Volume CXI, Number 64	University of Southern California	Monday, April 23, 1990
NFL draft day: Seau goes 5th
Sports, page 24
Graduate returns degree in protest
Viewpoint, page 3
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SpringFest attracts thousands
By Dave Hernandez
Staff Writer
More than $66,000 in programming funds for SpringFest '90 apparently was not wasted, as thousands turned out Saturday for the event.
The success vindicates the Student Senate organizers from the comparative failure of the first SpringFest in 1989, when budget overruns and lack of good programming left many Trojans disinterested in the celebration.
Students generally agreed that the one-day celebration, which included comedy, street entertainers, concerts and game and food booths, brought the university together before finals.
"This year's SpringFest was absolutely great. We need more things to bring the entire campus together. It's a better way to spend our money than the usual stupid things that Student Senate wastes funds on," said John Connor, a ju-
(See SpringFest, page 14)
Session required for loan recipients
By Katie Sweeney
Staff Writer
Graduating seniors who received student loans while attending the university must attend an exit counseling session before the end of May, a university official said Friday.
Earlier this month, the Financial Aid office sent letters to all students who they determined needed to attend an exit interview. However, because of a sorting error, some students who do not need to attends session received the lette/ as well, said Jim Tilton, assistant director of Financial Aid.
“Very few people got the wrong letter," Tilton said.
Some letters were sent to students who had been offered student loans in their financial aid packages but did not accept them, he said. These students do not need to attend a session.
Tilton said any students who are uncertain whether or not they must attend an exit interview can /Stop by the Student Administrative Services lobby to confirm their status.
Exit interviews, which began April 11, are required of those students who have either a Supplemental Loan for Students or a Stafford Loan (formerly GSL) and have been cleared to graduate in fall of 1989, spring or summer of 1990, Tilton said.
Students who received a National Direct Student Loan (NDSL), now called the Carl
Perkins Loan, and are scheduled to graduate in the fall of 1989, or spring or summer of 1990, 1990, must also complete an exit interview, he said. Students with a Carl Perkins loan must sign a repayment agreement at the Student Loan Accounting Office, said Carol Dorthalina, account representative at Student Loan Accounting.
About 75 percent of all stu dents receiving financial aid receive one of these loans, Tilton said.
Other students who must attend exit counseling are those who have withdrawn from the university or those who carry less than a part-time course load (fewer than six units for undergraduates and fewer than four units for graduate students), he said.
Students with more than one loan only have to attend one exit interview, Dorthalina said.
Exit counseling is required by federal law and students who fail to complete the interview will have a restriction placed on their records preventing release of their diplomas or academic transcripts, Tilton said.
The group counseling sessions are "very helpful" and provide students with inform j-tion about payment obligations, loan consolidation and deferments, he said.
Students have until the end of May to complete the exit interne Loans, page 12)
In Brief_
State: Motorist deaths last year lowest in history
SACRAMENTO — The California Highway Patrol reported that 5,381 motorists died in traffic accidents in the state during 1989, exactly the same number as the year before and the lowest rate per miles of travel In the state's history.
The deaths occurred in more than 4,800 crashes statewide, the CHP said.
The CHP also said that the numbers of pedestrians and bicyclists killed declined significantly, motorcyclists’ deaths were up slightly and alcohol-related accidents stayed the same.
From the Associated Press
Index
Viewpoint....................................... 3
Komlx............................................. 6
Security Roundup........................ 9
Sports............................................24
No new leads found in student shooting
By Katie Sweeney
Staff Writer
There are no new leads in the Jan. 24 shooting of graduate student Charles Larigenhagen, and Langenhagen said Friday he does not have an optimistic outlook about the case.
"I hope it will be solved, but realistically I don't think there's any chance," he said. "It's just too long ago now."
Detective Charles Stubbs, of the Los Angeles Police Department, said he and other detectives are still in the process of checking on previous leads.
"It's still an open case . . . we're still treating it as an attempted murder," Stubbs said.
Langenhagen, 24, a first-year graduate business student, was shot by an unidentified assailant while returning from campus to his home at Terrace Apartments about 10 p.m. on Jan. 24.
He underwent surgery for a bullet wound in his right calf and returned to school a week after the shooting.
Langenhagen said he has not fully recovered but he hopes to be healed in about a month.
"Each day, I'm making a little progress," he said.
Langenhagen said he is more cautious at night since the incident.
"Obviously, I'm a little more careful now," he said. "Originally, at night, I was a little more scared, but now I'm over that."
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By Christa Hohmann
Staff Writer
As an incentive to encourage university students to return their student surveys by today, a drawing will be held awarding various prizes to
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they think should be improved," Dillon said.
The surveys are part of a national project, however, there is room for addition*^ questions, written by Dillon, to address specific campus issues.
'It is helpful to use this method because then we can not only rate our school, but compare the attitudes of our students to those around the country," Dillon said.
The first seven students whose Social Security num-.1° bers are drawn will receive either season tickets to home
tion. They rate regard to faculty, d< and Housing and ~ vices on a scale of one to five.
The general student opinion poll, which began in 1984, is mailed out in alternate years, Dillon said.	- The winning numbers will
"We ask students to tell us be printed in the Daily Trojan what they value and what on April 25 and 26.
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