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Volume XCII Number 2
University of Southern California
Wednesday September 8, 1982
Orange County site remains undecided
DAVID MALONE
MALONE RETURNS TO POST
Interim humanities dean chosen
By Alan Grossman
Assistant City Editor
The university has decided to delay choosing a site for the proposed Orange County satellite campus because the locations now being considered will not be available until next year, Jon Strauss, vice president of administration, said.
Because the university is still seeking a former public school site in order to save commercial rent and high refurbishing costs, Strauss said the university is being forced to wait until such a location is unoccupied.
He said that the university is looking at several possible sites in Orange County at this time.
The university decided to establish an extension campus after it became too expensive to rent hotels and classrooms in the area, and because Orange County alumni wanted a university facility nearby.
The proposed facility, which would unite continuing education, law, business and engineering courses currently held or planned for that part of the Southland, was first established last January at the former Corona del Mar elementary school in the Newport-Mesa School District.
But that facility never opened because the California Coastal Commission denied the
By Annette Haddad
Staff Writer
. Plans for a new restaurant and pub facility are almost completed and construction is set to begin in November, Dan Dunmoyer, president of the Student Senate said Tuesday.
Scheduled to be opened in time for the 1984 Olympic Games, the estimated $3.1 million structure is being funded by both the university and the
university a permit to use the school, thus agreeing with a local neighborhood group which claimed the campus would have caused numerous traffic problems.
Only the business school has been operating regularly in Orange County since the commission’s decision, reverting back to the costly method of renting space in existing classrooms at night.
Kenneth Dowling, director of external programs at the business school, said his department has been renting two sites, and is holding one course at each location.
“We have an active program (in Orange County) with a master's course in business tax and a CPA (certified public accounting) review plan,” Dowling said. He said that the tax course is being held at a public school, and the accounting course at a vacated synagogue.
“We have a one-year lease on an excellent facility in Newport Beach which was used by Temple Beth Am before it relocated. It was too small for them, but perfect for us," he said.
Strauss said that until a public school site can be found, the individual schools interested in holding courses in Or-
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Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, Dunmoyer said.
Two of the decisions remaining include setting the age limit for admittance to the pub and whether hard liquor should be served. These questions will be answered by the Student Affairs Committee of University Governance.
“We already have a liquor license for beer,” Dunmoyer
By Annette Haddad
Staff Writer
David Malone has been appointed as interim dean of humanities by the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, taking the place of David Wiesen who died Aug. 16.
Malone, who served previously as dean of humanities from 1972-1980, said he will
said, “however, the decision to have hard liquor has not been made.”
The new dining and drinking facility, which will take the place of the Spittoon between Residence West and Webb Tower residence halls, will be a two-story building with an outdoor patio.
Dunmoyer said the facility will serve a variety of international foods on the first level, and the bar and lounge area with a fireplace and a wide screen television will be upstairs.
He added that a stage equipped with a complete sound system is also planned.
Since 1972, there has been a push by students to have an on-campus pub, Dunmoyer said. However, finding the right location and the funds to back such a venture delayed any action. Having Los Angeles as the home for the 1984 Olympics helped expedite the plans since the university has been chosen as a site for many of the events.
Dunmoyer said the pub may have also been delayed over the decision concerning what type of alcoholic beverages to serve.
Dunmoyer said he believed that the success of a new restaurant and pub will depend
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serve as interim dean only until a search committee selects a new one.
“I am absolutely not a candidate,” Malone said, adding that he accepted the offer as interim dean only to assist the school following Wiesen’s death.
Irwin Lieb, vice president and dean of LAS, said Malone was the most experienced person in the division of humanities.
Lieb also said a search committee will be chosen within the next ten days in order to oversee the lengthy process of
choosing a successor.
Malone, who in addition to his experience as dean of humanities, was also acting dean of LAS from 1980 through 1981.
Coming to the university in 1962 as a professor of comparative literature, Malone was the chairman of the comparative literature program from 1962 to 1972 and of the department of English from 1964 to 1968.
Malone has studied and taught in several countries throughout the world and has (Continued on page 9)
Seaver Science Library acquires computer index
By Brenda Wong
Assistant City Editor
After a two month trial, the Seaver Science Library will most likely have access to a computerized system that will enable students to quickly acquire scientific information.
Albert Baker, head librarian at the Seaver Science Library, said the trial period of the computerized information retrieval system was largely successful, leading to possible long-term use after the data base is updated.
Superindex, a computer system that makes available an index of scientific reference books to specific questions, is currently being expanded, Baker said. Previously, only the books and the page numbers where the answers could be found were listed.
The data base is being expanded through the addition of more books and factual information. At the time of the trial period, approximately 500 volumes of reference books were listed.
“They (Superindex, Inc.) are planning to expand the data base. It will give you the fact as well as telling you where the fact came from. If it does go on-line (at the library), then it will be available to anybody who wants to search it but it’s highly specific toward science and technology,” he said.
Baker said most of the people who used the retrieval system were pleased. “Some of them didn’t find what they were looking for and in some cases, I wasn't surprised," he said, adding that only specific questions such as determining the melting point of a certain chemical, can be answered.
Some students also confused Superindex writh other indexes. “They thought that searching any kind of information was the index. It's like calling every copy machine a Xerox,” Baker said.
The 35 people, mostly students, used Superindex free during the trial period.When the library once again has access to the retrieval system, students will be charged about Si a minute. The average length of each transaction during the trial period was about five minutes. Baker added.
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Student pub to open in two years
Facility features food and beer