Wednesday March 2,1994 Vol. CXXII, No. 33
Weather
The warm and sunny weather continues. The afternoon high should climb into the 70s and the overnight low will drop into the 60s. Expect the same for most of the week.
Homers plentiful for Trojans, 13-7
The USC baseball team hit five home runs against LMU in its 13-7 road victory on Tuesday. Walter Dawkins and Geoff Jenkins each had two and Mike Mancuso added another.
Sports, page 16
‘90210’ celebrates its 100th episode
Join the fun as Brenda and Donna celebrate the anniversary of their sinfully popular show by fighting the higher powers of California University for animal rights.
Diversions, page 7
Legalizing drugs is not the solution
Legalization of addictive drugs could only increase drug use and the problems that go with it. America's drug problem is bad enough as it is — it doesn't need any help. Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
Basketball rally at Tommy Trojan
Trojan Pride is sponsoring a noon-time rally for the men’s and women's basketball teams today in front of Heritage Hall. The rally is intended to fire up the student body for the UCLA games later this week and to salute the graduating seniors.
Coach Raveling of the the USC men's basketball team and Coach Miller of the women's basketball team will be introducing the graduating seniors including Mark Boyd, Tracy Adams, Tracy Atwater, Lisa Leslie, Nicky McCrimmon and Jualeah Woods. The Trojan Marching Band and the Yell Leaders will attend.
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Dennis announces decision to leave USC
Liz Washburn
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After 27 years of serving the university, James Dennis, vice president for Student Affairs, announced Tuesday that he will leave USC to take the president position at McKendree College in Lebanon, III., effective July 1.
"It's the opportunity to serve in a major leadership role and be able to apply many of the things that I've learned here to another institution," Dennis said.
"I've had the great fortune of working with exceptional people and I've learned a great deal from them, including four presidents — Norman Topping, John Hubbard, Jim Zumberge and now Steven Sample," he said.
Dennis, who earned a doctorate in higher education at USC in 1971, began his career at the university in the athletics department, moved on to Campus Life and then to several positions in Student Affairs before being named vice president in June 1982.
Dennis said Tuesday he had not been actively seeking other employment, but was nominated several months ago for the posi-
tion at McKendree College, a small Methodist liberal arts college outside St. Louis, Mo.
James Comer, chair of the McKendree Presidential Search Committee, said Dennis was chosen for the position because of his "breadth of experience in higher education."
"We wanted someone who had good academic credentials ... a college (student) centered person," Comer said.
The search for someone to replace the outgoing 15-year president of McKendree College began nine months ago.
The committee considered a total of 94 nominations before narrowing it down to three candidates who visited the campus for two days each.
"Dr. Dennis' credentials and experience indicate that he is eminently well-qualified to lead McKendree into the 21st century," said John R. Dosier, chairman of the McKendree College Board of Trustees, in a press release.
Dennis visited McKendree on Feb. 17 and 18 and met with many different administrators and faculty. The three-year contract for Dennis was finalized Monday.
Dancing in the streets
James Dennis
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Laurie Drew / Dally Tro|an
Students perform In front of Bovard as part of yesterday's Aslan-Amerlcan Heritage Festival.
"What I found at the college was a group of very committed trustees, an able and dedicated faculty and some very good students," Dennis said. "It's really an exciting place that is poised to continue to grow, develop and make its mark."
The size of McKendree with its enrollment of 1,500 students will not be a complete shock for Dennis since he and his wife, Leslie, attended Occidental College for their undergraduate studies. Dennis, who has always lived in Southern California, said if the town was not so close to a major city, he would not have considered it.
"I can walk to my office from the front of the president's house and it takes 253 steps. That's quite different than driving 45 min-(See Dennis, page 2)
Greeks raise awareness, funds with hunger meal
By Anthony Shubert
Staff Writer
What would you do if you had to go 24 hours without food? How about 24 years? That was the question asked during the Greek Hunger Banquet last night, one of many USC Hunger Awareness Week events scheduled this week.
The event raised $5,(XX) for Oxfam America, a Boston-based charity organization that funds self-help projects in Third World countries. The banquet also dramatized the unequal distribution of food among the world's income brackets.
Close to 1,000 Greeks gathered for the event on Alpha Delta Pi's lawn, the largest hunger banquet ever held by Oxfam, (See Hunger, page 3)
Students shocked by hefty phone bill
Pair protest nearly $600 worth of international, 900-number calls
By Travis Smith
Assistant City Editor
A nasty surprise lurked inside the latest phone bill envelope of USC students Jeff Malmberg and Tom Putnam.
The bill asked for $645.69 and listed international calls, 900-numbers and a pay-per-minute casting agency.
"I sort of had a feeling that something was wrong ... because it felt kind of thick," said Malmberg, a senior majoring in cinema. "It was pretty crazy."
The protested charges on the bill totaled about $600. They were all made late at night, and include $30 sex-line charges, calls to Suriname and Moldavia and one call to a 900-number casting agency.
"He's a computer genius, sex-fiend actor with a lot of friends in Suriname," Malmberg said.
The bill arrived at the pair's Culver City apartment on Feb. 19, a Saturday, so they couldn't call Pacific Bell to complain until the next business day, a
Tuesday.
That means the bill could have gotten much higher, Malmberg said.
Malmberg said Pacific Bell's response was to remove the 900-number charges completely, but not the long distance charges.
Pacific Bell would have to investigate before the other charges could be removed, Malmberg said.
"Basically, they said, they're going to investigate it," said Putnam, a senior majoring in cinema.
Pacific Bell isn't responsible for removing long distance charges, said Linda Bonniksen,
representative of Pacific Bell, but the results of a Pacific Bell investigation would be forwarded to any long distance comany requesting them.
"Residential type of fraud is pretty rare," said Brian George, security consultant with Pacific Bell. "You have to be pretty dam persistent to do it."
He said that the line had to be physically accessed for the charges on Malmberg's phone bill.
"It's not that much different than having someone break into your house," Putnam said.
(See Phone, page 3)