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Volume CXI, Number 46	University of Southern California	Tuesday, March 20, 1990
In Brief_
Police raid drug lab in Colombia, seize U. S. bound cargo
BOGOTA, Colombia — Police raided a drug laboratory in southern Colombia, seized 3,960 pounds of pure cocaine and arrested 13 people, police said Monday.
The cocaine, packaged and ready to be shipped to the United States, was seized Saturday in the raid on the lab near the town of Bolivar, 145 miles southwest of Bogota, police said.
Police also found an airstrip used by small planes bringing coca paste from Bolivia and Peru and carrying cocaine to the United States.
Nation: Savings and loan bailout plan will fall short
WASHINGTON — President Bush’s savings and loan bailout will fall at least $30 billion, and possibly as much as $162 billion, short of the amount needed to clean up the industry, a congressional report said Monday.
Legislation enacted in August provided $50 billion to close or sell failed thrift associations through 1992. However, $48 billion of that will be needed to cover losses at the 383 institutions seized by the government through March 5, concluded a report submitted by Rep. Bruce Vento, DJMinn.
Vento is chairman of an 18-member House Banking Committee task force tracking the performance of the new bailout agency, the Resolution Trust Corp.
Regulators expect the failure of an additional 225 to 295 S&Ls, with losses of at least $32 billion to $40 billion, according to the report.
State: Governor urges support of gas tax hike
SACRAMENTO — Gov. George Deukmejian told leaders of California industry Monday that doubling California 9-cents-per-gallon gasoline tax is a proposal they should support as a good business investment.
Deukmejian told participants in the California Manufacturers Association’s annual legislative conference that they, as an organization and as individual businesses and community leaders, should support Propositions 108 and 111 on the June 5 ballot because they will allow California to start building new transportation projects to ease gridlock on the highways.
From the Associated Press
Index
Trojan batters finish sweep
Sports, page 24
weather
Spring in bloom
These daffodils and other signs of spring are popping up all over campus, as today marks the first official day of the new season.
, time to homeless
he said, should get into this because to give and not expect any-
The committee, which began last semester, gave away shoes, socks and sweaters to the homeless on March 11. The group was asked by people to come back and set up the dinner, said Geno Mazzella, chairman of the Student Senate Homeless Commitee.
"The people were very grateful, Mazzella said.
The dinner, which began with Mazzella preparing 12 boxes of macaroni, ended up with five carloads of sorority and fraternity members bringing a huge tray of pasta salad, two dozen peanut butter sandwiches, oranges
to establish interaction students and the home-of just getting food and it off," he said. "This way better idea of who they are there."
be holding a fo-with a panel of :escue Mission workers who used to be homeless and those who are still homeless. The forum will be held on March 27 at 7 p.m. in Taper Hall, room 201.
"We want to learn about them. That's why we're having the forum," Mazzella said. "It will give the students an opportunity to interact wilfr them and ask them questions. It is also a way for us to break down the barri-(See Homeless, page 16)
Housing
postpones
contracts
By Paul Malcolm
Staff Writer
With the approval of this semester's housing cost increase still pending, students who received housing during Priority Period will have to wait until next week to sign their contracts, said William Thompson, director of Housing Services.
Housing assignments allocated during Priority Period will remain unaffected, but the actual signing of contracts will occur March 26-30, Thompson said.
He would not reveal the amount of the proposed increase before a decision is reached.
The exact amount is to be sent this week to the senior administration and finally to the board of trustees, said Eugene Lawless, vice president of auxiliary services, who will represent housing during the decision-making process.
"The recommendations have been forwarded. As to what the final rates will be is unsure. We will try to have a decision completed as soon as possible," Lawless said
(See Housing, page 16)
Students aid in selection of president
By Katie Sweeney
Staff Writer
Two students have been named among the 16-member search committee to recommend candidates for retiring university president James Zumberge's successor, officials said Monday.
Tara Silvestri, a senior Latin and Greek languages major, and Robert Rutledge, a senior majoring in physics, were selected from a group "of high quality and good judgment," said George Scharffenberger, chairman of the university's board of trustees.
Silvestri became the university's second female Rhodes scholarship recipient last semester and Rutledge was given one of three Phi Beta Kappa undergraduate awards at the recent academic honors convocation.
Warren Bennis, a university professor of management and organization in the School of Business Administration, will act as chair of the Presidential Search Committee, which is composed of university faculty, staff members, deans, stu dents and alumni.
The committee will "publicize the search, solicit nominations and applications and make initial screenings and evaluations of potential candidates,” Scharffenberger said in a university release.
"Although they were selected from the diverse components of the USC family, they are not delegates of any particular interest group," Scharffenberger said. "They will be expected to exercise independent judgment in the best interests of the university as a whole."
Other members of '.he committee include: Thomas Moran, vice president for business affairs; Marshall Cohen, dean of humanities in the College of
(See Committee, page 17)