Bovard awaits new seats
Temporary chairs alleviate problem
By David Romero
Staff Writer
About $15,000 worth of temporary seats were recently installed in Bovard Auditorium to alleviate the poor seating situation that has existed since the semester began, said Scott Fraser, a psychology professor who teaches in the auditorium.
Fraser said the 725 temporary seats replace folding chairs which students had previously been using. The new seats have arms which make it easier to take notes and tests.
The installation of permanent seats for the auditorium has been delaved for several months. Originally the contractor was to have completed installation before the fall semester began, but the completion date was pushed back and now stands at the beginning of December, said James Massey, director of Facilities Planning.
Fraser urged officials from the beginning of the semester to solve the seating problems quickly. He finally asked the university to provide funds for some chairs he found.
Massey said the university had already been looking for folding chairs to rent, without success. The university then allocated about 515,000 to buy the chairs which Fraser had arranged.
There were not enough temporary seats and more chairs are being installed.
Massey said that Fraser's class sometimes overflows with observers not enrolled in the course who take up seats.
Fraser said the crux of the problem is the university's failure to provide adequate facilities for students. The delays have caused problems for students with classes in the auditorium and administrators have not taken enough interest in student welfare to solve the problem, he said.
Fraser also felt that some university officials assumed students could put up with the situation, but that it has gone on too long. "I don't believe in the 'suffering produces wisdom' theory"
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Volume LXXXVII Number 37. University of Southern California Wednesday, November 7, 1979
MISTRUST OF DOLLAR SEEN
Gold rises as dollar declines
By Todd Cooley
Staff Writer
The price of gold, which dosed on the London market Friday at $372.80 per ounce, has quadrupled since 1972, increasing 69% since the beginning of the year. This rise in prices reflects a "fundamental mistrust of paper currencies, said Aurelius Morgner, an economist at the university.
"For 20 or 30 years people have been buying American securities, but now the dollar has lost its place because of inflation. People are turning to other stores of value such as silver, stamps, real estate, works of art and, of course, gold," Morgner said.
The price of gold generally reflects the strength of the American dollar, Morgner said. When the dollar is strong, the price of gold drops. When the dollar is weak, as it has been
for a good part of the year, the price of gold surges (gold prices peaked at $420.50 per ounce on Oct. 1, according to a spokesman from Deak-Perera, a foreign-exchange firm).
With about half of the world's gold supply held by the world's central banks and the supply of gold produced each year barely enough to keep up with the demand for jewelry, dental fillings and coins, "there is a genuine shortage of gold," said Hubert Baschnagel, executive vice-presidenf of Swiss Bank Corp.
The largest gold producers are the Soviet Union and South Africa.
Another factor contributing to the price of gold is the way foreign investors perceive American leadership, particularly a given administration's inflation-fighting resolve. Some
experts fault the Carter administration on this respect.
The dollar is still plagued by global anxiety over the U.S. inflation-fighting resolve and even the Federal Reserve Board's recent interest-rate increases have only moderately slowed its recent slide, Morgner said.
The recent gold auction held by the U.S. Treasury had a more definite effect. On Nov.
1,	the price of gold dropped $13.40. "I consider the auction results a victory for the treasury, for the time being,” Baschnagel said.
Confidence in the dollar, however, tends to remain shaky. "If U.S. oil imports continue to rise the trade deficit will be increased, which will in turn heighten the price of gold," Morgner said.
Staff photo by Patar Wtulich
CLOTHING SALE — The center of campus is frequented by vendors sponsored by campus organizations, and this week is no exception. On sale are women's leotards and swimwear._
Student co-op to offer discounts on groceries
By Ann Krueger
Staff Writer
A food co-op will be sponsored by the Student Senate's non-profit corporation next spring. The corporation, So Cal Student Agencies, Inc., was recently formed to provide low-cost services to students.
The corporation has plans for various future projects, such as record exchanges, dry cleaning services, typing services and a ticket service for off-campus concerts. But a food co-op seemed to be the most practical choice for a first project, said Mary Wand, a member of the corporation's Board of Directors.
The university will allow the corporation to set up service centers on campus, provided that none of the corporation's facilities conflict with university services.
The co-op is scheduled to open at the beginning of the spring semester and will operate by allowing students to order groceries and pick them up a few days later, said Dennis Alfieri, president of the corporation.
"We see a definite need for a student co-op and students and administrators seem interested," Alfieri said.
An advisory group, consisting partially of university administrators, was set up to help the corporation negotiate contracts with the university.
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Writer speaks of H-bomb risks
Fought to disclose weapon designs
By David Rompf
Staff Writer
Howard Morland looks collegiate: his shirt collar protrudes from a sweater and his 36-year-old face could pass for a freshman's — certainly not a person one would expect to write a controversial article dealing with the intricacies of the hydrogen bomb.
He doesn't even have a degree in nuclear physics. At Emory University in Atlanta he had two courses in physics and one in chemistry. But because of an immense curiosity and concern for the future of mankind, Morland did extensive research on the H-bomb industry in the United States and wrote, "The H-Bomb Secret: How We Got It, Why We're Telling It," an article that added detail to existing diagrams of H-bombs. The article revealed some of the manufacturers of various
parts of the bomb, which inevitably upset the government.
The article, which was supposed to appear in the April issue of Tne Progressive, a Wisconsin-based political magazine, needed to be banned to "preserve national security," the government said.
Speaking at the YWCA Tuesday, Morland said the government wanted to cover up possible violations of environmental protection laws and to keep the identity of manufacturers of parts undisclosed.
On March 26, 1979, Federal District Judge Robert W. Warren issued, at the government's request, a preliminary injunction barring publication of the article in The Progressive. The magazine's cover design for April and the reproduction proofs of the article remained in a
bank vault for the next six months, in a state of limbo, while the magazine fought the first prior restraint injunction ever issued to suppress an article on the basis of national security.
On Sept. 28, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals overruled Judge Warren's injunction, and Morland's article appears in the current issue of The Progressive. In the issue, the magazine states that the publication of the article and the reversal of the injunction are a triumph for the First Amendment!
"Most people think it’s (the H-bomb topic) a colossal bore. But anything the government doesn't want me to know immediately becomes interesting," Morland said.
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