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„	ifornia Library for Social Studies & Research will
host the Fourth Annual Holiday Party and Silent Auction at 1 p.m. Saturday at the library, located on 6120 S. Vermont Ave. The Washington Preparatory High School Jazz Band will perform and the silent auction includes fine art, museum, movie and theater tickets, rare books and jewelry. For more information, call (323) 759-6063.
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NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
r4,1998
Vol. CXXXV, No. SI
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Smart and final. Students hover over bookshelves of items on sate at half price in front of Pertusati Bookstore Thursday. The sale continues today with some selected Items being sold at about 90 percent off.
Living muSCic
Live concert tonight will be final project for music class
By SCOTT A. SMITH Staff Writer
Instead of hitting the books to prepare for finals, a group of music students are booking venues to play with their bands.
For the final in Live Music Production and Promotion, a music class, Kristy Kruger and her classmates have organized a live musical event, called College Band Night, featuring three bands and a comedy troupe performing original works. They perform tonight at Fais Do Do, located on Adams Boulevard 1 between La Brea and Fairfax avenues. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m.
“The students handle everything involved in putting on the show," Kruger said.
Ken Lopez, professor of the music class, said the goal of the final is to “create a project that embodies as much of the theoretical and technical aspects of the class as possible.*
He said that he hopes the project will “connect all of the dots and show the interplay between all of the various elements of the music industry,* including artistic, business and technical considerations.
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involved in a live music performance most think only about the artist, but there is so much more than that,* Lopez said.
The idea for this unconventional final evolved from a brainstorming session where Ellis suggested that the class apply all the things they have learned during the semester to create a live music event.
“The really lucky thing is having all the elements in class,* Waldman said. Singer/songwriter Kruger brings an alternative folk rock sound to the event, while the Ellis’s group, called Loren Ellis Band, offers a grassroots Southern style, and Waldman’s band, called El Sid and the Perps, plays more modern blues
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Scheduling: Classes start after 2 p.m.; professors and students say hours conflict
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By MEREDITH COOPER
Staff Writer
Starting in the fall of 1999, more classes will be held on Fridays and in the early morning hours in order to encourage students to spread out their classes over a five-day school week. In addition, classes that last three hours or longer will be required to dart U fUU. io *UM<i tying up classrooms for afternoon sessions.
“It won’t make everyone happy because of more Friday and 8 a.m. classes," said Lawford Anderson, chair of the Scheduling Committee “But the way things are now, classes are concentrated in the afternoon hours and on a four-day work week.”
In the past, many students have been able to choose non-Friday classes, creating a four-day work week. Anderson said this has led to problems with rowdy Thursday night partying and students leaving campus for the weekend.
“1 like three-day weekends because they give me more free time so I can be with my friends,” said Brittany Gauntt, an undeclared freshman.
Also, the current scheduling makes getting required classes more difficult for students because of awkward scheduling or conflicting times. For example, one class may go from 2 to 3:20 p.m., when another class is from 3 to 3:50 p.m., making it impossible to schedule both of them the same semester.
“We want to make it easier for students to schedule classes," Anderson said.
These new rules for scheduling will prove to be problematic for some departments, such as journalism and cinema-television, because they offer many long classes before 2 p.m.
"The majority of journalism classes are three hours or longer because they are more effective when taken in one day rather than two,* said Joe Salzman, a journalism professor at the Annenberg School for Communication. “There should be some leeway given to professional schools so we can offer those classes in the morning.’
The cinema-television department also has problems complying with the new rules.
They have to realize that not everyone can teach in the traditional letters arts and sciences format," said Rick Jewell, associate dean of the cinema-television school. “But they are willing to work with us and give us certain exemptions."
The idea of the new scheduling change is to better utilize classroom usage and the five-day work week in order to offer the greatest number of classes to all students.
Each department will be required to offer 10 to 16 percent of its classes at all times between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. five days a week. Smaller departments will be able to combine with each other to comply with these schedules.
“It’s an inconvenience for the journalism school, but we’re coping with it," Salzman said.
The way things are now, departments don't follow any guidelines as to when they can schedule classes.