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Wednesday, April 11, 1990
University of Southern California
Volume CXI, Number 56
Choices for meal plans double in fall
And... action!
By Christa Hohmann
Staff Writer
The number of meal plans to be offered to students in residential halls next semester are set to be doubled and Dining Services will finalize a separate plan for Hmbassv Residential College, said Nikki Vescovi, marketing and promotions manager for Dining Services, Tuesday.
Two new plans, the 12-meal-plus points plan and the 10-meal-plus points plan, will be offered in addition to the current 20-meal and the 15-meal-plus points plans.
Currently, the 20 meal plan offers students 20 meals per week, while the 15 plus plan offers 15 meals plus $215 which can be spent at any eating facility on campus.
The additions offer 12 meal? >r 10 meals plus $300 and $355 worth of additional points, respectively.
"These new meal plans are giving students a much greater selection," Vescovi said. "We conducted surveys in the fall and spring and looked at plans at other universities across the country and decided these were the best."
The cost of any of the four meal plans will be $1,325 per semester.
Dining Services, however, has not finalized a meal plan for Embassy Residential College, Vescovi said.
"We are working through the budget office to finalize a plan," Vescovi said in reference to the Embassy "We are looking at a plan that will provide some weekend service."
Currently, no meals are offered on Saturday and brunch and dinner are offered on Sunday, said Niall Slater, associate professor of Classics and faculty master at Embassy. The convenience store is open on Saturday, he said.
"I think the meal plan is working successfully now," Slater said. "In the long range, however, I would like to see a meal plan more like the one in the other residence halls, but that is a long way down the road."
Embassy residents will HSve the option of buying the Embassy plan or upgrading to one of the other four meal plans, Vescovi said.
"We are trying to improve the Embassy plan," Vescovi said. "This year two meals were offered, breakfast and dinner. If a student missed the meal, they could not spend those points elsewhere," she said.
Discretionary points will also continue to be offered to all students to use at the bookstore, pharmacy and all eating facilities.
"Basically, we are trying to provide better meal plans, ones with more flexibility and which give students points so that they can eat where they want," she said.
Edward Sl«g«l / Daily Trojan
Actresses wait to take batting practice Tuesday at Dedeaux Field during a casting audition for an upcoming feature film titled “A League of their Own.” The film, being produced by Penny Marshall, is based on a true story about women who played professional baseball during World War II.
Hostage family freed by Palestinian group headed by Abu Nidal
PARIS — The Libyan-backed Palestinian group headed by Abu Nidal freed a French woman, a Belgian man and their young daughter Tuesday after holding them for nearly 2 112 years.
The three arrived at a military airport outside Paris late Tuesday after a five-hour flight from Beirut, where they were dropped off at the French Embassy by masked gunmen.
Jacqueline Valente, 32, Fernand Houtekins, 43, and their 2-year-old daughter Sophie-Liberte, bom in captivity, were met by jubilant relatives and French officials, but made no public statements.
Nation: Men are catching women in population growth
WASHINGTON — Men are catching up, at least in numbers.
The Census Bureau said Tuesday that the number of men grew faster than the number of women in the '80s, something that hasn’t happened since the first decade of this century.
Death rates for men declined more rapidly than for women, extending male lifespans and allowing their > population to increase more rapidly, the new study disclosed.
From the Associated Press
By Aric Johnson
Staff Writer
'Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn filed criminal charges April 3 against the university and two university employees for violating laws regulating the handling and transportation of radioactive materials, according to Hahn's office.
The criminal complaint charges eight violations of the state vehicle code and health and safety codes. This includes the failure to place a placard on the outside of the van designating transportation of radioactive materials, the lack of an itemized list of materials in the van and inadequate training in safe-
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