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Volume CX, Number 6
University of Southern California
Tuesday, September 12, 1989
In Brief
Police to cease using whips as punishment after negative reaction
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
—	Police said Monday they will stop using whips against anti-apartheid protesters because of “negative reactions” at home and abroad.
Two prominent critics of the police, Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Rev. Allan Boesak, discussed their concerns in Cape Town with diplomats from the United States and 14 other countries.
Tutu said he asked the diplomats to "categorically condemn the brutalities of the security forces.”
Activists claim at least 23 and as many as 29 black and mixed-race people were killed Wednesday in election night violence allegedly instigated by police in townships near Cape Town.
Nation: Children safety seats may go on planes
OMAHA, Neb. — Noting that 10 children were among the 112 victims of a jetliner crash in Iowa, U.S. Rep. Jim Lightfoot on Monday called for federal regulations requiring the use of child safety seats on airplanes.
“There’s good reason to believe that if some of those children had been better restrained, they would have survived the crash,” said Lightfoot, an Iowa Republican who sits on the House Aviation Subcommittee.
Lightfoot called for the Federal Aviation Administration to write new rules requiring all children under 2 to be restrained in an approved seat.
Campus: Seminar held to teach about racism
On Sunday, a racism seminar was held to teach a small group of fraternity representatives how to understand cultural differences. The seminar was organized and paid for by Phi Gamma Delta and taught by Lillian Roybal Rose, a counselor who has lectured to university faculties, women's groups and police departments.
Rose’s goal was to help the group distinguish between “culture" and patterns of behavior distorted by self-defense mechanisms.
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Bicycles are parked In front of Doheny Library. Bicycles may cause traffic, but remain a convenient method of campus travel.
Office to replace Nienow
USC loses director of residential life to Seattle University
By Vivien Lou Chen
Staff Writer
The balance of power in the university's Office of Residential and Greek Life was shaken last month when Dale Nienow left his job as director of Residential Life to take a lucrative job up north.
For the three years that Nienow, who founded the peer review panel system in the first of his 10 years at the university, shared an office with Ken Taylor, director of Greek life, they had been "co-equal directors," said Kristine Dillon, associate vice president of student affairs.
But when Nienow accepted an offer to be Seattle University's assistant vice president of student development, USC officials posted applications last week for the position of "Director of Residential and Greek Life."
The advertised position — which commands an annual salary of about $45,000 — was created because "it was awkward to look at an organization and ask, 'Which one's the director?' " said Dillon, head of an interview panel who will try to find a
replacement for Nienow this fall.
"It worked well because they worked well," she said.
Though Seattle University's offer in July was unexpected, Taylor said the two directors had previously discussed the possibility of combining their duties.
"Over the last three years, Dale and I explored what could be done in common," Taylor said. "The next logical step" was finding a sole director.
Dillon said the telling difference in the office's future operations won't be in its sole director but in its new location; it will soon move from University Village to the Student Union.
Until an office director is found, Dillon said, duties will be split among herself, Taylor and Kim West, who was promoted this summer from assistant director of residential life to associate director.
But because she has not yet received any applications, Dillon could not speculate on any likely candidates for the position.
Nienow, whose responsibilities at Seattle University include supervision of numerous student affairs divisions, said working in Seattle has been "a good move, a career opportunity and a good place for raising children."
(See Nienow, page 23)
Fraternities move to end all pledging
By Julie Chen
Staff Writer
Rush Week has taken on a slightly different twist this year, as one university fraternity has voted to eliminate pledging, and another will have implemented a similar policy in the next two years.
Phi Sigma Kappa has banished pledging to reduce liability for injuries and eliminate hazing, said Darrin Aoyama, president of the fraternity's campus chapter.
This policy guarantees instant active membership and active privileges after being invited to join the fraternity.
"We're taldng a leadership role in this new policy," said Rex Rolf, district vice president and chapter adviser of Tau Kappa Epsilon. "It will be inevitable (for all fraternities) and rather than have society dictate the grounds, we are solving it."
Presently, Phi Sigma Kappa is the only fraternity at the university to put the policy into effect.
Tau Kappa Epsilon is developing a similar policy, which won't be implemented until 1991, said James Cox, president of the fraternity's university chapter.
Most Tau Kappa Epsilon members at the university don't support banning a pledge period, Cox said.
"We have an excellent program and find it unnecessary (to adopt the policy)," he said.
Though the policy will be voted on again in two years at a national convention, there is a strong chance it will be passed, he added.
"Most of the West Coast schools were opposed to it, while the East and Midwest schools were in favor of it," Cox said.
(See Pledging, page 8)
Be on time, or be fjned
Penalties stiffen on overdue books
By Roger Tefft
Staff Writer
A new, streamlined lending code for the university's central library system has made penalties for overdue books fewer in number but steeper in cost, library officials said Monday.
The new code, effective July 5, changed a decade-old way of doing business for 16 of 18 university libraries, which processed 711,000 loans during the 1988-89 academic year, said Anne Lynch, acting head of library access services.
Gone are the 20-cents-a-day fines assessed to overdue books on long-term loan. The new policy allows borrowers a 14-day grace period for most overdue books.
Books more than 14 days overdue are assessed a $10 process fee, and borrower privileges are suspended. Borrowers who have lost or damaged the materials they checked out are fined an additional replacement fee of $50, Lynch said.
Once an overdue book is returned and the $10 fee paid, borrowers' privileges are reinstated, Lynch said.
Overdue notices are mailed to borrowers long before the 15th day, Lynch said.
Daily and hourly fines on short-term materials have been increased. Two-hour reserve materials, for example, are fined one dollar for each hour overdue.
(See Library, page 22)