Newspaper of the University of Southern California
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Friday
September 22,1995 Vol. CXXV1, No. 16
Headlines
USC kicks off Pac-10 season
The No. 5 ranked USC football team travels to Arizona to face the No. 25 Wildcats and their vaunted "Desert Swarm" defense. It will be the Trojans first Pacific 10 Conference game this year.
Sports, page 8
Redefining the GOP revolution
Editorial columnist Damon Elder argues that the so-called Republican revolution in Congress is more aptly termed a return to traditional political values that shaped America in the past.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
Last chance to buy insurance
Today is the deadline for students to purchase health insurance. Because of current Los Angeles County resource budget cuts, students may be in need of special treatment beyond coverage provided by the Student Health Fee.
To avoid possible emergency care admittance, consider purchasing USC health insurance. For more information, contact Dr. Mark D. Figatner, medical director at the Student Health Center, at (213) 740-5344.
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The Heart of Los Angeles Youth (HOLA) will be performing "Mytholagy" tomorrow night at Bing Theater. The performance is an annual fund raiser held at the university to raise money for the HOLA Youth Theater.
In addition to the revenue from ticket sales, a $5,(XX) check will be presented to HOLA from tne USC Greek week Chairman. Fraternity and sorority members raised the money last spring, and are invited to see the plays and witness first-hand how their contribution helps inner-city youth.
HOLA Youth Theater is one of many programs offered to over 700 at-risk young people in the mid-city area of Los Angeles.
Ticket prices are $20 for adults and $3 for USC students. To purchase tickets or for more information on how to get involved with HOLA, call (213) 389-1148.
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Daily Iroan
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Missing keys responsible for thefts
Off-the-wall shopping
Robberies show no evidence of forced entry
By Michael Salisbury
Staff Writer
A surge of robberies with no sign of forced entry have led campus officials to suspect the perpetrators gained entrance with keys.
The mobile deejay equipment at KSCR, USC's campus radio station, was stolen over the summer by someone who gained entrance with a key, said Maggie Glasscoe, general operations director at the station.
A key also appears to have been the means of access for a thief at the Earth Sciences Department, when a pager and a computer were stolen at the beginning of this school year.
Steven Ward, Executive Director/Chief of the Depart-
ment of Public Safety said access was gained through unknown means, although there was no sign of forced entry.
After the* theft, the deadbolt was found broken, but there was no sign of tampering on the regular lock, meaning it had probably been opened with a key, he said.
According to Glasscoe there are more than 75 keys left uncollected from students who have graduated.
J. Beswick, program director at KSCR, claims customer service desks at EVK and Pardee Tower are partially responsible for the lack of security at KSCR. Beswick has been witn the radio station for four years, and said EVK desk keys have been lost in past years.
"They're just all-around incompetent," he said.
Academic departments have suffered from excessive key (See Keys, page 2)
Brandan Hancock / Dally Trojan
Leigh Bitney, a freshman majoring In physical therapy, browses through posters in front of the bookstore.
Court restricts music facility use
By Carolyn Saraspi
Assistant City Bditor
The university was ordered Monday to restrict the use of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute in three areas, according to a Los Angeles Superior Court order.
USC was ordered to comply with three counts of a preliminary injunction filed against the university by the heirs of composer Arnold Schoenberg.
According to an agreement made in 1985, USC must limit the use of the Schoenberi building to music-school recitals, classes an other activities "reasonably related to the institute," said university attorney Scott Edelman.
The university must also refrain from duplicating any material copyrighted by the Schoenbergs, and continue to protect the
The action is the most recent development in an ongoing battle between the Schoenberg family and USC; in June, the family wanted to relocate the institute and its extensive
igs.
But Provost Lloyd Armstrong, Jr., said the Schoenberg family's condition were "too
institute's holdings he said.
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restrictive to be fully consonant with our ideas of academic freedom and effective utilization of academic and material resources."
The Schoenbergs disagree with Armstrong's statement, and deny that they have ever been restrictive to the university's requests.
the university has devoted almost $6 million in resources to maintain the institute, Edelman said.
"It is unfortunate the Schoenberg heirs have, what I think, a myopic notion of how you promote and teach tneir father — they're not musicians, keep in mind," he said.
ASI contains over 30,000 items of original music and text manuscripts, books, pho-
tographs, paintings, recordings and other Scnoenberg memorabilia donated to USC by the composer's heirs.
The institute's original collection, currently valued at $50 million, has been housed at and maintained by the university since 1977.
Schoenberg attorney Richard Mosk said the family is "satisfied that steps have been taken (to ensure) that USC had better be careful in their use of this facility, and to protect the collection."
ASI facilities include the archive, a research library, a small performance and exhibit hall, and a replica of the Brentwood studio in which Schoenberg worked the last 17 years of his life.
University officials have agreed to maintain the institute for two years while the family seeks a new location for the institute holdings, but attorneys for both sides expect a trial within two years to determine if the university will maintain the collection indefinitely until a new home is found.
Student
opinions
sought
By Linda Napikoski
Staff Writer
Members of the Student Senate are setting up two task forces to promote action and discussion about student issues. The affirmative action and financial aid task forces will seek out students' concerns and attempt to raise awareness in these areas.
The affirmative action task force will explore how the issue relates to USC. According to Cesar Lopez, Academic Affairs Chair, the (See Senate, page 3)
County-USC Medical Center threatened by budget cuts
By Jin Whang
Staff Writer
As Los Angeles county faces a fiscal emergency, the County-USC Medical Center may be among the three dozen health centers and clinics forced to close by the L. A. County Board of Supervisors.
As of Oct. 1, 28 of 39 community health clinics and five of six county comprehensive health centers are expected to close.
In an effort to prevent the shutdowns of these hospitals and health centers, county officials met Wednesday night in a failed attempt to make up for a reported $178 million needed to keep the six public hospitals open.
According to Judy Hammond,
L.A. County Press Deputy, nego-
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tiations on Wednesday were left r morning, the County
ongoing.
Thursday i Board of Supervisors met at the
Hall of Administration to continue negotiations in an attempt at avoiding the shutdown of neighborhood medical centers.
One of the first to be effected, the working staff at County-USC Medical Center is at the core of protest over the closing down of medical clinics or hospitals. A majority of emergency room nurses and other staffed employees of the County-USC Medical Center performed a one-day "sick-out' strike.
On Monday, 14 of 18 emergency room nurses called in sick. Their demonstration was intend-
ed to show the repercussions of what the board of supervisors' decisions would do.
’According to the Department of Emergency Medicine, the closing of County-USC Medical Center would result in turning down approximately 650 patients who are treated daily for emergency care, including over 1,050 patients who are brought in by ambulance each month.
County-USC Medical Center administrators were not available for comment.
Until a course of action is decided, the board's inquiries about a possible public and private partnership in order to avoid the closing down of the hospital is unknown.