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Volume XCIII, Number 54
University of Southern California
Friday, April 8, 1983
Provost releases draft plan for future university growth
By Jeffrey Tylicki
Staff Writer
The office of the provost has released a draft plan for major developmental and academic growth at the university over the nexi ten years and beyond.
Some of the goals include the addition of six new buildings on the main campus, the establishment of an independent study program, a strengthening of the international student population, a total computerization of the campus and many improvements to the library system.
Cornelius Pings, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, unveiled the plan during an address to the student senate Wednesday. He said the plan, which has been compiled with the help of academic units, deans, the student and faculty senates and various administrators, will be presented for discussion at the Board of Trustees annual retreat next month.
If approved, the plan is expected to become the centerpiece for the next major university fund-raising campaign, possibly scheduled to kick-off by the fall of 1984.
The plan begins with an ambitious statement: “In the '80s, USC has the opportunity to become a member of the select world-class universities."
It lists items in five major
university-wide priorities. They are, in order, student support, faculty support, support for the library and other objectives, research and program support and capital construction support.
In the area of building developments on campus, the plan proposes new engineering and natural science laboratories, a law center annex, the controversial university center, a drama building and a health sciences building. It also proposes the renovation of the old Science Building, Doheny library and the off-campus armory, a storehouse for the university.
The plan also proposes the development of a new cultural center auditorium and "funding for greenspace and faculty housing adjacent to campus." A major theme throughout the plan is to make the university a more residential institution.
The document requests that plans be developed to step up the international students program, including high-quality student recruitment, building a pool of financial aid for these students and enhancing the academic and service programs available to them.
"By any measure, the transfer of knowledge, technology and skills between the First and Third Worlds must be a high priority in this and the next
decade," the proposal states. "USC is already performing this task on a significant scale, but we should do it with greater self-conscience and design."
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The administration will soon ask the various university departments to act on student complaints that some foreign teaching assistants are not fit to teach because they cannot speak proper English.
Speaking to the student senate Wednesday night, Cornelius Pings, senior vice president of academic affairs and provost, said he wants departmental deans to "acknowledge the problem and offer their solutions," adding he will not "let them off the hook on this."
However, he added later that he will listen to deans who can convince him that their teaching assistants do not have problems communicating in English.
"I want a response from the deans," Pings said Thursday. "They should use the ALI and what it has to offer unless they can show they can do better."
The American Language Institute (ALI) is the university unit that teaches and tests international students on their proficiency in English. Many campus groups studying the language ability of
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One of the groups that will perform at Songfest on April 16 previews its act yesterday at Tommy Trojan.
Loss Prevention unit adds more manpower
Clamps down on shoplifting, food pilfering
By Laura Castaneda
Assistant City Editor
If that urge to snack sneaks up while you are standing in line at the Grill, or if you're tempted to gulp down a second glass of chocolate milk before
paying, think again — you are being watched.
The Auxiliary Services Loss Prevention unit, which patrols the bookstore, housing complexes and all food services areas, has added additional manpower to help reduce the
amount of shoplifting and food pilfering at the university.
Richard Fulton, assistant manager of the loss prevention unit, said the squad has been a bit shorthanded this year. But now that a few members have been added, bringing the total
to six, their visibility will be much greater at the Grill, Commons and the Upstairs Commons.
"We are there as a preventative measure — a deterrent for crime," Fulton said, explaining that higher visibility may discourage people from trying to steal. "The idea that somebody is there will often prevent that type of thing."
He said that instead of two monitors patrolling all the food service facilities, an extra "floater" will be added as well. The bookstore, in the meantime, will keep about four monitors on the payroll.
Fulton said the unit has been in operation for about four years, and that there are between 30 and 35 employees including a manager and an assistant manager. Those who do not work in food services or the bookstore patrol the housing complexes, where they report any inddents to University Security.
Fulton said they are an unarmed and do not harass or embarrass people. "We're very low key as far as that's concerned," he said. "We don't have problems because we don't confront. We treat them pleasantly."
He said that a suspects are rarely detained but merely made to pay for what they
took. If the suspected shoplifters deny having stolen anything, information is gathered just in case they are ever caught again.
"We work out deals with them," he said. "(Students) can pay us back or make restitution in some way. If we let the outsiders go, we're lost.
"We just want to let (the students) know that what they've done is not allowed and have them pay for it or make out a report to the loss prevention office."
One employee said that some part-time workers are work-study students and some are recruited from criminal justice programs at such places as East Los Angeles Community College.
The employee also said that a new system is rumored to be in the works under which the names of student shoplifters will be given to the student ju-didal review board.
Sgt. Art Blair of Security said that loss prevention is not associated with the armed university force except for their shared radio frequendes.
"They have been a very positive effect on us. They are a source of information and they are always among the people," Blair said. "We're glad they're there."
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Pepsi pilfering and other food abuses in the Commons and the Grill are now being monitored by undercover guards, like this one. Students caught eating or drinking before paying will be subject to
penalty.