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Volume XCI Number 8	University of Southern California	Friday, September 11, 1981
Parking lots overcrowded
Congestion expected to ease
By Todd Marmorstein
Staff Writer
The crowded parking situation on campus, which many students have been experiencing recently, should be tapering off next week, according to Gloria Payne, assistant director of Parking Operations.
“Students are still staying around campus after their classes to purchase their books and pay fee bills. 1 think things will ease up on Monday, when the third week of school begins,” Payne said.
She emphasized that overpopulated parking lots are not due to any increases in parking permits sold this year over last year.
“Each year, we print up about 6,500 on-campus parking permits. But some of those are used as replacement permits, used when a student gets another car or has to transfer his
permit for some other reason.
“And we have never sold every permit which we have printed up.”
Thus far, the busiest days for parking are Monday and Wednesday, Payne said. But, in comparison to last year, some of the student lots are filling up earlier this semester, said Frank Howard, a parking gate attendant.
“Last year, the lots would not fill up until 11 a.m. But during the first few weeks of school this year, the lots have been filled by 9 or 9:15 a.m.” When a lot does fill to capacity, the entrance gate is closed until new spaces open up, usually around 1:30 p.m. Until then, students must resort to using the Menlo lot located on Exposition Boulevard.
“This is the first year where we have had to use that lot on a large scale basis. There are
more people parking on campus this time of year, and students with a valid permit can park there at no cost,” Payne said.
Others who use the lot for non-university purposes, such as for going to the museums, must pay a fee to use the lots.
“It’s a lot which is commonly used when there are simply no other spaces around.”
Howard noted that students this year seem better disposed toward the parking situation than they have been in the past. “It was different last year. Students were generally more edgy, they got upset easier. Complaints about how far it was to walk from further lots to classes were very common. But this year, we have not had many problems.”
Friday is usually a slow day
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Staff photo by Junji Yasuda
ROW REPRESENTATIVES - Rod Peterson, president of Theta Xi, and Bob Guzzi, the fraternity's Rush chairman, reeled off row information for interested students at the Greek Showcase Wednesday night
Evening presentation spotlights Greek life
By Mary Ann Meek
Staff Writer
By Mark Gill
Staff Writer
Cognitive therapy: latest means of treating students ’ depression
“In one year, 78 percent of all college students suffer from some form
of depression-one quarter of them
at any one time,” said Dr. Gary Emery, director of the Center for Cognitive Therapy and consultant to the university’s Andrus School of Gerontology, in an interview.
He called depression “the number-one emotional problem among college students,” adding that depression is 50 percent more common in college students than in their peers who are not in school.
Emery said that most people are subclinical, displaying only 6ome of the symptoms of depression. If he can spot a general pattern in reviewing a case, though, he feels there is cause for concern.
Some of the most common symptoms of depression are a lack of energy, feelings of sadness and discour-
wrong with them,” Emery said. He said they assume depression is caused by situations (such as col-
This is the first in a series of Daily Trojan articles on cognitive therapy, a relatively new approach to treating depression. This piece serves as an overview, while subsequent pieces will examine applications of the program to specific problems encountered by college students.
agement (especially about the future) and an inability to sleep and eat. Emery feels that most of the symptoms reflect a lack of self - control.
“People misperceive their emotions and think there is something
lege), by laziness and stupidity, or by an inherent personality fault. They often try to treat their depression in haphazard ways, often through excessive eating, drinking or use of drugs.
Dr. Aaron T. Beck, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, worked with Emery and others to develop a treatment plan for depression known as cognitive therapy. Emery has written four books and numerous articles on the subject, the most recent of which is a book entitled A New Beginning:How You Can Change Your Life Through Cognitive Therapy (Simon and Schuster, 1981).
“We treat people’s thinking (cognition), their distorted, unrealistic thinking,” Emery said. “Cognitive therapy teaches people how to become aware of and change their distorted thinking.
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Potential sorority and fraternity rushees crowded into Town and Gown Wednesday evening for the opening event of the university’s first Greek Showcase, a program designed to enable more students to find out about the Greek system.
Members of the Interfratemity and Panhellenic councils led the Rush orientation discussion, addressing subjects such as pledge education, academics, hazing, leadership and philanthropies.
Brad Wilier, IFC president, declared the evening a huge success.
“We’re very excited because the student reaction was so positive,” Wilier said, noting that during the meeting more than 300 persons signed up for fraternity rush.
Members of the IFC estimated that a crowd of more than 800 persons attended the presentation, which featured a variety of speeches, a film and the chance to meet fraternity and Panhellenic representatives.
While discussing scholastics and the Row, council member Steve Kwong attempted to dispel the idea that Greeks do not care about studying. “Academics are the number one priority on the Row.”
He explained that there is “stiff competition for grades” among the residents of 28th Street.
Kwong informed students that both sororities and fraternities have minimal grade point requirements, most of which are either
2.0	or 2.2.	(Continued on page 9)
Staff photo by Junji Yasuda
RUSHEES? - Potential Rush participators gather information about the Greek system. Fraternity and sorority Rushes will begin Sept 16 and 17.