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HANDLING OF THE SCALE SIT-IN LAST WEEK
Faculty send Sample letter supporting student activism
teearty WO professors and staff sign a tetter eritfcfttag USC's response to SCALE'S sit-in
By MAXIMILLIAN DEL REY
Daily Troian
A letter signed by 98 USC professors and lecturers objecting to USC administrators’ handling of protests by the Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation was delivered Monday morning to President Steven B Sample’s office. The letter appears on page four
The letter, written Friday by history professor Joshua Goldstein and English professor David Lloyd, responded to SCALE’S April 10 sit-in in the lobby of Sample's office.
The authors wrote that the administration's actions against the student demonstrators betrayed USC's core values of higher education and social responsibility
“(Ihe letter’s) purpose is to express that our administration mishandled the students' requests for dialogue and squashed the protest." Goldstein said
Goldstein collected signatures over thc weekend mostly via e-maiL he said.
“We sent (the letter) to faculty we thought would be sympathetic and told them to tell others who also felt strongly," he said
Students exploit registration glitch
About 200 students manipulate URL to register for classes early, according to the registrar's office.
By ELLY WONG
Daily Troian
The Office of Academic Records and Registrar confirmed a glitch in the Web Registration system Monday that allowed students to register for next semester’s courses before their assigned appointment times.
In its schedule builder, web registration’s URL reads,"... reload.asp ’’ But by
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changing this to “...reload-commit.asp," students were able to fool the system into loading the registration confirmation page.
The registrar’s office and Student Information Services fixed the problem after approximately 200 USC students were found to have manipulated the online registration method
The unauthorized registrations have all been canceled, and the students will now be able to register at their appointment times or anytime thereafter, said Kenneth Servis, dean of Academic Records and Registrar
Some students discovered a method to get around the registration hold and
confirm their classes unofficially. By manipulating the web address, students have been able to circumvent the appointment schedule, Servis said.
Students normally are allowed to access the web registration system and build their class schedules, but cannot officially register for the courses until their appointment time All students have a designated timeslot, said Francisco Chang, assistant registrar
“The system knows when you're supposed to register,” Chang said “The registration appointment time is based on how many units you have.”
The students have said that this reg-I see REGISTRAR page 13 I
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USC reacts to Virginia Tech slayings
USC students express sadness, outrage at Virginia Tech's slow response to notifying community about the deadly shooting.
By NANCY CHEN and ALEXANDER COMISAR
Daily Trojan
Jerome Edwards, a lecturer in USC’s writing program and alumnus of Virginia Tech, was overcome with shock yesterday when he heard what happened to his alma mater.
“I woke up and had a number of texts telling me to turn on the news. My first thought was to turn on SportsCenter, because I thought that maybe something had happened to Michael Vick,” he said. “But I turned on CNN, and there was the place 1 went to school."
An unidentified gunman devastated Virginia Tech Monday morning, killing 32 and injuring at least 15 before killing himself in what is considered the worst shooting in U.S. history.
USC students and facidty were shocked by yesterday's tragedy, but one professor said he was more disturbed at the desensitized attitude toward such events becoming more common occurrences.
Bill Boyarsky, a senior lecturcr at thc school of journalism, expressed frustration about the increasing frequency of such acts of violence.
“My first thought was that it was odd that I wasn't as horrified as I thought I should have been, Boyarsky said. “There is so much violence and so much death in thc world that we don’t care about it anymore. We're just overwhelmed with death, and so we become hardened to it.”
One of the issues that seemed to upset USC stu-| see MASSACRE, page 13 I
Newscast I Andrew Adamick, a master’s candidate in global communication, watches simultaneous news coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting on four networks in the Annenberg School for Communication West Lobby Monday evening.