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Volume XCI Number 54 University of Southern California Tuesday, November 17, 1981
,	Staff Photo by Joe Fives
CRUSHED HOPES — Trojan Rose Bowl aspirations, like this rose, are sagging. The university's only chance lies in defeating UCLA Saturday and even that victory will not help unless the Washington-Washington State game ends in a tie.
Center focuses on East-Asian life
Culture, language studies highlighted
By Wendell Mobley
Staff Writer
Many employers are looking for the person with a competitive edge — the lawyer who can speak Chinese or the business executive who is familiar with the Korean culture. Gordon Berger, director of the East Asian Studies Center, said his center can provide that edge for university students.
‘‘Today’s graduate from a USC professional school is very attractive. Tomorrow’s graduate will need to have something extra to compete,” Berger said.
The center, not to be confused with the university’s East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, coordinates and promotes research, development and teaching of East Asian-related topics.
“Our department concentrates on linguistics, language and literature. The center has an emphasis on area studies,” explained Henry Tiee, chairman of the department. The center offers an interdisciplinary range of courses.
University faculty members interested in teaching and researching East Asian topics coordinate course offerings.
The center offers an undergraduate major in East Asian studies for students seeking interdisciplinary career preparation and also offers graduate students a certificate in East Asian studies in conjunction with their graduate degree program.
“I conceive the center as being USC’s window to East Asia,” Berger said.
Originally,^the cer>tSr was an arm of t_H» ^ast Asian department. In the early 1960s, the federal government gave money to centers that promoted East Asian languages. The department did not qualify for the federal money, so a
center was developed.
The flow of money stopped at the end of the decade, Berger said, but the center continued “with a new rationale for its existence.” The new goal of the center was to promote and coordinate East Asian studies in university departments other than the East Asian Languages and Cultures department.
Berger said there are numerous advantages of studying East Asian-related classes.
One advantage of taking one of these classes is that a student has the chance to hear several professors instead of one lecturer, the director said. “Instead of having one professor talking about different cul-
tures, you have several professors who come in and talk on related subjects.”
As an example of such an advantage, Berger cited EASC 499, a course to be offered during the spring semester on Wednesday evenings. The new course is entitled “Decision-Making in Japan.”
“The class is useful for people interested in Fast Asia or for people interested in working with Japanese, for a Japanese or having a Japanese work for them,” said Berger, a professor in the history department. The class, which is expected to include much discussion, will highlight lecturers from various depart-(Continued on page 9)
Registration deadline extended by senate
By Yolanda Austin
Due to a temporary shortage of class schedules, the Student Senate resolved Sunday that the deadlines for handing in pre-registration packets and the date of the “R” class lottery be extended.
The Student Activities Center began distribution of the schedules Thursday but ran out of them by 5 p.m. Friday, an employee at the center said. Distribution resumed Monday at 11 a.m.
Acting on the senate resolution, officials of Academic Affairs, university administration and Financial Aid extended pre-registration to Wednesday at 5 p.m. The “R” class lottery will be held Thursday at 9 a.m.
Patty Minor, co-author of the resolution, said she felt an extra day does not give students adequate time to review the schedule and choose classes, since schedules were made available at the end of the week. The time limit is bad, she said, because it does not allow students to make curriculum choices in keeping with the university’s quality standard.
Cornelius Pings, senior vice president of Academic Affairs, is sympathetic to the problem, Minor said, and he predicts improved conditions for the coming semester. The senator insists, however, that the present system of pre-registration is “unacceptable,” and she will continue to work on behalf of students for its improvement.
Janet Chaudhuri, Pings' assistant, said the administration granted only one extra day because its offices face greater time constraints under the new academic calendar. Fee bills would not be issued by the scheduled date of Dec. 11 if another day were added.
Chaudhuri explained that the administration is under “pressure to do things quicker.”
“Next fall’s schedule of classes will be distributed two to three weeks beforehand,” the assistant said.
Development center provides tutors, aid
By Katy Smith
Assistant City Editor
The director of the Learning Skills Development Center said its mission is to “provide learning support sources to USC students, primarily in the school of Letters, Arts and Sciences.”
The center provides students with tutoring to help them in specific courses and peer counseling to aid in the development of better study habits, said Stephen Cheney-Rice, the center’s director.
Mary Cromopulos, the assistant director of the center, said students should not be put off by the stigma attached to the learning center. “Skill levels have changed dramatically and more students were not prepared (for college work},” Cromopulos said. The lack of study skills is not limited to economic status but is a problem with many university students.
UNIVERSITY VILLAGE
Services, location aid business
By Charla Foster
Staff Writer
and Laura Rodriguez
Assasnt CSy Editor
Midaftemoon parking at University Village may be a difficult task for some students, but for the mall’s merchants, it is a welcomed sight.
Although the mall’s parking lot sufficiently accommodates customer needs, it is usually crowded throughout the day — a sign that business is good, according to Connie Cashin, marketing director for University Village
“The 32nd Street Market does very well and brings in a lot of business, but the traffic you see during the day isn’t entirely for the market because most people shop later on in the evening, after work and school,” Cashin Said, attributing a large portion of the afternoon influx to merchant customers.
Six years ago, the mall opened with only 12 of the 59 stores which currently operate, and faced various leasing problems. “It’s been a slow climb for six years, but every year has been better than the one before,” Cashin said.
Because of its convenient location for students, Cashin said the mall maintains a daily customer influx, which makes up for the holiday season lull, a time when most students leave campus.
Cashin attributed the village’s success to the special services it provides the university and the surrounding community, such as travel service, cinema, a -large market, a laundromat, school supplies and special clothes stores.
“The closest shopping csntsrs are in Century’ City and Fox Hills, so they’re no d»rSCt competition for us,” Cashin explained.
Robert Cun, manager for Silverwoods, called his outlet the largest retailing business of its kind in the community, carrying what Cun called “a traditional three-piece suit line which has set its own pattern in the community for 79 years.
“Our business is so solid we are now getting grandsons and great-grandsons who are all USC alumni,” he said, adding that off-campus customers comprise 72.2 percent of Silverwood’s volume.
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The assistant director added that the center is swamped with more requests for tutoring than it can handle. “We can’t help as many students as seek help because the budget doesn’t allow enough tutors.
“We try to design the program to help students to become better studiers,” Cromopulos said.
Better study habits would allow students to have more free time, she said. “At USC, lots of things are going on, so they (students) provide more time for other things. Instead of studying eight hours a day they can do it in five.”
The peer counselors take “you from where you are as a student to make you better,” Cheney-Rice said, adding that they try to help students "learn how to leam.”
The counselors teach students time-saving tech-niques.including how to survey chapters in text books before reading them. The counseling sessions meet on an individual basis or in groups.
Professors recommend students who do well in their classes as tutors to help the center. These tutors are paid $4 to $6 an hour, depending on their experience and performance, to provide remedial and background tutoring for students taking beginning or intermediate classes. For example, a student taking calculus may find he needs help understanding algebra, Cheney-Rice explained. The students =7-9 charged $2 per hour because the r;n;er receives minimal funding from the Student Services Fund.
Mark Nogaki, a physics, chemistry and math tutor, said many students have the wrong attitude. Many of the math students he has tutored only see the numbers, not their meaning.
Michael Shim, a junior in political science and economics, said he thought he would be tutoring students who “just didn’t get the lecture.” Instead (Continued on page 12}