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Volume XC, Number 9	University of Southern California	Tuesday, February 17, 1981
Health center feels cramped
Proposes $9 million addition
By Diane Spaeter
Staff Writer
A proposed $9,000,000 addition to the Student Health Center is sorely needed to provide adequate space for extensive health services, according to Dr. Allan Ebbin, executive director of the center.
Ebbin said the center has more than enough staff members — paid and voluntary — but not nearly enough space to house them. As a result, some services are not as good as they could be, he said.
More room is needed for the center, which is so crowded that the cashier is housed in an old laundry closet, elevators are used for storage space and physical therapy equipment is placed out in the halls, Ebbin said.
The center has managed so far with the space that they have — a poster of a stretch of beach in Hawaii is plastered to the cashier’s office/ closet wall to ease the sense of claustrophobia, and keeping furniture in the elevator is not so bad “until the fire marshalls come around and make us move it.. . then we just move it right back,” Ebbin said.
The proposed four-floor addition to the rear of the existing building would provide more extensive services to students, plus a brand new staff and faculty health care facility. As of now, health services are only available to students.
‘The cashier is housed in an old laundry closet, elevators are used for storage space’
Ebbin said that the original building just isn’t enough anymore. "It's just a very, very old building,” he said.
Partial funding for the addition would be split between money raised from students, faculty and staff. The largest chunk, however, would come from outside donors.
“A good portion of the money, approximately half, would be raised by fundraising,” Ebbin said.
Possibly, “we would see if employees are willing to take a pay reduction,” he said. Student funding, upon student
Moot court competition: ‘extraordinarily close’ test
The final round of argument in the university Law Center’s Hale Moot Court competition took place at 3 p.m. Friday, in Bing Theatre.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens presided and, with federal circuit court judges James L. Oakes and Betty B. Fletcher, heard arguments from petitioners Cindy Alberts and Jon Manzanares and respondents Nancy Scull and Susan Herbst on a hypothetical case involving sex discrimination.
All of the participants were second-year law students.
Each student spoke for approximately 20 minutes. Alberts and Manzanares made their presentations first, followed by Herbst and Scully.
The hypothetical case involved a previously all-male athletic club that admitted female members at a monthly fee, five dollars higher than men paid (because women were higher insurance risks) and was open to male members only, after 5 p.m.
At various points throughout the arguments. Justice Stevens lightened the mood by demonstrating a refreshing sense of humor.
Justice Stevens and Manzanares also had a couple of humorous exchanges. Stevens, referring to a congressional statute prohibiting discrimination in places of public accomodation on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin said, “It's a work of art that doesn't apply to sexual discrimination.” To which Manzanares replied, “It’s a work of art that doesn’t as yet apply to sexual discrimination.”
Stevens then brought up the question of people not allowed to enter restaurants unless they are wearing ties, to which Manzanares answered, “Victims of 'tie discrimination’ are not in similarly-situated groups.”
At the end of Herbst’s presentation. Justice Oakes asked her why women were not allowed access to the club on weekends and weeknights.
"Here, the policy the club has chosen served to protect the males’ right to associate. The club had previously been all-male. Also, the women knew about this policy when they joined (the club),” said Herbst.
"So your final argument is that they waved their constitutional rights by joining the club. I think we have your position,” quipped Oakes.
Before announcing the judges’ decision, Justice Stevens said, "Decisions of this type are always very difficult to make because of the difficulty of the case and because the competitors are at such an even level.”
Justice Oakes, who has been a judge in Moot Court competitions at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal and Boston College said, “This was an extraordinarily close competition. I have never seen a closer one.”
body approval, would come from an added estimated five-dollar fee per semester. This would be automatically included on the fee bill (as a building fee) as soon as construction began, probably in 1986.
Students would be charged each semester until the completion of the estimated three-year building time, Ebbin said. The Student Health fee, though going up to $50 next year because of “the rising cost of health care”, would be unaffected, he said.
However, before any building could start, approval must be secured from the student body, faculty, staff and President Zumberge.
“If the students don’t approve it, I would try to get it all fundraised. People (outside contributors) are willing to
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photo by Jon Soo Hoo
CATHEDRAL REFLECTION — Drawings by the late A Quincy Jones, internationally noted architect are on display until Feb. 28 in the Annenberg School of Communications.
UNRESTRICTED GRANT
Business school receives $20,000
By Mark Grabow
Household Finance Corporation, an institution interested in economic issues, has made an unrestricted operating grant of $20,000 to the School of Business.
The school will receive $5,000 every year, for the next four years.
The money will be used for curriculum development, research, workshops seminars and lectures. in order to enhance an understanding of a free-market economy consistent with a free society.
These types of funds go to four-year, fully-accredited colleges and universities throughout the country.
“The school is very pleased to receive a grant of such high range, said Fred Flight, director of development in the School of Business. It is “top of the line” for operating grants, and we are very pleased that USC was chosen out of the many
other possibilities.”
Household Finance Corporation is one of the nation’s largest multi-industry, diversified corporations. They maintain major businesses engaged in consumer finance and other financial and insur nee services, merchandising, manufacturing and transportation. Its finance division has more than 1,900 branch offices in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, Australia and Japan.
The corporation has contributed over $3.1 million to American colleges and universities since the program was established in 1956.
The center for study of the financial institution was formed in 1977 as an education/research center directed to four distinct but integral sectors of the financial industry. They are savings and loan; insurance, risk and management; real estate; and banking. The School of Business will use the money in these four areas.
Foreign student proposal delayed
Overseas recruitment reorganization considered
By Darren Leon
Staff Writer
The Student Affairs Committee postponed action on the reorganization of the International Studies program, until further information could be obtained.
The reorganization plan drawn up by Paul Hadley, vice president of Academic Affairs, would be split into on-campus and overseas divisions.
Hadley recommended that Associate Vice President Henry Birnbaum head both divisions, and that James Appleton, vice president of Student Affairs, choose someone to head the on-campus program.
Before Hadley’s proposal was to be implemented a recommendation was issued that called for the appointment of a committee by the Presidents Advisory Council to review the International Education policy and program. The Student Affairs Committee would seek members for the international
education reviewing committee.
The creation of a new body to study international education was deemed unnecessary because organizations, which had not been consulted previously, already exist which
‘There is a move afoot to quickly and quietly try to get someone into a job’
could conduct the study.
No new jobs need to be created until the academic units have had some input, said Fraida Dubin, an assistant professor in the American Language Institute.
“It seems to me that there is a move afoot by this committee to quickly and quietly try to get someone into a job. Anything this committee can do to get this out into the open and get an organization of interna-
tional students who know what’s going on, would be great,” Dubin said.
Other organizations were not notified of the reorganization of the international education program.
" I have a staff of 15 people who admit international students and recruit them and this is the first meeting, today, that I was aware that there was a move afoot to move the 15 people under me to Jim (Appleton),” said Jim Jones, executive director of Student Administrative Services.
“I only have one hope. My only part in this is to have somebody for the review of international studies,” Appleton said.
The general lack of information on the reorganization of international education and the committee to review it caused a lot of confusion.