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Volume CV, Number 63	University of Southern California	Friday. December 4. 1987
Organizations rally against ‘vicious’ law
By Catherine Loper
Staff Writer
CEO also pledges $500,000 to cinema school
University receives $1 million gift for new neurosciences building
By Shelly Etherton
Staff Writer
The university has recently received a SI.5 million gift committed to the construction of the Hedco Neurosciences Building and to the continuing development of the cinema school.
Gary Rosenberg, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of UDC-Universal Development L.P., a real estate development firm headquartered in Tempe, Ariz., pledged the gift, which represents a significant contribution to the university's campaign for the 20th century.
Rosenberg's million-dollar contribution to the Hedco Neurosciences project will establish the Rosenberg Family Research Unit in Sensory Integration.
The unit will work to unravel the complex process by which people take in sensory information from their environment and use it to generate their perception of the world, said William McClure, director of the university's interdisciplinary Neural, Informational and Behavioral Sciences program.
"The gift provided the foundation for an extremely important component of’the whole neurosciences program,'' McClure said.
The $500,000 contribution for the cinema school will be used to further develop the school's existing program in directing and will help establish a graduate level screen writing program.
Frank Daniel, dean of the cinema school, said the contribution will give a major boost to both of these areas.
"We will be able to fund new courses and master classes in both directing and screenwriting as well as provide fellowship assistance to some of our most promising graduate students," Daniel said.
Rosenberg, a native of Wisconsin, received his undergraduate and master of business administration degrees at Northwestern University. He earned his law degree at the University of Wisconsin and after working as an attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission, he returned to Chicago to enter private practice.
He founded Universal Development Company in 1977 and nurtured it into a major national builder of residential and retirement communities across the country.
Rosenberg combined his interests in real estate and education by creating and teaching a real estate finance course at Northwestern University's
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Arms reduction summit a ‘step in right direction’
Bv Brad Bowlin
Staff Writer
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will arrive in the United States Monday to kick off a four-dav summit with President Reagan and other top officials
Gorbachev and Reagan are expected to sign a treaty on Tuesday that would effectively eliminate all U.S. and Soviet medium - range nuclear missiles from Europe. The Russians would destroy over 1,500 warheads and the Americans would destroy 350 European-based missiles with ranges of 300 to 3.400 miles within three years under terms of the pact.
Although the reductions represent only about 3 percent of the nations' nuclear arsenals, the meetings are "a step in the right direction," said Joseph Nyomarkay. associate professor erf political science.
"It is not important in terms of reducing the nuclear capabilities of the two countries, Nyomarkay said, but more important is the fact that constructive dialogue is taking place between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Charles Powell, associate professor of international relations, was also skeptical about the real effects of the arms reduction, saving that most of the weapons that will be dismantled would soon be obsolete anyway.
Even with a 50 percent reduction, the weapons that would be cut out would probably all be obsolete or neartv obsolete. Powell said
"Really deep cuts would be 90 percent or zeroing them all out. Now that would be interesting," he said.
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College-bound students unprepared in humanities
Several speakers voiced their opposition to the Simpson-Rodino immigration law and the alleged inhumane treatment of many immigrants by the U.S. government at a noontime rally Thursday in E.F. Hutton Park.
The rally was sponsored by USC MEChA, a Chicano student organization, the university's Palestinian Cultural Events and La Resistencia, an off-campus organization formed to encourage opposition to the immigration law.
The purpose of the rally was to raise awareness that the Simpson-Rodino Law is a "vicious law" and encourages "active resistance" to the law, said Travis Morales of La Resistencia.
The Simpson-Rodino law, passed by Congress in November 1986, grants amnesty to illegal residents of this country if they can prove they have lived here since 1982.
Speakers protested the legality of the law, the implementation of it and the alleged inhumanity of it. The law largely affects people from Central American countries and Cuba.
A 1980 refugee act stated that immigrants can stay in this country temporarily if they can prove they will be subjected to persecution if they return to their country, said Dick Haddon, chairman of the
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OPPOSITION — Ricardo Sanchez, a poet from La Resistencia. was one of several speakers lo voice his opposition to the Simpson-Rodino immigration law at Thursday's raify in E.F. Hutton Park.
high school juniors and found "serious gaps" in what 17-year-olds knew about literary and historical heritage
"High schools respond to what they think the colleges
Monday: How humanities prepares students for a career. Tuesday: How the university finances humanities.
want, so colleges and universities must show that humanities are important," said William Thalmann, a new professor within the classics department.
"High schools m the United States are depressing.” said John Dreher, chairman of the (Continued am pmge 5)
By Michael Cary
Staff Writer
(Editor's note: This is the second article of a four-part series on humanities).
The New York Times recently reported that a federally financed study found that American high schools are fostering "dass bias" *nd "elitism ' by-failing to offer adequate instruction in the humanities to millions of university-bound students.
Marshall Cohen, dean of the humanities division within the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, said a poor high school education affects universities because entering students lack analytic skills. "It places a good deal of burden on the teaching of subjects that are below the (university) level,” he said.
The study surveyed 7,812
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FUND RAISING — Delta Sigma Pi members Rinda Coffman (sitting) and Arlene Toy talk while they wait for customers to buy some of the business fraternity’s plants.