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Volume C, Number 56	University of Southern California	Wednesday. April 9, 1986
JOEL ORDESKY DAILY TROJAN
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Registration permits incorrect
Country of citizenship baffles students
By Tommy Li
Staff Writer
Packets containing registration materials for ext semester were mailed out last week, but many students are baffled about the country of citizenship listed on their forms.
“I never thought of myself as Japanese,” said Wendy Waters, a junior majoring in public administration, whose country of citizenship was printed out as Japan. Waters is a U.S. citizen.
Waters said she called registration and records and was told that 80 percent of the student body had an error in the country of citizenship blank.
"Even though I have faith in the system, I have a question mark in my mind," Waters said.
"So far, we've received approximately 300 or 400 phone calls" from students who asked why their country of citizenship had been changed, said Fred Dear, associate director of registration and records.
"The data has always been correct (in the computer system). It was just a printing error," Dear said.
Students have also complained that the instructions on how to use the return envelope
provided in the packet are unclear.
The University Computing Center was responsible for the printing errors. Dear said.
Tom King, interim executive director of university computing services, said a new printing program was written to replace the old one because there was a change in format in the registration packet.
When the program was written, it was not checked for errors. "We just weren't careful
enough, I guess," King said.
The space marked "country of citizenship," on most student forms, lists the wrong country. King said that in some cases the country listed was in fact the country of citizenship of the previous student in the computer.
The printing error has lead some students to think twice about the university's computer system.
"There's so much fooling around with this system, it kind (Continued on page 7)
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Course catalog will supplement 14 independent school bulletins
By Daphne Nugent Staff Writer
As of May 1, a new course catalog will supplement the 14 different ones that the university's schools and colleges now issue independently.
The new University Catalog will contain information on major requirements, course offerings and university policies that a student of any major needs to know.
"It will be the document of authority on these issues, so that a student can get a clearer picture of the university as a whole," said Linda Clingerman, director of University Publications.
According to Vice Provost Sylvia Manning, the new catalog has been in the planning stages for 1 1/2 years.
There were two main reasons for changing the system, Manning said.
The first was to make it possible for students to collect information about curriculum in one place and have it to
refer to throughout their stay at the university.
The second was to establish one publication in which the university could publish all of its rules.
"A lot of the motive for creating this also comes from the students' confusion regarding the multiple bulletins,"
The new catalog will he available in the bookstore May 1 for $3.50.
Manning said. "Not only were the students confused, but the high school counselors were too. They would get one catalog from other universities and fourteen different ones from us."
Manning also said she hopes that the new 648-page catalog will make it easier for a student to design a double
or multiple major.
"If a student wanted to double major in two different schools, he or she would have to have access to all of the bulletins," Manning explained. "Often, a student wouldn't even be aware of a program's existence if he or she didn't see the bulletin from that particular school."
The new catalog is intended to clarify the situation for these students bv publicizing all of the information about each major in every department of every school in one catalog.
"It will just be a place wrhere you can go to be informed, browse, or just find out the regulations," Manning said.
The new catalog will be available in the bookstore May 1 and costs S3.50. Every new student entering the university as of next fall will be given a free copy.
Nobel laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel (far left) at the Peace Center Tuesday after his talk in Bovard. with (from left to right) Blaise Bonpane. Malcolm Boyd and Patricia Reif.
Esquivel ties rights violations with false Latin democracies
By Gordon Gary
Staff Writer
Nobel laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel told a crowd of about 200 in Bovard Auditorium Tuesday that human rights violations in Latin America must be attacked at their source.
Structural domination, Perez Esquivel said, has existed in the Americas since its conquest by Europeans during the 14th Century.
"This always bothered me, because I wonder what they discovered," he said, reminding the audience that advanced civilizations were already in place when European explorers arrived.
The most important issues in Latin America today are its external debt from world trade restrictions, its human rights violations and the democratization of nations, he said.
"When we speak of the violation of human rights, we tend to restrict it to jail-ings and tortures and other blatant
forms," he said through an interpreter.
"But if we don't attack the causes of the violations, we will always have to live with the effects of the violations," he said.
The $380 billion external debt in Latin America cannot and will not be paid off until unfair domination ceases to exist in the world and money that is spent for militaristic aims is used for democratic aims.
"How can it be that a country in Latin America (that is) potentially very rich is each day becoming poorer and poorer and more miserable?" Perez Esquivel asked.
"None of this would be occurring if there was true democracy in our (Latin American) countries," he said.
Democracy and justice must be real not just formal, and international banks based in wealthy countries must low’er interest rates to allow small agrarian econo-(Continued on page 8)