Editors say UA blew ‘big game’
Sports, page 28
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Quake, rattle and roll with Big One
Feature, page 7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents...
Clay Walker
Alfred Hitchcock’s daughter, Patricia (left), and actress Joan Fontaine, who won an Academy Award for Hitchcock’s 1941 film, "Suspicion,” attend the Hitchcock Retrospective at Norris Theater on Sunday night. The event was in remembrance of Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma.
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Volume CX, Number 46	University	of	Southern	California
Wednesday, November 8,1989
Students gripe about library at Speakout
Officials hope new facilities will boost USC’s ranking
By Michael Utley
Staff Writer
In response to growing criticism of campus library facilities, university librarians said Tuesday that plans to improve the system — including the construction of a new teaching library — will make the university a leader in that area in less than five years.
"With the program we are now developing, I think USC will be recognized as a major research library in several areas within three to four years," said John Waib-linger, assistant librarian for academic information services, in this month's Student Senate-sponsored Speakout at King Hall.
Waibling specifically mentioned data base technology as one of those areas of development, adding, "We are already beginning to be recognized there."
The campus library system has been highly criticized by students and was recently dealt a blow by U.S. News and World Report when the university was not rated as one of its top 20 schools, largely because of shortcomings in library resources and other student-related services.
"When we need books, we wind up going to UCLA," said Maji Dahi, a graduate student in political science. "The library is not in a good state."
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Access system may go up next week
After two-month delay, security on-line date remains unconfirmed
By Andrew Vrees
Staff Writer
After a two-month delay, the university's new Access safety system may go online as soon as the middle of next week in La Sorbonne, Cardinal Gardens and Century apartments, the system's manager said Monday.
The rest of the system will probably not go on-line until the beginning of next se-
mester, said Terry Riley, manager of Access.
"I am still hoping for late January," Riley said. "We should have the whole system completed by then."
Activation of the system, which was originally scheduled to be on-line in some university housing by the beginning of September, has been delayed because of faulty equipment and untrained University Security personnel, he said.
The system was last scheduled to be up and running by the middle of October, but a lack of trained Security forces to monitor the system has pushed the activation date into November, Riley said.
Security supervisors are scheduled to complete their training on the system Wednesday, he said.
Following that, supervisors will train individual officers, and the entire Security staff should be ready by the middle of next week, Riley said.
Whatever the activation date turns out to be, it won't be soon enough for some students, whose concerns about security have been heightened by a recent string of burglaries and gang-related incidents in the area.
"I think there is no reason why it shouldn't have been done on time," said (See Access page 16)
In Brief____________________________ Black candidates come out ahead in New York, Virginia
Democrat David Dinkins won election Tuesday as New York City’s first black mayor, and L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia clung to a slender lead against Republican J. Marshall Coleman in his bid to become the nation’s first elected black governor.
In New York’s race, with 95 percent of the precincts counted, Dinkins had 51 percent of the vote and Republican Rudolph Giuliani had 48 percent.
Dinkins, the 62-year-old Manhattan borough president, ran as the man who could bring racial harmony to the nation’s largest city.
In Virginia, unofficial returns showed Wilder ahead by 7,000 votes with only two precincts untallied.
Wilder, the grandson of slaves, claimed, "The people of Virginia have spoken."
Countered Coleman: “The race is _ not yet over.’”
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Viewpoint........................... 4
Komix............................... 6
Security Roundup.................... 6
Feature............................. 7
Sports............................ 28
Unrestricted gift
Hydrocarbon institute gets $1 million
By Linda Ornelas
Staff Writer
The university's Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute has received a $1 million unrestricted gift from the Occidental Petroleum Corp.
The funds will be used to continue investigation of the reactions of hydrocarbons, the basis of transportation fuels and other synthetics, and to further explore the high-temperature reactions of methane, a household gas.
"The unrestricted gift means that we can do really challenging work without worrying about the outcome or speed of the results," said Sidney
Benson, a physical chemist and the emeritus scientific co-director of the institute.
"This is an important gift to the institute," said John Aldonis, executive director of the institute and chemistry professor, in a press release.
"The Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute at USC is the nation's foremost research institute dedicated solely to the study of hydrocarbon chemistry and related graduate-level education," said Armand Hammer, chairman and chief executive officer of Occidental Petroleum, in the release.
"The award is in keeping with Occi-
dental's long-standing commitment to higher education and research in a number of important areas, including energy," Hammer said.
The first part of the research will involve a study of the structure of water, Benson said, and the second part will be an examination of the chemistry of atmospheric free radicals.
"Most people do not realize water is a unique and unusual fluid. Unlike other fluids, you can cool it down to four degrees and it won't get frozen. The molecules of water also expand under pressure, instead of contracting (See Gift, page 16)