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Volume XCIII, Number 51	University of Southern California
Friday, March 25, 1983
African students speak about cultural conflicts
By Sheldon Ito
Staff Writer
The lack of communication and interaction between black African students and black American students is a subtle, yet very real problem on this campus and throughout the United States, said black student speakers Thursday.
"The biggest cultural shock to African students comes from their relationship with black American students," said Bagavoko Mamadou, a member of the university's African Students Association, to an audience of about 30 students and teachers at the University Religious Center at a noontime discussion.
Mamadou and Merron Walters, chairman of the Black Student Services' executive council, addressed the problem in one of the discussion
sessions of the Brown Bag Lunch Series entitled "Africans and Afro-Americans: {Cultural Commonality and Cultural Conflict.' The series is sponsored bv the International Speakers Bureau and gives international students £ chance to address important issues.
Mamadou, an international stikdent from the West African republic of Mali, explained the problem from the viewpoint of African students.
He said many African students he spoke to felt that "they don't receive enough friendship and enough feedback from black American students."
"In Africa most of us have developed a great deal of admiration for black Americans, for many reasons," said Mamadou, a graduate student in the school of education. "We studied everything about black American history in our schools."
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Bagavoko Mamadou of the African Students Association and Merron Walters of Black Stjudents Services discussed the problems faced by black African students at the univ’ersitv during a recent conference.
Security Pacific robbed
By Steve De Salvo
Assistant City Editor
A robber held up the Security Pacific National Bank on the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street Thursday afternoon and then fled the scene with an undisclosed amount of monev.
The suspect, a black male, approached a teller at 1:30 p.m. while "simulating" a weapon inside his jacket and demanded all the money in the drawer, said Sgt. Jim Grayson of the Los Angeles Police Department's Southwest Division.
"The teller (a university student), in fear of his life, cooperated and handed him the money," Grayson said. "The whole thing was over in less than two minutes.
"We consider it an armed robbery," he added.
The suspect fled through the south entrance of the bank onto Jefferson Boulevard, Grayson said. The direction the suspect ran was not known, he added.
Within minutes, LAPD officers and FBI agents arrived at the scene, a bank employee said. Some of the officers held shotguns as they searched for the suspect, witnesses said.
Grayson said the suspect was described as about 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds, with a medium complexion. He was wearing a blue knit cap, a brown suede "Members Only” jacket and blue jeans, he said. He spoke in a "soft" voice, Grayson said.
Police combed the area, but were unable to get any clues concerning the suspect's whereabouts. FBI agents removed film from surveillance cameras placed above the two entrances in the bank and fingerprinted the teller window where the robbery took place.
Fred Reagan, an agent in the FBI's Los Angeles headquarters, said the evidence collected will be used in an FBI investigation. He said Los Angeles is the "bank robbery capital of the world."
Greg Thompson, vice president and manager of the bank, said he could not remember when the bank was last robbed, but he said it had been "quite some time."
"This was one of those robberies when you don't know what is happening until it's over," Thompson said.
Grayson noted that the last bank robberv in the university
area occurred jabout a month ago at the Bajik of America, located at the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and McClintock Avenue.
Senate submits plan for coliseum seating
By Jeffrey Tylicki
Staff Writer
The student senate has offered a counter proposal to the administration regarding the ongoing battle between students and university donors over who is entitled to the best seats at football games held in the coliseum.
The plan, which was approved by the senate Wednesday, creates 216 new seats between the 45-vard lines for donors, and moves the student section boundary 13 seats west of the 50-yard line, giving more prime seating to the student body. Senate President Dan Dunmoyer designed the plan.
Several weeks ago the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum informed the university that its football field was going to be moved 4.7 yards east in preparation for the Olympics.
University officials saw this as an opportunity to move the student section and create seats for alumni and other donors willing to pay 512,000 a year for prime football seats. However, news of the administration's favored plan, which would create over 1,500 donor seats and push the student section toward the end zone, was met with great opposition from the student senate.
"It's not really a compromise, it's equal," said senate vice president Tonv Manos of the senate's proposal. "With this plan, the students have better seats and better chances of getting good seats. And the university gets 216 prime seats."
The old 50-vard line went up aisle 22, which was also the boundary' of the student section. The movement of the field now puts seat 13 in that section at mid-field.
In the senate's plan, the student boundary remains at aisle 22, but drops from row 54 to row 37. Rows 38 to 54 of the section would be entirely for the donors. The staff and faculty section would remain in rows 55 to 79.
Dunmoyer said he has had pressure on both sides of the issue, including reminders from administrators and alumni on how important alumni backing is to the university. He also said several key administrators, including universitv- President James Zumberge, are using the special seating revenue as an answer to what can be done to ease the high tuition costs.
On the other side of the coin, several faculty members and administrators have advised Dunmoyer to take a "no compromise" stand on the seating plans.
Dunmover told the senate most of the faculty and staff are behind the students on this issue. But he also said he had been informed that the general alumni association, while not taking a stand on any seating plan, has agreed to a compromise.
Under the senate's plan, the donor seats will be sold as a package of four for 512,000 each. This would net the university almost 5700,000 a year in additional revenue. Senators who have met with the administration said the money has been earmarked for athletic scholarships.
Much debate ensued during the senate's Wednesday evening meeting about how the universitv’ should spend the extra funds generated by the special seating. Many senators thought a specific request should be made to the administration, but the final wording on the resolution said the senate would later recommend use for the money.
"Since monev is the kev issue at hand, we want to address that in this resolution," Dunmoyer said.
Manos added that he believes the students should have some voice in where the funds go since their seats are affected.
The resolution passed unanimously, but must now be presented to the administration. "Hopefully Dr. Strauss will like our plan as much as we do," Manos said.
The resolution noted that Jon Strauss, senior vice president for universitv administration, originally requested the senate to present a plan that takes into account the needs of the students, staff, faculty and administration.
Late Thursday, Dunmoyer said he gave a copy’ of the proposal to Strauss. " 'We'll have to wait and see,' was his response," Dunmoyer said. He expects that the senate will meet again with the administration to discuss the plan after spring break.
"W’e are willing to compromise proposals," Dunmoyer said, "but we won't compromise student seating on the 50-yard line."
Apparently anticipating further bargaining on the seating issue, the resolution also states, "the president of the senate will not accept any seating arrangement that does not allow for students to be able to sit in prime locations, defined as between the (45-vard lines), as they have done in the past."
Senate tries to hold down health fees, save programs
By Mark Lo we
Staff Writer
The studdnt senate, trying to limit the ad-ministrationjs financial control over certain health programs, passed a resolution Wednesday that it hopes will play a role in keeping such services at current funding levels and hold down student health fees.
"No one has really questioned the worth of these programs, but each year their funding is put in jeopardy," said Mark Slavkin, co-author of the resolution and chairman of the environmental and ^xternal affairs action unit. "That, to us (the senate), makes no sense."
Currently,I Slavkin said, the administration finances haridicapped student services, counseling for faculty and staff and health education outreach services through subvention, a process that provides a $250,000 subsidy that can be raisejd or lowered as needed.
The senate, however, wants the three programs to be included in the indirect costs that
each univ'ersitv’ department pays, since departmental personnel and not students are the ones who directly receive those services, Slav-kin said.
Indirect costs make up the amount departments must pay for items such as energy, building maintenance and services that the entire university takes advantage of.
Under the senate proposal, the supplemental health programs would count as universitv services. Departments would then be charged equally for the services in their annual budgets. Currently, departments get these services free, since they are part of the health center's total budget.
Senate members said this would end the worries that the health center has every’ year over whether the administration will give them enough money to keep the three programs at the same level.
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