Monday
November 8,1993 Vol. CXXI, No. 48
Weather
It's still going to feel like summer. Expect a hazy sunny afternoon with the high reaching into the upper 70s, while the overnight low falls to the mid 50s.
Trojans pound Cardinal, 45-20
Behind a suffocating defense and the arm of
Siarterback Rob Johnson, e USC football team dominated Stanford on Saturday, keeping the Trojans' Rose Bowl hopes alive.
Sports, page 20,
The End of an obscure legend
Amidst her nights and days of fatal debauchery, the Velvet Underground's Nico was a free-love force to be reckoned with. James Young recounts her life in his new book.
Diversions, page 7
Learning to speak Valley in college
Trends in using "all" and "gnarly" lead one writer to ponder whether English really is the language we all speak. Perhaps a new course offering is in order: Valley Talk 101.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
Peace in Mideast topic of seminar
A "State of the World" seminar on Middle Eastern peace will be held tomorrow from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Grace Ford Salvatori, room 116.
"State of the World" seminars are sponsored by the Office for International Students and Scholars and the International Peer Advocates.
Tomorrow's seminar features a panel discussion with students from Israel and from Arab states, sharing their perspectives on the Arab-Israeli peace accord.
The panel will be moderated by Gerald Caiden, a professor in the School of Public Administration.
Admission is free. For additional information, contact Judy Hartwitch at (213) 740-2666.
Newspaper
University
Southern California
Parking permit thefts may indicate scams
By Terry Galindo
Staff Writer
This year's sharp rise in parking permit thefts indicates the possibility of a permit burglary scam, with consequences for thieves being as serious as jail time, USC Department of Public Safety officials said.
To date, 150 parking permits have been reported stolen as of Jan. 1 of this year, up from the 1992 total of 109 stolen permits, according to DPS reports.
Permit prices range from $200.50 for the Cardinal pass to $293 for the Gold pass with no cost to replace a permit reported stolen and a fee of $35 to replace a permit reported lost, according to the Office of Transportation.
Selling stolen permits, reporting lost permits as stolen or giving permits away while reporting them stolen to split costs becomes a lucrative business, said DPS Lt. David Ritch.
Individuals found in such a scam will receive punishment ranging from being
cited to Student Conduct to serving jail time, Ritch said.
"We don't take this lightly and if we do find people that are in possession of stolen property, if we can't prove that they knew it was stolen then we go the Student Conduct route," Ritch said. "If we can prove that they knew it was stolen, then we arrest them for reeeivin
stolen property and they are prosecuti to the full extent of the law."
Ritch recalled a past incident where a student was booked for selling stolen permits. Further investigation revealed the student was actually involved in a ring of permit thefts where he and a friend made a virtual business from selling the permits.
"This was a couple of years ago when this young man and his friend went to county jail," said Ritch. "Actually they were breaking into cars so they both went to jail and were convicted for motor vehicle (theft), and they were ex-(Set Permits, page 3)
Sample speaks on university’s major issues
By Trade Tso
City Editor
USC is advandng among its peers in retention, financial stability and undergraduate education, maintained university President Steven Sample, addressing the questions of approximately 100 parents, students and alumni Saturday afternoon.
Sample's speech, part of Trojan Family Weekend, was on issues USC is grappling with, including enrollment, academic programs, endowments and finandal status. He stressed USC is on "sound financial footing" and academic programs are improving at the same rate as competing institutions, dting recent statistics.
Sample fielded audience members' questions about the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the future of undergraduate education.
"As you look at the universities that have preeminence, they all have a strong College of Letters, Arts and Sdences," Sample said.
He said USC has concentrated on developing its professional and graduate programs instead of undergraduate education for the past 20 years, but
(See Sample, page 2)
Youngsters enjoy sports camp
Athletic department hosts event, hopes to spark middle-school students’ interest
By Nekeidra Shegog
Staff Writer
Droves of middle-school students flooded the campus Saturday to peer into the lives of collegiate athletes with the USC Athletic Department looking to spark youngsters' interests in volleyball, golf, basketball, weight training and track and field as a part of the Amateur Athletic Foundation Camp.
The day began at Cromwell Field with a brief welcome and smiles from the coaches who would later teach the partid-pants basics of a popular sport including basketball, volleyball, track and field, golf and weight training in 30-minute training sessions.
"The idea is to rotate them through each sport," said Pat Nutter, assistant golf coach in his fourth year at USC.
Each coach, along with USC team members, took a group of 40 to 50 youths.
The reason behind USC's continuing support and hosting of the bi-annual event is that the
program has been considerably successful in interesting students to join high-school teams.
"This is where the future of the United States is. It is in the children," said Mike Bailey, the assistant women's track team coach for eight years.
Bailey, along with track team members, led junior-high students' track activities such as stretches and relay races.
Adriane Walters, the assistant men's basketball coach, dedded to teach the kids basic basketball drills during his sessions with each group. Before the planned events began, however, Walters exdted the students waiting in the Cromwell stands by coming out onto the field, appearing to be a basketball player.
"Anytime anyone mistakes me for a player it feels good. I don't look old enough to be a coach," he said, after a group of soon-to-be athlethes begged to meet him.
Most of the students were interested in coming to USC.
(See Sports, page 2)
Roy Nwalaaar / Dally Trojan
A youth plays a game ot volleyball at Saturday's athletic camp.
Panel to address gender equity in workplace
By Allison Vana
Staff Writer
When LaSeanda Mial met a woman going through a divorce this past summer and witnessed her struggle to rise and succeed in the male-dominated work force, it prompted her to organize tonight's panel on "Breaking the Glass Ceiling."
"(The woman) was a supervisor and wanted to move into upper management, but her ex-husband hadn't wanted her to move up. After the divorce, she wanted to meet another man but had this idea that if he (the ex-husband) hadn't wanted her to have a more powerful position at work, then neither would another man," Mial said. "There are a lot of people with this same
attitude, and it really sets them back in the work force and prevents them from advandng."
To guide and assist young women in breaking into a male-dominated work force, four women will share their personal experiences during the panel.
Sponsored by tne Black Business Student Assodation, the panel will address issues such as pay equity, how to be assertive without being overly aggressive and how to be taken seriously in tne business world, Mial, vice president of the panel and a senior majoring in business, said.
Chosen upon being identified by BBSA as role models with whom they had previous contad, the panelists will begin tonight by
introdudng themselves, describing their careers and how they got to where they are in the work force.
Lisa Johnson, one of the panelists, is a management assistant at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. She works with contrad administration, while also attending night school in USC's Master in Business Administration Program.
"When I first received my position in the department, a woman came up to me and told me that I earned that position because of my ability and not my racial background. I had just automatically assumed, when I was first hired, that it was my ability that got me the job. The fact that this women had to (See Ceiling, page 6)