Getting people into carpools not like riding on Easy Street
BY GARY LINEHAN
Staff Writer
Strained nerves and indigestion are only two of the maladies haunting commuter students with the one-car. one-person syndrome. High vehicle maintenance bills, excessive parking hassles and feelings of isolation also often accompany the condition.
The Commuter Students' Organization, with the help of a computer system, has been trying to ease the costs and frustrations of crosstown travel of arranging car pools.
Of 14,000 commuters at the university, 230 have taken advantage of the program. “It could be a lot more successful, but it takes a willingness to carpool,” said Jackie Cargill, the organization's co-chairman.
The computer matches participants by geographic area and by schedule, as much as possible. The students then contact each other to check compatibility of schedules.
Individual needs often conflict, but arrangements usually can be made for carpooling at least one or two days a
week. Cargill said.
Ken Shope. a sophomore in broadcast journalism, has found the system very helpful. He rides with one person from Glendale on Tuesdays and Thursdays and with another from Arcadia on Mondays and Wednesdays. Like most carpoolers, he cites economy and companionship as major benefits of riding together.
Car pools are especially attractive to those who do not own cars, since one of the organization's slogans is "You • don't need a car to car pool." In this kind of arrangement, the rider compensates the driver in some way. usually with money.
Still, the reasons for not using a car pool are as varied as license plates. Some people have been discouraged in their attempts to form a workable pool.
"I tried it, but because of our completely different schedules it didn't work out. We ended up waiting for each other a long time.” said Sunny Lee. a sophomore in pharmacy.
Others are just not interested. "I
would-ii t use one even if I knew of someone else living in the South Bay because it just wouldn't be convenient for me." said Norma Quiroz, a junior in history.
“Commuter Computer." a Los Angeles-based non-profit service designed to form car pools, began operation in April 1975, and now handles
70.000	names in five counties.
Although the computer was used only during the first few weeks of the semester, applications are still being processed by human efforts at the commuter organization. “If a student desperately needs a ride to San Diego, we will try to get him to San Diego." Cargill said.
There is a slow but steady growth in the program, she added.
Due to reorganization ofthe commuter group and the temporary loss ofthe Commuter Computer representative, there have been some delays in getting information to the participants ofthe program. The computer match lists are still available in Student Union 202-D.
Program changes broaden national recruitment efforts
mercial. Berger called it an information session " rather than a sales pitch.
"Sure, our objective is to interest students in USC, but we re not going to twist anybody's arm to come here. High school counselors and teachers really appreciate the fact that we don't pressure the kids into attending the university."
Among the cities Berger's "Traveling Recruitment Show” will be visiting by mid-January are Chicago. Philadelphia. New York, Detroit. Boston. Seattle. Washington. D.C and Molene (111.).
Molene?
“Well, an alumnus there wants to generate interest in the university.” Berger said. "Also, there are three other cities around it and together they have a population of 400.000. This makes it worth our w hile.”
To help him decide which cities his staff should visit, Berger consults a print-out listing, by zip code, of all the high schools represented here. It lists all the students who applied from that school, their grade point averages and whether or not they were accepted.
“If we see a lot of high schools in Atlanta on the print-out, we know that Atlanta is a definite stop,” Berger said.
He added that he also checks the National Merit list to see of students on the list have indicated USC as one of their first two college choices.
Berger then checks the entire list to see if there is a particular city, area or school where there are exceptionally good students.
“If there are 15 students on the list from a certain high school in Detroit, you can bet we’ll go there," he said.
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BY DAVID BLAC a
A former cinema student was booked on attempted murder Monday in connection with the Sept. 14 kidnaping and attempted rape of a university stafT member.	x
A suspect in a second, unrelated rape case was released for lack of evidence.
The suspect in the murder attempt was apprehended in Parking Lot B on the northeast corner of campus about 4:45 p.m. by Craig Lurie, a Campus Security officer.
The 31-year-old suspect attempted to resist, Lurie said, and struck him in the left shoulder. Lurie was not injured. The suspect was later turned over to Los Angeles Police Department officers, said Capt. William Burke of Campus Security.
Unable to post $5,000 bail, the suspect was jailed pending possible filing of charges, said Det. Michael Anderson of LAPD’s Southwest Division.
The suspect was wanted in connection with the abduction of a 22-year-old woman from the university’s Delinquency Control Institute, located in the Tyler building on South Flower Street. The inci-
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LISTENER'S CHOICE—Students taking a break at
noontime Wednesday had a chance to listen to two types of music. The Symphonic Brass Quintet (above) played classical music in front of Bovard Auditorium
while a group called Liberty played 40s blues on the Student Activities Center patio. DT photo by Mark Kariya.
University of Southern California
Volume LXX, Number 33	Los	Angeles, Californio Thursday, November 4, 1976
A PLACE IN THE SUN—Bob Shaw, a junior in astronomy, uses a telescope on the roof of the Allen Hancock Foundation not to gaze at the stars, but to search for sunspots. DT photo by Mark Kariya.
Carter students score only election homerun
BY DIANE SLEZA v
Assistant City Editor
Reaction to Tuesday’s election by some campus political organizations could be compared to the lack of joy in Mudville after mighty Casey struck out. Few groups here scored on the ballots.
About the only organization that sneaked through to home plate was USC students for Carter. Its candidate, Gov. Jimmy Carter, defeated incumbent Gerald R. Ford in a tight presidential race Tuesday.
“I was overjoyed,” said Nick Krantz, the group’s chairman. He spent election night at a celebration for Carter supporters at the Hilton Hotel downtown.
“For four or five days before the election, I was really worried that he (Carter) wouldn’t win. I saw the polls indicating that people wanted to keep the status quo and I was afraid that would insure Ford’s victory,” Krantz said.
Krantz wasn’t*that disappointed about the defeat of Sen. John V. Tunney (D-Calif.), the incumbent, who lost to S.I. Hayakawa. “Hayakawa is certainly an individual man. He says things that I’ve never heard from a politician before. . .but I’m not that upset that Hayakawa won.”
On the flip side of the issue, Hunt Braly, president of Trojan Young Republicans, said he was disappointed in the result of the presidential race.
Braly was also at a postelection party, this one for Ford and
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BY IVIARC GROSSMAN
Staff Writer
There are students from all 50 states currently enrolled at the university.
How did they find out what the university had to offer? Wrho got them interested in the school'7 After all, to a high school student in Tennessee, USC probably means University of South Carolina.
Word-of-mouth certainly helps interest students in the university. But the best method is for a real, live USC person to talk to them, it’s believed.
This method is being implemented in an overhauled nationwide recruitment program directed by Jay V. Berger, director of admissions, assistance and school relations.
“This is not the first time the university has had a program ofthis type,” Berger said. “But it has never been more extensive. We’ve been fortunate in getting support from ‘up above’ to enlarge our staff."
Berger has eight assistants, all of whom go out and visit high schools and community colleges. There is also a university consultant based in San Francisco who covers most of the Bay Area. Berger himself does some of the visiting.
He estimated that his staff will visit over 1.000 schools in the next year.
“In the Southland, students already know quite a bit about the university,” Berger said. “When we visit a school in this area we try to make it more of a question-and-answer session.
“The farther we get away from here, however, the more we resort to visual presentations. When we get out of state we talk at the students more than with them. This is because these students obviously can’t visit the school as easily as California residents.”
While this process may resemble a giant com-
Former student booked
on rape, murder attempt