Trustees approve renovation plan
Science building to be refurbished
By Steve De Salvo
Staff Writer
The university’s Board of Trustees approved a $1.5 million renovation plan for the Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Building last Wednesday at its second meeting this year, a spokesman for the president’s office said Thursday.
The renovation plan was approved while construction of the adjacent Hedco Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Building continues. The Hedco building is expected to be completed in six weeks.
Complete refurbishment of laboratories and classrooms of the 24-year-old Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Building is projected to begin in the late summer of 1983, said Anthony Lazzaro, vice president of business affairs. Con-truction is expected to take approximately 14 months to complete, he said.
"The decision to refurbish the old Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Building was made two years ago when it was decided to build the Hedco structure,” Lazzaro said.
Jack Hoagland, director of development for the school of engineering, said the refurbishing funds were donated by Jerry and Nancy Neely.
Mr. Neely is the chief executive officer of the Smith Corp. in Newport Beach and is a university trustee.
In addition to the refurbishing, an undergraduate laboratory — named the Fred L. Hartley Undergraduate Laboratory — will be built in the Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Building, Hoagland said.
Funds for the construction of the lab were donated by the Union Oil Foundation, he said. Hartley is the chairman, chief executive officer and president of Union Oil Co.
"This is an important construction and refurbishing project for the unversity,” Hoagland said. "The petroleum and chemical engineering disciplines are vital to this country.”
In addition to approving the renovation plan, the board also accepted the donation of a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, a renowned architect. Given by Mrs. Harriet Freeman, the house, built in 1925, is one of only a handful of buildings designed by Wright in Southern California. The Freeman House is located in Hollywood at 1629 Glencoe Way.
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Volume XCII, Number 29
University of Southern California
Friday, October 15, 1982
Student senators resign; personal differences cited
By Annette Haddad
Staff Writer
Personal differences and charges of “petty politicking” forced two student senators to resign after last spring’s senate elections.
Patty Minor, former dormitory senator, and Kirby Tanimura, former commuter senator, resigned from their posts because of a related incident during the senate’s executive committee elections.
The incident involved a controversy surrounding senate presidential nominations.
All positions in the senate’s executive committee must be self-nominated, then voted on by members of the senate.
The controversy arose when an unexpected candidate, Dan Dunmoyer, current president of the senate, announced his nomination. As a result, “factions”developed between members of the senate, Tanimura said.
“I resigned because I was exposed to petty politicking and backstabbing and I could not work (in the senate) knowing that people I worked with before were involved,” he said.
Before the election, Minor had reportedly made it clear to certain members of the senate of her intention to run for president. Two other senators also planned on running.
However, Minor said that on the night of the nominations, she had to leave for a conference in Washington, D.C., and was not aware that a fourth candidate, Dunmoyer, had thrown his hat into the ring.
Tanimura continued, “When Dan nominated himself, Patty had no idea (that he would do it). The consideration of Dan as a candidate was never mentioned before.”
Minor said that before the formal nominations, Dunmoyer had pledged his support to back her for the presidency.
"It was a moral judgment in my own mind,” Minor said of her resignation. “If a good friend would turn his back on me, Student Senate is not worth it.”
Dunmoyer said he was surprised when Minor dropped from the presidential race.
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Lot to close Monday at 2
Students who plan to park in the Menlo Avenue parking lots past 2 p.m. on Monday are requested to park in Parking Lot "S” instead, Gloria Payne, assistant director of parking operations, said Thursday.
Located at Vermont Avenue and Exposition Boulevard near the Coliseum, the parking lots are needed to accommodate parking for the National Football League Player Association’s All-Star game scheduled for Monday night.
The Menlo Avenue lots will be open only to those students who can remove their cars by 2 p.m., Payne said.
Students should plan to park in lot “S”, located near gate six at Vermont Avenue and 36th Place, she said.
Payne added that parking lot personnel will be placed at the lots to direct the operation.
Jailed writers focus of program
By Ellen Plotkin
Staff Writer
More than 400 writers throughout the world are imprisoned because they have written stories criticizing the heads of their countries. Many more have “disappeared,” said Adrienne Jones, chairperson of the freedom to write committee.
P.E.N. International, an umbrella group that includes the Freedom to Write Committee, writes to these countries on behalf of the prisoners, asking
that they be released.
Saturday marks the international day of observance for imprisoned writers.
The Los Angles chapter of P.E.N. (poets, essayists and novelists) will host the program, “Day of the Imprisoned Writer,” in Bovard Auditorium, Saturday, at 3 p.m.
Jones said the four-hour program will consist of poetry and prose readings and dramatic presentations.
Among those who will read either their own writing or imprisoned writers’ works, is Jack Langguth, a professor in the school of journalism.
“We’re having it at USC because we know that there is an interest in the international scene,” Jones said. “We’d like for our program to be more widely known.”
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Co-author of Proposition 12 speaks on nuclear issue
Says holocaust prevention must start at local level
By Ellen Plotkin
Staff Writer
In 18 days California voters will have to decide whether they want the U.S. Government to take official action in averting a nuclear war.
Larry Agran, co-author of Proposition 12, spoke before a lunchtime crowd at Tommy Trojan, Thursday.
He cautioned people that "the only preparation for nuclear war is peace, reduction of nuclear armaments, and ultimately their elimination from the face of the earth.”
Proposition 12 would require Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to write a letter to President Ronald Reagan, urging the president to propose a joint nuclear freeze with the Soviet Union.
Although Agran said that the proposition is only advisory and its principal opposition is the White House, “even the president has to respond to advice.”
Congress has a major hand in foreign policy decision, he said, and it “will build pressure on the White House.”
He compared the nuclear issue to the Jonestown tragedy and warned the some 50 university listeners not "to sip the
kool-aid of nuclear psychosis.
“It will be us who pay the absolute and ultimate price,” Agran said. "It’s the brainpower that we’re able to develop that makes us the strongest.”
Agran said that Proposition 12 has a substantial lead in the polls and "all indications are that it is going to pass.”
Although he could not name any specific organization working to defeat the proposition, he said that there are several individuals speaking around the state in its opposition.
If it does not pass, he said, the freeze movement will not stop, but slow down for a few months.
“People have to talk about peace. Suicide is insanity — going up in a cloud of radioactive debris is insanity.”
He speculated that if one 20-megaton nuclear bomb was dropped on Los Angeles it would create a 600-foot deep hole, 1 1/2 miles wide.
“Hundreds of thousands of people in Los Angeles would be instantly vaporized, burned to death, (or) blinded for life,” he said.
Agran said that prevention of a nuclear holocaust must start at the local level, and it is
“absolute insanity” that the United States could survive a nuclear war.
“I think it’s important for local elected officials to come
out and speak (about the issue),” said Agran.
If the bill passes, “We’re going to have to see that the freeze becomes a national is-
sue.
“We have to think too about the children. (They) have every right to be frightened.”
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Staff photo by Jon Soo Hoo