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Volume LXXXIX. Number 55
University of Southern California
Tuesday. December 9. 1980
Ex-Beatle John Lennon murdered in New York
By Alex Raksin
Assistant News Editor
John Lennon, the "dark poet" of the Beatles, thought by many critics to be the creative genius behind modern rock and roll, was shot to death late Monday outside his luxury apartment building in New York Citv.
Authorities said Lennon, 40, was rushed in a police car to Roosevelt hospital on Manhattan's Upper West Side, where he was pronounced dead at arrival.
Wife Yoko Ono at his side, Lennon was shot five to seven times by Mark David Chapman, 25, who was "smirking as he was led away bv policemen," New York authorities reported. Chapman had recently come to New York from Hawaii.
Chapman had been stalking Lennon for three or four days. When he finally caught up with him after a recording session late Monday night. Chapman asked Lennon his name, and pulled the trigger, police said.
Ironically, Lennon had just released a hit song entitled "Starting Over "
But the title accurately summed up the singer songwriter's recent career.
A leading figure of the counter-culture movement in the '60s, exerting enormous impact over clothing, music, hair styles and philosophy of the '60s youth, Lennon had retreated to his home five years ago in order to spend more time with his wife Yoko and four-vear-old son Sean.
"(The past five years) have enabled me to look back on that period with being intense about it," Lennon said in a recent
Los Angeles Times article.
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15 MILLION SUFFER WORLDWIDE
Muskie, Brown urge refugee aid
By Galen Gruman
News Editor
The traditions of the past and the problems of the future compel the United States to play a leadership role in solving the problems of world hunger and world refugees, said Secretary of State Edmund Muskie Friday.
Muskie spoke at a conference on world hunger and refugees at the university's Davidson Conference Center Friday morning. Gov. Jerry Brown and U.S. coordinator for refugees Victor Palmieri also spoke at the all-dav conference.
"The United States and the world community must deal not only with the pressing outward manifestations of the refugee problem, but with its underlying causes: war, political persecution and other oppressions of the human person," Muskie said.
"The need far outstrips the resources available" despite the increases in the budget of the United
Nations High Commissioner of Refugees, which will more than double this year. The millions of dollars being spent by various nations and independent aid groups also will not solve the problem Muskie said at the conference sponsored by the Institute of Politics.
Because the issue is a global one, Muskie said, the United Nations and the international community must take steps to stem the tide of refugees, who now number more than 15 million.
"All nations must respond generously to help people in (refugee) camps. All countries ought to be ready to offer first asylum," while many should allow permanent resettlement, Muskie said.
But more importantly, "large-scale expulsion of persons should be discouraged in the names of humanity and international order.
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Founders Hall cleaned up after flood leaves damaged computer in its wake
Coalition, Zumberge meet
Minority students express needs
By Kathy McDonald
Assistant Citv Editor
Founders Hall has been cleared of the water and debris following last week's flood, and construction has resumed according to schedule. The cost of the damages — which could include about $275,000 of computer equipment — has not yet been determined.
Construction crews and Physical Plant employees worked day and night all weekend to dry out the building, using heaters and water vacuums. The soaked ceilings were knocked out in most of the building. Workers then covered the entire fourth floor with vis-queene, a plastic covering.
Construction and university officials said the roof should be completed today
The original roof of the building had been stripped, and the water seeped through cracks and holes last Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. Water also poured down uncovered air conditioning shafts.
The damages, repair work and supplies amounted to "quite an expense," said Alex Ratka, director of Insurance and Risk Management. "But, hopefully, the insurance will pav for everything, including damages to personal belongings of people who work in the building."
By Jerrold Dale
Staff Writer
A coalition of minority students met with President James
H.	Zumberge to express its needs and concerns and was promised further meetings by the president.
"You have got my attention," Zumberge told the crowd of about 100 persons in Grace Ford Salvatori Hall, "and like the mule, that's the first thing you have to do to get him to move."
Leaders of the Minority Students Caucus said the purpose of the meeting was to solve the differences between how the university presents itself and how it actually is.
Mike Matsuda of the Asian Pacific Outreach, said the university bulletin, which is used to recruit students, states the university has the advantage of being located in a cosmopolitan area:
"Is this true?" Matsuda asked. "Or is USC an island of LaCoste shirts and Topsider shoes awash in a sea of poverty?"
Student moderators of the
meeting said they were speaking as a collective voice for all minorities at the university. One of the moderators, Scott Lee, of Asian Pacifc Student Outreach, said that although minorities make up 25 percent of the student body, they constitute nine percent of the tenured faculty.
"A minority faculty enables minority students to identify with notions not previously considered," Lee said. "It would demonstrate that the university is conscious of its movement."
The basis of the students’ concerns dates back to October 1979 when the President's Advisory Committee made 24 recommendations regarding minority concerns. Donna Baugh,
of the Black Students Union, said the university has remained in a stalemate on moving on those recommendations. She asked Zumberge to reactivate the task force on minority faculty and admissions.
Moderator Juan Rivera, co-chairman of MEChA, a Chicano student group, was concerned that there are no minorities on the Board of Trustees.
"The University Neighborhood Relations Commission endorsed the El Centro Chicano recommendation (for minority’ board representation), but history has vet to be made," Rivera said. He said the problem can be remedied easily.
Rivera also said the Minority Students Caucus was "appalled (Continued on page 12)
Among the damaged personal items was an irreplaceable first edition book owned by Marjorie Perloff, an English professor.
Adjustors from Hartford Insurance Company, which handles the university's affairs insurance, are still assessing the damage with the Continental Insurance Company. Continental represents the Ray Wilson contracting firm, the company building the Founders Hall addition.
Representatives from the two companies also met with officials from IBM Monday to figure damages to the computers.
Final estimates of the damage (Continued on page 8)
Staff photo* by Stav* Hyman
LEMMON LIMELIGHT — Jack Lemmon, one of America s most beloved actors was guest of honor at a benefit on campus Saturday. See story on page 7.