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Volume CVII, Number 35
University of Southern California
Tuesday, October 25, 1988
Dodger fans crowd streets for glimpse of world champions
By Roger Tefft
Staff Writer
Thousands of baseball fans filled Broadway Avenue and crowded outside City Hall Monday to honor the 1988 World Series champions — the Los Angeles Dodgers.
In a cream-colored classic Cadillac, Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda sat next to Mayor Tom Bradley and waved to the crowd.
A local high school marching band, in red uniforms and hats, headed the victory parade with John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever," and were followed by Lasorda and the team.
The Dodgers vanquished the heavily-favored Oakland Athletics last Thursday, winning four out of five games in the best-of-seven series.
To thunderous cheers. Dodger teammates (See Dodgers, page 14)
Photos by ROGER TEFFT / DAILY TROJAN
World Series Most Valuable Player Orel Her-sheiser held the Dodgers’ championship trophy aloft Monday as a young onlooker took to the streets to get a last glimpse of the team’s victory parade.
Potential victims warned
Security stresses lack of crime consciousness with ‘Boris the bad guy’
By Kyra Phillips
Staff Writer
A stranger in tom, stained clothes wandered across campus Monday begging for spare change as most university students tried to avoid the transient.
But the would-be homeless person was really Terry Riley, USC senior officer and community representative, who was cruising campus challenging students to fight crime.
The "Gotcha Program," developed two years ago, was refined by Riley to attack all areas of crime. Monday's "Boris " campaign was aimed at encouraging students to report suspicious people and activity on campus.
"Boris is the bad guy, the enemy
among the officers," Riley said. "Our purpose for the character of 'Boris' is to challenge students to approach him and see if they can assist him and then call in to Security. If students reacted, we could cut crime 15 to 20 percent over a period of time."
Warner Brothers Productions voluntarily applied Riley's make-up in an effort to support the program. The unshaven senior officer then smothered himself in dirt and donned oily, tattered clothes.
Riley, disguised as Boris, wandered throughout nearly all major buildings, including Doheny Library, leaving his "Gotcha, you could have been ripped off" cards on backpacks and other property that could have been stolen easily.
"The goals are to, number one, embarrass the students and, two, for them to leam from their mistakes," Riley said. "We want to change the habits and attitudes of the students in order to prevent
(See Gotcha, page 6)
University promotes minority enrollment
Conference urges Recruitment effort parents to assist	expanded, targets
in child education blacks, Hispanics
By Gale Lance
Staff Writer
By Jerilyn Jacobs
Staff Writer
Local businesses and educators joined forces last Saturday at a conference urging parents and children to work as a team to achieve success in school.
About 2,000 people attended the daylong Team Achievement Conference held at Bovard Auditorium that combined a college fair with parent counseling workshops.
The conference began in response to a "crisis" of decreasing minority enrollment at universities across the country, said Judith Mayes, one of the event's coordinators and an admissions counselor at UCLA.
"Research shows us that students supported and nurtured by their parents do better throughout school," Mayes said.
Black, Hispanic and Asian teenagers collected armfuls of literature at the fair in front of Doheny Library while their parents attended one of the 25 workshops offered.
Representatives from 69 universities, including Columbia, Dartmouth and Yale, answered a barrage of questions as high school juniors and seniors swarmed around their tables.
"The No. 1 question seems to be about major offerings," said Marielena Hange, assistant coordinator of outreach and recruitment at California Polytechnic at Pomona.
(See Conference, page 14)
The university's office of admissions is expanding its recruitment efforts and aiming to attract local and minority students due to a recent decline of black and Hispanic enrollment.
The percentage of minority students enrolled at the university has dropped from 32 percent in 1980 to 28 percent for the 1988 freshman class.
Admissions records show that the number of black students has dropped from nine percent in 1980 to four percent in 1988.
The number of applications from black students also decreased from 12 percent of all applications eight years ago, to seven percent for 1987.
The number of Hispanic students is also experiencing a slight decline, from eight percent of all applicants and enrollments in 1980 to seven percent of applicants and six percent of enrollments this fall.
The steady eight-year decline has forced admissions officials to revitalize past recruitment tactics in an effort to stop the trend.
A minority advisory committee has been formed to increase local community involvement, said Ann Rike, senior associate director of admissions.
Efforts also have been made to increase efficiency and bolster recruitment of high school students by returning to the pro-(See Admissions, page 6)
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University Security officer Terry Riley places a “Gotcha” card in an unidentified student’s backpack. While undercover, Riley is placing these cards in places where property could have been stolen easily, as part of a crime awareness program.