Seventy-Fifth Year of Publication
Volume CM, Number 21
University of Southern California
1912 — 1986
Tuesday, September 30, 1986
RALPH R. CALVO / DAILY TROJAN
If you didn’t notice, Dental Awareness Day was sponsored yesterday by the School of Dentistry and Delta Delta Sigma, the honorary dental society. Dawne Streutker, the chapter’s president, gives a demonstration in brushing with a king-sized brush.
Feature
Yell leaders planning to incorporate acrobatics
By Moon-Yun Wright
Staff Writer
Be looking for more acrobatics among the Yell Leaders at upcoming football games, and expect to see the traditional Song Girls / Yell Leaders' cheering style handed down from generation to generation, from Lindley Bothwell, the university's first yell leader in 1919 to Kevin Bogart the 1986 Yell King.
Before this year, there has been no acrobatics in the university's Yell Leader squad because of Pac-lO regulating three-high pyramids and of the wish to stick to traditional short yell chants — 'So Cal Spell-Out,' ' We Are SC,' 'Defense,' 'Offense' — said Thom Gaxiola, the Yell Leaders' coach. It has been a tradition with the Song Girls and Yell Leaders "to get the crowd going for the team, not to be a show or a display, but to encourage spirit among the audience," Gaxiola said.
Julie Heeres, a senior majoring in business, has been the Head Song Girl for two out of her three years. "I like supporting and representing the university/'she said.
Heeres said she supports "going along with the traditional dance squad," of the Song Girls and not acrobatics,"because traditional dance seems more collegiate," she said.
"Acrobatics doesn't pertain to us," Heeres said. "Pac-10 have cheerleaders, both male and female, that do partner stunts, but we don't have cheerleading at 'SC."
She adds that sticking to the traditional Song Girl cheering has "more class than a squad that has guys looking underneath the cheerleaders' skirts while they're lifting them up in the air."
"The USC Song Girl is considered the best in the nation," said Don Ludwig, the director of intramural sports. The International Cheer-leading Foundation had rated the Song Girls the best song-leading squad in 1972 and again in 1974.
Twelve years seems a long time to rest on one's laurels. Have they won anything since then?
"We don't compete in inter-collegiate competition,"said Heeres. "In the past, they (inter-collegiate organization) use to have song-leading competition, but they stopped having them (song-leading competitions) because USC won eight out of the 10 years in a row."
Within the last six to seven years, television has given more exposure to squads that do acrobatics, Ludwig noted. He also deemed acrobatics too dangerous without proper gymnastic instructors.
The Song Girls and Yell Leaders are different from the other campuses' pep squads. The Yell squad is separate from the Song Girls — they don't do routines with each other and they don't practice together.
Acrobatics is a recent addition to the Yell Leaders' routine. Some members of the squad have gone to yell camp last summer to leam stunting and tumbling. Stunting consists of tossing members in the air, while tumbling is composed of gymnastics moves. Kevin Bogart,
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Report details university history, future goals
Study outlines next 10 years
By Rose Anne Rodriguez
Assistant City Editor
In preparation for its reaccreditation as an affiliate of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the university has released a 475-page report detailing its past history, current academic and community status, and recommendations for the future.
The institutional self-study began in March 1985 in preparation for the filing of a report with the association in May. A subcommittee of the University Reaccreditation Self-Study Commit-
Beginning today the Daily Trojan will run a series of articles reporting the findings of the university's reaccreditation self-study.
tee was assigned to draft each of the 21 sections of the report, and Executive Vice Provost Robert Biller is currently heading a steering committee that will review it.
The self-study outlines the direction the university hopes to take in the next 10 years, reinforcing the priorities set during the 1983-84 academic planning process and offering additional recommendations.
The goals include strengthening the undergraduate programs, stimulating the growth of graduate education and research, selective development of professional schools, and continuing to provide opportunities for extended education and lifelong learning.
In addition, the report outlines "elements of the university's life which are vital to the achievement of these goals." It lists the development of the university library system, a new-generation computer system and the university's campus and presence in the neighborhood and the region.
The study suggests that in the area of undergraduate education, the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences be strengthened to provide a "strong liberal arts core within a professional milieu." According to the report, LAS has been awarding only about one-third of the bachelor's degrees at the university despite the fact that it
encompasses 28 departments and nine programs.
The Study Group on Undergraduate Education cited three areas that need attention in order to strengthen the college: international students, the freshman year, and the quality-/ price ratio. The group found there is a "need to foster intellectual and social interchange outside the classroom between international and domestic students."
Recommendations from the study group and the General Education Committee cite the need for departments to improve their contact with declared freshmen who do not begin coursework in their major until their sophomore year.
Also, in an effort to "support the improvement of undergraduate teaching and to correct the misperception that excellence in teaching is less valued than excellence in research," a Teaching Innovation Fund has been set up. The report said the university will use the fund to try to achieve a balance between the skills.
When discussing graduate education, the report praises current doctoral programs but stresses the need for improvements. "USC must select a portfolio of programs in which it can achieve excellence, and then the university must settle for nothing less than excellence," it said.
The quality of faculty members is addressed and recruitment of new faculty with "strong research interests" is suggested.
The report points out that less than 6 percent of faculty members have received doctorate degrees from the university, making for a well-rounded national and international faculty.
However, it also says, "The Office of the President is not satisfied with. . . success to date on the recruitment of minority and women candidates for faculty positions. . . . (It) endorses the efforts of the Vice Provost, Faculty Affairs, to correct the underrepresentation in specific departments and generate greater sensitivity university-wide to the recruitment at all ranks and the development of ethnic faculty."
Another goal in the area of undergraduate education will be to emphasize the merit of a liberal education for all students, including those who decide early on to attend a professional school.
Sculpture of 'Three Women Walking’ now permanently displayed in Kansas
By Rhoda Fukushima
Staff Writer
A contemporary sculpture loaned to the university by a Kansas art collector is now on permanent display at a Kansas university.
The sculpture, called Three Women Walking, was on display near Mudd Hall of Philosophy since July 1984.
Philanthropists George and Virginia Ablah of Wichita, Kan., had loaned it to the university in time for the 1984 Summer Olympics, said Barbara Elwood, assistant to the dean of academic affairs for the School of Fine Arts. Two weeks ago, the sculpture was sent to Wichita State University, its new permanent
home, for a dedication ceremony.
Previously, pieces from the Ablahs' collection were displayed only in the Midwest and the East Coast, Elwood said. The Ablahs sent the sculpture to the university at the request of Dean John Gordon of the School of Fine Arts.
The display of the sculpture was part of a university effort to ready the campus for the Olympics.
Francisco Zuniga, a Costa Rican sculptor who lives in Mexico, created the bronze sculpture of three women at different ages: "a vigorous young woman, calmly sensual; a monumental woman in middle life, the
age of responsibility; and a majestic old woman who still carries her sagging body with dignity," according to a program from the sculpture's 1983 New York City exhibition.
Although Elwood said she welcomed the sculpture to the campus, not everybody liked it.
"There were a few critical letters printed in the Daily Trojan, but those were few and far between," Elwood said. "By and large, most people were interested (in the sculpture) because of the famous artist," she said.
Senior administration members and the dean of the School of Fine Arts are discussing possible replacements for the sculpture but nothing has been finalized, Elwood said.
Inside i'Lll
•	Interview with Maria McKee, lead singer of Lone Justice.
•	Review of the extravagant ‘Captain EO’ show at Disneyland.