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Volume CVII, Number 66
University of Southern California
Tuesday, December 13, 1988
Rhodes Scholarship awarded
USC woman is university’s first recipient of award in 14 years
Fall reviewed
Crime up, immunity down, but lines are shorter than before
By Kathleen Berry
Co-Cit> Editor
It began with the shorter-than-short registration lines, an innovation at USC created by Robert Biller, who may be the only administrator in Trojan history to actually garner the respect of students. Biller, as interim director of the Office of Admissions. Financial Aid and Registration and Records, replaced the embattled and harrowed Joseph Merante. who resigned last semestr amid charges of. well, failure.
For a short time, the university bathed in glory. Students, relaxed and content after sidestepping the registration jungle. settled into their couches and prepared for Trojan football. This would be the year of the Rose Bowl. Of the Heisman. (One outta two ain’t bad.)
But just when the administration thought it had the ceiling repaired, the floor caved in.
Attacks of two kinds changed the campus atmosphere from one of praise to malaise. For some 46 students, including star quarterback Rodney Peete. the opponent was the measles. Peete and most others—won the battle, while hundreds of students took a shot in the arm and avoided the skirmish entirely. But the war, health officials say, will continue into next semester.
For several coeds, though, the attacker took on human form—and rape took on a capital “R" in the headlines at USC.
The first incident happened on Saturday. Oct. 29, when a female student was abducted from the Hillview Apartments' parking garage and sexually assualted at another location: the second, on Saturday, Nov. 5, when a female student was kidnapped from the parking garage beneath Regal Trojan Apartments and raped.
Despite beefed-up security, another’ female student was victimized just days later, on Wednesday, Nov. 9. when a man confronted her at the Kerckhoff Apartments’ parking garage and demanded her car keys. The student threw her keys at the man and escaped.
(See Semester, page 13)
By Karen Denne
StaiT Writer
MATT COBLEIQH / DAILY TROJAN
Holly Wyatt, a senior majoring in political science and international relations, is the university's first female Rhodes Scholar. She becomes the sixth USC recipient and the first since quarterback Pat Haden in 1975.
A USC student was awarded one of 32 Rhodes Scholarships last Satruday, becoming the first USC student in 14 years and the first woman in the university's history to receive the prestigious honor.
Holly Wyatt, a 20-year-old senior double-majoring in international relations and political science, is the only California n to win the scholarship.
“I felt like an underdog," Wyatt said of competing with students from Ivy League schools, including Yale and Harvard.
Wyatt has maintained a 3.96 grade point average while wait-ressing 20 hours a week to support herself.
“I’ve waited tables since I was 13." she said. “It’s not the most glamorous position in the world, but it helps pay the bills."
A graduate of San Clemente High School, Wyatt participated in the Resident Honors Program, which enabled her to graduate in three years.
The university’s last Rhodes
Scholar was star quarterback Pat Haden, who won the award in
1975.
Recipients are offered a two-year grant to study at Oxford University in England, all-expenses paid—including tuition, a living allowance and travel budget. Scholars also have the option of applying for a third year of study.
Wyatt competed in the final regional competition last weekend in San Francisco.
“All I could think of was first, ‘Now I don’t have to apply to graduate school,' and second, ‘I wonder if the British are going to like me,' " Wyatt said after hearing the news.
Rhodes Scholars are chosen on the basis of academic and intellectual achievement, integrity of character and leadership ability.
The Rhodes Scholarships^were first opened to women in 1976 after an act of parliament altered the 1902 will of British diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes.
This year. 22 men and 10 women were chosen. Wyatt is the sixth USC student to be given the
(See Scholar, page 3)
Security measures tightened as result of cash, ticket theft
By Colette Maandig
Staff Writer
The Student Senate has increased security measures as a result of a recent theft of $4,000 in cash and discount movie tickets, said Phil Clement, Student Senate president.
With the new security measures, senate officers will be able to check the amount of movie tickets and money in the cash box. The officers would know within an hour if any money or movie tickets were missing. Clement said.
Senators reported last week that money
had been stolen from a fund the senate uses to purchase movie tickets, which are resold to students at discounted prices. Clement said Monday that most of the losses sustained were in the form of tickets.
“The new security system will be well beyond what’s needed,” Clement said. “It's nothing we’re taking lightly.
“If we lose two dollars more from this account, it’s too much,” he said.
‘The Student Senate is instituting a system so that any one of the officers could make sure everything’s balanced,” Clement said. “With the new system, it will be impossible for money to be missing for
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more than an hour without us knowing.” In addition to an hourly check on the cash box, the serial numbers on the tickets will also be checked, Clement said. The numbers on the movie tickets were not used to check the number of tickets sold prior to the theft, he said. The ledgers will also be simplified, he said.
TTiere will also be a limited number of people who will have access to the movie tickets, he said. In addition, movie tickets will be sold only on Thursdays and Fridays next semester Clement said.
(See Senate, page 3)
Computer centers overcrowded during final exams
Students forced to wait in long lines: facilities have limited space, terminals
By Sabrina Thomas
Staff Writer
With final exams just around the corner, the King Hall computer centers above Cafe ’84 have been swamped with students.
Students often wait for over an hour to use a computer because there aren't enough terminals to go around, said Bob Marshall, assistant ma.iager of remote operations.
The University Computing Services facility holds 37 Apple Macintosh computers and 22 IBM personal computers and laser printers for both the IBMs and the Apples.
The Apple computers receive the heaviest use, Marshall said.
“The demand for the Macintosh is exceeding the amount we have available for use,” he said.
“Before, people were just using PCs and terminals. Now they’re
learning how to use the Macs'. People are realizing that they aren't that hard to use.”
Ed Chung, a junior business administration major, said he recently spent the night at King Hall while typing a self-analysis report for a business class.
“I didn’t finish my paper until 8:30 in the moming, and there was a one-hour wait to use the computers the whole night through, Chung said.
Increased demand for computers was related to the time of the year, Marshall said.
“At the end of the semester, we
usually experience a greater influx of students wanting to. use the computers."
Besides having to wait to use the computers, students often can’t find consultants to help them with their questions.
“After waiting an hour to use the computer, I find it really frustrating to have to wait another half an hour just to find someone who works there,” said sophomore Annika Schneider, a psychology major.
“It seems like they don’t have enough people working there to
help you if you get stuck." she said.
“We’re short on staff,” Marshall said. “But we are making efforts to hire more people to work as computer consultants.
“Right now, we don't have enough staff members to cover all the hours that the center is open.” Marshall said.
The consulting facility was moved recently, leaving many students confused about where to turn for help, said Kristen Sullivan. a computer consultant at the library satellite, which is adja-(See Computers, page 3)