USC spikes past UCLA
Sports, page 16
Environmental action needed
Viewpoint, page 4
The Terror of ‘Silence’
Life / Arts, page 8
London Bridge is falling down
Kevin Kraft, a junior majoring In drama, was at the center of antics performed by the improvisational comedy troupe Comedus Interruptus.
Two American airmen died Thursday when their EF-111A "Raven" jet crashed in northern Saudi Arabia following a mission over Iraq, The Associated Press reported.
There have been 11 confirmed deaths of U.S. airmen in Operation Desert Storm.
Meanwhile, the debate continued over Wednesday's bombing of a building in Baghdad that Iraq said was a civilian air raid shelter. Iraq reported that hundreds of civilians died in the bombing.
But Pentagon and White House officials continued to insist that the building was a military command center. Iran has condemned the bombing and offered to treat Iraqi casualties in Iranian hospitals.
Dave Wells, a graduate student and member of the group Get U.S. Troops Out (GUSTO) said of the bombing, "My opinion is simply that the military made a mistake and they are trying to cover it up now."
Wells said Wednesday's bombing may mark the beginning of a growth in the anti-war movement.
The New York Times reported Thursday that the National Campaign for (See War, page 13,
Volume CXIV, Number 26	University of Southern California	Friday, February 15,1991
Taylor asks to defend himself in rape trial
By Brian McDonough
Staff Writer
Accused rapist Willie Damone Taylor asked Thursday to defend himself in court on charges of sexually assaulting four women, including three university students.
At the outset of his pretrial hearing, Taylor originally had requested a Marsden hearing, which is a request to replace a court-appointed attorney. When that request was denied, he asked to serve as his own attorney.
Taylor, 28, was convicted of rape in 1986 and was on parole when he was arrested in connection with the university incidents.
He is charged with the rape and robbery of three university students in two seperate incidents last September. The students were attacked in their apartments.
Taylor is also charged with the sexual assault of a West Covina woman.
A conviction on all counts would carry a maximum penalty of more than 120 years.
Taylor told the court he was dissatisfied with the representation of his attorney, Robert Doddy.
"(I feel) my attorney has been working against my interests," Taylor said.
He complained that Doddy has not spent enough time with him, has not made motions to examine the prosecution's evidence nor has he arranged interviews for Taylor with prosecution witnesses.
The only witnesses who have testified in the trial so far are the four victims.
Doddy refused to comment on Taylor's request to interview witnesses, citing attomey-
(See Taylor, page 6)
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Casualties up, support down after bombing
SCRRAPing waste
New Row program to encourage recycling
By Liz Washburn	ger, and has set up a recycling effort on
Staff Writer	the set of "Cheers," DeMuro said.
The new letters circulating on the Row	Christa Karvasek, a member of the
are RRR: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle —	UCLA Panhellenic executive council,
with the help of SCRRAP (SC Row Recy-	which is sponsoring the event along with
cling Awareness Program).	the UCLA Inter-Fraternity Council, said
SCRRAP, along with a national organi-	all 14 sororities and 28 fraternities will be
zation called ECO (Earth Communica-	participating.
tions Office) is sponsoring a Greek	"We want to enlighten people about recycling challenge with cross-town rival	how easy it is to recycle," Karvasek said. UCLA, said Mike DeMuro, co-founder of	At USC, SCRRAP has set up ten-gallon SCRRAP.	bins for aluminum cans in all of the fra-The event will kick off on Feb. 20 at	temity and sorority houses. During the Tommy Trojan with Pirate Radio and a	competition, the bins will be emptied ev-scheduled appearance by "Cheers" star	ery Wednesday and the cans weighed by Woody Harrelson. The competition will	the Los Angeles Conservation Corps, Derun for three weeks, DeMuro said.	Muro said.
"The Greeks have been very support-	The Los Angeles Conservation Corps is
ive and receptive, but we still want to	a non-profit organization. The money
pursue a higher level of involvement," he	from recycling will go to cover the cost of
said.	collecting and providing the bins, said
ECO, which works with the media to	Conrad Cadoma, LACC regional coordi-
promote environmental awareness, con-	nator.
tacted both USC and UCLA with the	Cadoma said the money also is used
idea, DeMuro said.	for their "Clean and Green" program that
ECO also has worked with stars such	hires junior high students to help beauti-as Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzeneg- fy different areas of the city.
University may add diversity requirement
Proposal requests study of differences
By Alexandra Matisoff
Staff Writer
The university may add a course requirement to the undergraduate general education curriculum focusing on issues of "human diversity," university officials said.
The proposal calls for one course covering such issues as race, religion, ethnic origins, gender and language.
"Each candidate for a bachelor's degree must pass one course in which a substantial portion of the course content addresses in an explicit and self-conscious manner the dimensions and consequences of human differences with respect to race, ethnicity, class, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age and / or disability as they lead to intolerance and inequality in the Unit-
ed States today," read the preliminary wording of the Committee for Undergraduate Education proposal.
The proposal to the committee cites at least 30 existing general education classes that could possibly meet the requirement.
Richard Eastin, professor of finance and business economics and chair of the Undergraduate Studies Committee, said a proposal was received from the CUE on the new requirement at its Feb. 4 meeting, but will not have enough time to address it until their next meeting in March.
Eastin said he "presumes the committee will move to approve the re-uirement," but that the committee oes not set policy. The decision will be passed on to the hands of the University Provost, he said.
If the university adopts such a requirement, it would be following Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, the University of (See Diversity, page 2)