Grant given toward $4 million music building
By John Powell
The Booth Ferris Foundation recently gave a $750,000 grant to the university toward the construction of a $4 million music building.
The foundation, based in New York, is a national supporter of the arts and higher education.	,
The building will house practice rooms, additional teaching studio-offices, classrooms and rehearsal spaces, a recital-lecture hall, and the administrative offices of the School of Music.
Almost one-quarter of the project's cost has already been raised through gifts and pledges, including the Booth Ferris Foundation grant.
"We intend to reach the half-way mark by the end of the year," said Grant Beglarian, dean of the School of Performing Arts.
The construction of the building may begin early next year if the project is approved by the Board of Trustees, Beglarian said. He plans to raise the rest of the money by the end of next year.
"The foundation's long and beneficial partnership with the School of Music dates back to the early '60s." Beglarian said. "The foundation has been most generous in support of our effort to provide adequate workspaces and scholarships to our music students. A total of $1,150,000 has been invested by the foundation in our School of Music since the partnership began."
"The grant is made in recognition of the manv contributions which the school has made to the world of music and to the education of young people," said Robert Longley, a foundation spokesman.
The new building will be built adjacent to the Ramo Hall of Music and the Music Faculty Memorial Building. It will incorporate the existing Booth Memorial Hall in the park setting of the Performing Arts Center.
HAROLD A. SHERMAN
Safety and Systems director resigns post
By Roger Gray
Assistant Citv Editor
The director of the Institute of Safety and Systems Management retired Friday, leaving the university with an interim director and no one to coordinate the university's participation in the 1984 Olympic games.
Harold A. Sherman resigned after serving 12 years as director of the institute, and President James H. Zumberge named John V. Grimaldi as interim director. Sherman also resigned his post as Olympic coordinator, and no replacement was named.
Sherman will remain at the university as a Safety and Systems Management faculty member, and will work in research programs.
Several administrators have indicated that former president John R. Hubbard might take over the Olympic coordination job, but none would predict whom — if anyone — Zumberge would select.
Paul Hadlev, vice-president of Academic Affairs, said he did not have any information about Hubbard taking the Olympics job. Commenting on Sherman's resignation as coordinator, Hadley said the university was "plunging off into the Olympics in a thoroughly USC tradition — ! don't know if we are going to be coordinated or not."
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JOHN V. GRIMALDI
Volume LXXXIX, Number 10
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35 STUDY OCEAN
JEP conducts cruise
By Laura Horton
Students from Manuel Arts High School participated in a half-day research cruise aboard the university research vessel Vantuna last summer.
Students Jim Griffin and Linda Minardi, both geology majors, coordinated Ihe ocean trip with Eric Wheeler, an oceanography teacher at Manuel Arts High School.
Griffin and Minardi had been involved with a group of 35 students for the entire semester through a Joint Educational Project program and wanted to end the semester climactically. Griffin and Minardi wanted to additionally enrich the Manuel
Arts student's education with firsthand experience.
The Geology Department, with support from Tom Dickey and Bernard Pipkin, professors in the department, funded the project through money provided by the President's Circle, a support group in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
"They (Griffin and Minardi) really hustled to get the money," Wheeler said.
They were able to rent the Vantuna berthed at the Marine Support Facility in Wilmington, California.
For most of the students, this was their first time on a
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Mouse deaths stall experiments
Work setback at least 6 months
By Eric Vincent
The death of 1,500 mice last month in a laboratory at the Andrus Gerontology Center has created serious setbacks for 10 to 12 professors and graduate students who were experimenting with the animals.
"My work has been delayed for at least six months," said Carol Mirell, a graduate student working towards her doctorate. "And that is just the time required to create a colony to begin the experiment again.”
The mice, which were a genetically rare type, died of heat trauma when an air conditioning unit malfunctioned and raised the laboratory's temperature to 91 degrees.
A new mouse colony must be obtained and developed to an experimentally controlled level, said Harold Slavkin, a professor and lab chief at the center.
However, the rarity of the mice will mean that at least six to eight months will be needed to complete this restoration process.
"The problem is that the animals are very expensive, and even if we are able to buy all the mice, the supplier onlv has a limited supplv of them. So when we can get ail of them is unknown," Mirell said.
"We mav need to ask other scientists and re-
searchers at other universities who have this particular kind of mice to help us restore the colony," Slavkin said. "In fact, many have called and offered some of them to us."
Another problem confronting the researchers is funding. Mirell estimates the cost to the laboratory of making up the 10 months of lost wot,k will be approximately $90,000.
There were several sources of funding for the experiments. One source was government fellowship grants, w’hich have been extended because of the accident.
Other grants came from the National Institute of Health. The project had a cluster of eight such grants, all extending for various time periods, Slavkin said.
Only one grant should be affected by the accident — Mirell's, which expires on April 30.
However, Mirell has applied for another grant and expects to receive it in May.
A week after the accident Slavkin said he did not know if he could find money to rebuild the program. The university, however, is supplying some emergency funds.
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Staff photo by Kenneth Lewis
TOWING TIME — Parking Operations cracks down on student automobiles illegally parked or lacking permits. This car was parked in a red zone.