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Volume XCV, Number 40
University of Southern California
Wednesday, March 7, 1984
1984 freshmen applications up 9 percent for fall
By Sonia Saruba
Qty Writer
The applicant pool of incoming freshmen has increased by 9 percent for the Fall 1984 semester according to the most recent statistics released by the the Office of Admissions.
As of last Saturday, Mark Olson, director of the administrative information resource system, said he had received 7,393 freshmen applications compared to the 6,716 applications received by this time last year.
Of the applications returned, 3537 freshmen have been admitted, compared to 3013 freshmen admitted last year, he said.
These statistics also indicate a 17 percent increase in the number of transfer applicants, a 2 percent increase in graduate applicants and a 2 percent increase in out-of-state applicants.
Transfer applications received to date number 2,242, 551 of which have been admitted. This compares to 1,865 applications received and 483 admitted at this time last year, Olson said.
Graduate student applications have increased to 4,838, up from 4,739 of last year. Of these, 396 have been admitted, while only 378 were admitted by March of 1983.
Olson said the out-of-state enrollment increase may be due, in part, to the emphasis in recruiting on the East Coast. The normal California pool has been 75 percent of total applicants, Olson said.
"The increase in the applicant pool allows the university to be more selective, and to increase the quality' of students," Olson said.
Olson said more recruitment mail, directed to 120,000 prospective students and 17,000 National Merit candidates, was sent out this year. Last year, only 100,000 recruitment letters were sent out.
"The efforts to increase recruitment also reflect the general concern for the decline of 18-year-olds in the population," Olson said, adding that the decline is due to the end of the baby boom years.
There was also an increase in the number of schools visited for recruitment purposes. Last year, 800 high schools were visited nationwide, compared to more than 1,100 schools visited this year, he said.
The Admissions Office would like to admit 6,400 freshmen students by June 1. The office expects 2,800 students to enroll in the fall freshmen class.	_
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ATHER AU ) DAILY TROJAN
The Everlasting Singers perfrom for a crowd in front of the Administration Building Tuesday.
Engineering dean chosen
By Catalina Camia
Assistant City Editor
Leonard Silverman, chairman of the department of electrical engi-neering-systems, has been appointed dean of the School of Engineering after a three-year nationwide search, according to the provost's office.
Silverman succeeds Zohrab Kaprielian who died in December 1981.
"We are immensely glad to have a permanent dean for the School of Engineering," said Cornelius Pings, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs. "We need a dean with vision, enthusiasm, and energy, and I'm confident that it is Leonard Silverman."
Solomon Golomb, chairman of the provost's advisory committee for the dean's search, said Silverman's appointment comes after a formal search within the university' which began early this semester.
Golomb, also a professor of electrical engineering-systems and mathematics, said the committee looked at applicants from within the university as well as those from other universities.
The external search began in 1981 while the internal search did not begin until January, he said.
Approximately 50 candidates from other universities had been considered, and severed were brought to the campus for tours, he added.
"After spending about a year and a half year searching, you know who is available for the job, " he said. "Some candidates did not want to move to USC and some others don't have the background to fit USC."
Three engineering professors were considered from this university, and the provost's advisory committee presented Pings with its find-
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Nuclear film blasts apathy here
By Karen Kucher
City Wnter
To promote student awareness and bring about a response to the nuclear issue on what he terms an "apathetic" campus, Jim Grollman, a drama student, showed a homemade videotape entitied Protest to an undergraduate political science class Monday.
"The point of the tape was not to sway opinions," Grollman said.
He said he wanted to show a personal look at the different types of people involved in the movement and promote an awareness of the nuclear arms protest.
"Beer parties and fraternities are fine, but students should get involved in issues like this, and not be so apathetic, " he said. "This film can help students and teachers to decide for themselves whether to be pro or con on the nuclear weapons issue."
Grollman used footage from anti-nuclear demonstrations in Washington, D.C., Maryland and California, and interviewed 15 protesters ranging
in age from 10 to 70 and representing many social classes.
He said there were many reasons why he made the videotape, citing his own personal feelings about nuclear weapons.
The personal venture cost Grollman approximately $1,000.
The videotape presentation spumed a 45-minute discussion about the film, which involved a wide range of reactions.
The class discussed the futility of protests, as well as the urgency of the nuclear issue. Many of the students felt the war would never occur.
"I want to get people involved in this type of issue since it is such an important, immediate topic and should be opened for debate," he said. "This film should be shown with a discussion period afterward, similar to the way the movie The Day After was handled. The release of opinions is necessary for the presentation."
He said he felt the dialogue after the
film was a stepping stone in bringing out the issues.
Grollman, a transfer student from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., began the project in March 1983.
"I hope that after seeing The Day After everyone will understand that nuclear war is not survivable," he said.
Karen Rosenblum-Cale, lecturer for Politics of Peace, Arms Limitation, Control and Disarmament — the class where the film was shown — said, "I think (the videotape) is helpful for the students, to help them become more attuned to the issue."
Grollman said he wanted students to get more involved in important issues and not put them on the "back burner."
"I know there is truth in what these people (in the videotape) say, and I want people to know that they are trying to do something to benefit society," he said.
Arms race conference to be held
By Rebecca Esquibel
Qty Writer
A conference on Public Awareness of the Arms Race, sponsored by the university's Speakers Committee and the university's Nuclear Awareness Group will be held Saturday on the second floor auditorium of the Annenberg School of Communications.
The second annual conference will be divided into two separate aspects of the nuclear issue.
The first conference of the all-day event will be on New Weapons and Proliferation.
Jonathan Woetzel, president of the Nuclear Awareness Group, said this conference will deal with conventional, nuclear weapons and new laser technology in weapons.
Speaking at the first conference will be the chief of the United Nations Department of Disarmament, Benjamin Sanders; General Martin Menter, director of the International Institute of Space Law; and Edouard Yevteyev, the Consul and Arms Negotiator for the Soviet Union among others.
The second conference, entitled Arms and Developement, will focus on conversion, which is peace through military knowledge.
The second conference will include speeches by Ossie Haaramaki of the Church of Finland, Richard Saxon, cofounder of the Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Patrick O'Heffer-nan, director of Ground Zero, an anti-nuclear organization.
Woetzel's group, whose primary function is the annual preparation of this conference, has been planning this event since September 1983.
He said the purpose of this event is to highlight, describe, and illustrate issues of the arms race. A publication will result from the conference and the speeches and commentaries given.
Woetzel's said the cost of this event will be approximately S4,000, including the cost of airfare and hotel accommodations for the speakers. No honorarium will be given to the speakers.
The event is open to the public. There will be no admission charge to
university students but others will have to pay a small fee which will go toward covering expenses. The Speakers Committee will fund part of the project with the major events fund of the Campus Life program.
Though the Nuclear Awareness Group is strictly a student organizai-ton which is impartial, the event will be co-sponsored by some United Nations affiliated groups including the Decade of Disarmament group.
"There is no point in having an only one-pointed discussion so we'll have (speakers from) both sides," Woetzel said.
The conference is being directed by a former adjunct professor of the university, Robert Woetzel. He is also the president of the Foundation for an International Criminal Court.
The conference program will include four 15-minute speeches followed by commentaries given on the issues dealt with in the speeches. There will be an open question and answer session in which the audience (Continued on page 2)