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Flick ‘Hot Shots’ hits funny bone
In the action genre spoof film "Hot Shots! Part Deux," watch Charlie Sheen use farm animals to disarm Iraqis, blow up battery-pitching bunnies and use spaghetti to seduce a woman. Also stars Lloyd Bridges and Valeria Golino as his love interest.
Diversions, page 5
Big Leagues give Trojans a shot
“You never touch your luggage in The Show. The hotels all have room service. You hit white balls for batting practice. And all the women have long legs and brains."
Sports, page 12
No more smokin’ in the boys room
L.A.'s newly proposed a city-wide ban on smoking in its restaurants is a good idea because the latest reports show that secondhand smoke can be just as dangerous. Why should we have to slowly die along with smokers and their disgusting habit?
Viewpoint, page 4
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Emeriti Center sponsors talks
Family values, cultural differences and coping with technological change are among the issues to be addressed by USC emeriti professors in a series of discussions to be held at the Pasadena Senior Center beginning Wednesday, June 23.
The series, "Emerging Trends in American Culture," is a co-sponsorship between the senior center and the university's Emeriti Center. The talks will be held each Wednesday for six weeks from 7-8:30 p.m. and are open to the public. The cost is $15 for the entire series — paid in advance — or $18 at the door.
Emeriti professors and former university administrators will lead the talks.
Other discussion topics in-„ elude our aging society and the impact of global change on the United States.
The senior center is located at 85 E. Holly St. in Pasadena. For more information, call Nina Bhojwani at (818) 795-4331.
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Wednesday June 9,1993 Vol. CXX, No. 5
Journalism accreditation pending
School appeals committee’s decision citing hiring freeze, monetary restraints
By Jason S. Grant and Tracie Tso
Staff Writers
The USC School of Journalism plans to submit an appeal next week, questioning the recent conditional accreditation given by the the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.
William Woestendiek, director of the School of Journalism, attributes the conditional accreditation to a low number of minority faculty and the school's perceived failure to hire new full-time faculty in recent years. The decision approving a conditional status was made last month after the committee visited the school in January.
The school questions the latter of the two reasons the ACEJMC committee gave when
it awarded the conditional status. Woestendiek said the hiring freeze over the past few years prevented the school from acquring new faculty members.
However, Woestendiek agreed that the school should have more minority faculty but that it is a standard problem at most journalism schools and other programs.
He said the shortage of minorities em-ployeed as full-time faculty stemmed from prolonged budgetary problems as well. He said monetary restraints have limited the school's ability to hire any faculty including minorities and women. Out of a full-time faculty total of 14, there is one minority among them at the school.
"The reason we're short on minorities now is because we lost four or five (women
and minority) faculty members and have not been able to replace them," Woestendiek said.
He said he expects financial limitations to carry over into the fall.
Sherrie Mazingo, chair of broadcast journalism, and the only minority full-time faculty member, maintained the hiring problem was unpreventable.
"It's disappointing that the school would get provisional status on that particular standard, there has been a hiring freeze, and there have been budget difficulties," Mazingo said.
Woestendiek said the school is due for reaccreditation every three years, but the last full evaluation was in 1987.
Normally, an unappealed provisional accreditation grants a school accreditation for one year after which a search committee would return to see if the school has made correctional changes.
(See Accreditation, page 2)
After numerous fires in Webb Tower this past year, the university will replace the old alarms with a new smoke detection system.
New alarm system for Webb, Fluor towers
By John Y. Kim
Staff Writer
Numerous fires — many of a mysterious nature — and student complaints over the past year have prompted the installation of a new smoke alarm and detector system in Webb and Fluor towers which began last week, according to housing and residence hall officials.
Installation of the new system will take approximately two to three months at an approximate cost of $190,000. The new alarms will also include a centralized control panel connected directly to University Security to increase response readiness.
"This system will be a centrally-annunciated system," said Thomas Moran, vice president of business affairs, whose office granted general approval for the new system. "What that means is that the system will ring and notify not only local (fire departments) but the security offices as well. It rings centrally to a station that monitors fire alarms on campus."
The new system will also be connected to new smoke detectors in the common areas, manual pull stations and audio-visual devices. The individual smoke detectors in each
apartment will not be connected to the new system.
"Permits were obtained in early May, since approval from the city and fire marshall was needed before we could proceed," said Jeff Urdahl, director of housing and residence halls. "The new system will be a significant improvement over the old one, in that it will conform to current (fire) codes."
Urdahl said the new system would be in place for residents at the beginning of the fall semseter.
Moran explained that the old system had no automatic audible alarms and no direct monitor alert with security or the fire department, both of which will be covered with the new system.
Previously, security was notified of a fire in one of the buildings only if someone placed a call to them. In addition, the smoke detector system only sent the elevators to the ground floor to prevent students from using them as an exit route in the event of a fire.
Residents of both buildings have complained to university officials over the past few years about the inadequate alarm systems. In recent years, both Fluor
(See Towers, page 2)