Student bus fare will go from 20 new RTD policies that will take
UC regents not ready to divest
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Acting after months of campus acrimony, the University of California regents on Friday approved a measure setting up a committee to review companies doing business in South Africa in which the university has invested $2.4 billion.
The vote came after hours of labored debate over the wording of two proposals regarding divestment.
As protesters in the audience roared their displeasure, the board voted 14-9 to reject a measure offered by state Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, D-San Francisco, that would have directed the university to halt South African investments within 12 months and sell off virtual-(Continued on page 4)
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cents to 85 cents, and several bus routes will be altered under effect next week.
RTD plans fare hikes, route changes for July 1
By Beth Laski
The Rapid Transit District (RTD) will begin to make changes on June 30, when there will be route and schedule changes, as well as fare increases beginning July 1.
Effective June 30, RTD will be scheduling changes on 133 selected bus lines throughout the Los Angeles area. The changes will effect one half of RTD's lines, and most rescheduling will cause only two to three minute changes.
Service will be cut some 2.4 percent starting July 1. No routes will be cancelled, but some buses will be removed from lines, and others will experience minor adjustments primarily during morning and afternoon hours when ridership is expected to decline in the wake of higher fares that go into effect on July 1.
RTD's base fare will increase from 50 cents to 85 cents, and a regular monthly pass will cost $32. Increases are also expected in almost all other fare categor-(Continued on page 3)
Gero library will join central system
The Gerontology Library, an independent library since its establishment in 1969, will become a branch library of the Doheny Central Library system on July 1.
"To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time an independent library has ever joined the main system," said Julie Moore, gerontology head librarian.
At its inception 16 years ago, Moore said, the Gerontology Library was intended as only an office collection. It has since grown to be "possibly the biggest, definitely the best" library of its sort in the nation, Moore added.
Both Moore and University Librarian Charles Ritcheson see only advantages to the
new association.
"By accepting the Gerontology Library into the main system," Ritcheson said, "we will be able to avoid extensive duplication of acquisitions.
"We'll also be better able to plan for the future. We do, in fact, plan to make gerontology a major field of library development," Ritcheson added.
Moore agrees that the changes brought on by the new arrangement will be positive ones.
"In the first place, (becoming a branch of the Central Library system) will give us a more secure funding base," Moore said.
"Secondly, it will enable us to enter the university's automated library system. It's also
possible that we will be able to enlarge," Moore added.
Moore believes the changes will be slow in coming, however. "I don't see anything concrete being done until Fall — possibly even until early Spring," she said. Moore also noted that it could take a full year to implement all the necessary changes.
One such change is the appointment of Mary Jo Brazil to a full-time position as Acting Librarian.
Moore, who works only part-time in the library, believes that the appointment of a full-time staff will be a valuable addition.
"Because of the availability of funding and the increased staff, I can see us going only forward," Moore said.
Cost of illegal parking at 'SC will increase
The cost of riding the bus isn't the only thing that's getting more expensive next week. On July 1, the $5 parking ticket will join the 50 cent bus fare in the realms of obscurity as a new fine structure will raise the price of parking illegally on the USC campus to as much as $30.
Carl Levredge, director of security and parking operations, said the decision to raise the fines came from a realization that the old fine structure was losing its deterrent effect.
Tickets, Levredge noted, had been kept down to $5 for at least 15 years, even though the cost of permits and "everything else" connected with parking operations had increased steadily.
"What we created was an imbalance," Levredge said. "We charge $3.50 to park now, and apparently a perception grew-among some people that running the risk of beating the system was worth it because the penalty of the $5 did not really outweigh what one would have had to pay to stay within the system.
"So we felt in looking around at other institutions and municipalities that we were way out of line and that it was time to do something about it," Levredge added.
Levredge said that the new fines are comparable to current rates in the City of Los Angeles and other local cities and uni-(Continued on page 3)
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Volume XCVIV, Number 6	University	of	Southern	California	Wednesday,	June	26,	1985
Wampus: The late and lamented student humor magazine
By Stacey Schmeidel
"The two groups of people attending USC are (1) those that walk, and (2) those that ride.
A passage from the current prospectus? A recent Daily Trojan editorial on the hazards of getting around campus? The "Transportation" entry of SCampus?
Nope.
The above quote is taken from the December 1922 issue of Wampus, the USC student humor magazine.
Most students probably don't even know that USC had a student humor magazine. For this re-son, University Archivist Paul Christopher has devoted an entire exhibit to past issues of the publication. The exhibit, entitled "A Retrospective of the Late and Somewhat Lamented USC Student Humor Magazine, Wampus,"is on display on the ground floor of Doheny Library, next to College Library, through August 15.
The most intriguing thing about Wampus (whose original title was Wampus Kit, a parody of "Campus Wit") was the efforts of its editors during the first two decades of its publication to experiment with the magazine's scope and purpose in the face of univeristy censorship and the changing tastes of its readers. Common themes were the battle of the sexes and girl-boy relationships; many of the jokes and cartoons in early issues of Wampus are daring, even by today's standards.
Throughout the 1920's, Wampus enlarged and broadened its scope, treating such topics as Prohibition and the Depression "in a way that fulfilled a need for students at the time," Christopher said.
"By 1929," Christopher explained, "the Daily Trojan was a 6-column metropolitan-type newspaper that took itself very seriously. The editors of Wampus sought, perhaps, to portray a different attitude towards life."
Viewing the Wampus exhibit is like taking a trip to the Land Where Some Things Never Change. This item, for example, is taken from the February 1921 Wampus:
Words We Never Hear at USC
From the Prof: "Next Tuesday is a holiday, so we shall have no assignment for either Monday or Wednesday."
From the Editor of the Trojan: "We can't furnish you with back-numbers, as the New York Times has purchased all our available back issues."
From the Treasurer's Office: "Due to the low prices, we are able to refund to you a portion of your tuition fee, which we do not need."
From the Editor of the Wampus: "No! I'm sorry, but we are so overcrowded with good contributions that we can't accept your material."
This passage from the May 1933 Wampus shows that disdain for that other Los Angeles University
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The cover of a 1928 issue of Wampus. All Wampus artwork was done by USC students free of charge.