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Sheen gets speed in ‘Terminal Velocity’
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USC residences require repairs
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Outstanding fifth grade students School were honored In a ceremony Friday sponsored oy usu Collegiate Panhellenlc. The honorees were selected for exceptlon-al scholarship, perfect attendance, and I or other achievements.
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September 27,1994 Vol. CXXIII, No. 18
George Raveling, USC's men's basketball coach, sustained several injures in a car accident early Sunday morning. He is now at USC University Hospital in stable condition.
Sports, page 16
Snapshots from a nation in turmoil
Today's harsh fact is that the occasion to intervene in Bosnia-Herzegovina's civil war has come and gone. Those who continue to scream "Act now!" will do so with utter futility.
Viewpoint, page 4
Student teachers cross language gap
School of Education offers ideas for multi-lingual classroom activities
Charlie Sheen stars as a daredevil sky-diving instructor caught up in a web of intrigue and lies when he agrees to help save Nastassja Kinski from the KGB.
Diversions, page 8
Men’s basketball coach in hospital
Housing lacks sufficient cash for unit upkeep
By Cyndi Chinn
Staff Writer
Needed repairs in university-owned housing units may not get done this year, because the Department of Housing and Residence Halls has only about three percent of the funding needed to complete them.
University housing received 1,977 fewer applicants this year than last year and needs $68.9 million for deferred maintenance.
The estimate comes from a recent study by the Ises Corporation, hired to study the extent of leeded maintenance in university housing. The problem is, Housing has only budgeted $2 million for the year, said Jeff Urdahl, director of housing and residence halls.
The Ises Corporation asessed the buildings and categorized their needs by priority.
The most urgent repairs, or "priority class 1" items, will cost $6.9 million. Priority class 2 items will cost $17 million, class
3	items will cost $34 million, and class 4 will cost $11 million.
"The campus is very concerned," Urdahl said. "It's a high priority for us, and we're hopeful we can address it in the lear future."
He said only a very small portion of the department's budget will go towards the $6.9 million needed for first priority repairs, and he doesn't know when the repairs will be done or where the money will come from. He also said not much can be done until the school can "identify capital sources."
The "Deferred Maint“nance" division takes care of long-term issues for the residence halls. They already spent about half their budget this summer on items such as painting and refurbishing rooms, repairing roofs, fixing parking gates and upgrading pools to building code standards.
(See Housing, page 3)
By Roger Sequeira
Staff Writer
The USC School of Education is getting the word out on alternative curricula that will help novice teachers bridge the language gap.
"(Teachers) have to know how to work with children who speak languages (they) don't know,"said Judith Grayson, director of Teacher Education.
Songs, physical activities and demonstrations are some of the examples of teaching strategies
that the Division of Curriculum and Teaching presents to USC student teachers in evening meetings billed as "Over the Hump at USC," so-named because they occur every fourth Wednesday.
Grayson said the meetings, united under the theme of "Language for Learning," feature a series of breakout sessions on classroom subjects such as history and music, in which teachers share songs and activities they have found useful in teach-
ing the concepts of such subjects to their non-English speaking students.
For example, having students pan flecks of artifical gold teaches them about the activities of Gold Rush pioneers in a manner independent of speaking English, Grayson said.
"We also teach fundamental ways to teach music, having the children identify and perform rhythmic patterns of songs and identify tones in the melody," said Randy McChesny, a teach-
ing assistant in the curriculum of teaching division.
Schools with students who do not speak English provide aides who speak the students' native language to facilitate the learning process, Grayson said.
Sne said USC student teachers also learn ways to teach English to these students.
"We play Scattergories, sing songs, perform plays, and have physical education . . . which is really good because you're (See Language, page 2)
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“ I feel like * I’m the luckiest guy in the world to have survived this accident and to be receiving such expert care from USC University Hospital. I anticipate a speedy recovery. ’ ’
- George Raveling Sports, Page 16
Need a job? Experts say leave the country
By Eric Yahnker
Staff Writer
The global marketplace may be a reality in corporate America. However, because students lack international education, however, they may not be prepared to conduct business there.
Trading Places
Second in a series on exchange programs
A recent article in the Los Angeles Times reported that more than six times as many foreign students seek higher education in the United States than do American students abroad. The article stated that this gap poses problems for the U.S. in the
American students who study abroad are a minority in comparison to the number of foreign students who take the opportunity to study in the United States.
"The international students are focused and we are not, and it concerns me," said Connie Horak, director of USC's office of overseas studies.
global economy.
"Any student that wishes to be a player in an international environment and world affairs is going to be much better prepared with overseas study," said Dixon Johnson, executive director of the office for international students and scholars.
More than 438,000 interna-(See Abroad, page 2)
Foreign students studying in America		
Country Number of Students		
China	45,130	
Japan	42,840	
Taiwan	37,430	
India	35,950	
Sduth Korea	28,520	
Canada	20,970 gw	
Hong Kong	14,020	
Malaysia	12,660	
Indonesia	10,920	
Thailand	8,630 J	1
Total number of		!
foreign students		5
studying in the U.S., 438,618		8 1