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Life / Arts, page 11
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is an intern at Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, a company of 4,300 employees, where she has contact with only two other women in her department.
On her break in the lunchroom she said she feels intimidated in a room .full of men socializing with one another.
Lisa Hou appears to be luckier. When she goes to work at Hughes Aircraft Company in Los Angeles, she has three women in her division.
"It does feel uncomfortable because the^e is no one else around who knows what you are going through," Hou said.
Khadoni is a junior majoring in aerospace engineering and president of die university chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Lisa Hou, a senior majoring in electrical engineering, is It of USC's Society of Women The two are members of
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This is ths second in an occasional series of articles about univsrsity departments’ plans for ths ’90s.
the women's minority in the field of engineering.
According to a Los Angeles Times article published Dec. 8, women account for only 3-7 percent of working engineers.
There has been a decrease in numbers of women being employed as engineers since 1984, when they achieved their greatest representation at 17 percent; now they make up about 15.5 percent, according to the article.
The university has suffered a drop in the total enrollment of engineers,
trolled as of
from 2500 in 1984 to 2100 enrol the fall 1969 semester, said Louise Yates, the director of program administration The ctiwil
(See Women, page 19)
le director of program admin-in the School of Engineering, srall enrollment of women.
Library loses Ritcheson to new position
By Chad Reed
Staff Writer
University Librarian Charles Ritcheson, who is also a university dean and vice provost, will assume a new position as special assistant to the president of the university before returning to a professorship, Ritcheson said Tuesday.
"I postponed writing and research when I became librarian" Ritcheson said, indicating his wish to return to projects in the History Department.
While a special committee seeks a new university librarian, Ritcheson will continue to work on special projects in the library system. An interim director of the university central library will be appoint-\ ed until Ritcheson's replacement is found, according to a letter from University Provost Cornelius Pings to Ritcheson, dated Jan. 9.
In his new position Ritcheson said he
•	will pursue six projects which should be developed before he returns to research and teaching. Ritcheson is involved in fundraising for a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, the future (See Library, page 9)
WASHINGTON — Congress will override President Bush’s veto of a bill protecting visiting Chinese students in “a dazzler” of one-sided sentiment, the chief Republican Senate vote-counter predicted Tuesday.
The first showdown of the newly convened 1990 Congress will come Wednesday in the House, where Republicans already had conceded they would not muster more than a handful of votes to support Bush’s position.
The administration has concentrated its lobbying efforts on the Senate, hoping to get the 34 votes there that would be needed to stave off a two-thirds majority vote to override. But Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., who is supporting Bush, said the president wouldn't get five votes.
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In Brief
Thorsten Heine, a freshman majoring in Electrical Engineering, tries the new 1990 Chevrolet Corvette on for size.
Volume CXI, Number 9	University of Southern California _ _Wednesday, January 24,1990
Detainment policy called ‘harassment’
Third senate speakout hosts campus security
By Michael Utley
Assistant Gty Editor
A member of the Black Student Assembly questioned the detainment policies of University Security at Tuesday night's senate-sponsored "Speakout," raising an issue played out a year ago when many black stu-
dents complained of being harassed by officers during the search for a rape suspect in the campus area.
The allegations were leveled against security last year during a two-week intensive search for accused rapist and kidnapper Deon Proby, a black man subse-
quently arrested in North Hollywood by the Los Angeles Police Department. During the search, many black students were detained and questioned by security officers.
% for one, felt unnecessarily harassed," said Howard Hobson, chairman of the Black Stu-
dent Assembly. "And it's not a problem that has just come up. It has existed in the four years since I've been here and years before that."
Security Chief Steven Ward agreed, and called it a problem they have never been able to control. "An officer is required to articulate three reasons why
—	of everybody walking down the street — he stopped you.
But the reality is, when something like that event (the Proby search) happens, those procedures in practice are not necessarily followed."
He said a mistake was made during the fall 1988 semester when a composite drawing of Proby was circulated among the student body — a practice normally avoided — that may have (See Speakout, page 7)
World: Extremists kill three in ambush of military convoy
MOSCOW — Extremists ambushed a military convoy in Azerbaijan, killing two reserve soldiers and a woman bystander, Soviet media said Tuesday. The KGB said the republic was on the brink of anarchy and local politicians pushed for secession.
Radio Moscow said the situation in the Soviet Caucasus, where Armenians and Azerbaijanis have been battling for 11 days, remained “very, very tense” Tuesday.
It said leaders of Soviet Azerbaijan and Armenia continued negotiations to end the ethnic violence, but little progress was reported.
Should this guy get paid?
Sports, page 28
Nation: Congressional override expected today