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Volume CIV, Number 51
University of Southern California
Thursday, March 24, 1988
Clement triumphs in ‘Super Wednesday’
Student senators select all-male cast of officers
By Gale Lance
Staff Writer
Phil Clement, the former senate vice president, was elected Student Senate president late Wednesday night with overwhelming support from both veteran and newly elected senators.
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A smiling and victorious Phil Clement relaxes while listening to other candidates vying for executive positions after he was elected as Student Senate president at Wednesday night’s meeting.
Stu-Q council, RHA members clash over proposed benefits
By jordana Bieze
Staff Writer
Members of the Student Community Council and the Residence Halls Association clashed Tuesday over a proposition that would compensate officers of a new funding and programming board with money from university housing residents.
The proposition would provide nearly $13,000 in benefits to members of the new board — more than one-third of the board's projected budget this fall
The conflict arose during the first reading of the proposed constitution for the University Residential Student Community board, a planned merger of Stu-Q and RHA.
Pending ratification of the constitution, URSC will represent students who are in university housing, replacing RHA and Stu-Q. Officers in both volunteer funding boards currently do not receive any compensation.
The proposed bylaw says that the URSC president will receive a housing grant of $3,000, and
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His five-to-one margin over fellow senators Alison Smith and Jacques Bouvier marked the clearest victory among the four executive senate seats chosen.
Graduate law senator David Simon narrowly won election to the vice presidential seat. In a hotly contested runoff vote, Simon received only two more votes than Stu-Q senator Smith, who decided to drop to the secondary candidate position after her loss to Clement.
In another close runoff race, Greek senator Gantry Wilson was chosen as undergraduate speaker over Tara Brigham, residence hall senator. John Geran-ios was chosen as graduate speaker.
The selection of the executive graduate program director was tabled until the senate's next meeting in April.
In response to the election results, Clement said he was bothered by the fact that no women or minorites were chosen to fill the executive positions. "Although we may all be typically white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant males, I am certain the differences in beliefs will offer a great deal of diversity," he said.
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Senate opts for $42,000 legal clinic
By Gale Lance
Staff Writer
In a vote marked by angry outbursts and chaos, the newly seated Student Senate approved a proposal to establish a $42,000 legal clinic Wednesday night.
"I can't tell you how upset I am," said Bruce Clausen, outgoing senate president, as he stood red-faced and waving a ball-point pen at the packed auditorium.
"We've just voted in a big chunk of our budget without fully considering its effects on the students we represent," he said, calling for a reconsideration. Several senators joined in the outcry and demanded a new vote.
Senators pushed to reconsider the measure, which passed 22-2, in two separate votes. The first attempt was marred by disorder in the senate chamber, prompt-(Continued on page 14)
By Michael Lambert
Staff Writer
ome students came looking for a good-paying job for after graduation. Others came looking just to find a major.
The two groups of students met and were catered to at two separate events located next to each other Wednesday afternoon: the Career Day in the Von KJeinSrrud Center courtyard and the Major Information Fair that stretched along Trousdale Parkway.
The Career Day was designed four years ago as an alternative to the university Career Center's fall Career Day, said Betty Cline, administrator of professional development for the School of Public Administration. The school co-sponsored the event with the political science department.
The event is aimed more toward students with technical majors such as engineering and computer science, Cline said.
More than 50 organizations attended the career day, including private, non-profit and public organizations and corporations.
-	Many non-profit organizations were able to attend because businesses were not charged a fee, unlike the Career Center's showcase. Costs for the career day were paid by the Program Board, Cline said.
Turnout for the event was small, but students who attended were good prospects, said Tom Bell, recruit-
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ment manager of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
"They seem to be well-prepared," he said. "We've been getting mostly grad students looking for entry-level positions."
Michael Pierson, a recruitment coordinator of Golden Gate University in San Francisco, said, "The numbers haven't been that high, but there's been high quality."
Some organizations, such as the FBI, had a consistent flow of interested students throughout the two-hour event.
"We've had a lot of people looking, but not many who are qualified," said Roberta Burroughs, an FBI special agent. She explained that only people with master's degrees or with bachelor's degrees and three years of work experience are eligible to work for the FBI.
John Berkovich, a senior majoring in exercise sci-
ence, said he was happy with the opportunities that students were given during the Career Day.
"It gives students a great opportunity to find out what's out there," he said.
Agnes Chen, a graduate student in the School of Education, said the recruiters "provide good information. They are very kind to answer all of your questions."
Like the Public Administration Career Day, representatives from the various majors at the Major Information Fair expressed disappointment in the number of students who attended but were pleased with the quality of students who showed up.
Chris Fredericks, director of undeclared advisement for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, said the purpose of the fair, sponsored by LAS, was twofold.
"It's for undergraduates at USC to be able to ask about requirements and for departments to communicate with students," she said.
Students met representatives from more than 40 fields, both within and outside LAS. This was the fourth, year it has held the event, which is always held in the spring, Fredericks said.
"Students will have something to think about" during Spring Break, she added.
"More than quantity, I was impressed with the quality," said Herman Turk, a professor of sociology. "I was quite impressed with the questions they asked."
Pricilla Morris, a graduate student in math, said she
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