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Friday, January 13, 1984__University of Southern California	Volume XCV, Number 4
Phi Tau violates hazing codes
By Jennifer Cray
City Writer
The university has decided to suspend the campus chapter of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity for violations of the school hazing codes early last semester, said Tom Piemik, coordinator of fraternity and sorority life for the office of Residential Life.
The fraternity's national organization office discovered incidents of pledges performing pushups as punishment and actives yelling at pledges during a pledge class line-up, said Jeremy Stringer, assistant vice president for student affairs, in a prepared statement.
On Dec. 6, Stringer imposed a 60-dav suspension on the chapter. The suspension period will begin Jan. 27 and end March 27.
John Meyerhoff, executive director of the national organization in Oxford, Ohio, had asked that the house not be suspended in order to protect the fraternity's future membership.
The fraternity was given the option of beginning its suspension period immediately or on Friday, Jan. 27, the day after formal Spring Rush. The fraternity chose the latter.
This is the fifth time in the last four years that the university has placed a campus Greek organization on suspension for hazing violations.
The Phi Kappa Tau incident is unusual because the house's national office uncovered the violations and reported them to the university. In the previous four incidents, the university first discovered the incidents and reported them to the national fraternity organizations.
A staff member of the Phi Kappa Tau national organization who visited the house last semester reported the hazing violations to Meyerhoff. He in turn informed the university of the incident and the organization's plans to discipline the chapter, Meyerhoff said.
The national organization has placed the chapter on probation which will last untti May 15, 1985, "and conducted a chapter reorganization," Meyerhoff said. Four of the house's members were suspended and 17 other members were put on graduate status — "an effective way to force them to leave the house," he said.
Over half of the membership in the house was placed on graduate status.
Piernik said this "indicates a responsible action on the part of the national fraternity."
The last campus fraternity suspended by the university for hazing violations was the Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) house. The house was suspended in the fall of 1982 and this continued for the remainder of the 1982-83 academic year.
Piemik emphasized that "any amount of hazing is unacceptable" to the university.
Meyerhoff agreed, adding that the incidents were "a relatively minor violation" of the hazing codes.
A university administrative review panel, which included two rep-
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Phi Tau will be suspended by the university for violations of school hazing codes. The 60-day suspension begins Jan. 27 and ends March 27.
Jerry Buss invited by fraternity to lecture on business, sports
By Sonia Saruba
Gty Writer
Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team and the Los Angeles Kings hockey team, will speak in Hancock Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Monday, after being invited to the university by the Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity.
Buss, whose wealth is estimated at over $500 million, is expected to discuss his career in the worlds of business and sports.
This should be of interest to Laker fans, King fans or general sports fans," said Dave Kreidler, president of the business fraternity. "Buss has celebrity status, and it's always interesting to see someone like that up close and hear them speak, especially a local figure."
Buss worked his way through high school and college. His undergraduate degree was earned in two and a half years on a scholarship at the University of Wyoming.
He received his doctorate in physical chemistry from this university in 1952, studying under Syd-
ney Benson. He also taught chemistry for a short time at the university.
"I think he will be a good motivator for students," said Terence Trudo, a past president of Alpha Kappa Psi. "He is very confident in what he does and if he can instill that confidence in our students, it would help them a lot in the business world."
In 1958 Buss quit his job at an aircraft company and began to amass his fortune. He invested his entire savings in an apartment complex in Los Angeles and the multi-million dollar company, Mar-iani-Buss Associates was on its way.
More recently. Buss was the financial muscle behind the struggles of World Team Tennis and the Los Angeles Strings. Buss was the one who put Ilie Nastasie and Chris Evert-Lloyd together for a World Team Tennis title.
In the summer of 1979, 20 years after his start in real estate, Buss purchased the Lakers, the Kings and the 17,505-seat Los Angeles Forum for $67.5 million. The Forum was built in 1967 for $16 mil-
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Security reports show declining crime rate
By David Jefferson
Assistant City Editor
The total number of crimes reported to University Security in December is down from the number reported during the same month in 1982, according to statistics compiled by University Security.
The figures released are in line with observations made by the Los Angeles Police Department indicating that crime in South-Central Los Angeles has decreased.
“Crime is on the decline around here," said Sgt. Ronald Lepeska, supervisor of records and communications for security-
Crimes for December 1983 totaled 263, 41 less than the 304 which were reported during the same time last year.
Lt. Art Blair of security noted that December is one of the slower months for crime in the university area.
"Crime almost always will drop during December, not because there are fewer crimes, but because there are fewer people here," he said.
The most significant drop was in the number of burglaries from motor vehicles (BFMV), which fell from 121 in December 1982 to 52 in December 1983.
During the past month, the
greatest number of BFMVs, 25, occurred on or immediately around the perimeter of campus. The second highest number, 13, took place in the Row area.
"Most of our automobile burglaries and thefts happen to cars parked along the border of
campus, on Exposition Boulevard, Vermont Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard," Lepeska explained. "We also get quite a bit of them happening in the parking structures."
Incident reports from security indicate that most BFMVs involve a suspect shattering a car's
window or prying open a door and removing items from inside. the vehicle. More often than not, a car stereo is one of the items stolen.
"BMWs, Porsches and Audis are the most popular cars for these crimes because they usually have expensive Blaupunkt ra-
dios worth $500. The burglars will take the radio and they'll sell it for $50 to $100," Lepeska said.
Thefts from motor vehicles (TFMV) — which account for such incidents as stolen hubcaps and items taken from unlocked or unattended automobiles — also dropped, from 23 in December 1982 to 17 in December 1983. Again, the largest number of these crimes, eight, occurred on campus, with the second-highest number, three each, oc-currin both the Row area and the Cardinal Gardens/Century Apartments area.
The only crime related to motor vehicles that increased over the period was grand theft auto (GTA), which rose from 19 during the month in 1982 to 22 in
1983.	Of the cars stolen last month, the largest number were taken from the Row area, with the second largest number removed from campus.
Lepeska said the cars most often stolen are BMWs, Porsches, Volkswagens and 1965-69 Mustangs.
"The Mustangs are so popular because these people can literally tear the car up and sell the different parts," he explained.
Also increasing in December
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Suspected molester arrested
By David Jefferson
Assistant City Editor
A man arrested Thursday afternoon in Do-heny Library for "outrage to public decency" was later discovered to match the description of a suspect wanted by the Los Angeles Police Department for child molesting, said Sgt. Hermin Aviles of University Security.
The man, identified as Daniel Joseph Me-Deles of Los Angeles, was reportedly crawling under tables and looking up a female student's skirt on the ninth level of the stacks in Doheny, Aviles said.
*	The victim called security, and after a building search, MeDeles was detained in the main lobby and arrested by Aviles and Officer Martin Jones, also of security.
While being booked at LAPD Southwest Division, Aviles said MeDeles was identified by officers as matching the description of a child molester pictured on a recent police bulletin.
The bulletin said that on Oct. 27, 1983, the suspect in question approached a 7-year-old girl who had just walked out of a Venice restaurant
and was waiting in the parking lot for her parents.
The man allegedly lured the girl away from the lot by asking her to help him find his lost dog, then led her to a bushy area two blocks away and forced her to orally copulate and have sexual intercourse with him. Afterward he released the child and told her not to tell anyone about the incident.
The suspect is described in the bulletin as a 30- to 50-year-old male Caucasian, 5 feet 10 inches to 5 feet 11 inches tall, with a thin build, brown hair, a medium complexion and a British accent.
In addition to the description match, police at Southwest Division discovered MeDeles had a sex-charge warrant outstanding, Aviles said.
Follow-up on the case will be handled by Pacific Division Sex Crimes.
"We appreciate this particular student's cooperation in coming to us so we could catch this man," Aviles said. He stressed that security always wants any helpful information students can give about crimes they have witnessed.