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Volume C, Number 64
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University of Southern California
Monday, April 21, 1986
Policy on parking permits to change in the summer
By Germaine Goodrich
Staff Writer
Parking Operations is changing its policy for second car permits beginning this summer in an attempt to prevent students from abusing parking privileges.
"We've had a lot of problems in the past," said Gloria Payne, associate director of Parking Operations. "Students would purchase the second permit and share it with brothers or sisters or friends. It was like two for the price of one."
"One of the things we wanted to do is get the word out before the end of the semester," Payne said.
The basic rate for a commuter permit last year was $96.85 per semester. On- and off-campus residents paid $102.10.
For an additional $2.50 students could purchase another permit if they owned a second car and might be driving it to campus.
Payne said Parking Operations will be "eliminating the second permit and will issue a singie transferrable permit." However, for control purposes, if a student forgets the permit, upon arriving on campus they will have to pay for parking that day.
"This system is similar to UCLA," Payne said.
Payne did not have the rates for next years permits but said, "I would estimate a three to five percent increase." The increase is attributed to the maintenance costs of parking structures and to the debt owed for the construction of Parking Structure D.
"We have to adjust accordingly," she said.
Seniors satisfied overall
Survey finds 72% pleased with education
By Gerhard Taeubel
Staff Writer
A university survey of seniors who graduated in 1985 reveals that 72 percent of the respondents are happy with their overall education, but only 46 percent deemed general education at the university satisfactory.
The survey is the result of responses by 608 seniors to a questionnaire distributed by Student Affairs last spring. Survey forms were mailed to 1,897 students.
Although new surveys have already been distributed to current seniors, students who prefer to voice their thoughts directly to university administrators will be given that opportunity April 22 at a "Senior Speak Out" forum in the lobby of the Annenberg School of Communications.
The survey, which is modeled
Biased news reports discussed
U.S. media condemned by former BBC newsman
By Daphne Nugent
Staff Writer
A former BBC newsman, Alan Hart, speaking from the point of view of the Palestinians, told members of the Palestinian Cultural Club Friday that the media coverage in the United States is biased in favor of the Israelis.
"I'm one of those old-fashioned journalists who believes that there are always two sides to every story — only one side has been shown here." This Was why he was speaking from the point of view of the Palestinians, he said.
Hart said his ability to see the issue from both sides is due to the fact that he has friends in high places on both sides of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
In his talk, he defended Yassir Arafat, saying he is a man who had resorted to terrorism in the early 1970s but who is now just a politician. He said Arafat is no more a terrorist than Mena-chem Begin and Ariel Sharon were in their day.
"Almost everyone who has tried to liberate their country from the British Empire has been called a terrorist by the British press at one time or another," he said. "The world recognizes people who were terrorists as having become
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politicians, why can't Arafat be recognized in this way?" he asked.
Arafat's only crime is that he inspired the regeneration of Palestinian nationalism, said Hart.
"The Arab regimes shared a common hope with Israel and the other pro-Israeli countries like the United States — and that was that the Palestinian problem would just disappear," he said.
"There is no mention of the Palestinians on the charter that called for the creation of the Israeli state, only a reference to the problem of Arab refugees." he said.
Hart explained the Palestinian Liberation Organization is reluctant to accept a United Nations resolution that calls for the recognition of the State of Israel even though the United States has promised, in return, to recognize the Palestinians' right to self-determination.
"According to international law, the Israeli occupation of lands taken after 1948 (such as the West Bank) is illegal. The only way it can be made legal is if the occupied party recognized this. So if the Palestinians recognize 242 (the UN resolution), they will be waiving their right to that land."
"Why, therefore, is the United States asking the Palestinians to make such an impossible decision?" he asked.
"There are two possible answers," Hart continued. "Either the Americans are frightened to confront Israel and its lobby here in the U.S., or because of unknown forces such as the military industrial complex and the banks. These forces see Israel as a useful little mercenary state through which they can send arms to nasty little totalitarian regimes in South America and to the Mullahs in Teheran."
He criticized both Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for their roles in the decision to bomb Libya.
"Reagan may be a nice man, but his policies are insane," Hart said, adding that he thought that the bombing would only escalate anti-American terrorism.
"Even before Libya, we were headed for an explosion of anti-American sentiment," said Hart. "Arabs are fed up with one-sided U.S. policy. Reagan has poured oil on a slow burning fire.
"What infuriates me about debate in your country is tne simplistic way in which your government likes to divide the world into good guys and bad guys, commies and non-commies."
Hart said that this attitude forces Americans to over-supply and over-finance Israel in order to "keep the commie hoards out of the Middle East."
after a similar program at Stanford University, also shows that past seniors are largely critical of the performance of teaching assistants, and that black students are less satisfied with the university than white and Hispanic students.
Overall, the survey painted a positive picture of the universi-
Overall, the survey painted a positive picture of the university's educational program.
ty's educational program, as well as providing the school with an indication of its strengths and weaknesses, said Kristine Dillon, associate vice president of Student Affairs.
"Did we learn something about where we need to improve? Yes," she said.
Dillon said that university officials and faculty are taking the survey results seriously and some schools within the university are holding meetings to discuss the survey's findings in relation to their own curriculum.
The dissatisfaction with general education courses at the university may be indicative of much of the student body's attitude toward education at the university, Dillon said.
"Our student body is quite careerist," she said. "In many ways I am not surprised there is an inherent negativism about liberal, general education."
In an attempt to receive more feedback from students, many university administrators and faculty will also be participating in the "Senior Speak Out" forum, which is designed to allow seniors to directly address ques-
tions and comments to school officials.
"Sometimes you get more texture" from a face-to-face discussion than from written responses, said Sylvia Manning, vice provost.
Although the university has not had a lack of communication with its students in the past, "you can always do more," she said. "We've become more eager to hear what our students have to say."
Manning said the forum, which was organized by the Mortar Board, comes "at the end of a series of dialogues" with both students and staff and is part of the university's reaccreditation process.
A major part of that process is a self-study program Manning noted.
Catalina Camia, who is in charge of publicity for the forum, said that the Mortar Board and the university are hoping for a large turnout.
The "Speak Out" results will probably duplicate many of the results and concerns expressed in the survey, said Dillon, who will be a panel member at the forum.
Findings published in the survey, which was released in March, also show that many students would not be attending the university without financial aid and that, to some seniors, "social contacts and experiences were more worth their investment than the academics."
Despite the fact that only 32 percent of the seniors that were mailed questionnaires participated in the survey, the number was "representative" of the class, Dillon said.
She said that, over time, she hopes a recurring pattern will become evident in the survey results so that the university will be able to intensify its academic improvement efforts.
Allocations Board ready to accept funding applications
By Tania Soussan
Staff Writer
The Allocations Board, created by the Student Senate earlier this month to distribute money raised from student-activity fees, is accepting applications for funding from campus organizations this week.
The board was formed to administer more fairly the approximately $600,000 that will come from the $14 student-activities fee that students enrolled in six or more units will pay next year.
Bob Crissman, the senate treasurer and chairman of the Allocations Board, called the process used to allocate funds this year "haphazard." He said, "It really wasn't fair the way it was done."
"The Student Senate, as an organization, will be more accountable for student program funds thanks to the Allocations Board,” said Wally Bobkiewicz, senate president.
The applications for funding for next year are due on Friday. On Saturday, the Allocations Board will hear 15-minute presentations from the qualified groups who have applied. The board will establish the criteria for qualification early this week.
After hearing the presentations, the board will recommend to the senate how much money it believes each organization should receive.
The Allocations Board will now handle programming money while the Program Board will allocate administrative funds to the campus groups under its jurisdiction. The Program Board will have to apply to the Allocations Board for the funding for their campus programs and activities.
"We cut their administrative (budget) down so they're not going to be able to have pizza next year," Crissman said. He was referring to a list of Program Board expenditures that was distributed among senators last month that cited pizzas for meetings as a questionable
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