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Volume CV1, Number 14	University	of	Southern	California	Friday,	January	29,	1988
Student Senate
Free legal counseling may return in fall ’88
By Brad Bowlin
Staff Writer
Free legal counseling for students may return to the university as early as next semester, thanks to a committee formed by the Student Senate at its Jan. 27 meeting.
The senators unanimously approved a resolution creating the Legal Clinic Advisory Committee, which will research and draft a proposal for establishing an on-campus legal clinic.
The resolution, written by senator Dave Simon, a second-year law student, calls for two members to be appointed by the Student Bar Association and another by the Student Senate Executive Committee.
Free legal counseling was available to students until last year, when the service ended because there w'asn't enough demand, Simon said.
An attorney had been available to students in the Student Health Center on weekdays from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Simon said the new proposal would probably call for an attorney to be present on campus only one day a week, with law' students staffing the clinic the rest of the time.
"We have a fairly urgent need” for the service on campus, Simon said. "There's clearly a demand."
The Legal Clinic Advisory Committee will submit its proposal and budget requests to the Student Bar Association and the senate by April 2.
In other action, the senate continued its efforts to have the hours of the campus escort service extended.
Currently, escort runs until 1 a.m. daily. It takes its last call at
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Four ROTC cadets to appear in Army recruiting commercial
By Arlene Guzman
Staff Writer
Four cadets from the university's Army Reserve Officers Training Corps program have been chosen to participate in a national television commercial geared toward recruiting students as potential officers.
The 30-second commercial will depict the Army ROTC as an opportunity for individuals to prepare themselves for the business world after graduation, said Lt. Col. T. G. Andrews, a military science professor.
University students Jon Cramer, Scott Kanady, Edward Lewis ancf John Mark will be in the advertisement, which will be filmed mainly in North Hollywood early next month by Rick Levine Productions.
The commercial is for Army ROTC recruitment, not the university, although the cadets will be wearing their university uniforms in various scenes, said Capt. Doug Yates.
The spot will focus on one individual as the object of a businessman's conversation. This
role will be played by Tom Drews, 22, a professional actor.
Drews, who is being taught military skills to familiarize himself with Army terminology and carrying a weapon, said being in
an Army ROTC commercial was "fantastic and very interesting."
When the production company first came to campus about two weeks ago to audition stu-(Continued on page 3)
GURI DHAUWAL
Four university ROTC cadets have been chosen to appear in a national advertising campaign for the Army. The ad will be taped in Hollywood early next month.
Nurses plan to stay on strike; doctors may join them today
MICHAEL KIM DAILY TROJAN
The Trojan Marching Band will be stepping high this weekend when It takes the field at Super Bowl XXII in San Diego.
Band to play at Super Bowl halftime show
By Chris Eftychiou
Staff Writer
The Super Bowl XXII halftime show will feature 44 grand pianos, 44 Rockette dancers. Chubby Checker — and the Trojan Marching Band in tuxedos.
"We're the only college band that gets asked to do these kind of things all the time," said Kimberly Stiles, band manager.
This is the second year in a row' the Trojan band has been asked by halftime officials to perform in the show. But this time the band will play a bigger part, band members say.
"We're one of the main parts," said Robert Binder, operations manager for the Trojan Marching Band. "We've got about three minutes to ourselves. Last year, there w’ere about 3,000 people in the show, but this year there are about 600 to 700."
"This vear the band will play live," Binder said, alluding to last year's Super Bowl halftime show at the Rose Bowl, in which only prerecorded music was used.
"The music's very good. It's lively," Stiles said. The show, organized by Radio City Music Hall Productions, includes the song "It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)." A "Twist" medley will coincide with Chubbv Checker”s appearance.
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By Catherine Loper and Shannon Rafferty
Staff Writers
While negotiations continued in a three-day-old nurses strike that has crippled Los Angeles County hospitals, medical technicians staged a walkout Thursday, and doctors planned to join the picket lines this morning.
The nurses' bargaining committee met at 8 p.m. Thursday "to discuss the fact that county Supervisor (Edmund) Edelman wants us to go back to the negotiating table," said Betsy Hamilton, director of the health services division of the Local 660 Service Employees International Union.
Before the meeting Thursday night, about 4,000 registered nurses employed by the county did not plan to abandon the strike until the county changes its last offer of a 14.5 percent salary increase over two years, Hamilton said.
The county's offer clashes with the nurses' last contract proposal which called for a 19.5 percent increase over the next two years.
With many critical-care patients removed safely from county hospitals affected by the nurses strike, residents and interns at three hospitals planned to walk out this morning in a "separate negotiation, separate strike," said Jill Mines, a resident at County-USC Medical Center.
Thursday night, the Joint Council of Interns and Residents met with negotiators from the county in a last-ditch effort to come to an agreement before today's planned 7 a.m. strike.
Interns and residents at three Los Angeles County hospitals voted Wednesday night overwhelmingly to strike this morning, said Mines, a member of the council which is concerned with work conditions, hours and patient
care — not wages.
Although many doctors want to strike over these contract disputes, many appear to want to strike because they are sympathetic with the nurses, said Pam DiCesare, an administrator and coordinator of residents and interns at County-USC Medical Center.
"I don't know if all the residents really know what the strike is about," she said.
Amid the confusion caused by the impending doctors strike Thursday, technicians took advantage of media attention to "drive a point home" about their dissatisfaction with current contracts.
Twenty-seven technicians at Martin Luther King Jr. General Hospital walked out, calling in sick to work or just not showing up, and left the hospital operating with a limited staff.
FLANAGAN / DAILY TROJAN
Medical technicians joined county nurses on the picket line Thursday, severely crippling patient care at several county hospitals including County-USC Medical Center. Doctors are expected to waik out today.
"We're working with a skeleton crew, but we're managing," said Pat Sullenweider, assistant administrator at Martin Luther King Jr General Hospital.
Sullenweider said she hoped the unofficial strike would last only one day.
To deal with the shortage of medical personnel, the county hospitals have discharged patients early, limited admissions, closed out-patient clinics and limited emergency care to patients "in extremis" or in life threatening situations, said Toby Staheli, public relations director of Los Angeles County Health Services.
Until then, the hospital has compressed its staff and transferred patients to other hospitals, which include Long Beach Memorial, Dominguez Hills and Saint Francis.