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Tuesday marks conclusion of voters’ sign-up
By Lisa Ginther
Staff Writer
As the Oct. 11 deadline for voter registration Democratic and s organiza-
the Trojan
cans have registered stu< at booths near Tommy Trojan for the past five weeks.
The number of registered voters in Los Angeles County has increased since the 1984 presidential campaign, and volunteers want campus enrollment to reflect that
at an all-
"Registration time
Sion range, Ventura, press for the
Search initiated for two administrative positions
By Bryan Culp
Staff Writer
A committee is searching for two candidates to replace Robert Biller as dean of admissions and financial aid and registration and records.
Biller temporarily took over the dean and registrar positions in May 1988, when the former dean, Joseph Merante, resigned.
"He stepped in at the provost's request because we needed someone of high intelligence and we needed someone right away," said Paul Clarke, chairman of the search committee. "He is really vice president of external affairs."
Biller said he does not have the proper experience for his current position. His temporary term will last until the start of the 1989-90 school year.
"What I'm doing is filling in as best as I can," he said. "It's really an unusual situation and you don't want to depend on
Robert Biller
unusual situations."
The 13-member committee plans to begin interviews in December and to give a list of favorable candidates to the provost's office by the end of the academic year, said Renee (See Search, Pa8e 6)
PETER ZAKHARY / DAILY TROJAN
Richard Saukko shows off Traveler IV, who replaced his father as the university’s mascot, to the crowd in front of Bovard Auditorium during last Saturday’s homecoming festivities before the big game against Oregon. The No. 3 Trojans defeated the No. 18 Ducks, 42-14.
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Alcohol use violates university’s policy at reggae concert
By Nola Sarkisian
Staff Writer
UCLA to be debate site
Presidential candidates approve new location
By Karen Denne
Staff Writer
Students celebrating at the Homecoming Reggae Bash Thursday night were not required to show identification and had open containers of alcohol, an apparent violation of university policy.
University policy does not allow drinking in a public place unless the premises are licensed and requires students to be 21 or over. " We weren't serving alcohol at the event," said Chris Martin, director of Program Board's special events programs, which sponsored the event. "But there was no way we could monitor 2,000 circulating people."
Martin said his committee hired nine private and two off-duty security officers to control the crowd.
University Security also guarded tents and facilities set up for homecoming week, while Program Board members mingled among the crowd with two-way radios, Martin said.
"People were drinking and stumbling around, beer bottles were scattered on the ground and the smell of pot was in the air," said Vanessa Wan, a sophomore journalism major. "From what I could see, security wasn't enforcing too much."
Because the campus is so large, security must assess each event or emergency before deciding on a course of action, said Sgt. John Lewis, in charge of records for University Security.
"It's a matter of priorities," Lewis said. "If we see a student drinking beer, behaving himself, then we really don't see a problem.
"If we first receive a phone call about a student being locked out of his room and another being beaten up, both emergen-
(See Policy, page 8)
P.E. program will be lost in lieu of exercise science
The second presidential debate will be held at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion this Thursday or Friday, a spokesman for the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates announced Friday.
"UCLA had the facilities that we needed both for the event and the media filing center, and they had the experience during the Olympics ... so we don't have to start from scratch," said Bob Neuman, the commission's spokesman.
"Technical agreements still have to be made with the university and the commission, and the dty of Los Angeles and the commission," Neuman said.
The commission agreed to take over sponsorship of the debate at the request of the two candidates, Vice President George Bush and Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, after the League of Women Voters withdrew its sponsorship of the event last week.
Representatives of the commission considered UCLA, USC and Pepperdine University as possible sites in Los Angeles, after the league pulled out and still had the Shrine Auditorium reserved.
"The technical people thought that Pauley Pavilion was the fatility best suited," Neuman said of the 12,000-seat auditorium.
"They needed a large room that they could get a lot of trucks near," said Harlan Lebo, a UCLA spokesman. "We have the ability to configure things so that we can have a large press room very near Pauley Pavilion which is how it was during the Olympics."
Judith Palarz, the former League of Women Vot-
(See Debate, page 8)
By Nicole Blohm
Staff Writer
After three years of uncertainty, the university's physical education program is being eliminated from the department of physical education and exer-cise sdence.
The department will be changed to the department of exerdse sdence within the next four years, based on committee recommendations and administrative deliberations, including those of university Provost Cornelius Pings.
As a result, no freshmen were accepted as physical education majors this year, only a few transfer students were admitted. The physical education program, after surviving half a century, is being phased out.
The future of popular P.E. activity classes such as tennis, horseback riding, ice skating, sailing, skiing and scuba diving, will be dedded next spring, said
Robert Douglas, dean of the natural sdences and mathematics division.
"The change will allow us to concentrate on exerdse sdence ... a small but high quality program that will serve the faculty and the students," Pings said.
Administrators say the elimination is not only justifiable, but necessary. Declining student and faculty enrollment in the program, lack of space, and competition from other schools require an emphasis on exerdse sdence, they explain.
But physical education majors disagree. They say they are worried about finishing their degrees in a soon-to-be defunct program.
(See P.E., page 7)