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I SouUhtrOario 1 ini ana?Li brarj? 1- fflorseahb? 1 " ~ " " r? ?+? ~ " " Displaced By Marisa Porto ^ USC students living in the Wade | Hampton Hotel and University Inn must find a new place to live next s semester, according to Dave c Macaulay, director of men's s housing. r Residential Life Services an- > nounced the closing of these dorms 1 in two separate meetings Thursday evening. \ The decision will only affect I about 50 percent of those students t living in the dorms, because of graduating seniors and those who I have decidft^l to live off campus, ] Macaulay said. > 1 "THERE IS a decrease in need > for housing space. The increased i rate in rooms and the decrease in ; A I ?1, A A f?... ucsuauu Will WUIR. lUgCUlCI . A\ 1CW more students will stay at home or move off campus. "We anticipate less of a need for ; C The weather is here... USC students enjoyed temperatures in in a Nada apartment window. Below, stut I Soviet leade By David Hill The death of Soviet leader Yuri And will not likely lead to any significant sh Soviet policy toward the United States, may present opportunities for renev stalled peace and arms control initiate It could also signal whether the lao/4an>tiir> twill pnntiniip 5ntr? an inri ivauvi TT All Wllliuuv IUVV period of transition, or whether it toward control by a younger, pote longer-lasting generation. Diplomats, commentators and aca Soviet watchers, including USC Depar of Government and International S professor Gordon B. Smith, who t< courses on the Soviet Union, are in nea sensus agreement that Soviet relation the United States are not likely to cl mainly because of the nature of leader! that nation. "I THINK the Sovet Union move; foreign policy and its domestic polic glacial pace, and I don't see any dr changes in direction one way or anc Smith said. Politburo decisions are characteri: consensually made, with little disagri - 1' ?- -** ?I~-? r* C?t U coi/l or among ine mcmuci*, jhiuu ^mu, ? has been especially true during the p; months when Andropov was ill. resident! stndents annrv ^ hM MVI I !b V Ml J tudent housing. The freshman inrollment is down. There will be ome incoming students who will lot be notified until July or \ugust. They'll be on a waiting list onger," Macaulay said. Although Wade Hampton Hotel vas expected to close, students at Jniversity Inn did not anticipate he shut down of their dorm. "The hotel has expected it. It has )een a rumor for a few years. Sconomics aside, the students vould probably say, 'I wish they lad waited.' There were students vho were looking ' rward to comng back next year," Macaulay >aid. ACCORDING TO Richard Wertz, vice president of business at tears, housing priority will be the 70s yesterday. Right, Sally Dyas read: Jents gather on the Horseshoe to sun bathe S%Mr'*^> \r^ ^T^WI^>7 N* ^v r Ptwto by JoMpk 6anw sr's death it But, Smith said, report! mnnv I Ininn indicated fhat And vrv ' w,"w" ?- ? lifts in charge during his illness, ; but it not seem imminent to the F zal of reason, a successor may /es. quickly as one was named Soviet Leonid Brezhnev in 1982. efinite The successor may not b moves some time ? for weeks o ntially but some clues may emergi dropov's funeral, Smith ss idemic tment ANDROPOV HEADEI tudies Brezhnev's funeral and saches speech. Kanstantin Cher ir con- been named to head the fu s with must be seen as a leading lance. ?hip in But Smith said others Mikhail Gorbachev, wl speeches throughout the S< ? in its dropov's absence, and Gri :y at a the Leningrad Communis amatic tion. Gorbachev, 52, an >ther," represent the younger g Politburo and the party w stically developed in the Nikit eement Brezhnev years, as oppose id that ruling generation, severa ast few born before the 1917 revo But Smith cautioned 5 must fi with administr: given to students in the closing dorms. "The continuing residence students sign up in March and aftei tKm/ Hpr?iHa \?/hot thpv \uont tA Hn iiivj uvviuv nuui uivj "win ivy vtv we'll allow the University Inn ant Wade Hampton Hotel people tc sign up. They'll have priority ovei incoming transfer students anc freshmen. Generally there are 4,2(X students that sign up and 7,OCX slots. So there will be plenty o space," Wertz said. At the Wade Hampton, 13? women and 338 men will be af fected by the closing. At Universit: Inn, 62 women and 124 men wil have to relocate. Admissions director John Bolii said he foresees ho major problem with housing in the future as far a incoming students are concerned. HBP I I *** I ' _ ~ziz~ zir ~ _ i ~ -*'V' *?> lay spur ar s from the Soviet ropov was still in Xl \ and his death did ^litburo. For this "liberalizing" not be named as States if eithe after the death of "I think i generation, ai e named for quite their 50s, ai r even months ? pragmatic pre e this week at An- not as ideoloj lid. foreign policy the West, and 3 the planning of in their careei made the initial nenko, 72, has THESE M! neral plans and so approaches tc contender. "but in foreij is fair to cha possibly include are likely to no made major that Brezhne\ ^viet Union in An- That inhere gory Romonov of may be one i it Party organiza- cessor will pi id Romonov, 60, domestic issu ;eneration of the still be as ui /hose philosophies members as a Kruschev and nudged out b d to the currently- fiom the KG ,1 of whom were Romonov lution. ferences, too against assuming a defense and nd new hi ation's decision > "IF YOU have fewer places to live, fewer people will get housing. ; The university has a commitment to r the younger students. We've had , that commitment for years. We i don't anticipate any major pro) blems. We will be more selective r about students who live on campus, i The housing decrease will not affect ) us dramatically because we have ) fewer freshmen," Bolin said, f According to Richard Katz, University Inn residence hall direc) tor, the dorm is closing because of maintenance problems. y "(University Inn) needed a lot of 1 repairs from the start, and the university was losing money, i Because of all the openings on cams pus, the dorm is expendable, so s they did not pick up the lease another year. The dorm, because of B , Maa P '^UKjS ^fe w?m K Mm fife ; JH Igf A. ^nraj3B||^9BHHHB^^^^^HHHH^w?%k ^D B|H^. ' ' .,wv^ vs analysis r likel; ' relations with the United teres r man comes to power. agric t's fair to say this younger on c nd we're talking about men in tralh re going to be technocrats, defei >blem solvers, and that they are woul jical, a bit more experienced in unde r, (and have) more exposure to W 1 that exposure has come earlier othe rs," Smith said. Chei direc EN may be more liberal in their year ) domestic reforms, Smith said, jn policy issues, I don't think it A racterize them as liberal. They Brez follow the same general course is al ' and Andropov would follow." long ;nt consistency in foreign policy not reason why deciding on a sue- "1 -obably be less important than awai es, Smith said. Chernfcnko may tion ipopular with some Politburo anot he was in 1982 when he was the >y Andropov, who had support two, B and the military. Si and Gorbachev have their dif- in h ? the latter is from Leningrad, meo I heavy industry city; the former ousing the way it's set up, is very expensive to run. i ney can t attord tnat. They plan on having capacity dorms. This dorm was bought as temporary anyway," Katz said. "The first choice would be to stay here, but as far-as moving, there will be a spot for students. Columbia Hall, Woodrow (dorm), Cliff Apartments and Bates West will be open. I think that a good bulk of the students will move there. The two dorms closing are co-ed. I would think these dorms would be the most popular," Katz said. ROSE ALLEN, a nursing sophomore, lives at University Inn and is very angry that she must move. "I have been here since the dorm opened and I don't know where I will go next year. I feel as if we've "Mntnl " nana 1 www W?WI| f??H?? W ^^---^-5 -_-?--r'-: - -- -. ~ J i '!' " WV* Photo by S?ah f-oote initiatives i agricultural official. If they should ge ahead of Chernenko as the two most y successors, it should bring "a most in img degree 01 competition oeiween :ulture and consumer goods industries >ne side and probably pushing decensed reforms versus heavy industries and use industries on the other side that Id be more cautious and conservative in staking economic reform," he said, hether Gorbachev or Romonov or some r young-generation leader emerges, or if rnenko is picked, could indicate the :tion of the Soviet Union leadership for s to come, Smith said. NDROPOV WAS about the same age as hnev was when he died, and Chernenko ?out the same age. Andropov was not in office; Chernenko would probably last longer, Smith said. [ think that the leadership has to be re of the need to tto to a vouneer eenera . If they replace Andropov with yet her old leader, they will just be delaying succession problem for another year or " Smith said. nith said the Soviets should pick a leader is 50s or 60s, "and if they bring in sone such as Gorbachev they could remain See "Soviets," page 5