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Volume XCIII, Number 60	University of Southern California
Monday, April 18, 1983
Inability to find library books chief problem, survey says
By Sheldon Ito
Staff Writer
The complicated stacking system and the inability to find needed books in Doheny library are a major concern to students, a recent survey of students by the student senate indicated.
The combination survey/petition, whose results were compiled earlier this week, gave the “ability to find books on the shelf" an average rating of 2.67 on a scale of one to 10, 10 being the best.
Sharon Dolezal, chairwoiru.:' of the senate's academic affairs research unit, said this figure is indicative of the stacking system's need for reorganization.
She said that the stacks, which were not designed to be used by students, are not arranged in logical order, and as a result, books are not re-shelved properly.
Because of a shortage of supervisors and work study employees, stacks of books are often scattered around the library for days at a time, she said.
Ironically, the library received its highest rating for its "quality of study space." This area, which has been severely criticized in the past, had an average rating of 6.63.
Dolezal said that the figure is misleading because students here do not have anything to compare it to. She cited the
By Susan Shaw
Staff Writer
Remember the last homecoming game you went to? Remember the last time you bought a hot dog to eat in Alumni Park? Remember the last time you heard the bells atop Von KleinSmid Center toll out the hour?
If you're like most university students, the last time you heard the chimes was either sometime last week, last month, two months ago or sometime before Easter break.
No one seems to know when they last heard the bells ring out such traditional classics as "Danny Boy" and "Oh What a Beautiful Morning." But most students agree — the bells are missed.
"They were pretty to listen to," one student said. "I live at Parkside and it was better to hear the bells than the freeway noise."
Ray Morales, who operates the food services truck that is usually parked in front of VKC, said he also misses them. "They tell you what time it is, especially when it is two o'clock, because that is when w’e pack up and leave."
University officials were also dismayed at the mystery of the missing chiming. Harry Kyne, director of physical plant, w’as surprised when told that the carillon had ceased. He called Gary Pitassi, supervisor of electrical systems, who was equally surprised.
Pitassi, whose department is in charge of the ritualistic ringing, was "unaware that it was not working," Kyne said.
Kyne suggested that the bells, which are operated by a tape, had been turned off while a Hollywood film crew was doing some shooting at the university and didn't want the ringing to interfere with the sound track. Kyne guessed that the bells were never turned back on.
Kyne said he would look into the problem and have an answer to what happened to the bells sometime today.
Most students indicated that although they do not remember when they last heard the bells, they miss tintinnabulation emanating from the VKC tower.
"Now that I notice they are gone," John Crichton, a student, said, "I miss them."
"well-lighted and cool" libraries of the University of California system as examples of what student study space should be like.
She said that the rating would have been worse if the senate had not opened additional study space in the Von-Kleinsmid Center and other buildings.
Five other areas of concern were listed in the survey. In descending order of their ratings, they are:
—	the helpfulness of the staff, with an average rating of 4.84,
—	the scope of collection, with a 4.33 rating,
—	the condition of books, with a 4.22 rating,
—	the atmosphere and comfort, with a 3.69 rating,
—	and lighting, with a 3.24 rating.
A number of students wrote in another concern on the survey — the lack of new, up-to-date publications.
One respondent wrote that the library lacked material on the "intellectual and moral radical challenge in the 20th century." Another wrote that most of the library's material is 10 to 20 years old.
The university library committee, of which Dolezal is a (Continued on page 11)
ROBERT HELLER/DAILY TROJAN
Letters written by university students to university President James Zumberge concerning the coliseum seating issue have numbered over J’OO.
300 students protest seating with letters
By Michael Molinski
Assistant City Editor
More than 300 letters will be delivered to university President James Zumberge this week in protest of an administration proposal that would deny students 1,558 prime seats for next fall's football games.
The letters — the result of a letter-writing campaign by the student senate — are considered to be the senate's last-ditch hope to sway the opinion of the administration, which Dan Dunmoyer, president of the student senate, feels is in favor of the proposal. A dedsion on the issue is expected next Monday.
Dunmoyer is encouraging students to express their disapproval of the proposal by writing to Zumberge.
So far, the senate has received about 300 letters, which will be taken to the president's office Friday. The goal, Dunmoyer said, is to have 500 letters by then.
Earlier this year, the administration devised two proposals that would create a spedal donor section. To accomodate the spedal donor section, one proposal, supported by Jon Strauss, senior vice president of administration, would shift 1,558 student seats away from the 50-yard-line and into the end zone.
The senate is supporting its proposal, which essentially calls for the same number of prime student seats as last season and establishes the spedal donor section within the alumni section. The senate proposal is endorsed by the university's faculty senate and staff assembly.
A spedal donor, as defined by the university, is someone who gives at least S12,000 a vear to the universitv. Permitting them special seating would, in theory, encourage more donations.
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Zumberge to determine fate of $14 million student center
By Carmen Chandler
Staff Writer	<
The fate of a proposed $14 million student recreation center now lies in the hands of university President James Zumberge, who has received a committee report about the project.
In a memo earlier this year — three years after students voted by an overwhelming 86 percent in favor of the center — Zumberge asked for the formation of a committee to give reasons for the center's construction, describe its proposed uses and programs and estimate its final cost.
The committee report said the center, estimated to cost §14,850,900, would attract and urge students to remain at the university by providing a source of social and recreational opportunities.
The center, w'hich the committee recommended be constructed above the unfinished McDonald's Olympic Swimming Pool, is expected to feature a jacuzzi, raquetball courts, a sauna, television viewing rooms, basketball and volleyball courts and study rooms.
"Many students find the campus environment and its surrounding community rather bare in terms of social and recreational opportunities . . . the University community does not adequately fulfill the needs of a large campus population . . . when compared to student facilities on other West Coast campuses, USC facilities are totally inadequate," the report said.
Zumberge is currently considerieng the committee's report and has no comment at this time, said George Abdo, executive assistant to the president.
Janet Chaudhuri, staff assodate and member of the commitee, said offidal action on the project has taken three years because during that time the committee was working with an architect in planning space allocation for the center.
In 1980, when the students approved the referendum for the development of the center, they agreed to fund 50 percent of the cost on seven conditions:
—	the University Center include, if feasible, outdoor swimming pools, handball and racquetball courts, one gymnasium, locker rooms and appro-
priate support facilities.	.
—	the university must match student funding.
—	the students should not be charged until the facility is available for student use.
—	a charge of no more than S10 should be added to each student's semester fee bill in order to pay for the center.
—	the university should not impose any further costs on students without their approval.
—	students should be involved in at least 50 percent of the center's development and maintenance.
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Final details on luxury box agreement told
The university and the Los Angeles Raiders have reached an offidal agreement on the use of proposed luxury boxes to be built on the rim of the Coliseum, it was announced Fridav.
The agreement calls for seven of the 174 luxury suites to be available to the university during its home football games, with seven other suites to be available to the Raiders and the Coliseum.
The university will be allowed to designate one-third of the persons who will lease the remaining 160 suites from the Raiders for all Coliseum events. In addition, the Raiders have guaranteed the purchase of tickets for Trojan home games for each seat in the 167 suites leased.
The agreement also includes a provision of support by the Raiders of university academic programs, reportedly to be in the form of a scholarship fund.
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