Daily
Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVI, Number 64
Los Angeles, California
Friday, January 11, 1974
USC May Buy Land; Wants Housing Projects
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BY SARAH HECK
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SHERRY STERN
Staff Writers
A spokesman for USC committed the university to buy the parcel of land on the corner of Vermont Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard if no developers are found to build low-cost housing. This action would block the construction of a center for the Trainable Mentally Retarded.
Leonard R. Wines, executive director of university relations, spoke for USC at a meeting of the Hoover Redevelopment Advisory Committee Thursday afternoon. He said the university would like to see community housing built.
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However, he said if it w ere forced into purchasing the land, the university could not promise that the housing wouldn't be for students. He said the university is not in the business of building housing for the community.
THE SIX-ACRE lot, a part of the Hoover Redevelopment Project, was originally cleared 10 years ago to build market-rate housing. A woman at the meeting was one of the people who originally lived there and said she is still waiting to move back after the low-cost housing, which was promised to her. is completed.
In December, the Los Angeles Board of Education offered to buy the land to build the center for mentally retarded children. The move is opposed by USC. which is in favor of low-cost housing for the USC-Hoover area.
On Wednesday, the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) is scheduled to vote on the issue. However, Marguerite Justice.
chairperson of the advisory committee of which USC is a part, said the committee will ask for postponement. The postponement would give the university time to find developers for the housing, thus keeping them from being forced into buying the land.
At the meeting, representatives spoke for the Board of Education, tthe CRA and the community as well as from the university.
CEASAR SMITH of the Board of Education told why the board would like the center built on the Hoover site. He said it would serve as a relief for another mentally retarded center on Ninth Street.
“It is centrally located for all areas served,” Smith said. The center will serve about 430 students who will be bused in from the Los Angeles area, extending from East Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley.
The board could purchase one of four other sites: how-
WANTS HOUSING BUILT—Leonard Wines, executive director of university relations, spoke at a Hoover Redevelopment Project meeting Thursday. He told why USC favors low-cost housing for vacant land adjacent to campus. DT photo by Bob Chavez.
ever, Smith explained that this could cause problems. He said that to purchase other parcels of land, between 46 and 106 families would have to be displaced at a cost over $1 million. The Hoover parcel is the only one
already vacated.
SMITH SAID the center would be benefited by this location because it would be in the vicinity of USC. He said he hoped the university would aid the center with
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NINE-STUDENT PANEL
Programs Board To Be Appointed
BY KEVIN McKENNA
Assistant City Kditor
A new interim student programming board for the spring semester will be appointed next week, it was learned Thursday.
The nine-member board will be almost identical in structure to the interim board that served last year. It will be appointed by a
selection committee of five members from the Student Caucus ofUniversity Council and one administrator.
PETER Scolney, chairman of the Student Caucus and of the selection committee, said a referendum to determine a permanent student government and to resolve the question of mandatory student fees has been set for
Negotiations Continue For Health Affairs YP
Negotiations to fill the long-vacant vice-presidency for health affairs are going on between President John R. Hubbard and Edmund F. Ackell ofthe University of Florida, a high-ranking administration official confirmed Thursday.
Ackell holds a similar health affairs position at the University of Florida.
THE POST WAS created by the Board of Trustees in June, 1972. The search for someone to fill it has gone on for 17 months.
In the 1972-73 academic year a university search committee, headed by James Birren. director of the Gerontology Center, nominated five prospects forthe position. Ackell amongthem.
All five declined for reasons ranging from health to the interests of the candidates.
Ackell had declined the post because there were projects he wanted to start at the University of Florida.
IN SEPTEMBER. 1973, the search committee began to consider 11 more candidates from its list of names.
Ackell had contacted President Hubbard in the meantime, indicating renewed interest in the position because the projects he was involved in had gotten under way.
The schools of medicine, dentistry and pharmacy, which will be the core of the new Health Affairs Division and all other health-related programs, would be in the jurisdiction of the new vice-president.
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The current lack of a student government came about when the previous interim board expired last spring and the results of a May referendum in which a voluntary student association was approved were not implemented.
Scolney said the upcoming referendum would list two alternative constitutions.
One would provide a voluntary programming fee and a governmental structure along the lines approved by the association last May. The other would retain the mandatory fee and institute a permanent programming board.
THE PROPOSALS for the new referendum were submitted by the Student Caucus, endorsed by the full University Council and approved by President John R. Hubbard, Scolney said.
The selection process for the new interim board will begin next Monday when the
committee meets to undertake a pre-screening process.
At that time, between 15 and 20 applicants will be selected for interviews, Scolney said. Over 40 applications were submitted.
“We’re going to have to eliminate some of the applications because we have run into time problems,” he said. “We just can’t interview everybody.”
SCOLNEY said the committee should complete the selection process by the end of next week.
Last year’s programming board included three undergraduate at-large members and two undergraduate representatives, also elected at-large.
The board also included directors for the following four programming areas: academic-educational: social-cultural: student services and the Community Ac-tionCoordinating Council.
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Today’s Daily Trojan is the last of the fall semester. Publication will resume Tuesday, Feb. 5. under the editorship of Peter Wong.
Classes end Tuesday; final examinations begin Thursday.
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