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Tuesday March 9,1993 Vol. CXIX, No. 37
Weather
The afternoon will be cooling off a bit. The sun will still shine, but clouds will roll in. Expect the high to reach 72 degrees and the low to drop to 58 degrees.
Inside
USC’s MacPhie faces decision
USC junior Brian MacPhie, the tennis team's No. 1 player and a four-time All-America, faces a tough decision at the end of the semester — bucks or books.
Sports, page 16
Wonderful world of independents
With many international film festivals appearing in almost every pop-culture comer, movies from cutting edge directors are currently released in local theaters near you. Here are a few.
Diversions, page 8
Friendships stay after you’re gone
Life after graduation looms menacingly over second-se-mester seniors. The shelves are emptied, the papers are filed away, but the friendships that have been made are never forgotten.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
USC convokes for honors event
USC's finest will be recognized at the 12th Annual Academic Honors Convocation today. The event begins at 12:30 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium, with a reception to follow at the Town and Gown.
Stephen E. Toulmin, USC's Henry R. Luce Professor of Multiethnic and Transnational Studies, will present the convocation address, titled "Between the Local and into the Global — the Academy in the Nineties."
Awards presented will include the Presidential Medallion, USC Associates Awards, and University Trustees Award.
For more information, call the Office of University and Alumni Events at 740-6786.
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Tractor ruptures key water main
Construction accident results in loss of 50,000 gallons Monday morning
By Paul Clinton
Staff Writer
Approximately 50,000 gallons of water gushed out of a water main, broken due to construction near the engineering quad yesterday morning, cutting off water supply to at least 15 buildings.
Between 9:05 a.m. and 9:25 a.m. a construction tractor, digging a trench on Watt Way near Powell Hall, ruptured part of the campus' primary water main, said Mo Hollman, executive director of Operations and Maintenance.
The construction worker driving the tractor that ruptured the water main said that the pipe was much shallower than the company expected and that not enough sand had been used to protect the pipe.
The main is part of a loop that consists of four major mains that
meet campus water needs, Hollman said.
After the pipe ruptured, the university promptly shut off the water main that supplies water to that area of campus, he said.
Thirteen known buildings in the engineering area experienced water shortages throughout the morning, but water loss
Eersisted into the afternoon ours in only three of those buildings (Vivian Hall, Rapp Engineering Research Lab and Loker Hydrocarbon Institute).
A city fire code states that the buildings that lose water must be patrolled by a 'fire watch' every half hour.
A fire watch consists of patrols in the buildings looking for fires because sprinklers and other fire safety equipment does not work without water pressure.
(See Flooding, page 3)
Malania Sayar / Dally Trojan
A construction crew near the engineering quad caused water to, gush onto Watt Way. The flooding cut off water to 15 buildings.1
Break handled poorly, LAFD says
By Aric Johnson
Assistant City Editor
A Los Angeles Fire Department official said the university may have violated city fire regulations when a water main broke and cut off buildings' water supply yesterday morning.
The Safety office of Safety and Risk Management is launching an investigation into the possible risks created by the break.
Fire and university officials said there were two possible risks to faculty, staff and students. First, the accident caused at least 15 buildings to lose water pressure, which made fire sprinklers and hoses temporarily
CBS National College Tour informs and entertains USC
By Jason Stieber
Staff Writer
The second annual CBS National College Tour is visiting campus this week until Wednesday, hosting a number of recreational and informative booths designed to introduce students to network programs as well as give them a taste of what it is like to be in front of a camera.
"This is a promotional event to expand students' awareness of the network and to showcase our major corporate sponsors," said Tour Manager Joe Mercante.
Booths include an obstacle course, a weather reporting station, "Family Feud" and "The Price is Right" game show minisets, and a Columbia / Tri-Star preview theater.
The 15-person tour crew travels to college campuses nation-
unusable. The second concern is if there are possible health risks due to the muddy condition of the water after pressure returned.
Los Angeles Fire Department Inspector Michael Dumas said the university is required to have patrols, called a "fire watch," every half-hour in all buildings affected by a loss of water because sprinlders and other fire safety equipment are not operational.
"(The length of the shut down) doesn't have anything to do with it," Dumas said. "A violation is subject to a hearing by the city attorney."
No university officials contacted could say whether a fire watch was implemented. The
Safety office, which investigates fire risks and other safety matters, was never notified about the accident, said Henry Franklin, safety technician. He said his office is investigating the incident.
Officials at University Security and Oper-
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set up the fire watch.
ations and Maintenance said they did not
Furthermore, the Safety office could not comment on the possible health problems posed by the muddy condition of the water.
Several Parkside apartment residents and many staff members in affected buildings said they had muddy water immediately af-
(See Break, page 6)
Mike Lea/Dally Trojan
Embele Awipi, a sophomore majoring in political science, senior drama major Yolanda Laverne and junior biology major Barney Gramlich play Family Feud at a CBS booth in Alumni Park.
wide and spotlights such CBS programs as "Northern Exposure," "Murphy Brown" and "Hearts Afire."
"We have visited about 30 other campuses already," said Mercante, "and we plan on visiting a total of 42 campuses this year."
Among the California universities already visited by the tour are UCSD, Fresno State and Cal State Hayward.
One of the tents introduces students to the lives of soap opera stars. Interested students are given the chance to act out a short, dramatic scene on-cam-
era, and watch themselves after the taping is finished.
Jayzen Patria, a sophomore majoring in communications, acted in a scene in which he was framed by a friend for murder. He said he enjoyed the experience tremendously.
(See CBS, page 6)