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Volume Clll, Number 68	University of Southern California	Tuesday, April 28, 1987
Raffle tickets sold to benefit homeless families
"Colony" may become fraternity
BRUCE LE / DAILY TROJAN
The Row may have another addition to the “Club,” as the university has invited Sigma Pi to join the Greek system and eventually establish a fraternity chapter.
KIIS-FM asks students to raise funds for needy
By Linda Chong
Staff Writer
Sigma Pi invited to enter Greek system
By Karen Kuettel
Staff Writer
The Row may have another addition soon since the university has invited the Sigma Pi "Club" to join the Greek system and eventually establish a fraternity chapter, said Ken Taylor, director of Greek Affairs.
"We're out to change the face of the Row," said Ari Cheren, the club's social chairman. "We're going to have a really strong organization," he said.
Sigma Pi's outgoing presi- ““ dent, Mark Babin, explained that three Sigma Pi fraternity members from Cal State Long Beach transferred to USC about two and a half years ago and started the fraternity along with four other people. But because the university was not expand-
ing its Greek system at that time, it refused to recognize Sigma Pi as a legitimate fraternity, Babin said.
"IFC (Interfratemity Council) really looked down upon us because we were functioning without their recognition," Babin said, stressing that the organization held many fratemity-like events that were ultimately prohibited under university rules.
However, "IFC pulled our national charter and we got status as a club then at USC," Babin said. "IFC liked that and said, 'if you prove yourselves as a really good fraternity while functioning as a club,' then they would consider us as one of the fraternities to be added to the Row."
But complications still exist as Sigma Pi National now does not recognize the organization as a local chapter because they pulled their own charter to be recognized as a club by the university. Therefore, it is not certain how Sigma Pi National will go about approving the university's invitation asking Sigma Pi to join the Greek system, Taylor said.
Meanwhile, Sigma Pi bears a "colony” status, which allows its members to do almost everything a fraternity can do, such as holding rush for pledges, Taylor said.
"It looks like a fraternity, sounds like a fraternity and acts like a fraternity, but it is not a fraternity. It is a colony," he said.
Cheren said he isn't stumped by his colony's complex situation, though.
"If we can make a good influence, then that's what we want to do," he said.
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$2.9 million gift of rare books donated to university libraries
So you missed Hands Across America and you were too young to attend Woodstock. Not to mention, you didn't even give to USA for Africa.
But there is another chance for students to help society — changing the plight of the homeless.
In a project promoted by radio station KIIS-FM / AM, students are being invited to help sell raffle tickets to raise money for three local housing development agencies that coordinate programs for homeless families.
"We're basically trying to get all schools in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas to help out with this," said Robin Shine, president of Robin Shine Associates, the firm publicizing the events. "There are three shelters we can help — if people will."
The raffle's grand prize is a week-long trip to Paris, France. Another related fund-raising project is the Valley Shelter's First Anniversary Celebration Dinner, which will be held on May 28 at the Sheraton Universal Hotel.
The Valley Shelter, L.A. Family Housing, and the Orange Coast Interfaith Shelter, work especially to house homeless families. Funds raised from raffle tickets, which cost SI each, and for the dinner, which costs $150 per person, go toward the projects of the three agencies.
"For any student who got really involved with the sales, we'd find a way to get them there (to the dinner). We'd try for possible arrangements," Shine said.
There will be a total of 102.7 prizes — in honor of KIIS radio — available for those who sell the tickets, Shine said. She said the top-selling student will receive a 1987 Toyota, donated by Whittlesey Toyota.
Other top-selling students will receive concert tickets to see Huey Lewis, courtesy of the Pacific Amphitheater, and Los Lobos at the Greek Theater.
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MIA HANUSEK DAILY TROJAN
A new program, promoted by KIIS-FM / AM, is encouraging students to sell raffle tickets in order to help the homeless in Los Angeles.
There will be a total of 102.7 prizes — in honor of KIIS radio — available for those who sell the tickets. . .the top-selling student will receive a 1987 Toyota, donated by Whittlesey Toyota.
By Julia Kirkendall
Staff Writer
A collection of rare books, appraised at $2.9 million, was donated to the university's libraries, said Charles Ritcheson, university librarian, dean and vice provost.
The gift includes 163,044 items and is the largest contribution of its kind ever made to the library system.
David and Maria Radell made
the contribution after having been impressed by the libraries'' handling of other donations of major collections, said Paul Blodgett, associate vice president for development.
The Radells have "a real admiration for the University of Southern California. . .and efforts the university's library is currently making to become a major research library," Ritcheson said.
The collection is made up of works in more than a dozen languages, including Russian, Spanish, Portugese, French, Hungarian, Greek, Arabic, Yiddish and Polish. A majority of the works are monographs and academic serials that cover such topics as literature, history, mathematics and military studies.
The 43,000 Latin American items in the collection will become part of the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, and the rest of the gift will be absorbed into the general library collection, Ritcheson said.
He said that the collection would benefit the university in areas that it already has a significant number of works in, and it will also be useful in providing a "nice foothold" in areas that the university has limited holdings.
The gift will "bolster the Boeckmann collection significantly." In addition, it will increase the cinema, Judaic literature and Polish history' and literature collections, and bring "us a very good collection. . .in architecture studies and the history, culture and ethnography of the northern architect regions," Ritcheson said.
The Boeckmann Center was established in 1985 after Herbert Boeckmann made a gift, which included Latin American materials and the finances to cover the cataloging expenses, Blodgett said.
David Radell, a retired professor of Latin American studies and a bookseller specializing in Latin American publications, helped Boeckmann to acquire his collection, and it was at that time that he was first exposed to the university's library system, Blodgett said.
The collection is currently being cataloged. Given the size of the collection, it will take about 18 months to complete the process, Ritcheson said.