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Volume CXVI, Number 46
University of Southern California
Thursday, November 7, 1991
SCIENCE
& MEDICINE
Lack of sleep can lead to accumulating a tiring debt
By Linda Sellers
Staff Writer
Dr. Philip Westbrook, director of the Sleep Disorder Center at Cedar Sinai Hospital, said that when a person does not get eight hours of sleep each day, this "debt" must be payed back The way to relieve the sleep debt is simple. If eight hours of sleep is need ed, but a person only gets four, sleeping 10 hours for the next couple of nights will dismiss the debt, Westbrook said.
Many people feel they can cut into their sleep time to take care of other business such as homework, Westbrook said, and repay the debt later with no long-term effects. However, this interferes with ones ability to handle stressful situations, Westbrook said.
When a person does not sleep, he or she has a tendency to blow stressful situations out of proportion and be come very liable in their responses to people around them, Westbrook said.
He also said lack of sleep can be confused with depression.
But Westbrook said that depressed people tend to withdraw.
They may look like they are asleep because they spend a lot of time in bed, but these people do not want to react to their surroundings. When individuals with a sleep debt are asleep, they are unaware of their surroundings, Westbrook said.
"People probably cannot get too much sleep," Westbrook said. "Given the oppporunity to sleep, free of all time frames in an isolated environment, people can continuously get eight hours of sleep."
It is impossible to force sleep, Westbrook said, because it is not a voluntary activity. One can only allow oneself to sleep, so it is technically impossible to get too much sleep. When one does not sleep the recommended eights a day, their internal clock drifts so the typical college student has days that are 25 hours and longer, Westbrook saitf:
(See Snooze, page 6)
WEATHER
TODAY:
Sunny, 91/55
TOMORROW:
Mostly suryiy, 85/50
Brown to speak on campus
Candidate hopes to gain support
Candidate Jerry Brown
File photo
By Oscar C. Villalon
Staff Writer
Democratic presidential candidate Jerry Brown will make a campaign stop at the Annenberg School for Communications today as the former California governor tries to gather support for his "insurgent campaign."
Brown, who was governor from 1976 tc 1980, announced his candidacy in Phili-delphia on Oct. 21. Today's 11 a.m. visit will represent his first campaign stop at a Caiifomia college campus.
"I have an affection for USC," said Brown, a UC Berkeley graduate. "I plan to make a recruitment stop here."
Brown donated his statehouse papers from his governorship to the university after leaving Sacramento and has cam-
paigned here before in his political career.
Brown's visit is being sponsored by the Student Senate's Government Affairs Committee, which is trying to bring all of the 1992 presidential candidates to speak at the university, said senate President Sam Sheldon.
Despite the irony of making a campaign stop at a university that is considered conservative and largely Republican, Brown said he refuses to take this into consideration as he spreads what he calls a "second American Revolution."
"My ideas have never been pigeonholed," Brown said.
Brown went on to say that, of all the Democratic presidential candidates, he is
(See Brown, page 2)
Sample hopes to hire more local residents
By Walter Renwick
Staff Writer
University President Steven Sample addressed the Student Senate Wednesday night, revealing an interest in hiring local residents to work in staff positions at the university.
Sample's comments were made just days after the university announced a hiring freeze in a series of memos from the Provost's office dated Oct. 30.
Addressing the issue of the university's relationship with the surrounding community, Sample proposed a three-point plan that involved:
•	Encouraging university faculty and staff to move into the neighborhoods immediately surrounding both university campuses.
•	Favoring people living in the immediate neighborhoods surrounding the campus for employment at the university.
•	Improving the universitiy's role as a partner in education at local elementary schools.
The preferential hiring of residents living in the immediate neighborhood would be limited to those who have lived within three blocks of the university for the last five years.
"Let's really put our efforts into those neigborhoods which are immediately contiguous to our two campuses," Sample said. "Let's see what kind of relationship we can develop with those folks who live closest to our home."
Sample referred to this as "geographic affirmative action,"
(See Address, page 6)
Look out below
John Hoffman / Daily Trojan
Brian Earley, a junior majoring in business, polishes his diving techniques at the McDonald’s Swim Stadium on Wednesday.
Presidential mansion gets $65,000 facelift
President Steven B. Sample
File photo
Robert Moran
Staff Writer
Building permits were issued earlier this year for more than $65,000 worth of interior remodeling on the home of university President Steven Sample in San Marino, city records show.
According to one permit issued in March, $60,200 worth of remodeling on three bathrooms in the presidential man-
sion was planned.
Sample, on his way from speaking to the Student Senate Wednesday night, declined to comment on any remodeling of his home, referring questions to Forrest Shumway, chairman of the university's Board of Trustees.
Sample said it was agreed, as a stipulation to his becoming president of the uni-
(See House, page 3)