Student affairs to lose over $90,000
By Susan Pedersen
Assistant City Editor
Due to a 3.5% cut in its budget, student affairs will be losing $94,000 in the 1980-81 school year, causing them to cut 528,000 from the Student Health Center budget as well as other amounts from virtually every other department within student affairs, said Paul Moore, assistant vice president for student affairs Tuesday.
In the past, the health center was exempt from these budgetary cuts, making this the first year it will have to be included. * However, Moore said the cut will not result in an increase in the health center fees students are required to pay each semester.
What it will mean is a small percentage of these fees (about 66 cents per year) will be going to supplement services other than the health center in order to make up for the overall budget cut.
One of the services receiving a portion of the money is Black Student Services, which will need $55,000 in the coming year. Moore said student affairs had made a commitment last year to provide greater support for Black Student Services, and this was one of the reasons for reassembling the budget.
In addition, the Office of Residential Life will need about $11,000 to supplement its operations because of the addition of new residence halls, he said.
Rather than make one large cut from one department, Moore said they distributed the cuts throughout the student affairs system.
“It was our (student affairs') belief and our decision that everybody should help everybody else," he said.
As a result, campus lift and recreation will be receiving a $18,000 budget cut and other areas, like residential life, will also receive cuts of varying amounts from their budgets, he said.
"We would prefer not to take money away from the Student Health Center, but what are we left with? We'd have to cut other student services. This way we're minimizing the impact upon all the services that students receive."
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Volume LXXXVIII, Number 65 University of Southern California Wednesday, May 14, 1980
Evacuation of thousands called smooth
Security makes sole arrest during bomb threat
By Stephanie Chavez
Staff Writer
Both University Security and Residential Life agreed that students were generally cooperative Monday night during the bomb threat and subsequent mandatory evacuation from all university buildings and residence halls.
The only reported incident was the arrest of a male nonstudent for burglary in Trojan Hall.
Several thousand people were evacuated after a telephone threat was made by a caller who said he would detonate a bomb in a major building on campus unless he received $200,000 from the university.
Residential Life personnel supervised evacuation in the residence halls. Jerry Stringer,
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
Awards to honor black students
By Darryl Adams
Staff Writer
Several black students will be the recipients of a "Tommy Award" at the third annual Tommy Awards Sunday at 6:30 p.m. in Town and Gown Foyer.
The Tommy Awards was organized in 1978 by Bill West, then a graduate student in business, as a way to recognize black students who excel in academics.
"This doesn't mean the students with the highest grade point average but those that have excelled despite the obstacles that they have encountered," said Joanne Morris, a junior in public administration and chairman of this year's awards.
"The Tommy Awards recognizes black 'students and nonblack students who have contributed to the black experience on campus (black programming, organizations, and community work)."
The awards are divided into four categories — Student of Students awards, the Extra Mile award, and Academic and Extra-curricular awards given by various campus organizations.
The Academic awards are given to one student from each school, with the deans selecting the student they feel is most deserving. The organizations' selections are chosen by the individual organization.
The Extra Mile award goes to the student who excels in both
academic and extra-curricular activities.
"Students are nominated bv their peers for this (Extra Mile) award," Morris said. Students from each undergraduate class as well as two graduate students will receive two Extra Mile awards.
The Student of Students award is the most coveted Tommy Award given to the students. West selects the winners every year.
Previous winners include Lura Daniels-Ball, director of the Evening of Soul for the past four years, and Karen Posnick-Wade, past president of the Black Student Union.
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director of Residential Life, said he was informed of the incident around 9 p.m. by Capt. William Burke of University Security.
"When I was talking with Burke we just agreed there would be mandatory evacuation. It was unquestionable under the circumstances," Stringer said.
Stringer then contacted Paul Jahr, assistant director of Residential Life, who supervised the evacuation.
'The general reaction (from the students) was positive," Jahr said. "I was impressed. They seemed to respond according to the severity of the situation. No one, including staff, was excited about the incident. There were the traditional wisecracks, but everyone understood the situation."
He said students made alternate plans to stay with friends in apartments and some checked into hotels. Personnel from the University Hilton said about 10 students registered that night.
Stringer said the incident was "generally believed to be a pretty serious situation by students," and the Residential Life staff conducted a search in the common areas of the residence halls around 9:30 p.m.
Stringer said students were told to leave campus because the caller made no reference to a particular building. "We wanted to make sure people wouldn't go to another building," he said.
Howard Weinstein, area coordinator for Residential Life said, "In general, there was a whole lot of cooperation. In this case, because it was so big and was university-wide, students were more scared and took it more seriously."
Sgt. George Farina of University Security raid the burglary arrest was made after officers were informed by students they had seen a nonstudent in the building during the evacuation. Security checked the first floor of the building and found the suspect hiding in a men's restroom.
The suspect was arrested based on the fact he was found in a locked building and had a record of being stopped on campus many times in the past. Farina said.
Ward could not release any information Tuesday about the call or what investigationsthe Los Angleles police dectectives are conducting. He said the direct cost to the university and taxpayers for manpower during the threat was "many thousands of dollars."
Six officers were called in early to help handle the situation, bringing the toal to 16 security officers on duty compared to the usual 8 to 10. Officers for LAPD were also held over from their normal shifts to assist in handling the bomb threat.
Ward said the number of bomb threats received during the past four months has exceeded those received in the previous three years.
Although a new policy was recently instituted making eva-~ cuation of facilities during bomb threats optional, the university still retains the final decision-making power, according to Ward. Monday night security made the decision to evacuate at approximately 8 p.m. because a demand for monev made the threat more
LEONARD NIMOY
Star Trek fans listen to Spock speak in Bovard, tells experiences in acting
By Darryl Adams
Staff Writer
As an anxious crowd of over 200 Star Trek fans poured into Bovard Auditorium to see one of the shows' top characters, Spock, portrayed by Leonard Nimoy, one student was overheard saying: " That's all we need is a lecture by some actor." The event, sponsored bv the University Speaker's Committee,turned out to be a provocative, enlightening and in-depth look at one of this country's foremost actors.
Nimoy, popularly known as the Vulcan character Spock of the movie and television series Star Trek, appeared on campus Tuesday to talk to students and share some of his many experiences in the field of acting.
Nimoy learned of the role Spock after being a guest star on The Lieutenant. Nimoy, who considers himself a character actor, accepted the challenge of the role, although he was worried about being the " Dumbo" of television.
"I have no complaints with the opportunities they provided me for input," Nimoy said when asked about the amount of input he had with the character, adding that neither he nor William Shatner (Captain Kirk in the series) currently receive residuals for the series' reruns.
Nimoy's education consisted of high school in Boston, an eight-week summer session at Boston College, six months at the Pasadena Playhouse and two years of studying with Jeff Corey, whom Nimoy feels was helpful in his launch to stardom. Nimoy recently graduated from Antioch College, and received his first degree ever.
Nimoy previously starred in the series Mission Impossible, and when asked by a student from the audience why he left the hit series after two years, Nimoy responded — "I was bored." He said the character he portrayed, Paris, did not offer an indepth challenge for him.
Nimoy currently is the host of In Search Of. . ., a documentary program that explores phenomenons. The show is beginning its fifth year of television and will shoot 24 episodes this year.
Some of Nimoy's favorite episodes of Star Trek were: one in which Spock fell in love, and two other episodes entitled Devil in the Dark and Mock Time.
Being a character actor was one of the reasons Nimoy accepted the part of Dr. Dysart in the Broadway play Equs.