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Volume C, Number 22
University of Southern California
Monday, February 10, 1986
Nobel laureate will discuss non-violent liberation issue
By Roseanne Tellez
Assistant City Editor
The Student Senate has allocated $4,000 to Policy Alternatives in Central America, a campus organization, in order to bring Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel to campus to speak.
Perez Esquivel will address the topic of non-violent liberation in Central America April 8. His speech was made possible with monies allocated from the Stone Fund, a senate endowment used to bring notable speakers to campus.
Perez Esquivel, an Argentinian, is the general coordinator of the Service for Peace and Justice in Latin America, an organization dedicated to making changes in that area through militant nonviolence.
Representatives of PACA invited Perez Esquivel to speak at the university after hearing that he would be touring the United States for one month this spring, said Einar Eisner, a member of the group.
“He's touring several universities in the United States for the first time since 1981. . . .We think it's a golden opportunity tc bring someone (to campus) who represents such a movement in Latin America, a movement that springs from the highest tradition of militant non-violence as expressed by Ghandi,'' Eisner said.
Eisner said he thinks the growing influx of Latin Americans to the Los Angeles area should be of concern not only to university students, but to all people who are affected either directly or indirectly.
"Esquivel is representing Latin America, which this university has, in my opinion, neglected, if not totally ignored. . . .Los Angeles is really considered the second largest Mexican city and the city with the largest number of Central American refugees in the world
—	up to a half a million," he said.
Perez Esquivel is a sculptor and former art professor. He became general coordinator of the Service for Peace and Justice, a church-based network of organizations seeking social justice in Latin America, in 1974. The service was founded in Costa Rica in 1971.
According to information submitted by PACA, Perez Esquivel said the goal of the group is to achieve "change and development. . .through a process of nonviolent liberation.
He frequently travels throughout South and Central America launching campaigns and organizing protests against human
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Committee reevaluates G.E.
Wants 23 classes removed Irom official list
By David Miranda
Staff Writer
The General Education Committee has recommended that 23 classes be removed from the list of courses approved for general education credit.
Statements from two faculty members after the meeting, however indicate displeasure among some of the university's faculty about the committees's recommendations as well as the overall general education review process.
Meeting in a closed-door session last Friday, the committee recommended several changes in the general education curriculum, including the removal of the 23 courses — present and proposed — from the GE list, according to minutes from the meeting.
The recommendations were sent to William Spitzer, interim dean of the College of Letters,
Arts, and Sciences, who will make the final determination of the university's general education program within the next few weeks, said Richard Fliegal, assistant coordinator of the general education program.
The General Education Committee, working off the studies of several sub-committees, evaluated classes throughout the university's general education program as part of a periodic review process instituted at the behest of the faculty in 1979, Fiie-gal said.
The committee also suggested that several other classes that earn general education credit should be revised, though not removed from the list. Altogether, about 50 of the approximately 250 classes in the general education program are affected by the committees recommendations, said Allen Casson, chairman of the committee.
Fliegal added after the meeting, "An effort has been made to clarify for the students how each course fits into its category and how each category contributes to the students' undergraduate education."
The General Education Committee is made up of faculty and student representatives selected by the LAS dean from throughout the College and the university's professional schools, representing the various areas under which the classes in the general education program operate, Fliegal said.
Press access to the Friday gathering was denied, Fliegal said before the meeting, because of possible "frank discussion" between members of the committee about which classes to include in the general education program next semester.
He stressed, however, that there was proper representation on the committee because student and faculty representatives were selected from all divisions of general education.
But a member of one of the subcommittees, whose reports the committee used in their recommendations, had some problems with the review process.
"The whole review process this year was a very unwise decision," said Vincent Farenga, chairman of the comparative literature program and a member of the subcommittee that examined classes in the "Western Culture" area. "Some of us felt we did not have the time. . .to make a sound academic decision because of the number of courses involved," he said, referring to the feeling of his own committee and of the one dealing with "Aesthetic Approaches."
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Altogether, about 50 of the approximately 250 classes in the general education program are affected by the committee's recommendations.
By Tania Soussan
Staff Writer
The Row may be made into a one-way street under a proposal being reviewed by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation.
The use of parallel parking on one side of the street and angle parking on the other would create 43 additional parking spaces, said Jerry Papazian, chairman of the Community Redevelopment Agency's advisory committee on circulation and parking.
Proponents of the change say a one-way street would also be safer because the traffic flow would be slower and easier to control, concurrently reducing the double-parking and speeding problems.
"It would help to alleviate a lot of the accidents that have occurred over the years," said Kevin Bumes, a Greek senator and vice president of the Student Senate.
The Sorority Advisory Council and Councilman Robert Farrell made the 20-year-old idea into a proposal and submitted it to the Department of Transportation before the 1984 Summer Olympics. It was deferred during the Olympics, but a request from the senate has put it back under consideration.
"I think it's a go this time; I really do," Papazian said.
The original proposal suggested having traffic flow up University Avenue and then branch out to the east and west on 28th Street. However, a study found that this would cause problems with access for emergency vehicles and with the heavy traffic flow during large football game crowds.
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GURI DHALIWALDAILY TROJAN
Streetwomen are creating more scandals on campus these days. This Row goddess is one of several road paintings that have led to injuries on 28th Street.
By Daisy Ridgway
Staff Writer
Street and sidewalk painting on the Row, and anywhere else for that matter, is illegal, according to the street-use permit division of the Los Angeles Department of Public Works.
A spokeswoman from the department said the fraternities and sororities that paint murals and symbols in front of their houses and on the streets and sidewalks on 28th Street are "not supposed to be doing that."
The question of the legality of street and sidewalk painting surfaced last Thursday morning when two houses were dted for painting the street.
In one of the incidents, a "non-USC citizen" slipped on wet paint in front of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority house, and was examined by an emergency medical team at the site of the accident at about 8:30 a.m., University Security reported.
The house was cited by security for vandalism.
At 9 a.m. the same morning another security officer filed a report on illegal street painting at the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, and dted the house to appear before the Peer Review Board on charges of vandalism.
Fraternity and sorority members have painted the sidewalks and street areas in front of their houses for over two decades, and the activity has always subjected the houses, the university and the dty to dvil liability should someone be injured as a result of wet or slick paint.
"Do the students know that what they are doing creates a hazard?" asked Richard Hutchinson, a university counsel at the Office of the General
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Vandalism, one
Dept, of Transportation reviews proposal to make the Row a one-way street
-way street proposals affect Row
Security cites two houses for illegal street painting; liable if person is injured