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Volume CV, Number 17	University of Southern California	Friday, September 25. 1987
BAY AREA WEEKEND
Band girds for seasonal fruit attack by ‘classless’ Cal fans
By Leef Smith
Staff Writer and
Shaw’n Pogatchnik
Assistant Citv Editor
"Freshmen to the inside of the band!" will be the call Saturday for the Trojan Marching Band as it steps off for Berkeley's Memorial Stadium.
Every other year, the marching band travels to Berkeley to perform at Memorial Stadium. And every other year, the band is pelted with frozen fruit and vegetables by the Cal rooting section — a dangerous situation at best.
"They are the most undisciplined rooting section in the United States," said Arthur Bartner, director of the marching band.
Festivities on include Spirit
By Karen Kuettel
Staff Writer
Heading up to Berkeley this weekend but don't really know what's going on? Well, whip out that tie or new pair of pumps because the fun begins at 6 p.m. on Friday.
A special alumni rally will be held at the St. Francis Hotel on Union Square Friday evening from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The university band, yell leaders and song girls will march into the hotel at 8 p.m. to liven up the crowd before the main outdoor rally. Students are invited to attend the event. The cost will be $5 per person at the door.
But don't go back to your hotel yet, because
"Until the Berkeley administration is willing to go into their rooting section the minute fruit starts to fly, yanking the people out and suspending them, it's just going to continue until someone gets seriously hurt," Bartner said.
In fact, several members of the band have already been hurt, sometimes seriouslv.
In talking to dozens of band members this week, the Daily Trojan found that all kinds of frozen fruit and vegetables — including eggs, artichokes, potatoes and tomatoes — have left marchers with split lips, cut hands, knee sprains and concussions that have sent at least two people to the hospital since 1981.
"They are the worst, most classless bunch of
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Berkeley trip of Troy, rallies
the real fun stuff happens at 9 p.m. on Union Square. From the St. Francis Hotel, everybody follows behind the band as they march around Union Square, as the Spirit of Trov rings out in San Francisco.
Thousands of students, alumni and avid Trojan fans will be at the outdoor rally, as the yell leaders lead traditional university chants. The song girls, of course, will also perform, so you may want to get there early and get a spot close to the stage.
The featured guest at Union Square that evening wall be Marvin Cobb, assistant athletic director and former university baseball and football player.
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Classes missed due to papal visit to be made up by semester’s end
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DELAY — Students who live in the Greek Honors House will have to wait a little longer for their computers.
Computers delayed at Greek Honors House
By Raquel Caballes
Staff Writer
A conflict in pricing has led to the delay of computer installation in the Greek Honors House.
Installation of computers was scheduled for the third week of September, said Betty Roberts, house mother for the honors residence. "Now it doesn't look to be before Oct. 1," she said.
The room, slated as a computer center for the Row, was previously the "dating room" of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, Roberts said. In preparation for the computer terminals, track lighting was installed last week.
Computer lines have also been installed, saic Rajib Sinha of university computer services.
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By Shawn Pogatchnik
Assistant City Editor
When Pope John Paul II arrived in Los Angeles last week, university administrators — fearing the pope's visit to the nearby Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum would precipitate traffic jami .ind campus-wide chaos
—	decided to cancel all afternoon classes Sept. 15.
In addition, the majority of morning classes were also canceled. Effectively, for university students, an entire day of classes was eliminated from the fall semester schedule.
Now, according to university administrators, the material and "contact hours" missed should be made up — with professors meeting with students at special class sessions either at their homes, during office hours, by extending existing classes or in some other "academically responsible" manner.
"Yes, the university would be very disappointed. . .if classes are not made up," said Robert Biller, executive vice provost, in an interview Monday. "Faculty must make a good-faith effort to meet with their students (and) compensate for contact hours lost. That would be a source of concern if it is not.
"Faculty have a certain
amount of material they have to get covered during the semester," Biller said. "Missing a whole session might not necessarily have an impact in all classes. . .but in a highly constructed class, where you can't get to step three until you do step two. . adequate provisions must be made."
However, random polling of several dozen university students confirmed that few classes missed had been specifically rescheduled. Most students had written off the missed classes as lost.
"1 haven't seen any teachers trying to hold a (rescheduled) class," said Sean Johnson, a sophomore majoring in business administration, who said he had missed two classes. "The teachers seemed just as happy as the students were to get out of class."
Biller stressed in a second interview Wednesday that making up lost teaching time would be left "in the teacher's hands," and as long as it was achieved in an "academically responsible" manner, that was acceptable.
However, most professors have not added additional class time or assigned extra reading, saying that a single class doesn't have much impact over the course of a semester.
"Ideally, the more time you have in class, the better." said Gibson Reaves, an astronomy professor, who spent Sept 15 working at home "But there are always unexpected disruptions. . . You allow for that in planning the class
"I'd like to think it had a negative impact, but 1 know a lot of students loved it," Reaves continued. "It's such a small percentage of the course. . it was wise to cancel classes " Reaves added that he was able to cover class material "in full" without scheduling extra dass tune Other teachers who attempted to hold dass in the morning on 'Tope Day" were plagued by low turnout and said the only way for students to catch up on missed material was to "share notes."
"When a dass ts missed, it should be made up. . ..but it doesn't happen." said Douglas
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No DT Monday
Due to the Bay Area weekend, there will be no Dmdy Trojan Monday. The Daily Tnfan will resume pubbcateon Tuesday.