Beaver dam gets broken
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Women deserve roles in combat
Viewpoint, page 5
Paul Simon rocks Forum
Life / Arts, page 7
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Volume CXIV, Number 12
University of Southern California
Monday, January 28, 1991
Campus angered by black future of Persian Gulf
University environmentalists responded with pessimism and outrage Sunday to continued reports of thousands of gallons of oil being dumped into the Persian Gulf, with many calling cleanup prospects grim and blam ing President Bush for not anticipating such Iraqi tactics.
U.S. F-lll fighter-bombers set the slick ablaze in a military cleanup attempt Sunday, firing smart bombs at a pair of terminal manifolds, said Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of Operation Desert Storm, in a briefing Sunday morning televised on all major networks.
The spill — about 30 miles long and eight miles wide as of Sunday morning — has been flowing from a large pipeline connecting Kuwait's Sea Island oil loading terminal, about 10 miles offshore, with the A1 Ahmadi loading facility on land.
Oil	has been pouring into the Gulf since Jan. 19 at the rate of about
100,000	gallons a day, Schwarzkopf said. About 6 million barrels of crude have been dumped into the Gulf, according to the Los Angeles Times.
"It's clear to me that we can't even come close to cleaning it up," said Steven Lund, university geology professor. "The ecology of the Persian Gulf is dead. One can hope (for a cleanup), but I'm not very hopeful."
Lund said the oil in the Gulf is lighter than that dumped into waters off the Southern California coastline last year and will not sink, making cleanup efforts more difficult. He also
(See War, page 4)
New regulations proposed
Academic probation, disqualification rule changes under consideration
By Allison Tatum
Staff Writer
New university regulations on academic probation and disqualification were considered during Wednesday's meeting of the University Committee on Academic Policies and Procedures.
The proposed regulations are more concise than the current ones and are designed for easier understanding by students, as well as simpler administration by university personnel, said Carl Bro-
derick, committee chairman and professor of sociology.
The proposed regulations state that any student who:
•	has an overall GPA below 2.0 is on academic probation.
•	is on academic probation has two semesters to raise his or her GPA to 2.0. Failure to do so will result in academic disqualification, except in special cases.
•	earns a semester GPA of 2.3 or better in the second (or any subsequent) proba-
Mobilized support
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Angel Delgado, a sophomore in the entrepreneur program, drives his point home by maneuvering his remote-control truck near Tommy Trojan.
University lends parking spaces
Music awards’ traffic around Shrine called ‘an absolute mess’
By Oscar Villalon
Staff Writer
As the music industry's biggest stars and their fans make their way to the American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium today, traffic north of campus "will be an absolute mess," said Roy Heidicker, university associate director of parking services.
'To use an analogy, it's almost like an accident we know is going to happen," Heidicker said. "Why put yourself into gridlock if you don't have to?"
Memos were put on the windshields of cars parked in Parking Structure D last week to warn students and staff who use the structure's 1,385 spaces about the
congestion, Heidicker said.
Students and staff will have a hard time trying to enter or leave Parking Structure D through Gate 4 on Jefferson Boulevard, Heidicker said.
He suggested students reach Parking Structure D by entering campus through Gate 3 on Figueroa Street.
'Traffic will be heavy for the two-hour period before the event starts/'said Brian Fenske, facilities manager at the Shrine. The Shrine is expecting 5,900 people to attend tonight's awards, which start at 4 p.m.
The university will allow guests to use 200 of its Shrine parking spaces — charging a regular parking fee of $5 per car, officials said.
Parking Structure D is usually filled between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. and starts emptying around 2 p.m., Heidicker said. Should there be available parking space in Parking Structure D, people attending
the American Music Awards will be allowed to park there after the 200 spaces next to the Shrine fill up.
"We're being a good neighbor by working with the Shrine and Dick Clark Productions (the creators of the American Music Awards)," Heidicker said, explan-ing the university's plan to deal with the need for parking.
But students said they have felt the effects of the awards show for a week.
Since Tuesday, the 250 students who use the university parking lot next to the Shrine have had to park in the Menlo lots to make way for crews preparing for the awards, Heidicker said.
Since then, no students have parked at the Shrine parking lot, said Rene Lucero, assistant manager at the Shrine.
Brian Chew, a graduate law student, said he was able to find parking across the street from the Shrine at Parking (See Parking page 3)
tion semester will not be disqualified, even though the overall GPA has not reached 2.0, but will be given an additional semester in which to achieve that goal.
•	removes his or her probation by achieving an overall GPA of 2.0 or better may return to regular academic status.
There is no restriction to the number of times a student may repeat the above sequence.
"Most of the faculty and people present at the meeting today seemed to be in favor of simplifying things for everybody," Broderick said.
A student on academic probation can-
(See Changes, page 3)
For U.S. students abroad, war hits close to home
By Jordana Bieze
Staff Writer
Matt Albright is a big fan of individuality.
Not many recent graduates of USC would have hopped a plane for the Vatican to study theology, as Albright did in October.
Most of his fellow seminary students aspire to the priesthood. Albright is an aspiring writer who idolizes Charles Bukowski.
His classmates have hair that is close-cropped and conservative. Albright, with shoulder-length auburn curls and a full beard, is hoping the Jesus look will help him get through finals.
Individuality is all well and good But with the United States and Iraq waging war just across the Mediterra nean Sea, Italians are bracing for ter rorist attacks and venting their wrath on any American they can pick out of a crowd.
These days it's a lot safer for an American in Rome to do as the Romans do.
"The day the war started, this place went up in arms," Albright said last week in a telephone interview.
Stores and schools closed for the day. Hordes of Italians clogged the streets of Rome in a huge anti-war march.
"The Italians are kind of into marches. It gets them out of work anc things like that," Albright said. "Bu this was unbelievable. The kids al took school off, so if you can imagine all the kids in Rome from about 1^ years old to college age — it was amazing."
Then came the graffiti. Entire walls are now covered with red paint tha screams, "Go Home Yankee!"
"Basically, it's a knee-jerk reaction against Americans because of the war," he said.
The counter-reaction is a "yellow alert" to Americans that is broadcas (See Italy, page 4)