Volume XCVII, Number 18
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University of Southern California
Thursday, September 27, 1984
Senate approves $84,000 budget
By Karen Kucher
Assistant Qty Editor
The Student Senate unanimously approved its 1984-85 budget Wednesday, a spending plan increased by nearly $26,000 from last year's budget because of higher student enrollment and an increased student activity fee.
The total budget for the 1984-85 school year is nearly $84,000, compared to about $58,000 last year. The extra money comes mostly from the $4 increase (from $14 to $18) in the student activity fee, said Mike Singer, senate president.
“For seven years there was no increase" in student activity fees, Singer said. "But after several years of double digit inflation, we weren't able to put on the type of programs, or services we wanted to. Now we are able to."
Kevin Bumes, executive assistant to the senate, said, "We get 14 percent of the student activities fee," while the rest of the money is dispersed to cover programming and salaries.
Almost $13,000 — the largest expense in the budget — will go toward tuition remission for all senate cabinet members and officers.
Nearly $11,000 will go to the External Environmental Affairs Committee. The senate plans to donate $6,000 of the EEAC's money to fund Helpline, an over-the-phone counseling service that had its funding cut this year.
Bumes said $1,450 of the EEAC's budget is also going to the Los Angeles Collegiate Council, a lobbying group that represents students' interests in local and national governments.
With the senate-funded membership, university students will be able to attend LACC meet-
ings and run for the organization's offices.
This year's budget also allocates more to designated programs, such as committees and research action units, than toward overhead expenses, a reversal from last year.
The budget was altered on Wednesday afternoon before the senate meeting because $10,000 had to be re-designated to a university holding account.
Bumes said the holding account is a type of buffer to protect the senate from overspending its budget in case enrollment projections prove incorrect.
"If there is a . . . fall in enrollment, money has to be taken from the holding account," Singer said.
After learning Wednesday that the extra money was not in the holding account, Singer and Bumes had to go through their original budget and decrease $10,000 worth of allocations.
The changes included decreasing the service allocation — funding for groups such as Trojan Squires and Helenes — by $4,000, and decreasing constituency programs by almost $4,500. Singer said the cuts may come in the form of drug and alcohol prevention programs.
The senate president's discretionary fund — which can be used for speakers or academic programs — was also reduced, Singer said.
"I felt better cutting this account by $1,500 than pulling money away from Student Affairs or another program's account," he said.
The senate also passed a resolution asking that the School of Library and Information Management not be closed.
Cancer hospital 15 percent hike
By Tom Fitzsimmons
Staff Writer
The Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital and Research Institute will receive a 15 percent increase in federal funds for research next year, said Brian Henderson, director of the university's cancer center, at a conference Tuesday night.
Henderson said the hospital, part of the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, will receive the increase in grant money because of the favorable rating it received after it was visited by 20 scientists from the National Cancer Society. The hospital usually receives about $16 million annually from the federal government.
Henderson was one of several speakers at the Cancer Research Associates' annual conference on cancer research, held at the USC medical campus on Tuesday.
There are about 200 people involved in cancer research at the hospital.
Plans for campus pub all but dead
West Dining Hall site ruled out; Grill considered
By James Jones
Staff Writer
Plans to put a campus pub in the Frank L. King Olympic Hall of Champions (West Dining Hall) are all but dead, but the issue of having a pub on campus is still alive, a member of the university dining services committee said Wednesday.
Susan Kanne, a student member of the committee, said according to surveys, students would like to have the pub in the West Dining Complex, but said it would be more expensive to put the pub into the dining hall than to build it elsewhere.
The expense of putting the pub in the dining hall was one of the main reasons the administration suspended the project, she said, adding more surveys about other possible locations for the pub are planned.
The campus pub was considered dead when plans to build it into the dining complex were halted last August. The administration cited low traffic in the area and a small number of students 21 or older who could use the facility as reasons for halting any further planning.
A study done by the dining services committee showed that of the 29,000 students at the university, only 2,800 are over 21 and live within a mile of campus.
But Gene Lawless, director of dining services and chairman of
the Pub Advisory Group, said a new committee is being formed, combining the Pub Advisory Group with Campus Life, to determine what the top floor of the next complex should be used for.
The new committee will also see if the on-campus pub can be salvaged, he said.
Lawless said he would like to see the space on the top floor of the dining hall used for general purpose events and not just for a single function, because it could conceivably serve more people and be used for more than just a bar.
"The pub issue is not dead, and I'm looking into other areas on campus that could satisfy that requirement," Lawless said.
One such site under consider-
ation is the Commons Grill. Lawless said the grill, which was a proposed site for the pub five years ago, has a lot of potential as a candidate site because it can seat roughly 500 people, it already has a license to serve alcoholic beverages, it already has a great deal of traffic and it would not take a large amount of construction to transform it.
He also said the Grill was not the only such site under consideration but would not elaborate further.
Lawless said the new committee will definitely have a plan for both the use of the top floor of the West Dining Complex and the campus pub within 45 to 90 days. He also said he would like to see construction on the pub begin as early as next summer.
to receive in federal funds
Over the past year, cancer hospital researchers have discovered the presence of a certain kind of virus in the tissue of victims of lymphoma, a type of blood cancer.
This could be an important aid in the eventual understanding of the cause and cure of cancer, said Alexandra Levine, the hospital's deputy clinical director, who spoke at the conference.
The cancer center also does research into the transformation of normal cells to cancerous cells by chemical and physical agents and into ways to block transformations, and identification and analysis of genes that cause cancer by reacting with carcinogenic agents.
Among the new cancer technologies being used at the cancer hospital is the "Kock pouch," named for European scientist Niles Kock. The Kock pouch is an artificial bladder fabricated to replace bladders removed in cancer surgery.
The Cancer Research Associates is a support group for private citizens and university faculty who donate and raise money for cancer research.
The associates raise private money for research to supplement federal money, which only goes to research that is well under way. Researchers who want to investigate new fields must rely on private funds until their research has shown some success.
Annually, the associates try to raise $200,000 to $300,000 in private funds. The organization began 1984 with $26,000, raised $169,000 and has $80,000 to carry over for 1985. $20,000 is earmarked for immunological research.
The Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital is the only hospital in California devoted exclusively to cancer research and treatment. There are only 20 such hospitals, designated as comprehensive cancer centers, in the United States.
Creating ‘superhumans’ not possible, genetic expert says
By Frances Hong
Staff Writer
Despite gains made in genetic engineering, Olympic gold medalists and world-famous leaders will never be made-to-order superhumans, but will continue to be ordinary human beings, a university biology researcher said.
Pierre Prentki, a research associate in molecular biology, said, "The selective breeding of individuals to produce a 'better' human is unforeseeable in the future and raises philosophical questions."
Genetic engineering, which takes genes from one organism and places them in another, has been used successfully for years on plants and animals.
But Prentki said this process
—	which has been responsible for creating more healthy plants
and better foods — will probably never be used to create "designer genes” to produce a superior human being.
"Genetic engineering looks to correct defects in the already existing human individual, not to create a 'superhuman,' " he said.
Prentki said genetic engineering is currently used to understand nature as it is and to eventually change what can be changed.
"It is a powerful tool to study the function of genes and to perform certain tasks.
"It is impossible to use genetic engineering in creating a 'superhuman,' simply because one cannot take one gene and replace it with another and expect to create some superhuman," Prentki said.
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RICK WANG / DAILY TROJAN
The park In front of Doheny Library was the setting for Career Day, a yearly event devised for organizations to come to the university to talk to students and distribute information on possible job opportunities.