Student senate looks toward 1983 in agenda
By Jeffrey Tylicki
Staff Writer
The student senate adopted its 1983 student agenda Wednesday night, outlining the body's primary concerns and objectives in the coming year.
Doheny Library, the advisory system to university President James Zumberge, parking and student services were among the issues the senate will continue to emphasize as the areas which need the most improvement and that should be adopted as administrative policy.
"This is not a resolution, but a statement of top priorities (and) budget requests," said Ingrid Calle, chairman of the academic affairs action unit and author of the agenda. "Last year, seven out of the 10 items on the senate agenda were met by the administration."
One item the senate feels must be improved is the university committee system in which 37 committees examine certain campus concerns and present their findings to the office of the president.
The senate maintains that the ad hoc committees are powerless and ineffective and ultimately are no better than the previous system that was abolished last year.
"The committee system does not work," senate President Dan Dunmoyer said. He said the committee reports are usually only recommendations and that very few of them actually make the decisions. "We are asking the administration to give somebody the responsibility of coordinating the system," Dunmoyer added.
Many of the senators wanted the item to be worded a bit stronger, asking for a complete revamping of the committee system. Some senators were very outspoken in their opposition to the current structure, saying that while John Hubbard, the previous president, did not have a perfect system, it was more effective than w'hat Zumberge implemented after assuming the presidency three years ago.
In addition to the almost $2-million budget the senate has already recommended for improvements in the library system, the senate tacked on an additional $650,000 request for major renovations in the College Library, including a remodeling of the study area.
The senate stated in the agenda that the library system has deteriorated to such an extent they were "forced to demand" that over S2.5 million be allocated for improvements. Dunmoyer said he had a commitment from Zumberge to make the libraries "one of his top priorities of the year."
In the area of student services, the agenda recommended the establishment of a financial-aid peer counselor program to ease the burden the senate feels is now placed on the full-time counselors. It is also asking for the university to look into better aid programs for graduate students in the form of grants and fellowships instead of loans, "since the graduate students are already up to their necks in debts incurred for their undergraduate education."
The addition of two full-time clerks within the office of graduation and degree checks was also recommended to the administration with an estimated cost of $34,000. That office has been under fire from many students lately for the backlog of work that builds up each year and the time it takes to obtain a degree check.
The agenda also calleJ for the construction of an off-campus parking structure, which the senate believes is necessary since, "the
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Volume XCIII, Number 36
University of Southern California
Friday, March 4, 1983
Photo by Randy Johnson
Lack of parking on the Row has caused residents to turn to parking on their lawns.
Row receives little support in solving parking problem
By Ellen Plotkin
Assistant Managing Editor
Residents of West 28th Street, also called "The Row," are getting little support from anyone in their effort to eliminate the nagging problem of a lack of parking spaces in the area.
They are getting little help from the university because the
Row is not university property and therefore not its responsibility. Instead, the students must go through the slow' bureaucratic process of seeking help from the city.
Robert Farrell, city councilman for this area, has said that the student senate must identify the specific problem to him before he will take the issue to
the city council.
The student senate, therefore, has begun to gather information for Farrell.
The process is taking longer than anticipated, said Mark Slavkin, chairman of the environmental and external affairs committee for the senate, but he expects to notify Farrell by next week.
There are two issues at hand:
the inadequate space available for parking on the Row and the one-hour parking limit warranted by some of the area's street signs.
Slavkin said a parking problem on 28th Street "has existed for a long time." The senate's immediate concern, however, is to extend the time limit allowed by the street signs, he said.
One possible solution that the senate has been toying with is closing off 28th Street to through traffic, but it has gained little support.
There is still a possibility of closing off 28th Street, said Carl Levredge, director of security and parking operations, but in the meantime it is the city's responsibility to enforce the laws now in effect.
However, he said, "I'll be happy to write the letter (to the city) myself, if someone comes over here and outlines the problem."
"It's been an ongoing concern for sometime," he said. "It's a heavily saturated area with a high demand (for parking)"
The university is helping in any way it can, he said. A university-owned dirt lot on the Row was recently paved and is ready to accommodate about 35 cars.
The office of residential life had conducted a survey among the houses on the Row and asked them if they would utilize such a lot. Only two houses expressed a large interest, but Levredge said that was enough to open up the lot.
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GOT RAW DEAL' IN CONFLICT
Press misrepresented Israel, official says
reader," he said.
Weinraub said frustrated reporters also played a part in the bad press coverage Israel received. He said reporters became irritated at Israel when a week-long news information "gray-out" was enforced following the attack, and foreign journalists were not allowed to enter the Lebanese land occupied by Israeli troops.
However, Weinraub said accredited Israeli military correspondents were allowed in to gather news and take photographs for foreign press groups.
The "grav-out" was disastrous for public relations but necessary as a security measure, he said.
After one week, journalists were allowed to enter and were able to use "very good communication facilities," Weinraub said, but he added that after the first week, basic images had already been formed about who were the good guys and who were the bad guys in the conflict.
"A person watching television from the dinner table thought all of Lebanon had been destroyed," he said.
Another way Israel was misrepresented by the press, Weinraub said, was through the "tendency to sympathize with the underdog."
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By Melinda Smolin
Staff Writer
Israel was misrepresented worldwide by the press following the June 1982 attack on Palestine Liberation Organization strongholds in Lebanon, an Israeli spokesman said Thursday. Maj. Yehuda Weinraub, di-
rector of the Israeli foreign information bureau, told a dozerr students gathered at noon in the Student Activities Center the reasons why the state of Israel got a "raw deal" by the international press following the attack.
W'einraub charged the inter-
national press with giving impressionable viewers and readers the idea that "all of Lebanon had been destroyed."
"Israel feels (much) of the news coverage was insufficient in that it is charged with emotional connotations which prejudiced the disinterested
Photo by Randy Johnson
Maj. Yehuda Weinraub, director of the Israeli foreign information bureau, speaks about what he said was biased coverage by the international press in his nation's conflict with the Palestine Liberation Organization.