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Volume CXVII, Number 6
University of Southern California
Thursday, January 23, 1992
Senate streamlines constitution
Salaries cut, obsolete positions removed during cleanup of student-run government
Student Senate Resolutions
By Travis Smith
Staff Writer
The Student Senate did some "constitutional house-cleaning" during last night's meeting, amending 26 of 27 constitutional articles and bylaws, which cut pay and removed obsolete positions, in addition to restructuring upcoming elections.
Besides condensing the six Research/Action Unit Chairs in to four positions
—	Student Affairs, Political Affairs, Academic Affairs and Community Outreach chairs — the senate halved pay for 12 Program Board directors and the Program Board Public Relations / Marketing chair, who will now receive one unit of tuition remission a year instead of two units.
The treasurer's and the senate public relations director's pay was cut from three units of tuition remission to two units, and the senate recruitment officer's and parlimentarian's pay was reduced
from two units to one.
For the spring semester, one unit of tuition cost $505.
The senate voted 10-3 to pass the pay cuts, totalling about 35 percent of the senate's total stipend budget. The vote was passed by 3/4 of all senators, the minu-mum required for the motions to pass.
In fact, after a proposal to increase the number of senate seats per consituency from four to six (defeated 9-4 with one abstention), every one of the senate's amendments, sponsored jointly by President Sam Sheldon, Vice President Heidi Seigal, and senators Dave Westra and Shannon Maul eventually passed.
The comings and goings of the senators during the meeting made for an inconsistent number of votes being cast for each amendment, but a quorum was maintained throughout the meeting.
Though the senate cut its own stipends, it is considering reapportioning its
The Student Senate held a constitutional reform meeting Wednesday night. Major issues voted on:
PASSED:
•	SENATE PAY CUTS:
•	Positions to undergo pay cut:
Treasurer, PR Dir., Recruitment Officer Program Board Finance Dir., Program Board PR/Marketing, other administrative positions
•	Positions unchanged:
President, Vice-Pres , RAU Chair, Program Board Exec. Dir.
•	MULTIPLE POLLING LOCATIONS
DEFEATED:
• SENATOR INCREASE
The motion was to increase the number of senators per constituency from four to six.
Molt While / Daily Trojan
funding of the various minority associations next year, Sheldon said during his "President's Remarks."
Sheldon said he discusssed minority funding with Hameed Williams, a black student advocate on campus, who said that black students contribute $60,000 to the senate through student programming fees.
Currently, the Black Student Assembly receives $24,000 in programming funds. Sheldon said Williams told him that because black students are not proportionally represented in campuswide events, they should receive a larger share of the fees they contribute.
(See Cuts, page 10)
Lack of beds, staff are source of difficulties at Medical Center
By Ray Delgado
Staff Writer
Under heavy scrutiny from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the media and different state health departments, County-USC Medical Center is struggling to provide adequate service to a continual backJog of patients while trying to meet the standards of the California Department of Health Services.
County-USC has received much attention in the past month stemming from a series of Los Angeles Times articles that reported numerous problems the hospital was having because of patient overcrowding.
The article in Tuesday's edition of the Times cited cases where patients were left partially clad in the hospital's hallways for hours because of a shortage of beds.
"What happened on Monday — I don't know," said Jacqueline Lincer, district administrator for the Department of Health Services. "It is not the standard practice to have patients in the hallways."
Paul Easterling, an emergency medical technician who frequently brings in patients, says the hospital cannot be blamed for the crisis.
(See Struggle, page 2)
South Wing is due for revamp
Paul Howard /Dally Trojan
The $12.1-million renovation of Bovard will be done by summer.
By Bronagh Byrne and Alison Lee
Staff Writers
Reconstruction work on the North Wing of the Bovard Administration Building is completed, and now the scaffolding is heading south, said Mark Jones, university architect.
Work will begin in February on the South Wing of Bovard and should be completed by summer 1992, Jones said.
Built in 1921, before earthquake building codes existed in Los Angeles, the North and South Wings were constructed of non-reinforced, load-bearing brick masonry. The reconstruction was undertaken to meet current earthquake codes.
Reconstruction of the North Wing began last January and was completed in December. Occupants who were relocated during renovations moved back to Bovard during the first week of 1992.
The president's and provost's offices will be moved to the North Wing at the end of the month.
"The President's suite is permanently moving to the North Wing to avoid the extra cost and disruption of a double move," Jones said.
The total project budget is $12.1 million, he said. Cost saving efforts include centralizing systems and work scheduling so that part of the building remained open during reconstruction.
(See Bovard, page 2)
Find-a-Flat killed in budgetary battle
Students left to search for homes on their own
By Jennifer Curren
Staff Writer
In the wake of widespread budget cuts, students searching for off-campus housing will no longer be able to look to the university for help.
The university has suspended its off-cam-pus housing service, which was run by the Office of Orientation Programs and Information Services. The service ran on a $7,000 annual budget and aided approximately 40 to 50 university students, staff and faculty members per week, said Laurie Beyl, assis-
tant director of the program.
The service offered three tools for individuals in search of off-campus housing, Beyl said.
One was a list, published weekly throughout the year, which advertised units and rooms available for rent in the community. The list provided potential renters with specific information such as telephone numbers, addresses, the cost of renting and utilities and electricity costs. Landlords in the area contacted the service with this information.
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The service also organized the Find-a-Flat program, which was held each year in August. A list of off-campus housing possibilities would be made available to students, along with a number of telephones hooked up in Topping Student Center expressly for the purpose of contacting landlords.
(See Housing, page 3)