USC loses to Huskies
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Jim Harmon, a junior majoring in classical guitar performance, enjoys one of this week’s brief spurts of sunshine outside Booth Ferris Rehearsal Hall.
Strummin’ his stuff
Volume CXIV, Number 34	University of Southern California	Friday, March 1,1991
by cease-fire
Allied military officials said yesterday the cease-fire was holding, but also reported some small exchanges of fire between Iraqi tanks and U.S. forces, The Associated Press reported.
The military has orders to respond aggressively to all cease-fire violations, said Brigadier General Richard Neal, a U.S. military spokesman.
The relative peace in the Gulf has sparked debates on the legacy of the Gulf War.
British Prime Minister John Major said "right has prevailed and now we must look to the future and secure the peace."
"Diplomacy and the will of man must now work for peace and how to preserve it," said Italian Defense Minister Virginio Rognoni.
On campus, David Wells, president of GUSTO (Get U.S. Troops Out), expressed relief at the end of the war, but said he is worried about the effect this war will have on America.
"Government leaders are manipu-(See Gulf, page 3)
Skirmishes not controlled
Stone gl ‘The Doors’
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Commuters driven to sharing rides
University offers reduced parking for car poolers
By Holly Ziemer
Staff Writer
By instituting free van pools, reduced or free parking for car pools and $15 rebates for bus passes, the university has surpassed requirements mandated by the South Coast Air Quality Management District to reduce the number of singlepassenger cars traveling to campus, officials said Thursday.
The number of passengers per vehicle for the university — called the average vehicle ridership — was 1.57 in 1990, above the 1.5 goal set by SCAQMD, said Barbara Mark, the university's rideshar-ing administrator.
Mark said the rideshare program has had better results than she expected.
"But it is hard to get people at USC to change their hours," she said.
With 15 van pools and about 1,200 car pools operating, the program's incentives
appear to have helped people make a transition in their driving habits.
Car pools with two people receive parking passes at 1989 rates, and those with three or more passengers receive free parking, Mark said. The university also guarantees commuters emergency rides home and three free-parking passes a month for days when they have to drive alone.
"We found the financial incentives are the ones that really cause a change in behavior," said Peter Hidalgo, media relations manager for Commuter Transportation Services, Inc. CTS is a private, non-profit company that works with the university to develop rideshar-ing plans.
"Obviously, when it hits the pocket-book, it makes a difference," he said.
SCAQMD's rule, known as Regulation XV, affects companies in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and the non-desert portion of San Bernardino counties. The rule's goal is to improve air quality by reducing emissions from cars used for commuting between home and work.
(See Rideshare, page 9)
Mandatory water rationing begins
Welsh said a great deal of water is lost through evaporation in the air conditioning units. The cooling systems use water to cool the buildings, he said, and the water that is evaporated is lost.
The Lyon University Center is another large source of water consumption on campus, Welsh said.
. "Everyone goes and plays sports, takes a shower and jumps into the jacuzzi," he said. "That takes up a great deal of water."
Though Welsh said the university is
University encourages campus community to help avoid fines for excessive usage
By Roy Chung
Staff Writer
With mandatory city water rationing scheduled to go into effect today, the university — while taking some internal measures to cut water use — is looking to the entire campus community for help, officials said.
Last month, the Department of Water and Power implemented a mandatory 10-percent reduction from 1986 levels for all water users in the greater Los Angeles area because of a five-year drought that has seriously depleted the city's water supply.
A previous voluntary reduction program was abandoned after DWP officials said it had failed. Another 5-percent mandatory cutback is scheduled to go into effect May 1.
The university is the DWP's 13th largest customer in downtown Los Angeles and consumes about 19 million gallons of water every year, according to DWP statistics.
"We have to enlist everyone's help," said John Welsh, the university's energy management supervisor. "That is pretty much the only way to cut water use. Physical Plant cannot control the rate at which water is emitted (at most campus outlets), we can only turn it on and off."
Welsh said one of the easiest — and least known — ways for individuals to conserve water is by using less electricity.
"When lights are on, when electricity is being used, heat is being emitted," Welsh said. "By saving energy, there's less heat, and less water needs to be used (in a building's air conditioning units)."
looking into recycled and treated water programs to be used for "purposes not directly related to human contact," the only kind of water being used currently is potable (fit for human consumption).
"It is required by our rate ordinance that anyone who has access to (recycled water) must use it before they use potable water," said Tim Blair, a DWP water rates analyst.
Though plans are underway for such a program, Welsh said it is a long way off.
"We're looking into getting on a network of treated water," said Jim Peralta, director of university landscaping and irrigation. "But as of yet, there is no outside source of water that we use that is
(See Water, page 9)
Robert Manaslan / Dally Trojan
To conform to regulations that may affect campus scenery, the university is using recirculated water In most fountains, such as the one at Oiin Hall of Engineering.