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AT&T donates $2,000
Money goes to minority fund
By Corii Berg
Staff Writer
Armand Ramos Reynolds, director of the minority engineering program, has high hopes for a substantial donation to the USC Mexican-American Alumni Association Scholarship Fund from the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
He has already received $2,000 from the company and said he thinks the chances of being awarded an additional 523,000 are "extremely high."
On Oct. 29, the School of Engineering was awarded the AT&T donation, which will be matched two for one with a $4,000 donation from the alumni association.
"It is a substantial and very important donation for Mexican Americans. The fund will help highly qualified students come to USC and study engineering
—	students that would not be
able to do so without it," Ramos Reynolds said.
If AT&T were to make the additional donation, Ramos Reynolds explained, it would be put into an endowment fund along with the other donations. The endowment's interest would provide several scholarships for top students each year.
"I know that we have a very good chance of receiving the maximum amount because AT&T and USC have had very close ties in the past. They know that it would benefit them as much as it would benefit the individual student," Ramos Reynolds said.
Norman Shaer, the AT&T representative who is responsible for the donation, was not available to comment on when the university would be notified of the $25,000 donation acceptance. Ramos Reynolds indicated that he thought the school would be notified by the end of the semester.
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Deborah Hill and David Sherman (center) from AT&T present a contribution to Armand Ramos Reynolds (far right) and Raul Vargas, to be used for the USC Mexican-American Alumni Association Scholarship Fund.
JOEL ORDESKY DAILY TROJAN
TROJAN TODDLER — This little fella, lost in thought sitting on a campus bench, beat the spring rush by checking out the uni-versity early._________________________
Volume XCIX, Number 58	University	of	Southern	California	Tuesday,	November	26,	1985
Senate group says no to new elections
By Sean Grady
Staff Writer
The decision to hold a new election for two graduate senator positions was overturned last Monday by the Student Senate's Committee on Governance. The proposal for the new election was made in response to a complaint from one candidate who claimed that one of the victors did not adhere to the rules of the election.
The committee also reprimanded Mohammed Nuran Nabi Sarker, who won one of the seats in the election, and Elections Commissioner Joe Siau for failing to comply with a section of the elections code dealing with campaign materials.
The committee's actions were taken as a result of a complaint filed by Michael Aronson, a candidate in the Oct. 18-Nov. 1 graduate student senator elections for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. He accused Sarker of improper campaign conduct.
According to the Student Senate election code, all campaign materials must have a stamp of approval from the Election Commission before they are distributed. Siau, as election commissioner, is responsible for stamping and signing these materials.
When Sarker took a handbill to get the stamp from Siau, Siau misunderstood Sarker's request and sent him to the Office of Student Activities for approval of the handbill for posting, said David Crandall, director of Student Activities and a member of the committee.
Because Sarker did not have the Election Commission stamp on his handbill, the Elections Commission decided on Nov. 12 to invalidate the results of the election and "to hold another election with all candidates eligible to run again," as stated in the minutes of the Committee of Governance meeting.
This decision was overturned when the committee determined that the lack of the stamp did not affect the election results, Crandall said. All parties involved, including Aronson, agreed with this point, he said.
The committee also determined that while Sarker failed to obtain proper approval, which is "a significant violation" of the code, he did not do so with malicious intent, Crandall said.
Sarker won the election with 43 votes, with William Townsend receiving 11 and Aronson getting only seven, Crandall said. Sarker's clear victory was one of the factors in overturning the Election Commission's decision, he said.
The committee determined that while Sarker was responsible for not ensuring that his material had the necessary approval, Siau failed to properly approve Sarker's handbill, Crandall said.
Both Sarker and Siau were reprimanded at the meeting, Sarker for not complying with the Elections Code and Siau for failing to approve Sarker's campaign material, he said.
"Sarker came upstairs (to the Student Senate office) as I was leaving" and asked if his handbill looked good, Siau said. Siau gave Sarker a few suggestions for improvement and asked him to leave a copy of the handbill in his mailbox.
Sarker did not ask for a written stamp, Siau said. It was determined at the meeting that, at the time, Siau had thought that the stamp of approval for posting was adequate.
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StaffA ssem bly elections to end on Wednesday
By Stephen Lawson
Staff Writer
The Staff Assembly, which represents the nearly 5,000 staff members on both campuses of the university, is conducting its annual elections this week.
The 60-member assembly serves the staff in university governance just as the Student and Faculty senates serve those groups, said Mike Klineman, staff assembly president. It makes recommendations to the administration on issues such as benefits, parking rates and pension plans.
Each year, 30 members are elected to serve two-year terms on the assembly. Those elected in this week's election will serve through calendar years 1986 and 1987.
Seats ir the assembly are allocated for departments in the university and for employee grades. An employee's grade, from one through 12, determines his salary and benefits.
Jean Keene, chairwoman of the assembly rules, nominations (Continued on page 2)
Bells in VKC toll once again
By Stacy Sadowski
Staff Writer
As students mingled on campus during lunchtime Friday the familiar, but lately unheard bells sounded from Von KleinSmid Tower for the first time in over two weeks.
The chimes, produced in Bovard and amplified from VKC, were worked on by engineers who blamed improper maintenance for the silence. There were "a lot of little things like a disconnected wire" that caused the system to fail, said Rubin Adams, one of the engineers.
Maas-Rowe Carillons, Inc. installed the symphonic system which looks something like a harp. They continue to'service the controller. The carillon is an automated playable instrument run bv a mechanical clock and is tuned in third and fifth harmonics to create the bell sound.
"It's a beautiful system," Adams said. "It would be ideal if it could be updated and renovated."
Judging from the then newest equipment, Adams estimated the system to be 15 to 20 years
old. Evolutionary changes have been made in equipment since then. The outdated amplifier uses tubes which bum out and are difficult to replace, David Buser of Maas-Row'e said.
"Solid state technology is much better," Buser explained. The more recent type of amplification involves transistors and is "less expensive, and uses less energy, current and space."
The controller was fixed Friday, although another problem in VKC was being investigated by the university Physical Plant.