Monday April 11, 1994 Vol. CXXII, No. 55
Weather
Morning haze will clear away by midday, leaving it cool and sunny for the rest of the day. The temperature will reach a high in the 70s and drop to a low in the 50s.
Inside
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Baseball drops two to Stanford
The Trojans dropped the bookends of a three-game series with the Cardinal, Friday, 2-1, and Sunday, 9-
3.	The Trojans won Saturday, 8-3, behind the pitching of Randy Flores.
Sports, page 20
Music reacts to loss of Cobain
The apparent suicide of troubled Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain has spawned reactions all over the music world and beyond. Peers, critics and fans mourn his loss.
Diversions, page 9
Exploitation myth debunked
A laissez-faire system as that of the United States prevents the forced labor of totalitarian societies. Complaints of exploitation are unfounded as all contracts are voluntary.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
Kappa Week for USC fraternity
The Beta Omega Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity is presenting its second annual Kappa Week from Monday to Friday.
Activities will include: passing out black history and sexual awareness fliers to students on campus, visiting a local children's hospital, a card tournament in Norman Topping Student Activities Center and an on-campus conference with gang members from the Los Angeles area.
Students who want more information on these activities and others should call Prentice Penny at (213) 291-4675 or James Townes Jr. at (213) 743-9102.
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Raising
spirits
Jonathan Fox / Dally Trojan
Youngsters compete In a relay race as part of Saturday's festivities.
Jonathan Fox / Dally Trojan
Some were awarded ribbons during Saturday's Spirits In Action, but all participants and volunteers are winners.
Admissions office makes pitch
Mailing campaign is largest of any university in country
By Nik Trendowski
Staff Writer
While other colleges are soliciting students at earlier ages and with more enticing financial packages, USC is continuing the iarge campaigns and early entrance program that have proved successful at attracting qualified students.
USC is trying to reach these students with the largest direct mail campaign of any university in the country. About 400,000 high school juniors and seniors
receive an introductory brochure from USC, said Duncan Murdoch, director of undergraduate admissions.
The brochure has received a response rate of about 16 percent, he said. Not only can students respond by mail, but they can now also call a toll-free number and enter their social security number into the system to have information sent within 24 hours.
Students can also apply via a computer disk on which they
enter their application, essay and resume, and get a discount on the application fee since it eliminates the need for staffers to input the information, Murdoch said.
"We're really getting aggressive with these talented students. I think that's a real change from 10 or 15 years ago when we weren't spending enough time on the academic strengths of the university.
"The primary message we're trying to get out to kids is, this is a very high quality university," Murdoch continued. "Good students are going to interact with good students, they will be chal-
(See Outreach, page 2)
Few seeking tutoring from journalism professionals
By Quyen Do
Staff Wnler
Few students are showing up to take advantage of free tutoring sessions offered by a dozen experienced journalists and television news producers, and the tutors are wondering why.
The problem has been going on for more than a month.
Carole-Kinou Treiser, a television news producer from Canada, who organized the group, said she believes there was a mix-up and that the fliers about the sessions have not reached students.
Kenya Mosley, a senior in print journalism said she doesn't remember receiving any announcements about the tutoring sessions, but that the sessions would help her because sometimes professors are not available.
Shirley Kim, a sophomore majoring in print journalism, shared the same reaction.
"No way!" said Kim incredulously. "I haven't heard anything about it."
Despite the lack of response, Treiser and the other tutors are going all out to promote the free sessions.
"We want to help as many (students) as we can, and hope that they'll take advantage of the group," Treiser said. "These people are very dedicated and have a lot of heart."
The members are a select group of 12 professional journalists from the United States and Canada who are taking graduate journalism courses as part of the USC Fellowship Program with the Center for International Journalism. Half are devoting at least one hour a week to undergraduate students.
"Some are pursuing their master's degree and have a much heavier work load," said Ingrid Peritz, a reporter from Montreal who has been a fea-(See Tutoring, page 3)
Volunteerism highlights alternative break
By Allison Vana
Staff Writer
While many students headed off to exotic destinations such as Hawaii or Mexico for spring break, a group of about 50 dedicated their week to volunteerism at a Navajo reservation in Utah or to one of two L.A. programs, through the alternative spring break program.
Created in 1991 by a group of students wanting a different experience from that of the traditional break, the alternative spring break is sponsored by the volunteer center. This year, three trips were offered through the program.
"One trip was to a Navajo reservation in Utah. The other two were L.A. trips — one involved aid to the homeless and educa-
tion on homelessness, the other dealt with the environment," said Lee Wallach, coordinator of the volunteer center.
"This year was great because we added another L.A. trip. Last year we only had one L.A. trip and this Navajo reservation project. The program really does grow each year as participants return and more and more people learn about it and join," he said.
The destinations for the break are chosen each year by the student staff at the volunteer center involved with its planning. The entire project is student run, though Wallach helps with promotion and some staff members participate in each trip.
"The idea for an L.A. trip involving environmental issues
just sort of came to me. We had had the Navajo trip for a long time and homelessness was one of the big issues we were talking about. But I thought of the environment as another topic that we need to be educated on and help to improve," said Sylvia Turchin, director of the environmental trip and a sophomore majoring in creative writing and sociology.
Turchin's group of 10 stayed in cabins at a camp in Altadena for four days while attending speeches on the environment and participating in different service projects each day.
"One of the projects we did was with the Los Angeles Conservation Corps. We went downtown for graffiti paintouts, street cleaning and other activi-
ties like that. The purpose of this trip was not only to serve the environment, but to also educate students and I think we accomplished that goal through all of our speakers and activities," Turchin said.
The other L.A. trip, which involved the topic of homelessness, saw students staying at homeless shelters each evening. They also helped to clean up many of the surrounding areas and streets.
Students on the Navajo trip helped to build up the reservation by painting buildings and doing carpentry work. They kept journals of their experience and became involved with tiie tribe living there "Students really seem to love (See Alternative, page 3)