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Volume XCVIII, Number 65
University of Southern California
Tuesday, April 23, 1985
Tri Delts and Phi Psis win top Songfest honor
By Stacey Schmeidel
Assistant Entertainment Editor
The tradition continued Saturday night as 11 groups competed for top honors in the 32nd Annual Songfest at the Creek Theatre.
The evening was as much a social event as it was a musical one. Pre-program picnics were held on the grass outside the theater, and alumni greeted long-lost friends before, during and after the show.
But the performers took their entries seriously. With a creative and colorful entry entitled "Let the Music Play Against All Oz," Delta Delta Delta and Phi Kappa Psi took the Sweepstakes Award for the second year in a row, picking up the Best Costumes Award along the way.
Dressed in red gingham shirts, a host of scarecrows sang and danced as a lost and lonely Dorothy wandered across the Greek stage.
The First Runner-up Award went to Gamma Phi Beta and Alpha Tau Omega, whose "Let the Music Play on Our Wedding Day" cited the advantages and pitfalls of wedded bliss. After much conniving, a dozen blushing brides convinced a dozen reluctant bridegrooms that they were, in fact, getting married in the morning.
Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Delta Theta took Second Runner-up with "Let the Music Play in 1929," and Chi Omega and Theta Xi captured Third Runner-up with "Let the Music Play on the Love Boat."
Although this year's Songfest was highly touted as an all-uni-versity event, only two of the 11 competing groups were non-Greek. Troy Complex was the only group to write not only original lyrics but also an original score for its "Let the Music Come to Life," and the Marks Hall / Trustee Scholars group took the award for Most Enthusiasm with its creative "Let the Music PLay on the Freeway."
The Sigma Pi "Alien Boys" and the Alpha Chi Omega "Galaxy Girls" won Dan Vasquez the John Scott Trotter Outstanding Director Award for his role in their "Let the Music Play All Night Long in 2001." A huge backdrop featuring the MTV logo won the Best Sets Award for Alpha Phi and Phi Gamma Delta.
There should have been a special award for this year”s Songfest Company, which featured not only outstanding ensemble performances, but also fine solo vocal work. And where did they get those tap dancers? Barry Spanier directed a polished orchestra in professional quality arrangements by Derek Breshears, Tony Powell and Greg Michael.
"Saturday Night Live" comedian Martin Short was an effective host, skipping and dancing through numerous set changes and providing witty commentary and humorous transitions.
With 11 competing groups, five Songfest Company numbers, and an alumni presentation (which proved, as Short put it, "just how ageless good taste can be") the program was well over three hours long.
STUDENT SENATE WRAP-UP
Student officers concerned with internal reorganization
By Aaron Van Curen
Assistant City Editor
The past semester has been one of internal change and little else for the Student Senate.
In a speech to the senate during recent officer elections, Kevin Bumes, executive assistant, said of the year, "Student concerns were neglected while we talked about internal matters."
With few exceptions, the Student Senate meeting agendas for the spring semester show that Bumes was right. Reorganization and other internal matters took precedence over a lighter agenda of student concerns during the spring meetings.
But Mike Singer, senate president, said that student concerns weren't neglected while internal matters were debated because the senate's research action units spent all of their time addressing student issues. "A lot more things happened behind the scenes,” Singer said.
The senate has indeed addressed most of the student concerns that they set out to in their 1984-85 agenda, and Singer said, “I leave very satisfied with the accomplishments of this senate."
The internal matters were important for the senate to consider, Singer said.
He said that a radical reorganization of the senate structure
—	a highly-debated topic most of the semester — was "one of the most beneficial exercises of the entire year." He said it increased awareness of the senate and its operations by forcing the senators and the university
University blacks given top awards
By Charisse Jones
Staff Writer
Outstanding black students, faculty and alumni received honors at the seventh annual Tommy Awards Sunday held at the Commons Restaurant.
Charles Neal Belk II, a senior majoring in electrical engineering, and Tanya Diggs, a senior majoring in business administration, were awarded the Bill West '"Student of Students" award for outstanding overall achievement among black students this year.
Master and Mistress of Ceremonies William Allen Young and Frances Weldon presented the awards, given to present and past students and staff, for extracurricular, as well as academic, achievements.
The nine award categories are student of students, class, departmental, organizational, "the extra mile," outstanding faculty, outstanding staff, outstanding alumnus and 32nd Street Magnet School Achievement.
Charles Belk, left, is awarded the Bill West Student of Students Award by Bill West and Yvonne Thomas, Southern California queen and USC alumnae.
The 90 minute presentation and dinner, which also featured entertainment, attracted 160 people.
Though in previous years up to 500 people have attended the awards. Trade Stokes, chairwoman of the event, said the Tommy Awards was still a success, even though she did not have enough money to adequately handle 500 guests.
Stokes said letters are written to heads of departments, as well as student relations personnel, to nominate students they feel
are outstanding in their departments. The Naval and Air Force ROTC's also submit nominations, while black campus organizations select those members who excel in academic and extracurricular achievement.
Students nominate their fellow students, alumni or staff, for the extra-mile award — given to those who who have achieved and offered a great deal to the university. Nominees from all categories are con-(Continued on page 6)
community to look more closely at the senate.
The reorganization stirred controversy among the senators, who debated the proposals for five consecutive weeks, finally deciding on a restucturing plan at a special sunrise meeting.
The lengthy discussions and occasional bickering that accompanied the reorganization,
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though time-consuming, were also beneficial to the senate. Singer said the senate had been criticized during the fall semester for not sufficiently discussing the issues they addressed, a point on which the senate certainly could not be faulted during the spring semester.
Through its research / action units and in between debate on internal matters, the senate took action on student concerns.
As a result of senate prompting, a pub will open on campus for the fall semester. Original pub plans put the facility on the second floor of King Hall, but the senate accepted a smaller facility in the basement of Commons when the other location
was determined to be financially unfeasible.
Disabilities Awareness Day, held by the senate in February, demonstrated to students and administrators the problems of campus access for handicapped people. Some of the participants had to find their way around campus blindfolded; others had to get around in wheelchairs.
An Explore 'SC campaign was held March 20 to point out the academic resources available on campus and to urge students to achieve academic excellence.
The Council of Presidents, an organization that has long been provided for in the constitution but was inactive, was re-established by the senate to provide a forum for the presidents of the recognized student organizations on campus to exchange ideas and have input to the senate.
Bumes, senate executive assistant and the organizer of the President's Council, said re-establishing the council was one of the senate's major accomplishments of the year.
Bumes also worked for the establishment of the Student Network Committee, which he hoped would "develop effective methods of communication between the senate and the student body in order to increase their interaction and the exchange of information between student groups."
When the Program Board wanted to pav Wally George to speak on campus, a number of students, led by Paul Ballard, president of the Gay and Les-(Continued on page 6)
Senior to be awarded for community service
By Nancie Mack
Staff Writer
An award will be given to an outstanding student Tuesday, April 23, but it is not for athletics, academics or work done through involvement in an organization or committee.
Instead, a graduating senior will receive the Extraordinary Community Service Award in recognition of his or her exceptional contributions to the community surrounding the campus.
This year's finalists are Chrisandra Home, public affairs; Michael-Jon Martinez, political science and English; Bernard Walker, international relations; and Caroline Ytom, psychology'.
The award will be given in Grace Ford Salvatori Hall at a ceremony and reception co-hosted by Grace and Henry Salvatori from 4 p.m. to
6	p.m.
Last year's winners — Susan Short, international relations and French, and Maureen Curran, gerontology — will present a plaque and a check for $1,000 to this year's single recipient.
The award originally did not include money, but two years ago the Salvatoris established an endowment so the winning student would also recieve a monetary prize,said Barbara Gardner, director of urban affairs in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
The following year, another Salvatori endowment was established to finance the reception, which gives members of the community and university staff, faculty and students a chance to socialize, Gardner said.
The winning student's name will also be engraved on a permanent plaque in the GFS foyer, where everyone can see it "for the next 150 years," said Gardner.
Five students have received the award, administered by the Office of Urban Affairs, since it began in 1981. The award expresses the
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