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Volume XOIII, Number 9	University of Southern California	Friday, January 21, 1983
University may leave Social Security system
NOBODY HOME — Although the residents of Cardinal Gardens apartments are hard-pressed for parking spaces, the city of Los Angeles has closed down this university-owned lot behind the complex. City officials claim that it sits in the middle of a "restoration area" where a parking lot would be "inappropriate."
Parking lot closure creates controversy
By Joann Galardy
Staff Writer
Residents of the Cardinal Gardens apartment complex are currently faced with a frustrating situation: There are not enough parking spaces for the residents, yet there is a univer-sity-owned parking lot behind the apartment complex which is now empty and inaccessible to students.
The parking lot, which is designed to hold about 75 cars, was, in fact, used by the university during the 1981-82 school year.
But during the spring semester last year, officials from the city of Los Angeles paid a visit to the parking lot and ordered the university to lock the gates, said Harold Kyne, director of the physical plant.
Cardinal Gardens residents, who used to be able to buy permits for the lot, have been forced to park on the streets.
Kyne said that the parking lot is situated in what the city terms a “restoration area,” or a section of town that has been designated as an area that the city is trying to improve and preserve.
A parking lot, city officials say, “would not be appropriate for a restoration area,” Kyne said.
Kyne said that even though the lot is owned by the university, the school “is bound by the rules of the city of Los Angeles” and has had to let a perfectly good parking lot go to waste.
One of these rules, as stated by the city code, is that a public parking facility cannot operate in a residential area.
The city defines a public parking facility as any parking
lot that can hold more than one car.
The university, however, does not see it as being a public facility, citing that it is solely for the use of university students.
Kyne says that this part of the issue is a “gray area” which needs to be resolved.
In an attempt to get the lot operational again, the university’ has applied for a conditional permit. The future of the lot is uncertain at this time since it could take between two and six months for the city to render a decision. Kyne said.
By Douglas Lytle
Staff Writer
The university has submitted a letter of intent to withdraw from the Social Security System, indicating that university employees in the future may' not receive Social Security benefits, the administration has announced.
The proposal, which has been under consideration for almost a year, would allow the university to design its own wage and benefit program, similar to the Social Security program currently in place but without the entanglements of federal bureaucracy.
All persons who receive a university paycheck are eligible for Social Security benefits.
Current federal law allows private non-profit institutions like the university to leave the system two years after a letter stating the intent to withdraw is filed with the Social Security Administration in Washington, D.C.
The letter of intent was filed by the university on Dec. 30, 1982, meaning the university would no longer contribute to the Social Security program as of Dec. 31, 1984.
The university currently sends between S10 and S20 million each year to the financially strapped pension fund, said Norman Cliff, chairman of the faculty senate’s employment and remuneration committee.
However, Donald Lewis, president of the faculty senate, said the university would only be interested in withdrawing from the system if it can be shown that such a move would be financially safe, as well as cheaper for the university in the long run.
"We won’t give up some-
thing known for the unknown,” he said.
John Elliot, professor of economics and a member of the faculty senate, said although the university has no actual benefit programs ready, a panel of various faculty members and administration officals will work with a firm chosen by the university to help complete the withdrawal from the Social Security program.
The 45-year-old pension program has become increasingly unable to keep up with the ballooning payments to its benefi-
ciaries because of the limited amount of money flowing in from those presently working. Present estimates have indicated that the system would not be able to support itself much beyond 1984.
A recent memo sent by Jon Strauss, senior vice president of financical affairs, to all deans, directors and vice presidents. stated that if by December of 1983, the admininstra-tion decides it is not in the university’s interest to leave the system, it will “formally extend our announced with-(Continued on page 5)
Clinical research cut at school of dentistry
By Annette Haddad
Assistant City Editor
Clinical research at the school of dentistry' is virtually at a stand still because of severe cutbacks in federal grant money given to academic institutions, said William Crawford, dean of the dental school.
Although most students and faculty members still believe that the university's school of dentistry is one of the best in the United States, the decline in research money, coupled with other problems, has led to some questioning of the school’s overall strength and vitality.
Though many schools and departments are also suffering from a lack of research grant money, the necessity that exists for the dental school, Crawford said, “is the building-up of substantial research in clinical areas.”
“We have no federal money and no current grants from companies (for research),” he said.
Many instructors at the dental school are clinicians who do not compete for tenured professor positions, he said. An instructor wanting to become a tenured professor must do a certain amount of research in order to become tenured — research that simply cannot be carried through without outside funds.
Crawford said that most clinicians are probing into practical instruction of the techniques of dentistry and are not researchers.
Crawford explained that much of the testing of modern dental equipment was first accomplished at the university’s dental school decades ago.
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University has diverse enrollment
Many minorites, says study
A recently released study shows that the university compares favorably with other major universities across the country in the enrollment of undergraduate minority students.
According to the figures, which are based on enrollment in the fall semester of 1980. 60.1 percent of the university’s enrollment is made up of white students.
However, the figures include as minorities all foreign students who have not obtained U.S. citizenship. The office of international students and scholars esti-
mates there are 3,485 international students as of the 1982 spring semester.
The study was published in the Dec. 15, 1982 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The university’s quality of having one of the most diversified enrollments in the country is due in large part to its active recruitment and community involvement programs, said Peter Brown, assistant dean of admissions and financial aid.
“USC is at the vanguard of minority student recruitment,” Brown said.
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