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Volume C, Number 18
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University of Southern California
Tuesday, February 4, 1986
Doheny to offer delivery services
By Daisy Ridgway
Staff Writer
The Doheny Express is coming, and library administrators said yesterday that this new document delivery service should be available to all university students and faculty members within about six weeks.
After final details of the year-long project have been settled, the service — which searches, copies and delivers materials from campus libraries to campus addresses — will be available by mid-March, Dean Charles Ritcheson, university librarian, said.
The Doheny Express, which will require an estimated budget of $35,000 for new computer equipment, a delivery vehicle and additional staff members, offers to deliver requested material from any library on the main university campus to a campus mailing address within 24 to 48 hours.
It will also provide an inter-library loan service if the requested material is not available in any of the university's libraries, said Lynn Sipe, assistant university librarian.
Students and faculty members may establish a service account with Doheny Express by subscribing to the service for a nominal per-use charge, paid by an advance deposit.
The service is free of charge to handicapped library users.
“(The Doheny Express) is of enormous use to people engaged in professional scholarship," Ritcheson said. “It benefits professors and (students) who need and read a lot of books."
Sipe cited a similar service at the University of California at Berkeley called the Baker Service, which has operated for almost
10	years. Sipe said the service has been very successful, receiving over 1,000 requests a month.
"We've studied what Berkeley does and added some of our own (ideas)," he said.
"(The library administrators) want to take an active role in the dispersion of information (from university facilities)," said Lana Beckett, the university librarian chosen to supervise and operate the Doheny Express.
Ritcheson said the Doheny Express is an effort by library staff members to enhance their service to the university community, as part of their "reach-out policy."
"We want to be much more proactive and not reactive in serving (the university)," Sipe added.
Information pamphlets and subscription forms regarding the Doheny Express will be distributed throughout the university at the beginning of March.
RALPH R. CALVO/DAILY TROJAN
Hoover Boulevard could be the site of a mall similiar to the one on Trousdale Parkway.
1968 mall proposal pending
By Amy Mednick
Staff Writer
The university has been negotiating with the dty of Los Angeles since 1968 to aquire the rights to build a mall similar to Trousdale Parkway on Hoover Boulevard as part of the master landscape plan of the campus.
In 1983, the student council president, Dan Dunmoyer, petitioned the Los Angeles City Council to extend a small park developed at the comer of 34th Street and Hoover Boulevard, said Anthony Lazzaro, senior
Insects disappear
water deemed drinkable
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By Marci Kenon
Staff Writer
Although the university water system was contaminated with insect larvae at the beginning of last fall, campus water is contaminant-free and safe to drink as usual, said John Pickering, a University Park/campus environmental health and safety officer.
Insect larvae, the early forms of adult insects, were discovered in several locations on campus in late August. Pickering said samples of water from various campus locations were sent to the California Museum of Science and Industry for analysis.
The larvae involved, whose non-scientific name is “water midges," were discovered through the inspection, said Pickering, who stressed the harmlessness of the larvae.
"The midges are not palatable but can be eaten," Pickering said.
Pickering said the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was informed and subsequently "hyper-chlorinated the water" with a diffusion method used to chlorinate water while avoiding the concentration of chlorine in one area.
The DWP was informed because it supplies the campus's water, Pickering said. Although the university owns and operates its own water system, it is not involved with supplying the water, he added.
Ownership of the water system gives the university more "in-house" control of plumbing and repairs, Pickering said. "But it has no control of what comes in."
The "water midges" discovered in the area's wa-
ter often develop in still waters such as the reservoirs used by the DWP, Pickering said. He said the contamination is a seasonal occurrence which peaks when the weather is hot.
Contamination can occur when water midges are small enough to pass through the filtering system routinely used to treat drinking water, Pickering said.
Once the water is contaminated, the DWP increases the amount of chlorine used in its routine treatment of the city's water, said Dick Nelson, a spokesman for the DWP. As a result of the increased chlorination, the water turns a greenish color but is not harmful despite its appearance, Pickering said.
"We perform about 60,000 tests a year to assure water quality," Nelson said. The DWP laboratory in which these tests are performed is "one of the most complete testing and treatment centers on the West Coast."
Valerie Marshall, university environmental health and safety specialist, said she assumes the larvae problem has been eliminated, since there have not been any complaints.
As for the quality of Los Angeles water, Marshall said, "For the amount of treatment done on the water, it's acceptable."
Pickering said the samples the university sends in for routine inspection easily meet the federal standards.
Marshall described L.A. water as "hard" and attributed to this quality its taste, which many consider unpleasant.
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Hoover has a major water main running directly under it which serves not only the university but the city of Los Angeles to the north and to the south of the campus, Lazzaro said.
"We must respect that major easement under the street, because the Department of Water and Power must have immediate access to it," Lazzaro said.
Since Hoover is a special situation, it is a more complicated procedure to gain clear title to the street, Lazzaro said.
"Whenever a street is vacated, the action must be taken by the city council," he said. "We are in the process of working with the city to obtain clear title."
When the street became part of the campus and was closed
off at Exposition Boulevard, the councilman at the time, Billy Mills, asked the city to vacate the street so it could be used for university purposes, Connie Meadows, specialist on planning and zoning issues for Councilman Robert Farrell, said.
Farrell proposed to the city council that the city donate the land to the university when Dunmoyer approached him with the idea, she said.
The dty found out that the university would be very limited in terms of the building possibilities on the street because the utility companies needed access to the street for repair purposes, Meadows said.
Meadows said the dty council recommended that the university provide some services to the community in exchange for the (Continued on page 3)
Drop/add ends late
By Sigal Kletzky
Staff Writer
Because of a computer breakdown on Friday, the deadline for dropping or adding a class was extended for one day until Monday, Feb. 3.
Howard Saperston, diredor of registration and records, said that due to a system failure which lasted over half of the day, drop/add forms could not be processed, and therefore an extension was granted to "accomodate the students."
Saperston said that between Jan. 9 and Jan. 17, students dropping a class received a 100 percent refund, but during the second week of dasses students received a 75 percent refund and during the third week of dasses, for which the deadline was extended one day, only a 50 percent refund was given.
If a student missed the extended deadline, Saperston said, he would have to file a petition. However, even if the petition to drop a class were approved, no cash refunds would be given.
The petition, which requires three or four signatures by the department, goes through a committee before being accepted or rejected. The process takes two to three weeks to be completed, Saperston said.
Moreover, if a student's petition to drop a class is approved, he will receive a *W' on his report card. The 'W', Saperston said, shows that the student dropped the class after the three-week drop/add deadline.
The option of withdrawing to audit is no longer available, Saperston said, because in past semesters students abused the privilege by switching to audit after several months in a class.