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Volume LXXXIX, Number 4	University of Southern California_Friday, September 19, 1980
200 kids miss Troy Camp
Cancelled due to lack of funds
NINETY YEARS OLD
Former yell king fights on
Felix said she was concerned with the quality of the campsite and also that she, an administrative staff member, would be taking o\er a student organization. Troy Camp does not have permanent financial ties with campus groups, uniike a camp run by the University of California, Los Angeles called Uni-Camp. Troy Camp's existence relies totally on the initiative of volunteers.
One big problem was the loss of income from Songfest. Usually the proceeds from the university's student-run musical go to Troy Camp. But last year they went to the John Wayne Cancer Research Center.
“ft is a good charity, but I felt we lost an important source of funding." Felix said.
When it was decided that Trov
Camp would close down. Felix sent letters to all the children and their parents explaining the Troy Camp cancellation, stressing, however, it would resume next summer.
Work has already been started to make this summer's Troy Camp successful, Felix said. An interim student coordinator, John W. Murray Jr., has been appointed to head the Troy Camp committee.
“The Troy Camp Committee was not effective last year because it didn't get started soon enough and did not have full participation on its scheduled events, but we are now under a new flag." Murray said.
Felix agreed. “I feel that Troy C amp's cancellation was a terrible thing to happen, but I feel that it will be stronger than ever when it resumes. We learned a valuable lesson in time management."
Numbers game played Student Services
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By Roger Gray
Assistant City Editor
Room 1I2A. the Grade Department in the Student Administrative Services building, vanished yesterday.
Ron Kimberling, director of Enrollment Services at Student Administrative Services, and his assistant, Richard Yanez, did away with H2A. as well as I08A and most every other room there, when they rearranged the room numbering system
“It (SAS) was numbered very wackily,” Kimberling said, so all of the rooms were assigned new numbers to make it easier to find a particular office.
And if all the new room numbers seem confusing, many offices in the building changed rooms, changed rooms.
Thus, the petitions office, which used to be in room I02 (now room 111) has moved into the former room 111 (now room 106).
The number and room changes might seem illogical — room 305 is now 314, 114 is now 101 and 209 is still 209 — but Kimberling and Ynez said that the changes should increase efficiency.
Kimberly and Yanez made the changes based on a study of traffic patterns in the SAS building. The study found that thousands of students streamed through some areas while only a few trickled through others.
For example, 4,000 students a week poured into one large office to reach three separate services: petitions, transcripts and degree checks. Lines for one service often ran into lines for another, clogging
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By Donna L.ipper
Staff Writer
As the university prepares to celebrate its hundredth birthday, former yell leader Homer K. Watson. 90. will have a unique perspective on the event. Fie may be the oldest living yell leader in university history.
Now retired in Santa Barbara. Watson is still a true Trojan. Fie attends games and actively participates in alumni events.
A student at the university from 1912 lo 1917, Watson led cheers for the football team when it played on Bovard field, on the sight of today's performing arts complex. The all-male cheer squad had five yell leaders and one songleader. who was occasionally accompanied by a small musical band.
W atson was one of the originators of card stunts. In 1916, Watson and the rest of the cheer squad came up with an idea that "was a little bit different," Watson said They organized a halftime stunt where students in the cheering section wore capes made from cardinal and gold cheesecloth material. When the appropriate time came, the students stood up. exposing the back side of their capes, which spelled “Southern California” to spectators.
Watson and the other yell leaders had many new and innovative ideas. At one game with Washington State, the university rented elephants from a nearby zoo which were decorated with signs and ‘SC banners. As the animals paraded to the field, the yell leaders rode
on their backs and shouted cheers to the onlooking crowd. “The crowd went wild. It was really something lo see," W'atson remembered.
During his years at the university, W'atson was involved in several activities. A dedicated member of the track team, he was coached by Dean Cromwell and excelled in several events. Fie was also a member of the Phi Kappa Psi faternity. then located on 4th Street. Watson said that all the fraternities and sororities were small cottages scattered up and down the street.
Although a member of a fraternity house. W atson lived in Hodge Flail, a private boarding house for men located a few blocks from campus. In his senior year, W’atson met Maude Clooburn, a freshman and a member of Kappa Delta Sorority, and after her graduation they were married.
Hodge Hall and the Kappa Delta sorority no longer exist at the university. In fact, things look a little bit unfamiliar to Watson when he visits the campus. “Things have really changed. Comparing the university of my day to USC now is like comparing a horse and buggy to a brand new Rolls Royce." Watson said.
But many of the traditions of Watson's days are here now. For example, in the earlier day’s football cheers, the yell leaders did a version of the Southern California spellout that is somewhat different from the one done today. The yell leaders did some dance cheers and body pyramids, but mostly led the spirited crowd in cheers.
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HOMER K. WATSON — Back in his college days with a fellow} yell leader.
Complex infested by rodents
Structure, resident’s lifestyles blamed
By Karen E. Klein
Residents of the Married Students' Complex have noticed a widespread infestation of cockroaches and rodents. The problem has left some residents troubled, frustrated and worried.
Resident Gina Connolly described the health standards in her building as "definitely unsanitary.”
“I myself keep rat poison in my apartment." said Paul Manuele, who lives with his wife in the campus housing provided tor university students with families.
“The mice are all over the place — one died under my bed." said Manuele.
Carol Miller, Assistant Director of Housing and Residence Halls, recognizes the problem.
She attributes the pest infestation to a two-fold
cause.
Married Students' Complex residents, who come from diverse cultural backgrounds, contribute to the problem said Miller and Phil Roettcher, complex manager, also a resident.
The children that live with their parents in the complex make the community unique. Their presence and slow adaptation by some residents who are not yet oriented to Western culture explains why the Married Student Complex has declined in health standards, said Roettcher.	(Continued on page 9)
SUPER WEEKEND — A super sized sign announced the centennial homecoming which begins Oct 4.
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Troy Camp was cancelled last summer because of lack of funds and poor participation, said Nadine Felix, director of Recreation and Troy Camp advisor.
This was the first summer in 32 years that Troy Camp was not held. Felix said.
Student volunteers from the university organize and staff Troy Camp. Each summer they take approximately 200 Los Angeles children from the city for a week of camping in the mountains near Idyllwild.
Felix replaced Parker Jenkins, director of Student Activities, as Troy Camp advisor in mid-April. After examining the account she found funds were extremely low . After discussion with the committee. it was decided to cancel the summer Troy Camp.
"I was willing to make some concessions, such as taking fewer kids and abbreviating the time if the quality of camp could be maintained." Felix said. “However. I felt it was in the best interest of Troy Camp itself to skip a year, rather than set some precedents unfavorable to what Troy Camp has stood for."