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Volume CX, Number 37
University of Southern California
Thursday, October 26, 1989
In Brief
Reagan urges Japan to promote freedom in Eastern Europe
TOKYO — Former President Ronald Reagan urged Japan on Wednesday to leave a great legacy of its “golden age” to history by helping Poland and other communist countries achieve freedom and democracy.
“This is a golden age for Japan,” Reagan told some 600 people attending a banquet in his honor. "A genuine golden age provides the world with a distinctive idea, a philosophy, a cause, a greater good.”
Reagan called on Japan to join the United States in promoting freedom and democracy, particularly in communist countries in Eastern Europe that are moving toward democracy.
Nation: Friedan fights for senior citizens’ rights
BALTIMORE — Betty Friedan, a founder of the women’s movement, said she has changed her focus to fight for the rights of the elderly.
Friedan, 68, author of “The Feminine Mystique,” which often is credited with giving birth to the women's movement, was in Baltimore on Tuesday to address a conference on health-care priorities for the aging.
"We will redefine the values of society, and it will be a great change from this era of yuppies, when values are defined by youth.” Friedan, a professor at the university, is working on a new book about growing older, “The Fountain of Age.”
Local: Students receive diplomas 47 years late
In a long-awaited graduation ceremony, 15 Japanese-Americans who attended Los Angeles High School during the outbreak of World War II will receive diplomas they earned 47 years ago.
The students, who will receive their sheepskins Saturday, never got their diplomas because anti-Japanese sentiment in the spring of 1942 sparked the mass detention of Japanese-Americans to internment camps.
Eleven of the 14 students still living will receive diplomas; one diploma will be awarded posthumously.
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Index
Viewpoint			 4
Komlx			 6
Security Roundup			 6
Arts & Entertainment			 9
Sports			 24
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Recent crimes cause mixed student views
Gang shooting, campus pursuit raise questions
By Jack Isselmann
Staff Writer
The fatal shooting of a gang member near the Row and the pursuit of an alleged car thief through the halls of Von KleinSmid Center have prompted students to take a closer look at University Security and the protection of their safety.
Many students agreed that these crimes have little to do with the locale of the university.
"All of this stuff could have happened anywhere else," said Angie McGriffin, a sophomore majoring in business, who lives in Sierra Apartments. "It has nothing to do with the school. It's not like they're to blame. Crime is everywhere."
Security reiterated this sentiment and added that for a large university in the center of a metropolitan area, very little crime takes place.
"Both of these crimes could have happened anywhere. I live in Glendale and we just had our first drive-by (shooting) up there," said Lt. David Ritch of Security. "Even though we're in South-Central L.A., crime around USC has been pretty conservative."
Other students said that they were not fazed by increasing crime and that they employ common sense while living at the university.
"It doesn't worry me," said Dahlia Suriaatmaja, a senior majoring in chemical engineering. "I use wisdom when I walk, and other students should do the same."
While many students had disdain for the crimes, some harbored compassion for the criminals.
(See Crime, page 6)
Students don’t get credit where it’s due
High school dropouts succeed in honors program at university
By Gail Pagala
Staff Writer
Lesley Young and Brian Teifer are sophomores at the university, but neither has a high school diploma.
Young and Teifer were part of the Resident Honors Program, which invites the top 3 percent of high school juniors in the
nation to enter college early, crediting their freshman college courses toward their high school diplomas.
But when Young and Teifer went back to their high schools in San Diego to get their diplomas, school officials told them that they could not graduate because they were short of credits.
"In the Los Angeles school district, they give students their diplomas if they go to college their senior year," Young said. "The San Diego school district just wouldn't give me my diploma."
Students who choose to go into the
program, however, are not guaranteed a diploma, said a San Diego Unified School District spokesperson.
The district may be attempting to discourage students from leaving high school a year early, Young said.
"This type of thing hasn't happened very many times — maybe it was the third or fourth time in my high school," she said.
For Young, who had carried a straight-A average and two advanced placement classes in high school, it was a major dis-(See Diplomas, page 15)
Housing
Lack of interest may nix Latino floor at Fluor Tower
By Manuel De La Rosa
Staff Writer
The floor of Fluor Tower designed to give Latino students the option of living together may be eliminated from spedal-interest housing because of a lack of student interest, said the assistant director of Residential and Greek Life.
"It has always been a challenge trying to recruit students for the floors," Kim West said. "The number of incoming (Latino) students are low, and they have have decreased each year.
This Is the first of a two-part series on Latino special-interest floors In university housing
"One of the factors with the Latino Floors is, what is the need of the Latino student? It's not based on a value statement," West said. Rather, it is based on the number of interested students, she said.
The Latino Floors were created in 1973 when El Centro Chicano, a re-
source center for Latino students, approached the administration with a plan for a floor for Latino students.
Housing officials decided to have two floors with 66 students, but only 80 percent of the residents would be Latino.
A decline in student interest led housing officials to reduce the number of floors last year to one, with only 33 spaces.
"We went to one floor because not enough students were requesting the (See Latinos, page 16)