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Volume CIV, Number 56	University	of	Southern	California	Friday,	April	8,	1988
JIMMY LEE / DAILY TROJAN
ALL TOGETHER NOW — A baker’s dozen of Songfest singers rehearse in front of Tommy Trojan at noon Thursday. The big event, featuring many student and Greek groups, will take place April 16.
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Phone-in registration delayed until spring ’89
1 of 5 student volunteers will win $1,000 service award
TOUCHTDflE TELEPHOriE
By Kathleen Berry
Staff Writer
The new Touch-Tone telephone registration system, which was to have been implemented for this fall, has been delayed until the spring of 1989 to avoid serious complications during fall registration, administration officials said Thursday.
The Touch-Tone system was first scheduled for testing during registration for the fall of 1987 but was postponed until this semester and has now been delayed even more. The system cost more than $100,000.
Fall registration materials were printed to include a detailed outline of the Touch-Tone system before administration officials decided to delay the new system. Administrators then included a notice with registration materials informing students to "ignore the Touch-Tone telephone instructions ... to make
sure your fall registration is as painless and familiar as possible."
Howard Saperston, university registrar, said, "We didn't want to take a chance on the system not working up to 100 percent of its capability. We want it to work right the first time." *
Putting the Touch-Tone registration system "on hold" for the fall semester was a "conservative, safe approach," Saperston said.
"We thought we would be able to bring it up this fall but because of the possibility of problems, we decided to defer it until next spring," he said.
The decision to postpone the system's implementation came after administration officials heard "horror stories" about Michigan State University's phone registration system's causing the phones of East Lansing, Mich., to crash. Ohio (Continued on page 3)
By Chris Eftychiou
Staff Writer________________________________________________
They may have given without expecting anything in return, but one of five university seniors will reap a $1,000 reward — just for being the campus's "best Samaritan."
The students are waiting to find out which one of them will win the university's annual Extraordinary Community Service Award.
Each year, the cash award is presented to a graduating senior for significant contributions to neighborhoods surrounding the campus. This year's winner has already been chosen but will be kept in suspense until the April
21	presentation in the lobby of Grace Ford Salvatori Hall.
The field was pared from 13 candidates, nominated by university faculty and staff members, students and community residents. The Office of Urban Affairs organized a committee of university and community members who chose the five finalists.
Stacy Rowe, an award finalist majoring in anthropology, is a founding member of a network of shelters for battered, homeless women and children.
Those who came into her shelters had already been to other crisis shelters, Rowe said, but were seeking a place to recuperate further and rebuild their lives.
"1 did at one time make a conscious decision to put my words into action. I was often the low voice in the back of the classroom making an argument against my more conservative classmates.
"When I was younger, if I had not been as fortunate as
I was, I might not have made it to where I am today," she said. "I realized just how tenuous people's lives can be and that holding out a helping hand can make a big difference."
Joseph Sauer, a biomedical engineering student, was chosen as a finalist for his work tutoring children of recent Guatemalan and Mexican immigrants.
'Tve worked with people who I feel have not had a fair chance, to give them that little edge that might help them get by," Sauer said. "I know that sounds a little hokey, but it's true."
Sauer said he has also volunteered his time at local hospitals and at a camp for physically disabled people.
Mark Forte, a political science major, was nominated for tutoring children of recent Salvadoran and Mexican immigrants.
"It gave me an up-front look at these people who are characterized in the news. It made the images real," he said.
Forte also coached local children in softball, track and football as part of the Varsity Scout Program, a subordinate organization of Boy Scouts of America.
Elizabeth Larco, an English major, was a director of Troy Camp, a university camp for neighborhood children. The weeklong camp included horseback riding, canoeing and hiking. Larco was also chairwoman of the Student Senate's Environmental and External Affairs committee, in which she helped organize blood drives, a Thanksgiving food drive and a "Toys for Tots" toy drive.
"There's an incredible need in the community for pro-
grams 'or the economically needy," Larco said. "It's a human obligation to help somebody. I feel like I should help people who have the potential to help themselves in the long run."
Marcus Yee, an electrical engineering student, has been involved in the Asian American Tutorial Project, which serves children in Chinatown.
"Most of the people are immigrants. We help them to understand, and we serve as a big brother, big sister type," Yee said. "It's a rewarding experience because you're helping the community, but you're also having fun. Even alumni come back to tutor the students."
FALSE PROMISE — This illustration, announcing the new telephone registration system, was included in this fall’s registration packets. The system has been delayed at least until the spring of 1989.