USC blocks past CSUN
Sports, page 20
Accords of war justify violence
Viewpoint, page 4
A ‘Wilder’ SC weekend
Life / Arts, page 7
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Volume CXIV, Number 33
University of Southern California
Thursday, February 28, 1991
A drop in the bucket
Blanca Brown / Dally Trojan
Though Wednesday’s downpour was welcomed, it did little to quench the drought that is threatening to be California’s worst this century. Angelenos are bracing for Friday’s 10-percent usage cut.
Politics pays well for some Senate officers
By William Merone
Staff Writer
As students turn out to elect a new Student Senate this week, many may be unaware that some of the successful candidates will move into salaried positions that total $79,800 — money jointly supplied by the semsterly student activity fee and the budget of the Office of Student Activities.
For 1990-91, at least $39,900 in student activity fees was paid directly to Senate officials in the form of salaries. But Senate Treasurer Rajesh Srinivasan said that amount represents only half of total
Senate salaries. The Office of Student Activities matches these funds, providing a total of $79,800 to be distributed.
Six officers in the current Student Senate are salaried. They include Senate President Steve Webber, Vice President Sam Sheldon, Graduate Speaker Suzy Jacobs, Undergraduate Speaker Marc Crosby, Graduate Elections and Recruitment Chairwoman Erika Endrijonas and Academic Affairs Chairman Michael Williams.
Individual senators them-selves are not p> a id, i^nless. . „ They take on additional re-(See Salaries, page 12)
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Students caught in soft job market
Some companies cut campus recruiting due to slow economy
By Alexandra Matisoff
Staff Writer
Job prospects for college graduates this year are looking grim, according to officials in the university's Career Development Center who say it was difficult to get some companies to attend the biannual Career Day on campus.
Possibly reacting to a slow economy, some companies canceled their participa-
tion in the career fairs this year, said Jerry Howser, director of the Career Center.
The companies pulled out of this year's career fairs with a "wait-and-see attitude" about job recruitment, Howser said.
Strong companies and firms have canceled, and some of the larger, more well-known firms say they are hiring fewer student recruits than in the past, Howser said.
"Some companies have said they are looking for one or two new employees this year, as opposed to larger numbers in the past," he said.
The Career Center dedicated a great
deal of energy this year to recruiting companies to participate in their career fairs, Howser said.
"We made a lot of phone calls and did a lot of letter writing to alumni and parents," he said. "We've tried to broaden our base of contact."
Howser recommends students attempt to establish a base of personal and professional contacts to help in their job searches after graduation.
"The best source of job opportunities is a network," Howser said.
Howser admitted the job market is tightening up, and job offers through
(See Jobs, page 13)
Steamrolling the competition
Slate candidates ‘roll over’ independent office-seekers
By Oscar C. Villalon
Staff Writer
As the multi-member "Ideal Twelve" and "A-Ticket" slates dominate campaigning during Student Senate election week, independent candidates are being knocked aside by politics they say are destructive to the university.
"It's impossible," said Mitesh Gala, a candidate for student community senator. "They roll over the independents. They're not healthy for campus politics."
Gala said he has pooled his resources with Oscar Carrasco, a commuter senator candidate, to form a "loose coalition" to help each other in their campaigning. But the two are not running as a slate, Gala said.
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This Is the last of a three-part series examining slate politics and this year’s Student Senate elections.
The difficulty facing the independents is that large slates such as the "Ideal Twelve" — Senate Vice President Sam Sheldon's 12-member group
—	have many times the manpower and funds to successfully out-cam-paign the independents.
Senate adviser Dennis Flemming,
the university's Student Activities consultant, said he recognizes the potential danger of slate politics, but said that threat is not applicable in every case.
"If students combine for a detrimental cause, such as trying to push other candidates out of the Senate, then it's not a good idea," Fleming said. "But if they are doing it for a good cause, if they are forming a group of people who think alike — if that's what they're doing, it's fine."
But Sheldon has a different, perhaps more practical, way of looking at allied politics.
"The bottom line is that in any election, you come up with the best strategy to win," Sheldon said. "I've always (See Slates, page li)
Bush claims Iraqi defeat, freed Kuwait
America's top armored divisions dealt heavy blows to Iraq's badly mauled army Wednesday just hours before America's desert war cease-fire was announced by President Bush, The Associated Press reported.
U.S. warplanes were still roaring into the air on missions. Reports from the field spoke of tank battles raging on the outskirts of Basra, while far to the northwest, troopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division stood less than 100 miles from Baghdad in the deepest penetration yet of Iraq.
"Kuwait is liberated. Iraq's army is defeated," said Bush. U.S. and Allied troops were suspending their attacks at midnight EST Wednesday, he said. A permanent cease-fire would take hold once Iraq ends all hostilities, re leases POWs and foreign captives and meets other conditions.
"This war is now behind us," Bush said. "Ahead of us is the task of achieving a potentially historic peace" in the Middle East, he said.
Meanwhile on campus, journalism (See War, page 13)