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Volume XCII, Number 11	University of Southern California	Tuesday, September 21, 1982
Administration institutes 7 policies aimed at university’s improvement
By Kathy Libby
Staff Writer
The university administration, pushed by criticism from students and the Student Senate, instituted policies this fall aimed at improving financial aid services, degree checks, security and the university’s overall academic reputation.
In an attempt to link tuition increases to actual student benefits, the senate last year delivered 10 reso-
lutions to the administration requesting improvements in certain areas of the university. As of this fall, seven of the 10 have been acted upon while the other three are still being considered.
“For every percentage increase (in tuition) we’d like to see its accountability,” said Dan Dunmoyer, senate president.
Dunmoyer said the first proposal, calling for an upgrading of the university’s
overall academic standing, has been met to a degree.
The administration has established a general academic plan for the next decade, said Dunmoyer, which leans towards the university being recognized nationally for its teaching, research and professors. He said that this is a continuation of the study harder campaign initiated this year.
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Memorial to be held for Wiesen
Campus employment located for students
By Carmen Chandler
Staff Writer
In an effort to increase student employment opportunities, the university’s employment office began a campaign this fall to emphasize a non work-study student employment program, which helps students locate jobs on campus.
The campaign peaked this semester when fliers were distributed throughout the campus, encouraging students to apply for part-time positions during registration. The program is supported by Cornelius Pings, senior vice president of academic affairs, and Jon Strauss, senior vice president of administration.
“The university always made the policy of having jobs for students on campus. We’re just making the opportunity more visible. I don’t view this as something special, I view this as something we’ve always done," Strauss said.
“W'e are doing this out of the personnel office. It is similar to the work-study program but it’s for students who don't qualify for work-study,” Strauss said.
“The idea (of the program) is to assist as many students as possible in finding employment,” said Eileen Bram, manager of the office of personnel employment, who is in charge of the program.
Joan Alonso, student employment counselor and a senior, explained the program’s aim. “Our goal is to provide financial assistance and work experience for students and to allow more flexibility in staffing, by saving (money) in fringe benefits and salary payments, with part-time jobs.”
The students can only put in a 20-hour-week. They are not eligible for regular benefits but they are eligible for increases in salaries after a probationary period. “They are not eligible for benefits because they are claiming student status and are not filing any income tax.” Alonso said.
Alonso also said that the positions open to students are similar to those offered by work-study: office assistants, cafeteria personnel and teaching assistants in early child care.
Bram said that so far the response to the program has been great. “I can’t believe the response from the students and the response from the departments. Everyone has been most cooperative."
Alonso agreed, “The response has been great. The week before school started we had 150 applications. The response has really been good lately.” Twenty-seven positions (all the positions offered so far) have been filled. As a job comes in, I fill it. Right now I have 150-170 applications.”
To make more jobs available, the program began distributing leaflets to the various departments on campus, trying to attract positions, Bram said.
“We’re trying everywhere to find postions for them (the students). I’m trying to have enough to fill all the applications. How many jobs I have depends on the response we have from the fliers that we put out last Friday. I expect a big response. Most departments were not aware that they could hire students,"Alonso said.
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Staff photo by Andrew lnnerarity
a graduate student in French, is simply relaxing in Alumni Park, using a table for shade.
The university will hold a memorial service on Thursday, Sept. 30 for David Wiesen, former dean of humanities in the college of letters, arts, and sciences.
The service will be held at 4 p.m. in the main auditorium at the Annenberg School of Communications.
Wiesen, who had been with the university since 1975, died on Aug. 16 in Los Angeles as
Security officer trained in CPR helps save life
A University Security officer possibly saved the life of a small child Saturday after administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation to the 8-year-old girl whose breathing had stopped and heartbeat could not be heard.
Officer Tony Herrera responded to an emergency call shortly after 6 p.m. involving the child who was coughing blood as a result of swallowing a small ball.
Herrera, one of 15 security officers who are certified emergency medical technicians, rushed to the scene at Adams Boulevard and Magnolia Street and began administering CPR.
“I just did the best I could,” Herrera said. “She was in pretty bad shape. She’d stopped breathing, her lips and feet were turning blue, and her eyes were rolling.”
Within minutes a team of medical technicians from the Los Angeles Fire Department’s rescue unit arrived and used forceps to remove the table tennis-size ball from the girl’s throat.
The girl arrived at the hospital in critical condition, and was unable to breath without the help of a respirator.
One of the technicians on the scene described Hererra's actions as “very heads up. At least he got her breathing again,” he said.
The girl’s condition has stabilized and a hospital spokesman said she would be going home soon.
VULCAN MIND MELD — No this student is not having her brain waves transferred via some strange radar mechanism. Connie Colvin,
DAVID WIESEN
the result of an aneurysm. He had been in a coma for five days.
Wiesen joined the university as a professor and chairman of the classics department. He was appointed dean of humanities in 1980, and was responsible for administering person-
nel and budgetary matters in addition to overseeing the quality of academic programs.
The former dean arrived at the university from Brandeis University, where he was a professor and chairman of the classics department.
Wiesen, whose name appears in Who's Who in America, wrote several works, including the book St. Jerome as a Satirist.
He is survived by his wife, Ellen, and three children, Rachel, 17; Seth, 15; and Jonathon, 14.
The memorial service is open to faculty, students and staff. Speaking at the service will be Phillip Levine, dean of humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles; Paul Alkon, professor of English: Arnold Dunn, professor of biochemistry; and Caroline Dewald, assistant professor of classics and a former student of Wiesen.