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Volume CXVI, Number 20	University of Southern California	Monday, September 30, 1991
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The Embassy Residential College has a $7 million deficit after four years. A confidential memo spells out the extent of the debt.
Embassy losing millions
Embassy Residential College-Summary of Losses
	'87/'88	w/w	W90	,90/,91	TOTAL
Total Income	$147,34?	$1,288,797	$1,536,837	$1,018,017	$4,890,993
Total Expense	$2,559,831	$3,109,330	$3,760,953	$2,810,089	$12,240,203
Deficit	-$1,512,4891	-$1,820,933	-$2,224,116	-$1,792,072	-$7,349,210
‘All figures as reported in Auxiliary Services memo.
Erik Loyer / Daily Trojan
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Two highly dissimilar views of the future of L.A.
By Paul Malcolm
Staff Writer
One fell in love with California in the library at Harvard, the other on the mean streets of steel-town-gone-bust Fontana.
Today Kevin Starr, professor of urban and regional planning at the university, and Mike Davis, professor of urban theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, are at the forefront of the debate on Los Angeles' history and future.
Starr, author of the Americans and the California Dream series of books, sees Caiifomia as an intensification of the American experience and concentrates on how Americans in Southern California "materialized or acted out . . . their individual and collective aspirations.”
Davis' picture of Los Angeles and Southern Caiifomia is a noir vision of those that got left out of the dream, the disenfranchised.
In his book City of Quartz, Davis, an avowed Marxist, attempts to define Los Angeles' history in the words of Starr as a "de facto conspiracy of white oppression on minorities."
The position has left Davis defensive of his love for the City of Angels.
"I am not an L.A.-basher," Davis said. "Starr's vision of Los Angeles is entirely pan-glossian, one that's totally optimistic. So I end up as kind of a Darth Vader."
Davis considers Starr one of the "New Boosters" of Los Angeles who "offer a huburistic coda for today's mercenary intellectuals to claim that they are designing (L.A.'s) future."
"He calls me a whig, which I'm very flattered by," Starr said.
But Starr has come to see more of the Los Angeles that affects Davis since his move to the univerisity from San Fransisco three years ago.
"The more one lives in Los Angeles day-to-day, the more one comes across the gritty reality . . . and the more one comes around to see where Davis is coming from," Starr said.
Trying to see the city through Davis' eyes has allowed Starr to find a tenuous middle ground where the two might meet.
"Davis is less of anti-cultural tough guy than he makes out to be, and I am less of a whig booster than he makes me out to be," he said.
As the city becomes more and more multicultural, Starr, without taking his eyes off the realities of Davis' Los Angeles, sees the potential for a more positive future.
"What's occurring here, in terms of the . . . people that are coming into the greater basin, may turn out to be a spectacularly successful experiment," he said. "We just don't know."
"We just don't know."_
By Paul Malcolm and Julie Yamamoto
Staff Writers
Embassy Residential College, a university living facility located in downtown Los Angeles, has lost more than $7.3 million in its four years of operation, according to an internal university memo obtained by the Daily Trojan.
The university will pay subsidies of about $7,200 per resident to keep the facility running this year, according to the memo, which also states that the facility has lost too much money since its purchase in 1987 to recover the losses.
"The operating expenses of Embassy Residential College, and the economic environment it fosters, now threatens to not only undermine the services provided to USC's 36,000 students, faculty, and staff, but also makes full cost recovery an unattainable and unreasonable objective," the memo said.
The unsigned memo, touted as a "per-
formance analysis," was released by the Office of Auxiliary Services, which manages the University Bookstore, USCard, housing, dining and parking services.
Eugene Lawless was the associate vice president of Auxiliary Services when the memo was generated in 1990. Lawless resigned his position Thursday to take a job outside the university.
"(The memo) was purely an internal article," Lawless said Wednesday. "It wasn't meant for distribution outside the auxiliaries. The university (regularly) asks all of its units in the budgeting process whether they can increase efficiency or reduce expense. This report is an exer-
Smoke in Webb spurs evacuation
Fire department understaffed
By Joel Connable
Staff Writer
A fire on the sixth floor of Webb Tower was reported Thursday night at 8:32 p.m., leading to the evacuation of the complex and bringing three Los Angeles fire companies to the scene.
A Webb Tower resident called University Security when her apartment began to fill with smoke, said security Sgt. John Lewis.
"Security then immediately notified the Los Angeles Fire Department," Lewis said.
Fire Companies 15, 10 and 26 were on scene approximately eight minutes after receiving the call, arriving to a crowd of Webb Tower residents turned spectators.
Security and fire officials checked the sixth-floor apartment, as well as four other apartments on that floor, finding no smoke or flames.
There was a slight smell of something burning, but nei-
(See Evacuation, page 7)
rise in that.
(See Embassy, page 6)
GLASS director ousted due to silent leadership
Leader would not come out publicly
By Walter Renwick
Staff Writer
The director of the university's Gay and Lesbian Assembly for Student Support was impeached Thursday when she did not attend the group's meeting to defend her position. A motion to remove her from office was introduced at a Wednesday meeting.
The former director asked that her name not be used because she has not come out publicly as a lesbian.
"It's a private matter," she said. "I'm not going to go shouting it in anyone's face."
The woman said she deliber-
ately boycotted the Thursday meeting. Elections for her replacement will take place Wednesday.
Interim director Ron Moss, a sophomore majoring in premedicine, said GLASS was in complete support of the former director and the lifestyle she chose to lead. But Moss said, in the interests of the group, it was necessary for the organization's leader to be a public figure.
"The group is concerned that our leader be someone who will represent us publicly and help defend us when attacked from outside offices . . . someone who is competent in showing that diversity is the wave of the future," Moss said.
Problems within the organiza-(See GLASS, page 3)