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Volume CIV, Number 7	University of Southern California	Wednesday, July 1, 1987
Summer shelter:
International students’ annual pain
By Xiaodong Zhang
Staff Writer
When his American friends take to highways, beaches and amusement parks, enjoying a leisurely suntan or hiking, rafting, or camping, Tim Chen is facing the annual housing problem again.
Chen, a senior from Hong Kong, is tired of being harassed every time he looks for housing or moves.
He has to move out of his current apartment soon because his roommate has gone home.
"They don't give me a special rate for summer," he said. "I have to pay the whole rent if I want to stay there. But I don't have a car. Moving all the stuff is especially difficult for me."
Chen said the university housing is cheap now but that only lasts as long as summer.
Now, he is relying on his friends to either find him a spot to live for the rest of the summer or help him to move.
"If I had my family here, I could just go home." He said to pack and unpack.his belongings each summer is really a big headache.
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For students from countries where people value the stability of residence, mobility is among the first challenges they have to cope with living in this entirely new environment.
However, moving is just part of the annual headache. Compared with other international studehts staying on campus during summer, Chen may have been among the lucky ones. At least he does not have to worry about financial crisis, thanks to unswerving support from his parents back in Hong Kong.
For many others, finding a job without violating the immigration laws and creating a humble bank account balance poses a more serious problem in the summer.
Going to the beach for a suntan or stretching out on Amtrack to tour America seldom creep onto international students' summer schedules.
"Over 90 percent of students coming to the front desk have to do with finding jobs,” said Kosta Triantafyllou, aide to the advisors in the Office for International Students and Scholars.
Triantafyllou said summer is an especially hard time for students whose TA ships have expired or who do not receive financial aid from their home countries or fellowship resources during school breaks. But they still have to pay for food and rent.
He said international students stay at school during vacations (Continued on page 2)
Center for Futures Research
Futures Research forced to close
By Beth Laski
The 16-vear-old Center for Futures Research, which operated at the School of Business Administration solely through off-campus funding, has been forced to close as of today due to insufficient funding from its corporate sponsors.
The center operated on a S300.000 to S500,000 annual budget. Burt Nanus, founder and director of the center, said that it has become increasingly difficult to find the outside funding for research due to the major recession in the early 1980s.
"Corporations cut back at all levels of management, so our support through directors of departments dedicated specifically to planning has eroded," he said.
Without the sufficient corporate funding, the center was in need of some financial support from the university The School of Business Administration chose to close the center and Nanus says that the decision was based on "short-term financial pressures.”
The long-term advantages were not taken into consideration, and "whenever that is done, it is a mistake," he added.
The center was created to research and make long-range forecasts and technology assessments in areas of business and economic concerns and to develop new procedures to advance the art of corporate
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Program explores architecture
By Xiaodong Zhang
Staff Writer
Not many people have ever realized why there are usually no hot tubs on the second or third floors of houses.
But for a group of teenagers attending an architecture program on campus, the question has already become old hat.
Hot tubs filled with water weigh too much, so it is wise to build them only on the ground floor.
So teaches the school of Architecture as it enters its fifth year of the summer program Exploration of Architecture, for high school students.
The week-long program and a new three-week, in-depth program, have drawn 42 students from states including Florida, New Jersey, Nevada, Arizona and California.
The programs, one from June 21 to June 27 and the other from June 21 to July 11, were designed for high school students to explore their interest and aptitude related to architecture and environmental design.
Trips around the Los Angeles region, movies, lectures and studio design projects are involved.
"It is also an exploration of architecture as a way of seeing and understanding the world," said Jeff Chusid, the program's coordinator. "We give them exercises and show them around. We're also trying to talk about our life."
Chusid, a practicing architect who is also on the architecture faculty, said the new in-depth program is just an extension of the one-week program.
Students will "do longer projects, slower in pace, more in-depth and cover the things we don't get to cover in one week."
"Each year we leam how’ to do it better. This summer we have incorporated lots of things we didn't in previous ones," Chusid said.
The program is getting bigger.
"I don't think we want to get much bigger than this because it I makes the tours impossible."
The first week's work, a matchbox city and an artist community, has already won applause at the public review bv the students' parents, friends and professional architects.
"I am amazed at the quality of their work," said Neville Os-trick, a retired architect from Los Angeles. “The program is terriffic."
time they have ever experienced the college life, spending a week by themselves on campus in a dorm and making new friends.
"It is a good program," said Francisco Rodriguez, a 17-year-old high school senior from Bellingham. Washington. "It helps anyone who wants to become an architect It also helps me know USC."
'I am amazed at the quality of their work. The program is terriffic.'
— Neville Ostrick, retired architect
"(The design) is so dear and focused," commented Ron McCoy, an architect and lecturer at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Pointing at the light shelves and indented comers of several cardboard-made houses, McCoy said they symbolize eyelashes and the warm hospitality of the buildings, and students already knew by instinct to transfer human terms into architecture.
For many students the program is not just a lot of studio work and tours, it is the first
Rodriguez learned about the program from his architecture teacher and has been to two other programs.
He said this program was the best but complained that it was too fully scheduled. The architects need to "get a little more time on their own to go around the campus," Rodriguez said.
Mark Holmes, a high school graduate from Riverside, California, said there was no problem for him. He found himself glued to the studio work.
"I enjoy the actual design
most," the incoming freshman | said. "1 like it a lot better than! going around at homes that have alreadv been made. 1 want | to make one myself."
The program has guided 16- j year-old Launta Pandv into a I new world. She thinks the tours ] are great
"They get you really familiar I with different types of architecture," Pandv said. "Just by touring itself. I've found a very good idea if I want to go into this | career."
Pandv learned about the pro-J gram at her high school career center. She said she knew nothing about architecture before she came to the program and that she might end up making a career out of being an architect
"I didn't know she could do that," Pandv's mother said, amazed at her daughter's creativity and imagination. "I am| very proud of her."
And now with confidence and | some working knowledge, Pan-dv found out for herself another I answer to the technical question [ of placing a hot tub.
"I don't think an artist can af-1 ford a hot tub," she laughed.
RALPH CAL VO
ARCH ARCHITECTURE — High school students from around the country are teaming about architecture like that of the Education Library.