Material Girl grows up, leaves ‘boy-toy’ image like a prayer
See Performance, page 12
Bradley faces easy day at polls today
See News, page 2
Affirmative action isn’t a fair policy
See Viewpoint, page 5
Runner overcomes a tough upbringing to go the distance
See Sports, page 24
Volume CVIII, Number 55	University of Southern California	Tuesday, April 11,1989
Medical school gets $33 million for AIDS study
Renewal enables research to go on
By Tara Sheehy
Staff Writer
AIDS research will continue in the School of Medicine, thanks to a gift of $33 million the school received last month — the largest research contract ever funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
The contract is the continuation of a previously awarded five-year, $27 million project issued in 1984, said Dr. James Mosley, the study's chief researcher and professor in the School of Medicine.
The study initially established a repository of 200,000 blood samples taken from donors in late 1984 and early 1985, shortly before the AIDS antibody
screening test became available.
The collection of blood samples is the largest repository of its kind, Mosley said, and will be kept indefinitely.
The blood samples were screened, using the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) antibody test, and positive donors and their recipients are studied every six months, the statement said.
Those conducting the study are paying special attention to people who have received infected blood but never contracted AIDS. New techniques will be used to study why these people resist the disease, and to exclude the possibility that AIDS actually did develop.
Another aspect of the project has been to follow carefully the changes in the blood of 3,100 people, said the project's co-di-(See Research, page 3)
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Ted Lange (right), who played bartender Isaac Washington on “The Love Boat,” speaks Sunday in Bovard Auditorium with David Watts, president of the Afro-American Film Assn. Lange, a former instructor in the cinema school, spoke about the 1972 concert film “Wattstax.”
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Many seniors have not passed math exam
Diplomas to be withheld until students can prove proficiency in basic skills
By Kyra Phillips
Staff Writer
As May draws near, anxious seniors await the day they've all strived earnestly for — graduation.
But students who have not passed the math proficiency exam will not receive diplomas, and two additional testing dates have been set to keep that number to a minimum.
"It's not that students aren't passing the test," said Hudhail al-Amir, associate director of the Testing Bureau. "They've just procrastinated or haven't realized that they need to still take it."
But Molly Graham, a senior majoring
in political science, said thousands of seniors like herself haven't passed the test and won't receive their diploma.
"No wonder they added two additional dates for the test recently, because there would be a lot of seniors not graduating," she said. "This happened before, last year, because my sister was in the same position and I know parents were just irate."
Amir said students plan to take the test in the summer or think they can waive it, but then forget to take the test altogether. Finally, when they are about to graduate, they find they aren't eligible for a diploma, he said.
"I get concerned for the students who just don't do anything about it," he said. "Hopefully these extra dates will motivate them to sign up."
Graham disagreed, saying the reason that seniors are in this position is because
the test and its preparatory class. Math 04Qx, are programmed for failure.
"The class's literal instruction was not only dry and unmotivating, but you couldn't understand the TAs," she said. "If so many students are failing, then why isn't the test offered every day?"
Amir said officials at the Testing Bureau wouldn't mind giving the test every day, but that would be up to the math department.
A policy was initiated last fall that required entering students to pass the exam or enroll in Math 040x, a zero-unit class with a price tag of nearly $3,000.
The old policy required students to complete the class or pass the test by their third semester.
Students who have not fulfilled the requirements can't register for classes or receive a diploma.
(See Exam, page 15)
Brigham’s ‘dream come true’
Senate leader hopes to make a difference
By Jeordan Legon
Staff Writer
Three years ago when junior Tara Brigham stepped on campus for the first time, she knew she wanted to be more than a student. She knew she wanted to make a difference.
So during her second week at the university in 1986, she met with Student Senate President Wally Bobkiewicz, to leam about the senate and find out how she could make an impression here.
Bobkiewicz gave Brigham more than just advice.
"You're going to be senate president some-
day/
her.
Brigham remembers Bobkiewicz telling
Three weeks ago, when results of the senate election were tabulated, the prediction came true.
Brigham, a commuter senator and political science major, became the fifth woman to be elected president of USC's senate.
The soft-spoken but confident Brigham recalled the prediction Monday, sitting with her feet up on her big, black leather chair in the president's office.
"I never thought much about the prediction.
(See Brigham, page 16)
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President Tara Brigham
In Brief
From the Associated Press
WORLD
Soviet troops fire shots to disperse ethnic rally ,
MOSCOW — Troops fired shots to disperse a rally Monday in Soviet Georgia, and the Kremlin sent Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze to try to end a week of ethnic unrest in his southern homeland that has left at least 18 people dead.
A general strike closed schools, stores and factories and halted mass transit in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital of 1.2 million people, 1,650 miles southeast of Moscow. The government sent troops and tanks to quell the ethnic strife.
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WEATHER
Today —
Fair skies with high near 80
Wednesday —
Patchy fog with high in mid-80s