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Volume CXI, Number 1
University of Southern California
Wednesday, January 10,1990
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In Brief
Koreans to discuss possible unification of North and South
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea was reported weighing a deal to supply electricity to North Korea, and North Korea wants to deliver new reunification proposals to the Seoul government, news reports said Tuesday.
North Korean Premier Yon Hyong Muk proposed that officials of the twO nations meet at the border truce village of Panmunjom on Friday to discuss procedures for sending the envoys to Seoul, North Korea’s official news agency said.
The North Korean envoys would carry a letter detailing President Kim II Sung's proposals to unify the peninsula, the communist nation's Korean Central News Agency said in a dispatch seen in Tokyo.
Columbia lift-off perfect, space decade launched
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
Shuttle Columbia opened a new decade of space travel Tuesday with a letter-perfect launch and the start of a search-and-rescue mission for a scientific satellite drifting back to Earth.
After three weeks of delays, the shuttle lifted off precisely on time just after dawn at 7:35 a.m. and began chasing the satellite, which was 1,500 miles ahead of the shuttle.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cleaner countdown and launch,” sdid Richard Truly, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "What a marvelous way to start the 1990s.”
Court to diagnose sanity of TV anchor's terrorist
LOS ANGELES — The man convicted of threatening to kill television anchorwoman Kelly Lange was ordered Tuesday to undergo tests to determine if he should be sentenced to prison or confined to a‘' mental hospital.
Warren Sevy Hudson, 57, was convicted Dec. 5 of making a terrorist threat when he wrote to Ms. Lange and threatened to blow her head off. Prosecutors said the unemployed laborer was obsessed with the KNBC-TV anchorwoman and since 1985 had sent her gifts including jewelry and a fur coat.
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Coach Larry Smith shows off the Trojans’ Rose Bowl victory on Jan. 1.
Third time’s a charm
By Chris Wiley
Assistant Sports Editor
As the sun set and the mist settled down into the Rose Bowl, Bo Schem-bechler ran off the field for the last time.
Larry Smith ran off the field a winner in the Rose Bowl for the first time after two failed attempts.
And Ricky Ervins ran off the field with the MVP trophy after he made sure that this time USC would have a good time. —
Like last year against the Wolverines, the Trojans dominated the statistics, yet couldn't put Michigan away.
But unlike last year, there wouldn't be any heroics by Leroy Hoard and the Wolverines.
Instead, it was Ervins' 14-yard touchdown run with 1:10 left that lifted USC to a 17-10 win against Michigan before a crowd of 103,450.
The Trojans finished the season at 9-2-1 and ranked No. 8 in the final Associated Press poll. In the process, they got the Rose Bowl monkey off their backs. Smith and the Trojans had come up short in the Granddaddy of Them All the two previous years.
(See Rose Bowl, page B-12)
New phone system to be put on hold
Inconvenience, snags postpone installation
By Paul Malcolm
Staff Writer
Implementation of a $23 million telecommunications system will be delayed until summer because of construction problems and other factors, University Communication Network officials said Monday.
The 5ESS Switch System, under construction for three years, will allow the Health Sciences Campus and the University Park Campus to communicate with each other and the world more efficiently. The system allows for communication through voices, pictures and computer data with fiber optic phone lines, project officials said.
The system was expected to be functional by Jan. 29. However, installation of the lines into the 180 buildings on both campuses will not be completed until March, said Mark Phigler, the University Communication Network project director.
Changeover from the old copper wire Centrex system will not occur until summer to avoid inconveniencing students and faculty, Phigler said.
"There is definitely a construction delay, but the timing is not necessarily the best thing. It could be very disruptive to the school's business," he said. "It's a better time to cut over at the end of the semester."
The delay will not cause the project to go over its $25 million budget. Costs were kept down by purchasing a lot of materials up front, Phigler said in a previous Daily Trojan article.
The new system will involve the use of a five-digit university telephone code instead of a four-digit one, which will make it easier to dial between campuses. Each campus will also receive new prefixes.
"We will have new prefixes because we are growing so fast," Phigler said. Pacific Bell cannot give the university any new numbers under its current prefixes. This includes numbers for modems, personal computers, and fax machines.
As well as allowing increases in the capacity for growth and the amount of tele-
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"I've asked them," said Pings, "to analyze that issue, as to the possible impact if we madf the change, and also the impact if we didn't make the mange."
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to the provost's office on Dec. 12 by a group of;
ate student senators. Of the estimated 14,000 graduate students, 980 signed the petition as of that date, said Steve Weber,; graduate speaker.
"It's an interesting idea, but it's a rather sweeping (See Senate, page A9)
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