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Volume XCIX, Number 45
University of Southern California
Monday, November 4, 1985
Student Senate revives class guide
By Tommy Li
Staff Writer
Students looking for general education classes next year will be able to find the inside scoop on classes offered in the Course Review, the Student Senate's new course guide.
The Course Review is a new
'We have lost a lot of credibility. One of our main tasks is to regain the credibility we've lost because of the problems we’ve had in the past.' Course Review editor
Class schedules available now
Class schedules for the spring semester are available at the Topping Student Center for the upcoming semester.
Registration packets have been mailed. If they are not received by Nov. 8, they may be picked up in SAS 010.
H-Stamps will be available on Nov. 11. Registration packets must be turned in by Nov. 13 to enter the R-Class lottery. The lottery will be held Nov. 14.
Pre-registration deadline is Dec. 11; regular registration begins Jan. 6.
version of the Course Guide that was published by the Student Senate until last year.
The Course Review should be available March 3, 1986, the same day the schedule of classes will appear, said Wally Bobkiewicz, editor-in-chief of the review. Bobkiewicz is also
chairman of the senate's Academic Affairs Research Action Unit, which is in charge of publishing the paperback guide.
The Course Guide ceased publication in the spring of 1984 because of typesetting problems and invalid student evaluation statistics on university courses, Bobkiewicz said. The Course Review will be different and will not include any student evaluations, he said.
"We have lost a lot of credibility. One of our main tasks is to regain the credibility we've lost because of the problems we've had in the past," Bobkiewicz said.
The Course Review has been given a budget of nearly $6,000, Bobkiewicz said. The money was allocated from the newlv
created Student Senate discretionary fund, which was formed as a result of a $20,000 donation from the Program Board.
Lori Meloch and Richard Kroon are co-editors of the review.
Kroon, who had been on the Course Guide staff for two years, said he wrote a resolution which asked that the guide be reinstated as part of an amendment to the senate's constitution.
The guide was reinstated last spring as part of the senate's Academic Affairs Research Action Unit, Kroon said.
"We're doing a totally new guide," Meloch said.
She said questionnaires will be sent out to university professors by Nov. 11 asking them to describe their course and their method of grading the course and asking them to include some information about themselves.
Meloch said, "The focus will be on undergraduate lower-divi-sion classes." She added, "We also want to include all the general education courses."
The Course Review will come out the spring of every year, Bobkiewicz said.
It will be published by Griffin Printing in Glendale and will be free to students, Meloch said.
Bobkiewicz said, "We're hoping the Course Review would be something useful to the university."
"I think it can be a very important publication. My main goal is to make it a necessity and not an option — necessity in the sense that it's not required, but that if you registered without it, you'd be making a mistake," Kroon said.
Parking plan revised
Senate reveals meter problems
By Gordon Gary
Staff Writer
The City of Los Angeles will not be installing as many parking meters in the university area as originally planned, after a Student Senate investigation found that many of the drivers who would be affected live near the campus.
The original proposal, put forth by the office of Deputy City Attorney Henry G. Morris in 1983, called for four-hour parking meters to be installed along Vermont Avenue and Figueroa Street between Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to the south and Adams Boulevard to the north. Exposition Boulevard between Vermont Avenue and Flower Street was also targeted for meters.
The senate knew of the proposal two years ago, but Los Angeles City Councilman Robert Farrell did not choose to pursue the project until after the 1984 Olympic Games.
Nancy Calle, Environmental and External Affairs Research Action Unit chairwoman for the student senate, said the original plan was proposed because none of the areas designated in the "USC-Coliseum Parking Meter Zone" were classified as residential. The meters were designed specifically to front commercial zones, where revenues could be collected from
patrons of area businesses.
"I went up and down every one of these streets to determine if any of them were residential," Calle said.
Calle lives in Kerckhoff Apartments, between 27th Street and Adams Boulevard. She found that many of the streets outlined in the proposal, including the ones near Kerckhoff, are filled with cars belonging to student residents.
Farrell talked to the senate about three weeks ago, and Calle told him about her concerns. Farrell recommended a senate task force be formed to decide how to deal with the problem, and Calle went on a tour of the areas in question with one of his planning aides, Connie Meadows.
The proposal then went back to the city council and the Department of Transportation "agreed not to go ahead with the plans," Meadows said.
The senate proposal that was sent to Morris' office calls for various small streets between McClintock, University, Severance and Figueroa, as well as McClintock and Hoover, to be exempted from the parking meter zone plan.
The only objective of the original plan, Meadows said, is "so the city can raise money so people can park in raised structures off of the street."
The parking meter plan was implemented so that revenues could help finance construction of such a structure in the
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Selleck donates funds
Media ethics stressed
By Frank Buckley
Staff Writer
Tom Selleck has donated "a six-figure gift" to the university's School of Journalism to promote ethics in journalism, according to an announcement from the university's public relations office.
The endowment comes on the tails of an out-of-court settlement between Selleck and the National Enquirer in a $36 million libel suit against the tabloid.
Selleck was not available for comment, but said in a press release: "A vital and free press provides part of the very foundation of our system of government. I feel it is very important to further discussions on ethical behavior in journalism, to absolutely ensure the maintenance of the privilege that our press has been given."
Selleck, the star of CBS's "Magnum, P.I.," attended the university in 1967 as a business student, said Susan Heitman, director of periodicals for the university's public relations office.
The amount of the gift has been kept confidential, but the School of Journalism's director, Bryce Nelson, said, "It's a generous gift, and it's in an area (ethics) in which all journalism schools and other institutions could use a lot more effort in."
Nelson said the gift is not the largest to be granted to the journalism school from a private donor, and will not be an "enormous part of the school's expenditures" because the money is directed only at journalism ethics.
But Nelson said the money is a "substantial gift" that will go towards providing scholarships to students who have demonstrated "high concern for journalistic ethics," and also help to bring experts
in journalism ethics to the university as part of a more comprehensive program to study the area.
Currently, journalism professors try to incorporate an ethics component in their classes, and students are offered one class in the responsibility of the media in society, Nelson said.
Selleck filed a $36 million libel suit against the National Enquirer in 1983 concerning articles that appeared in its March 9, 1982 and April 6, 1982 editions.
One of the stories alleged a romance between Selleck and Victoria Principal, an actress who stars on CBS's "Dallas." The other story was titled "T.V.'s Magnum Becomes a Real Macho Man."
The Los Angeles Times reported on Oct. 6 that Selleck had announced in Honolulu that the case had been settled out of court, and that Selleck, in a joint press release with the Enquirer, said: "Contrary to the article, there was no romance between Tom Selleck and Victoria Principal and, in fact, Mr. Selleck had never met Victoria Principal."
The other story "mischaracterized Tom Selleck's lifestyle," according to the joint statement.
The National Enquirer apologized in the statement for "any embarassment or inconvenience" that the articles caused Selleck, and stated, "The inaccuracies in both stories were based on inaccurate sources and faulty information that the Enquirer believed at the time to be correct and reliable."
Selleck's publicist referred questions about the settlement to Selleck's Century City attorney, Jay Lavely. The lawyer would not release any details of the settlement beyond what was given in the press release.