Homeboys are not gangs, says Frias, but raza brothers fighting to survive in an Anglo-dominated, hostile society.
“You can take the homeboy out of the barrio, but you can never take the barrio out of the homeboy," he says.
He speaks of himself now. a man vho has a bachelor’s degree from this univ-
ersity, and two years of law school at Hastings behind him. He still lives not far from the house he lived in as child, in the East Los Angeles barrio of Rock \faravilla.
The day before his inteniew, he was at a hospital at the bedsides of two more 15-year-olds with their families. The boy was shot in the face with a .38-caliber pistol, and the girl, who Frias says was in the wrong place at the wrong time, was shot in the back
“The madnein tht barrio continues. One barrio is shedaing tears today, and another is celebrating, ” Frias says.
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New budget will allocate departmental funding
Subvention technique to remedy inequities
Eric Onstad
Staff Writer
Subvention.
This word has been floating through university budget meetings, senior vice presidents’ speeches and deans’ enrollment discussions since the university adopted a new method of budgeting last December.
This all-purpose term seems to have a life of its own.
It has been used to explain why the Gerontology Center will be cutting back programs next year while other departments will be expanding.
It has also been used to explain why the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences will be shoring up its programs, and the financially successful School of Business will have funds taken away.
This “miracle” word in the new budgetary' process is w'hat the administration uses to explain a redistribution of funds among departments.
The new budget is decentralized and allocates funds based on financial and enrollment statistics from each department.
But unlike a business corporation, the "profitability” of a university department can be misleading on paper.
The undergraduate tuition charge is the same whether a student studies accounting or piano, but the unit cost for certain departments such as performing arts is much greater than one like the business school.
"There are good academic reasons why you address that peculiarity,” said John Curry, executive director of the university budget.
At the undergraduate level, a student should be able to choose his field of interest without having to worry' about differences in cost, Curry said. “You see a difference in tuition at the graduate level.”
In the new budget, the process of subvention attempts to make up for these inequitites.
The subvention fund is made up of: 1) a 20 percent contribution of each department’s income, 2) unrestricted endowment income and 3) income from investment of current funds.
The fund was then redistributed through three “rounds” of subvention grants.
The first sum of S51.3 million was distributed on the ba-
sis of the size of the department. “in proportion to direct unrestricted income.”
The second step was a distribution of $6.5 million in “excess” funds from the more profitable units: School of Engineering. School of Business, College of Letters. Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Safety and Systems Management.
This second distribution was made by judging “The quality
of each unit’s academic program, its relevance to the overall mission of the university and its essential needs,” stated Cornelius Pings, senior vice president of Academic Affairs, in his budget message.
The last round allocated $2 million that was held back from the first two rounds “to address certain acute problem areas in the 23 schools and to assist activities deemed to be of special priority,” Pings said.
Staff photos by Jessica Friedheim
SALUTE TO THE ISLANDS — A Hawaiian band and group of dancers entertain university students in front of Tommy Trojan Thursday, treating them to a flavor of the islands._