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Volume XCVII, Number 56	University of Southern California	Wednesday, November 21, 1984
Musick Law Building slated for $9.5 million expansion
Senate studying need for more emergency phones
By Rebecca Esquibel
Staff Writer
The Student Senate is currently collecting statistics and data from Telecommunications Services and University Security to determine the feasibility of installing more emergency phones with lights along off-campus walkways.
Pauline Ng, a Commuter Senator and head of the Senate's Security and Safety Committee, said her group has not drafted a proposal yet because they are waiting for Leo Reillv, director of telecommunications, to send statistics to them.
Ng said there is a "definite need" for more emergency phones in dark areas near off-campus housing, such as Cardinal Gardens and Kerckhoff Hall.
Masood Abdullah, who is in charge of the telecommunications project for the committee, said his group has done a survey of off-campus housing and has determined about 20 areas that need emergency phones.
In a prepared statement, Ng said Reilly was not "very enthusiatic" about the telecommunications project and that he does not believe the emergency phones are a deterrent to crime.
Reilly said he is "always enthusiatic" about installing more phones and added that they help because they give students a feeling of security if they know there is a phone up ahead.
Lt. Art Blair of University Security said emergency phones affect response time for security. He said security responds to calls within three minutes.
"If we find out faster, we can get there faster," Blair said. "Maybe we can prevent the crime altogether."
However, he added that it is not uncommon to find the emergency phones not working.
"The equipment used at the security facility is old, and we sometimes have a problem tying in with some lines," he said.
He said security is currently in the process of replacing old equipment with updated equipment. He added, however, that he does not know when the replacement process will be finished.
The new lines that may be installed will tie directly to security. Abdullah said some of the lines will reach the LAPD 911 number, since security does not cover all off-campus housing areas.
It will cost about 5300,000 to install the additional phone lines, Ng said.
She added that she does not believe the Student Senate should pay for the new phones. Abdullah said the money will probably come from a Student Senate fund, but that there are no definite plans.
Reilly and Abdullah both said there have been problems with people stealing and misusing the emergency phones.
"If we (the Student Senate) are able to get people to handle the phones properly, we will be able to reduce the number of crimes," Abdullah said.
University claims victory in food drive
But UCLA says collection has ended in draw
By Kathy Richer
The Trojans went down to defeat against the Bruins on the football field, but they may have gotten revenge in the food drive competition against UCLA, the Student Senate said Tuesday.
Due to the continuing response from student and alumni at both schools, the competition, which was scheduled to end at game time on Saturday, has been extended.
"We kind of had trouble drawing the line on when the competition ended," said Mi-chael-Jon Martinez, chairman of
the Student Senate Environmental and External Affairs Committee.
Cans of food and donations of money continued to come in this week.
"Technically it should stop but we don't want to tell people not to bring them in," he said.
The point of the competition is to see which school can collect more food relative to the size of the student body. Martinez estimated that this university, with an undergraduate enrollment around 15,000, has collected 1.75 tons of canned goods. David Suruki, community service commissioner at UCLA, which has an undergraduate enrollment around 22,000, puts his school's total at about two tons.
Final totals are not in yet, but at this point, with USC claiming victory, UCLA is calling it a tie.
Lori Becker, the director of the
food drive, said declaring a winner is a secondary consideration. "Our main goal was to help the community. We used the challenge to get more spirit for the food drive."
In addition to collection bins in front of Tommy Trojan and inside the Student Senate office, volunteers went door to door collecting canned goods at Troy, Troy East, Kerckhoff, Cardinal Gardens, Founders, Pacific and Embassy apartments. Century apartments conducted their own food drive and donated the proceeds to EEAC.
The Alpha Phi sorority and Sigma Pi club each donated about $100. Other groups contributed as well, including the Law School librarians, the Ticket Office and the Student Senate staff. In all, some $292 was raised.
The response at UCLA was
By Stephen Lawson
Assistant News Editor
The university Law Center is now raising funds for a planned $9.5 million addition to the Musick Law Building.
Scott Bice, dean of the Law Center, said $4.8 million has been donated by individuals and foundations so far. He expects those funds, which will pay for simultaneous renovation of the current facilities and maintenance as well as construction, to be raised by the end of June.
A three-for-one challenge grant from the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation will provide $2 million as soon as the center raises $6 million.
The addition will provide offices for faculty added since the present building was completed in 1970, expanded library space for new books and for computer data base access and special classrooms for practical education, which the center wants to expand.
"Continued expansion, addition of faculty and programs would not be possible without additional space," Bice said.
"Legal education has evolved in the last 20 years" in a way that makes new and different fa-
similarly enthusiastic. Suruki said some of the sororities skipped dessert at meals and donated the money they saved to the campaign. In the dorms, for every can of food or dollar students donated, they received a button that said "Can USC Food Drive."
In addition to the two tons of cans, UCLA collected about $800. In spite of this, Suruki said the director of the drive, Steve Sechrist at the UCLA hunger project, was somewhat disappointed in the amount collected.
"I think he would have liked to have collected more, about twice as much more," Suruki said.
Donations from both schools will go to L.A. 4 C, an organization of four community churches that will distribute the food to needy families in the area.
cilities necessary, he said. The present building was designed for the traditional Socratic method of teaching law, involving large classes meeting in one room.
While this method is still used for teaching the theory of law, Bice said, law schools have seen a need in the last 15 years to teach more of the practical skills lawyers need.
The addition will include a model trial courtroom, including judges' chambers and a jury room, and small rooms for consultations. These rooms will be equipped with videotape facilities not available in the present building.
"The current classrooms aren't configured well" for this type of practice, Bice said. "It's a waste of space to use a room for eight to 10 students doing consultations."
The center has received more endowment than expected since the Musick building was built, and more office space is needed for the current faculty, now expanded to 42.
Some space originally allocated to the library has been taken for office space, and the addition will make up for the lost library space and provide more offices.
The library's endowment has increased from about $25,000 to over $1 million in the past 20 years, and its collection has outgrown the current facility. Bice said more space will also be added to the library for computer equipment, allowing students access to data bases such as Dialog, . Lexis and Westlaw. Dialog is a general information source; Lexis and Westlaw provide legal information.
Bice said the addition will expand the Musick building, located on Exposition Boulevard next to Hoffman Hall, toward Parking Lot E at Exposition Boulevard and Hoover Street.
But, he added, "we don't anticipate losing too many parking spaces."
He said two floors and several rooms of the four-story expansion will be named for major donors to the project. One floor wil be named for John Stauffer — the John Stauffer Charitable Trust made a large contribution (Continued on page 2)
Phi Gamma Delta house: casual outlook projects image of party fraternity
By Pablo Lopez
" ...as long as there is life, we party."
—	One of many slogans of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
Among the 27 fraternities at the university. Phi Gamma Delta, better known as the "Fijis", doesn't care about projecting a certain school image.
"No one here has a strong opinion about anything really," said Kelvin Yamashita, an active member in the organization.
"We don't go one way or the other on any certain issue, but you won't fold anyone low key here. We say what we feel," he said.
Incidents
But in the past, saying and doing what they feel, may have given the Fijis an indentity that
may be hard to forget.
A couple of incidents the university won't soon forget was the hazing of a Fiji active by the pledges in Fall 1982. The pledges stripped the member down to gym shorts, poured molasses and flour on him and left him at a nearby sorority house. That activity resulted in probation.
In 1983, a water balloon fight with another fraternity ended with a bottle being thrown at a police car. No specific fraternity was implicated, but the univeri-sity's recourse was to suspend the Fijis from parties and school activities for the rest of the semester.
"In the past, there were a string of student conduct reports about inappropiate behavior from a number of (Fiji)
members," said Tom Piemik, fraternity and sorority coordinator at the university.
"But this year there have been no student reviews. I think it has something to do with the direction in their leadership now," he said.
New leadership Leading the fraternity off of thin ice has been Mike Norwood, a senior business marketing major who acts as president, and in-house graduate student Dan Carmichael, a law student at the university whose primary duty is to restore order.
The Fijis now claim a 3.2 overall GPA from its members, the highest known among the fraternities, but the fraternity's reputation as a partying house is still intact.
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