USC and UCLA team up to boost volleyball — see SPORTS
Freshman enrollment sets record
scores for the same group of students is 1,039. The breakdown is 487 mean verbal and 552 mean math."
"We’re told by budgeting to go after a certain amount of students for enrollment each year, and we go after them. We also go after an increase in the quality of the incoming class, which is extremely important."
Olson credits automation and upgrading with the increase in enrollment. "The recruitment methods have vastly improved with the use of automated mailings of personalized letters to potential students, in addition to the improved image of recruitment publications," Olson said.
"There has also been a tremendous uplift in the recruitment staff. They travel to over a thousand high schools to inform students about 'SC and what it has to offer.
"We capture inquiries about children as early as their freshman year in high school. We start sending them material and brochures so that by the time they are ready for college they know all about the university," Olson said.
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Volume XCIX, Number 8	University	of	Southern	California	Thursday,	September	12,	1985
Police try new tactic on Greeks
LAPD uses foot patrols on 28th Street as a way of improving relations
By Carrie Brown
Staff Writer
Student Senate begins new year enthusiastically
By Nancie Mack
Staff Writer
Amid some parliamentary confusion and difficult wording, the Student Senate held their first meeting of the year Wednesday night and began tackling the agenda they developed three weeks ago at their summer retreat.
Kevin Burnes, senate vice president, opened the session by saying, "It's time the tires hit the pavement" and the senate organize and prove itself.
This was accomplished by passing several resolutions that offered support and suggestions for dealing with campus problems and concerns, but the senate gave few specifics.
The senate approved a resolution offering support for resident advisers in their effort to maintain qualified, diversified applicants by preserving "equitable compensation and incentives."
"If the RAs quit we'll have havoc on this campus," said Pauline Ng, senate president. Ng said she and Mark Decker, a student community senator, had maintained RA morale and had helped avoid a strike by promising senate support.
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Officers from the Southwest Division of the Los Angeles Police Department have started a foot patrol of the Row in an effort to improve their relations with its residents and prevent confrontations like those that have occurred in the past.
"We've tried to get the officers working that area to get out on foot when they have time and talk to people on the Row," said Capt. Tom Elfmont. "We'll try to get up to 28th Street as much as we can so people get used to seeing us.
"When you're out of the car people come up and talk to you," Elfmont said. He expects that students will approach the officers first to initiate conversation. Elfmont said this personal contact should eliminate antagonism between Greeks and police officers.
"I think the whole attitude is that we want cooperation, and they (the fraternities) w’ant to help," Elfmont said.
James Dennis, vice president of student affairs, said relations between fraternities and the LAPD are better, following a meeting between the two last spring, and should stay that way as long as fraternity members realize that "because they live on 28th Street, they don't have special status."
Dennis said there was a confrontation between the LAPD and fraternity members last spring when a fight broke out on the Row and police were called in to help stop it. That incident prompted the meeting between the two groups to help prevent further problems, Dennis said.
Police are rarely called out to the Row, Dennis said. When they are, he said it is usually community members calling to complain about "loud noise, late-night music, and excessive rowdy-ism."
Dennis estimated that up to 3,000 students live on the Row.
"28th Street is not a special zone where that behavior can take place without repercussions or some type of response," Dennis said. "They (the LAPD) will treat the citizens on 28th Street the same way they would treat any other citizen in Los Angeles."
Dennis said the meeting last spring was "very fruitful and helpful," and there have been no further incidents since then.
Jon Lammers, president of the Interfratemity Council, said the actions taken so far are "not so much a result of what happened last
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Mainstream Republicans, an alternative to Trojan College Republicans, sign up members on Trousdale Parkway.
New Republican group recruits
By Nancie Mack
Staff Writer
The Trojan College Republicans, the campus Republican or-ganizatior now has some competitioi Republican Mainstream began recruiting members on campus two weeks ago and represents itself as "a new competition within the party."
The university was the first university on the organization's list of 17 schools in this area. Mainstream currently has about
1,000 members nationwide, said Ken Ruberg, a founding member on the organization's national board of directors.
Mainstream policies to be discussed at this university include the standard Republican themes — reducing the deficit and maintaining a strong defense. But the organization is also working to improve environmental protection, uphold civil rights laws and reject the Moral Majority's dictates.
Recruitment here has resulted in the sign-up of 300 to 400 students, said Zorast Driver, a sophomore majoring in political science and co-founder of the campus chapter.
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Matthew Gaven
Staff Writer
The freshman class enrollment for this academic year set a milestone as the largest and smartest in the university's history.
"This year's (class) is the largest in terms of applications, admissions and admission deposits," said Tom Meyers, assistant director of marketing and communications for the Office of Admissions.
"There were approximately 9,600 applications received —
6,000	admissions and 3,000 tuition deposits," Meyers said.
"The size of the incoming class has presented us with a
bigger work load, but it hasn't taken us by surprise. Each year the office sets a goal for the amount of incoming admissions. For the past three years we have met that goal. Our goal this year was approximately 3,000," Meyers said.
Approximately 30 percent of the applicants for admission were out-of-state residents. The three predominant feeder states are New York, Illinois and Hawaii, Meyers said.
The remaining 60-65 percent of the applicants are from California, he said.
"In addition, the freshman class possesses the highest grade point averages and SAT scores of any class admitted," Meyers said.
Mark Olson, director of administrative information resource systems, said, "The mean GPA for newly enrolled domestic students for this semester is 3.31. The mean SAT