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Volume XCIII, Number 53
University of Southern California
Thursday, April 7, 1983
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By Michael Molinski
Assistant City Editor
When the United States Defense Department wants certain projects to be researched and designed, it often times turns to the country's colleges and universities. This university, which receives millions of dollars each year in Pentagon research grants, is no exception.
Last year, the university received over SI 7 million from the Defense Department for research in various fields. Most of these funds, which are contracted by several different divisions of the Defense Department for work in specific areas, go to the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a computer science research center in Marina Del Rey that is administered by the university.
Out of the S17 million, approximately S9 million went to the ISI, said Bill Hromadka, executive director of contracts
and grants for the university.
A recent article in U.S. News & World Report ranked the university 12th among American colleges in the amount it receives from the Defense Department. However, the university received less than $10 million according to the article. Hromadka could not explain the difference, but said, "I think that's an error."
Most of the projects at the ISI are funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is the basic research arm of the Defense Department. About 80 percent of the ISI's funds come from this agency.
DARPA's interest in the university is in promoting basic research in computer science. The ISI and the university are not directly involved in the development of weapons systems for the Defense Department as are some other U.S. schools.
Ethnic groups form 'tri-cultural' tabloid
By Steve DeSalvo
Assistant City Editor
Three minority publications on campus have merged to create a new' "tri-cultural" monthly newspaper, The Trojan Spectrum.
AllUsWe, El Nuevo Sol, and Asian Pacific Lifeline, published by black students, MEChA (a Hispanic student group), and the Asian Student Association respectively, w’ill pool their talents in an effort-to unify the various minority populations on campus.
The newspaper's 11-member staff expects the first issue to be published by the first week of May.
The publication of the inaugural issue will be the culmination of an idea first considered last spring.
The merging came about because the three publications have shared one common problem — a lack of both manpower and funds necessary to put out a newspaper. Two of the publication's, AllUsWe and Asian Pacific Lifeline, have been published infrequently this year. Editors of the three publications view the merging as not only an attempt to solve that problem, but as an opportunity to “bridge the gap" between the different minority groups on campus.
"We (the editors of the three minority publications) felt we should move into one group," said Vallee Bunting, co-editor of AllUsWe. “In the past, we've been three different factions on campus without realizing we all have one common experience. We want to bridge the gap amongst ourselves as well as wath whites."
Both Bunting and Saul Saenz, editor of El Nuevo Sol, said they hope the newspaper will erase what Bunting called a "distinct, pervasive racism" on campus.
"This school is segregated," Bunting said. "It involves
whites and minorities and the minorities themselves. We
W'ant to change that."
Saenz said The Trojan Spectrum will print "stories that have not been effectively covered by the Dailv Trojan.”
Among the stories being considered: the high grade point averages among Asian students, the creation of a Latino fraternity and sorority, and the exploitation of black athletes.
However, Bunting noted that the new new'spaper, which will be published in tabloid form, will not attempt to compete with the Daily Trojan.
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In 1982 Johns Hopkins University in Maryland contracted w'ell over $200 million from the Defense Department for research on the Navy's Aegis weapons system and other programs. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was involved in the development of the Air Force's distant-early-w'aming radar and other systems, also received upward of S200 million.
Similar weapons research has been protested by students at some universities, but, Hromadka said, "We have internal controls at this university to make sure w'e're not doing something that isn't in the interest of society." There is no classified research conducted at the university, he said.
Research at the ISI is in the areas of computer programming technology, computer communications technology and applications of computer technology to many different areas.
One project funded by DARPA is the Cooperative Interactive Systems (Consul), which explores methods for allowing natural interaction between the person using the computer and a set of online services. Other projects include:
—	a project comprising three interrelated efforts working to facilitate the creation, testing and optimized implementation of program specifications
—	the control of expert systems, knowledge-based systems in the field of artifidal intelligence for particular problem domains
—	and "Command and Control Graphics," a project which has developed a system currently in use at the Naval
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ATHER ALI / DAILY TRJAN Rates of university housing, such as Webb Tower, are expected to increase between 9.5 and 10 percent. However, offidals say that this increase is the lowest in several years.
Proposed rent hike the lowest in years
By Joann Galardy
Staff Writer
Rent in university housing is expected to jump between 9.5 and 10 percent next ’’ear, an increase that is similar to the proposed hikes in tuition and campus parking.
The tentative ’ncrease is based on the recc'r>rrjndation of the auxiliary se ices staff and is subject to fin«l approval by Anthony Lazzaro, vice president of business affairs.
Guy Hubbaid, executive director of Auxiliary Services, said that the proposed increase represents the smallest jump in
University fund raising down, but official expects to reach goal
By Joann Galardy
Staff Writer
While the latest figures indicate that total fund raising at the university for the first half of the year is lagging behind that of a year ago by just under SI 3 million, university administrators are optimistic, saying that this will be one of the university's best years in terms of fund raising.
"We are far enough along in the fiscal year to ensure that this wiil be the third best year in history (in terms of fund raising)," said James Appleton, vice president of development.
At the beginning of the current fiscal year, the university set for itself a goal of between $44 and $48 million which it hoped to obtain through fund raising.
The most recent statistics, compiled as of the third week in March, indicate that the university has received over $36 million in contributions. Appleton feels confident that the goal of $44 million will be achieved and is likely to be exceeded.
At this time last year, the university had received approximately $49 million in contributions and ended the year with a record-setting $59 million.
"We are doing better than expected," Appleton said.
He attributes the continued support for the university to a growing recognition of the per-
ceived quality of the university on the part of the donors.
Appleton's enthusiasm is supported by recent figures which indicate that fund raising during each W’eek of February and Mari/i has exceeded that of the same period a year ago.
According to statistics detailing the first half of the current fiscal year, July 1 to December 31, 1982, the total number of donors contributing to the university has increased to 27,000, an increase of 4,000 over the same period a year ago.
During the first seven months of this fiscal year, statistics indicate that 40 percent of the contributions w'ere received from individuals, 25 percent from businesses and industries, 22 percent from foundations, and 13 percent from associations and sodeties.
Appleton said that the most benefidal donation the university can receive is the undesignated one, which means that the universitv is free to use the money w'here it is needed most.
However, Appleton feels that if a person decides to make a major contribution to the university, more often than not the donor will desigin-ate w'hat the money is to be used for.
"Funds come for a variety of reasons," he said, which could account for the fact that the university's "plant funds" are decreased considerably
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housing costs in recent years. He said that, in the past, housing costs have increased by as much as 13 percent.
Hubbard attributes the drop in rent increase to the fact that the university's expenses simply have not warranted a more substantial increase in housing costs at this time.
The increase was recommended after the staff reviewed proposed increases in the cost of water and electricity, projected increases from the physical plant staff, and expected salary increases.
"The difference between last year's figures and this year's figures is what determines the increase," Hubbard said in explaining the increase in rent.
Another factor that contributed to the increase in housing costs is the expense incurred when the university embarked on the building of new apartments in the campus area, beginning several years ago. The last of these, the Parkside dor1 mitory, was just recently completed. "Had we had no expansion, our rates would be lower," Hubbard commented.
Currently the university has 5,858 units to offer as student housing, two percent of which is vacant this semester. There are no immediate plans for further construction, and Hubbard said that the high yearly increases in rent caused by the expansion will level off in a few years.
The proposed increases translate into dollar amounts as follows: Using a Trojan Hall double as an example, Hubbard said that the per semester cost w'ill increase to about S635 from $580 this semester.
Residents in university-ow'ned apartments, figuring an average of $211 per month, can expect to pay about $231 per
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