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Volume CV, Number 5
University of Southern California
Wednesday, June 8, 1988
45-year-old man killed near university
Body found with gunshot wound on second floor of Portland Villa
By Gary Caffey
Staff Writer
Some of the residents of Portland Villa apartments on 2376 Portland St. were awakened by the sound of a single gunshot at 9:40 a.m. Friday.
At 10 a.m., Yun-Pen Hong, a 45-year-old resident-alien from Taiwan, was found dead with an execution-style, gunshot wound in the forehead by a resident of the building in a second-floor hallway, police said.
Just seconds after the shooting, police said, a male suspect was seen fleeing the scene into an alley near the apartment building and eventually got away in an awaiting car.
Hong, who lived in Monterey Park, had no reason to be in the area around the university, his family told police, because he did not speak Ertglish.
5-year pact with MCA approved
By Gene Kang
Staff Writer
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission voted 8-1 last Wednesday on a management contract with the entertainment	partnership, MCA / Spectacor, making MCA the private manager of the Coliseum and the Sports Arena.
The contract, effective July 1, will last for a term of five years and will be renewed at the com mision's option if a financial benchmark is reached during the initial four years.
MCA / Spectacor previously sought a more broad position of authority in its original draft of the contract,” which may have included negotiating tenancy with the Los Angeles Raiders as well as other executive responsibilities. Instead, it will assume managerial responsibility on a lesser basis.
The new manager will receive a base management fee of $300,000 dollars, and in addition to that will receive 30 percent of all revenues $500,000 over $1.2 million, 35 percent of the next $500,000, 40 percent over the next $500,000, 45 percent over the next and 50 percent of anything over the next $500,000.
The responsibilites on the part of the new managers involve su-
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Sgt. David Ritch of University Security confirmed that Hong had never been at the university.
According to the police report, his family said they last saw him early Friday morning when he left home on his way to work in Rosemead, which is 15 miles east of Monterey Park. Hong was a mechanic.
At that time, Hong gave no indication to his family that he was coming to the USC area, which is 20 miles to the west of Monterey Park.
After questioning several of the residents^ of the building, the Los Angeles Police Department determined that no one in the building even knew Hong.
Residents who were in the building at the time of the shooting did not hear any type of argument or struggle which might (Continued on page 2)
CHRISTER GEISLER / SUMMER TROJAN
45-year-old Yun-Pen Hong (right), a non-university student, was shot to death early Friday morning at Portland Villa, located at 2376 Portland Ave., two blocks away from the Row. The Los Angeles Police Department has no leads to the murder and no suspects.
Joined^ together to improve communication
New unit to combine four departments
By Jennifer Glickman
Staff Writer
In order to improve communications among four previously existing offices, a new adminis-
trative unit has been created at the university called the facilities planning and management department.
Headed by Thomas Moran, vice president of business af-
Associate vice president | of facilities planning, management j Open
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University architect, director of architectural services Thomas Coffin
Executive director of facilities operations, maintenance services Duane Hickling
Director of administrative support services AI Greenwood
Director of . facilities management services James Massev
Architectural services. Engineering services. Construction mgt.
Carpentry,
Electrical,
Elevator,
Operating engineers, etc
Customer information center. Finance,
Personnel, Purchasing, etc.
Classroom scheduling. Facilities inventory. Special projects
The facilities planning and management department consists of four offices serving under the vice president of business affairs.
fairs, the department consists of the architectural services, facilities operations and maintenance, administrative support services and facilities management offices. The new unit was proposed by Moran early this year and recognized in May.
Moran said the purpose of joining the four independent departments under one is "to have more effective and better coordinated delivery of plant services at the university."
Moran was formerly the executive associate vice president of health affairs before becoming vice president of business affairs in January.
He said there were problems with the old organization.
"The units were operating relatively independent of one another, and I wanted to bring them closer together to get them to coordinate more effectively so that the services they provide would be done faster, more effectively and at less cost," Moran said.
"When they were separate, they weren't communicating closely enough in order for (effective scheduling) to occur," he added.
Now that these four units are joined, "we've got to get everybody working effectively together. We have to develop our systems to affect appropriate co-
ordination," Moran said. Those systems include work order processing and other administrative systems as well as the computer system.
"All of these systems have to be developed to work effectively so that scheduling can occur and happens very quickly so people are working all the time — they're not waiting for jobs," he said.
Moran said the current computer system is being "enhanced."
"In terms of the . . . computerization — we would have done that whether or not we reorganized," he added. Moran also said that the computer hasn't been effective in the past and that a task force, headed by Al Greenwood, the director of administrative support services, has been working since January to improve the system.
One new position was created by the restructure — that of associate vice president, who answers to Moran.
An advertisement for the position has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Moran said that there have been hundreds of applications submitted, including applicants from within the university. He added that none of the applications had been reviewed to date.
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