Volume CVII, Number 25
University of Southern California
Tuesday, October 11, 1988
Dance rules cut costs, appease minority groups
By Colette Maandig
Staff Writer
Minority student groups that last month criticized the university's dance policy are now pleased with a redesigned version of the policy, said April Co-loretti, chairwoman of the Asian American Student Assembly.
Student groups are happy with the revised policy because it will reduce costs as well as extend the hours allowed for dances, Coloretti said.
Under the new policy, dances at Topping Student Center can be held until 2 a.m. Before the revision, group officials had to have special permission to sponsor dances past midnight, Coloretti said.
She said the two hour extension will help increase attendance at dances.
"No one really starts going to dances until 11 p.m.," Coloretti said. "What was the use for them to go to the dance if they had only an hour to dance? With the new policy, more students can go to the dance and stay for a while."
The cost of sponsoring dances also decreased under the revised policy, Coloretti said.
The mandatory deposit has been reduced from $500 to $200, she said.
The new policy, however, does not free groups from hiring guards to collect tickets and check identification at the door.
But instead of being required to hire two university security guards for a minimum of four hours at $25.80 per hour, Coloretti said the groups are now allowed to use full-time staff
(See Revision, page 3)
MAJESTIC VIEW
PETER McCOCQAN / DAILY TROJAN
The shadows begin to grow long over Yosemite Valley as the sun begins to set. The USC Adventure Center paid a visit to the national park last weekend. The group’s activities included a hike to Half-Dome (above) Saturday evening.
Students plan for upcoming debate rallies
By Karen Denne
Staff Writer
With the second presidential debate being held at UCLA this Thursday, students at local college campuses are gearing up to volunteer services to the political campaigns.
The students' energies will be focused on rallies before and after the debate, and the main student events will not be on the UCLA campus.
There is limited student access to the debate, said Owen
Senate hopefuls not able to agree on public debate
By Jerilyn Jacobs
Staff Writer
Time is running out for Senate candidates Republican incumbent Pete Wilson and Democratic Lt. Governor Leo McCarthy to air their opinions in a public debate.
With the Nov. 8 election less than a month away, the latest attempts to bring the two together fell through Friday because the candidates could not agree to either of two debates offered by local television stations KCET and KNBC.
Each campaign blamed the other for failing to finalize plans and for refusing to (See Cancellation, page 14)
Jackman, a UCLA campus coordinator for Michael Dukakis.
"Access to the debate is next to impossible. They are not letting very many students in,'' Jackman said. "I've heard anywhere from 10 to 15 students from both sides of the aisles are going.
"That's life.
That's politics.
I think they should open more of Pauley Pavilion. One thousand seats are too few," he said, referring to the 1,000 seats that will be set up for the debate in the 12,000 seat auditorium.
Students can participate in UCLA rallies, although they "probably won't be able to get very
(See Preparations, page 14)
Life found in Antarctic ice
University scientists discover sea organisms
By Jenelle Marsh
Staff Writer
Ocean life in the Antarctic is almost twice as abundant as scientists previously thought, according to a study conducted by a university researcher released Monday by the National Science Foundation.
Cornelius Sullivan, director of marine biology research, said an abundance of living organisms were unexpectedly found within the swiss cheese-like pores of sea ice during an expedition with the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem Research team at the Ice Edge Zone.
Over the past six years, Sullivan and the team have studied the marginal ice zone's ecosystem by collecting data on three cruises to that area.
On the latest 70-day expedition, he said the team discovered generous amounts of krill, a tiny shrimp-like crustacean that is a food source for whales, seals, penguins
and other ocean life.
Krill are found in pores that range in size from a finger to an arm's diameter and run through the ocean's surface ice six to eight feet deep — what Sullivan calls the "swiss cheese effect of the ice."
Sullivan said scientists "had often wondered what krill did in the winter. Almost all the krill we found were larval or juvenile stages, which gives us the idea that the krill are using the ice as a giant nursery for early developmental stages."
The team found the krill can live in the ice by feeding on algae growing on the ice, he said. The algae only receive five to six hours of sunlight a day d aring the winter.
"Algae goes through a photosynthesis process like grass and needs sunlight, which shows how phenomenal the growth of this algae is," Sullivan said.
(See Discovery, page 2)
The ‘Polar Duke,’ an ice-breaking ship used by Dr. Cornelius Sullivan and his colleagues for their 70-day research expedition in the ocean waters around Antarctica.