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Children in USC’s shadow get taste of ‘big school’
Hoover children’s center serves local families
By Kaci Anderson
Staff Writer
"Snakes don't need faces/' said Muso Ibraghim, 4, proudly pointing to a paper serpent he decorated with colored felt and construction paper.
"Let me show you the puppy book they read at storytime/' he continued, grabbing Spot the Dog from behind The Alphabet Book.
Muso and 15 other children in the
Hoover Intergenerational Child Development Center class spend each weekday on activities to develop their language and reading skills.
Muso's teacher, Sylvia Spiller, is a day care veteran and one of four teachers at the center, which opened Jan. 10 across from University Village on Hoover Street.
Thirty-two children, ages 2 to 5, are enrolled at the center, said Wilma Kiel,
director. By this fall, the dty-funded facility will accommodate an additional 73 children and begin a before- and afterschool program for low- to mid-dle-income families.
"The intent of the agency is to serve the working parents in the community," Kiel said. She was not sure how many of the 100-plus names on the preschool's waiting list are associated (See Children, page 2)
In Brief
WORLD
Union Carbide will pay $470 million to India
NEW DELHI (AP) — Union Carbide Corp. agreed Tuesday to pay $470 million to the government of India in a settlement resulting from the 1984 gas leak at Bhopal that killed more than 3,300 people in the world’s worst industrial disaster.
Activists in Bhopal denounced the settlement as a betrayal of the 20,000 victims who still suffer from exposure to the deadly gas, which escaped from a pesticides plant Dec. 3, 1984.
NATION
1.500	couples line up to marry in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Long lines formed at the Marriage License Bureau, and 25 wedding chapels braced for banner business as some
1.500	couples prepared to tie a Valentine’s Day knots.
Twice a year — Valentine's Day and New Year’s Eve — harried workers in this bureau at the Clark County Courthouse experience the city as the wedding capital of the world.
STATE
FBI videotapes sheriff during sting operation
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Yolo County Sheriff Rod Graham, who faces bribery, conspiracy and extortion charges, was secretly videotaped by FBI undercover agents as he met a federal informant and other figures in the case, a federal judge was told Tuesday.
The tapes are part of dozens of recordings, both audio and visual, made by federal agents during their investigation of Graham.
INSIDE
Viewpoint....................................... 4
Komix............................................. 6
Security Roundup........................ 6
Performance....................................7
Sports.......................................... 20
WEATHER
Today —
Mostly clear with highs in upper 50s to 60s Thursday — Cloudy with chance of rain, lows in mid-40s
Volume CVIII, Number 24	University of Southern California	Wednesday, February 15, 1989
Dirty Dancing
MATT COB LEIGH / DAILY TROJAN
Goar Palandzhyan (left), an undeclared freshman, struts her stuff Monday with Vincent Johnson, a.k.a. Mr. Animation, during a Black History Month event.
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Row funds won’t go for liquor in fall
Kevin Cullinane
Staff Writer
Fraternities will not be able to use chapter funds to buy alcohol, and the legal drinking age will be enforced on the Row as of Sept. 1, the Office of Residential and Greek Life said Tuesday.
The university will comply fully with state law and a new alcohol policy for fraternities nationwide, said Ken Taylor, director of Greek life, in a memo dated Jan. 13.
The rule states all members under legal drinking age cannot be involved in the purchase, delivery or consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Approved by the National Interfraternity Conference and the National Panhel-lenic Conference, the policy also prohibits the use of fraternity funds for alcohol purchases.
In a retreat at Catalina Island last weekend, representatives from fraternities and sororities discussed the responsibilities the policy will give them.
Taylor said the "much more stringent" guidelines will force fraternities to "face up" to alcohol abuse on the Row, and will reduce liability suits against fraternities and the university.
But problems with alcohol also exist outside the Row, Taylor said.
"There's alcohol abuse everywhere: in residence halls, among the alumni, at football games and on the Row," he said.
The policy requires that each fraternity must draw up a written alcohol enforcement plan by March 17 that abides by state law.
Fraternities are now being forced to comply with rules that have always existed as university policy, Taylor said.
The 13 university sororities are not af-
(See Alcohol, page 6)
Red Cross: A ‘critical shortage’ of blood
Students encouraged to donate pints for drive
By Chris Eftychiou
Staff Writer
Kicking off an intense university effort to help alleviate a serious countywide blood shortage, Student Senate members will begin sign-ups today at Tommy Trojan for a March blood drive.
Last month, the American Red Cross
said Southern California faces "the most critical shortage in the community blood supply ever experienced."
The regional supply is 6,000 units (pints) short, said Steven Kleinman, medical director for the Los Angeles-Orange County Red Cross.
Hanh Cao, senate public relations chairwoman, has written a senate proposal urging the university to participate in the blood drive on March 1 and 2.
"There are over 30,000 able-bodied stu-
dents, faculty and staff at USC, and only 101 participated in the last Student Senate blood drive," Cao wrote in the proposal.
"I want this to be one of the most successful blood drives in the history of USC," she said Tuesday.
The resolution has set a goal of 170 units this year.
Cao said the senate has challenged other campus organizations to help end the blood shortage.
(See Blood, page 3)
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