Trojans blow away Bruins
Sports, page 24
Will future bring classes by phone?
Viewpoint, page 5
Seattle’s own Posies bloom
Life / Arts, page 11
Edward Siegel / Dally Trojan
The Dharma Bums performed Saturday afternoon on a side stage in front of Bovard Administration Build-Building as part of the annual, day-long SpringFest celebration. For more coverage, see pages 7 and 11.
Volume CXIV, Number 59	University of Southern California	Monday, April 15,1991
Spring is in the air
New laws force dental school to clean up act
By Oscar C. Villalon
Staff Writer
The university's School of Dentistry has taken the first steps to improve health conditions on clinic floors in an effort to comply with California's new Medical Waste Management Act, school officials said Friday.
All waste coming from clinic floors where patients are treated has to be disposed in infectious waste bags, said Marilyn Meisenhimer, biological safety specialist at the Health Sciences Campus.
"By saying that all the trash on the clinic floor goes in the red (infectious waste) trash bags, this increases the amount of trash by three times," said Morris Preston, supervisor of the university's Physical Plant, which handles campus trash.
To accommodate the increase in infectious waste, the dental school purchased a hazardous material storage unit that was set up behind the school earlier this year, Meisenhimer said.
The school's new infectious waste policy may go beyond the regulations set up by the state laws that went
(See School, page 16)
Filmic writing students show strong support
By Jordana Bieze
Staff Writer
There were no floodlights. There was no camera. But unquestionably, there was action.
Elbow room was hard to come by Friday in the Hollywood Hills home of Douglas Day Stuart, who wrote the screenplay for An Officer and a Gentleman.
It was a meeting of the minds of some of the biggest success stories in cinematic writing, united in an effort to ensure the future success of others.
At issue was the life of the Filmic Writing Program, the latest program to have come under the university's budget-cutting ax.
Officials at the School of Cinema-Television were instructed to cut $1 million from the school's budget. Evidently, they decided the Filmic Writing Program would be the easiest to trim.
It was announced Thursday that the program's director would be dismissed in May and that the program would be incorporated with the school's production division.
Enraged students protested the decision after it was announced on (See Writers, page 18)
Chief Gates keeps his position
USC graduate suggests ‘unity of command’ caused beating
File photo
Chief Daryl Gates
By Brian McDonough
Staff Writer
Beleagured Los Angeles Police Chief and USC graduate Daryl Gates said Friday that fear of breaking "unity of command" may have prevented Officers from stepping in as several of their fellows pummelled Rodney King in a nationally televised incident. A new policy on such incidents may be released this week, he said.
Maintaining that the King beating was an aberration, Gates theorized that the
officers who stood by during the incident, several of whom were rookies, may have been afraid to break ranks and challenge their superiors.
"We will probably come out (within a week) with a policy that will deal specifically with that issue," he said. "It may be that we've gone too far in stressing that unity of command."
In an interview with the Daily Trojan, Gates also criticized the campaign to oust him as politically motivated, discussed
(See Gates, page 8)
Honor society inducts dean, students
By Liz Washburn
Staff Writer
Town and Gown was filled with proud
day
close to 100 students and the dean of the
families and faculty members Friday as
College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Gerald Segal, were initiated into the nation's oldest and most prestigious academic honors society.
The students initiated into Phi Beta Kappa are juniors and seniors who have excelled in a majority of liberal arts courses, said Joan Schaefer, dean of women and secretary of Phi Beta Kappa.
Howard Rowe, a new initiate and a senior majoring in psychobiology, was the student speaker at the event. He has been the Trustee Scholar's president and
a semi-finalist in the Rhodes Scholar competition.
Rowe's speech, entitled "What's on Top?" urged students to challenge themselves.
"Scum floats to the top of a pond," he said. "The challenge is to take action that will keep the scum off the top."
Phi Beta Kappa, established in 1776 at William and Mary College in Virginia, continues to "hold aloft the banner of scholarship," said Carolyn DeWald, vice president of Phi Beta Kappa and a classics professor.
Segal became an honorary member of the fraternity for his "fruitful contribution to learning," said George Hayden, pro-
(See Honor, page 7)
Jeff Wachner / Dally Trojan
Gerald Segal (left) and Howard Rowe