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Volume CIV, Number 53
University of Southern California
Tuesday, April 5, 1988
2 university researchers win national awards
By Karen Denne
Staff Writer
GILMORE MARA / DAILY TROJAN
MICHAEL KIM DAILY TROJAN
Assistant professors Edward Goo (left) and B. Keith Jenkins winners of the Presidential Young Investigators Awards, both received national recognition for their engineering research. As will get at least $25,000 each year for five years.
Edward Goo was having his teeth cleaned when he found out. B. Keith Jenkins first heard about it on his answering machine.
The two assistant professors in the engineering department won Presidential Young Investigator Awards last week. The federal government has granted them each at least $25,000 a year for five years to conduct university research projects.
Goo, 31, an assistant professor of materials science, won the award to continue his research in the materials science field.
Goo's research interest is in structure-property relationships — relating structure of material to the property of material. His work focuses on transmission electron microscopy, which helps determine structure property relationships.
Jenkins, 32, an assistant professor of electrical engineering, was awarded the grant for his research in optical computing — building computers that use light instead of electronics.
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Football hostess program labeled sexist
By Elizabeth Porto
Staff Writer
The athletic department's practice of using hostesses to escort football recruits on campus tours has come under attack from feminist professors for its allegedly sexist overtones.
Helen Horowitz, chairwoman of the Study of Women and Men in Society, first raised the issue in a letter to administrators last month, criticizing the recruiting office's recent fliers. Several professors have since told the Daily Trojan that the advertisements — and the program
—	are objectionable.
The flier advertised two information meetings for prospective hostesses. It said in part, "Are you enthusiastic? Become a USC recruiting hostess."
Robert Biller, executive vice provost, said Monday he was sur-
prised by the flier's wording. "I thought we had agreed last year that the program would be billed as a host and hostess program. I think it's a mistake."
Biller said he called the athletic department Monday to "get this back to last year's agreement, to make it a sex-free program." Biller spoke with football Coach Larry Smith, who he said called the policy "a mistake."
Jack Himebauch, the recruiting coordinator, defended using women exclusively as on-campus escorts. "There's nothing, in my mind, that says there's anything wrong with having an attractive coed helping out the team. We don't have girls in skimpy bikinis," he said.
The hostesses' duties include escorting recruits to and from the games, giving them campus tours, and being a non-player contact at the university.
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University trustees expected to ‘give, get or get off’ board
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First in a series
By Anh Do
Staff Writer
For most students, members of the university's Board of Trustees are known only for campus buildings named after them. But board members do more than serve as figureheads. Trustees, as university decision-makers, have individual fund-raising requirements — with each member expected to donate money to USC.
"When I first went on the Board of Trustees, as far as fund raising goes, I was told by Jack Hubbard: 'You either give, get or get off,' " said Douglas Pardee.
Pardee, chairman of the board emeritus of the Pardee Construction Co., graduated from the university in 1948 with a B.S. in accounting. He became a university trustee in November 1978. At the time, John Hubbard, currently a professor of history, was the university president.
This financial requirement for a trustee "is just standard operating procedure," said Hubbard, who served as president from 1970 to 1980. "Every board member is expected to do these things. One of the
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KENNETH OWLER SMITH
Director of SPIN is dead at 67
By Jordana Bieze
Staff Writer
JIMMY LEE / DAILY TROJAN
Carl Hartnack, trustee since 1975: “Every trustee In some way supports the school.”
Kenneth Owler Smith, director of the university's Sports Information program since 1979, died Thursday of cancer at his home in Pasadena. He was 67.
Since joining the university faculty in 1970, Smith has been instrumental in developing the journalism school and establishing the nation's first degree program in sports information.
He twice served as acting (Continued on page 12)