Friday
October 22,1993 Vol. CXXI, No. 38
Weather
The weather improves again today. Expect to see the sun all day and high temperatures approaching 85 degrees this afternoon. Early morning lows will be in the mid 60s.
USC tries to end Notre Dame’s run
The last time USC defeated Notre Dame was in 1982, John Robinson's then-last game as head coach. Saturday brings yet another chance to end the Irish streak. NBC will televise the game live with its "Notre Dame Saturday."
Sports, page 8
Sending weapons to assist Somalia
As the song goes, "happiness is a warm gun." It is time for the U.S. to send troops and weapons over to Somalia and restore democracy. Forget the Vietnam parallels! Freedom for the horn of Africa is our most important task.
Viewpoint, page 4
Smashing melons to help homeless
Living in South-Central Los Angeles, members of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity have seen firsthand the effects of homelessness on the surrounding community. The fraternity will hold its third Watermelon Bust this morning at 11 to benefit those less fortunate than themselves.
The Watermelon Bust pits sorority women against each other in spirited competition. Each sorority makes a donation to benefit the Los Angeles Homeless Health Care Project, which provides health care services to the homeless.
Funds raised by the fraternity are sent to Comic Relief, a nonprofit agency that provides money to LAHHC.
All students are welcome to come out and enjoy today's event. Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is located at 3019 University Ave. For more information, contact Tye Hartman at (213) 746-7711.
Newspaper
the University
Southern California
Senate chooses Judicial Council
Three out of four appointees taken as new members
By Tracy Marshak
Staff Writer
Student Senate, which has had a Judicial Council of two since August, confirmed Wednesday three of four appointments made by senate president Don Hansen.
Janine Scott, Sean Conley and Jim Lewis were chosen almost unanimously by the 16 senators who voted on the confirmations.
The Judicial Council is primarily concerned with arbitrating senate controversy and overseeing election and campaign policy.
"The Judicial Committee is the most inactive sub-group, but this has no relevance of its importance," said Hansen.
The five-member council, which sometimes lurks in the senate's shadows, has the capability to act as an impetus in university politics.
"Judicial Council has been in-
nocuous and dormant," said Brandon Shamim, senate public relations director. "However, they have an incredible amount of power to interpret the constitution as they see would resolve problems."
Judicial Council members serve until graduated from the university.
Scott is a junior majoring in communications and a transfer student from San Diego State University. She emphasized the importance of having diversity within the Council, and thinks it should be representative of the student body.
"This balance provides assurance of perspective, enabling equitable jurisdiction," Scott said in her application. "As a judicial representative, I would seek to demonstrate parity in judgement for each individual case."
Shamim said he was impressed by Conley, also an editorial columnist for the Daily Trojan.
"He's a person of strong moral conviction," Shamim said.
In his application, Conley ex-
(See Judicial, page 2)
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Budget pinch at UCLA forces mergers
Six professional schools slated for $83 million cut; USC deans foresee few effects on programs here
By Nick Trendowski
Staff Writer
Despite a recently announced plan to merge several professional programs at cross-town rival UCLA, deans at USC do not anticipate any great impact on their schools or professions.
The plan at UCLA, which was announced last Thursday, called for the merger or cutting of several professional programs as well as a permanent reduction of the budgets of administration and other academic units. It met with criticism from both students and faculty members, who took part in a public demonstration opposing the plan.
The schools were selected as part of the plan called "A Framework for Planning: The Chancellor's Perspective."
UCLA Chancellor Charles Young pre-
Sred the restructuring plan in the face of 3 million in budget cuts affecting state general-fund revenues at the university from the 1990-91 academic year through 1994-95.
A main element of the plan is to trim the budgets of sue schools while keeping permanent faculty intact - a restructuring proposal that would eliminate 110 administrative and 30 temporary faculty positions.
The plan calls for three schools to be combined into a new School of Public Policy: the School of Social Welfare, portions of the School of Public Health and the urban planning component of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. The architecture component would become part of a merged School of Arts and Architecture.
The School of Nursing would come under medical sciences administration, eliminating its bachelor of science degree for students admitted after the fall semester, 1994.
Faculty of the Graduate School of Library
and Information Science would be incorporated into the School of Education, and entry to the Master of Library Science program would be reduced by 40 students.
While USC does not have a School of Library Science, the university does have independent Schools of Urban and Regional Planning, Architecture and Social Work, a graduate program in health service administration and a Department of Nursing.
The permanent faculty of each UCLA school would be retained under the plan, while the schools' administrative structures would be combined. All degree programs other than the aforementioned would continue to be available.
NewsAnalysis
The UCLA chancellor's plan must be examined by the school's Academic Senate, the representative organization of its faculty, before being approved.
"Confronted with an unprecedented fiscal crisis, we must take bold and decisive steps now to ensure uninterrupted progress," Young said in a press release. "This plan sets forth the academic priorities I believe we must embrace if UCLA is to maintain and enhance its leadership position in American higher education."
The schools were chosen because of their "size in relation to cost," said Young and Executive Vice Chancellor Andrea Rich, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Theodore Mitchell, acting Dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Library and Information Science and Dean of the School of Education, agreed that the library school was chosen because it is the university's smallest professional school.
Mitchell said he hoped the plan would be a signal of fiscal responsibility on the part of UCLA.
He also said he felt the merging of the library and education schools in the proposal would be beneficial for both schools, increasing course offerings and opportunities for students of both disciplines. He said that despite the fact that the proposal would make a now-independent school a department, it should not be perceived as a loss of prestige or intellectual quality for library science.
Rosina Becerra, Dean of the School of Social Welfare at UCLA, stressed the importance of her field to the community as well. However, she expressed a much darker view of the future of her school under the plan.
"The school serves one of the most vulnerable and disenfranchised populations, so perhaps we're identified with the clientele we serve," Becerra offered as a possible ex-
Elanation for why her school was chosen to e made into a department under the plan.
The school currently has about 200 graduate students, a number Becerra said would not likely decline. She noted that USC has the only other school of social work in southern California, and UCLA often gets three or four times as many applicants to its school than it can admit.
Funding, however, would very likely be damaged by the plan, said Becerra. She said many sources of funding available to schools of social welfare are only available if the schools are independent, and her school has less of a donor base than others.
Prestige, too, would decline for the school under the plan, and its top ranking could only be maintained by keeping the school independent, said Becerra.
"We all recognize that this is a very difficult time for the university, and the school is prepared to show its share, but the role it plays with respect to the university's overall (See UCLA, page 2)