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Volume LXXXIX, Number 53	University of Southern California	Friday. December 5, 1980
DT correction
In the front-page story Thursday that recapped the caret1' the three departing vice presidents, Thomas P. Nickell was said to have handled, since 1971, the development of funding sources and public relations, as well as the administrating of the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and the General Alumni Association.
Nickell only administered the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics for a short time and has not been associated with its operation for more than six years.
Photo by Marcia Traagar
STRETCHING — Betteanne Terrell, associate artistic director of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, practices for the company's performance to be held tonight through Saturday. See story page 5.
TWO MORE YEARS
Students to remain in Century
By Craig Gima
Assistant City Fditor
Students will not have to vacate Century Apartments as planned in February because of a two-vear extension on an agreement involving the university, Watt Industries, Councilman Robert Farrell and the Community Redevelopment Agency.
When first built three years ago, the Century Apartments were supposed to be used bv low-in-come families. But the university and the contractor, Watt Industries, agreed to use the building for student housing after the university promised to construct 300 units of low-income housing by February of 1981.
Councilman Farrell and the CRA approved the deal.
Onlv 102 units of low-income housing, the Billy
G. Mills Manor on Vermont Street, are scheduled to be completed by the original deadline. The construction of an additional 48 units was recently approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The terms of the agreements said the university would have had to give up the 102 student apartments in the Century complex if the 300 units were not constructed on schedule.
However, at a CRA board meeting Tuesday, the board members voted 5 to 1 to extend the deadline by two years.
Speaking before the board in favor of the extension were Councilman, Robert Farrell; Ray Watt, head of Watt Industries and a university trustee; Charles Chastain, head of Chastain Construction Company; President James H. Zumberge and (Continued on page 7)
JUNRUI QUIAN
Rains flood Founders Hall
Unfinished roof causes damage
By Darren Leon
Staff Writer
Open air-conditioning shafts, the absence of a roof and the first winter rains led to the flooding of the third and fourth floors of Founders Hall Thursday.
The water seeped through cracks and holes in the roof and poured down the shafts, dripping into rooms and offices housing computers, audiovisual equipment and books.
The building was vulnerable to rain because construction on an addition to the structure was not completed. The original roofing material had been stripped and a new roof was going to be put in next week, when the rains came Wednesday evening.
The air conditioning shafts were uncovered when the construction foreman, Orville Murray, arrived at 5:30 a.m. Thursday. Murray replaced the covers, but bv that time water had already begun to enter the building.
There were deep puddles on all of the upper floors as the water dripped from ceilings. Some classes on the first floor were held, unaffected by the water.
The language labs and some professors' offices, some of which contained rare and old books, were soaked.
“In this room we have one computer and two computer terminals worth about $12,000 or $13,000. 1 have a computer that was sitting right underneath the drip. I won't know if it's still working until I plug in," said Douq McCormick, a graduate student in the psychology department.
Two air conditioning shafts empucu »vater into a second-floor room where, just a few doors down, a room was filled with 5175,000 to $200,000 worth of computers, computer terminals and printout machines.
“It's really remarkable that a contractor could not forsee this problem," said Dave Tool, director of the Humanities Audio-visual Center.
"I anticipated this three months ago, but the university shut construction down because of noise," said Roy Wilson, construction supervisor. "We've had problems with subcontractors, the university shut us down for three weeks because of noise. This building could have been done. That 12-story building (the Seelev G. Mudd Building now under construction) will be finished before this four-story building is."
Insurance companies will assess the damages todav.
"The big problem is that this is a concrete building. Jack hammers and chip hammers have (Continued on page 3)
Peking economist criticizes Mao, Gang of Four, says nation undergoing change
By Dave Fisher
The Chinese government is a mess because of the purges carried out by the Gang of Four during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s, a noted Chinese economist said Thursday afternoon.
Junrui Quian, professor of economics at Peking University, told a group of students and faculty that the Chinese are currently changing corporate laws and revising their criminal justice system in an effort to correct mistakes made by the government during the revolution.
"He (the late Chairmar Mao Tse-tung) was a great leader and advocate of socialism," Junrui said in broken English. "But he committed some enors in the last part of his rule — big errors. He ordered, instituted and organized the Cultural Revolution.
“A lot of people were damaged," he continued. “Common people were put in jail. It was a disaster."
Junrui himself spent eight years in jail as a result of the radical leftist movement which swept through China in the
late 1960s and early 1970s. It was this movement that tried to seize power in 1971.
He said thousands of Chinese were killed during the purges which lasted until September, 1971, when the coup was finally put down by the government of the late Premier Chou En-lai.
“It (the revolution) was an error of the extra-left, of their ideology," Junrui told a crowd of 60 in the Stauffer Science Lecture Hall.
Reacting to the trial of the Gang of Four and several other
radicals now going on in China, Junrui said, “If they are guilty, we must punish.” Junrui made his statements about the Gang of Four and the revolution during a question-and-answer session that followed George Totten's reading of a speech written by Junrui. Totten is Department of Political Science chairman. Junrui did not read the lecture because "my English pronunciation is poor.”
Junrui lecture dealt with the three concepts ("trump cards" (Continued on page 7)