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Volume CV, Number 29	University of Southern California	Wednesday. October 14, 1967
English professor to read own work
By Christopher Dorobek
Staff Writer
T. Coraghessan Boyle, a university English professor, will read excerpts from his new book, World’s End, and one or more short stories tonight in Grace Ford Salvatori Hall, Room 106 at 7:30 p.m.
"If you have never heard a reading of fiction," Boyle said, "it can be a really great experience and a great . . . performance.
"It takes you back to the days when you were just a little tyke being tucked-in in your pajamas," he said. "Dad and your mom leaned over the bed and read you that terrific little story at night."
Besides excerpts of World's End. Boyle will read the short story Hard Sell, which will appear in Harper's magazine in December. Depending on the audience, he said, he may read Sorry Fugu, which appears in Harper's this month.
"I read them from the page and I read them in my own persona — I'm the one who wrote them and I'm reading them," Boyle said.
World's End, Boyle's latest book, is about "love, sex, death; that kind of stuff," he said. The main character is a
man with no feet. The character is based on a man he knows who lost both feet in separate motorcycle accidents. The book spans a 400-vear period up to about 1970.
World's End is Boyle's fifth book. His first, which he wrote just after he came to the university in 1978, is The Decent of Man, a book of short stories.
His second book. Water Music, was published in 1982, and is about Mungo Park, who discovered the Niger River in Africa. It is a book of comic adventures
Budding Prospects, published in 1984, centers on a marijuana farm in Northern California. In 1985, Boyle wrote Greasy Lake, a collection of short stories.
Although many professors complain about the pressure the university puts on them to write and publish. Boyle said writing is just part of the job.
"I was hired to develop the writing program and be a writer/' he said. "My job is to write. What I'm expected to do at USC is to write."
The pressure he does feel comes from himself.
"I feel pressure to write because I want to produce work that people like and I want to talk to people and tell them things," he said.
Sukkah missing during holy days
By Michael Lambert
Stiff Writer
A religious structure built by members of the Hillel Jewish Center was stolen from its location in front of the Bovard Administration Building over the weekend.
The Sukkah. a hut-like shelter, was built to commemorate Sukkot. an eight-day Jewish festival that began Oct. 7 and continues through Thursday. The center had intended to keep the structure up through this week
C.	Gerod Harris, a junior majoring in Psychology and a member of Hillel, said he was "very upset after all (they) did to put it together.” He called the theft "totally disrespectful. Hem- could someone have such complete disregard for someone eise's bebefs?*'
The structure was stolen sometime over the weekend, probabtv Saturday night, said Marcia Tatz. assistant director at Hillel.
"Our understanding is that it was stolen sometime Saturday night or Sunday," she said. "People had-last seen it Saturday ~
Tatz said she didn't know who might be responsMe for the theft Rabbi Laura Geller of the Hillel Center said Sukkah is important to Jews and "it's very hard for us to understand whv someone would interfere with it."
"We have (another) one right outside the Hillel budding," she said, "but we feel it's important to have one in the center of campus.'* Tatz said they have had problems in the past with the Sukkah. Last year one of the walls was stolen.
The Sukkah is built to commemorate Sukkot. an eight-day hobday celebrating the fall harvest and commemorating the wandering of the Jews during the Exodus.
Tatz said that during Sukkot. Jews are supposed to eat and sleep in a Sukkah, especially the first and last few days
"The holiday teaches us to leave the comfort of home tor one week to understand the fragility of life and our responsibility to care for others," Geller said.
Open house to help undeclared students
By Catherine Habel
Staff Writer
The Career Development Center will hold an open house tonight to introduce undeclared students to programs that will help them choose a major.
"The objective is to give students trying to decide on a major an introductory view of what the Career Development Center can offer them," said Gar Cropser, assistant director of career counseling.
Counselors plan to acquaint students with two self-guided computerized career exploration programs called Sigi Pius and Discover.
The programs teach students
about majors that correspond to their skills, interests and values An individual enters his talents and personal traits into the system and the computer comes i»p with career choices for him Sigi Plus and Discover wen? first implemented last year and were successful in helping students, Cropser said.
The Career Development Center will also offer students a free career test and interpretation to help them identify possible majors
The test, called the California Occupational Preference Survey, measures a person’s aptitude in 14 career areas.
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Award recipients meet donors
By Catherine Loper
Staff Writer
Town and Gown, which has awarded over $400,000 in scholarships to 150 students this year, held a luncheon Tuesday for donors and recipients.
The annual event personalizes the organization's scholarship program, said Jean Sharanian, Town and Gown publicity director. "If you give your money and never see any of the faces of who receive it, it's not very personal."
One of the recipients agreed. "I've had other scholarships, but this is the only scholarship that I've been able to meet the people who sponsored me. Obviously, scholarships are great to have at USC, but when you get to meet the people (who gave you the scholarship) it's really great," said Don Nikchevich, a senior dental student.
Three Town and Gown scholarship recipients spoke at the luncheon about the goals they have achieved at the university, giving the donors the opportunity to see how their money has helped students to succeed.
Tim Hourigan, a senior majoring in industrial systems engineering, said his Town and Gown scholarship has been invaluable. "I wouldn't have had the opportunity to do all that I have done."
When he was 18, he "had the grades but didn't
have the money to go to a university like USC." Before he was introduced to Town and Gown, he thought he would end up going to one of the University of California schools, he said.
Hourigan is now a member of the water polo team and president of the Sigma Chi fraternity’.
The scholarship "gave me an obligation to myself and (to) Town and Gown to do well," he said.
David Caskey, a senior majoring in business administration, expressed similar gratitude before Tuesday's group.
"1 hope that someday I can give the same opportunity to another student to go to . USC," he said.
Donors for these scholarships include Carl Franklin, university vice president, and his wife Carolyn; Mrs. Ken Norris, whose family has given the university many donations over the years; and Ruth McKinlay, who attended the university when the campus was much smaller and more personal and "you didn't have to lock your bicycle on campus."
Town and Gown scholarships are awarded to well-rounded students who are residents of Southern California. Grades, SAT scores, co-cumcular activities and a personal interview are considered when the selection is made.
"1 was happy to get it as a senior in high school
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CEREMONY — Participants in Tuesday’s Town and Gown luncheon to honor scholarship recipients included: (back row, left to right) Tim Hourigan, Sally Edwards, Heidi Berner, Yvonne Biller and David Caskey; (front row, left to right) Carl Franklin, Carolyn Franklin, Ruth McKinlay and Carolyn White.