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Contraception should be a shared responsibility — page 4.
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L. A. Semester offers university students urban experience — page 9.
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Women of Troy seniors prepare for NCAA Tournament — page 24.
MIKE SUDO DAILY TROJAN
SAYONARA — Dan Kuromoto, leader of the jazz band Hiroshima, criticized today's music as being too computerized and not having human hands at the drumsticks. Kurumoto spoke on the final day of the Asian Pacific Heritage Festival.
Volume CIV, Number 45	University	of	Southern	California	Wednesday,	March	16,	1988
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Longer escort hours
Senators take fight to the top
By Chris Eftychiou
Staff Writer
Student senators have taken their fight for longer escort service hours to the university's upper administration.
Unhappy with a proposal from Dennis Archambault, special programs administrator of University Security, senators sent letters outlining their own plan to President James Zumberge, James Dennis, vice president of student affairs, and Steven Ward, chief of University Security.
"By sending the letter to the administration, we have gone over (Archambault's) head," said Michaei Rodriguez, a Greek senator who has led the senate's drive for longer escort hours.
Archambault said on Monday he will hire an extra community service officer to provide the rides from 1 to 3 a.m. The added (Continued cm page 11)
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Political science students petition for popular lecturer
By Kathleen Berry
Staff Writer
Political science students have collected more than 100 signatures for a petition that supports a lecturer in that department and demands that an additional position be made available in political theory.
The petition is the third action taken by students in three years requesting the hiring of Peter Breiner, a temporary lecturer in political theory. Breiner will be forced to leave the university after this semester if he is not hired to be a full-time professor.
"The issue is we have the petition, we have the faculty support, and Peter's not going to get the
position/' said Eileen Rabach, a graduate student in political economy. "Student sentiment is irrelevant at USC.
"Not only is student participation difficult enough to get from the start, when it is forthcoming, it's directly discouraged by the faculty," she said. "And for political science students, who are studying a model of American pluralism, to be reluctant to participate I think is really unfortunate."
Richard Dekmejian, chairman of the political science department, said that the student petition would not affect the department's hiring policy because the administration has not made a position available.
"We don't make the judgment purely on student
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600 colleges will see drug program via satellite from gerontology center
By Michael Lambert
Staff Writer
A College Satellite Network conference on drug abuse will be broadcast today live from the university's Leonard Davis Auditorium at the Andrus Gerontology Center to more than 600 universities nationwide.
"Drugs: Where Are We?" will begin at 10 a.m. Admission is free.
Speakers will include singer David Crosby, actress Holly
Robinson of "21 Jump Street," actor Blair Underwood of "L.A. Law" and Danny Goldberg, founder of Rock Against Drugs. The program's hostess will be former MTV video jockey Martha Quinn.
Guest speakers will discuss the different ways men and women deal with peer pressure as well as ways to avoid the pressure to drink.
"The discussion is going to be looking at peer pressure on decision making," said Thom Gax-
iola, programs consultant ofthe Program Board, which is cosponsoring the event with the Office of Student Activities.
The event will be divided into two parts. The first part, "Facing Drug Abuse: A Guide for Victims and Helpers," will be about "how to recognize drug abuse and about some community programs," Gaxiola said.
Although open to students, this portion of the program is primarily aimed at faculty mem-(Continued on page 7)
JAMES SU / DAILY TROJAN
DEMONSTRATION OF DEATH — The Palestinian Cultural Club	Gaza Strip. These people, who laid on the pavement for about
staged an houriong protest in front of Tommy Trojan on Tues-	15 minutes, were “killed” by imaginary bullets from toy guns,
day about violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the	The campus protest was the third by the club since January.