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Friday April 24, 1992 Vol. CXVII, No. 64
A few clouds today, with sunny skies in the afternoon and highs in the low 80s. Slight cloud cover over the weekend in the mornings and evenings with temps in the low 80s.
Royster, Barber ready for NFL draft
Tailback Mazio Royster, only a junior, and linebacker Kurt Barber head USC's list of NFL draft possibi-lites. The draft begins Sunday at 8 a.m. on ESPN.
Sports, page 16
Defense should remain a priority
Now that the Soviet bear has been defeated, do the German eagle and the rising sun threaten the peace? Perhaps not, but the United States must remain vigilant.
Viewpoint, page 4
Film ‘Year of the Comet’ fizzles out
Tim Daly ("Wings") and Penelope Ann Miller star in this romantic action / adventure movie. It is ultimately destroyed by an overabundance of villains and a shortage of laughs.
Diversions, page 7
F.Y.I.
Students invited to Hope Diamond
New budget I brings on department revisions
By Ray Delgado and Kim Wilner
Staff Writers
The 1992-93 budget is nearing completion, bringing multiple layoffs and administrative restructuring, said John Curry, vice president of Budget and Planning.
"(We started with) an administrative salary freeze," said Curry, who called the cuts severe. "That's certainly not business as usual."
The salary freeze led off a series of reductions affecting mostly administration offices and larger academic units, Curry said. The net result will be about a 6 percent cut in the university's reducible) budget.
Though the university's overall annual budget is roughly $900 million, more than half of that consists of fixed expenses, such as contractual salaries, loan payments and utilities. Curry said only $450 million is "reducible" so the cuts had to come from that portion of the budget.
Curry said one of the most difficult parts of the restructuring is the layoffs resulting from more efficient reorganization.
"The layoffs are a fact — a painful fact," said Curry, adding that he will not have (See Budget, page 3)
Students in the Public Arts Program of the School of Fine Arts will create a ! "stained grass window" on the Senior Park lawn on May 2. The roughly 150 I foot by 150 foot design will ; depict two images at once: the ornamental Hope Diamond and a softball diamond.
The diamond will be drawn on the grass with biodegradable turf paints in an attempt to design a temporary "earth work" that has a function. Students are invited to play softball on the diamond when the project is finished.
Dancers claim harassment at fraternity
By Mike Carlson and Sean Polay
Staff Writers
Laila's Entertainment, a company that provides exotic dancers, has filed a complaint with the Office of Residential and Greek Life after two of their dancers claimed they were "held hostage" after their performance at the Sigma Pi fraternity, according to ORGL director Ken Taylor.
The complaint alleges the misconduct oc-
curred during a pledge party Wednesday night, according to the dance company and Greek Life officials.
The women were dancing in an upstairs room of the fraternity "plastered with cutouts from explicit pornographic magazines" as part of the pledge-organized party for the active members of the house, said Randy, one of the dancers.
According to Randy, a fraternity brother stormed into the room at about 9:45 p.m. as
the two were changing into street clothes and berated them for not dancing longer.
The active left the room momentarily, only to return slapping a pool cue against his palm and threatening them with a gun that he said was hidden in his pants, Randy said.
Steve Abramowicz, vice president of the house, said the events were "overexaggerated" by the dancers.
(See Dancers, page 2)
Trojans for Choice active
Abortion rights rally near Tommy Trojan
By Tracy Venegas
Staff Writer
Earthquake-proofing nears completion
$29 million spent to reinforce Bovard
By Lisa Braverman
Staff Writer
If you have ever been sitting in class and wondered, "If there was an earthquake, would this ancient-looking building I'm sitting in make it through?" then the following information should make you happy.
Once the university completes reconstruction on Bovard Auditorium, Stonier Hall, and the Student Administrative Services building, all buildings on cam-
pus will be earthquake safe, said William Regensburger, director of Emergency Planning at Safety and Risk Management Services.
Regensburger said the university began renovating unsafe buildings about seven years ago. At that time, 20 buildings, all built before 1934, were deemed unsafe.
Besides the current reconstruction going on at Bovard, Stonier Hall and SAS are also (See Safety, page 2)
Chanting, "Not the church, not the state — women must decide their fate," Trojans for Choice and the Women's Issues Advocacy Office sponsored a pro-choice information and voter registration session in front of Tommy Trojan at noon Thursday.
"Legal abortion is under seige, and it'll only be a matter of months before it becomes illegal," said Linda Bernstein, communications network spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Action rights lawyer Edward Tabash urged an audience of 50 students to "rise up and stand for women's choice . . . it's time for women to just say 'no' to their oppressors."
Iris Djavaheri, president of Trojans for Choice, said the goal of the noontime session was to register students to vote and make them aware of abortion issues, including the recent Pennsylvania case before the Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood vs. Casey.
The Pennsylvania law, currently being challenged by pro-choice activists, regulates abortion practices through several requirements:
•	A 24-hour waiting period.
•	Information about fetal development and alternatives to abortion must be provided to women by doctors.
•	Spousal or parental consent.
•	Physicians must keep records of abortions, which may be publicly disclosed.
Djavaheri said that with the Pennsylvania case, women are beginning to see that abortion may not be available much longer. The question now is when the Supreme Court will overturn the Roe vs.
(See Rally, page 6)
The Women’s Issues Advocacy Office sponsored a pro-choice rally Wednesday and encouraged people to vote.
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Paul Howard / Daily Trojan
Old buildings like Stonier Hall are prone to earthquake damage.