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December 2,1997 Vol. CXXXII, No. 63
Headlines
Trojans advance to NCAA Tourney
The No. 4 USC men's water
G)lo team defended its ountain Pacific Sports Federation title ana qualified for the NCAA Tournament with a 5-4 victory over No. 3 Stanford on Sunday.
Sports, page 16
A new museum across the street
The California Science Center, located in Exposition Park, is scheduled to open in February 1998. Staff Writer Manuel Bojorauez gives the lowdown on tne creative coming attraction.
Diversions, page 8
Lighting famed sign during night
The Hollywood sign, a marvel of 50-foot-high letters perched in the Hollywood Hills since 1923, should be lit at night to reflect the town it labels, states Editorial Columnist Rich De Mum.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.l.
Book signing, business workshop
Bart Kosko will be signing his new book ''Nanotime'' at the Pertusati University Bookstore from noon to 2 p.m. today.
Kosko is also the author of "Fuzzy Thinking,'' "Neural Network and Fuzzy Systems" and "Neural Networks for Signal Processing."
For more information, contact tradebooks on the first floor of the bookstore at (213) 740-9030.
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Robin Allen, a business analyst, will explore the possibilities of contracting with local, state and federal agencies at a small-business workshop titled "Getting Ready to Contract" from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight.
It will be held in Suite 1 of the University Village Shopping Center.
Admission is $25 in advance and $30 at the door.
For reservations or more information, call Tangia Amayo at (213) 743-1726.
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Prop. 209 effects vary at USC
By Shashank Bengali
Staff Writer
As the University of California applies its new race-blind admissions policy across the board for the first time, USC admissions is looking for an improvement in the quality of the university's own minority applicant pool.
'We hope the overall caliber of our minority applicants rises, as it has in recent years," said Vice Provost Joseph Allen, who is also dean of admissions and financial aid.
California's thousands of local and state jurisdictions continue to work on dismantling race-and gender-based hiring and admissions programs in light of the Supreme Court action last month that rebuffed a legal challenge to Proposition 209, upholding the measure that bans affirmative action.
But meanwhile, in education, the big change comes not from 209, but from a similar measure passed independently by the UC Regents in 1995. The measure affected this fall's incoming raduate stu-ents and will apply to new
a
We hope the
undergraduate Overall Caliber of
our minority applicants rises, as it has in recent years.
admissions starting next year.
"If there is any fallout from the new UC policy, we'll see it this year, because last year there was no real change
in how UC conducted their business," Allen said.
The thinking behind this theo-
31 is that some minorities will feel isillusioned by the UC measure,
JOSEPH ALLEN
vice provost
which effectively eliminates any advantage underrepresented groups had in admissions. UC's top-flight schools may now seem, to some, leagues away.
"Its too soon
___to know how
extreme the effects are going to be on the UC system, but it's clear that the ban is going to mean a dramatic reduction in the number of Latino and African-American students," said Erwin Chemerinsky, a USC law professor.
On Nov. 4, the Los Angeles Times reported that UC officials are bracing for a drop in the number of African Americans and Latinos admitted to the
165,000- student system. According to the Times, UC figures released last year projected that UCLA's and UC Berkeley's undergraduate enrollment of African Americans and Latinos could drop 50 to 70 percent, while white and Asian-American enrollment will grow.
"I think that, for a number of African-American, Latino and Native-American students and their families, it appears that UC has turned their back on them," Allen said.
Martha Soria, a college counselor at nearby Manual Arts High School — a school that is about 80 percent Latino and 20 percent African-American — said she is "very concerned" about the UC policy.
"Thirty percent of my students are no longer going to apply to UCs," she said.
(See Proposition, page 10)
Exhibition observes World AIDS Day
By Nada El Sawy
Staff Writer
"Let's share responsibilities, not the HIV virus," "Everybody deserves the chance of a lifetime" ana "Ribbons are not enough!" were just some of the T-shirt slogans displayed at the exhibit "From Slogans to T-Shirts: A History of the AIDS Epidemic as seen through T-Shirt Art," in the USC Worship Center.
The display began Monday and will run through Dec. 14.
A reception was held prior to the exhibition in the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library Room at Doheny Memorial Library Monday afternoon. The exhibit is the first event presented by the Southern California AIDS Social Policy Archive (SOCASPA), which was created by a grant from the Office of the AIDS Coordinator for the City of Los Angeles and is headquartered at USC. The reception was sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Bi Student Assembly.
The goal of SOCASPA is to help provide a better understanding of the impact and con-
Nada Raouf / Daily Trojan
World AIDS Day T-shirts in the Worship Center are checked out by a passer-by Monday.
uences of AIDS on the public in southern California. Approximately 16 people attended the reception, including public officials, staff members and AIDS organization representatives. Spanish CNN and Trojan Vision were also on hand to cover the event.
Jay Edwards, academic adviser for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, said he came to witness the university's support of AIDS awareness.
"It's a very dangerous time," Edwards said. "There is a false sense of hope that there is a cure.
"Unfortunately, people who don't know near second-hand about the new drug therapies think (AIDS is) not an issue."
"A lot of people think the disease is over; it's not true," said Eric Schockman, associate
(See AIDS, page 10)
Book exchange program offered in spring
By Jessica Chang
Staff Writer
The Student Senate and the bookstore will offer an easier way for students to purchase ana sell course books next semester.
The first USC Student Book
Exchange is expected to elimi-Jlai
Pr
rid of the old ana bringing in the
nate the complaints about the hassle and hign prices of getting
new books that have troubled students in the past.
From Dec. 8 to 12 and from Jan. 7 to 15, a stand will be set up near the center of campus where , volunteers will be collecting course books. The bookstore has supplied a list of the books that
will be used next semester, but the book exchange will only accept large textbooks that will continue to be in use to simplify the process.
Students who wish to sell their books will turn them in along with a contract stating that they agree to the price at which their books will oe sold. With this new service, students who sell their books will receive about 65 percent of the new book price, whereas, in the past, they would buy a used book for about 75 percent of the cost and only receive about 50 percent or less back.
"There have been complaints every semester about the price of books and about how much
or how little students get for the books they sell back," said Adam Levine, the vice chair of the Student Book Exchange. "The Student Senate is offering a solution to these concerns and we hope students will take advantage of this new program."
Dan Archer, associate director of the Pertusati University Bookstore, said the new service will offer a means of comparing the bookstore system with other buyback methods.
"1 want to heighten the awareness about (the bookstore) buyback and how it works," Archer said. "To me (the Student Book Exchange will), give students a good comparison as to how
good or bad our services are. They're going to run into some lessons and they'll leam what works."
Students whose books are sold will receive payment at the beginning of the next semester. However, if the books are not sold, the Student Book Exchange will sell them, at the student's request, to the USC Bookstore or return them to the student. Those people who wish to buy books from the exchange can do so during the first week of the following semester using cash, check or discretionary.
Archer said the instant-cash
(See Exchange, page 10)