Trojans almost let game slip away vs. Lions but come Raring back in 9th
See Sports, page 28
Israel’s fine line between peace, war
See Viewpoint, page 5___
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Campus racism isn’t black and white
See Feature, page 9
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Volume CVIII, Number 51
University of Southern California
Wednesday, April 5, 1989
In Brief
From the Associated Pres*
NATION
Egyptian president can’t stop violence
WASHINGTON — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Tuesday he sees no way to stop the violence on the West Bank and in Gaza that has taken more than 400 lives since Palestinian Arabs began their revolt nearly 16 months ago.
After meeting with Secretary of State James A. Baker III for two hours, Mubarak said, “If anybody could stop it, we would be very pleased,” then asked, “But how?”
STATE
AIDS organizations commend cartoonist
SAN FRANCISCO — Cartoonist Garry Trudeau's comic strip depiction of unfounded fears surrounding the AIDS epidemic will help people laugh at their own foolishness, AIDS organizations predicted Tuesday.
“Humor is a great tool for dealing with fear and with despair,” said Lance Henderson, finance director of The Names Project, which is producing a giant memorial quilt for those who have died from AIDS.
WORLD
Soviet-style reforms aren’t universal cure
HAVANA — Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev told the Cuban legislature Tuesday that Soviet-style reforms are not a universal remedy for all Communist countries.
In a speech before the Cuban National Assembly, Gorbachev also proposed that a “zone of peace” be established in Latin America and the Caribbean, and renounced any Soviet intention of establishing naval, air or missile bases in the region.
INSIDE
Viewpoint...................................... 4
Komix............................................. 6
Feature.............................................9
Sports.......................................... 28
WEATHER
Today —
Clear with high in mid-90s, low in mid-60s Thursday — More of same with high in upper 80s
For the Cause
MATT COBLEIGH / DAILY TROJAN
Betty Friedan, a pioneer of the feminist movement and a visiting professor In the School of Journalism, speaks Tuesday at the “Abortion: A Presentation of the Issues” debate. See story, page 3.
Student fees won’t fund legal clinic
By Chris Eftychiou
Staff Writer
Students will not foot the bill for their own legal clinic, according to a tally of ballots from last month's canceled Student Senate election, senate President Phil Clement said Tuesday.
Students voted 878-715 against paying $4 on their feebills to finance a clinic that would offer free legal advice.
Tabulation was completed last week by the university's Testing Bureau, which traditionally compiles Student Senate election results, Clement said.
The referendum was the only portion of the March 6-10 election held valid.
The remainder of the ballot results were not tabulated after the judicial council nullified the election because of fraud.
Dave Simon, senate vice president and a Law Center graduate senator, introduced the referendum to the ballot.
Simon asked the judicial council to allow tabulation of the referendum, and the council agreed that campaign violations did not influence that part of the election, he said.
The results are unfortunate, Clement said, because “the clinic would have been a very practical service. But I'm willing to accept this as a mandate from the student body."
Students' legal problems most often involve rent and landlord advice and auto violation problems, he said.
"Everybody ends up coming across litigation at one time," Clement said.
The legal clinic envisioned by Simon would consist of a full-time attorney and assistant.
The attorney would employ law students to do research on an internship basis, he said.
(See Clinic, page 3)
Students protest mistake in Spanish exam schedule
Departmental dates set a week too early, break school policy
By Tracy Imes
Staff Writer
The rescheduling of final exams for lower-division Spanish classes, to correct erroneous information passed out by the Spanish department, has upset many students who now must take exams a week after they had expected to bid "adios" to their class.
The department's schedule listed the grammar portion of the Spanish exam for the last week of April, when classes will still be in session, said Rafael Ferradanas, basic language coordinator.
University policy specifies that final exams may not be held prior to finals week.
"There was a mistake in the printouts and no one noticed it until I was p re poring the final exam materials and saw that the dates couldn't agree with university policy," Ferradanas said.
"I guess you could say it was my mistake. Students who have problems should see me and we will try to accommodate them."
Ferradanas sent a memo March 24 to teaching assistants, instructing them to
The department's schedule listed the exam for the last week of April, but final exams may not be held prior to finals week.
inform students of the mix-up and to tell them that exams will be held according to the finals' schedule in the spring course catalog.
But Lauren Buissan, a student enrolled in Spanish 220, said many students were informed of the error too late in the semester to change their reserved flights out of Los Angeles.
Buissan said many students had already made arrangements according to the incorrect date on the class syllabus.
Ferradanas encouraged students with scheduling conflicts to see him individually.
Buissan said students in his class had signed a petition to change the date of their exam, but Dotty Pin, staff assistant to Provost Cornelius Pings, said no class petition was received Tuesday by the Academic Policy and Procedure Committee's deadline.
Because no petition was received, Pin said, Spanish exams will be given on the dates listed in the Spring Course Catalog.
Freshman in crew
Student leaps onto PCH from limousine, dies
By Tracy Imes Staff Writer
Jason Sc halier, a university freshman, was killed on his 19th birthday in an alcohol-related accident near Malibu during Spring Break.
Schaller, a resident of Parkside Apartments and member of the men's crew team, had been under the influence of large quantities of beer and tequila when he jumped out of the rear door of the limousine he and his girlfriend were riding in, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.
The limousine had been traveling at about 30 mph on Pacific Coast Highway, the spokesman said.
Schaller, who suffered serious head injuries, was airlifted to UCLA Medical Center but was pronounced dead on arrival.
Schaller was described by those who knew him as an energetic person with many friends.
"This is a tragic loss It's hard for us to believe," s aid Becka Rhee, a resi-