Don Henley, Edie Brickell on stage
A & E, page 7
Trojans gone to the Palouse
Sports, page 20
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Volume CX, Number 19
University of Southern California
Friday, September 29, 1989
in Brief
Marcos dies; lung and kidney failure contribute to death
HONOLULU — Ferdinand Marcos succumbed to cardiac arrest Thursday, but even in death he remained an unwanted exile, his remains barred from U.S. airspace, his political legacy still stirring passions in his Philippine homeland.
Marcos, who ruled the Philippines for more than 20 years before being ousted in February 1986, died Thursday. He was 72.
Doctors said kidney and lung failure and a widespread infection contributed to the cardiac arrest listed as the cause of death.
The combative politician died without facing trial on U.S. criminal charges, which alleged that he plundered the Philippine treasury.
While Marcos spent nearly 10 months in the hospital, his family begged Philippine President Corazon Aquino to let him come home to die, but she refused.
State: Refusing test costs Senator his driver’s license
SACRAMENTO — State Sen. Art Torres will lose his driver’s license Oct. 10 because he refused to be tested for alcohol when police officers stopped his car in downtown Sacramento, the Department of Motor Vehicles reported Thursday.
The incident marked Torres’ second drunk driving arrest in Sacramento County.
Torres, 42, was arrested Sept. 6 when a Sacramento police officer pulled him over for driving without lights. According to the officer,
Torres refused to submit to chemical tests to determine his blood alcohol level.
Nation: New AIDS drug to be available to victims
WASHINGTON — A promising new anti-AIDS drug still in the early , stages of testing will be made widely available while safety and effectiveness trials continue, the government announced Thursday.
The plan for expanded distribution of dideoxyinosine, or DDI, marks the first time an unapproved, experimental AIDS drug will become so widely available so early in testing.
From the Associated Press
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Reggae Sounds
Brendan O'Brien / Dally Trojan
Queen Ekanem, a reggae band, performs as part of Thursday's free Caribbean barbeque and reggae party sponsored by the USC Performing Arts Program Board and Sugar Shack restaurant.
Top-paid list doesn’t reflect actual salaries
Lump payments inflate salaries of former deans
By Julie Chen
Staff Writer
One-time retirement payments were included in salary figures for two former officials listed among the university's highest-paid employees for the 1987-88 fiscal year, according to a Sept. 13 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The university's Federal Tax Form 990 listed a salary of $446,277 for Jack Steele, former dean of the School of Business, according to the Chronicle.
A one-time retirement payment was also included in that year's listing of a $204,877 salary for Joseph Merante, who was then dean of Admissions, Financial Aid, Registration and Records.
Merante resigned from the university in April 1988, after a tough year that included recruiting failures and a $9.4 million overdraft in financial aid. He is presently the provost at the U.S. International University in San Diego.
Merante could not be reached for comment.
Steele's regular annual salary would not have been listed as one of the top five on the 990 form, had he not received the lump sum, said Jack Borst-ing, present dean of the business school.
The average salary of a business school dean in the fiscal year 1988-89 ranged from $52,000 to $175,000, according to a survey conducted by the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business.
Of 1,200 business schools in the United States, several hundred took part in the survey.
(See Salaries, page 2)
University is in search of Best Buddies
Student volunteers will spend social time with retarded youth
By James Merante
Staff Writer
Twenty-five university students will become "Best Buddies" with mentally handicapped students at Lanterman High School as part of a volunteer program the university is adopting.
"The mentally retarded don't have social outlets," said Anthony Shriver, the
program's founder, who was on campus Wednesday night recruiting buddies. "They have to be given a chance. What Best Buddies does is give them social outlets. The value of friends is what this is all about."
Best Buddies pairs university student volunteers with mentally retarded students for social outings. Each pair of buddies goes on two outings a month and two group outings each semester.
"We want to bring more people in touch with handicapped kids," Shriver said. "College students are a good group to work with. We want to bring college
students and mentally retarded people together with enthusiasm."
Shriver said he started the Best Buddies program at Georgetown University in 1987 because he realized that college students are an excellent resource for volunteers.
"There's a lot of opportunity for people who want to get involved," said Clay Tatum, a senior majoring in history and the organizer of the university's Best Buddies chapter.
"The reward for working with these people is higher than it is in other philan-(See Buddies, page 6)
So Cal sellout
University cashes in on trademark souvenirs, novelties
By Michael Utley
Staff Writer
On the bottom floor of the University Bookstore, eager shoppers can weave through a maze of everything from oversized USC sweatshirts to football-helmet snack bowls to Trojan toilet-seat covers.
Game fanatics can even pick up the latest edition of "U.S.C.OPOLY," a spoof of the "Monopoly" board game,
with university locations substituted for the originals.
The marketing of college souvenirs has become a billion-dollar business nationwide, and USC was one of the first to realize its money-making potential.
In order for these novelty products to reach consumers, each of them has to receive the university's permission to use the USC trademark. If a p oduct
passes inspection and makes it to the marketplace, the university receives a 7.5 percent royalty on the wholesale price — which translates into a $300,000 yearly profit, said Elizabeth Kennedy, university trademark licensing manager.
"But the name of the game is not money," she said. "It's quality control. It's an effort to keep USC's name (See Products, page 2)