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Election Supplement,
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USC left running scared, lose big
The USC football team set a school record for fewest rushing yards in a game en route to an embarrassing 21-10 loss to Washington at the Coliseum, putting its bowl hopes in serious jeopardy.
Sports, page 24
Prop. 209 not a measure of racism
Though opponents of Prop. 209 have compared the measure to acts of racism and discrimination, editorial columnist Amer Anabtawi retorts that it is a just proposition that promotes equality.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.l.
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Memorial service; Cancer seminar
Memorial services will be held for Toni Acevedo, a graduate student in education, today at 7 p.m. at the Neuman Center. Avecedo died after she was shot in the head while riding a bus in Mexico on Oct. 19, She was on a religious pilgramage.
Acevedo also went to USC in the school of public administration. She was an active student and a Truman Scholar.
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Lihua Liu, a demographer for the Cancer Surveillance Parogram at the School of Medicine, will present a seminar titled "Socioeconomic Status and Cancer Risk Among Diverse Populations in Los Angeles County: 1972-1992" today from noon to 1 p.m. in Conference Rixim 387 in the Research Annex Building at 3716 South Hope St. For more information call (213) 743-9250.
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Daipojan
GE changes allow more flexibility
By Nik Trendowski
Slaff Writer
Officials in the university's professional schools say they are fiscally apprehensive but educationally optimistic about the
new general education program in which all GE classes will be taught under the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Many of the university's professional schools now offer classes that could be counted for general education credit under the old 11-class requirement, which is changing to a restructured six-class requirement for most Bachelor of Arts students graduating after the summer of 1997. This means added revenue from students in the GE classes will disappear, though officials hope that will be offset by larger enrollment by students pursuing double-majors and minors in the professional schools.
"Fiscally, it's going to be challenging," said David Sloane, associate dean of the School of Urban and Regional Planning, noting some former GE courses might be taught less frequently or not at all.
"We're going to have to restructure the way we do our work, because the GE classes played a major part in the way we imagined undergraduate education," Sloane said.
Though officials in all schools stressed their optimism about the new program, some were more optimistic about the most popular GE classes, like Introduction to Cinema.
"We've been concerned from a financial standpoint," said Richard Jewell, associate dean of the School of Cinema-Television. "We also feel that classes like Cinema-Television 190 are so good and have such a tradition at USC that even without the GE
designation, students will still enroll."
Vice Provost Richard Ide said such courses could become gateway courses for the schools to introduce students to major and minor programs
"If a student has the opportunity to be taught in a GE oy liberal arts faculty and to have a minor... that presents the strongest educational profile for the university at the undergraduate level," he said. "(As for) the general education program, we nave never, in the provost's office, thought of that as different from tne initiative at the upper division of creating new minors. The broad assumption is that we are actually putting
General education—giving stu-ents a broad liberal arts education—in the hands of the liberal arts school."
Ide said he sees the emerging (See GEs, page 7)
Predicted effects of new GE program
•	More students will be able to take minors and double majors.
•	Students will have more time to explore the professional schools. As enrollment increases, professional schools can add new minors.
•	While some classes and departments may lose enrollment, popular classes will survive.
A living work of art
Troy Witt / Daily Trojan
Lisa Sandowsky, a junior majoring in education, paints the face of Anna Costa, 10, from Mammoth Lakes, Calif., at the SCions Homecoming booth.
Bartner fuels Spirit of Troy
By David Khalaf
Staff Writer
Art Bartner is to marching bands what Robin Williams is to stand-up comedy, what Madonna is to the music inaustry and what RuPaul is to fashion.
Described as both talented and eccentric, Bartner has motivated the Trojan Marching Band to greatness throughout his 26 seasons at USC.
But the band director's teaching techniques have not remained stagnant over the years. Bartner's key to success is his ability to modernize band performances to appeal to audiences, band members said.
One of the most effective methods Bartner has used to make the band more unioue is playiniz modern, popular songs. At the Oct. 5 football game against UC Berkeley, the band played Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" and No Doubt's "Spiderwebs" at halftime.
"We wanted to play some new songs and Dr. Bartner was up for it," said Jennifer Kaplan, clarinet section leader. "He's so eager to make us original and the best. I doubt there's anyone quite like him."
Last spring, members evaluated the band and suggested improvements. Many students thought the band should make its performances more like MTV shows by playing
Troy Witt / Dally Troian Band director Art Bartner
current songs.
"Dr. Bartner has never been closed-minded to input from students and other people," said Steve Laguna, trumpet section leader. "As long as we're within a certain realm of decorum, that's fine with him. We're out there to please the audience, so if we can accomplish that, that's great."
Bartner said the band aims to please the student body.
"Students like to perform for students," Bartner said. "I think this has become one of our greatest commitments this year—to appeal more to the student body."
(See Bartner, page 2)
Midterm
evaluations
suggested
By Erin Phibbs
Staff Writer
At the end of each semester, USC students fill out professor and teaching assistant evaluation forms, offering comments on their courses. However, stuaents are now suggesting that these evaluations be given earlier.
"My suggestion is that we fill out evaluations not only at the end of the semester, but at the beginning—perhaps a month or so into it," wrote Arun Prasad, a pre-med junior majoring in psychology, in a recent letter to the Daili/ Trojan, "I believe that this would give professors the students' general perceptions of the class and of its professors and teaching assistants at a critical time in the semester so that changes could be made immediately."
Amy-Cecilia Sanders, academic affairs director for the Student Senate, responded to the issue by informing the Daily Trojan of projects currently being undertaken.
"Some form of mid-semester evaluation has been a topic of discussion as a possible way of addressing concerns regarding teaching assistants, ana is something whicn could be extended to professors as well," she said.
A project the Academic Affairs Committee is undertaking this year will probably include the publication of the numerical portion of the evaluation, but will not involve increasing the frequency of the evaluations, Sanders said.
"This is a way for student voices to be heard, and to make them feel that the evaluations are beneficial to their fellow students," Sanders said. "People still won't have the classes next semester anyway, but if evaluations are published, their input will become a tool to use in the university s quest for teaching excellence."
Students said having mid-semester evaluations would create a forum for students to voice their concerns about the courses to their pmfessors and TAs while there is still time tor adjustments.
"1 believe the mid-semester evaluations would be very beneficial," said Laurel McCombs, a sophomore majoring in broadcast journalism and psychology "When you fill these out at the end of the class, it only helps students for the next semester; it doesn't nelp you at all because the class is over."
"Sometimes students have problems with
(See Evaluations, page 2)