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Volume CXV, Number 2	University	of	Southern	California	Wednesday,	May	22,	1991
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Budget controversies brewing
Dining forced to propose changes for 1991-92 year
By Chris Bailey
Staff Writer
Faced with another year of declining student enrollment and rising expenses, the university's Dining Services is considering substantial changes for the 1991-92 school year, dining officials said.
At the top of the proposed agenda is the closing of Trojan Dining Hall. Earlier this year, Dining Services reduced the operating hours of the facility and required students to dine at EVK on Tuesday nights.
Although the decision to close the facility is not yet definite, there is a "strong possibility that we will close Trojan for one year," said Donald Mask, the new director of Dining Services.
The decision will be based on the amount of dining contracts the university sells to incoming and returning students in the fall, Mask said.
Since most incoming transfer students choose to live in apartments, the problem of decreasing contracts is "totally related to the low freshmen enrollment," said Donald Ouellette, general manager of Residential Dining.
Other changes lie in store for Dining Services next year, Mask said.
On July 1, the university will take control of the 114 food and beverage vending machines at both on and off-campus university facilities, he said.
The number of machines will be cut to 106 (46 food and 60 beverage machines), but each (See Dining, page 3)
New hospital spurs debate over funding health care
By Walter Renwick
Staff Writer
Diane Tonkovich / Summer Trojan
Richard Earner, chairman and chief executive officer of National Medical Enterprises, Inc., and university President Steven Sample, cut the ribbon to conclude the dedication of USC University Hospital. NME owns the hospital, but USC will be responsible for providing the facility with medical staff.
Escort Service may face fall cutbacks
Escort Service could face cuts in the future because of budget problems although it will be provided in the summer.
He also said that parents won't send their sons and daughters to a school that doesn't have trams and escort
By Gloria DeLaRosa
Staff Writer
As a result of budget setbacks, university officials are concerned that various transportation services such as Escort, shuttles and trams, may face cuts in the fall, leaving students and faculty with fewer routes and shorter hours.
In an effort to stretch the transportation budget as long as possible, Dennis Archambault, transportation administrator said Transportation Planning and Parking Management Services, will arrange services "around the needs of the majority of students."
Declining enrollment across
the country means less money for tuition-driven schools, Archambault said.
With less money overall, programs do face the possibility of cutbacks, he said.
He said however, that even
services.
"I've heard it hundreds, literally hundreds of times," Archambault said, referring to parental concerns expressed during orientation sessions.
Cuts to either of those programs are "something parents won't take lightly," he said.
For the summer, the tram service, which offers transportation (See Transit, page 2)
Although the doors swung open Monday to USC University Hospital, concerns remain that the doors will swing shut to uninsured patients and MediCal policy holders making it the "rich man's hospital."
Richard Earner, chairman and chief executive officer of National Medical Enterprises Inc., cut the ribbon at Thursday's dedication ceremony, but was unable to cut away the controversy that surrounds the hospital.
At the ceremony, Gov. Pete Wilson heralded the center as a source of employment and medical service.
"This hospital has been a result of a collaboration (between academia and private enterprise) that will do wonderful things for this community," he said.
The governor praised the hospital for being on the forefront of progressive medicine.
"I would like to raise my glass of medicinal wine and urge a toast to a shrinking industry that by early detection and prevention, we can shift from reme-diative practices (in medicine and all of society) to cost-effec-tive and infinitely more humane preventative care," Wilson said.
NME began building the $157-million medical center in 1989.
Although owned by NME, it will be staffed by USC faculty, said Dr. Robert E. Tranquada, dean of the School of Medicine.
The opening of USC University Hospital comes while a $4 (See Hospital, page 10)
Law gives students, parents ‘right to know’
By Alexa Axelrod
Staff Writer
Stemming from controversy at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, the Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act was recently signed into law offering students immediate access to crime and graduation statistics.
The legislation, passed Nov. 8, requires colleges and universities whose students receive federal student aid, to make crime statistics, campus security policies and graduation statistics available.
Sgt. John Lewis of University Security said a veil of ignorance has been lifted from both the parent and student populations who will find once hard-to-access information on crime and graduation more readily accessible.
"We make it our policy to provide information, and
there will even be a higher-level, forced accountability from other departments due to this new law" Lewis said.
The new law will also require an increased level of efficiency within the private nexus of university departments, he said.
Much is being done to improve the lines of communication between admissions, security and students, said Duncan Murdock, director of admissions.
"A group of very concerned members of housing and residential life, admissions, security, deans of students, academic members and others are trying to get together to address this plan on a more efficient level," Murdock said.
Dr. James Dennis, vice president of Student Affairs, said he sees the importance of the interaction between student life and security in protecting and informing the students.
"We want to make sure that we are communicating effectively with prospective students and parents as well as following this new regulation."
Dennis stressed the positive value the law will have on USC.
"For years USC has had the reputation of disclosing crime statistics, while other universities have withheld them. This has created a radical misdistribution of those campuses who report their crime and those that do not," Dennis said.
"Now other universities will be forced to reveal the facts to the public, showing that USC is not very different from other large urban universities on the same scale," he said.
Lewis said it is important to keep communication lines between the admissions, security and student affairs departments open to create easy access to crime
(See Rights, page 3)