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UPC Parking Statistics
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43,309
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Tuesday. October 7, 2003
Vol. CXL1V, No. 29
PART TWO OF A FIVE PART SERIES
Students fight for clean seas
Dornsife family donates $8 million
By JACQUELINE LEE
Contributing Writer
USC alumni David Dornsife and his wife Dana have donated $8 million to
the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences to establish the new Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center.
The new center will house a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanner FMRI studies allow researchers to view a patient’s brain
structure and activity while performing physical tasks.
“The Dornsife’s current gift will allow USC cognitive neuroscientists to carryout cutting-edge research on how the normal human brain functions, as well as on what goes wrong in the diseased brain," said Dr. Larry Swanson, director of NIBS Neuroscience Program and Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences. "It is so wonderful because it allows scientists to localize
and measure activities in the brain of living, conscious people without being invasive or causing any harm whatsoever," he added.
No harmful side effects have occurred in the bodies of subjects tested by the magnet, said Dr Biederman, Harold W. Dornsife professor of neuroscience and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center building project The device is just measuring I see Olft, page 14 i
38,809
people commute to UPC
Expanding USC: Parking
The university must search first for undeveloped land for more parking
By LIDIANA PORTALES
Staff Writer
As construction projects expand the University Park Campus, parking demands have become a growing issue among staff and students. ,
Two new buildings planned for the university, the second phase of Parkside Residential International College and the Molecular Biology Building, are being constructed on existing parking lots.
"Generally, we take open space, but obviously there isn’t too much ranch land left,” said Brian dAutremont, director of Transportation Services.
Finding parking space is more complicated for urban campuses where land is already highly developed, d'Autremont added.
As far as where future lots will be built, dAutremont said that the university looks for undeveloped land first when searching for parking space.
“There are parcels of land that are large enough for parking,” d’Autremont said.
“The university either has land or can find land.”
While open land is scarce in Los Angeles, dAutremont said the
university will still be able to obtain land for parking lots.
J'Xhere isn’t as much open space as, say, at (California Polytechnic) San Luis Obispo," dAutremont said.
“There, when they needed more parking spaces they just paved over a field.”
There are 40,000 students and staff at the University Park Campus, according to the Academic Records and Registrar and the Office of Budget and Planning.
About 4,500 of these people live close to the university and the rest commute, d'Autremont said.
There are about 10,500 parking spaces at USC, he said. Of those spaces, Transportation Services makes 7,500 parking permits available every semester.
That leaves roughly one parking space for every three or four people on campus. v
The university recently announced plans to replace Parking Lot C on the corner of Exposition Boulevard and Figueroa Street, currently with a capacity to hold 220 cars, with a new structure that could hold 1,100 cars.
The university has not yet approved any other plans for future parking construction and details remain to be disclosed.
Julie Berman, a sophomore majoring in cinema television, said she has never had a problem
obtaining a parking permit.
The key is to apply early, she
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Berman applied for her permit at the beginning of last summer.
“1 didn’t get my first choice (in parking structure),” she said. “But at least I got a spot.”
Berman said her roommate waited until the beginning pf the school year, hoping that more parking spaces would open up, and she „would be able to buy a permit “{My roommate) carpools with other people and gets rides whenever she can," Berman said. “But she is also left waiting around on campus a lot.”
Aaron Suzar, a graduate student in business administration, also said he has always been able to obtain a parking permit and, since he arrives on campus early, can usually find a good space.
“It can get really busy in the afternoon,” Suzar said. “But in the morning, you can get a space on the first level.”
Berman’s main complaint about parking was the delay in getting through the campus gates during busy times. •
“There really should be two lanes,” she said. “One for people who are buying a day pass and another for people who already have a permit”
That way, you aren't waiting for 15 minutes just to get through the gates.”
Oceana, a student group, calls for preventative action against Royal Caribbean
BY NICOLE BILBREW
Contributing Writer
More than 230 USC students iiave signed cards proclaiming their inter est to end cruise line pollution through a new student organization called Oceana
Oceana, which meets every Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. in front of Bovard Auditorium, is specifically concerned with the Stop Cruise campaign, an initiative to force Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines to install proper waste treatment technology in all of their cruise ships.
“It is easy and cost effective to install these systems, but they refuse to protect *he oceans," said Caitiin Higgins, l,os Angeles organizer for Oceana.
Higgins, who is responsible for bringing the organization to U$C, said the group Ira great w«y for students to get involved with an environmental campaign on campus.
"The oceans are a section of the environment that aren’t really protect-
ed or addressed." Higgins said. Tvial ways loved the oceans and I want to make sure they re protected for future generations."
The waste produced and dumped by Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, which includes sewage, graywater and ballast water, are not regulated undei the Clean Water Act. according to Oceana Much of this sewage and waste is harmful to marine life and discharged only 3 miles off U.S. coasts
Royal Caribbean has been fined on numerous occasions for illegal dump ing In 1998, the company was charged $8 million for illegal oil discharge and falsifying records, and in 1999, they were charged $18 million for doing the same thing.
Royal Caribbean officials said, however, that the cruise line is an envi ronmental friendly corporation whose policies “exceed those of th« Coast Guard and are stricter than U.S. law.’’
According to a letter written by Royal Caribbean Chairman and CEO Richard D. Fain, “Royal Caribbean treats all sewage with marine sanitation devices certified by the U.S. Coast Guard and only deviates from this policy for safety and other exceptional reasons.”
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