University, Student Senate try to solve grievances
Explain apparent lack of parking spaces
By Steve Padilla
Staff Writer
In response to student complaints, the Student Senate and various university offices are attempting to resolve problems students cited in the parking and tram service. In instances when student complaints could not be resolved, attempts were made to explain why certain areas of complaint, such as high parking permit fees, existed.
Poor parking service and security were the major complaints of students in the Student Grievance Hearings conducted by the Student Senate in October, said Andy Goodman of the senate's Task Force on Security and Parking Operations.
The task force and senate's Environmental and External Affairs Committee made recommendations to Parking Operations and other offices based on the complaints.
Some common grievances were the lack of parking spaces close to classes, inconsistant tram service, and the student parking permit fee of $46.
"Parking fees for students should be reduced," wrote one student in a grievance. "Where does our money go anyway?"
Parking Operations is self-sufficient and is entirely supported by permit sales and parking fees, said Carl Levredge, director of Parking Operations. It does not recieve money from tuition or other university fees.
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IR profs endorse list of recommendations
By Richard Bonin
Staff Writer
Detente has been reached in the School of International Relations. Twelve of the 14 professors in the school met yesterday and endorsed an outside committee's list of recommendations on the future direction of the school, said Jay Savage, the school's interim director.
The only faculty absent from the meeting were James Rosenau and William Van Cleave, the reputed principals in the conflict which divided the school over how it should educate students.
Both, however, had related their endorsement of the committee's suggestions. Savage said.
Facultv members decided to meet again in 10 days to begin discussing how to implement the guidelines set forth in the 24-page report.
Small committees will be created, for example, to decide on how to enhance the undergraduate and graduate schools' curriculum as suggested in the report. Savage said Guidelines for implementing curriculum changes will then have to be endorsed by the entire faculty.
"The faculty has come a hell of a long way," Savage said.
"All of the committee's main recommendations were specifically endorsed. (While) differences in opinion on how to implement the program exist, there is no major area of disagreement about the basic principles of the report.’'
In contrast, Savage said, opposing opinions will now be handled "in a professional manner."
In the past, a conflict developed between the more professionally-oriented staff, which believed in training students for posts of diplomats and foreign service, and faculty members who primarily emphasized a theoretical approach to international relations.
"The problem before was that everyone was gravitating to a side/' Savage said. "The feeling was that there was only one route the school would take. So people, fearing a win-lose situation, gravitated to either side.
"But now, with the report affirming the dual mission of the school, there is less tension (among the faculty). There's a definite reduction in tension between the sides. I sensed that (during the meeting)," Savage said.
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Anti-Berger mail sent to Hawaiian schools
By Craig Gima
Staff Writer
Flyers proclaiming Jay Berger, director of admissions, to be a racist were mailed to high schools in Hawaii while Berger was there last November
The flyers were similar to the "Wanted Jay Berger" flyers distributed on campus earlier this semester The mailing also included a letter signed bv Bob Baker Jr., who said he represented the Alliance of Whites Against Segregated Policy (AWASP).
Baker is not registered as a student at the university and his organization is not registered with Campus Life and Recreation. Sources believe that Baker and his organization are fictitious.
The letter stated that Berger was coming to Hawaii and that Baker felt it necessary to enlig'hten high school admissions counselors about the admissions and finanrial-aid policy of the university.
It also urged counselors to ask Berger to explain the university admissions policies.
The mailing was sent in Office of Admissions envelopes which made it seem the mailing was actually coming from the office, said one high school counselor in Hawaii.
Randall Craig, co-chairman of the MEChA-Black Student Union coalition which has been seeking Berger's dismissal and passed out similar flyers earlier on campus, said hfs group had nothing to do with this mailing.	(Continued on page 6)
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Volume LXXXVil, Number 86 University of Southern California	Friday, January 11, 1980
Report favors satellite campus
By Tim Lynch
Staff Writer
A university task force has outlined a series of findings that support the establishment of a satellite educational facility in Orange County’.
"This is not yet formalized as a recommendation," said Harvey Stedman, chairman of the task force. "We (also) have not gone into the intricacies of how such an arrangement would work."
In its initial form, the report favors the development of a facility with an emphasis on graduate and professional studies and an array of continuing education offerings.
Initially, the programs would operate in a single structure in the Irvine-Newport Beach-Costa Mesa area.
"There is a substantial Orange County population that is not currently served by USC's programs or to whom USC would be a more desirable alternative," the report stated. "The likely benefits to be derived from the establishment of a new and integrated facility outweigh the risks."
Educational, geographic and financial considerations were all weighed in the committee's report, which will probably be refined and go to the Advisory Committee for Academic Planning (ACAP) as a formal recommendation before the end of the month.
"So many people have characterized this (the proposed facility) as a campus," Stedman said.
"It is not the committee's view that what the university should undertake is to establish a campus with a broadly based undergraduate program. The facility in Orange County would, in an oversimplified sense, have a much narrower mission."
The objective, according to the report, would be to offer a high quality program of selected graduate and professional courses attractive to persons living and working full time in Orange County.
Demographic studies conducted by the task force showed that a high percentage of persons ages 22 to 44 (the group most likely to pursue a post-graduate degree) live in Orange County.
The task force also noted that the university has some programs unique to those already offered by colleges and universities in the area. "USC could represent an important alternative to existing programs >f study there," the report stated.
The university currently offers a variety of educational programs housed in several locations in Orange County. The task force has suggested that the programs be consolidated into one facility to project a more definite image of the univers-ity.
Academic and auxiliary services, like a library and snack bar, could be made more accessible if the programs were brought together.
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DT FANS — Dry under the shelter of their umbrellas, Paul Arshawsky, Terry Wopner, and Steve Hersch relax outside the bookstore, taking a moment to catch up on campus news. Soon, students will be hibernating in the libraries in preparation for final exams.