Thursday August 29,19% Vol. CXXIX, No. 2
Headlines
Enis runs over Trojans 24-7
The No. 7 USC football team failed to stop No. 11 Penn State's Curtis Enis in a 24-7 loss Sunday in the Kickoff Classic. Enis piled up 241 yards, the most ever against a Trojan squad.
Sports, page 24
Do the hustle in L.A.'s hottest clubs
From Florentine Gardens to the Palace and the Probe to Axis, there's a club for everyone in the hotbed of nighttime activity that is L.A. Writer Rad Probst delivers the g(x>ds on the hoppin' club scene.
Diversions, page 11
The mighty states shadow Europeans
After spending the summer traveling Europe, Editorial Writer Matt O'Gara learned the difference between us and them—and realized that America's grandeur outshines Europe in every way.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
Volunteers sought, poster sale today
USC-CAST, Community Action Short-term Team is looking for students who are interested in volunteering but have limited free time.
The group sponsors one-day, hands-on projects in the surrounding area.
For more information, call (213) 740-9116 or stop by the USC Volunteer Center in Norman Topping Student Activities Center 103.
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Today and tomorrow in front of the bookstore, there will be a Trent Graphics Poster sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The event benefits a wide range of campus groups and activities.
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People looking for new jobs can find jobs in Tokyo, London and Vancouver through a new international job site at http://www. careermosaic.com.
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Lounges house new students
By Karen Santos
Staff Writer
University housing has experienced an overflow of students due to the record number of entering freshmen and upperclassmen choosing to stay in university-owned dormitories or apartments.
Because of the overflow, many students have had to sleep in lobbies and lounges. In College-University residence hall, housing previously added beds to convert single rooms into doubles. However, those rooms have now been converted back into singles.
According to a College-University Resident Advisor who asked not to be identified, housing is booked at 110 percent. "They knew (housing) was going to be overcrowded," she
said. "They were planning for the overflow in Fluor (Tower)."
Three freshmen are living in each Fluor Tower lounge. Each lounge has three beds, a dresser and desks, but several students said it was uncomfortable.
"It's a place to sleep in.... They didn't say much about convenience. They only promised housing," said James Rivas, a freshman majoring in architecture. Rivas, who lives on the sixth floor of Fluor Tower, said the phones and electricity werejust recently activated.
Jeff Urdahl, director of housing services, said he hopes to have all students in temporary housing placed in permanent housing within two to four weeks. "We're doing the best we can," Urdahl said.
Akua Owusu-Ansah, a fresh-
(See Housing, page 3)
Brandan Hancock / Daily Trojan
Sisay Dibabu, a freshman majoring in biology, arranges his temporary room in the seventh floor lounge of Fluor Tower.
Dunkin' Duncan
Brandan Hancock / Daily Trojan
Associate Dean Duncan Murdoch hops off the 10-meter platform to settle a bet-he underestimated the size of the freshman class.
Female files rape claim
Allegation prompts concern over beginning of semester festivities
By Antonia Barber
Assignment Editor
A female student reported Monday that she had been raped after a fraternity party, raising campus concerns about social drinking and the types of activities students engage in during the first few weeks of the semester, said Bob Taylor, Department of Public Safety deputy chief of field services.
The student, who was attending a party at the Sigma Nu house Sunday night, told the Los Angeles Police Department that an unknown suspect raped her after she passed out from drinking.
"She nad consumed a large quantity of alcohol and according to her statements she followed with several shots... At one point she became physically ill and people assisted her to a
couch where she passed out,” Taylor said. "The actual assault occurred sometime after that."
LAPD officers transported the student to Westside Hospital for medical treatment. Her case was also referred to the Office of Women's lssue> and Student Affairs at the student's request According to a recent survey of college women, taken by the University ol Tennessee at Knoxville, one in four college women has either been a victim of a rape or of a rape attempt. Three-fourths of the male students involved in acquaintance rape had been drinking or using drugs.
"I think that one of the dangers we see every year is young female students who go to the party scene, drink too much, meet an interesting young man and get involved in a situation they cannot handle," Taylor said. "It's probably something neither of them wanted to happen, but it did."
"This is a really scary time of year," said Stacey O'Sjeill, a sophomore
(See Rape, page 3)
General education requirements revamped
By Nik Trendowski
Staff Writer
A majority of undergraduates finishing studies at USC after August 1997 will now have to fulfill a reorganized set of general education requirements, administrators said.
Students must now complete courses in only six areas of study, compared with the 11 courses previously required. Writing classes have also been reformulated, although any student who started at USC before this fall will be able to complete the original writing requirement, according to literature from the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. The new curriculum is the culmination of three years of work on improving general education at the university.
Though freshmen, sophomores and juniors should fulfill the new requirements, the provost's office published a
translation chart in the Daily Trojan last spring showing which old general education categories fall under the six new required groups. Anyone graduating in or before August 1997, however, must still complete
very hard to make sure the transition was a generous transition.
"Students are quite pleased, particularly the students who find that their graduation requirements are shifting downward. (The new plan) basically
Students are quite pleased, particularly the students who find that their graduation requirements are shifting downward.
—Nancy Vickers
courses under the old general education curriculum of 11 categories.
"It's very important that students reevaluate their programming relationship to (the requirements)," said Nancy Vickers, dean of curriculum and instruction in LAS. "We worked
converts the old categories into (six) new categories."
Academic advisers were informed of the upcoming changes, approved over the summer by President Steven Sample, Vickers said. Still, officials urged students to become familiar with the changes and
discuss them with each other and their academic advisers.
Some students on campus Wednesday said they were pleased with the change.
"I think it's better," said Hve Young Park, a freshman majoring in business. "That's one less class I have to worry about for (general education requirements) so I can take one extra class in my major."
"In certain instances, the GE requirements are beneficial, (but) I'd rather have people emphasizing more in their majors," said Pete Baghdassarian, a senior majoring in political science. "I think you'll have more people getting double majors ana minors, (which will) make USC students better on paper and more educated in the fields that they choose."
In previous interviews, officials said they hoped the change
(See Curriculum, page 2)