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Volume XCVIV, Number 3	University	of	Southern	California	Wednesday,	June	5,	1985
Doheny family donates $423,000 to USC library
Money will be used for renovations, refurbishing
Continuing education program to be revised
BENILDA SAND AN/SUMMER TROJAN
A $423,000 gift from members of the Doheny family will be used for improvements in the library that the family funded in 1953.
CSAC cracks down on borrowers
Californians who continue to drag their feet on repaving their defaulted student loans will lose not only their state but also their federal income tax refunds, the California Student Aid Commission has announced.
Under the Federal Budget Reduction Act, student loan debts and certain other debts owed on federal programs will be offset from U.S. income tax refunds beginning this year.
According to the CSAC, there will be amnesty from the federal action for Commission borrowers only if they have begun or resumed payments on their defaulted loans by June 25. The Commission manages both the California Guaranteed Student Loan Program and the California Loans to Assist Students (CL AS).
The Commission has been collecting state income tax re-
funds for the past three years through the Franchise Tax Board's offset program. This year, approximately 52 million in state tax refunds was withheld from defaulted borrowers, and the Commission expects to collect about the same amount from the federal tax refunds next year.
The new law also permits the Commission to obtain current addresses from federal income tax returns.
"This will be of particular help to us," said Arthur S. Marma-duke, Commission director, "since locating the borrower is often the most difficult and time-consuming part of collecting the debt."
Any defaulted student loan borrower who has made no payments on a California Guaranteed Student Loan or a CLAS loan for the past 12 months will
be reported to the Internal Revenue Service by the Commission. When a student loan is defaulted, the entire amount of the loan becomes due and pavable
The new penalty will be imposed in addition to pursuit by collection agencies, small claims court actions, bad debt filings with credit bureaus, and other actions to recoup defaulted loans, Marmaduke said.
Marmaduke added that the State is willing to work with defaulted borrowers to set up reasonable repayment plans.
California Guaranteed Student Loan and CLAS borrowers who have made no payment in the past 12 months and do not wish to lose their tax refunds should contact the California Educational Loan Programs in San Francisco by June 25.
By Beth Laski
The renovation of Doheny Memorial Library' is part of a major program designed to enhance the universitv's library svstem as a leading scholarly and cultural resource. To assist in this restoration, members of the Doheny family have donated $423,000 to the University of Southern California for the improvement of the library' that the famiiv funded 53 years ago.
"Doheny Memorial Library is one of the most important buildings on our campus," says Charles R. Ritcheson, librarian and dean of the University of Southern California's 11-branch library system. The four Doheny family members who contributed are Lucy Doheny Washington, William H. Doheny, Patrick A. Doheny and Timothy M. Doheny. They are all children of the late Edward L. Doheny, Jr., for whom the library is named. The university is "grateful for their thoughtful support of the Doheny project," said Dean Ritcheson.
The "enormously generous contribution will be used in part to refurbish College Library and provide new staff offices for the 18 new faculty and staff members that will be added in 1986," said Ritcheson.
There are also "not so glamorous, but vital improvements that must be made to ensure the survival of the building," added Ritcheson. These improvements include updating and repairing existing electrical wires and plumbing in Doheny Library.
Doheny Library today houses more than 800,000 volumes and serves as the main library' in the university's library system. With 2.3 million volumes, the USC libraries currently rank in size among the top third of the 101 university libraries belonging to the Association of Research Libraries.
The entire library system at USC will be revolutionized by electronically transforming the libraries to research centers that "will be ir direct and immediate touch with every major research library' in the world, using satellites to send and receive material as a matter of course," said Ritcheson. The transformation, thanks to a donatior from the late film director George Cukor, has already begun. The library has taken a step into automation by joining the Research Library Group (RLG), Inc., a consortium of more than 30 major research libraries across the country'.
In addition to automation, the library system will be improving in areas of expansion and refurbishment of the existing facilities. Plans are made to improve Doheny Library by providing climate control for the preservation of materials and better use of space for students and faculty.
Preliminary studies have been made and the plans for renovation will be completed within six weeks. The restoration process should begin next January. The remodeling of the Boekman Research Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies on the first level of Doheny Library has taken place, and the next step, which will begin this summer, will be to remodel the third floor where the additional administrative offices for faculty and staff will be constructed.
The planned improvements being made within Doheny Library and the entire library system are due to the donations by the Doheny family, and other contributions by the Ahmanson Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and the Times Mirror Foundation. Additional donations are expected to allow the completion of the plans to refurbish the university's library system.
By Scott Butterworth
Plans are currently being made for the revised structure of continuing education at USC.
In an announcemment made several weeks ago, Provost Cornelius Pings said that a separate college for continuing studies and a clear division between its programs and the programs of the university's various academic units is no longer desirable. Continuing education should be a part of each academic unit's total program, Pings said.
All continuing education programs will be transferred from the College of Continuing Education to the various academic units or phased out by June 30, 1986, Pings said.
Responsibility for extended education programs will be placed on the various academic units in which fields of study lie. Existing academic departments and professional schools, while
continuing to carry out programs within their specified academic areas, will be encouraged to collaborate with a University Committee for Continuing Studies and an external Board of Advisors in the development and implementation of their own extended studies programs.
Sherry May, dean of the College of Continuing Education, will continue as dean until June 30, 1986, to oversee the relocation of programs and personnel. In addition, she has been appointed Vice Provost for Continuing Studies, a newly created position "parallel in responsibility to the vice provosts now established for graduate studies and research and for undergraduate studies," Pings said in a memo to May. As vice provost. May will develop a plan to involve all academic units in the goals of continuing education.
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DAWN IRVINE/DAILY TROJAN
Conferences will continue to be held in the Davidson Conference Center, even though all courses in USC’s College of Continuing Education will be transferred to individual academic units or phased out by next June.