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Volume XC Number 12	University of Southern California
Fraternity houses may be closed
By Kevin Olson
Eight University fraternities have three weeks to make needed structural improvements on their houses or may face eviction, says Health Department spokesmen.
Fraternity members and representatives of the fraternity house’s owners corporations must present proof to the City Attorney’s office that corrective measures have been completed at a special hearing on August 14.
The County Health Department originally filed complaints in May alleging that many of the fraternities on West 28th St. (the Row) had not met their health and safety standards. Ray Olgi, supervisor of health inspectors, said that every fraternity had been looked at, and in his opinion, most were in “generally very bad shape.”
Notices were sent to fraternity leaders and landlords specifying what improvements must be made. Each fraternity was given approximately 30 days to comply
After the end of that time period, health inspectors reinspected the houses and found that some of the fraternities had not even begun corrective action. These houses were given and additional 50 days to do so, but must now appear before a City Attorney’s hearing.
The Health Department has released the names of these fraternities as those still implicated: Pi Kappa Phi, Theta Chi, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Chi, Phi Gamma Delta, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Kappa Alpha, and Tau Epsilon Phi.
If corrections are not made before the time of the hearing, the fraternity may be forced to go to court and face possible expulsion from the structure or the landlords may be fined.
Al Brong, a County Health Inspector, is confident that im-porvements will be made. “You see, the problem that the fraternities must face is that
the House Corporation (landlords) feel it is the student’s responsibility to make improvements because they do the damage.
“But the fraternities don’t have the funds to do so because they pay rent to the House Corporation. So it is really the House Corperation’s responsibility to expedite the correction. If they don’t, the fraternity members lose along with them.
“The City Attorney’s hearing will hear both sides of the argument and make sure that something gets done.”
Substandard housing is not uncommon on the Row. In fact, it has always been a problem. So much a problem that the Health Department has usually supported a “hands-off” policy on the Row even though there are annual inspections. But certain events have now changed this.
Last year, at UCLA, which has a similar if not worse housing shortage, two fraternity houses caught fire and burnt to the ground, killing one student and injuring many others. County politicians naturally became worried at the apparent fire hazard associated with community dwelling and demanded that the Health Department facilitate some changes.
Inspectors	thoroughly
combed UCLA housing facilities and asked for strict improvements. The entire process ended, as John Barnett, a Health Department official puts it, with “better and safer housing conditions with only one fraternity house being closed down.
Now the Health Department is combing this university and demanding improvements for the first time in approximately 10 years. This “hands-off” policy is showing now showing its harmfulness as fraternities must pay for damages made long ago.
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Reilly named to Trustees
Philip J. Reilly, president and chief executive officer of Mission Viejo Company, Mission Viejo, has been elected to the university Board of Trustees.
Reilly joins a distinguished group of national leaders responsible for the largest private university in California.
A two-time graduate of the university, Reilly earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial management in 1956 and an LLB from the university Law Center in 1959.
The following year, he joined the Orange County law firm of Rutan and Tucker, specializing in real estate.
He joined Mission Viejo Co.
in 1963 as executive vice president. He became president and chief executive officer of the firm in 1967.
Mission Viejo, a community development company, controls approximately 35,000 acres of property in California and Colorado. Since 1970, the firm has been a subsidary of Philip Morris Inc.
Reilly is a vice presodent of Philip Morris Inc, and a member of the board of directors of Mission Viejo Co. He is also a board member of Miller Brewing Co., Seven-Up Co. and Ventura Coastal Corp.
He is a director of Denver Civic Ventures, Inc., a director of the Orange County Council
of the Boy Scouts of America and a former director of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
Reilly is a member of the President’s Council of the Building Industry Association of Southern California’s Orange County chapter; the California Bar Association; the Colorado Forum and the World Affairs Council of Orange County.
He has served as a trustee of the Bowes Museum in Santa Ana and Children’s Hospital of Orange County.
He has been a member of the executive committee of the New Communities Council of Url an Land Institute; the Gov-
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PHILIP J. REILLY
London streets lined for wedding of Prince Charles
LONDON— On the eve of the eve of the great day, ardent royalty lovers were already camping out in central London Monday for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.
“If you are going to be a fanatic, you might as well do a good job of it,” observed Staffordshire automobile salesman Steve Tinsley as he found his spot on The Mall for Wednesday’s wedding procession.
Police made a security sweep along the two-mile route from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul’s Cathedral. Manhole covers, drains and scaffolding were checked for explosives with the help of bomb-sniffing
dogs, and police marksmen got their final briefing.
Charles attended the christening of niece Zara Phillips, 2-month-old daughter of his sister Princess Anne, at Windsor Castle, and Lady Diana, who suffered an attack of pre-wedding nerves over the weekend, spent the day out of public view. The royal couple later were joining a glittering evening reception at the palace.
Queen Elizabeth II was giving a dinner party followed by the reception for more than
1,000	foreign dignitaries, royal relatives and friends, including U.S. first lady Nancy Reagan.
The Scotland Yard assistant commissioner in charge of se-
curity for the wedding, Wilfred Gibson, said preparations “have now reached a crescendo.”
Police said they were relying on ordinary bobbies stationed every four paces along the wedding route as the front line of defense against any terror attack Wednesday.
Despite elaborate precautions for the British royal family and 50 heads of state, kings, princes and dukes invited, police are also relying on the watchful eyes of the crowd.
A $12^,000 fireworks display in Hyde Dirk was being prepared for Tuesday night, when Prince Charles will join the
crowds to light the first of 101 royal wedding beacons across the country.
The royal yacht Britannia set sail for the British colony of Gibraltar Monday to await the arrival of the heir to the throne and his bride Saturday. The 4,961-ton luxury yacht, with a Royal Navy crew of 22 officers and 254 men, was saluted by a chorus of ship’s horns as it sailed ou* of Portsmouth harbor.
The event will be covered by more than 900 journalists and watched by at least 600 million people worldwide. Actor Richard Burton, hired as a BBC
radio commentator, walked the route Monday and said, “I don’t know whether there will be another wedding like it.”
The 32-year-old Charles, who says he plans to keep up his highly active lifestyle, will not be playing any further polo matches this season, it was announced by Roger Oliver, groom of the queen's stable. “With the wedding and everything, he will not have time to play again this year,” he said.
During a polo game Saturday in which the prince played, Lady Diana became flustered by the attention of cameramen and fled in tears.