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NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Vol. CXXXV, No. M
Collaboration between organizations delayed
Proposal: Two black campus groups will not merge; may work together in the future
By NADA EL SAWY
Assistant City Editor
A decision was due to be made this month or early January concerning the Office of Student Affairs’ September proposal, “Charting a New Course,” which calls for increased collaboration between the Office of Black Alumni Programs (OBAP) and the Center for Black
Cultural and Student Affairs (CBCSA).
Although provisional talks between the students, primarily from the Black Student Union and Black Student Assembly, and the administration took place last spring, the proposal has not yet been implemented. OBAP currently lacks a permanent director, and student leaders and members of both organizations said they need to discuss the matter further.
Initially controversy stemmed from the assumption that the offices of OBAP and CBCSA would become one.
OBAP has helped accomplish the goals of the Black Alumni Association and raised scholarships for students for the past five years. CBCSA has existed for more than 15 years addressing the needs
of students and alumni. Its programs include the Howard University Exchange Program and the Thurgood Marshall Leadership Forum, a body of African-American elected student leaders.
The Thurgood Marshall Leadership Forum, which seeks to further the cause and presence of African-American students in the academic community, contested what they thought would be a “meige.”
’When I heard about it, it was always termed ‘merge,” said Chesahna Kindred, executive director of Program Board and a senior majoring in exercise science.
Kindred, who is a member of the fonim, thought that the offices would physically merge into one office. The
COMMUNITY
Mother of quadruplets has no regrets about extra cost, time
Rwr of a kind. The almost 1-year-old quadruplets pictured above are the children of 18-year USC employee Valerie Childress.
Trojan tykes
By SHARON STELLO
Staff Writer
’alerie Childress has worked in various offices at USC for 18 years, and she continues to work part-time as an administrative assistant in the Office of Residential and Greek Life even though she became a mother of quadruplets last December.
Childress, 35, has to keep this job because it offers the medical benefits her husband’s part-time job does not. But she and her husband, Frank, juggle their work schedules to look after the children, and struggle financially because other than medical benefits, USC hasn’t offered any extra help.
The couple can’t afford the $3,000 monthly cost to place the quadruplets, Ashley, Alexis, Cambria and Nikolas Kelly, in day care on campus. So without any discounts from USC, the couple takes turns looking after their four infants, who will be 1 year old on Monday.
‘I love it there (at USC),’ Childress
ftntos courtesy al Warie CMdress
said. They gave me a baby shower in October before my maternity leave and I got a lot of nice things. It would have been nice, though, to either have child care covered or get a great discount on day care. I couldn’t afford the chQd care on any salary, even with tenure.’
Ken Taylor, director of Residential and Greek Life, said the
university hasn’t done anything for Childress besides the traditional baby shower and making her hours more flexible, because it ’wouldn’t be fair to the other employees.” This is the first I’ve heard of Childress and the quadruplets,” said Dr. Sandi Schwarm, director of child care programs. “I will look into it further, but I’ve been asked to give discounts to people before, and we can't because even the amount the parents pay is only half the cost of caring for the children.’ Since they cannot afford day care, the Childress clan receives help from family. Their 9-year-old son Austin and Valerie’s mother, Susie, both help with the babies, and their stepdaughter drives from Pomona to Valerie’s home in Gardena to help on weekends. But even with help from the family, Childress said she and her husband are not getting much sleep.
’Sleep? I don’t know what that is,” Childress said, laughing.
But Childress and her husband seem happy and energetic. They say
(see Quadruplets, page 2.)
proposal states that each program would remain distinct but also plans that both be housed near each other on the fourth floor of the Student Union.
Student Body President Kyetay Beckner, a member of the Thurgood Marshall Forum and a senior majoring in theater and humanities, said that a potential merger would make the leadership ambiguous and that CBCSA would not be able to to serve students effectively.
‘I think alumni development and things of that sort don’t really belong in Student Affairs," Beckner said.
If the proposal is implemented, Michael Jackson, vice president of Student Affairs, emphasizes that the
(see Programs, page 13)
“I think alumi development and things of that sort don't really belong in Student Affairs."
Kyetay
Beckner
student body president
International Food Fair may
still continue
Fundraiser: Corporate sponsors may fund event to circumvent university funding withdrawal
By CHRYSTA WILSON
Staff Writer
The 20-year tradition of USC’s International Food Fair may not be terminated thanks to new corporate sponsors who are helping to fund future food fairs. Final plans are expected to take place early next year.
The International Student Assembly, which hosts the food fair, feared that the food fair in October would be the last one due to lack of organization funding.
At the beginning of the school year, a new policy went into effect, preventing Program Board from financially supporting any fundraising events. In addition, new health codes, which were enforced last spring, made the event more costly.
More money has to be spent for tents, equipment and sanitation materials, said Billy Chen, executive director of ISA and a graduate student in real estate
(see Fair, page 13)
Child care program to be restructured
; Service must change to continue subsidizing users; alternatives pricey, hard to find
By KIMBERLEY WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
Funding for the USC Child Care Program, which can provide care for up to 200 children on both the University Park and Health Sciences campuses, is undergoing restructuring in order to find a way to continue subsidizing student parents who use the facility.
After completing a self-audit of their business practices, administrators decided that they could no longer use money from the University Employee Fringe
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