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Volume LXXXVIII, Number 55	University of Southern California	Wednesday, April 30 1960
Amorous alligators hit it big off 28th Street
By Steve Padilla
Feature Editor
"Alligators! Get your fornicating alligators here."
With these words Barry Pener announced the coming of what he hopes will be a new T-shirt craze — fornicating alligators.
A take-off on the popular La Coste emblem, the shirts picture two alligators making love, or whatever it is alligators like to make other than little alligators.
From the looks on the faces of the silk screened alligators the reptiles seem to be having a good time, and from the responses Pener has received, people seem to like the romantic reptiles.
In three hours Pener sold 25 shirts Tuesday and expects to sell more when he returns to his table in front of Tommy Trojan Thursday. Sitting smugly behind the table covered with the shirts and the sign "Fomicatin' Alligators," Pener watched as people passed by his display.
Reaction to the shirts varied. Some stared. Some tried not to stare too hard. Many laughed.
Pener classified the people who pass by his display into four basic groups:
' — The people who ignore the display because they do not know what fornication means.
—	The fraternity and sorority members who do not like the shirts because "it's like desecrating their 'god.' " (Pener is not a fraternity member).
—	The women who like the shirts but are too embarrassed to wear them.
—	Those who simply do not want erotic replies on their chests.
Pener maintains the shirts are "perfect for USC" but has also tried to sell them in Westwood and at UCLA.
Peddling on a street comer in Westwood was a fun but shortlived experience for Pener and some friends. Police made them move but not before he had yelled, "Alligators. Get your fornicating alligators here!" earlier that evening.
Other than the police, the only problem he encountered was when some families walked past his alligator display in Westwood.
"Parents with little kids would look at the shirts and then give us some pretty dirty looks," Pener said.
Pener, a junior majoring in business, started the venture with some other business students who are members of a group called Students for Entrepreneurial Study. The group is dedicated to learning how to start and run businesses.
Pener believes in the soft sell and does not try to talk people into buying his product. He lets the loving lizards speak, or perhaps groan, for themselves. No need for gator aid here.
Players needed speech units
Rose Bowl eligibility threatened
STATUESQUE — This figure on the south side of Founders Hall may be supervising silently as workers excavate for an addition. The three story addition and renovation are scheduled to be completed in the spring semester of 1982. Then again, however, he may just be looking for his clothes.
By Richard Bonin
Associate Investigations Editor
At least four of the 20 football players improperly enrolled in Speech Communications 380 last fall needed the course units to retain their eligibility to compete under National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, sources with acccess to transcripts revealed.
As many as five others may also have needed the units to retain eligibility, the sources added.
University officials were sensitive to the imperiled eligibility of the student-athletes, and the upcoming Rose Bowl, when they decided to offer the players a crash course in December, independent sources said.
The athletic department lobbied administrators in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences to either fail the 20 football players or grant them a crash course, but not to withdraw them from the course, a source said. By not withdrawing the players from the course, the 1979-80 football season, the 1980 Rose Bowl and the eligibility of returning players would not be invalidated, the source added.
NCAA rules require student-athletes to be enrolled in,, but not to pass, at least the semester of competition.
A university administrator who asked not to be identified said, "It would be silly to deny that these were clearly athletes involved in a successful season. And that factor was involved in constructing a make up course.
"But it wasn't the dominant factor," the administrator said. "The cutting edge in all this is that there was a person (Jeff Birren, former academic coordinator for the athletic department) in be-
tween the athletes and the course who didn't do his job in properly advising these people."
John Marburger, dean of LAS, said he received no pressure to safeguard the athletes' eligibility. " Not even a rumor (of pressure). I never heard (anything) about their eligibility,'' Marburger said. "At no time was the eligibility of the stu-dent-athletes a factor in my decision process."
Richard Perry, director of athletics, away at a Pacific-10 Conference meeting, could not be reached for comment despite efforts to reach him at his hotel.
June Shoup, director of the Speech Communications department (now the communication arts and sciences department) referred reporters' calls to Marburger.
One source said, "I felt very strongly that the athletic situation was more important than the academic situation . . . and that's still somewhat the same. Everyone demonstrated that concern.
"The first one I was cognizant of (demonstrating a dominant concern for the athletic situation) was Judy Williams (the university attorney)," the source said. "I can't tell you precisely what she said, but it was something like, 'Boy, it's December 4 and they're Rose Bowl players. We're running out of time.'
"I got the disturbed feeling that that was what everyone was experiencing," the source said, adding, "It isn't that I wasn't concerned (about the Rose Bowl). It's a big event. But it's not the overriding concern . : . to have everything (focused on) the Rose Bowl was out of proportion to me."
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STUDENT AID TO BE AFFECTED
Budget cuts may reduce loans
By Holly Houston
Staff Writer ‘
If you are a student receiving a * National Direct Student — beware.
The budget cuts proposed by President Carter — totaling $108,000,000 — may dramatically reduce the number or amount of direct loans. The cuts are scheduled to take effect July 1, if approved by Congress.
How many students will be dropped from the program, or
whether the amount of the loans will be reduced to still cover the same number of students, is up to the individual institution, said Nancy H. Zubair, assistant director of Financial Aid.
"We would probably award smaller loans to comparable numbers of students (who received the loans last year) instead of reducing the number of loans available." Approximately 3,000 university students are receiving direct loans.
The amount of money for federal aid loans tentatively allocated for next year is. $200,766,585. Roughly 38% of the loan money will be reduced if the proposed budget cut passes, Zubair said.
Students can usually receive a total of $2,500 during their freshman and sophmore years at the university and $5,000 while an undergraduate. A graduate student can receive up to $10,000. The maximum is (Continued on page 12)
zing tactics still exis
Subtler practices persist
By Nancy Harlow
Staff Writer
Sororities don't tine their pledges up in the nude. And they don't weigh them or tell, them how fat they are, or that their hair looks like an 80s rendition of the Annette Funicello bouffant. They don't make them think they are about to jump into boxes of glass, barefoot and blindfolded. They don't line them up and make them recite the Greek alphabet before a match can bum to its end.
But sororities still may haze their pledges, even though hazing may not be intended, said Julie Lynch, director of Panhellenic for more than four years. Panhellenic, a university' sorority governing body, and its parent national organization forbid hazing. Lynch said.
It has been a long, hard effort to rid pledge programs of hazing, she said. Episodes still occur, and often sororities hardly know that what they are doing may be hazing.
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