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Volume XCIII, Number 5
University of Southern California
Monday, January 17, 1983
OVER-CONCENTRATION — Parents and community members are troubled by what they see as an ever-increasing problem — the growing number of liquor-selling establishments and the clientele they attract.
Community bands together to fight rise in number of liquor stores
By Jeannie Wong
Feature Editor
In the past year, a group of educators, business people and concerned citizens have banded together to fight what they see as an ever-increasing problem: the growing number of liquor-selling establishments in the community, particularly in the area of Hoover Street and Vermont Avenue.
“If wre already have one liquor store in a neighborhood, why do we need six more?” asked Angelene Kasza, principal of Norwood Street Elementary School and president of the Central Park Five Council, a non-profit community service group working with this problem.
In a response to what council members feel is an over-concentration of neighborhood liquor stores, a committee was formed to monitor liquor licensing and sales in a six square mile area bounded roughly by Olympic Boulevard on the north, Vernon Avenue on the south. Western Avenue
on the west, and San Pedro Street on the east.
The committee, knowrn as the Liquor Licensing Committee, was initially started to assist Vermont Avenue Elementary School officials. Together, they were to compile data to deny a liquor license to a small market located at 27th and Vermont Streets, said Beverly Barnwell, committee member and coordinator of school programs for the Joint Educational Project on campus. The market is located about a quarter of a block from the entrance of the school, and one-third of the students walk past it everyday, she said. Because of efforts by the 12-member committee, in conjunction writh community police and the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, a protest hearing to study the issue will take place on Feb. 17.
“Vermont Avenue is inundated with several liquor-selling establishments between Jefferson	and	Adams (boulevards),” Barnwell said. “For the most part, a lot of
them are not being operated in a responsible manner. Groups of people are allowed to loiter in front, and many openly de-facate and urinate in parking lots. Some get drunk and come on to school grounds, throwing rubbish and insulting and harassing the children.”
Parents and other community members are troubled by the loitering, Barnwell added, as well as by the litter prob-(Continued on page 2)
Doheny: problems, funding, philosophy
By Susan Shaw
Staff Writer
Numerous complaints by faculty and students about Doheny Library have prompted university administrators to seriously consider proposals aimed at upgrading the 50-year-old library.
The bulk of the criticism centers on the library’s environment, which critics argue is unsuitable for study and research.
Poor lighting, inadequate study areas, insufficient ventilation, lax security, general inefficiency and lost or mutilated books have been constant sources of complaint.
Because of these chronic problems, students and faculty alike are questioning the sincerity of the university’s commitment to academics.
Sharon Dolezal, w'ho chairs the Student Senate’s Academic Affairs Unit, said her group will make improvement of Doheny Library its primary concern this semester.
Saying the quality of a university may be judged by its library, Dolezal hopes to get assurances from the administration that some sort of renovation work is undertaken in the near future.
Roy Kidman, Doheny’s head librarian, agrees that the library is in need of upgrading and has developed proposals for renovations.
Though there is, at this time, no comprehensive plan for improvements, nor allocations within the university budget for additional funds, Kidman is confident that renovation work will begin by 1984.
He is unsure of where the several million dollars necessary for renovation w'ill come from.
Moreover, there is concern that unless substantial increases are made in the university budget for library services. Doheny will never be able to compete with other major research libraries.
Currently, the university library system is rated 30th by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The survey, which is published annually, compares various libraries, taking into consideration the number of volumes in the collection, the number of volumes added, the number of serials and the number of professional library staff.
The top five research libraries of the 101 libraries surveyed are Harvard, Yale, UC Berkeley, UCLA and Stanford.
While Kidman is not wholly satisfied with the library’s standing, he is confident that the university is commited to improving Doheny. Further, Kidman believes that the library is “on the edge of greatness.”
Doheny, Kidman said, has steadily increased its ranking in the ARL index over the years. This. Kidman said, “shows the university is on the right track.”
Kidman w’ould like to see the university expand its financial commitment to the library, however.
The university’s library system operates on two to three percent of the total university budget. This figure represents one of the lowest allocations for any university service, and it has remained constant as a percentage of the total university budget for several years.
Doheny, more so than other university operations, is struggling to maintain its quality in the face of high inflation and has had to juggle its options.
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Community group proposes clean-up
Accounting gets facelift
By Steve DeSalvo
Assistant City Editor
A Si.7 million renovation of the new School of Accounting building is underway, with completion expected by mid-July.
The 55-year-old structure, which was previously called the School of Social Work building, is being prepared as the new home for the School of Accounting. The School of Social Work moved to the Montgomery Ross Fisher building last October.
Harvey Kyne, director of the physical plant, said the renovation, which began three weeks ago, will take place on the first three floors of the building’s four levels. The renovation involves refurbishment of classrooms and offices, installation of air conditioning, and updating of the electricity and plumbing.
The renovations are necessary to upgrade the "fairly old building” in compliance with the city's fire, structure and safety codes. Kyne said. Thomas Coffin, university architect, said the city requires the upgrading whenever major renovations take place.
Coffin also said the renovations were ordered because the School of Accounting wanted the building designed to suit its needs.
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By Laura Castaneda
Assistant City Editor
The 5ive Points Community Association (sic), a group working to improve the area surrounding campus, is aw'aiting word from the university on whether it will be allow'ed to paint murals on two university-owned buildings located on Grand Avenue.
The separate proposals, w'hich asked permission to paint over graffiti and then paint murals on the sides of the buildings, were first presented to the university’s now-defunct Neighborhood Relations Commission on last June by Carolyn Van Horn, president of the association.
The commission unanimously endorsed the proposals, and copies were forwarded to university administrators on July 8 by the commission's chairman, Dallas Willard, who is also a university philosophy professor.
James Massey, director of facilities planning: Anthony Lazzaro, vice president of business affairs; and Jon Strauss, senior vice president of administration, each received a copy of the proposals.
However, Van Horn is angry because she said the university never even acknowledged receiving the proposals.
“What is really sort of rude is not to have any communication back," she said.
Lazzaro and Massey said approval was given to paint over the graffiti. Massey said the association was informed of this, but the murals are another matter and approval had to come from President James Zumberge.
“Since there are presently no university buildings with murals on them. I expect that final approval would have to come from the president's office,” Lazzaro said.
He said that the proposals were to have gone
through the President's Advisory Council, now the University Advisory Council.
Apparently, the proposals got caught in red tape because the PAC commissions were ordered to disband soon after the documents were received.
“I will be pleased to expedite the process again,” Lazzaro said.
The association, which is funded by donations from area businessmen, was formed in Sept. 1981 after Van Horn and a few others in her office decided to sweep the street in front of the building.
“It took us all morning because it was so bad.” she recalled.
This initial project sparked more interest among those involved and they attended a meeting of the Central Park Five Council, another community group involved in local renovations.
“The Central Park Five and people in the community who are trying to help themselves really impressed us,” Van Horn said.
“(After the meeting) we felt very inept in comparison to the council's efforts,” she said. “We started our campaign by simply cleaning and making no other demands on anyone else."
The initial clean-up campaign, however, quickly evolved into other projects including:
—	the planting of almost 200 roadside trees
—	painting over 10 office buildings that were covered with graffiti
—	providing summer and after-school jobs to teen-agers
—	painting and decorating trash cans
—	and excursions, the first of which was to Port Dume.
Van Horn said that, by bringing teen-agers and businessmen together in a constructive setting,
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