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Volume XCIX, Number 54
University of Southern California
Wednesday, November 20, 1985
By Matthew Gaven
Staff Writer
University President James Zumberge spoke to students, faculty and university senators Tuesday at a reception honoring the student and faculty members of various university governance committees.
The Town and Gown reception, hosted by the Student Senate, was highlighted by Zumberge's first public appearance since he underwent surgery for prostate cancer six weeks ago.
Zumberge described his recovery as being “on target."
Show date correction
In yesterday's Daily Trojan, it was incorrectly reported that a PBS science program by Professor Timothy Ferris, of the School of Journalism, was to have aired last night. It will air tonight at 10 p.m. on KCET, channel 28.
The Daily Trojan regrets any inconvenience or embarassment this error mav have caused.
"I'm encouraged to see progress on a week-to-week basis," Zumberge said. "I'm slowly starting to work back to my normal schedule. I should be back to a full schedule around the first of the year."
Zumberge said that he has been advised by doctors to curtail extensive meetings and long work hours that do not allow him time to rest during the day.
In addition, Zumberge said that he was advised to cancel all travel plans for the month of November. These plans included a trip to the Mirage Bowl in Tokyo, Japan and a speech in Chicago.
Asked if he was pleased with the way his presidential affairs (Continued on page 2)
Almost 700 candle-carrying Greeks walked for hunger Monday night, raising between $4,000-$8,000. The walk was scheduled for last week but was rained out. Obviously the banner was good enough to use twice.
Greeks hold candle walk
Donations aid community
By Joan Whitney
Staff Writer
Members of the Greek community marched in a candlelight walk Monday night and carried canned foods as part of a donation to the local community. The Greeks also presented a check to the student affairs chairman, which was money they had raised during last week’s starve out for the national effort, "The United Fraternities and Sororities for Africa."
Jon Lammers, the president of the Inter-Fra-temity Council, said they expect between S4.000 and SIS,000 from the starve out.
Over 700 Greeks participated in the candle walk, which started on 28th street and ended at Tommy Trojan. Each Greek carried a can of food which was dropped in a box at the foot of Tommy Trojan.
The candle walk was supposed to have taken place last Monday, but was cancelled because of rain.
The Inter-Fraternity council had projected that 1,500 to 2,000 Greeks would turn out for the event.
The Greek community turned the cans of food over to the Student Senate to be used in the Thanksgiving food drive competition against UCLA. Last year was the first year of the challenge.
The canned food from the drive and the Greek system will be distributed by the Student Senate to the local community through St. John's Episcopal Church, Ward American Methodist Episcopal Church and the Rakestraw Community Center.
Sororities and fraternities at this university raised money through the starve out on Tuesday, Nov. 12 as part of a national effort. Meals were not served in the houses on that date and the money saved was donated to "The United Sororities and Fraternities for Africa," a newly-formed coalition of Greek systems across the United States that raises money for the starving in Africa.
Canned food for the Student Senate food drive may be dropped off with any resident advisor and there is also a bin at the foot of Tommy Trojan.
Green water drinkable, DWP says
By Terry Allen
Staff Writer
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has said that the university's tap water, which many students have complained about because of its greenish tint, is at least safe enough to drink.
Housing officials first became aware of the situation when residents of Cardinal Gardens Apartments complained that they were able to smell their tap water which was coming out of faucets clouded light green.
"The water was yellowish-green in color and smelled moldy," said Ian Lapidus-Saltz, a safety officer for the university's Department of Housing and Residence Halls. "Some people were concerned and called to tell us it looked funny."
Samples of the suspect water were promptly collected from outlets in Cardinal Gardens and other housing complexes for laboratory analysis.
"When we were alerted to the problem, we made the effort to find out about it," said Leo Vanhoof, assistant director of housing. "We took samples and turned them over to the DWP for chemical testing. They told us that a big percentage of L.A. was being affected."
"It's not a university problem," said Valerie Marshall of the University Safety Office, which deals with university environmental and health concerns. "It must be dealt with internally—by the DWP itself. They're just going to have to su-perchlorinate their water. But there's really nothing we can do."
Officials from the DWP attributed the water discoloration to an algae build-up in city reservoirs, but said laboratory tests demonstrated that tap water is safe for consumption, Vanhoof said.
Lapidus-Saltz, who also manages Troy Hall on campus, (Continued on page 2)
Zumberge makes first campus visit since undergoing surgery
First annual ‘Challenge’ is lacking Bruins
By Corii Berg
Staff Writer
Troy Week continued yesterday, even without the anticipated participation of UCLA students, in the form of the first USC Challenge, a four-event contest open to four-member student teams.
Members of the Air Force ROTC team won round-trip tickets to San Francisco as the victors of the challenge, sponsored by the Program Board and Trojan Pride. Events included a pie-eating contest, an obstacle course, a tug-of-war and a So Cal yell-off.
Originally, the challenge, held in Alumni Park, was to be a competition between students from this university and UCLA. However, because there was no response from UCLA, five teams from this university competed against each other.
Students from Naval ROTC, the Student Senate, and the Alpha Phi and Pi Beta Phi sororities made up the other teams. The Alpha Phi team received hotel accommodations from the Marriott for its second place finish, while the Pi Beta Phi team was awarded a free dinner for placing third.
"It was wild and I'd definitely do it again. I hope next year the pies are chocolate," said Eric Koenig after consuming a Marie Callender's lemon meringue pie. Koenig, a member of the winning team, is a senior majoring in electrical engineering.
"We've been training for this all year and we were really fired up for the event. The fact that we are winning is largely due to the fact that we were training in the pouring rain while the other people stayed in bed at home," said Darryle Grimes, also a senior majoring in electrical engineering, after producing a comeback first-place finish for the Air Force team in the obstacle course event.
After the obstacle course and (Continued on page 2)
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