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Volume CXI, Number 13
University of Southern California
Tuesday, January 30, 1990
Zumberge to lecture in Antarctica
By Paul Malcolm
Staff V\ riti'r
University President lames Zumberge will give up the bright sun ol Soullu’rn California to brave the ic\ Antarctic frontier from I eb, 17 to March 2 as a guest lecturer on an academic cruise sponsored by the alumni travel age.nc\.
"I like to go to Antarctica/ Zumberge said. "It's always a pleasure to go to areas that interest me professionally and academically.'
Zumberge, who has a Ph.D. in geology and has specialized in Antarctic research since 195h, will give six lectures and several informal talks on a wide range of topics including theories on glaciers and global warming.
"I had developed an interest in snow and ice because I was born in Minnesota,' Zumberge said "Winter sports got me out of doors."
Zumberge, who attributes his pit mu nence in the field of arctic research to being born at the right time and luck, has a cape and a coastline named after him In his dozen expeditions to the region, how -(Sec Zumberge, fui^c 7)
Police search for witness, boost patrols
By Dave Hernandez and Katie Sweeney
Staff Writers
The presence of the Los Angeles Police Department has been increased in the campus community following the shooting of Charles Langenhagen last Wednesday, the LAPD investigator in charge of the case said Monday.
Detective Bill Pavelic said there are five steps that will be taken to increase the police department's chances of apprehending the gunman.
These include a larger presence of police officers in the area and a more ambitious investigative program, but Pavelic refused to release any further details of the investigation.
"We have reports from the victim that there was an 'SC student riding on a bicycle near the incident," Pavelic said.
Thus far, efforts to find this possible witness have gone unrealized, he said.
"We've gone through apartment complexes, near where the incident occured, and no witness has turned up, yet," Pavelic said.
"1 would urge students to contact University Security to report suspicious persons or behavior," he said.
While the search for Langenhagen's assailant continues, there are still no new leads in the search for a gunman who shot Kimberly Warfield almost exactly a year ago in front of Stardust Apartments on 27th Street.
"The case is pretty much at a standstill," said LAPI) Detective Gil Freese, who is in charge of that investigation.
Warfield was shot in the back on Jan. 27, 1989 bv a man who chased her to the front gate of her apartment build-
(See Investigation, page 17)
In brief_
Honecker released from hospital, then arrested for treason
EAST BERLIN — Erich Honecker, who ruled East Germany for 18 years until his downfall in October, was released from a hospital Monday and arrested immediately to oe tried for treason, the national prosecutor said.
Plans to put the former Communist Party chief and three members of his Politbun on trial in March were announced by Prosecutor Hans-Juergen Joseph at a session of Parliament where Premier Hans Modrow offered a grim account of the state of the nation.
The swift action against Honecker, 77, indicates the strength cf a nationwide backlash against Honecker’s Stalinist regime.
From the Associated Press
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Officials doubt crime deters applicants
By Dave Banks
Staff Writer
Despite a 10 percent drop in applications from incoming students, recruitment officials said Monday that they doubt crime near campus deters high school graduates from applying to the university.
But Dean of Admissions Cliff Sjogren said, "(The perception that USC is a notoriously violent community) is sometimes more damaging than the actual truth" and added that the image could hinder the university's efforts to recruit h.gher caliber students.
Sjogren said he blames a decreasing number of high school graduates nationwide for the drop in fall, 1990 applications.
Director of Admissions Ann Helm Rike said that there is "no correlation" between the university's reputation as a violent place to live and the lower turnout of eligible applicants for the coming year.
But Sjorgen said that while traveling to the Midwest to recruit students, "this issue (area crime) almost never came up, and when it did, it came up in the context that crime is not a problem characteristic to Los Angeles. It's all over."
While acts of violence remain in the forefront of news, the media attention cannot help the university's image, Sjogren said.
During the next two years, the number of high school graduates will drop 12 to 20 percent, according to a study quoted in the Jan. 29 issue of Transcript. The trend will put more pressure on universities to fill freshman vacancies. "This drop is precipitous. It's a national problem we're facing this year and it's going to affect a lot of people," Sjogren said.
(See Recruiting, page 3)
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By Paul Malcolm
Chinese students and campus leaders are apprehensive about placing trust in President George Bush's directive rather than a vetoed bill that would have specifically protected Chinese students in the United States from deportation.
"Bush promises not to dejport us, but we don't really trust him," said Yi Lu, a graduate student in geology, referring to the directive to receive a
that their status is changed from J, which means they are subject to two-year residency in China, to F which will give them regular foreign student
change in visa status for which rea- vices to process their visa status, sons of personal safety must be cited. What Lu and others are hoi
Bush nas said he will never allow any action that would force the return of Chinese students if their lives or liberties are at risk. Bush maintains the directive offers the same benefits as the defeated bill, but allows room to improve U.S. I Chinese relations.
Lu is one of 343 registered university students of Chinese citizenship who must now wait until next month for Immigration and Naturalization Ser-
"All we can do now is something to show our support for the Chines# students, to express our concern for their wpll-hpinff, said Steve Webber, grader for the Student Senate. (See Reaction, page 16)
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