Fast
Forward
Tuesday April 7,1992 Vol. CXVII, No. 51
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Weather
Low clouds and fog will move into the Los Angeles area this morning becoming fair in the afternoon. Highs will be in the low 70s. Expect morining low clouds on Wednesday as well, with temperatures rising into the mid-70's.
Inside
Oscars, Death and Benefits
Well, not neccesarily in that order. The word is out and the Oscar winners are in, a local group protests death at the Hollywood Cemetery and two rock 'n' roll tours come to L.A.
Diversions, p^ge 15
Raveling will remain at USC
Men's basketball coach George Raveling ended months of speculation about his immediate future by agreeing to a multi-year contract to stay at USC.
Sports, page 36
Miner’s dilemma
Harold Miner's choice to either stay in school or jump to the NBA is entirely his decision, and we as a student body must consider the benefits he may gain from leaving.
Viewpoint, page 4
Headlines
Senate program supports security
"Lock It Up '92" is bringing security out to university housing where they are investigating student awareness of safety measures. Buildings will be recognized for high standards.
See story page 9
Jeff Sherwood / Dally Tro|an
So much stuff!
Many students and faculty wandered through the Arts and Crafts Faire on Monday in Alumni Park. Though fewer businesses set up shop this year, some say because of the recession, booths did not lack variety. Items for sale ranged from personalized license plate frames (above) to wild dragon sculptures (right) and more. The Faire will continue through April 9.
Math requirement refined by Systems Management
Two lower level classes needed as part of program
By Eric Hamish
Staff Writer
Despite the recent elimination of the university math requirement, the Institute of Safety and Systems Management contends that their math standards have not changed, but have been refined instead, said John Cohoon, public relations manager for the institute.
"It was a redundant requirement," Cohoon said. "We were just trying to clean up our catalog.
"We already require students to take Math 118 to start in our program," Cohoon said.
Safety and Systems Management students are
required to take at least two math classes, said Beverly Moore of Student Affairs.
The Office of Academic Records asked Safety and Systems Management officials if they wanted to remove the math skill level requirement from the catalog, which they did, Cohoon said.
The Math Skill Level Requirement was implemented to help prepare students with poor math skills for general education science classes, said Ken Servis, dean of academic records and registrar.
Math preparation in high schools has improved and general education science classes have been restructured, so math training is not as much a necessity as it was before, Servis said.
Diplomas released to potential alumni/8
Notre Dame bans smoking
School’s policies deemed more stringent than USC’s
By Felicia Kit
Staff Writer
The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame will be snuffing out cigarettes in all public areas of their South Bend, Indiana campus as of Aug. 1, 1992, officials announced March 16.
The new policy was drawn up by the Smoking Task Force and bans smoking on campus and in the football stadium. However, people may smoke in their dorm rooms, with permission from their roommates, and in private offices.
This new policy is somewhat more strin-
gent than USC's.
Although no smoking isallowed in public areas or restaurants on campus, people can smoke in their residence hall rooms, said James Dennis, vice president of student affairs.
Most recently, smoking was banned from Commons Cafeteria on Jan. 1, after many complaints from non-smokers. Student opinions about this decision were divided.
"We currently follow the (smoking) rules of the city of Los Angeles," Dennis said.
But the rule that has Notre Dame students up in arms is the ban on smoking in the open-air football stadium.
(See Policy, page 11)
Settlement arrived at in Embassy rape case
By Stephanie Tiemann
Staff Writer
A former resident of Embassy Residential College who was raped last year near the off-campus facility settled a negligence and fraud suit against the university for $1.5 million on March 28, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
A jury had awarded the victim $1.62 million in compensatory damages March 25 and was debating punitive damages when the parties settled.
The initial judgement for $2.7 million was reduced when the jury found the university only 60 peicent responsible for the rape. The victim was found to be 40 percent responsible because she failed to utilize university Escort services or other security options.
"I think that probably the most important thing about the case was the amount of damages awarded," said Natasha Roit, counsel to the rape victim.
She said the victim felt "vindicated" by the jury award.
"It basically sent the message to her that people understood what she went through," Roit said.
The woman was raped Jan. 10, 1988 — just two days after the same man had robbed and attempted to rape a visitor at Embassy.
"I think probably the worst thing security did was fail to warn students when the criminal was seen in the area," Roit said.
University attorneys would not comment on the settlement, but President Steven Sample released a written statement that was critical of the jury's decision to award high damages.
"This is an outrageous miscarriage of justice ... I am deeply disturbed by this ridiculous deflection of guilt from the rapist to innocent parties. The rapist, not the woman or the university, was 100 percent responsible for this rape," Sample said.
Sample said .that he worried about the survival of institutions
(See Settlement, page 12)
Jeff Sherwood / Dally Tro|an
USC banned smoking In Commons Cafeteria and other campus restaurants Jan. 1.