‘Jurassic’ packed with super effects
Now he's done it. In the massive “Jurassic Park,'' Steven Spielberg fleshes out thin plot with a wild array of realistic creatures. With the computer-generated graphics and complex reptilian sculptures, the film is, if nothing else, a spe-cial-effects spectacular.
Diversions, page 6
There’s a new man in City Hall
Richard Riordan, L.A.'s first new mayor in two decades, has a mountain of challenges waiting for him atop the hill downtown. Problems have been building under the present leadership for years and fresh blood may shed some light on the solutions.
Viewpoint, page 4
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Health issues to be discussed
A conference for healthcare professionals and the families of people with Alzheimer's disease will take place today at the University of Southern California Andrus Gerontology Center.
All conference sessions and workshops are open to the public.
Workshops will offer information on working caregivers, non-traditional family issues, cultural caregiving issues and sexuality and Alzheimer's disease.
Scheduled speakers are involved in education and research. Some have hands-on experience related to Alzheimer's disease and other dementing disorders.
The conference, entitled "Celebrating the Caregiver: Honoring Our Diversity and Sharing Our Enterprise,” is sponsored by the USC-based Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Consortium of Los Angeles and Orange Counties.
The event will be from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost of regisration for professionals is $45 and for caregivers, $15. The conference fee covers materials, morning refreshments, lunch and parking. The gerontology center is located at the southwest comer of the campus.
For more information, contact Anne Katz at (213) 740-3493 or Eileen Haller at (213) 740-7777.
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Jennifer Lira, a student from Hartnell College in northern California, visits the brand new Admission Center in Trojan Hall for “Meet USC,” a recruitment program for prospective Trojans.
Wednesday June 16, 1993 Vol. CXX, No. 6
Clinton’s program for national service comes to USC, L.A.
By Trade Tso
Co-Editor
USC will help launch a pilot test of President Bill Clinton's National Service plan by hosting a Summer of Service orientation for 150 students from the Los Angeles area.
The university is one of 16 agencies and colieges involved in the initial instruction of the program which allows youths, ranging from age 17 to 25, to perform urban-related community projects.
Richard Cone, director of the Joint Educational Project and a supporter of the national program said, "There were many people who thought USC would be the logical place for this orientation. It's where the community and institution come together."
The orientation, which marks the start of a nine and one-half week program, will focus on the notion of teamwork, diversity and collaborative decision making. Activities planned for their two-day stay on campus focus on the problems and politics in L.A.
The USC project was selected
from 430 university and agency proposals submitted.
Sharyn Slavin, assistant dean of student affairs, said the university's support for the program and willingness to accomodate the youths show a growing interaction between the university and the surrounding community.
"The university has responded very well in providing the support necessary to have the conference here,” Slavin said.
"I think it really reinforces what President (Steven) Sample has been saying. (The administration is) supportive of our involvement in the community and the work we do in the community,” she said.
Slavin said a student affairs I auxiliary services committee, headed by Kristine Dillon, associate vice president of student affairs, brought the heads of housing, parking and dining services together to provide facilities and services free of charge for the two-day conference. The university's involvement in the Summer of Service nationwide program stemmed (See Service, page 10)
A worthwhile investment
California State Legislature moves to keep Afro-American Museum open
By Christopher Grove
Staff Writer
California's tax payers paid more for the state senate's phone bill last year than they did for the entire budget of the California Afro-American Museum, but it wasn't the senator's phones that almost got permanently unplugged last week.
Until the six-member Conference Committee of the California State Legislature voted unanimously on June 4 to put the museum back in the budget, the nation's only state-funded African-American museum was headed for extinction.
"With a $10 billion deficit, we should fund only essential services," said Tim Shelley,
chief of staff for State Sen. Daniel Boatwright, chair of the senate subcommittee that first recommended cutting the museum's funding in mid-May.
James Burks, a director of the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, said of Shelley's remark, "That's a pretty ignorant thing to say."
Burks also credits a grass roots phone-in campaign for reversing the museum's fortunes.
"What most elected officials don't realize is that economic growth and cultural affairs are linked," Burks said.
"It's not just about creating an atmosphere in the inner-city. If the museum stim-
ulates 10 percent of the kids that go there to do something positive with their lives, that will have long-term benefits for the economy," he said.
The museum — founded 11 years ago — is located across the street from USC in Exposition Park, next to the Museum of Science and Industry, which was also threatened with closure until the June 4 vote.
"I was in shock when they told us we might have to close," said Nancy McKinney, spokesperson for the Afro-American museum.
(See Museum, page 3)
New Trojans get oriented to their college campus
By Tracey M. Taylor
Staff Writer
Approximately 200 students and 230 parents received their first taste of Trojan spirit as they attended the first orientation session earlier this week.
Last Monday's session kicked off a series of the ori-campus new student orientations. For the two-day program, students are randomly assigned to groups led by orientation advisers, and also are assisted by orientation resident advisers who live with them on the floors of Bimkrant Residence Hall.
Orientation Resident Adviser Becky Zahrly said, "It is really important for students to get fa-
miliar with the campus. It eases the anxieties confronting most incoming freshmen."
There will be a total of 13 orientation sessions including eight for freshmen, four one-day sessions for transfer students and special session for new adult students. The university also held out-of-state orientations on the East Coast, in the Midwest and in Hawaii, last month.
The first day of orientation acquaints the students to the campus and its facilities. Students and parents tour the campus, meet with faculty members and
(See Orientation, page 3)
Laurel Williams / Summer Trojan
Orientation Adviser Matt Sussman, a senior majoring in business administration, talks with a parent during the two-day program.