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Volume C, Number 57	University of Southern California	Thursday, April 10, 1986
Trojanfest aided Search for a sponsor ends with AT 8c T
By Sigal Rose Kletzky
Staff Writer
The executive director of the Program Board made the right choice not to phone home when he needed money to fund a week-long, action-packed party-Instead, he called AT&T.
Eager to create a lively, upbeat campus spring festival, Michael Palmieri set out to find a major corporation to sponsor the university's first annual Trojanfest.
"(We want) to start something which hopefully in four or five years will rival with UCLA's Mardi Gras," Palmieri said.
Palmieri attended two National Association of Campus Activi-ties-sponsored conferences, in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., to familiarize himself with the techniques of market organization and corporate sponsorship.
As of late November, Palmieri began working with the Alan Westin Co., a marketing organization, in search of a possible sponsor to fund Trojanfest.
After issuing a proposal requesting S12,000 to alumnus Vic Davis, program coordinator for Alan Westin, Palmieri was told he would receive $9,000 from American Telephone and Telegraph, as part of an underwriting agreement.
However, when Dining Services denied the Program Board permission for an International Food Fair, the donation was reduced to 55,500.
As a symbol of gratitude to AT&T, Palmieri said all the telephone company's logos were printed on publicity items.
Moreover, the Trojanfest T-shirts are blue to represent the color of the AT&T globe logo.
Palmieri said all the money he received from AT&T, which came in two installments, went to production of Spring SCircus, which will be held at the Olympic Swim Stadium tonight from (Continued on page 3)
BENILDA SANDAN DAILY TROJAN
Human Rights Awareness Week continued Wednesday with the 5K Race Against Opression, sponsored by the Student Senate’s South African Task Force.
Chomsky will be at Bovard to discuss security policies
By TaniS Soussan
Staff Writer
Noam Chomsky, a renowned pioneer in linguistics and a well-known authority on U.S. foreign policy, will discuss "U.S. International and Security Policy: How the System Works" at 7 p.m. today in Bovard Auditorium. Admission is free.
Chomsky is an Institute Professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an honor bestowed on only 10 or 12 faculty members, most of them Nobel Prize winners. He is a recognized expert on U.S. foreign policy and has written numerous books and articles.
After a press conference and reception, Chomsky will address students and faculty on U.S. policy’ in the Middle East and Central America, said Shelly Smith, a graduate student in linguistics who is coordinating the speech.
There will be a question and answer discussion after the talk.
Chomsky was scheduled to speak at UCLA yesterday and at UC Irvine on Fridav. He is also giving a series of linguistics talks in the area. Because he was in Southern California, Smith said she asked Chomsky to give a speech at the university about politics. He gladly accepted, she said.
The speech is sponsored by graduate students in linguistics, journalism, communications and international relations.
Chomsky has a special interest in U.S. foreign policy toward the Third World and can offer students a fresh view on a variety of topi-
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ROCCO GARCIA DAILY TROJAN
WALLY BOBKIEWICZ	MARK DECKER
Residence hall senator wins Student Senate presidency
By Aaron Van Curen
City Editor
Wally Bobkiewicz, a sophomore public administration major and residence hall senator, was elected president of the Student Senate at its Wednesdav night meeting.
Bobkiewicz, the outgoing chairman of the senate's Academic Affairs Research / Action Unit, defeated three other candidates on two ballots to win the election.
On the first ballot, no candidate received a majority of the votes and a runoff vote was conducted between Bobkiewicz and Mark Decker, a just-appointed graduate senator from the School of Education.
Decker, however, was elected vice president.
Decker's eligibility for the election was in question until the last minute.
He declared his interest in the election last week, but at the time, he was not a senator, nor had he even been admitted to the School of Education.
His acceptance into the school came earlier Wednesday in a letter from Kathryn Forte, director of admissions, and his interim appointment to the senate was subsequently made by the Education Graduate Organization, filling the position vacated by Carolyn Winters.
Only then was he able to nominate himself for the presidential race. After Bobkiewicz's vic-
tory, Decker was nominated for the vice-presidential race.
Bobkiewicz ran on a platform of increasing the senate's role as student representatives. "The Student Senate should be recognized by students as their voice. The senate has to rise to this challenge by never losing sight of its main objective: representing students," Bobkiewicz wrote in his position paper.
As president, Bobkiewicz will serve as chief spokesman for the senate and student body, serve on several university committees, and appoint several key student government positions, among other duties.
The vice president presides over senate and cabinet meetings and appoints reasearch / action unit chairmen, among other duties.
In addition to Decker, Bobkiewicz defeated Donald Sutton and Steve Berens for the presidency.
Bruce Clausen, a graduate senator from the Music School, was elected graduate speaker and Anthony Gatti, a Greek senator, was elected undergraduate speaker.
Paul Goldman, a graduate senator from the
Business School, won the elction for graduate program board chairman.
The new officers assume their positions immediately.
Roseanne Tellez contributed to this story
Student killed in car accident on freeway near San Diego
By Matthew Gaven
Staff Writer
A freshman journalism student was killed this weekend when the car in which he was traveling struck two vehicles that were blocking the two left lanes of Interstate 5, just south of San Clemente, early Sunday morning.
The student, 19-year-old Sean McDonald, was sleeping in the rear seat behind Robert Delur-gio, 18, who was driving a 1975 Volkswagen convertible, when the accident occurred at about 3:55 a.m.
Officer Tom Sollie, of the California Highway Patrol's San Juan Capistrano division, described the events that led up to the collision as a "tragic case of misfortune."
He explained that the car in which McDonald was traveling, struck a 1969 Porsche and a vehicle which was assisting the Porsche.
The Porsche had spun-out and hit the highway's center divider a few minutes before the collision. The highway was wet from a steady rain.
Sollie, reading from a police report, said, "The driver of a second vehicle stopped to see if he could assist . . . the driver of the first vehicle. They talked for a while and decided that it would be best to push the first vehicle to a nearby off-ramp."
Sollie said the driver of the second car used his car to push the Porsche off the highway. As the Porsche was being pushed, the driver steered his car to the east, directly across the highway. The car stopped, blocking the two left lanes of the four lane, northbound highway.
"We have no reason as to why the driver steered his vehicle in that direction," Sollie said. The careless decision may have been caused by the fact that the driver of the Porsche, Donald Hughes,
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