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Volume XCV, Number 68	University of Southern California	Tuesday, April 24, 1984
University officially adopts policy on photocopying
Copyrighted works protected
By Catalina Camia
Assistant City Editor
The university' has formally adopted an official policy on the photocopying of copyrighted materials, more than a year after a lawsuit was filed against New York University (NYU) for alleged violations of federal law.
Barbara Flick, a lawyer in the office of the university's General Counsel, said the policy, officially adopted on April 4, is the university’s interpretation and restatement of the fair-use doctrine and other parts of the Copyright Act of 1976.
Under this university's photocopying statement, fair use must first be determined before a work can be copied.
Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 explains the limitation on exclusive rights and fair usage, and states that the purpose of the photocopy, the nature of the copyrighted material and the amount to be copied must be determined prior to the photocopying.
In essence. Flick said the university must be aware of the difference between photocopying for commercial use and for educational purposes
"This policy is instructive," Flick said. “It informs the university community of the rights of publishers and writers and explains how one can legally photocopy."
The issue of illegal photocopying was brought to the forefront by a lawsuit filed in December 1982 by the Association of American Publishers. It charged 13 NYU professors and an off-campus
bookstore with violating laws concerning the duplication of copyrighted materials.
The association named NYU as a co-defendant in the suit because the university did not have an official photocopying policy at that time.
"The NYU suit was an impetus for universities to make formal statements about photocopying," Flick said.
Carol Risher, director of copyrights and new technology for the association, said the lawsuit ended when NYU accepted the responsibility of adopting an official policy and agreed to abide by the federal laws which are included in its policy' statement.
"Since the NYU decision, there have been more schools coming out with photocopying policies," Risher said. "But the federal laws have always been there."
As of January 1983, Risher said there had been as many as 50 schools that adopted formal photocopying policies in light of the NYU decision.
Risher said the association and the federal courts see no problem with making a single photocopy for the purposes of private study, scholarship and research, but it is an infringement if photocopies of copyrighted materials are used for resale.
"There's a big problem if, for instance, a professor wants to copy an entire book and distribute it to his class, without gaining permission, " Risher said. "Or if the copies are placed into an anthology and resold."
Also contained within the university's photocopying policy is a statement on materials copied from the library' and archives.
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Candidates’ representatives to stage Democratic debate
By Diane Olivo
Qty Writer
A debate between representatives of the three candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Mudd Hall of Philosophy in Room 101, in an effort to help raise the political consciousness of university voters, said Todd Barrett, campus coordinator for the Jesse Jackson campaign.
Scheduled to represent Sen. Gary Hart is former Los Angeles City Councilman Robert Ronka. Jesse Jackson will be represented by Los Angeles City Councilman Robert Farrell, and Walter Mondale will be represented by Wally Knox, former California manager for Alan Cranston's presidental campaign.
The debate is sponsored by university student groups supporting Mondale, Hart and Jackson.
Todd Riebe, co-chairman of USC Students for Mondale, said the idea for the debate was inspired by the Mondale enthusiasts, who then contacted the other candidates' sponsors.
Riebe said the debate will last an hour and will consist of a seven-minute presentation by each representative along with three minutes of rebuttal time.
"There will also be 30 minutes for questions and answers," Riebe said.
Knox, the Mondale representative, is also an attorney, a Harvard graduate, a Vietnam veteran and the co-chairman for the state's Democratic campaign for voter registration and mailing.
"I feel it is interesting that
Knox is a Vietnam veteran and a representative of Mondale,” Riebe said. "The reason being that during the Vietnam War, Mondale was all for sending the boys to war and has now changed his politics in this regard. He feels that supporting the Vietnam War was his biggest mistake."
Steve Kaufman, a student at UCLA and student coordinator
for Californians with Hart, said his organization receives many requests from colleges asking Hart to speak.
"Since Sen. Hart is busy campaigning, surrogate speakers are sent out," Kaufman said. "So what I do is go to a list of officals w'ho have attended a seminar and who have received a packet of information regarding Sen.
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Libyan students carried signs and wore black hoods in demonstration against Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy.
Khadafy is target of demonstration by Libyan students
By John Kirby
City Writer
About 45 Libyan students from colleges in the Los Angeles'airea. including this university, staged an anti-Khadafy demonstration in front of the United States Federal Building in Westw'ood Monday.
During the demonstration, sponsored by the newly formed Los Angeles division of the General Union of the Students of Libya, students wearing black masks carried signs and handed out pam-plets to passing motorists and pedestrians.
The signs, w'ritten in both English and Arabic, called the current Libyan government a "Libyan nightmare" and urged all nations to isolate Libya's dictator. Col. Moammar Khadafy'.
The primary' reason for the demonstration w'as the April 16 hanging of 15 Libyan students on the campus of Tripoli University, said a spokesman for the group who refused to be identified.
However, the spokesman said the demonstration was also part of a long-standing commitment by the General Union of the Students of Libya, a worldwide organization, to persuade the countries of the world that Libya should be isolated as long as Khadafy remains in power.
"I believe the effect of the current confrontation between England and Libya will be the isolation of the Khadafy regime," the spokesman said.
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Freshmen urged to study options
By Lynne Humphreys
Feature Writer
Brad came to the university with illusions of grandeur. He believed that whatever he put his heart into, he would be good at. Unfortunately, his dreams weren't realistic in that there weren't many job openings in his prospective field. His illusions became delusions.
"(Freshmen) come in with large dreams that aren't checked with reality," said Jerry Houser, assistant director of the university's Career Development Center. "(They have) a concept that they must get a major that leads to many job openings. They don't believe that a philosophy or English degree will earn them much money or prestige because it will only prepare them for a teaching job. They' feel that they need to get business courses and computer courses to better prepare them for their career."
The idea of taking classes per-
taining strictly to the major may blind the student to other interests he may have, Houser said. That student may not realize the value of the investment he or his parents placed in his education.
In the long run, these general education classes do serve a purpose by giving the students a liberal arts background instead of a background concentrated in only one field.
"You never know' when that class in medieval history w'hen you spent many hours analyzing the history presented may add an important part to a job interview'," he said. "The liberal education classes give new' perspective to things, and come up at the strangest times," he said.
In the United States, he said there is a growing demand by companies for those people who have more general and varied college backgrounds.
Chief executive officers look for people with "invisible skills," he said. These "invisible skills" he refers to include lea-
dership ability, flexibility, prob-lem-solving	capability,
adaptability and most importantly, a great communicative ability.
He added that the personnel office doesn't look at the longterm benefits when it hires a person with a college degree. Freshmen usually want to start out at the top and not begin in their dream company as a typist or file clerk. College graduates sometimes feel that type of position isn't the reason they spent four years W'orking for a bachelor's degree. They feel a high school graduate could do the work they are doing, but they' fail to see the long-term effects. Houser said.
He added that just because a person starts out at an entry-level job does not mean that he will never W'ork up to the level he feels he prepared for. In three to four years, the person with the degree will have a much greater advantage over the person w'ho
only has a high school diploma, Houser said.
The skills that the freshman learns outside of the classroom are sometimes more important than those learned in the classroom. Going away to school makes the person realize that sooner or later he will have to become self-sufficient and self-supporting, Houser said.
"(Going away to school) has its positive and negative effects," he said. "A student learns his independence and who he is outside his family. There is a real shift from the home as a prime source of values to the peer group which the freshman finds himself surrounded by.
"Some parents slowly let go of their children by teaching them the dogpaddle; others let them sink or swim alone,” Houser said. "Sometimes this isn't the best way to experience college since the student has to work his way through and can-(Continued on page 2)