viewpoint
The 'SC lingo of abbreviations can be a confusing language — page 4.
performance
A coffee break with Ralph Steadman, roving British artist — page 9.
sports
Dave Cadigan is expected to go high in Sunday's NFL draft — page 24.
Volume CIV, Number 66	University	of	Southern	California	Friday,	April	22,	1988
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JAMES SU / DAILY TROJAN
FOAM SWEET FOAM — Bret Hardy, a new member of the Skull and Dagger Society, stands in a fountain full of suds, complying with the terms of his initiation by wearing a black tuxedo and shorts and carrying a golf club “cane.” The organization celebrated its 75th anniversary Thursday.
Teachers complain about G.E. apathy
By Chris Eftychiou
Staff Writer
Professors and a handful of students agreed Thursday that the university faces genuine problems in promoting its general education program, trying to promote academic diversity on a campus in which many students “really don't care."
The General Education Student Forum, originally intended to stimulate student discussion of the program, quickly became a discussion dominated by professors because only four students showed up.
Richard Fliegel, assistant coor-
dinator of the general education program, told 14 of his colleagues at the forum that the question students ask most is: "Why do I have to take G.E. in the first place?"
Students who ask such questions as, "I'm going to be an engineer. Why do I have to take art?" should consider the benefits of developing more than one-dimensional interests, Fliegel said.
"Nobody values learning," he said. "But when they come to college, we should say, 'College is different.' We know that in the rest of the nation, making (Continued on page 14)
Horrors of Armenian genocide described
By Kathleen Berry
Staff Writer
A religion professor, speaking before a small crowd Thursday, described the sadness and anger of Armenians massacred by the Ottoman Turks in 1915.
Donald Miller, who has conducted more than 100 interviews with relatives of Armenian genocide victims for a book based on the project, gave the lecture in Von KleinSmid lounge.
This Sunday, April 24, is the date commemorating the genocide of 1915-16, during which more than 1 1/2 million Armenians were believed killed.
"There is anger over the fact that the Turkish government continues to deny that Armenian deaths occurred," he said. "Because of the outright campaign of Turkish denial there is
an open, festering wound there."
Miller read excerpts from his transcibed interviews, in which survivors described their experiences as young children when they were separated from relatives and deported.
"For seven months I walked," recalled one survivor. "They all died, hungry and thirsty. My grandmother, they threw her in the Murad River. ... a Kurd grabbed her and threw her in. They also hanged from a tree two of my uncles' wives."
Another genocide victim, identified only as "Rose," told of walking through the mountains, carrying a child under incredibly brutal conditions while many others marched naked. Rose said that she watched her mother being executed.
Miller said that survivors be-(Continued on page 8)
Two seniors share honor, $1,000 service award
By Shannon Rafferty
Stiff Writer
For only the second time in seven years, the university's Extraordinary Community Service Award was split between two candidates Thursday, for their sacrifices and contributions to the neighborhoods surrounding the campus.
Elizabeth Larco, an English major, and Stacy Rowe, an anthropology and political science major, each received half of the university's annual award of $1,000.
The Office of Urban Affairs organized a selection committee to choose among the 13 nominees. This year the committee could not pick a single winner from the five finalists.
"Each year it's difficult to select a winner, and this year it was even more difficult," said Tammara Anderson, director of community programs and the Joint Educational Project. "The committee felt that both candidates were just so extraordinary."
Larco was selected because of her extensive work as director of Troy Camp, which sends inner-city children to a week-long camp that includes horseback riding, canoeing and hiking, Anderson said.
Larco is chairwoman of the Student Senate's Environmental and External Affairs Committee, in which she
'There's an incredibte need in the community for programs for the economically needy.'
—	Elizabeth Larco, co-winner
helped coordinate blood drives for the Red Cross, a 'Toys for Tots" toy drive and a Thanksgiving food drive.
"There's an incredible need in the community for programs for the economically needy," Larco told the Daily Trojan in an April 8 interview. "It's a human obligation to help somebody. I feel like I should help people who have
the potential to help themselves in the long run."
Rowe was honored for her instrumental role in helping to establish a network of shelters for battered members of families.
She helped write proposals and raise funds for the homes, which were designed to provide a more permanent shelter for abused women and children, rather than the typical 24- to 72-hour short-term shelters, Anderson said.
"She worked so diligently on it, trying to get the families settled," she said.
Those who came into the homes seeking help had already been to other crisis shelters but were seeking a place to recuperate more and rebuild their lives, Rowe said earlier this month.
"I did at one time make a conscious effort to put my words into action. I was often the low voice in the back of the classroom, making an argument against my more conservative classmates.
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