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University of Southern California
Friday, February 16,1990
USC to educate former athletes
By Vivien Lou Chen
Senior Staff Writer
Charles White says his stubbornness kept him from getting a USC degree back in 1979, when he won the year's Heisman trophy.
After White participated in a televised athletic competition and won the first-place cash prize, he was held responsible for his tuition under a National Collegiate Athletic Association rule that declared him a professional.
U.S. will remove thousands of troops from South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea — Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and South Korean officials agreed Thursday to the withdrawal of several thousand U.S. troops over the next three years as Korea ‘lakes the lead” in its own defense.
Cheney, on the first leg of an Asian-Pacific tour that is also taking him to the Philippines and Japan, said the troop reductions would not be done “precipitously” and pledged to keep U.S. soldiers based here as long as the Korean people want them.
But White felt he was entitled to the four-year scholarship he had been promised when he came to USC.
He left the university in the last semester of his senior year — 18 units shy of a degree in what was then called speech communications — and became the Cleveland Browns' first pick in the National Football League draft.
Other Heisman trophy winners also never got their degrees — Marcus Allen didn't, O.J. didn't.
Only White is now back in the classroom, tuition-free, to do what he says
"should have been done a long time if
ago.
In exchange for the chance to finally get his diploma, the former tailback has been hired this semester as the director of a new program that enables other former USC athletes to get their degrees.
"The Former Athlete Degree Program is still in its infancy," said Mike McGee, (See Degree, page 13)
Bombs Away
By Paul Malcolm
Staff Writer
Installation of the university's new telecommunications system has been going on at night since the beginning of February so as not to disturb students and faculty, officials said.
These nocturnal developments have helped accelerate the installation of the $23 million 5ESS Switch System, initially expected to be functioning at the beginning of this semester.
The new system, which has been under construction for three years, is expected to ease communication between the University Park Campus and the Health Sciences Campus, as well as allow voice, picture and computer communication over fiber-optic lines.
The system was delayed because of construction problems and the problem of inconveniencing students and faculty but should be completed in April, said Hugh Kelly, public relations manager for the University Communications Network.
Working at night "has sped up installation but has been more of a response to accommodate individual departments," Kelly said.
"We've got a revised schedule," he said. "We've learned a lot from what we've done before. We're still on track for the middle of April.
"We've been working in areas where there are classrooms where they prefer we go in and do the work at night. In general, this involves the more disruptive work like drilling between floors," Kelly said.
The American Telephone and Telegraph employees working on the installation will be working graveyard shifts from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Though 16 buildings currently are being worked on, only the Physical Education building, Bovard
(See System, page 14)
Bush signs agreements designed to end drug war
CARTAGENA, Colombia —
President Bush signed a series of drug-fighting agreements with the leaders of Colombia, Peru and Bolivia today at a security-shielded summit aimed at escalating the war against cocaine.
Bush and Colombian President Virgilio Barco agreed in a joint statement that the summit was “a significant step toward improved anti-drug coordination.”
Bush promised to seek expanded U.S. markets for Colombian products as part of an effort to coax Andean producers out of the coca business and into growing other crops.
Bathroom tactics teach students world geography
DAVIDSON, N.C. — The straggle to promote geographic literacy among college students has entered a novel arena at Davidson Coliege.
Students at the Dean Rusk Program in international Studies have taped world maps to the sides of about 150 campus bathroom
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Members of Omega Chi EpeHon, an honor society for chemical engineering majors, dropped bundled eggs from the fourth floor balcony of the Student Union on Thursday. See story, page 6.
“It’s a place where people have time on their hands. We’re hoping this will help them use K constructively,” said senior Mary Snyder, who is spearheading the effort, dubbed the Bathroom Brigade For Geographical Literacy.
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philosophy.	an institution where people can gather
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portent?" voted on by the Academic	experience a sense of community.
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