4
USC women back tonight
Sports, page 12
WEATHER
TODAY:
Mostly clear, TOMORROW:
49/75
Mostly clear,
itiy 45/70
MOCA show	
astonishes	
Life / Arts, page 5 j	
on
JL_J
trojan
Friday, January 31, 1992
University of Southern California
Volume CXVII, Number 12
National parks versus parking lots
Park Service cites plans to develop
Jeff Sherwood / Dally Trojan
Robert Redford opposes condominium construction in Yosemite National Park.
By Janet Cavallo
Assistant City Editor
Robert Redford, prominent leaders of environmental organizations and individual citizens testified at a National Park Service public meeting regarding development in Yosemite National Park at the Davidson Conference Center on Wednesday.
Wednesday's public meeting was one of four held throughout the state.
Redford shared personal memories with the 300 people in attendance, as well as his opinions about what Yosemite was like when he was working on a documentary there two years ago.
“1 was introduced to the outdoors at Yosemite. I worked there, learned to climb there, and through the years I've enjoyed its immense beauty and splendor,” Redford said.
"Rampant development in the national parks is out of contraband as a result the
parks are starting to resemble the very cities we are trying to escape,” he said.
The park service recently unveiled a development plan that, among other things, calls for expanded food services, upgrading of accommodations and a reorganization of merchandising outlets. The Concessions Services Plan draft also outlines provisions for determining the future concessioner at Yosemite National Park.
The current contract, held by the Curry Company (whose parent company, MCA Entertainment, was bought out by Matsushita Corporation of Japan), expires in 1993, said Steven Crabtree, chief of concessions for the western region of the park service.
"The (plan) addresses what services are to be provided and where those services will be provided,” said Michael Finley, Yosemite National Park superintendent. "It is not designed to ad-
Jeff Sherwood / Dally Trojan
Almost 300 attended the public forum to state their views on the development.
dress all of the known management issues — those issues will be dealt with in other plans.”
The plan amends provisions made in the General Management Plan of 1980, which sought to limit development and maintain the park's natural beauty, according to park service documents.
(See Park, page 2)
‘Career Day’ offers opportunities
Students and companies still attend job conference despite recession
By Tracy Venegas
Staff Writer
With jobs disappearing from the market in the current recession, students flocked to Alumni Park Thursday for USC Career Day, sponsored by the Career Development Center.
More than 100 companies participated and gave students information about training programs, summer internships and job opportunities in fields ranging from' engineering to film production.
"If there's no need (for companies) to hire, they downscale recruiting activities such as career fairs,” said Vera Cheng, assistant director of the Career Development Center. "But we always get a good turnout at USC.”
Career Day is a good way to meet with business representatives who are willing to help students look for a job, said Corinne Schneider, a first year graduate student in public
administration.
"The whole thing is an exchange," said Jose Gutierrez, a senior majoring in marketing. "(The companies) want to see what you have to offer, and you want to see what they have to offer.”
Organizers and recruiters noted an increase in the number of students participating despite a decrease in the number of recruiters.
"This is the fourth year I've been here, and every year I'm inundated,” said Eusebio V. Benavidez, FBI regional recruiter, special agent and coordinator of college relations programs in California.
"Over 10,000 nationwide FBI applications are received each year," Benavidez said. "Out of 100 applicants, only five or six are hired."
Benavidez said from those five or six, the majority are college students.
(See Career, page 10)
Paul Howard / Dally Trojan
Mark Smilor, a junior majoring in aerospace engineering, was one of many students at Thursday’s Career Day held in Alumni Park.
Pulitzer winner will speak on campus
Journalist plans to answer questions
By Kim Wilner
Staff Writer
Abe Rosenthal, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former executive editor of the New York Times, will speak today at 10:30
a.m. in Heritage Hall, room 110.
"I am delighted that Abe Rosenthal, one of the nation's great journalists and editors,
will be sharing his thoughts with USC students," said Bill Woestendiek, director of the USC School of Journalism.
Woestendiek said that Rosenthal will not make a formal speech, but will hold a question-and-answer session.
Rosenthal worked at the New York Times as a reporter and for-
eign correspondent for 20 years and as an editor for 20 more. Though he formally retired from the Times in 1988, he still writes as a columnist.
Rosenthal was in charge of daily news operations for 16 years, and daily and Sunday operations for 10 years.
As a foreign correspondent, he became interested in foreign affairs. He has worked in India,
New Guinea, Vietnam, Africa, Japan and Poland.
He has written two books and about 100 magazine articles.
Rosenthal has received a variety of awards and degrees, including several awards from the Overseas Press Club and front page prizes.
Rosenthal attended New York City College, where he was the editor of the campus paper.
Leaders’ influence subject of conference
By Paige Lipman
Staff Writer
The individual projects of Malcolm X, Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Imam W. Deen Muhammad will be the topics of discussion in the 2 1/2-hour National Satellite Teleconference on Feb. 3rd
The event will be uplinked from the Olin Hall of Engineering and from the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., said B.J. Gray, marketing executive for Mando Enterprises.
Though no audience will be permitted in the engineering building, there will be downlink sites at Davidson Conference Center and over 50 schools nationwide, Gray said.
The event is the third annual teleconference that Mando Enterprises and Black Awareness in Television are sponsoring in honor of Black History Month, she said.
Gray also said the event will consist of a panel discussion on the influence the leaders had on today's African-American society.
The panelists are Imam W. Deen Muhammad, the son of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad; Sheikn Tujaddin Bin Shu'aib, the director of Masjidus Salaam, Calif., and Ayesha K. Mustafaa, editor of the Muslim Journal, the Islamic newspaper for the United States, Gray said.
(See Conference, page 2)