Friday
August 29,1997 Vol. CXXXII, No. 3
Headlines
USC opens season against Nebraska
Coming off of a 15-5 season in 1996 and narrowly missing an NCAA Tournament berth, the USC women's soccer team takes to the road for matches against the No. 6 Cornhuskers and Iowa State.
Sports, page 16
Dressing to impress, for less
With all of the pitfalls of shopping for cool clothes in L.A., Staff Writer Tu M. Tran discusses what makes a good shopper, and takes us on a tour of some of the best places in town for clothes.
Diversions, page 8
When groups lose interest in USC
Campus organizations often vie for student support during the first few weeks of school. However, Editorial Director Colin D. Smith contends they shouldn't disappear once schoolwork kicks in.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
KSCR positions, literary luncheon
The student-run radio station KSCR 104.7 FM is accepting applications for DJs and staff members.
Applications are available at the KSCR entrance at the south side of Marks Hall and must be submitted by Sept. 10.
For more information, call (213) 740-5727.
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State Librarian Kevin Starr, who is also a professor of urban planning and development, will be discussing his recent book The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s on Sept. 10 at a Literary Luncheon in the Doheny Memorial Library lower level.
The luncheon, which requires reservations by Sept. 2 and a $30 fee, will be hela from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
From 12:30 to 1:15 p.m., Starr will be discussing his book during a session that is open to the public.
To make reservations, call (213) 740-2543.
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Late applicants live in lounges
Freshmen in Fluor Tower should be moved out by end of September
lobbies for temporary student living spaces.
Originally about 30 freshmen were going to be placed in lounges, but about 20 to 22 freshmen actually ended up moving in, said Jeff Urdahl, director of Housing and Residence Halls.
There is no deadline to apply for housing, but applications for the students living in the lounges were not submitted until July or August, the students said.
By Penny Yu
Staff Writer
Along the halls of Fluor Tower, students may not see anything unusual. But in the lounges, there are bunk beds, dressers and desks instead of sofas and TVs.
Because of a large freshman demand for housing, Housing Services has placed latecomers in Fluor Tower lounges. This is the second year in a row that Housing Services has used the
Although the lounge is larger than the average dorm and is equipped with the usual necessities, including air conditioning, most students said they feel uprooted because they don't have a permanent place to live.
"I don't feel settled — I live out of my suitcase," said Stephen Flannery, a freshman majoring in filmic writing.
. Jeremy Puma, Flannery's tem-
O roommate and an undefreshman, said he felt frustrated because he cannot move most of his belongings in and can be told to pack up and move at anytime.
In spite of the disadvantages,
however, many of the students said the lounges are relatively nice places to stay.
Urdahl said he expects most of the students to be moved out of the lounges by the end of September, which is about the same time as last year. However, he said that "it really depends on how many people move out of the dorms.''
Urdahl said he can't make a clear prediction if the incident will happen next year, but said the office will "make every effort to accommodate the (incoming) freshman class."
Renovations of Annenberg nearing completion date
By Kyle Buchanan
Staff Writer
The maze of corridors and crowded areas in the Annenberg School for Communication building are in tne midst of a facelift. In the next few weeks, renovations will be completed that will not only make the building more user-friendly, but also will add more high-tech facilities for communications students.
"The better the facilities you have, the more exciting and innovative the classes can become," said Geoffrey Cowan, the dean of the Annenberg School.
To that end, Cowan is planning several technological upgrades to Annenberg, one of which is an online journalism newsroom. The project will be headed by Larry Pryor, who previously worked on online services for the Los Angeles Times. Cowan said that the news service, which will have both the Times and America Online as clients, will
pioneer new online forms of journalism by studying the medium itself.
"Part of what they'll be doing is putting out an [electronic] publication about online journalism," he said.
Another planned upgrade to the school's technology is the donation of six Avid digital news-editing facilities to be used by Impact, a weekly half-nour newsmagazine, and Trojan Vision, a student-run television station. Cowan said that USC is the only school in the country to receive such a gift from Avid.
The east lobby of the Annenberg building is also being renovated to become a more inviting place and is expected to be finished by Tuesday, Cowan saia. New additions there include a Trojan Grounds coffee cart serving Starbucks coffee, as well as chairs and umbrellas that Cowan said will ive the lobby "a coffeehouse feeling that I ope will become the heart of Annenberg —
(See Annenberg, page 3)
The better the facilities you have, the more exciting and innovative the classes can become.
GEOFFREY COWAN Dean,
Annenberg School for Communication
Access for housing encounters problems
By Jenny Goldberg-Aden
Staff Writer
University housing security and Access systems have been hindered due to technical difficulties.
On-campus housing security systems were shut down, some for more than four hours this week, to allow workers to repair a system bug and make software changes. A higher-than-average number of student calls alerted USCard officials to the problem.
Peter Tom, director of USCard Services, said a glitch in the main server was to blame tor the unusually high number of problems faced by students whose ID cards would not open their building doors. Off-campus housing complexes, such as Cardinal Gardens and Sierra Apartments, are on a separate server and were not affected by the problem, Tom said.
Clyde Lockley, Department of Public Safety deputy chief of Protective Services, said that during the shutdown of various complex servers officers made extra rounds and there were no reported thefts or vandalism.
Another source of system problems was the recent management shift from Access systems to USCard, Tom said. Shutdowns were necessary to convert the computerized access devices.
"What we've been doing is trying to clean up the system," Tom said. "Combining the student ID and housing access offices will save everyone a lot of time."
Previously when students lost their USCards, they had to go to several offices to obtain a new card and housing access; now, everything can be done automatically at USCard, which has offices in the Fluor Tower lobby, Parking Structure D and Commons lobby.
Amy Hemphill, an undeclared freshman, said her card did not work at the Pardee elevators and doors between move-in day (Saturday, Aug. 23) and Tuesday, Aug. 26.
"My roommate and 1 would stand out here and tell people that our cards didn't work and we d have to wait for someone to come and let us in the building," she said.
This problem prompted many students to leave doors propped open. This sends an alarm to DPS officers, who then have to investigate the situation. Students need to
(See Access, page 3)