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Volume CXIII, Number 9
University of Southern California
Friday, September 14,1990
Reading, writing and resting
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Kris Haltmeyer, a gerontology graduate student, stretches out on a bench, taking a study break between classes behind the Social Sciences Building.
Students slow in accepting DASH
By Erin Nordby
Staff Writer
While university staff members maintain that the elimination of Embassy Residential College trams and the addition of the DASH system is in the best interest of students, many students disagree.
"The DASH would be fine and dandy if we could rely on it," said Henry Quintero, a residential adviser at Embassy and a graduate student in engineering.
Students complain that DASH is late, the schedule is unreliable and that often times, the bus will not wait for students.
John Wisner, a junior majoring in cinema, said he tried the DASH service and found it unsatisfactory.
"It's unreliable as hell. The bus is never there. And the bus takes 25 minutes to get to campus — the tram takes 12," Wisner said.
"The schedule is cockeyed. You get to campus at five minutes after the hour. There's no best tram to get on," he said.
But the Embassy tram will not be eliminated until DASH has proven reliable, said Michael Cragin, complex manager for Embassy.
"We will be running both until I feel confident that DASH provides a similar service to what we offer," Cragin said.
Dennis R. Archambault, the transportation administrator for the university, said student satisfaction is a high priority.
"We are very concerned and we want to make sure that we are getting the service we were promised," Archambault said.
He said he is interested in hiring students to ride DASH and then let him know what the problems are. "Only by
•	(See Trams, page 3)
The road to recovery
Search for shooting suspect continues
By Gloria Lau
Staff Writer
Charles Langenhagen, the graduate business student who was shot in January, has almost fully recovered from a bullet wound in his leg, but said Tuesday the memories are still painful.
"I am about 95 to 99 percent recovered," Langenhagen said. "My doctor
considers it a complete recovery, but to me, complete recovery is how I was before."
Langenhagen said he is more aware now of the people in his surroundings.
"I think about those around me wherever I am, and I think about the incident all the time," he said. "I (See Update, page 3)
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The DASH service has not been accepted favorably by some of those who will use it.
Minority scholarships lauded by Pete Wilson
By Elizabeth Arucan
Staff Writer
^ In a campaign stop Thursday, U.S. Senator and gubernatorial candidate Pete Wilson praised a joint USC/corporate scholarship program designed to make the university more affordable to area minority students.
"I congratulate USC for making leadership their business in helping our youth discover the importance of higher education," Wilson said.
"The University of Southern California has long prided itself, and rightly so, on being a private university with a public trust," he said.
The university and the Somma Mattress Company have established a program to award scholarships to attract the best graduates from the largely Latino student body at Bell High School to the university. Those recipients can reapply for the scholarship each year at USC.
Raul Vargas, executive director of Mexican American Programs at the university, said the Somma Mattress Company has been instrumental in helping recruit minorities by contributing $15,000 to the Mexican American Alumni Association's scholarship program.
The university provides dou-* bled matching funds to the program. The individual scholarships range from $700 to $3,000.
Angel Echevarria, president of the Somma Mattress Company, said he takes pride in the role he is playing in aiding the Los Angeles public school system and the learning process in the high schools.
Somma Mattress Company, based in East Los Angeles, is part of the Adopt-A-School program in which companies help fund the construction of additional facilities at area public schools as well as awarding
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Sen. Pete Wilson
scholarships to deserving alumni and college-bound seniors.
The company adopted the Bell High School in Bell, Calif, in 1988 and has since awarded 25 scholarships.
Lupita Sanchez, a freshman majoring in political science, who received $1,000, said the scholarship is necessary to her
plans to study at the university.
"I'm very happy to be receiving this award. Without this scholarship, it would have been impossible for me to attend USC. It's expensive but it's worth it," Sanchez said.
Another recipient, Ralph Hernandez, a senior majoring in education, said he has received a scholarship amount of $2,000-$3,000 each year for the past three years. He heard about the program through his counselor.
Liz Giffenglad, assistant principal at Bell High School, said, "We wanted to give our outstanding students some kind of recognition, because once they graduate, that's it. They're gone."
Richard Vargas, senior admissions counselor for Undergraduate Admissions, says the scholarships are indispensable to recruitment efforts.
"This program is needed to bring up the Hispanic enrollment," Vargas said.
Of the 1990-91 USC freshman class, 11.5 percent are Latino — the highest percentage of at least the last 10 years — according to a university press release.
This increased percentage is reportedly encouraging to admissions officials in light of the dramatic drop in freshman enrollment this fall.
Vargas said an integral part of the increase in Latino enrollment should be credited to his staff of 16 peer counselors that work with area high schools.
"We are the direct link to the admissions office," said Pedro Travieso, a senior majoring in political science, peer counselor and a scholarship recipient.
"The peer counselors are providing extraordinary service to the Los Angeles community through this program," said Sen. Wilson. "(The program) returns students to local area schools to serve as role models for current high school students."