Volume Cll, Number 42
Seventy-Fifth Year of Publication
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University of Southern California
1912 — 1986
Thursday, October 30, 1986
Feature Sports-minded students direct over forty clubs
By Rajiv Khatau
Staff Writer
With the advent of autumn, the USC Recreation Assembly will start its fifth year of existence, funding and governing about 40 university sports clubs.
Besides adviser Parker Jenkins, the assembly staff consists of students with a desire to obtain leadership skills and experience, said Sami Nedjar, co-chairman of the assembly.
"We need student leaders to run the assembly. Without them, we can't run or start any type of club. If a club fails it's because of (a lack of) leadership," Nedjar said.
"We have a real nice relationship between students and advisers. We work together towards the same goal," Jenkins said.
His role as adviser is to "advise and help the dubs that are under the assembly. . . .I'll help (the clubs) with areas such as getting insurance, risk management, and equipment," Jenkins said.
Jenkins said that almost any-(Continued on page 11)
Health authorities debate AIDS Initiative
By Cari Meisinger
Staff Writer
An otherwise unemotional debate on Proposition 64, which calls for the quarantine of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome victims, yesterday ended as an unidentified man waved an American flag and shouted
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Dr. Laurens P. White
that the United States shouldn't bother with an AIDS cure so all homosexuals will die and the U.S. can return to a "normal society."
The lunch-time debate held in Taper Hall pitted Bill Dannemeyer, a fourth-term congressman and member of the Health and Environmental Subcommittee, against Laurens White, Council Chairman of the California Medical Association and specialist in internal medicine and medical oncology, in an hour-long debate that discussed Proposition 64 and how society deals with AIDS.
"Unless we find a cure, we can expect more deaths of young men than in World War II," said Dannemeyer, who supports the proposition that can prevent carriers of the AIDS virus from participating in certain activities, including food service.
Although he pointed out that 91 percent of AIDS victims are homosexual males, Dannemeyer warned that everyone is in danger and that it is unfair to say that the disease cannot be contracted casually. He mentioned several examples of people who contracted the virus by
Professors predict elections
By Robyn Epstein
Staff Writer
Richard Dekmejian, chairman of the political science department, called the upcoming elections "quite boring" while moderating an open forum Wednesday.
Four political science professors exchanged election previews and predictions at the forum in front of nearly 50 students at the Von KleinSmid Center lounge.
Mark Kann, associate professor of political science, disagreed with Dekmejian and said "This election is exciting."
Kann dted the Rose Bird controversy and the race for a U.S. Senate seat between Alan Cranston and Ed Zschau as making this election year exdting.
Carl Christol, the first political science professor to speak, focused his remarks on the controversial Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, Rose Bird, and said that although he thinks it is obvious she will be removed, there is no basis to vote against her.
Bird has drawn a flood of critidsm throughout California for repeatedly overturning death penalty sentences in the state.
But Christol said voters with integrity should dosely examine how Bird bases her dedsions.
"Maybe I'm fighting a dead horse, but Bird will go to any length to determine something for better or for worse,'' he said.
Joseph Cerrell, another political sdence professor, said Rose Bird will go down in history as the first chief justice ever to be removed from office, and asked rhetorically, "Will she take anyone down with her?"
But Kann looked at the Bird issue as being a definite plus in uniting the Republican Party.
"The real objective is not the death penalty, but other issues," he said. "The republicans are just using the death penalty issue as a mask to shroud the real issues." And that strategy has worked, Kann said.
"She was appointed by Jem' Brown and even her friends dislike her," he said.
However, Kann thinks republicans have a different opinion about the U.S. Senate race, which pits veteran Sen. Alan Cranston, a .democrat, against Ed Zschau, a republican.
While Bird serves as a rallying point for republicans, Kann said many are not sure whether they support Zschau's campaign.
"The Senate race is the most important in my mind," said Sheldon Kamieniecki, a political sdence professor. Voters should look ahead to 1988 and realize that "if the senate changes to democratic, it will make it that much more difficult to pass many dedsions."
"Democrats will have a hard time gaining control of the Senate, but it should end up fifty-fifty," he said.
Cerrell also discussed the various propositions that are presented to voters this year.
He predicts Proposition 61, which proposes to limit the salaries of government employees, will lose.
"Why do we pay dty employees more than the mayor? The AIDS proposition, Proposition 64, will also be defeated," he said. This proposition would force AIDS victims to be tested and possibly quarantined.
Cerrell predicted that Proposition U, which puts limitations on commerdal industrialized development in Los Angeles, will pass.
"This election may go down in history as one of the duller elections," he added. "It will also be very dose."
means other than sexual contact.
"There is probably no evidence that AIDS can be transmitted sexually," said White, who opposes the proposition. He also pointed out that it was impossible for homosexual males to make up 91 percent of the victims, as Dannemeyer claimed. In New York City, 50 percent of the victims are drug abusers. The figures vary, he said.
Dannemeyer called Proposition 64 a "modest step." He said the first step is to add AIDS to the Health Department's list of reportable diseases.
At present, there are 58 diseases, including gonorrhea and syphilis, which must be reported by doctors. Dannemeyer reasons that if these diseases, which are curable, must be reported, then so should AIDS, which is incurable.
Dannemeyer said that a 1957 California law makes it a misdemeanor for a person who is knowingly infected with gonorrhea or syphilis to have sexual relations.
"I'm unaware of someone in the slammer because he had the clap and had sex with someone," White said.
The second action Proposition 64 would pursue, said Dannemeyer, would be to remove the nonaccountability of AIDS patients. No longer would those with AIDS go unrecognized.
This would undo what homosexual males have been fighting.
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Congressman Bill Dannemeyer
Security uses selective enforcement
Series of local burglaries prompts additional patrol
By Danielle Sanford
Staff Writer
A series of crimes along West 30th Street has prompted university security to employ a tactic called "selective enforcement" that is used to apprehend criminals who strike several times in one area on the same day, Sgt. John Lewis said.
The crimes, an auto theft and two auto burglaries, were all reported at about 10 a.m. Tuesday. They had all occurred in a carport at an apartment building at 721 W. 30th St. and Lewis said he considers them to be the work of the same person.
"This probably is the same person inasmuch as the time frame is the same on the reports and it is the same location," Lewis said.
"When we discover a problem, as we have here, we give the area extra attention," he said, adding that early morning officers have been notified of the recent trend in that area.
Under the selective enforcement plan, officers will stake out the area and observe with binoculars.
The building's carport opens into an alley and is not directly visible from the street or from the apartments.
Although similar crimes appear on security reports all the time, they are reported at different times. However, Lewis said often they have occurred at about the same time and are the work of a single thief.
Therefore, he said the times may be deceiving. "The time listed is when the inddent is reported to us, it may have actually occurred days before," Lewis said.
Selective enforcement is frequently employed but Lewis said sometimes security doesn't have enough officers to set up a stakeout and answer calls scattered all around campus.
Some residents interviewed at the building said they were unaware of the recent thefts and that they had never been robbed. The students who reported the inddents Tuesday could not be reached at press time.
The apartment building the officers plan to watch is not university owned.
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