Drama students deliver despite poor sound in powerful, sad ‘Evita’
See Performance, page 7
Protests at Howard U. were racist
See Viewpoint, page 4_
(A rough in the Trojans’ diamond
See Sports, page 16_
Volume CVIII, Number 44	University of Southern California	Friday, March 17, 1989
New election rules: Candidate can’t run
Senate cans Segal, may ban others
By Bryan Culp
Staff Writer
At least one candidate in last week's Student Senate election will not be allowed to run in next week's election, senate officials said Thursday.
Andrew Segal, a senior who ran for Graduate School senator in the first election, was disqualified by a senate ruling Wednesday night, said Hanh Cao, I election and recruitment commission chairwoman.
Cao, who Wednesday replaced the resigned Aaron Goldman, said other candidates may be disqualified today after background checks are completed.
Graduate schools are being asked if graduate candidates are in their school; Greek candidates are being confirmed with their national headquarters, and other undergraduate students are being checked with their housing priority filings, Cao said.
"Candidates have to sign under oath that they are moving to another constituency if they want to represent a different constituency than the one they're in now," she said.
Segal was disqualified because the senate's constitutional definition of a graduate student was changed March 1, she said.
"We passed a by-law amendment that defined graduate status as someone who has completed a semester of graduate work here at USC," Cao said. "This didn't apply to the first election, but we voted Wednesday that it would apply to this one."
Cao said the decision was part of her plan to tighten up election rules.
"It wasn't targeted at Andrew (Segal)/' she said. "With under-grad students, we know they will be at USC until they get their diploma, whereas graduat-(See Senate, page 10)
Joust a Little Dangerous
CLAY WALKER / DAILY TROJAN
Mistress Jenny defeats Sir Christopher on Thursday In a broadsword combat demonstration. The historical performers are from “Past Times With Good Company,” semipro actors who recreated Renaissance revelry with song, dance and 15th century crafts all afternoon.
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In Brief
From the Associated Press
WORLD
AWOL soldier turns up, charged with espionage
FRANKFURT, West Germany — An American soldier who vanished for 11 days has been charged with giving East German offidals U.S. plans for defending the border against a Soviet bloc assault, the Army said Thursday.
Spec. 4 Michael A. Peri disappeared from his unit near the East German border Feb. 21. The 21 -year-old soldier from Laguna Niguel, Calif., turned himself in 11 days later.
The 5th Corps said nothing about the information Peri allegedly provided the East Germans and did not mention a possible motive.
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Law Center does best in state Bar Exam
86.7 % of first-timers pass test, outscore Stanford, UCLA, Cal
By Jennifer Yang
Staff Writer
Law Center students taking the state Bar Exam for the first time had the state's highest passing rate, beating out UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC Davis and UCLA, according to statistics released Wednesday by the State Bar of California.
Of the 165 students from USC taking the bar exam for the first time last July, 143 passed, giving the university an 86.7 percent passing percentage.
This rate was the highest percentage among California-accredited law schools
approved by the American Bar Association.
"The success on the California Bar Exam is tied very closely to the quality of the school," said Scott Bice, dean of the law school. "USC has a very strong student body. You would expect them to do well."
Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley's law school, had the next-highest passing rate with 86 percent.
Stanford had a 85.4 percentage, and UC Davis had 81.1 percent. UCLA was fifth with 80.7 percent of their students passing the bar on their first try.
Students who pass the exam earn the right to practice law in this state. The three-day exam is given semiannually in July and February.
As a whole, 52.5 percent of the 7,186
people taking the exam last July passed. This group included those who had already failed the exam and were retaking it.
Of the 4,792 people taking the state bar exam for the first time, 66.2 percent passed — the highest percentage since 1979.
The overall improvement in last year's pass rates for people taking the exam for the first time is attributed to the higher quality of students entering law schools.
"The applications to law schools have been going up, but law schools have not been increasing their class size," Bice said.
The increased number of applicants has allowed law schools to choose better students from a greater selection pool.
Depicts gang warfare
Student documentary nominated for Oscar
By Chris Eftychiou Staff Writer
A student-produced film titled "Gang Cops," which depicts gang warfare from tht perspective of police, is an Academy Award nominee for best short-subject documentary, a spokesman for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Thursday.
The students, Thomas Fleming and Daniel Marks, were part of the university's master's program at the Center for Visual Anthropology when they made the film in 1987.
The documentary details the work of the gang division of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department as it
tries to intervene in gang conflicts.
"It's about the relationship between police and gangs and the complexity of that relationship," said Maries, who is earning a doctorate in the university's social anthropology program.
Marks described the film as a dispassionate view of an important and current issue. The 30-minute documentary is a 16mm, black-and-white production and contains no narration.
"It's timely, and it deals with a relevant issue. It would also be nice to think they nominated it because it is well made and provocative," Marks said.
The nomination was "very exciting and unexpected," said Fleming, who
works for Fox Television Center and is producing "Citizen Flynt," a one-hour television documentary about Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt.
"Of course you want your work to be recognized, but you don't realize that as a student film it will be nominated for an Academy Award," Fleming said.
Research for the project began in 1‘986, and the film was completed during the summer of 1987, said Marks, who shares Fleming's appreciation of the nomination.
"It's a great honor to be recognized by the academy and to be invited to those glamorous, prestigious awards," (See Oscar, page 6)