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Wednesday March 10,1993 Vol. CXIX, No. 38
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Today, expect a pleasant afternoon, with sunny skies and a mix of haze and clouds. The high should reach a nice 71 degrees and the low will fall to a chilly 50 degrees.
Inside
Arts community reacts to AIDS
The Daily Trojan examines the realities of the growing epidemic and how it is affecting the music, theater, art, film and television industries in Los Angeles and nationwide.
Diversions, page 7
Casey at the bat leads baseball
Senior catcher Casey Burrill has returned behind the plate for USC this year, and his numbers have exploded; a .492 batting average and eight home runs, both team highs.
Sports, page 16
Tabloid TV shows hurt broadcasting
News programs that disintegrate into tabloid journalism hurt the credibility of broadcasters and networks, as well as destroying the viewer's faith in all TV news programs.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
ISA celebrates diverse cultures
The International Students' Assembly will have its annual International Night on Friday, March 12, in Bovard Auditorium.
The night's festivities will include cultural dance and band performances from 12 nationality clubs followed by an international reception, serving food from around the globe.
The performances will begin at 7 p.m., and the reception will begin at 9:30 p.m. Consulate generals from various nations will be among the distinguised guests.
For more information, contact the ISA office at (213) 740-0136.
Newspaper off the University off Southern California
DaiMrojan
New IR course offers students new challenges
Jason K. Hellmann / Daily Trojan
Honored guests enter Bovard Auditorium for the 12th Annual Academic Honors Convocation, yesterday afternoon.
Tribute to merit
Annual convocation event honors students, faculty for contributions to university academic community
By Jason S. Grant
Staff Writer
Nine students and 15 professors were given awards for various contributions to the academic community at the 12th Annual Academic Honors Convocation, Tuesday afternoon.
Cornelius Pings, former provost who is currently president of the Association of American Universities, accepted the Presidential Medallion, which has been conferred upon only nine other members of the university.
Pings gave a few words of advice to his former col-
leagues as a closing to his acceptance speech.
"If you don't serve, others will ... it is your university, do not turn it over to others," Pings said.
In his acceptance speech, Pings recognized the "fine work" of his colleagues and of all those who were being honored.
Included in the honors were Lore Ann Unt, a senior majoring in political science. Unt received two awards at the assembly, the Emma Josephine Bradley Bovard Award for her acquisition of the high-(See Honors, page 2)
By Michelle Ladd
Assistant City Editor
This semester, in an effort to provide students with practical experience, members of the School of International Relations volunteered their time to create a course which emphasizes critical thinking, interaction with professionals and lively classroom debate.
The course, "International Relations in the Workplace: Preparing Successor Generations for Participation in Public and Private Organizations," was created by Steven Lamy, professor of international relations, Linda Cole, associate director of the School of International Relations, and Leslie Mohr, a senior majoring in international relations.
"Professor Lamy is providing students with an opportunity they ordinarily wouldn't have under current budgetary restraints. I just hope that we have the resources to make it part of the permanent curriculum," said Robert Friedheim, director of the School of International Relations.
Neither Lamy nor Cole is being paid for their efforts in the course and the speakers have agreed to appear free of charge, Cole said.
"This is our attempt to 'do more with less,' " Lamy said, in reference to university President Steven Sample's edict.
Students, however, are still charged tuition for the four unit course.
"The students are entitled to value because it is a course; they're paying for it and they're also getting credit," Cole said.
Lamy also teaches two other international relations courses.
"The cost of the cutbacks is that if you have a strong curriculum, which we do, it has to be serviced first. Innovations come second," Lamy said.
Due to last year's budget cuts, Cole said, the career services officer position, which she had held prior to becoming associate director, was not replaced.
"We can't stop providing career services just because they've eliminated the position," Cole said.
Lamy added that his commitment to the course is "not a martyr thing." Rather, he said, he wants to share the idea of a course which shows international relations students where they * can go with their degrees.
The additional course is "a drain on both of our time," Lamy said, adding that he has a research agenda and Cole must perform her duties as associate director.
Lamy credits the program to Cole and Mohr.
"I'm inspired by people like Linda who care a lot about students," he said.
Mohr's work was "critical to the program," Lamy said. She was responsible for arranging the guest speakers for the class.
Some of the guests who have addressed the class include Jim Angle of the National Public Radio program "Marketplace," Roger McDivit of Patagonia, Richard Walden of Operation California, Inc., and Sam Voor-hies of World Vision.
"Linda gave me most of the contacts, but about half of them were cold calls," Mohr said.
Mohr said she attends the class every week. "How could I not? It's so much fun to finally meet them face to face."
Lamy said part of his desire to implement a service-learning class stems from his position as chairman of Sample's committee on graduation and retention.
There is a problem when it comes to mentoring and advising students, Lamy said.
Carole Nagy Jacklin, dean of the division of social sciences and communications for the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, said, "we're down so many faculty that it's difficult to cover all of the needs of international relations."
She added that, because of degree requirements, departments must choose courses that (See Lamy, page 2)
Proper procedures questioned after leak
By John Y. Kim
Staff Writer
In the aftermath of the water main rupture on Watt Way Monday morning, university departments are investigating whether or not fire codes and procedures were followed during and after the incident.
"We were never formally notified about (the leak)," said Lt. David Ritch of University Security. "We learned about it secondhand from one of our traffic officers. We sent a unit over to the scene where the leak had occurred, and that unit was told that the situation was under control, as the thing cleared itself up, fortunately."
"We are police, not plumbers. In spite of
this, we normally get calls of this nature," Ritch said
Responding to allegations that the university did not follow "fire watch" procedures, Ritch explained that, when conducted, the watch is usually a coordinated effort between security and the Safety Office of Safety and Risk Management. Fire watches are conducted when a building's fire alarm system is out of order or if there is no water for the fire hoses and sprinklers.
"We have two-to-five times the staff as safety, at least, except that most of our staff are out doing other more important tasks. What is also done is that staff members and employees who worked in the affected buildings are used to perform the fire
watch, after being instructed on what to look out for and what to do when they discover a hazard," Ritch said.
According to Los Angeles Fire Department public relations division, if a fire watch was not conducted when there should have been one, the department would then either try to enforce the regulation or refer the matter over to the city attorney's office for appropriate penalization.
The L.A. Fire Department has not yet determined whether or not the university was in violation of fire codes.
However, according to Charles Lane, director of the Safety Office, fire watches were not conducted because LAFD, which
(See Rupture, page 6)