Wednesday November 30,1994 Vol. CXXIII, No. 60
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Sunny: 76°
The sun still shines and the warm afternoons continue. The high will be in the mid-70s. The low will chill to the 50s.
Headlines
Tomasson brings unique ballet to L.A.
Helgi Tomasson, the artistic director for the San Francisco Ballet, offers a daring version of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" to audiences this weekend at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Diversions, page 9
USC wins thanks to Harris’ treys
Three three-pointers by point guard Burt Harris in the final minutes helped the USC men's basketball team to a 69-61 victory over Northern Iowa at the Sports Arena on Tuesday.
Sports, page 20
Cobb case still up in the air
USC has displayed suspicious behavior in response to the discrimination lawsuit filed by former assistant athletic director Marvin Cobb, casting doubts about the university's innocence.
Viewpoint, page 4
“Our approach is definitely different WM visually. While other ‘Romeo and Juliets have been lean, this has wonderful
settings. ”
- Helgi Tomasson Divetsiom, PagelO
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
USC TAs won’t follow Bruin lead
Trojan teaching assistants have no strike plans
By Anisa Abeytia
Staff Writer
Although disgruntled UCLA teaching assistants went on strike and announced plans to unionize Nov. 16, David Bowman, head TA for Geology 240, said that USC's TAs have no desire to follow their lead.
"We are supposed to be doing research. We are not here to make money as graduate students," he said.
In an article in the Los Angeles Times, Mike Miller, lead organizer for the Student Association of Graduate Employees at UCLA called for a union for TAs.
"Graduate student employees deserve the right to bargain collectively," he said.
Miller said TAs at UCLA are
underpaid for what they do, but UCLA said they are not entitled to a union.
However, Win Bock, program manager for the Center of Excellence in Teaching at USC, said teaching assistants at the university are already well-represented.
"We have always been very conscious about unionization and we try to be as representative of our students as we can be," she said.
"We try to make it fair for them (the TAs) so that they will n«t have to go on strike," Bock said.
"We are the ones that pressured the university into giving stipends. Even in bad budget years when pay was frozen, the TAs received a raise due to our efforts," she said.
"A lot of other universities fall short of our stipends," Bock said.
(See TAs, page 3)
On a higher plane
Jonathan S. Fox / Dally Trojan
Sophomore Stephen Lange medltatea at Joehua Tree.
Program Board planning Springfest
Decline in attendance, budget concerns not deterrents to event planners
ByJ Staff 1
ennifer Erdmann
Writer
It is barely winter, but Program Board is busy planning for USC's spring concert event, Springfest. Despite declining attendance last year and budget questions, Program Board is working to make the 1995 Springfest a successful event.
The Program Board receives a budget of $32,000 for Springfest, but still must depend on corporate sponsors for the event.
Attendance was down at the last Springfest, from an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 in 1993 to 2,000 this year, and the Student Senate decided to give the Springfest committee $2,000 less than last year.
"Yes, participation was down last year, but the Springfest budget is based solely on what they received the year before," said Sarah Zuercher, vice president of Student Senate. "No other considerations are made."
Each USC student pays a programming fee of $29 when they register in the fall, of which the Student Senate receives $23.
This money is divided among the different student organizations and events by a senate committee. This is when the Springfest budget is decided.
Zuercher said one problem with Springfest may be that money gets shifted amon; university accounts. Any money earmarkei for Springfest gets transferred from Program
Board to other departments on campus.
For instance, she said, money would be transferred from the Program Board account to the Department of Public Safety account to pay for security. This causes a problem when dealing with bands or organizations outside USC.
Program Board officials say this is not true.
"If we found a band tomorrow and wanted to have them by Springfest, we could," said Rebecca Chavez, adviser to Program Board.
All the funds for Springfest are totally accessible to the committee, Chavez said.
(See Springfest, page 3)
Garet awarded professorship for philosophy, religion work
By Lilia Aguirre
Staff Writer
Professor of law and religion Ronald R. Garet was recently awarded the Carolyn Craig Franklin Professorship, to reward work which "creates important connections between issues in philosophy and religion," said Scott Bice, dean of the USC Law Center.
Garet joined the USC law school because it was committed, he said, to exploring legal problems.
Although the professorship, established in 1988, does not mean a promotion or pay increase, Garet says the professorship expresses the confidence of his colleagues.
Garet holds joint appoin-ments as a professor of law at the USC Law Center and a
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rofessor of religion at the ISC School of Religion and has already written numerous articles that have appeared in the Yale journal, Theological Studies, Southern California Review and the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.
Caret's entry into law took a "different angle" from most typical law students.
I never got socialized in the way that most law students did," Garet said. "Most law students enter law school in a big hoard . . . they undergo experiences together, and they all change together so they don't notice the change as they're all changing in the same way under the same pressures.
"That didn't happen to me so much ... I came in on an
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angle and wasn't in part of a law class, I was a graduate student ... so I was always a little bit of an outsider in the law classroom. That made it easier for me to observe it was (See Law, page 14)
Engineering means higher computer fee
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By David Thun
Staff Writer
For most students, getting a computer account at USC is sim-a matter of paying $5 for a ;>klet and filling out a form. But engineering students must pay 15 times that for computer access through the university.
However, the fee gives engineering students access to software and systems they would otherwise be forced to purchase, said Ed Mooney, director of administrative computing at the dean's office of the School of Engineering.
Engineering students receive accounts connected with engineering classes when they pay the fee. When a student registers for a computer-intensive class, the class account permits a student to use software required for the class without having to (See Fees, page 14)