Friday
September 11,1998 Vol. CXXXV, No. 6
Headlines
Tollner makes first trip to USC
Former USC and current San Diego State Head Coach Ted Tollner returns to the Coliseum Saturday when his Aztecs face the Trojans. Tollner, USC's coach for four years, was fired in 1986.
Sports, page 8
Five MTV Awards for Madonna
Madonna was the big winner with five MTV Video Music Awards. Find out about other big winners including Will Smith and the Backstreet Boys, as well as Courtney Love
Diversions, page 20
Mark McGwire is America's pride
With the class he showed in chasing baseball's home run record, St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire reaffirms what is good in this country, Viewpoint Writer Ron Gubitz says.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
Media panel, Lambda event
How the media reflects and reshapes political awareness will be the topic for a free
Eanel discussion at 7 p.m. londay in GFS 106.
Voices of a Generation, sponsored by the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, will feature representatives from Rock the Vot£, Wired Magazine, La Opinion, A. Magazine and the Hip Hop Coalition for Political Awareness.
For information, call (213) 740-8964.
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All students are invited to USC Lambda Alumni's Open House from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday at the home of alumnus Jim Curtis in West Hollywood. The event will be an opportunity to strengthen ties between Lambda alumni and students. Admission for alumni and guests is $10.
Please RSVP to Mary Andres at andres@usc.edu or (213) 740-5440.
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Shrine to host Emmy awards
By Sharon Stello
Staff writer
Traffic will swell again thfs weekend in the USC area as the 50th Annual Emmy Awards come to the Shrine Auditorium on Jefferson Boulevard.
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This year, the cheering fans on the bleachers will be USC students — the only people bleacher tickets were offered to.
"It's sort of the same kind of thing as the Oscars, except on a Sunday, so
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(See Emmys, page 6)
Colin D. Smith / Daily Troian
Forced to dance
Joanna Nila* / Dally Troian
Kristine Rapan, a sophomore majoring in psychology, tries out for the USC Dance Force Thursday.
Program 'aims' at recognition
By Francesca Cimino
Staff Writer
A new program designed to bridge academic and residential life was introduced to students in university housing this year. Academic Intervention Model (AIM) attempts to involve resident advisers and students in fulfilling their academic needs through increased faculty interaction, academic programming and a heightened emphasis on intellectual development.
"We want to meet the needs of residents from an academic standpoint by creating...an intellectual community," said Kathy Steward, associate director of the Office of Residential and Greek Life.
The program proposes five concepts that emphasize the opportunity for faculty members
to get involved with students beyond the classroom. With both a resident and non-resident faculty fellow program already existing, the goal of increasing faculty involvement in residential communities provides more effective relationships between the students and staff. Steward said.
After recruiting interested faculty members last spring, ORGL provided the AIM coordinating committee with a number of programs or workshops for the students if requested by the RAs. The 150 faculty fellows provided a list of 470 potential programs that can be utilized.
"Hopefully it will be as common to see faculty in the residence halls as it is to see students," Steward said.
However, there are mixed opinions about the focus of AIM. uch attention is being diverted
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to the academic recognition aspect of the program. Ongoing informal recognition for residents will be given at each RA's discretion, Steward said. A special dinner will be held in February to formally recognize those who achieve higher than a 3.5 GPA in the fall semester.
Those recognized at the dinner will also be honored with membership in Omega Chi Alpha, an academic honorary society for students in university housing.
"The focus should not be on recognition...it is only a small portion of (AIM)," Steward said.
In their first meetings, students were asked to fill out Academic Needs Assessment forms, which would provide RAs with information about their goals, study habits and ideas on academic
(See AIM, page 6)
GLBA gets new, bigger office space
By Edith Chan
Staff Writer
The Gay, Lesbian and Bi Assembly is literally coming out of the closet.
The organization, which has existed since the late 1970s, moved this week from its office space on the west side of the Student Union fourth floor, which used to be a janitorial closet, to a slightly bigger office down the hall. The move was just in time for its open house today from noon to 3 p.m.
The new office, which will only
(See GLBA, page 2)
New computer lab opens in Leavey Library
By Melineh Shajanian
Staff Writer
In an effort to ease the problem of king lines at computer labs, Leavey Library has added an Upper Commons computer lab on the second floor, which opened on the first day of the semester.
Forty eight PCs and six Power Macintosh computers have been added. In addition, there are 13 workrooms and 40 carrels with network connections for laptops.
"Most people go downstairs," said Ruben Espejel, an undeclared freshman. "But if you go upstairs, it's more efficient and there aren't too many people up there."
Vijay Sharma, a graduate student in conv puter science, said, "it's much more convenient than lower commons...more toward quietness.”
The new $750,000-lab took all .summer to build, said Charlotte Crockett, director of Leavey Library.
Books that used to occupy the space of the new lab were relocated to another facility and the duplicates were given away for free.
Joanna NHa« / Daily Troian
Students were already utilizing the new computer lab, Upper Commons, at the Leavey Library since it opened on the first day of classes.