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September 23,1999
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USC Health Center gets accredited
Celebration: Faculty gathers for distinction that less than
10	percent receive nationwide
By PETER HOWARD KAZAN J IAN
Staff Writer
Receiving an honor that less than 10 percent of all college health centers in the United States hold,’ the University Park Health Center received its first national accreditation in its 53-year history.
Nearly 100 faculty members and administrators gathered outside the Student Health Center Wednesday to celebrate the distinction.
“Less than 10 percent of all college health centers even get accredited, and even the ones that do don’t always receive favorable decisions,” said Dr. LawTence Neinstein, professor of pediatrics and medicine and executive director of the University Park Health Center, before the accreditation dedication ceremony.
“The Accreditation Association for Ambulatoiy Health Care, Inc. awarded the center the maximum accreditation of three years in May for meeting nationally recognized standards for quality health care set by the Chicago-based accreditation organization. The accreditation officially recognizes the center as being a quality health facility. In three years, the center will have to undergo another review to renew their accreditation.
In a letter to Student Health and Counseling Services, the AAAHC president said that the dedication and effort necessary for USC to achieve accreditation was substantial.
“The actual accreditation process took place last May,” Neinstein said. “It took two full days and one full night. I remember filling up a giant cart with books, records and reports about the Student Health Center. The representatives from AAAHC actually pushed the cart over to the Radisson Hotel and read the material all night.”
Hundreds of criteria were evaluated in order for the university to receive the maximum accreditation, Neinstein said. Some of the major ones included quality of care, orderly management, long-term planning and quality management improvement. More specific categories included surgical procedures, pharmacy convenience, clinical records and even peer-critiquing.
“Accreditation for ‘out-patient’ health centers is a relatively new concept that has only been around for the past 10 years,” Neinstein said. “I made a goal two years ago that by spring of 1999, we would have
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KSCR faces budget struggle
RadiO: Station gets help from Annenberg School after poor budget and equipment affect shows
By LISA NOURSE
Staff Writer
KSCR, USC’s official campus radio station, is struggling to maintain programming this year after suffering a serious budget cut when station officials did not represent themselves during Student Senate funding allocations last semester.
The station now has a budget of $10,000, half of its 1998-99 fiscal budget. Student Senate originally allotted KSCR $12,000, but $2,000 of that was reallocated to the Recreational Club Council after 23 members of the RCC attended a Senate budget meeting to lobby for additional funding.
There was no KSCR representative at the meeting to dispute the reallocation. KSCR General Manager Courtney Knopf said that the station was undergoing management changes and was not fully united as an organization.
“We were between management,” Knopf said.
The station’s original asking amount for funding was $50,000, though Knopf said they expected to receive about $30,000.
Knopf said there was “miscommuni-cation” with Student Senate and that she thinks that Senate was hesitant to give KSCR funding because the station does not generate ftinds for the university.
Vin Bhavnani, who hosts a program at KSCR, is upset with the budget cut. He says that KSCR is not as professional as it used to be, mainly because of the poor quality of the equipment. The staff works with a limited record supply, has no turntables (they were stolen) and one set of headphones.
“The entire department is in shambles,” said Bhavnani, a sophomore majoring in biomedical engineering.
Bhavnani also said that suspicion of theft is having a negative effect on the station’s performance. Because funds are extremely tight, there is an even greater effort to prevent further theft, he said.
The station now maintains tight security; doors are kept locked until just prior to the beginning of a program. Bhavnani said that this procedure has caused complications and that the quality of the program has suffered as a result.
“What our show is trying to do is bring out the best of the culture that we love to lis-
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ten to, but it is difficult to do whatever you want to do when the directors don’t pro\ide the resources we need,” Bhavnani said.
During one incident before the start of a show, Bhavnani said the security person who unlocks the studio door arrived late, and the host of the program was forced to rearrange programming.
DJ Seth Nemec had a similar experience. Because he hosts a morning program, Nemec is often the first person in the building and has to wait for DPS to open the door. As a result, his show has experienced delays.
While KSCR Sports Director John Franchi agrees that the budget cut is “a shame,” he tries to stay optimistic about the station’s situation.
“We’ll still keep going and try to be successful,” he said, noting that there have been several new DJs recruited and that the student interest level has remained consistent.
Senior Mauricio Balvanera, a promotion assistant and electric DJ, said the equipment is poor and “the place is pretty much in slums.” He said that the level of motivation I see KSCR, page 11 I
Relief effort organized for victims of Taiwan earthquake
Disaster: Tremor kills more than 2,000; some students wait to hear from families back home
By REBECCA GROSS
Staff Writer
In response to the earthquake that terrorized Taiwan early Tuesday morning, some students are organizing a relief effort, while many worry about the well-being of family and friends.
The 7.6 quake has claimed more
than 2,000 lives and left some 100,000 homeless as of Wednesday, according to the Chinese Daily News.
Members of the Southern California Network, a university organization that helps Chinese students network with alumni, have set up a fundraising booth in Hahn Plaza across from Tommv Trojan. Students, many of whom have relatives in Taiwan, will be at the booth on Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to
4	p.m. and will probably remain there next week, organizers said.
Simon Jung, the network's president and a junior majoring in economics, is from Taipei, Taiwan. He has not spoken to his parents since the earthquake, but has received word from his younger sis-
ter that his family is safe.
“1 am a little bit worried because I have not spoken to my parents yet, but I am sure that they are just helping out because my dad is a doctor and my mom is a teacher," Jung said.
Jung and other members of the network joined with Tzu Chi, an international charity dedicated to gathering aid for victims of aisasters.
About $200 was collected Wednesday, Jung said.
“We are doing all we can to assist students,” said Dixon Johnson, executive director of the Office of International Services.
Jung has heard of a student who has already gone back to Taiwan concerned
about his family’s well-being because his house was in the city’s epicenter.
Willy Wu, a senior majoring in communication, said his father was visiting Taipei this week. Wu’s mother was on the phone with him moments before the earthquake hit. She called him back immediately upon hearing the news, but was unable to reach him for about 10 hours. Wu’s father and relatives are safe because Taipei was not terribly damaged, but much of Taiwan is experiencing “a great deal of suffering,” Wu said.
Even students with no ties to Taiwan say they are stunned by the tragedy. “1 was shocked because I noticed that there have been a lot of earthquakes lately, and
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"1 am a little bit worried because I have not spoken to my parents yet....''
Simon Jung
junior
economics