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Volume CX, Number 32
University of Southern California
Thursday, October 19, 1989
Students react to Bay Area earthquake
By Bill Swindell
Staff Writer
The Bay Area earthquake brought fear and concern Tuesday night to many university students who tried desperately to call family members in the stricken area.
"I've been stressed out up until (Wednesday) morning/' said De Vu, a junior majoring in electrical engineering who lives in Livermore, about 20 miles east of San Francisco. ''I tried all night, up until 1 or 2 in the morning, but I finally got in touch with them and thev're fine."
Vu said his friend at UC Santa Cruz told him that all power in the area was out and that windows in his friend's apartment were broken.
"It's no sense traveling up there now," Vu said. "I'll just wait for a week or two."
Jenifer Boles, a senior majoring in political science who lives near Monterey, said she was nervous when she heard about the quake.
Boles echoed the sentiments of many students who, on seeing the collapsed 30-foot section of the Oakland Bay Bridge, remembered crossing it just days ago during the Cal Weekender.
"The scariest thing for me is that I was looking at the bridge, and I was just on it," Boles said. "My dad was afraid that we wanted to goof around and had stayed in the city during the quake."
Some students' homes were wrecked during the quake.
(See Reactions, page 8)
In Brief
Lithuania to observe Christmas as holiday, first time in 40 years
MOSCOW — Christmas returns to Lithuania as an official holiday this year after almost five decades of strictly atheist government holidays, Tass reported Wednesday.
The Lithuanian Parliament decreed that Dec. 25 will now be a state holiday in the small republic on the Baltic Sea, the Soviet news service said.
“This is the first time in Soviet Lithuania that a religious celebration has been legally declared a holiday.” said Ludvicas Sabutis, a leading member of the Parliament.
An estimated 3 million of Lithuania's 3.6 million people are Roman Catholic, but Christmas has not been recognized ac an official holiday in Lithuania since it was absorbed by the Soviet Union in 1940.
— From the Associated Press
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Noontime Tunes
Hardlp Singh Dally Trojan
Rick Recht, a sophomore majoring in business, and Ben Older, an undeclared freshman, perform in front of Tommy Trojan in a noontime concert Wednesday. The two-man band played classic rock.
Campus joins effort to aid quake victims
Students actively seek donations for Bay Area
By Bill Swindell
Staff Writer
The university community came to the aid of victims of Tuesday's Bay Area earthquake, setting up booths Wednesday to collect food and money and providing expert analysis on the temblor.
The Office of Student Affairs, the Student Senate and Sigma Pi fraternity set up a table in front of Tommy Trojan to collect money, canned goods and clothes for the Red Cross, said Tom Xobels, philanthrophv chairman of Sigma Pi.
The fraternity contacted officials in student affairs early Wednesday requesting to set up the table. But after learning that the office was about to set up its own table, fraternity members and senators decided to pool their resources in the relief effort.
"We thought of it in the spur of the moment," Nobel said. "My roommate, Mike Leeder, came up with the idea around 12 a.m., and I fell out of my chair and said, 'We have to do it.' "
Nobel said the university's Bay Area relief group expects to collect about 51,000 worth of donations by Thursday. Also, the group is trying to get a bloodmobile to come to campus.
A bloodmobile may not be available because the Red Cross has been swamped with calls, said Tara Brigham, senate president. Still, senators may organize their own group to collect food and clothing from university housing complexes, Brigham said.
(See Aid, page 8)
SCene's focus skewed, senators say
Magazine should aim for balanced coverage of more campus groups
By Jason Carroll
Staff Writer
Student senators Wednesday narrowly voted to postpone discussion of a resolution that would have required senate-funded SCene magazine to include more campus organizations in its coverage.
The 10-9 vote reflected a slight majority opinion that problems with the magazine's primary focus on Greek issues should be handled internally and not on the senate floor.
Anthony DeBarry, senate elections and recruitment chairman, said he supported postponement of action on the issue because Tara Brigham, senate president, had already discussed it with the magazine's editor, Elizabeth Kennedy.
"There was no need to bring that sort of proposal to the senate floor," DeBarry said.
SCene's publishing representative, Valerie Martinez, confirmed that Brigham and Kennedy had discussed the disproportionate number of Greek articles being published.
"We didn't have a particular person assigned to the different constituencies on campus," Martinez said. "Elizabeth is Greek and that area was easilv accessible
to her, but the magazine was never purposely slanted."
Martinez said it was decided during conversations between Brigham and Kennedy that the Xovember-December issue would include articles that reflect more constituencies at the university.
Despite Kennedy's absence during the senate meeting, the author of the resolution said she thought she had made her point.
"Many of my constituencies felt that SCene magazine was a Greek publication and not representative of the university community," said Suzy Jacobs, graduate senator for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. "I wanted it on the record (See Senate, page 6)
Law students ask for tuition rebates
By Romi Rudolph and Anita Vogel
Staff Writers
The Student Senate unanimously-passed a resolution Wednesday in support of the Student Bar Association's request for a tuition rebate from the university's Law Center.
University administrators have already rejected the group's initial request for repayment of the part of their tuition that was increased to pay for new law facilities, which are still under construction at this time.
The Law Center's two-year construction project has resulted in fewer services for its students, making a tuition increase inappropriate at this time, said James Bozajian, a graduate senator from the Law Center and author of the resolution.
Scott Bice, dean of the Law Center, rejected the group's first proposal on Oct. 12. The resolution calls for senators to urge Bice to reconsider.
Tuition for the 1989-90 academic year is 515,316, 51,138 more than last year, Bozajian said.
"The Law Center's tuition increases are grossly incongruent with the accompanying decrease in the quality of services provided," Bozajian said.
According to the SBA, Bice has said that the cost of operating the Law Center has not decreased, making it impossible for tuition increases to be rescinded.
Law Center administrators could not be reached for comment.
The SBA's main conern is the unacceptable library facilities at the Law (See Law Center, page 7)