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Volume CVIII, Number 32	University of Southern California	Wednesday, March 1, 1989
Pep Talk
MATT COBLBQH / DAILY TROJAN
Mickey Rooney addresses senior citizens Tuesday in Alumni Park to promote the L.A. Marathon walk, which winds through campus Sunday as a slower-paced precursor to the main event.
Foreign admissions fall; computer snafu blamed
By Jeordan Legon
Staff Writer
A 13 percent drop in international student enrollment from last year- may be blamed on a computeAbnor, admissions officials said Tuesday.
This year's figures list the number of international students enrolled at 3,486 — 279 less than last year, the Office of International Students and Scholars reported.
Because of a fault in a new computerized admissions system, many students never received applications, said Brad Spencer, as-
sistant director of international admissions.
Prospective students in the United States called the university to report the error, but many foreign students did not call and so did not apply.
"I don't know the specific number of students who did not receive applications, but I can tell you it was significant enough to cause the decrease/' Spencer said.
Spencer dismissed this year's figures as a one-year slump that (See Admission, page 3)
LAS will drop 3 deans’ jobs, add new post
By Chris Eftychiou
Staff Writer
The College of Letters, Arts and Sciences will eliminate three key administrative positions and create a new post titled dean of student services and special programs, LAS Dean William Spitzer said Tuesday.
The people whose positions are being eliminated are Stephan Moore, dean of LAS advisement; Joseph Kertes, associate dean of humanities and social sciences, and Peter Shugarman, associate dean of natural sciences.
The new dean will serve to coordinate student programs better and will oversee matters previously handled by all three positions, Spitzer said.
"Hopefully we’ll be able to serve students better," he said, indicating a current lack in central coordination for LAS' student services.
Spitzer said he is acting on suggestions presented to him by an eight-member committee established last December to investigate ways to improve student services.
The committee chairman, David Eggenschwiler, said the changes “come very close to what we recommended."
Eggenschwiler, an English professor, said the restructuring has nothing to do with the performances of the "very effective" people holding those positions.
Spitzer said the reorganization is not to save money.
"It's questionable whether there's going to be savings," he said.
Shugarman and Kertes declined to talk Tuesday about the reorganization, and Moore could not be reached for comment.
Shugarman and Moore are professors, but Kertes holds no other position here. Kertes will be offered another position, Spitzer said.
"He is a very good person — effective and conscientious — and we have no intent of losing his services," he said. Spitzer did not say what Kertes' new duties would be.
Programs that will come under the coordination of the new dean include LAS publications, the returning students program and the summer scholars program, Spitzer said.
"I was delighted because it seems to bring together a whole group of programs that were previously acting out of different offices," said David Fox, director of those programs.
The urban affairs studies program and Joint Educational Project will also come under the coordination of the new dean.
"It sounds like a good idea," said Barbara Gardner, director of the urban affairs program. "It will provide a way for the associate programs to work together."
Richard Cone, the JEP director, also welcomed the creation of an overseeing position.
"When there are meetings of deans and divisional deans, there's no one there to look after our interests. Now there will be," Cone said.
Applications for the position will be accepted until March 20, he said. The other positions will be eliminated by Aug. 31.
Victim blames fight on fraternity, may sue USC
In Brief
WORLD
Soviet magazine attacks Communist Party power
MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent state-run magazine criticized the Communist Party on Tuesday, accusing it of spreading “political lies” that deceive the Soviet people.
The unprecedented attack in the literary monthly Novy Mir also questioned the rationale of the 20-million-member party’s legal monopoly on power, saying that genuine democracy will be impossible until open dissent is permitted within its ranks.
NATION
Fewer 12th graders use illegal drugs, study says
WASHINGTON — Drug abuse among high school seniors continued to decline last year, reaching the lowest level since 1975. Still, one in every two seniors tries an illegal drug before graduating, according to a national survey released Tuesday.
Researchers and health officials said they are particularly encouraged by results showing the second straight drop in cocaine use.
LOCAL
Student body president wasn’t enrolled, resigns
(AP) — The student body president of California State University, Northridge has resigned after admitting she hasn’t been enrolled there since taking office last year, officials said.
Lynn Westlund, 23, told the university on Saturday that she enrolled for the fall semester but was dropped from the university after failing to cover a bounced check for school expenses, officials said. Westlund earned $550 a month as president.
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WEATHER
Today —
Partly cloudy with high in upper 60s. Thursday — Possible showers with high in mid-60s.
By Kad Anderson
Staff Writer
The victim of Thursday's brawl at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity filed a complaint Tuesday with the Office of Student Conduct and says he may sue his assailants, the fraternity or the university.
Shaun Droke, 22, a student at San Diego State University, received more than 20 stitches above his left eye after being knocked unconscious in a fistfight involving five fraternity members during a party at the house, he said.
Droke discounted a previous descrip-
tion of the fight by Beta member Rob Antrobius, who claimed only one fraternity member was involved.
Antrobius mispresented the facts, Droke claimed, to place the responsibility for the incident on an individual rather than on the fraternity.
Though Antrobius said Droke was hit by an unknown person who fled the scene, he retracted his statement Tuesday, saying that he was not a witness and could not be certain.
Antrobius also said fraternity members are certain there were "altercations" in-
side the house, but lawyers have instructed them not to say who was responsible.
"Whether the incident occurred inside or outside the house, it is ultimately left to the courts to decide who is liable," said Ken Taylor, director of Greek life.
Droke, acting on the advice of his lawyer, said he also will fill out a police report to make sure the incident is investigated.
Droke had hoped to model for a Los Angeles agency, but he said his injuries may prevent him from that work.
(See Betas, page 3)