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Volume CVIII, Number 30
University of Southern California
Monday, February 27, 1989
In Brief
WORLD
Mullah wants Soviet ties to help fight ‘evil’ west
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said Sunday he wants strong ties with Moscow to help fight the “evil” West.
Khomeini’s overtures to the Soviet Union, which he previously condemned for its atheist ideology, came during the first formal contact between Iran’s revolutionary mullah and a foreign minister, a meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze.
STATE
UC bias against Asians not systematic policy
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Although some admission policies at UC-Berkeley have been biased against Asians, a draft copy of a faculty report released over the weekend concluded that the university has not carried out longterm, systematic discrimination.
But the report also found that in 1984 and 1987, Asians were singled out by policies that should have allowed about 50 more Asian students to be admitted each year.
LOCAL
Santa Monica shaken by minor earthquake
A small earthquake jolted Los Angeles and its coastal regions Friday evening, but authorities said there were no reports of injury or damage.
The tremor measured 3.9 on the Richter scale and was recorded at 5 p.m., six miles southwest of Santa Monica, according to a spokeswoman at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
INSIDE
Security Roundup------------------------ 2
Viewpoint..................................................3
Komix............................................. 6
Sports..________________________________________ 16
WEATHER
Today —
Hazy skies, sunny and cooler, high in mid-70s
Tuesday —
increasing clouds, high in 70s, low in upper-SOs
Soaking It In
ALENA TAM / DAILY TROJAN
Rich Blagden, a junior majoring In business, is absorbed in his reading as he soaks his feet Thursday in the inverted fountain by Bing and Norris theaters.
Human rights funding cut
Senate diverts $2,000 from awareness week to finance Springfest
By Kristine Kennedy
Staff Writer
A cut in funding from the Student Senate has angered sponsors of Human Rights Awareness Week, who had ex-pected to receive up to $2,500 for the week's events.
Almost 80 percent of the money was diverted to help fund Springfest, a sponsor coordinator said Friday.
The controversy comes two weeks after student program leaders accused the senate of misapportioning $11,000 in carryover funds to finance Springfest.
Yves Tremblay, human justice affairs chairwoman, was hired by the senate to help coordinate human rights activities throughout the year.
Tremblay said the senate's funding stance for Human Rights Awareness Week changed suddenly about two weeks ago.
"I was initially told I had $2,500, then it was a few hundred," she said Friday. "I thought this was going to come off great
and we would be able to help fund them. I was told we were basically supposed to save money for Springfest.”
The awareness week starts today and continues to March 4. Several campus groups will feature speakers, concerts and displays to promote awareness of worldwide social injustices.
One of the week's primary sponsors. Policy Alternatives for Central America, has spent almost $3,000 of its own money, Tremblay said.
"They hired (Tremblay) to make a fool out of herself, because she offered all this money and then all of a sudden it was taken away," said William Rodriguez, the group's project coordinator.
"We were hoping for the senate to pick up some of the finances, and that hasn't happened," Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez and Tremblay did confirm, however, that the senate paid $150 last week for a sound system to be used at a March 4 concert. Tremblay said she has also used some senate funds for odds and ends such as fliers and VCR rentals.
"The senate's contribution this year is about $500," said David Simon, student senate vice president. He said the sen-
(See Cuts, page 10)
Senate: Late filer can run
By Bill Swindell	k
Staff Writer
The Student Senate judiciary committee ruled Friday that the election recruitment chairman "set a double standard" and "broke the senate constitution" when he allowed four students to place their names on the ballot after the Feb. 2 deadline, but denied a fifth applicant the same privilege.
The committee ruled that Derek Reeve will be allowed to run for a Greek senate spot because the five-day extension was never officially announced.
Gage Hutchens, committee chairman, said that election chairman Aaron Gold-men "set a double standard by allowing some people to turn in late applications."
"Had you vocalized and extended the deadline you would not have broken the constitution," Hutchens told Goldmen at the end of the hearing.
A total of 20 senate seats from five constituencies will be filled by the election, which runs from March 6 to March 10.
Reeve said he knew of the extended Feb. 7 deadline a day in advance, but missed it because of an illness.
Goldmen and Phil Clement, senate president, said they decided to extend the deadline because it would increase the number of candidates.
Feb. 7 was selected because it was the last day that candidate statements could be submitted for publication in the senate magazine, SCene, Goldmen said.
"The students are so apathetic about the Student Senate right now, and I thought if I extended the deadline it would show there is more apathy in that students didn't turn in applications," Goldmen said.
(See Committee, page 10)
‘He broke my nose ’
San Diego St. student beaten at Row party
By Vivien Lon Chen
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btan writer
Paramedics treated a non-university student Thursday night after he received cuts on his eye, nose and forehead from an unknown assailant in a brawl at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house.
Fraternity members said it was the first fistfight at the house reported to police in almost three years.
Shaun Droke, a San Diego State University student, was too intoxicated to give police a description of the assailant, said Sgt. Dave Young of the Lee Angeles Police Department.
However, police are following up a witness' account, Young said.
Police and paramedics, who were called before security, found Droke lying near a two-foot cement wall shortly (See Fight, page 10)