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Freshmen c By KATHY HEBERGER Staff Writer Roommates sporting radio-wrist TV's, park: ets screaming for cash and long-distance lo calling you home are enough to drive even th est freshmen back to Hometown, USA. Cruising smoothly onto campus and into living isn't always easy, but successfully se that first year is rewarding. "This place is your second home, and inenas makes a ainerence. it s nara to get a l of college if your dorm life isn't good," Bak dence Adviser Bonita Hawkins said. "Fitting your environment is the key to college." Lisa Zucker, director of USC's Health and \ Department, agrees. "I can't say college life is harder or more for freshmen than it is for others, but freshmei ally go through more changes all at once t other classes do. For many, it's their first tii residence hall and first time controlling thi diets," Zucker said. Soap star res By JERRY BUCK "The AP Television Writer the topLOS ANGELES ? Actress does a i Lauralee Bell visited rape treat- people ment centers and talked to counse- years th lors before starting a summer-long holism, story about date rape on the CBS AIDS, daytime serial "The Young and the Restless." Bell The story followed the rape of trauma her character, fashion model and the Cricket Blair, by her boyfriend mother played by Ken Olandt, and his year sh< subsequent trial. ally hei "We've just finished the trial actually and the jury was about to turn him Bell, loose when my brother found boss of another girl he had raped on a col lege campus," Bell, 20, said. "The judge allowed us to bring in the new witness. I just got a script where I tell the college officials that if thev'd listened to her I wouldn't have been raped." The trial ended last week with his conviction on a charge of rape. Bell went to the Los Angeles Commission on Violence Against Women and treatment centers, where she talked to rape victims and counselors. "This is a good story to do in the summer when a lot of students are home," Bell said. "The people I talked to said the incidence of date rape on college campuses is going up and up. I was just on a personal appearance in Oklahoma where two women told me they had friends who reported rapes after seeing our show." She said the boyfriend in the show gave little indication that he would attack her. "He was the handsome AllAmerican boy," she said. "He was always looking after me. You'd never suspect. The only sign was that he was a touchy-feely kind of person. "We've stressed that you should learn about a person. And when you go on a date set your limits right away. We've tried to make it realistic so girls will know what to expect if it should happen to them." Students ^ t n _ r Continued from page j Amsterdam; here everything is concentrated," he said. "I also enjoy the interaction between professors and students here. It's not just a professor talking at you. You learn what they require you to learn and you really learn it" When they're not in class or doing homework, they head for the tennis courts, the pool and the tube just as other USC students do. Menon listens to Pink Floyd, van den Brekel plays tennis and Kim watches TV. "My favorite TV show? Let's see. It comes on at 7 o'clock. 'Cosby.' That's it. I watch it because it's on at a good time for me. I'm at home with no classes at that time," Kim said. And French graduate student Caroline Carfantan, who is taking classes in German, English and foreign trade has discovered The Patio. "It's great. You can keep going back for salad, and you don't have to pay extra," she said. Natalie Leveel, an International Relations student, arrived two weeks ago and doesn't have much spare time yet. "I've had so much paper work with my registration, it seems that's all I've done so far," she said. Kim hopes to come back to Columbia for a job after he earns his degree, and Yutthichai Chanikornpradit of Thailand, an undergradu ate electrical and computer engineering major, wants to work for a couple of years after college. "I want to get some experience," He said. The internationals' stay here will also be a good experience for the American students at USC, according to Aluri. "They'll meet people from other countries that they otherwise would never meet," he said. ;an thwart ] "I had to adjust myself to havi around; I came from a kind of s ing tick- freshman Kristen Black said. "It's ve lines bathroom. I'm just not used to it." e tough- "Getting accustomed to dorm li on past experience: what they've t college they've come from," Hawkins said ttling in Makes sense. If you spent six v mer at music camp, dorm life is yc having to it," freshman music major Sh< ull view "This is like an extended camp er Resi- comfortable in my dorm. It's great, in with For others, the move isn't so eas "I had to go home last week be Vellness mom," freshman Travis Byron W} my grandmother, too. She always stressful you want me to go on?" n gener- "No," Wynn's friend, freshma ban the said. But McCallum agrees goin, me in a "The thought of having to wash clc sir own have to adapt to this way of living.' "I haven't washed mine yet, earched for c Young and the Restless," with the show j rated daytime soap opera, two years, najor story aimed at young She made he every summer. In past 9, and at 13 bt ley've done stories on alco- appearances as teen-age pregnancy and s^e thne oi "The audien they'd never has gone through a lot of young grow up in her time on 'The Young Bell said. "I b< Restless." Her character's for the cosmel has AIDS, and earlier this the focus of tli j learned her fiance is actu- ren of viewers brother and his father is get tips on ma her father. was don't ov( whose own father is the but I didn't buj the soap opera, has been through the ma: PsM8|lBp^ K S&iMW- ;|HHB 'Sri GregMeyUnr homesicknes ng so many people McGrae said. McGrae says h imall high school," coming and going when he also hard sharing a twedTTElasses. "But my parents still call ife depends heavily know 'are you doing this rig! een through, where said. Freshman Joy King doesn veeks of your sum- home either. "I love the fi iut norm. "I'm used home, I couldn't go outt" she jrry Buchheit said. The separation from parei for me. I m really whh worrying that I'd forg( that my parents were getting y- . ing back was scary," Jack icause I missed my Charleston, said >mn said. I missed fussed at me. Do Drost is not alone. "I realh I were like best friends," Blac n Lee McCallum, Roommate worries can g on is important. Zucker says it's good to be a >thes, man. But you you want without laying into "You've got to give a roor " freshman Keith them and leam from them. II late rape plot full time for the past Her father is William J. who is executive producer a r first appearance at creator with her mother, Let >gan making regular lip Bell. They're also the ci 5 Cricket whenever of CBS's "The Bold an if from school. Beautiful." ce liked it because One brother, Bradley, is a seen someone so for "The Bold and The Beat * on a show before," Another brother, Billy, is in i jcame a teen model of finances for both shows, lies company that's Lauralee still lives at horn ie show. The child- her parents. In fact, all of th could watch me and ily lives in a large compoi ikeup. The message the Hollywood Hills. The >rdo your makeup, moved there only a few yea f that myself. I went after writing and producir keup phase, too." show from Chicago. 441 don'i aloto I just \ somei m * -s- siPllS^B v":*::':y<y.y' ...N. -,: ::x:.:::-:v:-::v\x*SSSS&^g8&a?gggBgrax><^^MiM688^^ rersityof North Carolina-( I wr^' t:' I JPil s, survive s e's enjoying his freedom, study in quiet ai wants and studying be- stereo, the stud) library for a wl all the time wanting to give the studyin ht? that right?,'" McGrae a while," she sa Snowden sen: 't miss the restrictions of agrees commu eedom. When I was at lc? at,.^e saj(j together like a t nts can be hard. "Along a re^dent stand )tten something, the fact reo wn> c ^ into the car and not comDrost, a freshman from . Tte importar ing enough rigf strong immunit f miss my mom. She and adding that the ;k said. vaccinations so< also cause headaches, the bug. tssertive, asking for what But for this another person. freshman conce nmate time. Get to know knew they were ? one roommate wants to Bazemore said. Movie Continuec Bell, was so convincing and menacin nd co- in The Accused as the sleazy lov. 5 Phil- ' iife who instigates the rape, reators In Relentless, he seems out c d the place in his role. He's uncomfori able, and it shows in his staccat writer performance, itiful." As his wife, Meg Foster i charge wifely. She tries, but there isn' much material with which she ca e with work. e fam- Robert Loggia makes the mos ind in of his part as Rossi's partner, Sar Bells Malloy. Even a bad script can' rs ago prevent Loggia (Big, Scarface lg the S.O.B) from giving a good perfoi mance. twant fhype. vant thing I "vi inf rvn M JUlllUil.// Ipanies p but wha pendabl you cho Service,; than yot low lon? operatoi nections for wror assuran< your cal first tim( Networl forget tf the intel J?? i li lettling in id one roommate wants to listen to the 'ing roommate should try going to the hile. And the other roommate should g roommate quiet time in the room for id. ior residence adviser Clarence Raiford nication is important. "I try to break 11 meetings, you know, bring everyone earn," Raiford said as he explained to ing nearby, "He's got to turn that stesee the importance of this later." ice of studying, eating well and sleepit now will pay off at exam time when y to the flu is essential, Zucker said, health center will be offering $5 flu jii 11 an/uiic wmiLs iu prcveiu caicning morning the showers are still a main ;m. 'They were just as I expected. I ; going to be bad," freshman Kennedy I from page 6 g Don't look for clever twists or an explosive climax, because Relentless is predictable. And don't ,f look for the wonderful and exciting chases and action that made o Lethal Weapon II such a delight. The murders are brutal enough, s though unconvincing. 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