Hoopsters look to fly the skies
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Campus pastime: viewing TV at USC
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Volume CX, Number 62
University of Southern California
Wednesday, December 6, 1989
In Brief
Workshop to help foreign students obtain green cards
Following an executive order by President George Bush allowing Chinese students with J-visas to apply for green cards without first returning to China for two years, an immigration attorney will conduct an informational workshop today for all international students.
Bush’s decision “doesn’t mean all Chinese students can go apply for a green card,” said Nadadur Kumar, who will lead the workshop at noon in Room 100 at Von KleinSmid Center.
The purpose of the seminar is to let students know what the requirements are and to aid the students in obtaining the green cards, Kumar said.
Bush’s order implements the same changes outlined in a congressional bill that he vetoed last week.
Nation: Jury to decide if racism caused shooting
MIAMI — Jurors in the trial of the policeman whose shooting of a black motorcyclist sparked three days of rioting must now decide if the officer fired coldly and deliberately or in self-defense, attorneys said in final arguments Tuesday.
The manslaughter trial of officer William Lozano, 31, was expected to go to the jury late Tuesday after almost seven weeks of jury selection and testimony closely followed by an entire city.
The shooting resulted in three days of fires, looting and violence. Police bought new anti-riot equipment and put all officers on notice in case the verdict touches off renewed racial violence.
Twice before in this decade, riots broke out when white officers were acquitted in the slayings of blacks.
World: Exodus feared from drought in Ethiopia
KHARTOUM, Sudan — A feared exodus of people threatened by new drought and famine in Ethiopia has begun, with an estimated 15,000 refugees already in Sudan, a Sudanese official said.
Abdel-Rahman Sirr-el-Khatm, Sudan’s commissioner for refugees, told a government newspaper that Sudan already must cope with more than 2 million refugees, mostly from Ethiopia, Chad and Uganda.
From the Associated Press
Index
Viewpoint			 4
Komix			 6
Security Roundup			 6
Feature			 9
Sports			 28
Students compete for Rhodes
Regional interviews for prestigious award to be held on campus
By Robin Hardie
Staff Writer
Five USC students will continue their quests for the Rhodes Scholarship today, but the university itself has already been honored by the selection committee's de-
cision to conduct regional interviews here for the first time.
Five USC students, three from California and two from Nevada, will be interviewed today in the state level of competition for a chance to study at Oxford University in England for up to three years.
"It's a wonderful educational and international experience," said Bryce Nelson, a journalism professor and former Rhodes Scholar who coordinates all uni-
Oh, Christmas Tree
Kris Chun / Daily Trojan
Cliff Minkoff, a sophomore pre-business major, stands outside the Sigma Nu house Tuesday, holding one of the many Christmas trees for sale. The trees are on sale 24 hours a day. ■ See related story, page 3.
versity applicants for the scholarship.
A pared-down pool of 14 applicants from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California and Hawaii will be interviewed Saturday in a regional competition.
Applications for the awards state that "proven intellectual and academic achievement of a high standard is the first quality required of applicants, but they will also be required to show integri-(See Rhodes, page 7)
Two students caught with stolen permits
By Andrew Vrees
Staff Writer
After they were caught with two of the 280 parking permits reported stolen this semester, two university students were booked Tuesday afternoon for knowingly receiving stolen property, University Security said.
Rene Hernandez, 21, a junior majoring in political science, and Paul Chong, 19, an undeclared sophomore, were picked up and taken to the Los Angeles Police Department's Southwest division, where they were being held Tuesday night on $1,500.bail, police said.
Police and Security officers started investigating the case in mid-September after a student reported a stolen permit, said Detective Al Kirstine of the Southwest division.
In November, George King, a university student, was detained by Security and taken to Southwest division for questioning, said Detective Bill Pavelic of the Southwest division.
King implicated Hernandez and himself by purchasing the $135 permit, Pavelic said.
"King denied knowledge that the item was stolen," he said. "And he implicated Hernandez in having the connections of getting the permit."
King was released after questioning and the investigation was continued, Pavelic said.
Though King helped police, ".the agreement to avoid prosecution is only made through the district attorney and the judge," Kirstine said.
"We set up a conversation with Hernandez, 'a mini-sting/and Hernandez said he could get us a pass," he said.
(See Permits, page 7)
Greeks respond to alcohol policy
By Alaine Messina
Staff Writer
In response to the new alcohol policy on the Row that took effect in September, Greek members countered rumors of apathy by implementing programs to make members more aware of the problems of alcohol abuse.
To outsiders such as John Stephens, an undeclared sophomore, it may seem as though Greek functions have gone untouched by restrictions on the use of house funds for alcohol.
Attitudes changing toward drinking, members say
"From what I have seen," said Stephens, who often attends parties on the Row, "the policy hasn't had any effect.
"It might have scared them the first month, but now it seems as if it was a wasted breath. It is just another policy to make things look good," he said.
Greek members have another story.
For some houses, a variety of programs, seminars and new rules were created in an effort to educate sorority and fraternity members about the problems with alcohol.
"I think it has made people stop and think a little more about abusing alcohol," said
Shawn Needelman, a junior majoring in education and former social chairman of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
Kerri Bay, a senior majoring in business and social chairman of the Delta Delta Delta sorority, said, "I think the policy has definitely changed people's attitudes toward alcohol. There is more of an emphasis on things other than alcohol."
Needelman said his fraternity is following policies already set by its national (See Alcohol, page 8)