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PATIENTS ARE A VIRTUE — The Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center had a patient set herself on fire in January. A recent study found the county's public hospitals to be so understaffed and overcrowded that they represent “a tragedy for the poor and the community.”
Patient burns in County-USC bed
By Danny Bowker
Editor
A patient at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center set herself on fire while in her hospital bed and supposedly under psychiatric superv ision, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner reported Monday
Glenda Citizen. 39. suffered bums over 40 percent of her body when she lit her hospital gown on fire Jan. 15. Citizen died in her home three weeks later.
Many of the university's medical faculty teach and practice at the medical center.
Dr. Robert Sigal treated Citizen's bums and said that "he- set her gown on fire with matches.
The Herald Examiner's story said that the coroner reported that Citizen had a historv of alcoholism and schizophrenia.
She had been brought to the hospital after police had found her wandering drunk in South Central Los Angeles
The hospital said Citizen had restraints on her hands to keep her from flailing her limbs but an attorney for the Citizen family has questioned how a woman in restraints could »et hermit on tire*.
This incident comes in the wake of a study that found the countv s public hospitals and clinics to be so understaffed and overcrowded that thev represent "a tragedy for the poor and the community
The Herald Examiner said that among the facilities castigated in the report was County-USC where staffers said wards are so jammed that
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By Lynn Sayre
The USC Dental and Medical Schools have a close relationship with the university community but they also have a unique set of challenges and problems.
In addition to their charters to educate health service professionals, the two schools must provide medical and dental care for the thousands of patients who come to our dinics each year. The challenge is greatest in the gradu-(Continued on page 2)
Daily parking prices upped 25 cents
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By Jami Hutchison
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Daily parking prices at the university were raised 25 cents Monday to cover increases in parking operations expenses.
The increase, from S3.50 to S3.75, is a yearly occurance according to John Curry, vice president of budget and planning.
As a W'hole, parking prices have increased about 5 percent.
Along with the annual staff salary increase, the extra revenue from parking will help pay for new parking areas.
“As you look around the campus, you will be noticing some changes," said Curry, referring to the elimination of certain parking lots on campus.
Parking lot K, located next to Grace Ford Salvatori Hall, is the site of the soon to be built Neurosciences Building.
The Law School and the Faculty Center are also expected to grow, eliminating other parking lots and leaving students
and staff with a parking shortage
Curry said this need would be countered by’ leasing alternative or replacement parking, perhaps near the Coliseum.
Maintenance, such as repairing and repaving of older parking structures, will also be aided by the increase in price. A "deferred maintenance fee" was also incorporated into the increase.
"Deferred maintenance is maintenance that should have been kept up but was put off," Curry said.
Also reaping the benefits of the parking price's increase is the university's newly acquired Embassy Residential College.
Security' officers guarding the Embassy parking lots will be paid from the parking budget, not the security budget.
Parking gate guard Randy Lawrence said there have been few reactions to the increase because most of the people coming through are going to Orientation and are not familiar with the previous rate.
LORIAN ELBERT SUMMER TROJAN
Gamble House gets Greene furnishings
The Gamble House, which is in Pasadena and operated by the School of Architecture., has received a $2 million gift of furnishings that were designed by Charles and Henrv Greene.
The gift from anonymous donors living in northern California nearly' doubles the Gamble House's Greene and Gr&ene Collection. The collection is now worth more than $5 million.
"This magnificent gift and the arrangements for its exhibition will provide an extraordinary resource for scholars and for the public," said Robert Harris, dean of the School of Architecture. "The quality’ of design and craftsmanship is inspiring."
Charles and Henry Greene built the Gamble House in 1908 for David and Mary Gamble. The brothers designed the house's hardware
and tile, carpets and draperies, garden gates and walls — and even flower pots.
Charles would spend a few hours each morning in the construction shops, checking work in progress.
He offered no apologies for products of stone, brick, wood or plaster, saying "The noblest work of art is to make these common things beautiful to man."
In 1966, heirs of the Gambles presented the house to the city of Pasadena in a joint agreement with USC.
The Greenes stressed craftsmanship in construction and emphasized the use of wood in building. They designed not only the physical structures of buildings but also their landscapes and furnishings.
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__MARVM RAND
WORTH A GAMBLE — The Gamble House, which is operated by the School of Architecture, received a gift of $2 million in furnishings.