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Volume XCV, Number 33	University of Southern California	Monday, February 27, 1984
Staff Assembly report calls for upgrading oid campus buildings
By Doreen Guarino
City Writer
The Staff Assembly, in its report to the Budget Advisory Committee, has recommended that money from the next fund-raising campaign be used to upgrade some of the older buildings on campus which are overcrowded and have safety and operational problems.
The recommendation was submitted in mid-January in a report to the committee, which will soon be making a final 1984-85 budget recommendation.
"We are recommending things that are long-term," said Margaret Harrington, associate dean of public administration and president of the Staff Assembly, an organization of university faculty and staff members.
She outlined the recommendations saying, "First, there should be an assessment of the spacial situation and second, in terms of long-term development plans, there is a need for administrative space be considered as a funding need along with institutional space and library space," she said.
While Harrington said the assembly's concern is not that there is an "overwhelming crisis" on campus, she added that certain staff members are working in older buildings that do not meet earthquake codes, such as Bruce Hall.
The problem of limited space in older structures, such as the Student Administrative Services building, was also an issue discussed by the assembly.
"(SAS) is an area where, for a number of years, (employees) have been doing the best they can with limited space while the number of people have increased," Harrington said. "We believe
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Revisions needed before
Metro Rail receives funds
Three remain hospitalized in aftermath of sniper attack
By Cornell Barnard
City Writer
Members of the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission said they were not surprised by the government's announcement Thursday that there is a lack of federal funding for the proposed 18.6-mile Metro Rail subway system.
"The announcement came as no surprise and is really something we've known all along," said Los Angeles County Transportation Commission Deputy Paul Taylor.
Unless Los Angeles scales back the project or persuades Congress to authorize a substantial increase in money, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration cannot approve Metro Rail, which is expected to cost around S3.4 billion.
"The point all along is that
there has been limited funding, the task now is to get more money on the table through Congressional appropriations," he said.
If approved, Metro Rail would link downtown L.A. with the Wilshire-Fairfax area. There will be 18 stations along the route. It will run past Union Station and the Civic Center, down Wilshire Boulevard to Fairfax Avenue, then north to Hollywood. The system will then run through the Cahuenga Pass to Universal City and stop at Chandler Boulevard in North Hollywood.
Congressional representatives from Los Angeles said Thursday that the city should begin looking for a formal letter of intent from the Transportation Administration, signifying federal approval of the Metro Rail proposal and the government's
Two LAPD officers keep watch over the house at 732 East 50th St., where a sniper shot at children in the 49th Street Elementary School playground Friday, killing a 10-year-old girl and wounding 13 other people before killing himself.
By Cornell Barnard
City Writer
Three remain hospitalized, one in critical and two others in serious condition, in the aftermath of Friday's sniper attack on the 49th Street Elementary School that left two dead and 13 injured, a hospital spokesman said Sunday.
Police identified the sniper as 28-year-old Tyrone Mitchell who killed himself after firing several rounds of ammunition from the second-story of a white, wood-frame house at 732 East 50th St.
The gunfire started at 2:23 p.m. just as 100 youngsters surged cheerfully from their classrooms anticipating the weekend.
The shooting spree stopped three minutes later leaving 10-year-old Shala Eubanks dead, and three others — Steve Gomez, 9, Anna Anaya-Gonzales,
11,	and passer-by Carlos Lopez, 24 — critically wounded. The three were taken to Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital.
Eight other victims who received minor injuries from the gunfire were taken to L.A. Orthopedic Hospital and later released after treatment and observation. They were Iran Macias, 10; Alicia Pena, 10; Mayra Cruz, 10; Mario Hernandez, 8; Eloisa Cruz, 10; Jose Ga-vino, 11; Victoriano Vilo, 11; and educational aide Albert Jones,
50.
Police say Mitchell was a onetime member of Rev. Jim Jones' People's Temple, was a known PCP user and was said to have been a strange and violent individual. He was described by police as being black, 5-feet-8-inches tall, weighing 155 pounds and wearing a moustache.
At last report, police officials had not determined what may have prompted the shooting in the schoolyard. Many questions are still circulating — almost every one beginning with "why?"
"Highly Disturbed Man" .
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intention to pay 62 percent of the total cost.
The letter, although not formally pledging federal funds, would amount to federal approval of the project, and would allow the Metro Rail to use more than $900 million in available state and local funds for the project, said L.A. Deputy Mayor Ray Remy, the city's main Metro Rail representative in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.
These funds include state gas tax revenues and other state transit funds and money from the Los Angeles County sales tax transit fund.
Although Congress has given conceptual approval to 62 percent federal funding of Metro Rail, it has actually allocated funding only for the first year.
Without a letter of intent, RTD officials say they cannot begin construction on the system this summer as planned.
Steve Parks, communication representative for the Transportation Commission reiterated that the announcement was not completely unexpected saying, "we had more than an inkling. From here we will try to find another wav and keep pressing the federal government."
Remy said the situation reflects difficulties the project faces in getting additonal money from an administration and a Congress preoccupied with a huge deficit in a election year.
He said the effort would not be easy, but he was optimistic about success. He added that Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley said conversations with top officials in Washington left him "absolutely" convinced that the federal government will provide its share of financing for the project.
If Metro Rail supporters and lobbyists can persuade Congress to increase funding substantially, then it might be possible to provide Los Angeles with the S336 million it is seeking in the
1985	fiscal year and again in 1986, as well as the S365 million that has been requested for both 1987 and 1988, Taylor said.
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Shadows fall on the incomplete ampitheater tiers as construction equipment rests on the future stage.
$500,000 allocated to research projects
By Harvey Drut
City Writer
Two funding programs which were designed to provide for expanding research projects and to meet a variety of one-time expenses have been allocated $500,000 each according to the trial budget for the 1984-85 school year, said John Curry', director of the university budget.
The Faculty Research and Innovation Fund was created last year by the provost's office in order to further university research projects, while the President's Fund, designed to meet emergency expenses, has been officially created in this year's budget.
"Having these two funding programs will make the university budget more flexible in
terms of providing funds for areas that in the past have not been directly budgeted," Curry said.
Curry and George Abdo, executive assistant to university President James Zumberge, agreed that these two budget allocations will benefit the university in attempts to have money available in areas that have been overlooked in the past.
"These funds have been available in the past on a 'needs only' basis, but by directly budgeting for programs which are lacking funds, we can achieve good honest budgeting and avoid the need for raising emergency funds when an emergency comes up," Curry said.
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