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Seventy-Fifth Year of Publication
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Volume Cll, Number 47
University of Southern California
1912 — 1986
Thursday, November 6, 1986
Board approves proposal to purchase land for hospital
By Danielle Sanford
Staff Writer
In a 3 to 1 vote Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a proposal to build a teaching hospital that will be operated jointly by the university and National Medical Enterprises.
The university will purchase the land for the facility and National Medical Enterprises has agreed to build and operate it.
The $100 million tertiary care facility will be located near the Health Sciences campus and will include a 283-bed hospital and a 75-room hotel.
It is expected to open in 1989 and will handle cases involving coronary, psychiatric, neonatal, obstetric and gynecological care. Other cases will continue to be handled by the university's existing medical center.
The hospital will use sophisticated and state-of-the-art technology in medical cases, Joseph Van Der Meulen, vice president of health affairs said in an interview on Oct. 22. University offidals at the board's meeting stressed the lack of this kind of care in the Los Angeles area. White Memorial Hospital opposed the proposed hospital because of the possibility of competition from the new facility. White Memorial is located less than one mile from the proposed site of the new hospital.
The construction of the hospital will begin after the university finalizes its purchase of land for the site.
Other opponents of the hospital expressed concern that the poor would not be treated at the new hospital.
We are "concerned about the indigent care issue," Van Der Meulen said prior to the board's decision. An indigent-care fund will be established by the hospital from its profits. It will help to defray the cost of medical care for those patients who cannot afford it.
Sorority chapter to close in Spring
By Cari Meisinger
Staff Writer
"It feels like somebody died," said Katherine Gustin, president of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, after she was notified that the sorority's university chapter will be closed next semester.
Officials from the Grand Council told the sorority girls that the chapter's fall rush results were not up to par. The Alpha Gamma Delta house has been conducting an informal rush to try and attract more girls.
By closing its chapter, the council felt it was, "taking the burden off us in not having to continue rush," Gustin said. The officials also felt that in order for the Alpha Gamma Delta house to compete with the other sororities on campus, they would have to leave campus and return later.
"They've left us hanging. . .we were not expecting it at all," Gustin said.
Sunday night, the sorority's area supervisor, Cheryl Johnsen and special supervisor, Donna McCain, went to the house for a visit. Since these women were not on the Grand Council, the
Adequate commuter parking available despite questions
By Lori Grange
Staff Writer
Sufficient parking for commuter use is available, despite the occasional use of commuter lots by off-campus groups, according to parking officials and students.
Lot two on Menlo Street was closed yesterday and one day last week for use by the California Highway Patrol, and for the clean-up of trash from last Sunday's Los Angeles Raiders football game, said Rick McCormick, parking operations administrator.
The closure raised questions of space availability for commuting permit holders.
"There is available parking, and we are taking care of permit holders," McCormick said. "Once in a while, the Menlo lots are contracted out. But they do let us know in advance. We knew about (yesterday's one-lot closure), and put signs up directing people where to park instead."
The Menlo Street lots, four of which form a parking block between the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the comer of Exposition and Vermont, are leased out by the university to the Coliseum, which in turn contracts them out to public and private groups, McCormick said.
The Coliseum allows student parking in all four lots every weekday from 7 a.m. until 10:30 p.m., unless a certain lot is leased out for the day, said Carl Levredge, director of parking operations.
In that case, students are relocated to another nearby Menlo lot, McCormick said.
Yesterday commuters were displaced to lot three, "about 40 feet away from their normal parking spots," but didn't consider the move an inconvenience, he said.
"It doesn't bother us, because there's always a place to park. There's plenty of room over here," said Michael McLennan, a commuting senior majoring in business.
The main complaint voiced by commuters is a lack of available spaces on campus, according to Marcus Harvard, a university parking officer.
"There are more spaces available here than there
are cars, but (the commuters) want preference parking on campus," he said.
McCormick said he knows of similar complaints.
"What I hear is that there is no place to park (for commuters). This is simply not true. We try to make it clear to permit holders from the beginning that a purchase of a permit doesn't guarantee a space exactly where you want to park," he said.
About 400 cars park in the Menlo lots during the day, McCormick said.
sorority's highest governing body, the girls said they thought the visit was just routine, Gustin said.
Johnsen and McCain, sent as representatives from the council, presented them with a letter saying that the chapter was not living up to the expectations that were set for it.
The girls living in the house will be permitted to stay until May, when the school year ends. Next year, the undergraduates will have to apply for university housing or find other living arrangements.
The Alpha Gamma Delta actives will be initiated as alumni and form their own junior circle for alumni under 30.
Women pledging the house will be given the option to depledge and go through rush next fall or pledge the Alpha Gamma Delta house and become alumni along with the other actives.
Gustin said she has been working with the Greek Affairs Office to see if the girls can, in some way, participate in spring activities such as Songfest and Greek Week.
The office is in full support of what the girls want to do for
next semester and, "it is with great sadness that they see the Alpha Gamma House close," said Cheri Lall, assistant coordinator for fraternities and sororities.
The president of the Panhellenic Council, Chris Clifford, said that the other sororities question what the Alpha Gamma Delta's national headquarters is doing. Nonetheless, Clifford said that the other sororities don't want them to feel isolated or alienated in any way.
"People's faces dropped when we told them," Gustin said. Gustin also said that everyone she talked to seemed to respect them for going and telling the other houses about the closure in person rather than letting them read about it in the newspaper. They wanted to prevent rumors from starting, she said.
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity president told Gustin that it took a lot of guts to go to the houses personally. The Delta Gamma sorority sent flowers to show its support.
Despite the closure, the Alpha Gamma Delta House expects to return to campus, though a date has not been set.
PETER ZAKHARY / DAILY TROJAN
The California Highway Patrol contracted the use of a Coliseum parking lot, usually open to students, and set up an obstacle course to practice high-speed manuevers.
$75 million sought from state
Proposal would provide two parking structures
By Karen Martinez
Staff Writer
State approval of $75 million in tax-free bonds could free the wav for the construction of two new parking structures at Exposition Park, one of which would be built beneath the rose garden there.
"Our plan is to maintain an even more beautiful rose garden. Our plan is to maintain convenient parking for the museums," said Alexander Haagen, chairman of the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission's Park Improvement Committee at the commissions monthly meeting on Wednesday afternoon.
The Park Improvement Committee includes coliseum commissioners and university officials.
Haagen said the commission plans to reconstruct the garden atop a two-story parking structure that will provide 1,200 new parking spaces.
The second structure will be built at the comer of Menlo Street and King Boulevard and will be five levels, said Anthony Lazzaro, senior vice president of business affairs. It's expected to hold 3,000 cars.
The bonds, which will provide the estimated $75 million needed for the project, must be approved by the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee before planning continues.
The allocation committee is made up of of Governor George Deukmejian, State Treasurer Jesse Unruh and State Controller Kenneth Cory.
If approved, the commission proposed the money be used for improvements at the Sports Arena as well as for the two new parking structures.
Under this proposal the university will be given separate locker rooms for the men’s and women's basketball team, as well as separate offices for both teams' coaches.
Michael Me Gee, the university's athletic director, gave a "thumbs-up" sign to Commissioner Glenn Mon when the proposal was approved.
Lazzaro, who is a member of the commission's Park Improvement Committee, explained that the proposal is not unique to Exposition Park, and said it has been done successfully in other cities. He agreed with Haagen that the garden can be completely restored after the structure is built.
"It will be a challenge to architects and planners, but it (the garden) won't change in size," Lazzaro said.
Robert Harris, dean of the School of Architecture, also a member of the Park Improvement committee, said he thinks the garden will be changed.
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