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Friday September 17,1993 Vol. CXXI, No. 13
Weather
Not much of a change for the weekend. Expect partly cloudy skies today. The afternoon high should reach the mid-70s, while the overnight temperature should be in 60s.
Inside
Women of Troy gunning for No. 1
No. 1 Stanford faces the No. 9 USC women's volleyball team tonight at 7 in the Lyon Center. The Women of Troy look to end a nine-game losing streak to the Cardinal.
Sports, page 12
Return to ‘Age’ of Mr. Scorsese
"Age of Innocence," the new film by Martin Scorsese, is an effective film about repressed love. With cold characters at the center and stunning visuals all around.	•
Diversions, page 6
Diversity in while bigotry outdated
Although King's infamous question, “Can't we get along?", seems too idealistic, we can at least recognize that we are all distinct and individual. Bigotry is a thing of the past while tolerance and diversity are becoming more common.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
Diplomat will give U.N. report
Fernando Zumbado, the Assistant Secretary General and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations Development Programme, will deliver the 1993 Human Development Report.
The talk will be held today in SOS B-40 from 12-2:30 p.m.
The human development report states that 90 percent of the world's people lack control over their own lives. Areas targeted for change are "jobless growth," exclusion of minorities and centralized power.
The presentation is sponsored by the School of International Relations and the Center for International Relations. Faculty, staff and students are cordially invited to attend.
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John Villalobos and his band play Thursday at Tommy Trojan as part of a voter registration drive.
Admissions and financial aid dean, vice provost named
By Quyen Do
Staff Writer
Joseph Allen, currently serving as dean of admissions for the University of California at Santa Cruz, was appointed as USC's new dean of admissions and financial aid and vice provost for enrollment last Tuesday.
Allen will fill the duties of Clifford Sjogren, former dean of admissions and financial aid, and Robert Biller, who resigned as vice president of undergraduate affairs this past summer.
According to Lloyd Armstrong, USC provost and senior vice-president for academic affairs, the new post is designed to enhance communication and understanding between the academic affairs office and the department of admissions and
(See Allen, page 3)
Minority affairs vice provost hired
By Tracie Tso
City Editor
Looking to boost the number of minority faculty campuswide, Provost Lloyd Arm-stong Jr. appointed Barbara Solomon, dean of the graduate school and the vice president for graduate and professional studies, to fill an interim vice provost post for minority affairs.
Solomon will be actively recruiting minority candidates to fill USC faculty openings in aU schools and departments.
"I see this position as a response to something very urgent that can't wait for some long-term planning," she said.
She said that statistics compiled by the USC Affirmative Action Office reflect an obvious need to expand the diversity of the faculty.
"I felt that it was a very high priority for
the university to move effectively and aggressively to recruit a broader and more diverse faculty," said Armstrong.
Due to the traditional hiring, Armstrong said he now has to search for candidates, including minorities. He said for the next four months, university deans and officials will be conducting interviews nationwide for faculty candidates.
The Office of Affirmative Action released figures for July 1992 reporting the tenure track faculty's composition is 1.2 percent black, 1.7 percent Hispanic and 8.9 percent Asian. There are approximately 1,536 tenure track faculty at USC, according to the report.
"I hope that this increased recruitment effort ana the resulting outcome will be a significant increase in minority faculty.
"I can't think of a department that has more than one (minority faculty member) of
anything," Solomon said.
Solomon said she will concentrate on increasing the number of minority candiates to fill positions by recruiting minority doctoral students.
"I want to know who's graduating, who's getting the PhDs so we can target some recruitment positions," she said about her nationwide search plans.
Solomon said there is an advisory group of faculty supporting her recruitment task, The task force is made up of representatives from the council of deans and the coordinating council of the diversity committee, she said.
Solomon said the position is designed to coordinate efforts of faculty, deans and the provost's office.
(See Minorities, page 2)
Financial aid office faces increased burden
By Philip Dunn
Staff Writer
Faced with a plethora of new and unique problems, the USC financial aid office is working to meet the demands of form-fatigued students.
Students like Beau Rositani, a senior majoring in biology, struggled to find out what forms the financial aid office wanted and when.
"I applied for aid a long time ago, but I've been trading papers and forms back and forth with them ever since," he said.
Still others found the small amount of grant money in their aid packages disturbing, said Catherine Thomas, Director of Financial Aid.
Thomas said the financial aid picture changed dramatically this year.
For one, the past year proved financially difficult for many students' families.
Statistically speaking, 38 percent of all jobs lost nationally
were lost in California. Twenty-seven percent of that 38 percent were lost in Southern California, Thomas said.
Consequently, numerous late appeals and financial aid applications were filed in late August by students who had not expected to need the amounts they filed for, Thomas said. All in all, 400 to 500 late appeals per week were filed that month for numerous reasons.
In addition, many self-employed families developed unique problems due to the economy. In tough times, payments due are received slowly, thus tying up income that would normally be spent on tuition. Customer bases drop off slowly, and in some instances, self-owned businesses go bankrupt.
All these factors induce students to seek aid late, hence the student stress and fear of being denied aid, Thomas said.
(See Aid, page 3)
FINANCIAL AID*		
COMPARI	SON*	5588 fUr
	1993-94	1992-93
		
Federal grant amounts	$5,500	$4,000
State grants in California	$5,250	$4,498
Student eligibility for grants & loans	20% ■	15%
j Source: USC Office of Financial Aid		
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