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College Notes
Party-turned-riot cancels future events
Big student parties at 2 more campuses burst into alcohol-fueled riots at
the end of the spring term, and have now lead to the kind of backlash that
has stopped annual student bashes at other campuses in recent years.
A drunken party near the University of California-Santa Barbara May
29 erupted into a rock-and-bottle throwing riot that ended with 3 police officers
injured and 23 people arrested.
Earlier in May, moreover, Iowa State University's annual spring festival
was marred by 3 consecutive nights of violence.
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organized parties, have developed into drunken violence, forcing school
officials to reevaluate, and in some cases cancel, future events.
Bill makes college grades public
If a bill introduced in Congress June 13 become law, colleges would have
to tell the federal government the grades and graduation rates of their student
athletes, and high school seniors being recruited for sports teams
would get to see the information.
The bill-called the Student Right-To-Know Act by cosponsors Sen. Bill
Bradely (D-NJ) and Rep. Tom McMillan, who played college basketball at
Princeton University and the University of Maryland, respectively-aims to
give a high school athlete the means to "weigh his academic prospects as
well as his athletic prospects" when choosing a school, Bradley said in introducing
the idea.
"But Tina Kunzer, a senior assistant athletic director the University of
Nevada-Las Vegas, says it's unfair to isolate student athletes from the rest
of the student body.
"I would not mind if the entire student body's grade were highlighted,
but I have a problem with isolating the student athlete," she said. "Too
often we forget that they are first and foremost students, although they
have a lot more demands on their time than other students."
KSU shooting records moved to Yale
Some 110 crates of reoorts. documents and information about the Mav
4,1970, shootings of Kent State University students were loaded onto moving
vans in Columbus, Ohio, June 20, and sent on to Yale University in
Connecticut.
The reason: some surviving victims of the shootings-which took place
when National Guardsmen were called onto the KSU campus to quell student
protests on the U.S. invasion of Cambodia-worried state officials
might tamper with the records.
"Some of the people involved in all this don't trust the state," explained
Dean Kahler, who was wounded in the tragedy that left 4 students dead
and nine others injured.
"Ohio," said Kahler, who cosponsored the lawsuit that forced the state
to give up the records, "might take some of the stuff and destroy it to
destroy some of its unpleasant history."
Kahler, other survivors and the families of the dead students forced the
state-which found itself with a complete collection of all the reports about
the incident given to it by the Ohio National Guard, the FBI, campus
police and the other 9 public agencies involved in investigating the incident-to
donate the records to Yale, where it will eventually be opened for
scholarly research.
Young Communist elected as president
A University of Massachusetts at Amherst student government committee
validated the election of an avowed communist and his running mate
June 9, resolving a 4-month dispute.
The March election of Jason Rabinowitz, a member of the Young Communist
League, and Shari Silkoff, who is not a communist, was overturned
in April by a student judiciary panel which ruled that 2 students could not
serve as co-presidents.
But some students feel the challenge to the election was fueled by opposition
to Rahinowit7's nolitiral heliefs "There were nolitical overturns."
said Robert Fadel, the speaker of the student senate. "It was an issue during
the election campaign."
Stephanie M. Orefice, the student representative of the university's
board of trustees, added that the April action was "very political."
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USC's Housing Services has initiated several
dorm renovations this summer, and several of the
projects are already completed, according to
University Housing officials.
Renovations are taking place on most campus
housing. Bates House and Bates West, Capstone,
South Towers, the Horseshoe, and the Towers are
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mer. Some of the USC family housing units are
also being updated.
Some returning students will find major changes
in their living environments when they return in the
fall. Some of the improvements that are planned
include new furniture, wallpaper, carpeting, as well
as smaller changes such as shower heads and closet
doors.
According to figures provided by Housing Services,
about $150,000 is being spent on plumbing
refinements at Patterson Hall and the Towers.
Carpets are being replaced at some Cliff Apartments
at a cost of almost $480,000.
Bates House is being waterproofed at a cost of
nearly $77,000, and about $71,000 is being spent
on painting the interiors of Bates House and other
apartments and residence halls on campus.
Tile relacements and lighting refinements are
also being done to several campus buildings at a
total cost of nearly $115,000.
The largest expenditure is the $665,000 which is
going toward the replacement of furniture in student
rooms in Douglas, LaBorde, and Moore
dorms in the Towers area. ,
The renvations, which started the Monday after
classes were finish for the spring semester, will continue
until the day before the fallterm begins.
According to Housing officials the length of the
renovation period is due to an increase in funds
Housing Services received.
"In the past, Housing Services has had about $.5
million to spend on housing renovations, but over
the last three years that amount has risen to the
current $1.2 million," said Linda Saad, director of
Housing Services.
According to Saad the money housing received is
not covered by USC tuition. It is totally dependant
on housing fees, and at nresent about 5 nerrenr of
Black faculty-^
address this shortage, the university has begun a pro]
to develop more minority Ph.Ds from within by fur
qualified students at the graduate level.
"Many black professionals may be initially hesita
come to a predominantly white Southern institution
that hesitation often lessens after the black candi<
talk with other blacks already on staff at the univers
said Jameson.
Margaret Smith, of USC's Affirmative Action C
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ed down in the face of a difficult task. Her office n
tains exhaustive lists of sources for black educa
When notified of a faculty opening, Smith provide
faculty search committees with a list tailored to its n
Each search committee has an affirmative actioi
vocate to ensure fairness in the candidate search. "T1
dividual departments of the University pursue black
didates eagerly in a real effort to improve the balan
their staffs," Smith said.
Evidence of this departmental committment wai
response to a fall 1987 workshop o minority recruit;
strategies, conducted at USC by the American Coum
Education. More than 250 people from various de
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new furnitures into the Towers area this summer.
housing fees goes toward renovations. That figure
was obtained by taking the monetary value of 1
percent of the value of the building to be
renovated.
In the past, more money was allocated toward
building housing facilities because there was a great
demand for dorms as the children of the baby
boom generation entered college.
Now, however, the number of students entering
college has declined, and the buildings which had
been neglected have fallen into disrepair, according
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all of the necessary repairs, and over the past few
years has been trying to update the buildings in
need, Saad said.
Many of the renovations are being done by hired
contractors who make bids on the various projects.
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iding Dr. John Gardner, chairman of the long-sta
firmative Action Advisory Committee, which
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, but minority populations, tells of a special $200,00
dates proved in 1987 through the provost's office,
ity," "Individual departments may apply for these
create and fill new faculty positions, available <
ffice to minorities," Gardner said,
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ment lethargic in recent years, but that the "spirit is;
cil of again." He says that black professionals mu
part- more effective leaders for other blacks.
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However, other renovations are done by housing
maintenance staff members. This also includes
students hired for the summer to do minor electrical
repairs, carpentry and painting in the Bates
and Towers areas, said Robert Harman, assistant
area manager for University Housing Services.
Housing Services is trying to make sure that all
of the renovations will be completed during the
summer break so that students will not be inconvenienced
when they return.
New students will enjoy the largest number of
renovations because most freshman live in the
Towers area where the largest number and amount
of renovations are being done.
If problems arise, however, some of the renovations
could run into the fall term. If this happens,
Housing Services will try to keep renovations from
interfering with students schedules Saad said.
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