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Volume C, Number 3
University of Southern California
Tuesday, January 14, 1986
Hudson special raises funds
AIDS researchers to receive over $87,000
By Tania Soussan
Staff Writer
AIDS researchers at the university will receive more than $87,000 which was pledged by viewers during an 11-hour Rock Hudson special and AIDS benefit held by KTTV-Channel 11 on Jan. 12.
The station aired a telethon along with Battle Hymn and three other movies starring Hudson, beginning at 10 a.m. Sunday.
"The action of Channel 11, KTTV, is symptomatic of the private sector's interest in this problem," said Gordon Cnone, public information officer at Norris Cancer Hospital.
KTTV approached the university with its proposal to host a telethon in order to help support the AIDS research that has been conducted at the School of Medicine for the last few years, Chone said.
AIDS has been diagnosed in 1,400 to 1,500 patients in Los Angeles County, said Michael Hedderman, the nurse in charge of AIDS research at the medical school.
Rock Hudson has made people aware of AIDS and something has to be done now, said Tracy Shimura, tape coordinator
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for the Channel 11 ming department.
KTTV aired four movies between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., and during that time its phone number was flashed on the screen for viewers to call and donate money. In addition to Battle Hymn, the station showed Written on the Wind, Magnificent Obsession and World War III, parts I and D.
Between the movies, spots were inserted to promote donations, and an AIDS special was aired from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. The special included interviews with
two of the doctors involved in the research.
Monday morning, donations totalled $87,200, and KTTV was still receiving calls at that time.
Callers who wished to donate money reached KTTV personnel, who took their addresses and sent them pre-paid envelopes in which to send their checks directly to the university medical school.
The funds are being deposited into an account to be administered by Dr. Joseph Van Der Meulen, vice president of health affairs.
Patients in the AIDS clinic at Norris Cancer Hospital will benefit indirectly. Donated funds will be used to treat patients participating in the research projects, and the clinic will also benefit from the data the research uncovers, Hedderman said.
There are a number of physicians active in AIDS-related research at the university medical center, Hedderman said. Dr. James Mosley and Dr. Alexandra Levine are the two most involved in the research.
Over 16,000 people nationwide have contracted AIDS, and approximately half of them have died.
Report cards to be mailed earlier
By Sigal Kletzky
Staff Writer
Despite a new policy that gave professors two extra days to submit their final grades, last semester's report cards will be sent out a week earlier than the previous semester's were, said Mary Margaret Brennan, associate director of the Office of Registration and Records.
Brennan verified that all report cards will be mailed out by Jan. 20, "unless something happens with the computers."
The Committee for Academic Policies and Procedures voted at its November meeting to allow professors five working days following their class's scheduled final exam to submit grades, in contrast to the 72-hour time limit of past semesters.
An instructor in the economics department requested the extension, saying that the 72-hour period was insufficient to grade students, particularly in large classes.
Dotty Pin, secretary of the committee, said the new policy "is more realistic, especially for larger classes."
"Over a period of the last two years, the registration and records office has been making a concerted effort to call instructors that are late with grade sheets," said Janet Chaudhuri, assistant provost. She added that this overall campaign to make professors aware of the importance of turning in grades
on time has led to a great improvement of grade submission by professors.
Because the decision was not approved until November 1985, professors were only made aware of the new policy upon reading about it on the grade sheets, Chaudhuri said.
Although a penalty against professors who issue grades after the deadline does not exist, Chaudhuri said instructors are conscious of their responsibility as faculty of the university.
Flaming car in parking lot disrupts Century tenants
Joe Francis, John Gasporra and Brian Morgan had just transferred to the university and two of them had just moved into Century Apartments Sunday night when they discovered a yellow Ford Fairmont aflame in the parking garage below their apartment complex. They grabbed fire hoses and started putting out the fire.
The three were sitting in the living room of Morgan's and Francis' first-floor apartment — which is directly above the building's parking garage — when "Joe smelled the smoke coming in from the balcony. . .The three of us went down to look" said Morgan, a sophomore political science major.
Then, said Francis, a sophomore business major, "when I got to the garage, there was a panic-stricken guy — I guess it was his car — who put a fire extinguisher down and said, 'Run! The car's on fire! Run!' and ran off."
"I picked up the security hotline," Francis said, "and yelled 'Fire! Century parking lot!' Then I went to the end and hit the alarm."
"Clarence (Francis) was pointing at the hose," Morgan said, "John (Gasporra) grabbed the hose and I got the hose and turned it on. John started spraying; we doused it until the flames were under control. That's when security showed up with a second hose, so we sort of let them take it.
"It was ready to blow. If we had sat and waited for the fire department to show up — like a few RAs were telling us to — it would have blown."
As the two worked on the fire, the building slowly emptied in response to the fire alarm.
Several students appeared to be confused by differing, unexplained patterns of bell ringings — one long ring followed by several short rings, which was followed by a few moments of silence before a long ring began again.
Thinking the alarm was an untimely fire drill, some students-chose to ignore it completely.
Resident Advisors in the complex yelled warnings to evacuate the building of residents who had come out on their balconies.
After several minutes, the building was evacuated.
By this time, a Los Angeles Fire Department truck had arrived, though security officers, along with Gasporra and Morgan, had since put out the fire
"Maybe now they'll give me an apartment," joked Gasporra, an undeclared sophomore who has not yet received university housing.
"Yeah, this is how I see it," said Clarence Edwards Driver, a sophomore cinema-television student who witnessed the incident. " 'New students prove themselves.' That's the story."
On Monday morning, the car's owner had not been identified. University Security identified the car as "unoccupied — owner not located."
The fire at Century Apartments was the second car fire last weekend.
At 7:25 p.m. Friday night, according to Sgt. Mike Kennedy, of University Security, the LAFD responded to a fire in the engine compartment of a vehicle in Parking Structure B.
The make of the car, as well as the damage sustained, were not available. Kennedy did say that the car's driver was present and that no damage, other than that to the vehicle, was reported.
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Proposed shelter for lab animals denied
By Marci Kenon
Staff Writer
The Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Commission unanimously rejected a university proposal last Friday that requested the Los Angeles Zoo to permanently house about 100
monkeys being used in a university study of histoplasmosis, a disease that can result in human blindness.
The proposal was approved 4-1 by the city's Animal Regula-
tion
Commission
last
September, but drew opposition from several animal rights groups, said Dire Houston, public relations specialist for the commission.
Recreation and parks commissioners said the proposal would
For the record
A photograph in the January 13 issue of the Daily Trojan incorrectly identified its subject as Verne Orr, a retired secretary of the Air Force. The photograph's subject was actually Brig. Gen. Richard Heme, national commander of the Air Force ROTC. The Daily Trojan regrets the error.
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create too much controversy that would conflict with the zoo's main function of displaying endangered animals for public viewing, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times.
The main objection to the proposal came from Students United Protesting Painful Research Experiments on Sentient Subjects, an animal rights group opposed to any use of animals in experiments, said Dr. William Blackmore, director of vivaria, a department responsible for the handling of live animals used for education and research purposes affiliated with the university.
"We felt that, during the observation period, it would be better to keep the primates in a zoo-type setting, where there would be more space and where they could be resocialized into their peer and family groups," Blackmore said.
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