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WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN—This wall near the northeastern corner of Cardinal Gardens was crashed into Thursday morning. The driver of a Toyota hit the structure in an attempt to avoid colliding with another car. Before crashing, the car jumped the center divider of Jefferson Boulevard and knocked over cr lightpost. No injuries were reported. DT photo by Sue Adams.
Medical center serves fewer patients due to staff shortage
By Robin Oto
Staff Writer
“Patients here are getting inadequate care because working conditions are not optimal for patient care,” said Gary Smith, president of the third-year medical class.
The number of patients at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center has declined to acute staff shortages, Smith said.
Because there are less patients, the quality of the medical students' education is threatened. Smith said.
Since October 1977 half of the general medical services and seven medical wards have been closed because of a chronic nursing shortage.
The Intern-Resident Assn., became involved and presented proposals to the administration to remedy the shortage.
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Audits allege misuse of federal funds at university in early 1970s
The university is like several major colleges charged with sloppy bookkeeping and alleged misuse of federal research funds in the early 1970s.
Audits conducted in 1976 and 1977 by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare disclosed the university maintained an excessive daily cash balance of $2.1 million by withdrawing money from federal accounts before it was needed. The early withdrawals caused the federal government to lose interest on its funds.
This was one of the examples of the misuse of federal funds disclosed by audits of colleges and universities across the nation.
An article in the New York Times, (Jan. 8) said officials at the university told auditors, who found excessive cash balances, that the institution is continuing to modify its procedures in order to further improve the accuracy of matching withdrawals to payments.”
The university’s only violation of federal regulations was its early withdrawal of funds, the audit stated. When asked to comment on the audits reported in the Times, Dan Hamlin, director of cost analysis, said he had no knowledge of these audits. However, he said he intended to research the matter and determine the university’s position.
Colin MacLeod, director of financial services, was unavailable for comment.
The audits were conducted in 1976 and 1977 and dealt with periods earlier in the 1970s. They were obtained by a former researcher at Harvard University under the Freedom of Information Act and submitted to the New York Times.
The audits showed other alleged “wrongdoings” commmitted by some of the nation’s largest universities, such as failing to document that work was performed on federal contracts, permitting researchers to give less time to projects than was specified in their contracts, paying more than once for the same work and using federal money to pay for nonfederal work.
The Times stated that failures by the universities to follow accepted procedures were not considered to be intentional wrongdoings. However, severe criticism could develop in Congress if these findings are prevalent in the academic community.
Congress provides $4.4 billion a year for scientific research.
Spokesmen for the universities said the complexity of the regulations is the problem and that Congress has not been realistic in its demands for keeping track of researchers and their expenditures.
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University of Southern California
Volume LXXIII, Number 4
Los Angeles, California
Friday, February 10, 1978
CAAB may be denied additional funds, forcing limited speakers’ engagements
By David Rosenbaum
Despite the University Speakers Committee’s engagement of David Brinkley, NBC news correspondent; Neil Simon, playwright; and Ray Bradbury, novelist and playwright, as speakers this semester, it is- uncertain whether the committee will sponsor any major speakers this spring following Simon’s appearance April 3.
Mediocre relations between the committee, a student organization, and the Campus Activities Allocation Board may cause the committee’s December request for about $9,000 in additional funds to be denied.
Tom Verdegem, a member of CAAB, said the committee’s poor programming this year may have invalidated its recent funding request. He admitted he was unaware of the spring speakers program but blamed that on the committee, which apparently has not informed CAAB of its plans.
The spring program begins Tuesday with a Panama Canal Treaty Forum at which Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) will be the main speaker. Later this month, Delores Huerta, vice-president of the United Farm Workers, will speak about women, the family and organizing the farm-Workers.
During Futures Week, Feb. 27-March 3, Jules Bergman, ABC science editor; Bradbury; and Timothy Leary, former Harvard professor and a
prominent figure in the consciousness movement of the 1960’s, will speak at the university on their respective fields and the ftiture.
“America and World Politics” is the subject of Brinkley’s March 13 speech. Simon’s April 3 campus engagement coincides with the English Department’s Contemporary Literature Week.
Flo Kennedy, a black feminist, is scheduled for April 18.
The Speakers Committee either has used or committed $18,000 so far this year for its programming, said Bob Levy, the committee’s chairman. He said that if his December funding request is denied, there will be one or two major speakers here at the most following Simon.
Verdegem criticized the committee’s past choices of speakers and said that based on the information the committee has given CAAB about its spring program, “We can’t give them any more money.”
Verdegem deplored the fall program, which included David Horowitz, KNBC consumer analyst; Dr. Demento, disc jockey; Jimmie Walker, comedian; William Masters, renowned sex therapist; Josh McDowell, evangelist; Troy Perry, homosexual minister; and Abdul Farakan, minister and national spokesman for the nation of Islam.
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New copyright law prohibits some forms of photocopying
By Mike Schroeder
Staff Writer
A man in a long trenchcoat, dark glasses and black gloves — his pockets filled with coins — enters the library to commit the ultimate crime.
He wants to copy a book review for class.
It won’t be quite that bad, but the federal government is cracking down on copyright violators.
A new copyright law went into effect in January. The law, which prohibits photocopying of certain documents, won’t be much of a problem to the university, said Francis Spreitzer of the university library system.
“We know what we can and cannot do, and we’re well prepared to handle the new law,” the head of the library’s micrographics division said.
The library has been getting
ready for the new law since June, when Carl Franklin, vice president of legal affairs, received an opinion from university lawyers as to what the law
dents and faculty that, in certain cases, copying may constitute a violation of the copyright law.
The law itself is somewhat
also known as Title 17 of the United States Code.
“The Library of Congress won’t answer questions (of legality) unless they are so cut-
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would require of the university.
Some facets of the law have affected the library’s copying services.
Signs have been posted on or near all library-housed copying equipment available to stu-
ambiguous, Spreitzer said. “It seems to pose more problems than it solves.”
The copyright committee of the Library of Congress refuses to determine questionable actions in reference to the law,
and-dried that we can answer them here with no problem,” Spreitzer said.
He said the university has no obligation to patrol instances of illegal copying of copyrighted materials.	■
Libraries can’t Jbe prosecuted unless they knowingly disobey the copyright law under the “fair use” provision of the law, which has been interpreted as a loophole for educational and research use of copyrighted materials.
“The complex law leaves many things that can’t be decided until there’s been proper litigation,” he said.
Spreitzer also noted the need to read beyond the law to understand what it really pertains to.
The	only place	where
Spreitzer feels the university library may have a problem is in the area of reserve copies, particularly involving multiple copies put on reserve.
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