No. 4 Ohio St. looming large
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This is the last issue of the Daily Trojan for the year. The DT will return January 13,1992.
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Volume CXVI, Number 66
University of Southern California
Wednesday, December 11, 1991
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A few tips for surviving cramming during finals
By Ray Delgado and Oma Zadeh
Staff Writers
With finals starting on the ominous Friday the 13th this semester — only 2 days away — students have already fired up their coffeemakers in preparation for the endless hours of late-night cramming.
"There are definitely more coffee sales than usual/' said Marketplace employee Andrea Wilson.
But Pat Tobey, a learning specialist at the Learning Center, wishes to warn students about maintaining proper health during their study hours.
"If your body is not getting sleep and you have anxiety as well, its ability to draw on information for the exam might shut down," Tobey said. "Students need to take care of themselves. They need to watch what they eat and be sure to put food into their bodies. Many times the student is so busy that they just forget to eat. The body needs glucose to think."
Tobey, who recommends that students spend the whole semester going over notes, said study breaks and stress releasers were important should students find themselves stuck in the process of cramming for finals.
"You need study breaks," she said. Cramming overloads the brain. As learners, we are better off with chunks of information. If you keep going on, your mind shuts off and says, 'Hold on. I need to process this information.'
"If the stress releasers or screams work, then they should be done as well," Tobey said. "If exercise reduces stress as well, then students might want to do that."
Joshua Halberstam wrote in his jook, "Acing College," that cramming is fine as a review for memorization, mt not as the first introduction to a subject. He also wrote that cramming is not recommended for math or language tests, which require incremental earning.
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Housing subsidizes REDC
USC real estate corporation receives $300,000 annually
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By Oscar C. Villalon
Staff Writer
University Housing hands over more than $300,000 annually to the USC Real Estate Development Corporation, a university subsidiary, university officials said Tuesday.
The $300,000 amounts to approximately $51 from each of the 6,000 student in university housing.
Gerald Trimble, president of the Real Estate Development Corporation, denied that the corporation was being subsidized by housing.
"I don't know where you got those numbers," Trimble said "We're a separate subsidiary. We don't take any money from housing."
Trimble said the corporation owns Regal Trojan and Fairmont Apartments, which housing manages for them and that rents from both buildings are the only money the corporation
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receives that is connected with housing.
But high-placed university officials, who asked to remain anonymous, confirmed Tuesday that the corporation is receiving money from university housing.
In an interview last week, housing director William Thompson said housing was paying $51 a ,student to "support programs that had nothing to do with housing.” But Thompson would not say whether that program was the Real Estate Development (See REDC, page 2)
Parking Center delayed again
Spaces not needed next semester
By Ray Delgado
Staff Writer
The university has delayed the opening of the $24.5-million USC Parking Center until July of 1992, the fourth delay since the structure was built, Parking officials said.
The center's parking spaces are simply not needed, officials said, and the university's Office of Parking Services is able to meet the present demand.
The center was originally scheduled to open in early September, but its opening has been rescheduled several times.
Construction setbacks that led to failed inspections from the Los Angeles Building Department were cited as reasons for the previous delays.
By not using the parking center, the
Office of Auxiliary Services will save approximately $400,000 in operating costs during this fiscal year, said Don Mask, acting associate vice president for auxi-lary services.
The funds saved by closing the parking structure should balance the budget for transportation and planning, officials said.
"Looking at the need to reduce expenses and to do more with less, we felt this was a good way to save," said Carl Levredge, executive director of Transportation Services.
"We have the lots on Jefferson and Figueroa and the Shrine lot, so basically we've been able to accommodate all the people who need to park on the cam-(See Delayed, page 14)
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USC Parking Center is delayed again.
Sample, Greek rules top semester events
By Glen Justice
City Editor
A great many events take place on the university campus each day, far more than many people think.
From day-to-day student activities to big-money deals in administration, the events that shaped this semester will impact Trojans for years to come, altering the course of the university as its heads toward the 21st Century.
In the past four months, universi-
ty personnel have inaugurated USC's 10th president, imposed a hiring freeze and have established standards for conduct within the Greek system. They imposed a speed limit on Traveler after he ran over a Stanford cheerleader and reorganized management within Auxiliary (See Events, page 2)
Second suspect in Nichols case is nabbed at UCLA
By Robert Moran
Staff Writer
A 23-year-old man arrested last week for the attempted kidnapping of a UCLA student may be the suspect that prosecutors are seeking in connection with an Oct. 4 rape of a USC student, police and other sources said.
The man, who told UCLA campus police his name was Lawrence Johnson, was also identified by sources as "Poo," the man that may be responsible for the kidnaps and rapes of two
(See Suspect, page 3)