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Volume LXXXIX, Number 6	Tuesday, September 23, 1980	University of Southern California
Photo by Braven Wong
UNIVERSITY SECURITY? — An officer breaks into his own car to retrieve his keys. Security usually performs this task for hapless students or faculty, and sometimes thieves do. too.________
University fights approved hike of monthly water, power rates
By John-Peter Tremblay
Staff Writer
University energy costs will increase 23 percent as a result of the Los Angeles City Council's decision Wednesday to accept the Department of Water and Power's request for a rate increase.
According to Paula Thomas, executive director of Administrative Services, this increase will translate into approximately an additional SI.2 million each year.
Thomas said the university, along with other southland universities, fought hard to keep the new rate from going through, but the DWP fought harder.
"Probablv the hardest they have ever had to fight," she said.
Although the university cannot prevent rates from rising, it can try to cut costs by obtaining a new rate classification, she said. The university is also trying to conserve energy.
The university is classified in the industrial category, which generally carries the brunt of all rate increases. For example, under the new rates, industry rates will increase 23 percent, but residential customers' rates will increase 3.9 percent.
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Attack victim improves
Stabbed in office Friday
By Mary Meloch	Science Hall 258, on Friday morning be-
Staff Writer	tween 6:30 and 7 a.m.
Tema Clare, an emeritus professor of	The search for her attacker is being
biology who was stabbed early Friday	conducted by the Southwest division
morning, is listed in serious but im-	homicide detectives who are waiting for
proved condition at California Hospital,	her to recover further before questioning
despite complications that arose over the	her. Thev have no suspects or known
weekend requiring surgery, a hospital	motive in the attack, spokesman said.
Clare, 84, is conscious and able to	Clare 1S a graduate of Culver-Stockton
speak, the spokeman said, but is expect-	College in Canton, Missouri. She began
ed to remain in intensive care for at	teaching biology at the university in
least three days.	1930 and taught courses in botany, engi-
Doctors would not release specific de-	neering, aerodynamics and meteorology.
tails concerning her surgery or condi-	*s a*so *^e author of 10 science and
tion, but according to detective Joe Redo	botanv text 1,00ks and has been active
of the Southwest homicide division of	‘n t*ie Acuity Club.
the Los Angeles Police Department, she	she retired fa 1%- but has d
was brutally attacked and stabbed nu-	u
.. .. ,.	tive in research and in manv student
merous times m the upper portion of her	and professjonal scholastic organjza.
tions, including Sigma Xi, the national
Clare was stabbed in her office,	science honor society.
MAGNET SCHOOL
Program enriches area
By Natalie Perlin
Staff Writer
The university' has a certain allure or mystique that is attractive to youngsters, and there are many untapped resources at the university that can greatly enrich children, said Sam Marchese, principal of 32nd Street School across from the university.
Thirty-second Street is beginning its third year as a university magnet school, offering special programs in performing and fine arts, science and mathematics with the cooperation of university faculty and affiliates.
Magnet schools, a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District's voluntary integration program, offer a variety of specialty studies in addition to the traditional studies of reading, writing and mathematics.
“Magnet schools bring resources to school children that they wouldn't ordinarily have," Marchese said. Thirty-second Street is the first school to be associated with a university on a magnet basis.
During the past two years 32nd Street has participated in a wide variety of programs with personnel from the university's Community School of Performing Arts, the School of Education and the School of Journalism.
For example, last year 90 students took individual and group lessons on such instruments as the violii., cello, trumpet and flute in a program developed in cooperation with the community school. Students have also received instruction in dance and drama from professionals affiliated with the School of Performing Arts.
Another successful program has been developed in connection with the School of Education. Thirty-second Street offers a teacher training program where university students can observe classroom methods and get teaching experience.
Last vear 32nd Street trained 30 students as part of the teacher training program and hired 30 teacher assistants, the majority being education majors, Marchese said.
Students majoring in other fields have also had successful interaction with 32nd Street students.
Psychology students and physical education majors often observe classes, and many conduct class discussions and gain teaching experience, Marchese said.
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Poli sci head furthers China ties
Interest in Asia goes back to childhood
By Kathy McDonald
Assistant City Editor
It seems fitting that the new chairman of the Political Science Department has had a firsthand look at international relations and traveled the world extensively. Fluent in five languages, he has taught in Europe and Asia and has worked for better relations between the Unitd States and the People's Republic of China.
In fact, George Totten is friends with Zhang Aiping, who was recently appointed vice premier of China, and Bo Yibo, another vice premier who last week signed four new trade and shipping accords with President Carter.
"The treaties cover the areas of airlines, shipping, trade and new consulates to be opened," Totten said. The agreements are expected to increase trade between China and the United States this vear to more than $4 billion — more than the level of trade between the United States and Soviet Union.
Totten is also acquainted with newlv-appointed
Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Aiping, a former military deputy chief of staff who is famous in China for his participation in the Long March of 1934, a resistance movement against Chaing Kai Shek
Totten, who has taught at the university since 1965, was bom in Washington, D.C. and received his degree for Columbia University. He earned his doctorate in political science at Yale University.
"Yale had the best department of political science in the country wben 1 was there," he said. "There were so many famous people teaching there."
Totten said this university's political science department is "the best it has ever been.
"It is one of the fastest growing departments at the university. We have a good reputation, good human relations. There are no ideological struggles; people work together well."
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GEORGE TOTTEN