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Student leaders
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By David Hill
Student Government officials meeting
yesterday to discuss election reform agreed
the number of collinR places for SG elections
should be reduced.
In past elections, particularly this past spring's,
the main problem was in monitoring
polling places, SG President Barry Gray said.
The large number of polling places,
"several more than 20," was for students'
convenience, but also "creates complexity,"
he said.
THE NEED is to "strike a balance," he
caiH
Attorney general Cindy Price suggested
polling places for geographical areas of campus
where both on-campus and off-campus
students would vote.
For example, a polling place at the College
of Business Administration would be for
business administration and humanities majors
and for residents of Capstone and Columbia
Hall..,
Elections commissioner David Lasch said
verifying students' housing status and majoi
rr?tilH hp n nrnlilem nnrl that thprp wr*n1H ctil
be a need for poll workers for that purpose
"IT'S NOT going to drastically reduce th<
number of poll workers; you're still going tc
need a lot of them."
But there would be fewer places tc
monitor, Gray said.
Other poll locations suggested were th<
engineering building, the Law Center, th
Horseshoe and the Coliseum.
Greg DeCastro, a member of the election
commission, suggested members of the com
tightens
Fine increased
USC has changed its handicapped parking re
Professor uses i
By Gary Moss
It is Saturday morning and the soft droi
of a woman's voice and the inviting smell
brewing coffee fill the air.
But this is not the end of a Friday nig
adventure. It is the beginning of Ru
^ ickland's American literature class.
She cot u?* ^ea bringing coffee ai
doughnuts to relieve tnJ ;^vuynnty v.-. ...u
ing to somebody talk for five houT*.
"I COULDN'T look at Robert Redfo
for five hours, and I think he's gorgeous
she said.
She sprinkles her lectures with humor
make the subject more enticing. She said s
is particularly fond of poking fun at the s<
ual mores of the early Puritans.
But she acknowledged the problem
teacn7nc students who wear the "I-dor
care-what-you're"say,n8_l m~nere"Decausc
have-to-be" attitude. .
"I pick out the students wnJ . can te" {
turned off and try to teach the class to i\.erri
she said, adding there are always one or t\
discuss reform r
arnpus elections
mission tour campus early next semester to
find the most travelled and visible locations
for polling places.
VICE PRESIDENT Jill Mainwaring said
she would form a committee in the Student
Ipnatp tr? finH u/avc r*f rwiHliri^ino plprtinns
Also, a survey to gather ideas from
students on elections improvements will be
conducted early next semester.
Gray suggested acquiring portable, temporary
structures to house polls. "The kind
of thing that, as soon as you see it ? bang ? .
a polling place."
Lasch said, "The biggest thing that will
change elections is we're going to get more
off-campus votes."
GRAY SAID off-campus students pay for
60 percent or more of activity fees, yet
seldom account tor more than 1U to 20 percent
of the vote in elections.
"It's hard to reach them," he said.
Another problem with last spring's elecl
tions was in recruiting poll workers, Gray
said. Fifty were hired, but only about 30
1 "showed up," he said.
Price suggested "anticipating all problems,"
which would include hiring more
i poll workers than needed, but that would be
) costly, Gray said.
) MANY POLL workers failed to work the '
polls because of the scheduling of the elece
tions during mid-term exams, Gray said,
e Mainwaring suggested changes in scheduling,
particularly in holding them earlier,
s "I would like to see the elections done by
See "Elections," page 3
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By Marisa Porto
' " Danny Baker, systems vice pi
and security, said the new polici
the USC police department. Th(
'* wT\ Baker, has been that people in wl
handicapped spaces are taken. T
j||??ff the parking signs for spaces tha
' >" -ws^r * "We have some social and
x 0 fellow man. That, in and of itsel
^i,, i? marking the spaces and curb
% *"* wheelchairs. It's a matter of po:
use POLICE Chief Kennet
| begun this semester, were chanj
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students in every class she doesn't like.
tie
of "I TRY really, really hard to go that extra
mile with them because I have very strong
ht feelings on fairness," she said.
th She bristles at questions of how the study
of literature squares with a highly pragmatic
nd and commercial society.
:n- "If somebody would have come up to me
several years ago and told me you've got to
be relevant, I would have told them to go to
rd hell, 'saidA
great deal can oC .'earned from literature
that can't be learned anywhere else, oil':
to
he "READING A Henry James novel could
;x- teach the average person more about the
human personality than reading Freud," she
of SUld, ?.d<Iing a person must read more than one
1't- writer to understand human nature.
:-I- William Faulkner is one of her favoriiCS,
she said, because even though Faulkner
ire wrote only about the South, he demonstrated
i," a tremendous "understanding of universal
vo human nature.
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chorus. The photo was made using a star cross filter
ing regulations
spread the word, an
by a former USC student has he said.
diate towing of cars parked in According to Pei
/ police official said. sticker is needed. A
resident for law enforcement ty handicapped dec
es hav<J been implemented by handicapped visitor
; main problem, according to which exempts thei
tieelchairs can't do anything if The suit was file<
he public has been notified by ing was so poorly
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moral responsibilities to our
f, is the main thing. The key is
cuts. These are for people in GLORIA DAY,
sitive awareness," Baker said. rules have been en:
"Wayne's compl
h Pereira said the new fines, ing facilities for hai
ged from $15 to $25. not being enforced
before, we tried to find the They have done thf
to find the owner of the vehi- acknowledgement i
lave not had a very large pro- handicapped," Da
g. The officers have tried to
hods with English (
After having difficulty teaching a group of ki
medical students at Louisiana State Universi- ss
ty, she said she asked them how they could be 01
doctors and only understand medicine, and le
told them they must also have insights into
the way people think and feel, insights that
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couldn't be learned irom a mcuicai u
dictionary. p
One of her pet peeves is suspicion about h
the legitimacy of a job that involves sitting U
around reading books, she said.
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"WHEN SOMEBODY sees you reading a s
book, they think it's OK to interrupt you. s
saV ^re y?u busy?' and think 'oh no, f
she's just reau'infc.' Reading shouldn't be a
"non-activity," she said. F
Strickland studied under WaJke* Percy, a v
Southern author who won the National Book \
Award for his novel "The Moviegoer," r
which discusses the possibility 01 "ine
search " "The search is what anyone would
undertake it' uC w^re not sur.lc in CvCry- r
dayness of his own life/' Pcrcy wrote.
Strickland said, "The search is the quest to j
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after suit
id we have notified handicapped services,"
eira, in order to park on campus, a USC
handicapped student must have a universi:al,
whether temporary or permanent. All
s must get a visitor's parking permit,
n from feeding the parking meters,
i by Wayne Cockfield, who claimed parkenforced
that he could not attend class
ed spaces were too often blocked.
Cockfield's attorney, said the new defined
forced.
aim was that he was unable to utilize parkidicapped
students. Those restrictions were
. He wanted a more definitive procedure,
it. We are very pleased with the university's
n making those parking spaces reserved for
v said.
See "Suit," page 3
course
now." The routine of life is necessary, she
lid, but the tragedy is "the routine becomes
ur reason for being when it should t)e the
ast important thing in our lives.
"I THINK anyone who reads a lot and
links a lot is destined to be relatively unhapy.
But to wake up to the realization that
appiness is an unreasonable goal makes you
rss unhappy/' she said.
"The thing 1 value more than anything else
; a sense of humor. If you take everything
eriously, you don't ever know what to take
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LTlOUNiy. I Ull lltivu iu iau?ii at mv. iw nwp
rom crying all the time," she said.
She said she watches the expression on
leople's faces as they sit in their cars on their
vay home fr6iT? 'vVCrlC Z?* C.C^ reflections of
ienry David Thoreau's belief that "most
nen lead lives of quiet desperation.
"Remember what Dylan Thomas said:
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage,
age, against th? dying of the light.'
"Of course," she said, "he died ai a very
/oung age."
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