Fast
Forward
Thursday February 4,1993 Vol. CXIX, No. 16
Yesterday's weather repeats today. Sunny skies, with some clouds expected. The high should peak at a
Eleasant 74 degrees and the >w around a chilly 55 degrees.
Inside
It might not be purgatory, but...
What do you do if you're forced to stay in a mountain cabin with two wannabe lawyers for two weeks? Let's just say the movie "Alive" starts looking like a pretty good idea.
Viewpoint, page 4
‘Money’ explores material hangups
* In this day and age when practically anything can be bought, can friendship be had for a price? The dramatic production "Money and Friends" illustrates that it can.
Diversions, page 7
USC takes on Wazzu tonight
USC forward Tremayne Anchrum will lead the Trojans into a Pacific 10 Conference showdown at Washington State tonight. ESPN will televise the game live at 9 p.m.
Sports, page 16
F.Y.I.
Conference held for jobs in media
The 14th Annual Journalism Opportunities Conference for Minorities will be held on Feb. 5 and 6 at the Biltmore Hotel. The conference gives journalism students the chance to meet with prospective employers from around the country.
The program is sponsored by the California Chicano News Media Association, the Asian American Journalists Association and the Black Journalists Association of Southern California.
For more information call the CCNMA office at (213) 743-7158.
Newspaper <of the University
Southern California
Budget cuts may loom ahead
Drop in enrollment could force schools to limit spending
By Trade Tso
Assistant Assignment Editor
The budgets of the USC schools of business administration and engineering, as well as the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, may be "reshaped" this year due to decreasing enrollment figures and the economic situation in Southern California, Vice
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President of Budget and Planning John Curry said.
Officials from the college and the two professional schools are concerned about the prospect of trimming their departmental budgets.
"There is no doubt that the recession has affected our enrollment," Curry said.
Curry said the restructuring of the aerospace industry in California and the effects of the recession on real estate and the banking industry, specifically savings and loans, has caused those entering college to shy away from the business and engineering fields.
"California is in a very deep recession, and it has a very strong effect on students who would be interested in several of our professional schools, but predominantly business and engineering," Curry said.
He said that the economy has made people anxious about taking out loans to pay for
(See Budget, page 6)
Department chairs wary of reductions, fear loss of reputations and academic quality
By Brian Finnerty and Dmitri Williams
Staff Writers
Department chairs in the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences have said that proposed cuts in the college's budget would result in a dramatic reduction of teaching assistantships, a loss of quality faculty, and a larger average class size.
In an apparent response to projected university shortfalls and an unwillingness on the part of the Board of Trustees to operate at a deficit, LAS Dean Gerald Segal has prepared a plan that would trim $6 million from the LAS budget this year and another $4 million next year.
The $6 million reportedly constitutes a little under $2 million in cuts in each of the three LAS divisions: humanities, social sciences and communications; natural sciences; and mathematics. The remaining undisclosed amount would come from peripheral LAS programs such as the Freshman Writing Program.
LAS department chairs voiced their concerns over the proposed cutbacks in a meeting last week with University President Steven Sample and other university officials. The budget details have not been made available to the student body.
Some of the comments voiced at the meeting were hard-hitting and predicted a severe decline in academic programs at the university. One speaker reportedly predicted that "the college will be radically and irreversibly damaged by these cuts."
"There was a feeling that reductions of the size being discussed would be very
damaging to the college," Sample said about the meeting in an interview, adding that he "was impressed with the statements that were made."
Several department chairs said Sample brushed aside their concerns.
"The president very politely took a hard line," said Joseph Hellige, chairman of the psychology department.
Thomas Seifrid, chair of the Slavic languages and literature department, said in an interview, "What we faculty find distressing is that the cuts are being done and discussed mechanically. I didn't hear much understanding or sympathy ... 1 didn't hear anything reassuring, not that there is."
However, Sample told the Daily Trojan the cuts were only being "discussed," and the university administrators have not yet formulated a budget.
"It's natural that there will be differences of opinion when a budget has to be reduced," Segal said.
He said that budget cuts would have an effect on teaching quality, but stressed the desire to keep the quality of education at a high level. "I'm bending every muscle in my body to make that possible," Segal said.
Still, department chairs fear the worst. "The department of humanities is already a bare-bones operation," Seifrid said. "We don't have boats or research stations on Catalina. All we have are papers and pencils."
(See Reaction, page 6)
Richard Rlordan, one of the 52 candidates running for mayor of Los Angeles, addressed students at E.F. Hutton Park yesterday.
Mayoral candidate speaks to campus
By Michael Angelo
Staff Writer
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Richard Riordan, one of the leaders in a pack of 52 hopefuls, presented his campaign goals and addressed the concerns of a small group of students in E.F. Hutton Park yesterday.
About 10 students appeared at the event sponsored by the Speaker's Board to hear the L.A. attorney's views and reasons for running.
"I deeply care about Los Angeles. It's been great to me. I can't stand the total lack of leadership that is going on right now," Riordan said.
Riordan cited long-term education and short-term safety and jobs as his major campaign issues.
"L.A. is perceived throughout the world as a war zone. Businesses have left L.A. We've lost the cream of the young middle class because of the crime," he said. Riordan outlined his "grass-roots plan of safety" as he told the audience that citizens have the "authority, responsibility and power" to make the city clean and safe.
He proposed increasing the police force to 3,000 officers, in-
cluding 24-hour citizen contact with patrol cars and watch commanders.
According to Riordan's campaign brochure, "At any one time, only 350 patrol cars are (currently) on the streets of the city. Los Angeles has only one police officer for every 460 residents."
An audience member asked Riordan about his plan to break up the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) into 40 separate districts.
"The schools have been a total failure. We must empower the schools to teach their kids," Riordan responded.
"A 6-year-old child has a 12 percent chance of reading and writing at an eighth-grade level by the time he is 18. Children should be able to read and write by the second grade or they will inevitably become drug addicts," he said.
Riordan proposed "equal tools . . . equal nutrition and equal pre / post natal care" to combat problems in the education system.
At least one student in the audience agreed with Riordan's solutions for education.
(See Riordan, page 3)