MAGAZINE REPORTS BUREAU'S FINDINGS
University neighborhood rated among 10 worst city areas
By Lynn Sprenger
Staff Writer
Students living in the university area might want to consider moving to Watts or at least camping out in Exposition Park — it could be safer.
An article in the February edition of Los Angeles magazine ranked the 10 best and 10 worst neighborhoods in the Los Angeles city limits. The survey was based on findings by the Los Angeles Community Analysis Bureau and the magazine's own evaluations.
Out of 65 separate areas, the neighborhood surrounding the university district ranked number 62, topping only three areas: Central, which is south of downtown; the downtown area; and, in the last spot, the Wholesale Industry district, an industrial corridor between downtown and Boyle Heights.
The Exposition Park area, finished number 59 in the February article, which said, "It has the Coliseum, the museums and a high mortality rate for ages 25 to 44.”
Watts fared better than that at number 58. “The problems here seem to be lessening, including a declining crime rate. But it’s still high in malicious false fire alarms," the article said.
Before anyone decides it might be better to move to Watts than stay in the university neighborhood, it should be noted that the university district, as delineated by the Community Analysis Bureau, doesn’t even include the university itself. The university district goes north from Jefferson Boulevard to Pico Boulevard and from Hoover Street east to Maple Avenue.
The university itself lies in the Santa Barbara district, said Stephen Randall, the author of the article. It consists of the area from Exposition Boulevard north to Pico Boulevard and from Hoover Street west to Arlington Avenue.
Randall estimated the Santa Barbara district would come in 39 out of 65, had it been included in the survey.
Randall based his rankings on Community Analysis Bureau studies done in 1972 and 1973. The three studies rated 65 Los Angeles neighborhoods on three dimensions: ambience, which included the way the community looked, household incomes, and housing and environmental quality; urban stress, which included the number of juvenile delinquents, suicides and childhood diseases: and alienation, which considered fires,
felonies, high school dropouts, older housing and poverty.
Los Angeles magazine combined scores on the three dimensions; a high total, score indicated an undesirable neighborhood.
With a combined score of 141, the Santa Barbara district’s saving grace, Randall said, was its low score in urban stress, although it was still high in alienation and low in ambience.
The university district, which includes the Row and some student housing, had a total score of 184.
The only comment made about the university district was, “The big problem in this area just west of Central is crime.”
The article said, however, that the latest Los Angeles Police Department’s reports show crime decreasing in the Southwest Division, which covers the entire university area.
Mark Hammond, an officer for the Southwest Division of the police department, confirmed that crime has gradually been declining in the past five years. Crime is up for the first five weeks of this year as compared to the same time in 1977.
Daily Of Trojan
Volume LXXill, Number 6
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, February 14, 1978
LOSING ONE'S ROOTS — The Southland's raging storm swept more then one item off its feet last weekend. This tree, located at 30th and Hoover Streets, was one of the wind's many victims. DT photo by Mark Kariyo.
Ex-JEP worker files grievance
By Devra Lieb
Staff Writer
A former employee of the Joint Educational Project who claims he was unjustly released from his job at the university took his case to the university’s institutional grievance committee.
Clarence McGhee, a former JEP school coordinator, claimed he was improperly discharged from his post and underpaid by the university. McGhee also suggested his dismissal was race related.
Currently, the university employs eight blacks, nine chicanos and two Asian-Americans as JEP school coordinators, said Barbara Pearson, head of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action programs here.
McGhee was released from his position at the end of a mandatory three-month university probation period that all new employees must serve.
At the end of this probation period, department supervisors evaluate the employees’ work and the employees are notified if they are to be given permanent status.
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Opening of new parking lot causes more stringent policy on violations
By Gail Asayama
StaTf Writer
Parking operations is exercising a more stringent policy towards illegal parking this semester because of the new lot that has been established at 30th and Hoover Streets, said Carl Levredge, director of parking operations.
Students are getting tickets this semester for violations that were overlooked last semester because of the lack of parking facilities.
Some students, however, have voiced objections to the new policy. Hala Alfi, a sophomore in biology, said, “I wasn’t aware of the 30th and Hoover Streets’ parking lot.” She also felt the location of the lot was unacceptable.
Although the rate of citation-giving has increased, Levredge said, when a student comes into the office and objects to paying a parking citation, he is told he can appeal if he feels it has
A worker in the parking operations office who handles the payment and appeals of citations said he believed most of the students are already aware of the chance to appeal.
One student said,.“I paid one, but I just let the other four or five go and I didn’t know that you could appeal the citation." Although some students admitted they just decided to park illegally, many said they could not find any other space.
Levredge said he believed most of the students were aware of the new lot. Pamphlets were distributed at entrance gates and in the parking operations office.
Levredge said the new lot first became available to students in December and can accommodate 264 cars. The lot is attended by a guard from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays. Troy apartment complex residents will be given first priority but all other permits will be honored thereafter.
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KSCR will resume operation, may increase programming to 24 hours
By Robin Oto
StafT Writer
“Listen to us, we listen to you,” is the new format of KSCR, the university’s student-run radio station, said Bob Sayegh, general manager of KSCR.
The station will begin operating this semester and will broadcast to Men’s Residence West, Webb Tower, Cardinal Gardens, Touton Hall, Harris Plaza, the North and South Complexes and the Student Union.
KSCR wjll broadcast from 7 a.m. to midnight and Sayegh hopes to expand to 24-hour programming in the future.
“We’re trying to open up to the university. We’ve changed ouf format completely from last year. It’s a more open format that will cater more to the students,” Sayegh said.
Sayegh is finding out student needs by surveys and subscriptions to various national magazines, including Walrus, a newspaper that surveys current pop records and interests of the commercial population.
Sayegh is still formulating the hourly broadcast format.
“We’ll take three or four songs in a row, a couple of commercials or public-service announcements, then back to more music, and also have
newscasts and sportscasts,” Sayegh said.
The music will be a rock format that will occasionally include special programming of jazz, soul and popular music shows.
There will be a variety of student-interest programming with administrators coming to the station so students may call and talk with them. There will be campus security programs giving safety advice to students.
KSCR has openings for engineers, public-service announcement recruiters, disc jockeys, sportscasters, newscasters, production, promotion, special programming and advertising crew and writers. Applications are available in the Social Science Annex 101, and all students may appply.
KSCR has been delayed in resuming operation because of a dispute in setting up the allocation account with the Campus Activities Allocation Board.
The delay occurred because the board wanted the station to set up a separate advertising income account to assure advertising revenues would be available to supplement the operating costs of the station along with board funds.
Although the delay was resolved with the formation of the new account, the purchase of
necessary transmitting equipment was delayed and the equipment is still on order.
The station closed last year because of a lack of university funding and interest. Three years ago, KSCR was given $300 to set up and operate the station.
“We didn’t have enough money to run the station. We got no firm commitments from anyone, plus the telephone company threatened to disconnect because we couldn’t pay our bills. . .too crazy to run a station when we don’t have any money,” Sayegh said.
KSCR is now receiving assistance from the board. Student Publications and the School of Journalism.
. The statibn was initially allocated more than $18,000, but the sum was cut down to $15,448 because of a dispute over the cost of broadcasting to the Married Students Housing Complex, which would have cost over $3,000. The board decided not to broadcast to the complex and deducted the amount from the original total.
KSCR plans to be virtually self-supporting through advertising revenues, although Sayegh contends that some additional board funding may be needed to keep the station going.