Summer
Trojan
Volume LXXIV, Number 5
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, June 27, 1978
"DON'T DISTRACT ME" — Incoming freshmen are getting younger all the time. Here, a lovely local coed, daughter of a university gardener, is seen reading the Summer Trojan. Staff photo by Scott Ely.
CAAB appropriates money for summer
By Susan Ritchie
SUIT Writer
The Campus Activities Allocation Board (CAAB) held hearings Saturday to decide allocations for summer programs. Eight groups submitted proposals for approx imatelv $13,000 left over from the 197!! CAAB budget
CAAB is an agency created by the Student Senate to allocate the money collected from the program ming fee paid by all students. Only organizations recognized by Campus Life and Recreation are eligible for CAAB funding.
Six of the eight proposals presented Saturday were approved. The newly formed Disco Association was allocated SI.469 to hold discos in the Grill during July and August. The group proposed to create a disco-like atmosphere complete with plants, posters and a non-alcoholic bar lor the university's summer students, guests and faculty.
Southern California Concerts (formerly SCOPE) was given Si.504 to fund two afternoon concerts. The dates of the concerts and the artists are undi cided.
The Coffeehouse will continue to provide live entertainment throughout the summer. The organization plans to sponsor two lunchtime entertainment shows with their allotted $596 sometime during July and August.
CAAB also allocated $395 for the blood program to conduct a July blood drive. Helpline was given $786 to help in tra;ning student volunteers.
The Commuter Students Organization will hold garden parties for incoming commuters with the $320 they were awarded. The parties are meant to give incoming students a chance to meet other commuters and to acquaint them with the university. a spokesman said.
Two of the eight proposals submitted did not pass. A request from the University Speakers Committee to send two of its members to a leadership conference in Sacramento was turned down. A proposal for a tea house did not pass because "it did not seem to have the best chance of making it” due to the commuter-type population of the summer. a board member said.
A total of $5,070 w as allocated during the meeting for summer programming.
County medical center feels effects of 13
By Niki Cervantes
Starr Writer
For the officials at USC-County Medical Center, the days have passed both too quickly and not quickly enough.
Since June’s landslide victory of Proposition 13, days at the center have been a dizzying flurry of meetings with county and state officials aimed at finding the most rational and effective way of dealing with the sharply reduced budget they anticipate because of the initiative’s passage.
Yet, at the same time, the days have passed slowly as officials wait, with no small amount of nervousness, to find out how much their take of the state’s surplus will be.
The wait, the long and short of it, is almost over now. Governor Brown recently announced how the state’s surplus funds would be apportioned, with Los Angeles County receiving $580 million. The county will soon announce how it intends to spend those funds.
But the medical center is still only “hopeful rather than optimistic” about receiving an allotment from the surplus large enough to continue their present level of services, one official said. They are continuing to develop alternate plans.
One of the major possibilities under consideration by the center is contracting out services to private physicians, said Joseph Van Der Meulen, vice-president of health affairs.
“It might be more expensive than the care they would have gotten from the county,” he said. In the long run, however, it may not be as expensive as county health care, he said, pointing out that the private sector runs a “tighter operation.”
“They’re more efficient in areas of accountancy. There’s a lot of inefficiency in county government that gets costly.”
In any case, private physicians will take only patients who can pay their bills, eliminating a number of patients such as illegal aliens, the poor, lower-middle class families on marginal budgets or anyone who can’t afford insurance, he said.
The staff of another county hospital. Rancho Los Amigos in Downey, is considering a variation of that alternative — buying the hospital from the county and privately running it themselves. This way no jobs would be lost and the present level of services could be maintained, although at a higher price, a spokesman said.
One of the things that might affect the USC-County Medical Center the most is what effect the lack of monies will have on the center's intern residency programs.
“About 50% of California’s physicians are trained in county hsopitals,” he said. Without the money for adequate training programs, the center and the USC School of Medicine will lose possible recruits.
To head off that problem, officials have stepped up fundraising efforts in the private sector. Van Der Muelen said.
They have also been meeting extensively with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the county department of public health. “I think they understand the needs that the school will face now,” he said. Still, Van Der Muelen is unsure of just how successful those efforts will be. saying simply, “we have done all we can.”
In the midst of the confusion about the effect of Proposition 13 on the medical center, recruiting efforts for internships has come to a standstill.
“I have a guy in New York, sitting there with his bags packed, waiting to find out whether we’ll be able to take him (into the in-(continued on page 5)
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Local stores hold line on liquor prices
By Merilynne Cohen
SUIT Writer
The recent California Supreme Court ruling lifting the ban on set liquor prices will have little effect on the area’s smaller liquor stores as most are choosing not to lower their liquor prices. At the same time, the larger supermarkets are offering reduced prices in efforts to beat the competition.
One local store, 32nd Street Market, has already begun to reduce prices on several name brand wines, beer and liquor. Some brands of wine are selling for as low as 99 cents a bottle. Other specials include several orands of whiskey selling at three bottles for $10. Sangria, usually selling for $3.79 a bottle, is now selling for $1.89. while Kenwood burgandy is on sale for $2.99 from an original price of $3.39.
"Our market is reducing some of our liquor prices because with the new law, we have to get into the ballgame in order to compete,” said Morrie Nortica, manager of 32nd Street Market.
Nortica said that contrary to most belief, liquor distributors are not lowering their prices on the liquor they sell to the stores, so it is the stores who must initiate any price reductions.
The store has offered special reductions on liquor it has previously purchased and has on stock, so the store is not anticipating any loss from selling liquor at a reduced price.
“With 32nd Street Market once being a small neighborhood store years ago, I can appreciate the plight of some of the smaller stores who can’t afford to lower prices. But to stay in the ballgame, we have to offer lower prices,” Nortica said.
While the smaller, independent stores that sell liquor are finding they can’t afford to lower prices, large chain supermarkets have already begun to make drastic reductions on beer, wines and liquor. One such store is Ralph’s Supermarket, located at 4360 Figueroa St.
The store features lower prices on several types of beer including Aspen Gold for $1.12 a six-pack, with similar reductions on Coors, Olympia and Tuborg Gold beers.
A savings of up to $2 on name brands of whiskey, vodka, gin and scotch can also be found in Ralph’s along with discounts on several California wines.
“Liquor prices at Ralph’s are determined by the cost (continued on page 8)