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Volume XCVill, Number 63	University of Southern California	Friday, April 19, 1985
STEVE FULTON/DA1LY TROJAN
Students and faculty browsed through the crafts faire Thursday, which was set up in Alumni Park, in front of Doheny Library.
Mexican aimed at
cultural festival's goal student enlightenment
By Richard Hatem
Staff Writer
The week-long 1985 Festival Aztlan, which commences Monday, April 22, will include dancing, music, speakers and films, all aimed at broadening the student body's awareness of Mexican culture.
The festival, sponsored by the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) and El Centro Chicano, will celebrate the Battle of Puebla, a Mexican victory over the French in 1862.
"Traditionally, the festival is held in May because of Cinco de Mayo, but when the university changed its calendar (ending the spring semester in early May) we moved the festival back to April,” said Jesus Torres, a member of MEChA.
"Unfortunately, we lack — as a student body — knowledge of Mexican culture. It's not neces-saily because of apathy, it's just a lack of sources of knowledge," he said.
Torres hopes that students will take advantage of the op-
portunity to become more acquainted with Mexican writing, art, dancing and music.
"The culture has its roots in the Southwest and there's an in-terpendence of the cultures in our society,” Torres said. "When thousands of Mexicans cross the border every year, it's important to know something about how they develop and raise their families here."
One of the major goals of both sponsoring groups, as well the festival itself, is to clear up common misconceptions about Mexican people and their culture.
"TTtrough Disney and the media in general, our culture has received a lot of condescension," Torres said. "The biggest problem is mixing Spanish culture with Mexican culture."
The Mexican culture is descended from the ancient Aztecs and Mayans, and was later influenced by the Spanish.
"The Spanish took control over their land for 300 years. They abused the Indians and took their gold," he said.
"In Mexico today there is bitterness — not hatred, but bitterness — against the Spanish," Torres said. "They took over a civilized culture — the Aztecs. While they did have human sacrifices — ripping out people's hearts — they were also highly educated. And the Mayans were some of the greatest mathematicians in history."
Torres cited a recent Jack-in-the-Box commercial as an example of the confusion in cultures. It presents a Flamenco dancer, (Continued on page 8)
Violence has Domino's taking new precautions
By Lisa Lapin
Staff Writer
Despite a recent rash of robberies of pizza deliverymen in other parts of the state, local Domino's pizza outlets are experiencing no increase in thefts. But they say they have "had their share" and are taking steps to avoid them.
A recent series of robberies and assaults on Domino's pizza drivers in San Francisco has prompted police investigations there.
However, in Los Angeles outlets, such robberies are only "occasional," said Richard Swisher, owner of LA Pizza Inc., a chain of six outlets that includes the store on Vermont Avenue, across from the university.
Aside from the murder of a deliveryman last month in front of the Domino's across the street from the university, few others have been robbed or assaulted while making deliveries.
A recent series of robberies and assaults on Domino's pizza drivers in San Francisco has prompted police investigations there.
"We've had our share of robberies," said Mike Marshall. day manager at the store on Vermont. But he said, "It doesn't happen every day."
The last robbery of a deliveryman was over a month ago, and he was not assaulted, Marshall said.
The suspects in last month's murder of a 19-year-old driver are thought to have wanted the man's truck, not the cash he was carrying.
As a result of the murder last month, LA Pizza Inc. has posted a permanent security guard who will be present at the Vermont outlet from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. daily.
According to Swisher, in the four years since the Vermont Avenue outlet opened, only three pizza deliverymen have been injured as the result of being robbed on the job.
"If someone is robbed for $20, it's not worth trying again," Swisher said. "It's too much trouble. But, if a robber gets $50 or more, we'll have another robbery within the week."
It is a nationwide Domino's policy that deliverymen carry no more than $20 when they leave the outlet, and this policy is printed on the side of all Domino's pizza boxes.
Drivers are trained "to keep their eyes and ears open" and to return to the outlet and call the police if they see something suspicious, Swisher said.
In San Francisco, police noticed that robbers were ordering pizzas with the intention of robbing the deliveryman upon his arrival, but Swisher said that does not happen at his outlets.
"Our telephone representatives are trained to prevent pranks," he said.
60,000 rare Latin American texts donated to Doheny research center
DeLorean speaks Monday for first time since arrest
By Mary O'Donnell
Staff Writer
John DeLorean, the ex-automaker acquitted of cocaine conspiracy charges, will speak in Bovard Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 22.
The occasion marks DeLorean's first speaking engagement since his arrest. He is being paid $10,000 to speak. The Stone Foundation will contribute $1,800, and the remainder will be paid by the Program Board, said Michael Frese, director of the Speakers Committee, wrhich is sponsoring the event.
This is also DeLorean's only appearance before the release of his forthcoming book, Frese said. He expects DeLorean's speaking price will double after the release of his book.
Frese said DeLorean will talk about his life, from his early career as an auto executive for the Ford Motor Co., to his acquittal last August of allegedly attempting to sell cocaine to undercover FBI agents to save his troubled auto company.
During his much-publicized 22-week trial, which was held in Los Angeles, DeLorean did not once take the witness stand. After his vindication, he ran a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times asking for $1 million in contributions to pay off his large legal debt acquired in the case.
By John Zack
Staff Writer
A university alumnus has donated a $1.7 million collection of rare Latin American writings — some as many as 300 years old — to Doheny Library.
H.F. Boeckmann II — who attended the university in the early 1950s and is chairman of Galpin Ford — has given the library about 60,000 volumes, published mostly in Mexico, Cuba, Brazil and Central America during the 17th to 20th centuries, said Charles Ritcheson, a university librarian.
The books will be kept in the new Boeckmann Research Center in Latin American and Iberian Civilization on the first level of Doheny.
Linda Hansen, a librarian who will help catalog the collection, said her small sampling of the collection has shown that most of the books are about sociology, history and politics, including writings on relations between Mexico and the United States, and between Latin America and the world. Less than 10 percent of the works are fiction.
Many deal with anthropology, including studies of the Aztecs, Mayas, Incas, and other early Latin American civilizations, Hansen said. Little writing on natural science is included.
Ritcheson said many of the writings concern Mexico's revolt against Spain in the early 1800s.
Hansen said the collection includes works by Benito Juarez, a Mexican president during the 1800s, and Pancho Villa. Books by Grenaro Garcia, a tum-of-the-century author of biographies of Mexican leaders and a study of secret correspondence during the Mexican revolution, are among the volumes.
There are proclamations by presidents and governors, letters from, priests and archbishops asking the King of Spain for grants of land for the church, and letters from lay persons asking the churches to return property, Hansen said.
Ritcheson said the discovery of what is in the collection is just beginning. "We have been given a cave full of treasure. As yet, Laura Hansen and I, and maybe one or two others, have had some knowledge about what is in that cave.
"The general scholarly world does not yet know. When they know, they will be as excited as we are."
Ritcheson said Boeckmann will later donate another 40,000 volumes. The first 60,000 books will double the size of the library's Latin American collection, and the next 40,000 volumes will place the university's collection among the top five in the nation.
The Boeckmann donations will eventually be indexed on a computer system that will make them available around the country. The university is recruiting a curator and three assistants to do this cataloging, Ritcheson said.
All of the library's Latin American materials will eventually be moved to the Boeckmann Center. The most fragile books will be stored under climate-controlled conditions or micrographed, and the most valuable volumes will be protected with special alarms, Ritcheson said..
Those materials that are particularly precious will be used only inside the center and by "responsible students and scholars," Ritcheson said. The first 60,000 volumes should be catalogued within three years.