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Volume XCVIII, Number 34	University	of	Southern	California	Friday,	March	1,	1985
Financial loss closes graphics department
By Owen Gross
Staff Writer
After suffering losses exceeding $100,000 during the 1984 fiscal year, the university's print and design centers will be phased out as of April 30, said Anthony Lazzaro, vice president of business affairs.
As a result, the department of graphic designs will no longer exist. The campus copy centers, the third production center in
The print shop registered a loss of $87,000 and the design center was $23,000 in the red.
the graphics department, will continue under Lazzaro's direction.
Robert MacDonald, director of graphic services, would only comment that his department was undergoing a reorganization.
The print shop registered a loss of $87,000 and the design center was $23,000 in the red.
The design center's losses
represented 17 percent of its total budget, while the losses encountered by the print shop accounted for 10 percent of its total budget.
Lazzaro said this was ''a case in which, in spite of the center's best efforts, the volume of business was not great enough to offset the costs involved."
About 25 to 30 employees, whose services are no longer required, will be “laid off according to the university's labor manual," Lazzaro said. "The employees will receive severance pay according to their years of service to the university and accrued vacation."
Because the material ordered by individual departments is highly specialized, Lazzaro said many orders for printing are placed with outside vendors through the university's purchasing department.
Lazzaro said the outside vendors have the equipment and capability to adequately meet the demands and expectations of the departments.
He added that the plan to eliminate the two production centers is an economically sound one and that "the costs
will be the same."
Graduation certificates will be among the documents printed by an outside vendor for the first time. Lazzaro said this is being done under the careful control of the registrar's office.
A formal announcement was expected to be made Friday morning to the employees. There will also be a general university announcement offering
Courtesy of USC Graphic Services
the services of the purchasing department to the departments that relied on the design and print centers.
The centers will attempt to complete all orders that were placed before the announcement
—	time permitting, he said.
Lazzaro said there are indications that the 1985 financial results will be better, but this is not sufficient to justify keeping the centers open. He added that the upward trend would not result in a surplus this year or in the future.
Studies of the financial capabilities of the centers were conducted by Lazzaro's office over the past several years. They were initiated because the operation of two of the centers resulted in deficits every year.
The copy centers, on the other hand, tallied profits during this same period. Lazzaro said these centers will expand according to service needs. This expansion might also include the purchase of instant printing machines that are capable of mass producing such necessities as department letterheads, Lazzaro added.
The print and design centers.
which are located in the Research Annex on Grand Avenue, will have their equipment and inventory sold at the end of the year.
Lazzaro stressed there are "three matters of paramount consideration in implementing the plan and reorganization."
"First," Lazzaro said, "the employees must be treated fairly and assisted in finding employment elsewhere. If they feel they are qualified for another job at the university, the personnel office will lend a hand."
Lazzaro recognized that the efforts made by those in charge were very good, but for reasons beyond their control, the discontinuation of the two operations was justified.
He added that this was not a case "where management and supervision was in any sense unsatisfactory."
Lastly, Lazzaro said the "response to the service requirements of those departments which have depended on the print and design centers for service must be met." He said the purchase department will be able to give full assistance to departments.
Civic and religious leaders unveil plan to combat crime
By Pablo Lopez
Staff Writer
The South Central Organizing Committee and the United Neighborhoods Organization unveiled a five-point plan to combat crime in Los Angeles County at the Congress of Religious Leaders convention Thursday.
Civic and religious leaders from all over the county met at the campus of Mount St. Mary's College off Adams Boulevard to discuss the problem of widespread murders, cocaine rockhouses and gang violence.
Edith Nealy, chairwoman for the SCOC, showed the standing-room-only crowd the areas where crime was prevalent on a 9-foot map that lit up to exhibit gang areas, places where youths had been murdered and cocaine rockhouses.
Nealy said crime is rampant all over the county, not just in South-Central. "Our problem is your problem, and your problem is our problem," she said.
However, most of the lights on the 9-foot map, which pinpointed the exact locations of crimes, were clustered in South-Central.
Mayor Tom Bradley and Ira Reiner, Los Angeles district attorney, who attended the meeting, said they have supported the effort since its inception in November. Both agreed implementing the five-point plan would require a total community effort.
Bradley said Los Angeles residents have been impacted by crime, but only as victims.
"Yes, (the community) has been involved, but only in the aftermath. You had to bury your dead, comfort the depressed and live with the atrocity," Bradley said. He said the sheer amount of crime "demonstrates that it will take a long-term commitment" to solve the problems of neighborhood violence.
"This strategy is not one of pious resolutions or tough rhetoric, but one to fight crime," Reiner said.
Reiner suggested a "sweep of probation violators to prevent another violent crime," and that parole violators should
be given longer sentences in the first place.
The plan, which outlines the strategy of the SCOC and the United Neighborhoods Organization, calls for:
—	Combat zone strategy and action teams specifically aimed at curbing drug dealing, auto theft, gang violence, burglary and street robbery. A suggested source of funding was increased state and/or county taxes on liquor, wine and beer. Such an increase could bring in an additional $137 million for law enforcement.
—	"Olympic sports legacy," an investment in youth sports activity as an alternative to crime. Los Angeles amateur athletics foundations would channel part of the more than $180 million surplus from 1984 Summer Games into youth programs, which could serve as deterrents to delinquency.
—	Cracking down on white-collar tax cheats by increasing investigative staff on the Franchise Tax Board and Board of Equalization, and imposing tougher penalties on tax cheating.
Since cheating on personal income taxes costs Californians $2 billion per year, it was estimated that each dollar spent on investigators returns multiple dollars to the State Treasury. The recovered tax dollars could be used to improve crime prevention and public schools.
—	Full funding for coordinated federal drug enforcement agencies by asking the Reagan administration to maintain or increase the amount of customs and drug agents in the Los Angeles area. This proposal calls for the sharing of information among various federal, state and local agencies.
—	Broad-based organizations of churches, synagogues, unions and businesses capable of sustaining the necessary political pressure to reduce crime, violence and their roots.
John Van de Kamp, attorney general for California, who was present at the meeting, said Gov. Deukmejian supports this five-point plan.
Ricocheting bullet injures student in security accident
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During a firearm equipment demonstration Monday at the office of university security, a 38-caliber gun was accidentally discharged, ricocheted off a door, and ended up in the pocket of escort employee Stephanie Hallock. Hallock suffered only a bruised hip.
By Aaron Van Curen
Assistant City Editor
A security officer demonstrating the use of a holster fired a gun in the hallwav of the University Security office Monday evening, slightly injuring an Escort Service student employee.
The .38-caliber bullet struck the door of the office's com-
The bullet struck the door, then ricocheted and struck the hip of Stephanie Hallock. At first she thought she had been struck by wood splinters from the door. About 10 minutes later she found the bullet in her pants pocket.
munications room, cutting a deep gouge, and then ricocheted and struck the hip of Stephanie Hallock, a junior majoring in business administration and supervisor of the escort program, said Chief Steve Ward, assistant director of University Security.
Hallock suffered a small bruise — about the size of a quarter — on her hip, and at first thought she had been (Continued on page 7)