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Volume XCIV, Number 54____University of Southern California_Monday, November 21, 1983
Security to undergo LAPD training session
Three-day program for officers will increase powers of arrest
By Jeffrey Tylicki
Assistant Qty Editor
Security officers begin special training this week to meet standards of the university's memorandum of understanding with the Los Angeles Police Department which gives the force additional powers of arrest.
Under the agreement, signed two months ago with the LAPD, university security officers must complete 27 hours of training by the police department. This will consist of a three-day session conducted by the LAPD over the next three weeks, said Carl Levredge, director of University Security.
"All of our officers (new or veterans) will go through the training, including myself and Chief (of Security Steven) Ward," Levredge said. "The LAPD wants to make sure people have the most current, up-to-date training."
Three separate trainings will be staggered between
"Chief Gates wants to make sure life operate as an autonomous entity," Levredge said.
now and December so more than 70 full-time officers on the force can attend one of three on-campus sessions by the LAPD's police academy, Levredge said.
Although the agreement was signed by Jon Strauss, senior vice president for administration, and Los Angeles Police Chief Darryl Gat^s in mid-September, security officers have not been op rating under the powers of arrest it provides.
"Until we're done with the training, we're not certified by the LAPD to begin performing (under the provisions of the memorandum)," Levredge said. "By the first week in December, most of our officers will be operating under the (memorandum)."
Prompted by similiar arrangements Stanford University and University of the Pacific have with their local law enforcement agencies, the memorandum was granted after a study by Gates' office. Levredge emphasized the agreement was entered into with the understanding by both parties that security officers were not being elevated to community service or "peace" officer status, as many people have been led to believe.
"This does not make us an extension of the LAPD," Levredge said.
Ward explained that the memorandum gives security officers the same powers of arrest as the LAPD — on probable cause — which legally protects the officers.
"In pursuing a felony crime, we had to be 100 percent sure it occurred (before taking a suspect into custody)/' Ward said. "We now have discretionary authority to take persons into custody if we have reasonable cause to believe it occurred."
The security officers do not have the same legal access to criminal files that regular police officers have and do not have the same legal protection for physical assault against them, Ward said.
"Assault and battery committed against our officers are treated the same as against private citizens," Ward continued. "Assualt against pohce officers constitutes other legal violations."
"Chief Gates wants to make sure we operate as an autonomous entity," Levredge said. "Our authority is granted through the LAPD. We aren't an extension of it."
He added that the practice of calling LAPD in on major crimes or disturbances will continue.
Some concerns have arisen that the new authority of officers will lead to a more aggressive attitude among the officers. However, Levredge said his force would just continue to stress prevention of crime.
"We're not looking at this new authority as a means to create new hardships on students. It merely gives us the
*	ability to combat crimes," Levredge said.
The Student Senate had expressed concern last year that the memorandum might change the way security deals with alcohol-related problems. Levredge said he is not interested in arresting students who appear to be under the influence of alcohol, but is more concerned with those students' safety.
Neither Ward nor Levredge said they expected dramatic increases in arrests by security. Ward said the implementation of the memorandum will be carefully studied over the next year.
"By the end of 1984, we will have identified major shifts in the operating effectiveness of the force (as a result of the memorandum)," Ward said.
The memorandum may be of assistance to the LAPD during the 1984 Olympics, Ward said, but he sees it coming into play on an issue by issue basis.
"It will allow us to intervene in specific situations more readily," he said. But he pointed out that the two agencies will have different responsibilities during the Games.
Carl Levredge
After one month, KSCR still fights management wars
By Susan Rimerman and Kendra Ensor
Staff Writers
It has been almost a month since the university's student-run radio station KSCR returned to the airwaves. While there has been some genuine interest in the revival of the station, the amount of listeners has been low due to a lack of broadcasting range and funding, said Tom Breslin, director of production at KSCR.
"The biggest problem is (that) listenership and management aren't doing their job," said Breslin, adding that lack of money is another problem.
Kelly Porter, KSCR's station manager, said there are problems, but said "problems are to be expected in an organization that's trying to get a base established."
"I don't think it's that bad," he said. "I think the main issue is that we're not getting out to enough people and we're having some organization problems because we're a new organization," Porter said.
Breslin agreed there are some organization problems at the radio station.
"Everybody is very capable at what they're doing but it's just the people are going for too many goals and we don't have a concerted effort,” Breslin said.
"Some priorities are out of order and on certain issues we're not as fast as we should be," he said. "It's taken him (Kelly Porter) three months to submit a budget that should have taken three days," Breslin added.
Porter credited problems within the organization to low staff morale due to a "limited listening audience."
KSCR cannot purchase a license to reach a large audience because the AM radio band is so congested in Los Angeles that only existing licenses can be purchased. The FM band is off limits to students because the university still owns the license to the previously stu-dent-owned radio station KUSC. A law prohibits an entity from owning more than one FM station.
Ten receivers, valued at $1,000 each, currently serve university students in Webb Tower, Touton Hall and the North Complex Dormitories.
Porter said KSCR would additionally place speakers in Commons Grill and other university cafeterias using money granted by Irwin Lieb, vice president and dean of the college of letters, arts and sciences.
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Community blasts LAOOC, university
By Carmen Chandler
Assistant Qty Editor
Community leaders have accused the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee of ignoring the needs of the people living around the university during the 1984 Summer Games and have criticized the university for not developing more interaction with the community during the Olympic planning process.
"We feel like everyone's coming over to our house and there's a big party going on — it's in our home but we weren't included, except to clean up afterwards," said Antonia Econg, president of Central Park Five, a South-Central Los Angeles community organization.
Econg and other community leaders
said they have made repeated attempts during the past year and a half to get the LAOOC to recognize the problems faced by the people living around the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the Olympic Village, which will be located on campus next summer. But all their attempts have failed, they said.
"We've been ignored," said Bob Byers, president of the North University Park Communty Association.
"There's lots of talk but no action. The LAOOC (has) not committed (itself) to anything," Byers said.
Even attempts to bring up community problems at the monthly meetings — designed to bring the members of the community and representatives from the
LAOOC together and sponsored by City Councilman Robert Farrell at the university — have failed, the community leaders said.
Community members are invited to speak but they have no power to influence policies, Econg said.
"They tell us what the LAOOC is doing. Our input is not included. Things are dictated to us," Econg said.
The Rev. Clint Farabaugh, pastor of St. Agnes Catholic Church, agreed, saying the LAOOC has been making decisions about what is going to happen during the Olympics without input from the "grassroots community" — the people who are going to be living in the area during the Summer Games.
However, George Broder, deputy press secretary for the LAOOC said the Olympic committee has an "ongoing active community relations program."
"We're out there trying to involve all the communities (that are going to be affected by the various Olympics sites located across Southern California)," Broder said, but added he could not cite specific attempts made by the LAOOC to directly involve the community in the Olympic planning process.
Among the issues the community representatives would like the LAOOC to address is traffic, which will be particularly heavy during the morning and afternoon hours, when local residents will be going to and from work.
Another problem they would like addressed is the expected rise in crime resulting from the large number of strangers visiting the area.
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HEIDI EMERSON PAIL Y TROJAN
Braving the rapids of the fountain on Jefferson Boulevard, Tony Chang (left) and Dave Weber take time out to fish. The two freshmen said they are going duck hunting next week.