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Volume XCVill, Number 56	University	of	Southern	California	Wednesday,	April	10,	1985
Suspect in Domino’s shooting sought
Police issue warrant for 20-year-old alien
By Dina Heredia
Staff Writer
A warrant was issued nationwide on March 28 for the arrest of the man suspected of shooting and killing a Domino's Pizza deliveryman last month, a Los Angeles Police Department detective said.
Det. Richard Hoffman said they are looking for Flavio Ruiz, 20, of Los Angeles and another unidentified suspect, described as a male Latino. The warrant for Ruiz' arrest was issued after witnesses made a positive identification of the suspect.
Hoffman said he had no leads on the location of Ruiz, a resident alien from Mexico, or his accomplice.
Darrin Hubert, 19, was killed March 17 while backing out of the Domino's Pizza parking lot on Vermont Boulevard, across the street from the university. Employees and customers at the pizza outlet said they saw the suspects shoot Hubert and take his delivery truck.
The truck was found a few days after March 17 by LAPD, Hoffman said, on the 5700 block of South Duarte Street, abandoned and stripped of its stereo and its original tires and wheels. The tires and wheels — worth about $700 — were replaced with cheaper ones, he added.
Hoffman said the suspects may have shot Hubert because they wanted to steal the equipment from the truck. However, the police were able to positively identify Ruiz
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by tracing the whereabouts of the stolen wheels and tires, Hoffman added.
Police used a description of the wheels and tires on the victim's truck and questioned people in the area where it was found who have vehicles having the same type of wheel on Hubert's truck. Hoffman said the wheel is of a smaller depth than the ones normal y used on a truck.
Ruiz was among the people whom the police questioned and was photographed for a photo line-up, police said. Witnesses later identified Ruiz after they were shown his photos.
He said police also identified Ru.z as the suspect when they questioned one of his friends. The unidentified man reportedly said he had bought wheels and tires from Ruiz, which matched the description of the equipment stolen from Hubert's vehicle.
The police suspect that the wheels and tires were Hubert's, but cannot positively identify them because there are no marks of ownership on them, Hoffman said.
The police gathered enough information for a positive identification by March 25, and went to the district attorney's office to get a warrant for Ruiz's arrest. However, Ruiz was "already in the wind" by that time and could not be found, Hoffman said.
Hoffman said the police have not received any tips about the murder from outside sources, despite the reward of $10,000 that Domino's Pizza has offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murder.
Open forum on S. Africa draws no guest speakers
By Charisse Jones
Staff Writer
The university's commission on South Africa held its second open-forum meeting Tuesday, focusing on university deposits in banks that may make loans to South Africa.
However, there were no speakers other than the members of the commission at Tuesday7s meeting. Those who wished to speak were required to submit a two-page, typed summary of the matters they wanted to discuss. Two students showed up at the previous meeting.
Carl Christol, professor of political science and chairman of the month-old commission, said "We want some additional people to come speak from the university and we continue to keep our invitation open."
The meeting dealt with university investment in firms with interests in South Africa, Christol said.
An investigation is under way to determine whether the university has deposits in banks that are loaning money in any way to the South African government, he said.
Christol said the commission also plans to see if the university can "take a strong position ... or even a lead, in which we would ask corporations to present to their shareholders a proposal as to whether or not they should stop doing business (completely) in South Africa."
If the university took such a position, it would be "a program of activism," Christol said. The commission will consult with William Hogoboom, general counsel of the university, to see if there are any regulations under federal or state law, or within the USC charter that might limit such action.
But overall, Christol said he thought the meeting went quite well.
The commission, Christol said, is like much of the university community and finds "apartheid totally repugnant." He added that the university's policy towards South Africa "has deficiencies in it" since USC has investments in companies that, in turn, have investments in South Africa.
James McPherson, a student senator and commission member, did not agree with Christol's interpretation of the forum, saying that the discussion had been centered around profit motives and "the focus has not been on our moral attitude."
"There are very few people who feel they are qualified to speak for the moral stance of the university," said McPherson, one of the six students on the commission.
"Unless the moral concern of the university community — students, faculty and administration — is aired, then discussion will go nowhere, because it was dissatisfaction from a moral standpoint that started the commission in the first place," McPherson said.
McPherson also expressed his view of people's arguments that divestment would hurt, rather than help, the South African people.
"People say we can't divest because it will not help the people," McPherson said. "Well, we didn't invest to help the people either."
The commission's report of its findings and conclusions is scheduled to be given to the Board of Trustees in July, which will then review the report with university President James Zumberge in August.
Safety and Systems Institute examined by ad hoc committee
gram — would affect 71 faculty members and 2,400 graduate students who attend the institute part-time.
The ISSM, which offers majors in safety, has been under fire lately as being a source of stress within the university community, said Cornelius Pings, senior vice president of academic affairs and provost, in a Transcript article Monday.
According to Transcript, the committee was established to "look into questions surrounding the institute's future."
But John Grimaldi, executive director of the ISSM, said he does not believe the committee is focusing its attention on the institute's strengths, but is instead taking a critical look into the ISSM's activities.
"It was my suggestion to establish a committee so people would have a better understanding of who and what we are and do," he said. "This has always been a problem and we think communications is the answer."
Grimaldi said he originally hoped the committee would be able to leam from the ISSM and recommend changes to struggling academic units.
"We were not overly impressed with the tone of the Transcript story," said John Cohoon, public relations administrator of the ISSM.
According to Transcript, Pings gave the committee members four questions to answer. The first dealt with how the ISSM should be understood according to its strengths, qualities and possi-(Continued on page 3)
By Owen Gross
Staff Writer
An ad hoc university review committee was recently formed to study the future of the Institute of Safety and Sys-
tems Management, but members of that academic department believe the committee has been overly critical.
Any decisions to be made — including expulsion of the pro-
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The future of the Safety and Systems Management program, housed in bungalows next to Cromwell Field, is currently being reviewed by the university.