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Volume LXXXIX, Number 37	University of Southern California	Thursday, November 6, 1980
By Mike Huckman
All freshmen and transfer students applying for university housing will be required to live in campus residence hails starting ne\t fall if President James H. Zumberge approves a proposal submitted bv the housing policy advisory' committee.
The proposed policv would place quotas for freshmen living in on-campus housing. To accommodate the demand of freshman residents, Webb Tower, the only on-campus building exclusively for upperclassmen, would become part of the residence hall program.
‘Parents don't want to come to the university and find their son or daughter is living 15 miles away in Troy I and'
Thus incoming freshmen will force upperclassmen living on campus to move into off-campus apartments, university or privately owned. Displaced students will have first priority for housing next year and most likely will be placed in Cardinal Gardens, Century Apartments, or Trov Hall, said Richard LeBLanc, chairman of the committee.
"We are going to have an orientation program for students currently living on campus, especially in Webb, to inform them of the processes of the new polio,’ and ease the dismay and anxiety that is bound to arise as a result," LeBLanc said.
"Freshmen," he added, "will have no choice. Thev will be put on campus."
The proposal, in the making for the past nine weeks, is a response to new policies requested bv Zumberge.
"He is trying to create a more academic atmosphere," LeBlanc said.
Parents of incoming freshmen will also benefit from the new policy. "Parents don't want to come to the university and find that their son or daughter is living'15 miles awav in Trovland somewhere," Le Blanc said.
The proposed housing change is also expected to give freshmen an opportunity to become better acquainted with the university.
Harris Plaza would be excluded from the freshmen quota rules. A committee is devising guidelines for a "self-directed" program of special interest housing in Harris Plaza.
The revamping would also designate three off-campus apartments for graduate students only. LeBlanc was unsure which buildings would be used.
TOWERING WEBB
freshmen.
Staff photo by Richard Levitt
Its floors previously reserved for upperclassmen. Webb Tower may soon be housing
Carter election speech scorned
Criticized for affecting local election
By Candy Feldman
Spokespersons for the Democratic and Republican County Committees agreed that President Carter's concession speech given one hour before the California polls closed strongly affected the outcome of many election races.
"President Carter should have encouraged Democrats to continue to go to the polls in support of local legislators after he conceded," said Bob Demuth, director of communications for the Los Angeles County Republican Central Committee. When Carter failed to do this, Demuth said, "he made clear his inablitv to grasp the political process."
Carter's concession hurt other Democrats and their local races by "disenchanting a lot of people and making them think, 'what's the point in voting when there is such an overwhelming victory at hand,' " Demuth said.
One race Demuth believes was affected was the Jim Corman and Bobbi Fiedler race for Congress in the San Fernando Valley's 21st District. Final results indicate that Fiedler won with only 800 votes over Corman. This race, Demuth said, "may have been turned around by Carter's early concession."
"He's not a party man," said Iris Schoenfeld, Los Angeles coordinator for the County Central Committee headquarters. "Carter didn't think before he made his concession, he only thought about himself and disenfranchised the West." When Carter conceded, he pulled the floor out
from under the Democrats and the voters decided "the hell with it, my vote won't count anyway," she said.
At the Yvonne Braithewaite Burke headquarters, Don Reeder, media spokesman for Burke, called Carter's earlv concession "an act of stupidity" and said Carter wasn't thinking about other Democrats. Burke, a Democrat, who is the 4th district supervisor, lost to Republican Dean Dana by more than 21,000 votes in her re-election bid. Carter conceded so early in the evening prior to the closing of the polls, many people felt that "the draw wasn't there anymore," Reeder said.
The Deer Hunter, shown between 7 and 11 p.m. on channel 13, had a greater number of viewers than anv of the major networks covering the election returns, said Channel 13's research director Don Searle. According to the Nielson ratings, The Deer Hunter carried 27 percent of the television ratings while the ratings for channels 2, 4, and 7 were 16, 18 and 16 percent respectively. Channel 13 had the highest program ratings in Los Angeles during 7 and 9 p.m., Searle said.
Carter's early concession was "uncalled for, a bad move and inexcusable," said Larry Berg, director of the Institute of Politics at the university.
Carter's concession adversely affected other local races, he said. Berg felt NBC's projection of Ronald Reagan's victory three and a half hours before the polls closed also hurt California election returns, claiming that the projection was not founded on hard facts.
Counselor begins group for sexual abuse victims
By Claudia Eller
Victims of sexual assault and sexual abuse too often suffer the painful effects in silence, believing no channels exist to seek help and resolve their traumas. It is therefore essential for women to know there are resources available to them.
Connie Destito, a university Counseling Center clinician concerned with victimized women on campus, has organized a confidential support group called Victims Anonymous.
"This group will be designed to help the many women who are afraid to come forward and taik about their sexual assault experiences, whether thev happened when they were children or adults," she said.
Destito, who has been employed at the university for two months, said there is speculation that the problem of sexual assault is hushed-up here on campus because of the environment.
"At USC, the mvth is that women are supposed to look and act a certain way, so how can you possibly go around saying, 'Mv father raped me' when it's so taboo?" she said.
Based on her work experience during the last six vears with over 400 assault victims, Destito estimated that 25 percent of all women have experienced some form of sexual exploitation at one time in their lives.
She said this figure probablv applies to the women on campus as well.
"1 want the women on campus to have a place to come where they feel comfortable and can say if they're frightened. A group situation creates a safe place to explore all of the issues of anger, guilt, pain and being a woman," she said.
Manv women who have been abused, raped, or subjected to incest feel isolated and ashamed, Destito said.
"It's not as isolated as people think. It's much more common than they realize and it’s important that women identify common concerns," she explained.
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All freshman may have to live in campus halls