Herbicide is not solution to drugs
Viewpoint, page 4
T rojans face Oklahoma
Sports, page 16
Beware of NBC’s ‘Guys Next Door’
Life / Arts, page 7
Training wheels not included
John Urata / Dally Trojan
The USC Bicycle Program was selling locks next to the fountain across from Tommy Trojan on Thursday while helping students register their bikes. Bike registration costs $2, lasts three years and helps Identify stolen bicycles if and when they’re recovered.
Volume CXIII, Number 4	University of Southern California	Friday, September 7,1990
Report seeks to improve life as undergrad
By Erin Nordby
Staff Writer
A Presidential Commission study of the university's undergraduate programs and the commission's 150 recommendations will be made public Monday, said Lawrence Singer, chairman of the commission and a chemistry professor.
The commission, made up of students, staff, faculty and alumni, was formed two years ago to evaluate aspects of the undergraduate experience at the university, Singer said.
"We looked at the life of the student both inside the classroom and out," he said.
The results of their research has been compiled in a 164-page report titled "A Blueprint for Excellence."
In the fall of 1988, the office of the Provost organized a
12-member committee to undertake the project. The group soon expanded to include 90 members.
Janet Chaudhuri, associate provost, said she expects an enthusiastic reception of the report.
"The provost's office will be actively overseeing the implementation of many of these recommendations," Chaudhuri said.
Three areas were originally pinpointed for research: the role of faculty, general education, and the freshman year, Singer said.
"Freshman year is a topic of great importance in a student's life," he said. "Attitudes are shaped this year. And if we fail there, the rest of the student's college career is hopeless."
(See Report, page 4)
Band member files complaint
Reported harassment actions called ‘pure hell’
By Glen Justice
Staff Writer
A 23-year-old freshman band member said Thursday he filed a two-page grievance with student conduct on Aug. 23 against three band members over alleged harassment at the band's preseason camp.
Student conduct officials refused to confirm or deny Thursday whether the grievance had been received.
"The band is crazy if they don't think I'm going to press charges for hazing," said Jeff McIntosh, a freshman cymbal player who said he left the band camp early becuse of several incidents of hazing.
"The stuff going on up there is pure hell, and it's been going on for years," McIntosh said.
He has accused sophomore band member Mark
Malan of ordering him to run extra laps during practice. He also accused sophomore Craig Timmons of placing a derogatory sticker on his clothes during drills and later removing his pants in front of McIntosh and inviting him to perform sexual acts.
Assistant Band Director Tony Fox acknowledged that Malan and Timmons were involved with both the sticker and the running incidents, but denied that Timmons ever removed his clothes.
Fox said McIntosh is fabricating the hazing incident.
"The thing that really disgusts me about the whole thing is that Jeff is lying," Fox said. "He's got some real problems. He absolutely lied and fabricated the whole thing."
Fox said he saw Timmons attending a movie sponsored by the band's faculty leadership at the time McIntosh alleges the incident took place.
(See Band, page 13)
Local digs
Faculty can find new homes close to campus
By Elizabeth Anican
By Staff Writer
The newly completed faculty housing at Hoover and 30th streets will be available for occupancy on Oct. 1, said Patricia Smith, vice president of the USC Real Estate and Development Corporation.
This is the end of the first phase of the housing project, which began in October of last year and was built to meet the needs of faculty and staff commuters. It consists of 18 townhomes and 9 condominiums. The second phase of building begins in February or March of next year, Smith said.
Twelve units are still up for sale. Smith said REDC will advertise the remaining units in a newsletter scheduled to be distributed September 15.
The housing will be named McCulloch Town-
homes, after Irene McCulloch, a professor of marine biology at the university from 1924-1952. McCulloch owned part of the land the project now occupies and left her portion of it to the university in her will.
She died in 1987.
The units range from 1,000 to 2,000 square feet each and will cost between $140,000 and $285,000.
"The price equals the construction costs so there won't be a profit for anyone," Smith said.
The new structure is built above a 68-space underground parking structure.
Each unit is alloted two spaces and for every two units, there is one guest space, she said.
(See Housing, page 6)
Senator resigns to pledge sorority
By Bob Elston
Gty Editor
Sinne Mutsaers, a residence hall senator, resigned her position in the Student Senate on Thursday because of her decision to pledge a sorority this fall, a move that disqualifies her from representing the residence hall constituency.
The next highest vote-getter in last spring's senate election, Dave Ammons, a senior resident adviser at Webb Tower, will replace Mutsaers, a sophomore.
Sam Sheldon, senate vice president, said the change will not shake things up in the senate.
"Dave is a good addition," Sheldon said. "He is someone who gets involved and is reasonable."
He said that before the school year began, Mutsaers indicated that she was contemplating resignation. Sheldon said he warned Ammons two weeks ago that a seat might be vacated.
(See Senate, page 3)
Katharine Pun / Daily Trojan
Construction workers hammer away, working toward finishing the faculty housing project, at the corner of 30th and Hoover streets, in time for the expected Oct. 1 completion date.