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Volume XCVIII, Number 30
University of Southern California
Monday, February 25, 1985
Internships provide career advantages
By Catherine Miller
Staff Writer
This is the first of a two-part series.
In such competitive fields as engineering, business and journalism, is it enough just to have a degree anymore? Most career advisers and professionals say no. Internships, by giving the student hands-on experience, may give that student an edge on competition.
“Often times internships lead to full-time employment after graduation," said Sharyn Sla-vin, director of the Career Development Center. “And in this environment, that doesn't hurt."
"You can't think a degree is going to clinch it for you," said Magdalena Beltran, manager of JOBANK and professional programs at the California Chicano News Media Association, a nonprofit referral service headquartered at the university.
Some colleges in the United States, such as Oberlin College in Ohio and Colgate University in New York, require undergraduates to participate in internship programs during the semester breaks or winter term. And at USC, career advisers strongly urge students to take advantage of internship oppor-(Continued on page 6)
African famine crisis is topic of world community conference
By James Jones
Assistant City Editor
The causes and possible solutions for the African famine situation were the topics of seminar discussions Friday at the "International Development California and the Emerging World Community" conference.
The focus of the seminar was Beyond Famine — A Response to the African Crisis.
The three-day seminar, which hosted political and economic experts, including some from the United Nations. It was sponsored by the Center for Public Education in International Affairs, the Non-Govermental Liaison Service of the United Nations and this university's School of International Relations.
Although the problems in Africa are easily identified, the solutions to some of them are still
only ideas and not actual programs, the panel concluded.
Steve Commins, coordinator of the Development Institute of African Studies at UCLA, said the reason for the ongoing famine is not just the long drought, but that military conflict has also accompanied it and made the political situations there increasingly unstable.
"Food production in Africa has not been an area of success for Africa,” Commins said. "The increase of food production has not kept pace with population growth. You have to add to this the fact that many African nations have experienced severe political instability since their independence.
"If you look at the most seriously affected nations today — Mozambique, Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan — you are looking at countries that are afflicted by
widespread internal conflict. The correlation between military conflict and famine is not just happenstance."
Commins also said that unless the internal conflicts of the governments themselves are resolved, the ability of that government to deal with famine is greatly reduced.
Charles Weitz, former coordinator for the Worldwide Freedom from Hunger Campaign, said just the analysis of the political aspects of a country's problems is not enough to base a hunger-relief solution on.
"You cannot separate the issues of agriculture and rural development from the over-all political dimensions by which a government operates," Weitz said.
Weitz said, "The dilemma is that both sides — Third World (Continued from page 1)
Longtime supporter donates 46 acres of land to university
By Carol Ann Coates
Assistant City Editor
Through a complicated series of transactions involving property and cash, the university acquired approximately 46 acres of undeveloped land in the hills of La Canada in January.
The property was left to the university by Frank Lanterman, a California assemblyman for 14 terms and a loyal USC supporter, who received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from the university on June 7, 1973.
Anthony Lazzaro, vice president of business affairs, said the property is in the process of being appraised and there are no definite plans for the land at this time.
The land — 40 acres located in Cherry Canyon, southeast of Descanso Gardens in La Canada, and 5.2 acres on Rockridge Terrace in La Canada — was Frank Lanterman's half of his father's estate, which he shared with his brother Lloyd.
When Frank Lanterman — the more vocal of the two brothers — died in 1981, the university was supposed to inherit his half of the hillside land and a half interest in the Lanterman house on 4420 En-cinas Dr. under the original terms of Frank's will, which was drawn up in 1969, said Harcourt Her-vey, Lloyd Lanterman's attorney.
After his brother's death, Lloyd Lanterman, now 88, became skeptical about the future of the property, especially the house.
"Lloyd just got to wondering what would happen to the house," Eugene Burrows, a trustee of Lloyd Lanterman's estate, told the Los Angeles Times in January.
Burrows also said "there was a concern that Lanterman would not be able to continue living in the house once his brother's half interest passed to USC."
"It was a risky thing. There was nothing to say
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Security forces respond to disturbance on Row
By Jennifer Cray
Assistant City Editor
A major disturbance at the Row early Friday morning drew officers from three divisions of the Los Angeles Police Department and seven University Security officers to disperse an estimated crowd of 250 students on 28th Street.
The disturbance resulted from an earlier dispute at a bar in Westwood and involved members of the Alpha Tau Omega and Kappa Sigma fraternities.
After a beer drinking contest at Baxter's in Westwood earlier that evening, about 70 to 100 students from six USC and UCLA fraternities got into a major brawl in front of the bar, witnesses said.
On returning to campus from Westwood at about 1 a.m., a few members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity went to talk to some members of the ATO fraternity about some matters that were not settled at the bar, said Derek Wood, a Kappa Sigma member.
Four or five Kappa Sigma members left their house at 928 W. 28th St., followed by 30 to 35 of their fellow members to the ATO house at 707 W. 28th St. at the other end of the Row, Wood said.
"We went down to back up our bros," Wood said.
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With spring days approaching, this local found a soft place to rest his head for a lazy afternoon in February. His hair, however, probably couldn't pass ROTC regulation.