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University of Southern California Volume LXXVI, Number 30	Friday, March 23, 1979
The Student Communitv Council will recommend guidelines on procedures governing the search of university apartments by complex managers and housing staff.
“Unless there is a clear and present danger, the university should be required to get authorization from student judicial or the courts before it can enter a student's apartment/' said Ron McEIhaney, president of the Student Communitv Council
The universitv can presently enter an apartment with the permission of James Appleton, vice-president of student affairs.
Michael McCarthy, assistant to the director of auxilarv services, said that would probably happen onlv in an emergency where the safety of other residents was involved or a serious health problem occurred.
McElhanev said students are not always notified when an inspection will occur. The council is recommending that the students be notified several months in advance of when the search is to take place. The council feels the students should be told when the search will happen within a two-hour period so that students may plan to be present.
A similar issue involves the annual health and safety inspections conducted bv apartment managers and staff.
"There are no guidelines or uniformities in the inspections,” McEIhaney said. "VVe are recommending that guidelines be set up to determine what will be searched in such an inspection."
The purpose of the inspections is to evaluate the overall condition of the apartment or room, said David Lee, director of housing.
The inspections are no*t designed to inspect a student's lifestyle, Lee said.
One student crushed aspirin and placed it in lines on a mirror before ,one inspection. He then hid the substance that resembled cocaine in a place where he thought it would not be found, McEIhaney said. The student was later confronted by Campus Security, McEIhaney said.
"Students should not have narcotics in their rooms but the aspirin should never have been found," he said. "The inspection should have taken place in the kitchen."
Lee said he had heard of this story, but "it has not been substantiated. The inspections are not designed for that purpose."
Another recommendation before the council today would require security deposits to be returned to students.
"The law' requires that security deposits be returned within two weeks but the administration has not complied in the past,"
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OT photo by Stava Hyman
OUT ON A LIMB—This student had a bird's-eye view of an afternoon concert on the Student Activities Center patio while keeping high and dry above the crowd and damp grass.
Death penalty decision postponed in library employee murder hearing
A motion to declare the death penalty unconstitutional in the case of Steve Fields is still pending before the Los Angeles Superior Court. Fields was accused of raping and murdering an employee of Dohenv Library' last fall.
Fields and his sister, Gail, were first arrested for the crime last October by Los Angeles Police Department investigators. Ronald S. Coen, the deputy district attorney, said Steve Fields alone could get the death penaltv if the murder was deliberate and premeditated.
The motion, presented bv Steve Fields' attornev at the pretrial hearing March 7, was expected to be ruled on Tuesday bv Bonnie Martin, Superior Court judge. Coen said after the hearing that he did not expect Martin to accept the motion.
But in an unexpected move, Martin delayed her decision on the motion until the formal trial begins.
Neither Coen nor Fields' attorney was available for comment.
The trial date was set at Tuesday's final hearing for Mav 1 and will be held in Department 111 of the Superior Court.
In the past several months the court twice had to pick a new lawver to represent Fields after previous public defenders removed themselves from the
case.
Both Fields and his sister, Gail, have pleaded not guiltv to the rape and murder of Rosemary Cobb.
Cobb, a librarian at Doheny, was shot four times at close range and stabbed repeatedly on Sept. 28.
Coen said after the hearing that he did not expect Martin to accept the motion.
George Dennv III, Field's third court-appointed
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Faculty frustrated over participation in budget
By Brandon Bailey
Staff Writer
Some members of the Faculty Senate remain frustrated concerning their participation in the university's administrative processes, despite a number of successful programs generated bv the senate this year
"The budget process this vear was unsatisfactory in that the senate input was listened to but ignored by the administration," said Paul Gray, vice-president of the senate, at Wednesday's meeting. The administration's budget proposal for next year, which does not meet the Faculty Senate's request for a 7% salary increase, was approved March 14 bv the Board of Trustees finance committee. It is expected to be approved bv the full board, despite the faculty request for reconsideration.
The major frustration expressed by the Facultv Senate concerns a number of their recommendations that were submitted to the administration and trustees in a report from the President's Advisory Council, said John LeBlanc. president of the Facultv Senate. Some of these recommendations were policy suggestions rather than budgetary requests. The faculty is concerned because they don't know how the administration is dealing with their recommendations, LeBlanc said.
LeBlanc was able to list several senate actions that obtained desired responses from the administration this year. But some senators have said they felt re-
commendations on the budget and related financial matters have been ignored. The successes mentioned by LeBlanc include the contributions of the Faculty Senate in drafting the goals for the special committee on the Middle East Center and in helping establish the principles of the presidential search committee.
But members of the senate are still concerned about the budgetary recommendations they contributed to the council report. Along with manv recommendations from students and staff, several of the items were not included in the final budget.
Budget officials have said that many of the recommendations in the council report require large increases in spending by the university. Funding is tight, due to inflationary pressures and an undersized endowment, officials point out. The Faculty Senate's request for a 7% salary increase and a university-sponsored group life insurance plan were not met bv the administration.
The recommendation for a life insurance plan had been unanimously endorsed for the second year by the Faculty Senate and was approved by the insurance benefits committee of the council, said Donald Yett, a member of the Faculty Senate.
The life insurance plan was rejected because the cost of main taining other fringe benefits, including social security and health insurance, which is soaring, said John Curry, director of management planning.
Village allegedly tried to keep community out
By Gail Harris
Staff Writer
The former management company of University Village tried to discourage the communitv surrounding the university from shopping at the mall, said a source involved with the Village.
Hahn Property Management Co. operated the complex for New West Corp. until February. The manager of Hahn said he did not want to attract "certain elements" to the Village, the source said.
"I don't think the Hahn Property Management Company at any time wanted to keep 'certain elements' out of the mall," said Connie Cashin, marketing director for the Village.
"By certain elements' I am assuming the person who made the accusations meant the community," Cashin said.
Through advertising and public relations the company intentionally ignored members of the surrounding community, said the source who wanted to remain anonymous.
The former manager and Cashin were afraid members of the surrounding community would try to harm them if thev attempted to advertise in the community, the source said.
Cashin denied the allegations.
Cashin said it is difficult to answer the question of w hether members of the surrounding communitv are reluctant to shop in the Village becausethev see it as exclusively for university students.
Shesaidcommunityacceptance of the mall can be shown by the large number of its members that shop at 32nd Street Market.
The Village has advertised in the Southwest Wave, a newspaper with a large circulation among blacks, and other publications, including a newspaper for Spanish-speaking residents,
Cashin said.
In addition to this the Village has had advertisements on several radio stations such as KHJ,
KBCA and KJLH, she said.
"I don't think the Village can be successful without the community because the students are only here for nine months out of a vear,"
Cashin said.
"The Village needs the communitv to stabilize business."
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