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Volume CIV, Number 67
University of Southern California
Monday, April 25, 1988
Last all-female residence hall opens doors to male students
By Christine Carr
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The increasing demand for male housing spots has prompted housing services to integrate its last ail-female residence hall.
EVK-Harris Hall, which now offers about 200 spots to women only, will be changed to coed this fall. The decision came despite criticism from the Student Senate, which unanimously passed a resolution last Wednesday denouncing housing services for changing the residence hall's makeup after Priority Period.
EVK-Harris, actually two buildings connected by a hallway on each floor, will be split evenly between men and women. The EVK building will remain all female, while Harris Hall will become all male, said Dale Nienow, direc-to. of the Office of Residential and Greek Life.
Harris has 96 spots and EVK has 102.
David Blackmar, director of administrative services for housing and residence halls, said an increasing gap between the number of men and women in housing is a direct reflection of university admissions.
"This is just an adjustment to the applicant pool from admission," he said, noting a continuation of an already-established trend. "The number of males has increased significantly in relation to the number of females."
Tara Brigham, one of the authors of the senate resolution, claims that housing's abrupt change "shows a basic
insensitivity that ignores students' and parents' primary reasons for choosing EVK housing."
The resolution states that housing services should accommodate those students who requested EVK for Priority Period but would rather not live there under the new conditions.
Brigham conceded that the change may not affect many returning students but wanted to ensure that those who oppose the change are able to change their housing assignments.
Blackmar believed the decision to alter the makeup of EVK-Harris was a good compromise because it maintains a single-sex atmosphere on each half of the building but still integrates the complex.
"We'll be putting doors in the hallways to separate the two, but men and women will be living on the same floor," he said.
Annie Chang, secretary of the Residence Halls Association, said she thought the change was positive. "I think it's a good idea. EVK is the only non-coed residence hall, and it's time they integrate with the rest of the campus."
Chang said that a single-sex complex can severely limit the experience of its residents. "It can keep them from getting involved with other people. They need to leam to deal with that now while they're growing and learning in college.
"It's good that they're opening up more chances for men to have the residence hall experience," she said.
JAE SHIN / DAILY TROJAN
These students can now become full-time residents of EVK-Harris Hall, instead of being just visitors. The hall will be divided evenly this fall between males and females, with men living in Harris and women in EVK.
Young Republicans ‘get wild for Wilson’
Senator welcomes student volunteers in re-election drive
By Jordana Bieze
Staff Writer
When voting on matters of U.S. trade, Sen. Pete Wilson adheres to a single rule: "You let me into your market, and I'll let you into mine."
But one market Wilson, R-Calif., seems to have cornered already is the market of young Republican voters and campaign volunteers — if last Saturday's "Get Wild for Wilson" party at the GOP house is any indication.
More than 100 young Republicans — mostly students from 12 area colleges and universities — packed the first floor ol the GOP house, located west of campus on 36th Street, in a boisterous show ol support for the senator's re-election campaign.
Chants of "We Want Pete!" and "Six More Years!" greeted the senator's arrival at the first youth event of his 1988 campaign.
"After that tumultuous welcome, I feel like the Avon lady who rang the bell and found that it was Tammy Bakker who answered the door," Wilson quipped in the opening moments of his address.
But the senator, who is running unopposed on the Republican ticket for his own senatorial seat, made it clear that he takes the young Republicans and their support for his campaign very seriously.
"There is an old bromide which I've never really believed, and that is that youth is wasted on the young," Wilson
said. "That is an old man's complaint, and let me tell you it has no application whatever in the realm of politics. Politics depends for success upon the energy of volunteers."
According to the latest California poll, Wilson has already posted a 14-point lead over his expected Democratic opponent Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy.
But the senator said he doesn't plan to rest on his laurels.
"I know that you were all raised in homes where you were taught good manners," he said. "But just this once, let's run up the score.
MCHAEL KM / DAILY TROJAN
Sen. Pete Wilson receives a Trojan College Republican T-shirt Saturday.
"The reason I feel good about this campaign is that we are going to win because we're going to tell the truth about my campaign and about my history, and we're going to tell the truth about Leo. And when people hear that, they're going to vote for me."
In the Senate, Wilson has consistently voted against tax increases and for a balanced budget, a strong defense and a line-item veto for the president, said Jim Michalsky, a UCLA student and chairman of the California College Republicans.
"He has been intolerant to any waste and any abuse of our funds that we taxpayers have to keep shelling out for liberal programs," Michalsky said.
"He has also applied conservative fiscal policy to himself — he has never accepted a pay raise."
The McCarthy campaign, however, has taken a different angle on Wilson's voting record — one that the senator claimed was a "cheap shot."
"The one ad that they have run is one that said, in so many words, Pete Wilson has taken money from a defense contractor, therefore he will vote against the INF treaty and vote against peace.
"That's a pretty cheap shot," Wilson said. "In the first place, it's untrue. But in the second place, I'll tell you if he wants to play that game, if he wants to say that receiving campaign contributions is a measure and control of how you vote in the future, then I would be compelled to ask him: How is he going to vote, having received over a period of years a million dollars from organized labor?"
The Wilson campaign has already purchased two advertising spots in which (Continued on page 6)
$70,000 for disabled
Everyone gets wet at poolside Swim With Mike
By Gale Lance
Staff Writer
Steam rose from the heated swimming pools as thunder clouds released torrents of icy rain.
While "California Dreamin' " blared from loudspeakers atop the diving platform, a Saturday morning crowd began to gather. They came dressed in shorts and baseball caps, carrying Igloo ice chests and umbrellas. The rain continued to pour.
Despite the winterlike weather, about 200 swimmers helped to raise more than $70,000 for physically disabled athletes at last Saturday's eighth annual "Swim With Mike" fund-raiser.
"No problem here," cried Ron Orr, the university's assistant athletic director and organizer of the event, in the midst of the storm that threatened to spoil the event early on. Sporadic bolts of lightning sent swimmers scurrying from the pools.
The event, started as a fund-raiser for university graduate Mike Nyeholt, was held at the Olympic Swim Stadium.
Nyeholt, a former All-American swimmer at the university, was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident in 1981 — three years after graduating with a bachelor's degree in business administration.
Swim With Mike was held for the first time three months after Nyeholt's accident.
"It was my first trip out of the hospital," he recalled. "It really tested me. It (Continued on page 8)