Kidnapping averted by Campus Security
B> Justin Fox
Stall Writrr
An attempted kidnapping of three students at University Avenue and 30th Street was averted late Sunday evening by Campus Security. Two suspects were arrested and taken into custody by the Southwest Division of the Los Angeles Police Department.
The victims, members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, were walking home from the 32nd Street Market on Hoover Street when they noticed two black men in their 20s passing them closely in an old sedan, a Campus Security officer said.
Later, when they turned from 30th Street onto University Avenue, the same two men they noticed earlier appeared and tried to force them into the car.
One of the three noticed a Campus Security truck parked nearby in the Alpha
Delta Pi sorority lot and called him for help. Within seconds, other Campus Security vehicles appeared along with the police who arrested the suspects.
The three victims, two undergraduates and one graduate student from UCLA, who declined to give their names, said they left the University Village parking
lot and headed up the same side of Hoover Street about 10:25 p.m. As they were walking. they noticed a green and white 1955 sedan coming toward them.
As the car sped nearer and nearer, one of the three, a freshman, said that it seemed the car was coming after them.
“Oh shit, that guy is going to kill me," he said he shouted.
The car passed by, rubbing up against the curb, and then disappeared. The three of them thought that the incident was over, he said.
By the time that thestudents had turned off Hoover and headed toward University Avenue on 30th Street. The two suspects had brought their car around and parked it on University Avenue, the freshman said. _
As the students walked by the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity toward 28th Street, the two suspects called from the other side of University Avenue to come over and get into the car. The students shouted back that they didn't want to.
“We thought that if we kept on walking that we could shake them.” the freshman said.
At this point, the suspects crossed the street and walked up to the three students. One grabbed a student's arms and tried to pull him over to the car.
“I was walking a little ahead and a little f aster than the rest of the group. The guy
who was holding my friend's arm was in back ol me, and the other guy was walking beside the grad student at the end.” said the freshman.
“We were afraid,” he said. "This wasn't the first time that something like this had happened to me.”
After he passed the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity he said he noticed a campus security truck in the Alpha Delta Pi sorority lot. He jumped over the stone wall and asked the driver for help.
“Hi. how are you?” the freshman said. “We re in a little trouble. Can you help
us?”
At 10:30 p.m. the student said that the security officer called for a backup assistance. and that within seconds two more trucks and a campus security car had arrived.
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Daily m) Trojan
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Volume LXVIII, Number 83
Tuesday, March 2, 1976
Two local banks will continue federally insured student loans
By Bob Me Loud
Stall Writer
Local branches of United California Bank and the Bank of America will continue their present policies of participating in the Federally Insured Student Loan Program, representatives said Monday.
Because of the university’s good standing with United California Bank, entering freshmen here will be eligible for the loans this fall, said Brad Meek, an assistant manager with the bank.
Meek explained that freshmen at all other colleges and universities in California will not be eligible unless they have an account with the bank.
Students who have had a prior federal loan with UCB are also
eligible with the bank as long as their credit is in good standing.
High Delinquency rate UCB had previously considered federally insured loan applications regardless of the school the students were attending. but because of high delinquencies the bank cut back the amount of loands awarded and stopped accepting applications from freshmen students.
The bank still awards loans to upperclassmen at other schools in California.
As it looks now. Bank of America will not be changing its policy, said Matt St. George, student relations representative at the bank.
For tuition only Bank of America has a basic $1,500 loan that will certainly be available next year.
St. George said the federally
insured loan program is just a service to students, and the banks are neither making money nor losing it on the loans.
Many students are defaulting on the loans immediately following graduation when they still have nine months to begin payments.
Slow reimbursements
Although the loans are federally insured, the government often took up to 18 months to reimburse the bank for a defaulted loan, thus making that money unavailable for further loans, St. George said.
When the federal government changes the law so that students cannot declare bankruptcy immediately following graduation and default on their loans, then other banks that have discontinued the program may initiate it again, he said.
Funds allocated for gays frozen
Bv Peter Fletcher
Stall WritiT
Funds that were allocated to the Gay Student Union to set up a library were frozen Thursday by the Campus Activities Allocations Board.
The gay students were allocated $1,000 last month to establish a library of literature about homosexuals.
The funds were frozen until the board could look into the matter further, said Mike Peterson. the board's chairman.
Peterson said his main concern with the allocation is that it sets a bad precedent.
“If we give the gay students a library then why shouldn't we give libraries to the black and Chicano students. It's bad programming." he said.
Matt St. George, cochairman of the Gay Student Union, said that the bylaws of the allocation board state that part of the board's funds are to pay for educational services not provided by the university.
Peterson said that the board would act on the funding of the library as soon as the board had information on its bibliography, verification that the university's libraries will or will not pur-
chase the books for the gay students. and verification that the funds are not available in departmental budgets.
"We object to the arbitrary way in which the possible revocation of funds is being handled. Any withdrawal of funds without the representatives of the Gay Students Union being present smaks of closed-door. smoke-filled room politics." St. George said.
He said that representatives of the gay students will go before the board Tuesday night to try to clear up questions the board might have.
“We sincerely appreciate the sudden concern of the allocations board that such a center of gay material be established. We will be happy to relinquish our $1,000 allocation only if we are assured by the official endorsement of the allocation board and by written agreement with univerity's libraries that such a center immediately be given first proiority finding." St. George said.
In the original budget request, the gay students said the funds would be used to buy educational pamphlets, gay publications and gay research studies from all fields.
Student feature film depicts ‘50s frat life
By Tom Kosa
Sot a I Editor
It wasn't the normal Hollywood premiere with streams of reporters dashing madly about trying to grab the stars of the film for a quick interview.
There weren't limousines driving up and leaving off some gorgeous starlet or some handsome leading man that made the crowd squeal with delight.
Actually it wasn't even a premiere, but a private screening of a full-length student film called Oh Brotherhood.
Parents and relatives arrived form all across the country Sunday night and filled Bovard Auditorium to capacity to see the results of theirchildrens’ venture into performing in and producing a motion picture.
Charles Gary Allison, a graduate student in cinema and the producer of the film, said Oh Brotherhood represented the work of over 300 studnets from the university, 12 professional actors and hundreds of helpful industry persons who gave freely of their resources. time and advice.
The film dealt with the college fraternity and sorority system of the early‘50s.
Allison said “The film attempts to show what can happen to anything good when too much power over the lives of people gets played, however temporarily, in irresponsible hands.
“Along the way. we wanted to show some of the beauty of college life, the fraternity and sorority system, and the enormous enjoyment that can be found in living and working with one s peers.
“There is also the suggestion that that there are difficulties in
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PRIVATE SCREENING—Bernard Kantor, director of	characters. The film, entitled Oh Brothorhood,
the Divjsion of Cinema, discusses Sunday night's show-	included about 300 university students in the cast and
ing of a student-made feature film with Peter Fox, a	crew. DT photo by Sherry Stern, professional actor who portrayed one*of the principal