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Volume C. Number 54	University of Southern California	Mondav. April 7, 1986
Program may lower crime risk
Student Senate proposes community watch system
By John Frizzell
Feature Writer
Some day soon, "McGruff," the crime prevention dog, may be roaming our campus. That is, if a proposal made by Student Senate member Lily Araya and approved by this year's senate is enacted next year. Her plan is to start a neighborhood watch system on and around the campus.
Arava says she got the idea over the summer. At the start of the
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KSCR wins in competition
Collegiate press association gives station awards
By Daisy Ridgway
Staff Writer
The largest collegiate press organization in California has recognized KSCR for excellence in broadcast journalism in three areas, including an award for best news magazine format in a radio talk show.
The awards were presented during the 37th annual convention of the California Intercollegiate Press Association, which was held in Irvine on March 22.
KSCR, one of 52 members of the CIPA, entered the competition in seven categories and received third-place honors for best radio news magazine, and two second-place awards for best sports play-by-play and best radio sportscast.
Gordon Gary, a sophomore majoring in broadcast journalism and political science, placed third in the news magazine competition for a 15-minute segment of his radio show on adult children of alcoholics.
Chris Lee, a senior journalism major, and Harvey Drut, a junior print journalism major, together took a second place award for a five minute play-by-play of the last minutes of the football game against UCLA, in which quarterback Rodney Peete scored a touchdown, winning the game for the Trojans.
The other second place award went to Todd Karli, a junior, for producing a detailed five-minute sportscast headed with
Foreign students air problems
By Gerhard Taeubel
Staff Writer
A panel of eight foreign students addressed the difficulties that many international students face while attending universities in the United States at an informal discussion in the Seaver Science Building on Friday.
The focus of much of the discussion centered on misconceptions that exist at the university about international students.
Noshir Contractor, a Ph.D. student in communications, said the popular belief that all foreign students are only interested in narrow fields of study, and not a broad, liberal education, is largely an
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A participant in the Forum on Comparative Educational Practices.
extension of the educational systems of the international students' respective countries.
In many nations, he said, students are pressured to specialize in certain fields in order to find employment in the competitive job markets.
He also said communication is a major problem for international students in making course selections.
"One of the problems international students face is inexperience," said Contractor, a native of India.
He related the experience of a foreign student who was interested in studying zoology, but, because of a pronunciation problem with her English, was advised to enroll in sociology classes by a professor who mistook her career objective.
As a result, the woman is now a famous sociologist, even though zoology had been the major she had intended to study.
"The moral of the story is. Take some time, and don't just get caught up in the label of liberal education,' " Contractor said.
Dixon Johnson, director of the Office of International Students and Scholars and moderator for Friday's discussion, said another criticism often made of foreign students is that they do not orally participate in class discussions.
Hee-Won Kang, a Ph.D student in the School of Education from South Korea, said that cultural factors make it difficult for foreign students to orally respond in classes.
In Korea, the role of the student is not to question the professor, but to absorb the material taught in class, she said.
"It's not that you don't want to ask questions; you're not supposed to," Kang said. "They test you about facts, not creative thinking."
In addition, Ndinzi Masagara, a Ph.D. student in linguistics, said that in Zaire, the conception of the role of the student differs from that of the United States. In the African nation, students are expected to almost "beg" for instruction, he said.
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news of the St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals prior to the first game of the world series.
Karli was also responsible for starting KSCR's nightly "Sports Shop," which is a formal program within the radio newscasts, often highlighting
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unknown and interesting facts in sports.
"(KSCR) made the progress in two-and-a-half years that most stations make in 20 years," said KSCR's general manager, Pat Reilly.
"It's the people who work here," Reilly said. "They dive into (their work) like a religious experience."
Drut said he enjoys his work even though the KSCR audience is not large.
"My concern here is what I do, not how many people know about it," he said.
CIPA, established nearly 40 years ago, is an organization dedicated to the training and critiquing of print and broadcast journalists at California's four-year colleges and universities.
KSCR has been a member of the CIPA since December.
Among its 52 members, there are 24 daily and weekly collegiate newspapers and fifteen collegiate radio stations. All of the members are eligible to participate in their annual journalism competition, which offered awards in about 45 categories this year.
There were about 70 professional print and broadcast journalists judging the competition, most from prominent papers and broadcast stations around the state.
About 300 people attended the two-day convention, hosted by UC Irvine's weekly New University. The convention also offered seminars on topics such as ethics, feature writing, investigative reporting, and photojournalism.
Student leaders to meet regularly with academic affairs group next year
By Aaron Van Curen
City Editor
Student leaders regularly meet with the Board of Trustees' Student Affairs Committee, providing input on the state of student affairs. But, beginning next year, students will also regularly meet with the board's Academic Affairs Committee.
Senate President Pauline Ng and Wally Bobkiewicz, the senate's academic affairs chairman, were invited to and attended last Wednesday's meeting of the Academic Affairs Committee.
They were invited to the luncheon meeting because of the role the senate played in the recent self-accreditation report that the university has prepared for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
But the approximately six trustees on the committee, which is headed by trustee Gordon Marshall, decided that the meeting was a good idea and made plans for it to become an annual event.
"The Board of Trustees needs to know student concerns on academic matters because that is probably the most important thing in the university," Bobkiewicz said after the meeting.
During and after their lunch with the trustees, Ng and Bobkiewicz answered questions from the trustees, focusing on libraries and a new seminar program for freshmen.
Ng told the trustees that students feel the library system needs substantial improvements.
They passed on students' needs for more study space, better security and better resource materials in the libraries.
Ng told the committee that she was happy with plans to construct a new teaching library, which will house books and materials used in daily studying and will commit Doheny to research materials.
When the student representatives told the trustees that students leave the university to use libraries at nearby universities, Zumberge said this was an embarassment to the university, but assured the committee and the students that library improvements were one of his top priorities.
The USC Freshman Seminars program, which the students detailed to the board, will put first-semester freshmen in touch with
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