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Tennis team wins thriller
Sports, page 20
GREs don’t reflect students’ abilities
Viewpoint, page 4
East’s art of acupuncture
Life / Arts, page 7
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Volume CXIV, Number 46
University of Southern California
Tuesday, March 19, 1991
Dressing to kill
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Joseph Tanimura, a first-year law student, concentrates on putting the finishing touches on his culinary masterpiece, helping himself to dressing at The Grill’s self-service salad bar station.
USC students lobby on floor of U.S. Senate
By Oscar C. Villalon
Staff Writer
More than 800 college students — including two from USC — attended a meeting of the U.S. Senate on Monday to address Congress on their concerns about financial aid legislation.
The trip was sponsored by the U.S. Student Association, a lobbying group in Washington, D.C.
"Some things will be attainable, some things won't," said Student Senate Vice President Sam Sheldon, who attended the three-day conference.
The students met with legislative aides to California Sens. Alan Cranston and John Seymour and the staff members of
six U.S. representatives, Sheldon said.
The students brought several proposals concerning the reform of financial aid procedures to the House Education and Labor Committee and the Senate Labor and Human Resource Committee during the meeting.
A student from Arizona State University was chosen to speak to the congressmen and represent the students.
The main proposal pushed by the students was restoration of the balance of grants and loans a student receives to 1975 levels.
Both committees promised to take the proposal to sub-committees and create a bill from it.
After the subcommittees agree on a bill, the whole con-(See Senate, page 15)
Officials say teaching is main determinate for tenure decisions
By Roy Chung and Oscar Villalon
Staff Writers
Universities across the country are rethinking their policies toward education in light of Stanford University's recent statement that too much emphasis on scholarly research hurts classroom teaching.
But administrators said the university's emphasis on teaching and undergraduate studies places it well ahead of other schools in the quest to make teaching a high priority.
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"We've been there already," said Sylvia Manning, executive vice provost. "In the last 20 years, the university has made giant strides in that direction."
One reason for this is the work of the university president's Commission on Undergraduate Education.
General education was dramatically restructured at the university in the late 1970s and stood virtually untouched for almost a decade. In 1988, the commission was formed to study all aspects of the undergraduate experience.
The commission published a 32-page report in September 1990 that made a number of recommendations to improve the university as an academic institution
Among other things, the report indicated that teaching was often outweighed by research in decisions regarding faculty tenure and promotion.
"It is the widespread opinion of faculty members that research is weighed more heavily than teaching in evaluations, and that appointment, promotion, reten-
(See Education, page 3)
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Standards of society provoke epidemic of student eating disorders
By Susan Graham
Staff Writer
Along with the many pressures inherent in a university atmosphere — grades, friends, relationships and living away from home for the first time — many women, and some men, suffer from eating disorders.
The Chi Omega Sorority sponsored a seminar Monday evening with diet therapist Dr. Judi Hollis, founder of The HOPE Program in Los Angeles and a university alumna, about such disorders and how they are fostered in our culture.
Society tells us that if we want to be pretty and accepted, we should be thin, Hollis said. One of the ways she gets her point across is by showing slides of well-known actresses and models.
"If you look at Farrah Fawcett from a side view, she looks like an Auschwitz survivor*" Hollis said. "In the 1940s, people were appalled that one person would do that to another person. In the 1990s, we applaud women who do this to themselves."
Many Chi Omega members were interested in hearing what Hollis had to say.
"We realized that eating disorders are a definite problem within our sorority house and we wanted to help," said seminar organizer Jennifer Bolton, personnel chairman for Chi Omega. "We have identified and confronted at least two of them."
Seminar attendance was mandatory for all sorority members, Bolton said.
(See Hollis, page 6)
Professor noted for astronautics
Goddard award given in recognition of 40 years of research in engineering
By Oscar C. Villalon
Staff Writer
Eberhardt Rechtin was in his 30s and working at the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the late 1950s when a group of Nobel laureates told him he had no idea what he was doing.
"At thirtysomething, you don't worry about that," Rechtin said.
So Rechtin went ahead anyway and developed a communication system for the Apollo moon missions that reached the edge of the solar system.
On May 2,1991, Rechtin, a university professor of systems engineering, will receive the Goddard
Astronautics Award at Arlington, Va., in recognition for more than 40 years of work that has changed engineering for the better.
What Rechtin has brought to engineering, more than anything else, is an "architectualized" way of creating.
Just as an architect works with structures in the form of buildings, engineers can use the same basics of architecture to create whatever structures they are asked to, Rechtin said.
The engineer must conceptualize a structure, whether it is an automobile or, as the case often was for Rechtin, systems of communication, (See Award, page 15)
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Eberhardt Rechtin