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Southern California	Wednesday, November 6, 1985
Help for quake victims in Mexico City
Relief fund raises $5,000 for Red Cross
Volume XCIX, Number 46	University	of
By Tommy Li
Staff Writer
The "Mexico City Disaster Relief Effort," sponsored by the Hispanic Student Assembly, presented a $5,000 donation to Frank Medina, the Central East district manager for the American Red Cross, yesterday morning in front of Tommy Trojan, and announced that the relief effort will continue.
The Hispanic Student Assembly set out to raise $5,000 to aid victims of the late-September earthquake that destroyed much of Mexico City. It met its goal after about two weeks of donation gathering, said Frank Cardenas, president of the Hispanic Pre-Law Association.
With this goal achieved, the organization announced plans for a benefit concert by an artist
S.F. ready for shake-up by Trojans
Corii Berg
Staff Writer
With the traditional San Francisco road trip just a few days away, several hotels have started their plans to combat the problem that resulted in $6,000 damage at just one hotel last year.
If this weekend, one in which thousands of university students travel to the Bay Area to attend the football game, is anything like what happened last year, some hotels doubt that university students will ever be welcomed again.
"The students at USC are future lawyers, doctors and journalists and should be grown up by now. Unfortunately for the school's reputation, they come up here and act like absolute pigs," said Mel Osorio, general manager of the El Cortez Hotel.
The damage at the El Cortez from last year's weekend was in excess of $6,000, largely due to the fact that a university student allegedly turned on the sprinkler system and flooded three floors, Osorio said. He said students were throwing furniture out the windows and were setting off fire alarms.
He was quoted in the Nov. 7, 1984 Daily Trojan: "You should have seen them throwing crap through the windows. It was unbelievable."
This year, Osorio said he is requiring some people checking into a room to leave a refundable deposit of $200. He said he would use his judgement to decide who would be required to leave a deposit.
He explained that this deposit will cover both damages in a person's room and will also help cover any damages that might be done to the hotel property.
"We are determined to stop students from damaging our hotel because it isn't fair to other hotel guests. There is no reason
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Mark Lawrence (left) and Frank Cardenas (right) present the Hispanic Assembly's check for the Mexican earthquake relief fund to Frank Medina of the Red Cross (center).
A visit from India's art, ambassador
By Stephen Lawson
Staff Writer
Appearing at the opening of an exhibit of Indian artifacts and sketches of India in Doheny Library Sunday, the Indian ambassador to the United States said the university is important to the development of his nation.
Ambassador Shankar Bajpai said, "The University of Southern California has had a very intense relationship, both through its scholars and from the students from India who have come out here, and either stayed here or gone back, and in either case contributed a great deal to development in the fields of science and technology.
"I think they continue to play an important role in the modernization and independent development of India by the expertise that is available in a center like this."
The ambassador spoke at a reception hosted by Charles Ritcheson, university librarian, for the opening of the exhibit in the library's Treasury Room.
The exhibit was organized by Ritcheson as a tribute to the Festival of India, a cultural exhibition traveling through the United States this year.
Ritcheson is a member of the National Committee on the Festival of India, which was created by the U.S.-Indian Subcommission on Culture and Education. The subcommission is headed (Continued on page 8)
that it hopes can fill the Sports Arena with fans.
The biggest donation for the first fund-raising goal came from Phil Tellez, of Vienna, Va. Roseanne Tellez, a journalism major in her junior year at the university and Tellez's daughter, asked her father if he would donate something. He gave $500.
Tellez said he made the donation because his "ancestors were Mexican, and I have a feeling for that country."
"I was glad to do it," he said.
He said he was not aware of the fact that he made the biggest donation to the relief fund.
Medina, an alumnus of the university, said the money donated from the relief effort at the university would be used with other donations to the Red
Cross for five major objectives in Mexico City: to rebuild Red Cross clinics that were destroyed, to continue long-term medical care for earthquake victims, to establish an earthquake
preparedness program, to improve communication systems, and to buy more medical supplies.
Medina said the fraternities and sororities of the University
of California, Los Angeles have also begun to raise money for the relief effort.
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Mrs. Zumberge (left), Betty Ford (right) and the ladies of Town and Gown present Elise Clayton with the Betty Ford scholarship.
Betty Ford discusses addiction
By Matthew Gaven
Staff Writer
Betty Ford, former first lady and founder of the Betty Ford Center for the treatment of alcohol and drug dependency, spoke to the members of Town and Gown at their monthly luncheon yesterday.
"Being on a college campus is a very special feeling. Being on any college campus gives you a feeling of vitality and discovery, with everybody rushing around. The feeling of honest questioning of what the world is all about," Ford said.
Ford is an honorary lifetime member of Town and Gown. In 1979 she had an academic scholarship named for her by the organization.
She spoke about her work in founding the Betty Ford Center.
"There are prerequisites for everything we do in life," Ford said. "I probably wouldn't be here today, prepared to tell you about the Betty Ford Center, if I hadn't at least fulfilled one very vital requirement — that was my own treatment within my own recovery for alcohol and drug dependency'."
Ford, who describes herself as "a practicing alcoholic who knows the great reward of recovery," said that she would never have thought of speaking about her problem in public.
"I never used to speak about my personal experiences with alcohol and prescription drug dependency mainly because I didn't yet realize that. . .speaking out could make a difference and be a help to others," Ford said. "I had no idea it would lead to the development of the Betty Ford Center, which has helped so many people with the same problems."
Ford explained that she was not aware of the problems that she had with drugs and alcohol while in Washington, D.C. It was only after she and the former president moved to Palm Springs that she began to realize that there was a problem, she said.
"Soon I found myself in deep trouble," Ford said. "Luckily, through the support and help of my family, I found myself (in a treatment program) at the Naval Hospital at Long Beach.
"Today, I do know how very fortunate I was. I realize now that I was a very sick lady who
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