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JOHN URATA / DAILY TROJAN
These worm-like tubes are actually air-conditioning units rented to cool off the gymnasium during fall registration.
Volume CVII, Number 2	University	of	Southern	California_______________________________Wednesday, September 7, 1988
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Freshman housing scarce
University uses third floor of Hilton as women's dorm
Trojan athletics receive publicity from L.A. Times
By Chris Eftychiou
Staff Writer
Not since the university's 100-year anniversary in 1980 has the school enjoyed the kind of free advertising accompanying this year's athletic centennial.
In the Aug. 26 edition of the Los Angeles Times, a 10-page advertising supplement highlighted the football team while hailing "100 years of athletic excellence." The supplement featured promotional articles on baseball, basketball, crew, golf, sailing, swimming and tennis.
Some of the university's Olympic competitors also were showcased along with a spattering of information on academic programs.
Bill Hardekopf, marketing director for USC athletics, said his department didn't pay for anything in the supplement, aside from an ad for football tickets.
Other programs at the university, such as Safety and Systems Management and the Executive MBA Program, paid for their ads, but the majority of advertisements came from organizations outside the university.
Because the university is having an athletic centennial, out- • side advertisers found the supplement attractive enough to place their ads next to the pro-(Continued on page 10)
Fall registration^ runs smoothly
Biller’s strategy cuts long lines
By Anh Do
Assistant City Editor
Normally, the return of students to campus signals long lines for everything from books to financial aid and registration.
But under the leadership of Robert Biller, the new dean of the Office of Admissions, Financial Aid, Registration and Records, snakelike lines seem a rarity this fall.
“It's all we can do to get a line," said Mark Olson, director of student information systems.
Urging students to pre-register was the key to a smoother registration process this fall, Olson said.
Olson and Howard Saper-ston, director of registration and records, said fall pre-registration was extended to Aug. 25 for the first time, in contrast with deadlines at the end of July in previous years.
A record number of more than 21,000 students pre-registered for fall — in contrast with more than 18,000 students who pre-registered last year, Saper-ston said.
'Better planning resulted in literally no congestion. . . . It's going wonderfully.'
—	Howard Supers ton
Various factors also contributed to the unencumbered process.
Biller's office contacted about
9,000	newly admitted students who did not sign up for summer orientation and urged them to get LAS advisement and pre-register. The majority followed through, Saperston said.
New students weren't the only ones to receive attention.
Biller's office also contacted continuing students by coordinating listings according to majors, of those who had pre-registered last spring — but who did not pre-register this fall as of Aug. 1.
The office gave names, phone numbers and mailing labels of these students to individual departments, which in turn contacted the students, Saperston said.
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Catholic theologian Charles Curran.
Yearlong professorship begins for visiting priest
By Christine Carr
Staff Writer
The controversial Catholic theologian Charles Curran began a one-year visiting professorship at the university Tuesday, teaching a general education religion course and a seminar for graduate students.
Curran, a priest and a former professor of Catholic theology at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., has been making national headlines since a Vatican committee ruled his dissenting
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By Bryan Culp
Staff Writer
Although the university's housing office placed 44 freshman women on the University Hilton's third floor last Monday, it foiled to lease a second floor from the hotel — leaving 97 freshman men and women in "temporary accomodations."
An additional 10 freshman men are still on the waiting list and should be placed in temporary housing by Friday, said Bill Thompson, director of housing.
Thompson said students currently in temporary housing will be placed in permanent housing that had not been occupied by Tuesday.
"I wouldn't be surprised if we still have temps at the end of the semester,” said David Blackmar, assistant director of housing.
"We don't have enough housing at USC in any category," he said. "I'm not sure how this need compares with others, but it seems we should move immediately. I think the Hilton is a good short term solution."
Administrators said they decided to house only freshmen women at the Hilton for security reasons.
"We elected to put women there first because we were afraid if we didn't get the second floor we'd have to put
freshmen women on 28th Street," in a university house formerly occupied by Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, Thompson said.
"Based on past experience and research, freshmen men definitely cause more problems (Continued on page 17)
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The University Hilton’s third floor has become the home away from home for 44 freshman women — but no men — this fall.