Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Tuesday March 10, 1992 Vol. CXVII, No. 37
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Skies will be mostly sunny with warmer temperatures today. Highs will range from the mid-60s to low 70s, and gusty northeast winds can be expected. Temperatures are expected to increase Wednesday, with highs in the mid-70s to upper 70s.
Inside
Come with USC ‘Into the Woods’
The USC School of Theatre is performing "Into the Woods,” Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical. Characters from fairy tales explore life after fantasy.
Diversions, page 7
USC travels to Fullerton today
The Trojans (10-11), coming off a weekend in which they lost two of three to Stanford, will try to bounce back against No. 6 Cal State Fullerton at Amerige Park tonight at 7.
Sports, page 16
TAs crucial to USC education
Recent awards for teaching assistants recognize these graduate students as an asset to the learning experience at the university — perhaps more so than the professors.
Viewpoint, page 4
Headlines
Security chief questioned in trial
University Security Chief Ward took the stand Monday in the Embassy trial. He testified that warnings were not deemed necessary after a previous assault in the Embassy parking lot.
See story, page 3
ATO and SAE suspended
Saturday’s fraternity brawl leaves one hospitalized
By Travis Smith
Staff Writer
Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Tau Omega have been suspended by the university because of a fight early Saturday morning, which hospitalized one member of SAE and took eight police officers and a helicopter to disperse, according to university documents.
Mike Crowell, a junior majoring in business, said he was hospitalized with a concussion and strained neck muscles when he was knocked down and beaten by members of ATO.
University Security spotted Crowell, lying unconscious on the lawn of Tau Epsilon Phi, and called for backup, said Sgt. John Lewis of security. By the time other security officers and Los Angeles Police Department officers arrived, 20 to 30 people were fighting in the street outside the ATO house, Lewis said.
The fight broke up within half
Molly O'Neil / Dally Trojan
The fight began in front of the ATO fraternity on the Row.
a minute after security arrived, he said. Paramedics were called in, and Crowell was taken to California Hospital for treatment, said LAPD officers at the scene.
"When I got hit, I was completely knocked out," Crowell said. He said he remembers nothing that happened that night, either before the incident
Molly O'Nall / Dally Trojan
A member of SAE got a concussion and was hospitalized.
or after he was hit.
President Tom Deardorff and members of ATO would not comment on the incident, nor would SAE president Jason Harris.
“We're really not too sure what went on ourselves," Harris said.
Jenny Higby, a junior majoring in communications, was
with Crowell when the fight took place, and said the incident started when she and Crowell were arguing on the lawn outside the Pi Beta Phi house around 1:15 a.m.
Most of the SAE members were involved with an exchange with Delta Gamma earlier that evening, and were returning home at that time, said a fraternity member.
Several members of ATO were sitting on a wall next door at the Kappa Alpha Theta house, Higby said. She said she didn't recognize any of them.
They yelled to Crowell and her not to pass them on the sidewalk, she said. She walked into the street to pass by the KAT house, but Crowell walked on the sidewalk, Higby said.
"Mike said, 'Excuse me, I can walk by if I want to,' " Higby said.
(See Fight, page 2)
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An education center is under works for USC student athletes. Due to be completed by next fall, the center will include study rooms and computer facilities.
Sample talks at ceremony for AIDS week
By Stephanie Tiemann
Staff Writer
University President Steven Sample noted the school's contributions to the fight against AIDS on Monday during opening ceremonies for the unveiling of the AIDS Quilt.
Sample spoke in front of Tommy Trojan on the fourth day of USC's AIDS Education Week, quoting poet John Donne.
" 'No man is an island,' " Sample said. " '. . . Any man's death diminishes me.' "
Sample said the university occupies a "leadership position in AIDS education and AIDS research."
He mentioned university research in progress on an AIDS vaccine and cure. He also said the showing of a section of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, a growing patchwork of panels created by friends and loved ones of AIDS victims, would
(See Sample, page 5)
Greeks react to lewd songs
Opinions divided regarding traditional lyrics on the Row
By Jennifer Watson
Staff Writer
In light of a recent controversy involving UCLA's Phi Kappa Psi chapter, USC students have mixed reactions to the existence of sexually explicit songs within the Greek system.
The controversy arose several weeks ago when an anonymous-source gave a copy of the fraternity's songbook to Together, a campus feminist magazine. The song lyrics focus on sexual violence against women, suggesting the use of chain saws, cheese graters and whips as tools of sexual torment.
While songs like this do exist on 1 the Row as part of its many traditions, many Greek members at USC disapprove of such behavior.
Plans are in effect to bring up the issue at an upcoming Interfraternity Council meeting to make certain similar behavior is not practiced within the USC community.
"I'm sure (UCLA's Phi l6ippa Psi) did not mean any harm, but such actions make the whole Greek system look horrible," said USC Interfraternity Council President Mike Rein-stein, who called the songbook tasteless, degrading and offensive.
The negative image that UCLA's
chapter portrayed is not one with which USC wants to be associated, Reinstein said.
"If it exists at USC, we will do what we can to stop it. We will find it, and we will change it," Reinstein said.
"As attitudes about women change, questionable songs will decrease, but all we can do as leaders is to try to change attitudes," said Dan Brewster, IFC vice president of public relations.
Brewster said it is common for fraternities and sororities to have sexually explicit songs in their repertoire.
(See Songs, page 11)
Former lecturer serves jail term for sexual assault
By Stephanie Tiemann
Staff VVriter
Former part-time Spanish lecturer Alejandro Paredes was ordered Friday to start serving a 240-day jail sentence for sexual battery at 7 a.m. on March 20. He was also sentenced to 5 years probation, according to Ventura County court records.
Paredes, who was convicted Jan. 7 for assaulting an 18-year-old Moorpark College student, had asked that the court postpone his sentence until he finished teaching this semester at USC.
But the university suspended and replaced Paredes after a Feb. 25 Daily Trojan article reported his
(See Paredes, page 2)