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Volume CXIII, Number 53
University of Southern California
Monday, November 19,1990
A Sharper Focus
Trojan pride means more than just the writing on a T-shirt
By Jordana Bieze
Staff Writer
The T-shirt is a wonderful vehicle for free speech.
It provides answers to all those questions that bum in the hearts and minds of uninformed Trojan football fans.
•	Just whose side is Saddam Hussein on, really?
•	Do real men play with teddy bears?
•	Given that Cal sucks, how could UCLA possibly do any worse?
The answers to these questions will not be found on shirts sold in the university bookstore. But anyone in the cardinal-and-gold cheering sections Saturday at the Rose Bowl definitely got an eyeful.
Not only are these shirts informative as to the character of the average Bruin, they also help distinguish USC students from the rest of the Trojan faithful — alumni, relatives and random folks who just don't like baby blue.
Nowhere was this more evident on Saturday than in Section 26, where you could have easily drawn a line separating the students from the rest of the crowd.
On one side, alumni and friends in Rose Bowl sweatshirts and other legitimate merchandise sat calmly through first downs, questionable calls and SoCal Spellouts. Only a Trojan touchdown could inspire them to stand up and wave their pompons.
On the other side, the T-shirt wearers stood for most of the game, screaming at the Trojan players to put points on the board, screaming at the Bruins to get a life, screaming at the rest of the section to stand up and show some spirit.
Disrupting the then-and-now dichotomy of Trojan pride was a white-haired, young-grandmotherish lady in a 1985 Rose Bowl sweatshirt who stood in the middle of Section 26 with her daughter and grandson.
She knew the words to the fight song. She counted push-ups as the Yell Leaders sweated them out. She belted out as loud a SoCal Spellout as any of the students to her right. As far as spirit goes, she could almost have passed for a student herself.
Then came that nasty business with the cowbell.
Somehow, the Trojan alumni had allowed a Bruin to infiltrate their half of Section 26.
This woman, whose blue-and-yel-iow sweatshirt was covered from collar to cuff with Bruin buttons, rose from the sea of cardinal and gold after every UCLA touchdown waving a blue pompon and a cowbell and screeching to wake the dead.
The T-shirt wearers in Section 26 were incensed. How could the alumni have stood for this? One shudders to think where that woman's cowbell would have ended up had she been in the student half of the section.
(See Game, page 6)
Brutal bruin bashing
Edward Slagal / Dally Trojan
The Trojans continued their four years of domination over the UCLA Bruins Saturday at the Rose Bowl, beating their cross-town rivals, 45-42. A touchdown pass in the final seconds put USC over the top. See Sports, page 16.
USCInfo
switch
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research
By Annette Chadney
Staff Writer
"Innumerable bugs" in the recent switch of the USCInfo system to Macintosh computers have required hours of work from library officials attempting to straighten out the system to ensure that students will not experience problems when they use the computers for research.
The USCInfo system, composed of the computerized library catalog and 14 periodical databases, was transferred to new Macintosh computers on Oct. 1, said John Waiblinger, assistant librarian.
But library officials said the transfer has been less than trouble-free.
Complaints include the "sluggish" speed of the new system and information that is not communicated correctly from the mainframe to the Macintosh computers, which makes the printed words illegible.
Part of the reason for the switch is that Macintosh computers are capable of housing the Ethernet fiber-optic physical line.
(See Library, page 3)
Minorities given ‘window to success’
Plah to help area youth attend the university
By Anjanette Schouwe
Staff Writer
The university is implementing a program designed to attract minority students from the university's back yard, officials said.
The Neighborhood Academic Initiative aims to increase minority representation on campus, said James Fleming, NAI director.
The six-year program, slated to begin
this summer, will bring 50 junior high school students to campus for preparatory classes throughout their junior high and high school careers. If students complete the six years, they would be offered full financial assistance to attend the university.
"We are trying to create a pipeline through which Latinos, African-Ameri-cans and native-Americans move from junior high schools to high schools and then on to universities," Fleming said.
NAI, coordinated by the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles Unified School District, will be
implemented first for students at Adams Junior High School and Foshey Junior High School, he said.
The projected cost of the on-going program is $100,000, said Barbara Solomon, dean of graduate studies.
Edgar Morrison, principal at John Adams Junior High School, said the program is an incentive for students there to work toward a college education.
With parental approval, students from Adams and Foshey Junor High schools will be selected by teachers and administrators to participate in the program.
(See Initiative, page 6)
Quake renovations to start on Bovard
By Gloria Lau
Staff Writer
University officials said Friday they plan tp begin renovating the interior of the Bovard Administration Building during the first week of December to bring the building up to earthquake safety code standards.
The project is expected to cost about $12.1jnillion, including permits and fees, said Robert Hascall, associate vice president of planning and management for architectural services.
Use of external funding is not planned for this project. The funding will come from the university's budget, said Ann Patterson, senior staff associate for bud-
get and planning.
City building codes state that all buildings in the greater Los Angeles constructed before Oct. 6,1933 that are made of non-reinforced brick must be strengthened or demolished. Bovard was constructed in 1921 for $587,000.
In compliance with the dty regulation, several offices in the north wing have already been emptied of administrators and staff, and are ready for renovation, Hascall said.
The rest of the offices will be moved out of Bovard by mid-December for the duration of the remodeling, said Rick Jones, construction administrator.
Bovard's north wing will be remodeled
first, so administrators and staff with offices there have already been moved to the south wing, where they will remain until construction on the south end begins, Hascall said.
The project is a two-step endeavor, said Bill Regensberger, emergency planning coordinator. The south end of Bovard will be renovated one week after the north end is completed.
Bovard is one of the university's oldest buildings, and architects plan to avoid altering its exterior by reinforcing its outside walls from the inside of the building.
To accomplish this, some walls that are not currently reinforced will have the ma-(See Bovard, page 6)