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Volume CXVI, Number 25	University of Southern California	Monday, October 7, 1991
Sixty percent receive aid
Financial assistance alloted on schedule
By Kim Wilner
Staff Writer
Sixty percent of all university students received scholarships, university grants, assistance through work-study or loans from the Office of Financial Aid this year, university officials said.
Jim Tilton, senior associate director of financial aid, said the majority of students received their money on time this year.
Some students, however, experienced a delay in receiving their financial aid packages.
Officials attribute this delay to one of several things including late applications, computer errors and applications
(See Aid, page 6)
Rocco Garcia / Dally Trojan
Students wait in line outside SAS to talk to Financial Aid advisors.
Edward Siegel Dally Trojan
Co-captain Kiersten Finch goes for a kill against Arizona. The Women of Troy are undefeated at 11-0. See story on page 16.
New director, non-gay, not approved by all of GLASS
By Melanie Haseltine and Arwen Adams
Staff Writers
The recent upheaval over leadership in the Gay and Lesbian Assembly for Student Support does not appear to be over, despite the election of a new director last week.
The group held elections last Thursday to install a new director. The former director, who asked not to be identified, was forced to step down because she refused to make public her sexual orientation.
Since the election of Muriel Jones, who is not gay, GLASS is receiving greater recognition and support both on campus and off, according to members.
But Kelly Landis, one of the candidates who ran against Jones, said not everyone was pleased with the decision.
"Only one person knew the exact outcome of the election," Landis said. "But from everything I've heard, it was really close. I don't think Muriel had a majority, and I think there should have been a runoff (election)."
Landis said personal politics played a large part in the election.
"I think people saw her as more of a liberal," said Landis, who is Republican. "I'm less politically correct.
(See GLASS, page 3)
War added twist to study abroad
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By Paul Malcolm
Staff Writer
"The destruction of a city is a calamity all the more deeply felt because of the close cohesion of its inhabitants and their attachment, reinforced over generations ... to its landmarks and buildings.”
— Bernard Knox from his Introduction to Homer's Iliad.
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Variety Arts Center, the Watts Towers, the Formosa Cafe and the Los Angeles Central Library, physical structures that are as much a part of Los Angeles as the people that live here, have all been threatened with demolition or radical restructuring.
It s this "destruction of a city" from within that prompted the L.A. Weekly to state that "by giving itself a facelift every decade, L.A. tries to deny its architectural past while suppressing its eccentric present.
The demoliton or neglect of the city's physical environment not only effects the way Angelenos come to view their city, but the way they view themselves.
"Psychologically we have a need to feel attached to a place," said Babara Hoff, director of preservation issues at the Los Angeles Conservancy (LAC). "Our architecture gives us a sense of identity of place. They give us our per-sonal as well as our collective identities."
The conservancy has been working since 1978 to maintain the cultural heritage of Los Angeles through the preservation of specific buldings, as well as finding "new economic roles" for old structures.
Originally organized as a grassroots effort to save the the central library from demolition in 1977, the conservancy is now the largest membership-?ased historic preservation organization in the West.
It has been instrumental in saving many of Los Angeles' approximately 538 cultural / historical monuments, including the Wiltem Theatre, Sunset Tower (St. James Club), Engine Co. No. 28. and the Coliseum.
But its work has not been easy.
"Our efforts to save significant buildings often resemble house-to-house combat," said Amy Forbes, vice president for advocacy, in this month's LAC newsletter.
"So long as the struggle remains on a building-to-building level, we are faced with the problem of having inadequate resources to meet our task."
The greatest threat to the historic architecture and design of Los Angeles is, ironically, the same influences that allowed for its creation — real estate development.
(See Architecture, page 6)
By Lynnette M. Darrell
Special to the Daily Trojan
Rabin Poumazarian and Julie Simmons consider themselves lucky.
Many students across the country were forced to cancel their plans to study in Israel when the Gulf War began.
But the two university students were already in Jerusalem when the war broke out, providing an "added dimension" to their stay, said Poumazarian, a senior majoring in international relations who recently returned from Israel.
Poumazarian described his experiences
Monday at a meeting sponsored by the university's Office of Overseas Studies to encourage other students to study abroad.
"I had the most tremendous experience of my life," he said. "The professors make an effort to give you a comprehensive program. You don't just sit in a class, read textbooks, and take exams. They want you to get out and see the country."
Julie Simmons, who studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, agreed with Poumazarian that the experience was not all about academics.
The university emphasized learning about Israel's history and culture by allowing students to attend various festivals, participate in ethnic activities and visit museums, she said.
"I love USC, but studying in Israel was my best year ever," said Simmons, who plans to move to Israel permanently within the next two years.
According to Simmons, only 30 of the 600 students from the United States and Canada who were studying in Israel remained for the duration of the war.
(See Israel, page 6)