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Volume CXVI, Number 19
University of Southern California
Friday, September 27, 1991
Administrator resigns
Director of achievement organization earns award
By Liz Washburn
Assistant City Editor
Larry Lim, director of MESA (the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement organization) at the uni versity recently received an outstanding director's award.
Lim directs the university's MESA Pre-College Center, which has helped more than 700 minority students from six junior high schools and seven high schools in the Los Angeles area.
He was one of two California directors from the organization to receive the Wilbur Somerton Award for outstanding pre-college directors.
Last year, Lim coordinated junior MESA Day, in which junior high school students gathered at the university to compete in hands-on math and science activities.
Lim is also director of the MESA Mi-jnority Engineering Program, which helps minority students earn engineer ing and computer science degrees at the university.
William McClure, chairman of the university's Hedco Sciences depart ment, was honored Thursday by the Panhellenic Council as their faculty member of the year.
McClure, who is a faculty fellow for the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, was chosen for the award by representatives from the Office of Greek and Residential Life and the Panhellenic Council.
The award recognizes faculty who ex emplify the ideals set forth in the Pan hellenic Creed: "good scholarship, fine standards, service to the college comm-munity, wide and wise human services and mutual respect and helpfulness."
Four university students recently won scholarships of $2,000 or more through the Golden State Minority Foundation.
Michele James, a junior majoring in accounting and economics, won the Arthur Houston Memorial scholarship. James is earning her bachelor's degree in accounting and would like to pursue a CPA. In addition to her studies, James works part-time at a mortgage banking firm in Los Angeles.
Marc Amescua, a first-year graduate student studying business, won the Automobile Club of Southern California scholarship.
Andrea Clay, a second-year graduate student studying business administration, won the Charles H. Matthews Sr. Memorial Scholarship. Clay plans to pursue a career in business law.
Leslie Scott, a senior majoring in ac counting, won the Coors Brewing Company scholarship.
The Names and Faces column appears every Friday.
Auxiliary services loses director
Eugene Lawless
Michael Kim / Daily Trojan
Eugene Lawless, associate vice president of auxiliary services, resigned Thursday to pursue a job outside the university.
Lawless was the head of Auxiliarv Services, which manages the bookstore, USCard, parking, housing and dining services.
"This is a completely amiable parting," Lawless said. "I've had a wonderful eight years here. I'm pursuing a job in the private sector, but I'm pleased that Auxiliarv Services is off to a wonderful start this year."
Trudy Exler, an administrative assistant who worked with Lawless during his
entire stay at the university, said that she was sad to see him go.
"It's a suprise to everyone," she said. "I was here before he came. When he was promoted, I staved with him."
Lawless came to the university in 1983 and went to work in Dining Services, said Nikki Vescovi, marketing director for Auxiliary Services. In 1987 he was named director of the bookstore and dining. He was promoted to his current position in 1989, Vescovi said.
"He got another opportunity," she said. "He's moving on to bigger and better things. He's been up against some tough challenges."
Lawless supervised the construction of the new University Bookstore and was in-(See Resigned, page 10)
Horses add | Making a big splash
healthy twist
to childrens’ gymnastics
By Nicole Simonsen
Staff Writer
Disabled children performed gymnastic routines on horseback on the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house lawn Thursday afternoon.
The event — part of Kappa Sigma fraternity's Rodeo Days held Sept. 25, 26 and 27 — was held to raise money for a children's program called "Ahead with Horses."
The program is designed to help disabled children who have not responded to other types of therapy through the use of therapeutic gymnastics on horseback.
Its main objective is to enhance physical, emotional and social functioning in children whose disabilities range in difference from Down syndrome to cerebral palsv.
Liz Helms, director of "Ahead with Horses," founded the program 22 years ago.
"The children gain so much self-confidence from doing the shows," she said. "They're out there doing things no one ever thought possible."
Because of the uniqueness of the horses' movements, the children are able to build up strength, which helps them with daily activities like walking, Helms said.
(See Rodeo, page 10)
Grant Fenmore / Daily Trojan
Aubrey Thornton, a sophomore majoring in education, plummets poolward as he tries out for the diving team at the swim stadium.
Student loan program a new idea
Income-dependent rates proposed
By Kim Wilner
Staff Writer
A student loan program, in which repayment is based upon an applicant's income after graduation, will be introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives next month.
The Income-Dependent Education Assistance Act, called IDEA, would make up to $70,000 in loans available for each undergraduate or graduate student over
a 9-year period and up to $143,000 for each medical student.
Unlike most loan programs, IDEA would be made available to all students, regardless of parent's income.
The bill implementing the program will be introduced by Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wis.) in October. If passed, loans could be doled out as early as 1993, said George Conant, a legislative assistant for Petri.
"IDEA gives the average four-year student a better deal than commercial or home equity loans, which are available through banks ... in these types of loans, the student is required to pay up to
8 percent in up-front fees," he said. "IDEA also offers the added advantage of flexibility of repayment."
People with high incomes would be expected to repay relatively quickly at slightly higher interest rates, which would http to subsidize those with low incomes, Conant said.
Those with higher incomes would be expected to pay off their loans in 12 years at about 2.2 percent more than the rates paid by lower-income graduates, Conant said.
(See Loan, page 3)