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Volume XCII, Number *£	University of Southern California	Monday, November 8, 1982
University joins in community group
By Carmen Chandler
Staff Write
Representatives from the university and its surrounding community have joined to form the Community Consortium to deal with problems that affect the area.
"Basically, the main point is to foster cooperation between institutions and organizations within the university and the community,” said LevfTCingston, chairman of the board of directors of Hoover Intergenerational Care, director of the Greater University Parish and interim chairman of the consortium.
"The consortium will facilitate these interest groups to realize their full capabilities,” he added.
‘ Leonard Wines, executive assistant to James Appleton, senior vice president for development and university relations, said the university became involved in the project because it has an interest in the community.
“We became involved because the university has an interest in the area and we care about the people who live in the area.” he said. "It will improve community relations and it is a good idea.”
The group is made up of 14 members, six of which are from the university.
The idea for the consortium began in a meeting held last year by members of the univeristy and the community, and was established when the group approved its constitution in October.
The consortium is expected to focus its interests on the area around the university, whose boundaries are Washington Avenue on the north, Vernon Avenue on the south. Main Street on the east and Western Avenue on the west.
In its constitution, the group said its purpose is to achieve and maintain the highest possible quality of life in the Hoover-
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University crime suspect awaits trial on 26 counts
By Steve De Salvo
Staff Writer
Twenty-year-old Antoine Jordan has spent more than a year in jail. It was on Oct. 29, 1981, that he was arrested and charged with 18 felony counts, ending what university officials then called a ‘‘crime spree” on campus.
Within days of his arrest, eight more charges were filed against Jordan, bringing the total number of felony counts against him to 26. The charges include rape, kidnapping and robbery.
Jordan has been unable to make the S100.000 bail.
University officials said at the time that they believed he was responsible for a large number of the violent crimes against people committed at the university in 1981. Detective David Hudson of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Southwest Division declared that with the arrest of Jordan, the university had “solved (its) rape problem.”
Since then, Jordan's case has traveled through the judicial process, at one point becoming affected by the Proposition 8 controversy involving the so-
called “Victim’s Bill of Rights.” Jordan has pleaded not guilty and the case is still pending in Los Angeles Superior Court, where a court trial is scheduled to begin Jan. 17.
Christine Carr, the deputy district attorney prosecuting the case, said the trial has been delayed because Jordan waived his right to a speedy trial at his pre-trial hearing last December and because he was granted several continuances between February and April of this year.
His trial was originally planned for Sept. 13.
“They were granted because Jordan’s public defender was handling another case at the time,” Carr said. “Attorneys are not allowed to handle more than one case at a time.”
Carr said a continuance was also issued because Jordan, at one time, didn't want a public defender and considered obtaining a private attorney. Later, Jordan abandoned his attempt to get a private lawyer, she said.
Eventually, the prosecutor in the case, who was then Mar-issa Batt. reached a plea bargain with the defense. It was
agreed that Jordan would give up his right to a jury trial in exchange for a sentence of 45 years in prison instead of life if convicted. “This was a major concession on the defense’s part.” Carr said.
But in June, before Jordan could officially agree to the plea bargain, Californians passed Proposition 8. There was a question as to whether there could be a plea bargain after all.
The prosecuter said she no longer believed she should agree to the bargain. But the defense disagreed and the issue had to be decided by a judge. The trial was postponed until a decision was made. On Sept. 16, three days after the trial was originally scheduled to begin, the judge upheld the plea bargain.
Carr, who was assigned the case shortly before the decision, agreed with the defense to have Judge Gordon Ringer decide the Jordan case. Ringer’s case load was full for the next three months, so the Jan.
17	date was agreed upon.
“This was convenient not
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Ex-radical Eldridge Cleaver speaks
Relates personal philosophies in speech to students
up for America
Staff photo by Larry Gund
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
By Laura Castaneda
Staff Writer
Sitting in front of Hancock Auditorium Friday before his scheduled speech, Eldridge Cleaver looked nothing like the radical Black Panther leader he was in the 1960s.
With a pin of a small American flag attached over his heart, and Snoopy shoelaces on his Nike tennis shoes. Cleaver looked more like a member of the "establishment " he had once fought so vigorously against.
But during his hour-long speech. Cleaver, author of the best-selling book Soul on Ice, made it clear he has definitely had a change of heart.
Cleaver, 48. who once sounded the battle cry for blood in the streets, staunchly defended the United States before the audience of about 100.
“We have to stop rejecting our country,” he said. “It’s the only one we have, and if it goes down the tubes, we go down the tubes with it.”
The self-described, former “political exile,” who plans to run for mayor of Oakland in 1985, and whose wife is studying law at Yale, said it was his experience of living in Communist nations that changed his previously negative opinion about the United States to a positive one.
Cleaver’s radicalism and career with the Panthers began upon his release from prison in 1966, when he was named information minister for the group. He had already rejected
the Progressive Labor Party and the American Communist Party for being “too conservative.”
After various brushes with the law. Cleaver was forced to flee to 'Cuba in 1968 to avoid prosecution on charges of attempted murder and assault after a shootout the Panthers had with police in Oakland.
Adamant about the Marxist-Leninist doctrine he had come to accept, Cleaver looked forward to finally observing communism first hand.
“I was full of enthusiasm for communism and Cuba and I had hopes of becoming the best revolutionary there was,” Cleaver said.
However, he found the dictatorship in Cuba ‘‘obnoxious and insupportable,” and left after only eight months.
For the next six years. Cleaver lived in Algeria, Switzerland and France. But the disillusionment remained and he decided to return to the United States in 1975.
“The United States is the most free and democratic country in the world,” he said. “Instead of overthrowing it, we should be strengthening it.”
When he returned. Cleaver pleaded guilty to the original charges and was sentenced in 1980 to 2,000 hours of community service at the De Anza College library. Last month, he completed his sentence.
“I always wanted to come back, but I just didn't think it was possible,” he said. After the Watergate and Spiro Ag-
new scandals, and the end of the Vietnam War, Cleaver believed there was a different mood in the country.
“I felt my (criminal) case could now be dealt with in a calmer atmosphere.”
After a lengthy description of his personal history. Cleaver finally began the topic of his speech, "America's Future & the World Revolution.”
"Some people dislike the term revolution. They believe it only happens in Latin America. Africa and Asia,” he said. “But the United States is in the middle of the (revolutionary) process.”
Cleaver said that all people who want to improve the world are revolutionaries at heart. Because the United States came into being “through a violent, revolutionary war,” the idea is "in the blood and psychology of the American people,” he said.
Cleaver, on the whole, praised the United States for its democratic principles, but he also criticized its traditional opposition to popular uprisings in other countries.
“But often, America is on the wrong side of struggles, suppressing revolutions. We should be more open (to revolutions) in an international context and we should be willing to change our concepts.
“We have to become nationalistic and patriotic. These are not nasty words. These are the things that hold us together.” Cleaver’s speech was part of
a nationwide, 30-campus tour sponsored by the Collegiate Association for the Research of College Principles. CARP was
based on and is inspired by the teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church.