Volume LXXXVIII, Number 40
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University of Southern California
Wednesday, April 9 1980
Swiss open to helping Iranians
Could be financial link for students
By Paul Escobar
Staff Writer
Although President Carter's executive order stopped the flow of money to all Iranian nationals and dosed all Iranian diplomatic offices in the United States, an official of the Swiss embassy said that, if approached by the Iranian government, he believes Switzerland would represent the students, provided the two countries could make an agreement.
Tehran, however, has not contacted any major European government to financially represent Iranian students in this country, according to officials in the Swiss, French, and British consular offices.
If a government were to represent Iranian nationals in the United States, money from Iran would first travel to the country providing representation, and then be issued by its embassy in the United States.
"We will represent Iranians in the United States
if we have a mandate from Tehran to authorize such action, and permission from Switzerland," said Paerre Simonin, a Swiss Embassy official in Washington, D.C.
""Switzerland is known as a country that respects all nations. We represent the Americans in Cuba, for instance. We also represent the Iranians in Israel," he said.
A French consulate official in Los Angeles said she has not received word of any contact between her country and Iran.
"Because the President issued the order to suspend Iranian visas only yesterday, everyone was unprepared. As of today, we have no word of Iranian contact with France," she said.
The British consulate in Los Angeles has not received word of any contact with the Iranian government, according to Angus MacKay, a spokesman for the office.
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Interim president a possibility
By Susan Pedersen
Assistant City Llitor
Two months have passed since the creation of a special selection committee for finding the next president of the university, but whether the committee will be able to acquire a president before President John R. Hubbard steps down in August remains in question. Many university officials remain optimistic that a president will be found; however, there is always the possibility that this goal will not be reached — and then a new dilemma will arise.
Sources close to Carl Hart-
nack, committee chairman, have said that if a president is not selected by fall, and if it looks like it will take longer than two months to bring in a president, an interim president will have to be appointed, and it will have to be someone who could not be a candidate.
That person, according to more than one source, could very well be Hubbard.
After he steps down in August, Hubbard will not actually be leaving the university since he will be teaching two classes in the history department next fall. For this reason, sources be-
lieve that it would be simplest to ask him to remain in his presidential capacity for the duration of the search.
This could be a relatively short period of time. The committee may find a potential president who would be unable to take the post until January. One source believes that if the span of time were only four to six months, Hubbard would be the best choice.
On the other hand, the committee may not have any concrete candidate, creating the prospect of almost another year (Continued on page 16)
Staff Photo by Stm Hyman
AAA UGH! — Paul Warren of Paul Warren and Explorer performed Tuesday in a Scope concert at the Student Activities Patio.
Doheny combats old-age blues
Heat irritates students, damages books
By Roger Wedberg
Investigations Editor
Doheny library may be just too old.
"It was built in the style of the 1930s as a kind of cathedral of learning," said John Schutz, dean of sodal sciences and chairman of the President's Advisory Library Commission. "But while a cathedral of learning is very beautiful and appealing to the eye it is many times very costly to maintain."
But at least one student thought it was the books, and not the cathedral, that have received the maintenance.
"For one thing, I think the heat in here
—	you know, the main library is so. hot it's like a sauna. You go in there and it's
Investigation
hotter than hell. You start sleeping and you can't get anything done," said Bruce Dowell, 21, a junior in business finance who was sitting in the midst of the stacks.
Library temperature controls, installed when the library was built in 1932, will cost $100,000 to replace.
"I was there one day myself and it was very uncomfortable," said Arnold Shafer, director of the Physical Plant. "But it's one of the items I have on the deferred maintenance list and I just haven't had the budget to fix it."
In the stacks, one library employee pointed to aging books with tom covers,
blaming the heat and the number of books crowded onto the shelves.
And the number of books keeps growing.
"You see, the only thing we've really been concentrating on is the acquisitions level — the number of volumes that we add in the stacks each year," said Roy Kidman, university librarian.
"We've made quite remarkable progress in the last four or five years — we've gone from sixty-second m the country among the hundred or so top university libraries to fwenty-sixth last year, which is really a remarkable achievement considering the cost of books," he said.
A trustee, J. Douglas Pardee, has given the library almost $2 million over several years, the Ahmanson Foundation is in the process of giving $500,000 and the Associates have endowed the college library for $1 million.
Still, prices of books and journals are inflating at a rate of up to 19%, Kidman said.
"The high inflationary costs are due to a number of things — paper, personnel, mailing, transportation," Schutz said.
"An ordinary book is now going for $22 and many books are going for $26 or $27. Then when you add on cataloging it all becomes very costly."
But Schutz said faculty were not concerned as much with library conditions as with additions to the library's collections.
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Staff photo by Katy Smith
BOOK ‘EM — A new computer system to be installed in Doheny Library will make it easier for students to check books out. Initial construction costs of $25,000 have already been received.