WEATHER
Trojans win home opener
Sports, page 20
Bum wrap
Marni Chaplin / Dally Trojan
Angus Simmons, left, and Juan C. Perez give Tommy Trojan his annual duct tape makeover for Troy Week.
Mask named VP, will head auxiliaries
Dining loses new director
By Julie Yamamoto
Staff Writer
Don Mask, director of Dining Services for the last six months, has been named acting associate vice president of Auxiliary Services, Mask said Friday.
"1 think the first thing that we'll do (in auxiliary services) is just evaluate different concerns and issues that have been raised,” he said. "1 need to learn and I'm sure I will have a lot of challenges ahead of me. I'm very open-minded, and I like to look into new ways of doing things."
Mask is replacing Eugene Lawless, the former director of Auxiliary Services who resigned in September.
"It's a verv positive step for Don Mask," said Doug Pendleton, assistant director of dining services. "He has had a multi-
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Don Mask
experience backgroundlin housing, retail and dining. Because of his background, he is a strong candidate for that positon."
Mask was recommended for the position by a national executive search committee on the ba-(See Mask, page 8)
Law student discovered shot
Death was suicide, witnesses report
By Robert Moran and Roy J. Chung
Staff Writers
A university law student, who told a friend she was depressed about her academic performance, shot herself last Wednesday, police said.
The 24-year-old woman was discovered by her husband in their Silverlake
apartment shortly before 9 p.m., said Los Angeles Police Department detectives.
She had taped a note to the front door saying, "Please call the police. I've killed myself," witnesses said.
"I was here when it happened," said Juan Herrero, a neighbor and graduate student in the School of Religion. "I heard a shot, but I didn't know it was a shot. I thought someone dropped something down the stairs."
Soon after, Herrero said he heard commotion outside his door and stepped outside, where he found police had arrived
to investigate the death.
"I saw her lying on the floor with a shot in her head," Herrero said. "It was terrifying."
Herrero, who described the woman as a "blond, pretty girl," said he did not know she was a student until the building manager told him after the shooting.
The woman, a first-year law student, was buried Monday, university officials said.
She had attended Duke University as an undergraduate, according to a neigh-(See Suicide, page 14)
Cops call bomb scare a bluff
By Walter Renwick and Arwen Adams
Staff Writers
University Security and Los Angeles police officers responded to a bomb threat at Seeley G. Mudd building Monday night but found no explosives.
The threat was reported at 6:18 p.m., said Sgt. Aaron Drake of University Security. A student phoned security and reported a suspicious-looking cardboard box with its lid taped shut in the men's room on the first floor.
At least four officers and a three-man bomb squad responded from the LAPD's Southwest Division, along with several security officers.
"When an item is found, we tend to be more thorough," said police Lt. Clay Farrell. "It could just be trash, but it could be dangerous, and we tend to conduct a more thorough search and take a few extra steps."
The box was found to contain a real estate telephone directory.
(See Threat, page 14)
Kris Chun / Daily Trojan
The LAPD bomb squad found no explosives at Seeley G. Mudd.
Volume CXVI, Number 49	University of Southern California	Tuesday, November 12, 1991
TODAY:
Sunny, 54/82
TOMORROW:
Sunny, 50/89
Cheers for USC football defeats
Viewpoint, page 4
Education in foreign lands
Life / Arts, page 7
Armenian Association elects new president
By Glenn S. Griffith
Staff Writer
The Armenian Student Association has a new leader. Nayiri Isahakian, a senior majoring in cinema, has been elected president.
"Unity is power," Isahakian said. "ASA is not a political group, as long as I remain president. I'm very much against that."
Isahakian became involved with the group when she transferred to the university in the fall of 1990.
She said the purpose of the group is to bring together the Armenian community.
"It's a social group, not political," Isahakian said.
There are close to 300 Armenian students at the university according to Isahakian, 40 of whom are active participants in ASA.
"If I had one wish, it is to have all 300 Armenian students join ASA," Isahakian said.
Isahakian said that though she has a heavy class load and sometimes works 18 hours a day, "I made a promise when I was elected that I would fulfill my obligations as president.* Even though I don't have time for anything beside my film projects, I make time for ASA."
Isahakian has been involved in Armenian organizations since she was a child. Born in Beirut, she moved to Fresno and later to Northridge.
After graduating from Cleveland High School in Reseda, she attended Cal State Northridge, where she was president of the ASA for four years.
She transferred to USC with a scholarship to attend the School of Cinema-Television.
Isahakian was told she was one of only 14 students admitted to the school out of 400 applicants.
The ASA organizes cultural events, dances, interscholastic athletics and brings prominent lecturers from the Armenian community to speak to students at the university.
(See Isahakian, page 14)