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Volume XCIV, Number 15	University of Southern California	Monday, September 26, 1983
ADMINISTRA TION, LAPD SIGN MEMORANDUM
University Security given increased powers to arrest
By Jeffrey Tylicki
Assistant Qty Editor
University security officers now have greater powers of arrest, following the recent signing of a memorandum of understanding between the university and the Los Angeles Police Department.
The memorandum, a result of many months of study by the LAPD and the university, was signed Sept. 13 by police chief Daryl Cates and Jon Strauss, university vice president of administration. The agreement went into effect Sept. 15.
Under the agreement, security officers, who could previously make arrests only if they had witnessed a suspect commit a crime, are given much broader powers.
Now security officers, as authorized peace officers, may arrest a person if they
have “reasonable cause" to believe the suspect committed a public offense or felony, whether or not a felony was in fact committed.
University officials appeared pleased with the agreement. But the Student Senate, though pleased with the signing of the memorandum, expressed some reservations over the agreement.
"Before the memorandum, security officers were subject to liability for arresting students (that were innocent of any wrong doing)," said Davis Taylor, senator and chairman of the Environmental and External Affairs Committee. "This now presents a potential for having problems.
"(The senate) has pointed out the potentially undesirable psychological
aspects of the new ease with which security officers can arrest not only non-students, but students as well," he said. "We feel this is a real danger (but we) have had assurances from all levels of management that precautions will be taken against these dangers.
"Even if there are only two or three problems (as a result of this memorandum) that's two or three problems too many. We want to make sure students aren't arrested for things they shouldn't be."
The LAPD was able to grant this new authority to University Security under section 830.7 of the California Penal Code. Security's powers are those stated in section 836 of the code, which refers to a peace officer's power of arrest.
All officers certified under the memorandum must be full-time members of the security force, meet certain peace officer standards of the LAPD and the state, and complete a training course with the LAPD.
The powers of arrest granted by the LAPD only extend within a geographic "response boundary" esablished around the main campus and health sciences campus by security chief Steven Ward in 1981.
Anthony Lazzaro, vice president of business affairs, said these powers are also in effect for officers only with the authority of the university. For example, if a liquor store within the university's response boundary were being held up, se-(Continued on page 2)
Touton Hall 'pigs out/ wins Tommy's contest
Solar heating for the Olympic pool has been delayed due to lack of a sponsor.
SU CARTER
Solar heating for pool hindered
University finds $750,000 gift for 400 panels difficult to solicit
By Doreen Guarino
Staff Writer
A plan to install a $750,000 solar heating system at the Olympic Pool complex has been in the works for two years, but university attempts to find a company to fund the project have staggered and may soon be abandoned before the Games.
A solar heating system would save the university about $40,000 in yearly heating expenses and would involve the installation of 400 solar panels on top of the adjacent parking structure B.
"The solar project is a fair expense," said Duane Hickling, executive Olympic coordinator. "We'd hoped to get more cooperation from a company in terms of participation from them. That has not materialized."
McDonald's Corp., which gave the university $3 million to build the Olympic pools, will not be funding the solar heating project. McDonald's reportedly set a limit to their donation and will not exceed it.
Hickling said that solar heating companies would be the obvious candidates to donate money for the project. However, he added that most of those companies are too small to
donate the amount needed for installation.
While university officials have been talking primarily to energy companies, multinational corporations such as Atlantic Richfield have also been contacted.
"ARCO didn't turn us down flat," Hickling said. "Everybody
McDonald's Corp, which gave the university $3 million to build the Olympic pool, will not be funding the solar heating project. McDonald's reportedly set a limit to their donation and will not ex-ceed it.
agreed it was a nice idea but it didn't seem right for their company."
Although the university is still talking to many companies, Hickling said that possibilities are dimming and there are no tremendous leads at this point.
"The solar heating system is still a great idea," said Anthony
Lazzaro, vice president of business affairs. "It's still . . . something we'd like to do."
Lazzaro said donations of cash, equipment and materials are needed for the project.
"If we succeed it will be a combination of two or three supporters of this project getting together and making it possible," he said.
Lazzaro noted there are only six months left to work on the fund-raising problem.
"If we don't succeed in attracting a donor by March of 1984," he said, "we'll have to forget it."
In the meantime, solar covers for the Olympic pools are on order and will be installed next month. The covers, which cost less than $20,000, are expected to save up to 75 percent in heating costs and will pay for themselves the first year. In contrast, Lazzaro said it would take the solar heating system seven to eight years to pay for itself.
"This is not to say that if we get a solar heating system that the combination of the two wouldn't be even better," Lazzaro said.
A solar heating system would generate heat for the pools while the pool covers would just keep that heat in at night.
The pools were installed with natural gas boilers for heat. Due to the warm weather, those boilers have yet to be used.
By Joann Gekko
Staff Writer
It was a feat that rivaled those of the world's biggest trencherman.
In only 71/2 minutes, five Touton Hall residents stuffed 26 greasy Tommy's burgers, each dripping with melted cheese and chili, into their mouths.
But for the five university students who put themselves through the ordeal Thursday night, the pig-out paid off—they were victors in the fourth annual Tommy Burger eating contest. For their effort, they were awarded a fitting trophy: a gold-tone pig atop a pillar of wood.
It didn't appear easy, however. With each bite, the winning contestants grimaced and some had to take an occasional drink of soda to help wash down the burgers.
The contest, attended by the three local network news shows and well over 100 spectators, was to see which university dormitory—
Eouton, Trojan Hall, Parkside, or College-University—could eat the tost "world famous" Tommy's single cheeseburgers with everything on them.
But from the start, it was apparent that it wasn't a contest at all. It was really a grudge match between the five-man teams of Trojan Hall and Touton Hall. The Parkside and College-University teams were just extras in this event.
The scene of the contest, Tommy's World Famous Hamburger stand on Rampart Boulevard, was a bright, bustling center of activity that looked strangely out of place in the darkened neighborhood surrounding it.
"Get the food! Get the food!" the teams yelled as they pounded their makeshift tables—metal grills placed on top of covered garbage cans. Some dormitory dwellers perched themselves atop one of the surrounding buildings, and some complex residents cheered for their team, "Tou-ton, Tou-ton."
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JON SOO HOO / DAILY TROJAN Tommy burgers were consumed in mass quantities Thursday night and Mike Johnson of Trojan Hall shows how it is done.