INS not to resume campus interviews
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Voiume LXXXVII, Number 51	University of Southern California
Monday, December 3, 1979
Freshmen take annual survey
By Aida Bustos
Stall Writer
There is “zero” probability the Immigration and Naturalization Service will resume reviewing Iranian student documents on campus, said Vance Peterson, director of Academic Relations.
Peterson said the university did not expect that legal issues surrounding INS operations here will be resolved before the Dec. 14 deadline Iranian students must meet to report to INS officials.
“We have made the determination that USC cannot be a party to potential violations of the rights of Iranian students.” Peterson said.
INS interviews with Iranian students were suspended Nov. 16 after university lawyers objected to officials photographing individual students as part of the registration process ordered by President Carter.
Peterson said the university will continue to help Iranian students prepare their documents for review by immigration officials.
Interviews are being held in the INS downtown office. \I1 Iranian students must report to INS for a review of their current status or otherwise face deportation proceedings.
“We have made arrangements with INS for two special rooms to be set up solely for USC students.” Peterson said.
He said the university is not the
only one facing legal issues surrounding on-campus operation by the INS. He said Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley and UCLA have also had similar problems.
"Any ultimate resolution of these issues will have to be made in the courts, and no one is even suggesting any litigation at this point,” Peterson said.
He did not know how many students have reported for interviews and an INS official refused to comment on the exaci number of university students that have visited the immigration office.
John Callahan, execute e director of the Office of International Students and Scholars, said the university is helping Iranian students review their documents and the office staff will answer any questions or concerns.
“At the beginning a number of students came in desperately worried they would be deported for any miniscule problem with their documents." Callahan said.
He said other Iranian students have turned to the staff because they were concerned about the anti-Iranian sentiment they perceived around them.
“It is our responsibility to comfort them and help them in any way we can.” Callahan said. “As students they are entitled to the help we can provide.”
B> Ann Krueger
Staff Writer
A survey showed that 81% of a sample of entering freshmen last year said that the university's “good academic reputation" was a deciding factor in choosing to apply here.
Over 16% of the freshmen surveyed took an annual national survey administered by the Office of Institutional Studies.
A pre-selected sample of freshmen from various backgrounds were contacted during the summer and asked to take the survey during their first two or three weeks on campus on a voluntary basis, said Zoe Cosgrove, a spokesman for the Office of Institutional Studies.
According to the survey, 34% applied because of financial aid offered by the university. Thirty-one percent came for the university’s special educational programs while advice from someone who attended the university prompted 12% to apply here.
Advice from teachers persuaded 5% and advice from friends (prompted) another 5%.
Six percent of the freshmen surveyed cited wanting to live at home as their reason for attending the university.
None of the freshmen interviewed by the Daily Trojan gave the university’s general academic reputation as a primary reason for choosing to come here.
“I came to USC primarily because my brother goes here and he likes it,” said Lysa Georgia, an undeclared freshman commuter student.
“If you want to dedicate yourself and study you can get a good education at USC, but it seems that a lot of people, on the Row especially, are only here to party,” Georgia said.
Several administrators said that many students are not as academically oriented as others.
"Many of the students that are here strictly for the learning experience are dismayed by the dif-
ficulty in finding students as dedicated as they are."
“They don’t feel the university to be as intellectually alive as they wish,” said Joan Schaefer, dean of women.
Schaefer and James Appleton, vice-president of Student Affairs, both said that most freshmen become disappointed in at least one aspect of college life.
“Once students become involved with the university and have to grapple with the realities, there’s bound to be some entrenchment,” Appleton said.
A freshman from Korea said, “I wanted a good education in Los Angeles, and USC is better than UCLA.”
“I wanted to get away from home, Berkeley was too far, and UC Irvine doesn’t have a name for business,” said Sylvia Cho, a freshman in business living in the dorms.
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Iranian barbecue raises bail money
Members of the Iranian Students Association sold food last week to raise bail money for Iranian students jailed in the United States.
This fund raising is to help Iranians captured by the FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service because of their political activities in the United States,” said Reza Gholi, a member of the association.
Students sold kabobs. barbecued beef wrapped in Arabian bread, next to the administration building.
The Iranian barbecue was part of fund raising efforts being conducted by association chapters nationwide. The money raised will go to a general fund to help Iranians throughout the country. Gholi said.
Other fund raisers are also planned and Gholi said some of the money will go to Iranians arrested in Houston and Boston.
He said that students in the university chapter have not encountered any problems with the FBI or INS. The chapter has about 20 members.
“Our fund raising has two purposes. It allows us to help other Iranians and it helps us build up our friendship with the American people," Gholi said.
The food sale also gives Iranians and Americans the opportunity to exchange ideas and discuss the situation in Iran, he said.
Although anti-Iranian feelings were expressed in recent weeks during demonstrations by United States citizens around the country, the students have not encountered any hostility toward their fundraising. Gholi said.
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Community near university stricken with poor health
Poverty level, lack of medical services blamed
By Merilynne Cohen
Assistant Managing Editor
The community surrounding the university is an area where good health faces a bitter enemy — poverty.
This section of Los Angeles, where approximately 20% of family incomes fall below the poverty level, has some of the highest percentages of tuberculosis, venereal disease, infant mortality, mental health afid substance abuse in all of Los Angeles county, according to figures compiled by the County Department of Health Services.
Although many of these health problems are in control in other parts of the county, they are on the rise in this community. According to recent health department investigations:
—	The death rate of infants born in the community is 66%.
—	The levels of gonorrhea and syphilis ^mong residents are three times that of the county as a whole.
—	The community is the only area in the country where the rate of tuberculosis is rising, primarily affecting the Hispanic population, who bring the disease in from Mexico.
—	The number of physicians that are available to community residents meets only 74% of the demand.
The general health of community residents has been determined as “poor” to “moderately poor” by county health officials. Yet despite a steady increase in the amount of health care available, severe and widespread health problems remain.
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