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Volume C, Number 25	University of Southern California	Thursday, February 13, 1986
All flags lowered to half staff in honor of two slain officers
By Marci Kenon
Staff Writer
All flags on the campus have been lowered to half staff in respect for two Los Angeles policemen who were killed when a device they were trying to deactivate exploded at a North Hollywood home Saturday.
The flags were lowered to half staff and will remain there through Friday, when funeral services will be held for Detective Arleigh McCree and Officer Ronald Ball of the Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad, said Sgt. Michael Kennedy of University Security.
McCree died instantly when the device exploded. Ball died en route to the Medical Center of North Hollywood where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
"Both have assisted us on prior occasions with incidents involving bombs and explosives," Kennedy said. "Arleigh helped in the training of our people in bombs and terrorism prior to the Olympics."
Kennedy, who was in charge of security planning for the on-campus 1984 Olympic activities, said he and other campus officers will be attending services to be held 11 a.m. Friday for the officers.
Lowering the flags is a traditional departmental courtesy that evolved from the military, Kennedy said. The flags are raised fully and then lowered to half-staff slowly as part of the procedure.
The tradition of lowering the flag to half staff was last implemented after the explosion of the space shuttle about two weeks ago when the Air Force ROTC raised the flag at Trousdale Parkway in honor of the seven crew members killed.
No officer at the university has ever been killed or injured in an on-campus explosion, Kennedy said, but he added that there have been bomb scares and an actual explosion of home-made fireworks in a dormitory a few years ago.
"This is always a concern of ours because of our great international student population, " Kennedy said, explaining that possible animosity between groups might lead to such actions as bombings.
Senate reaches decision on who to send to conference
Two students added as delegates
By Roseanne Tellez
Assistant City Editor
The Student Senate last night approved all but one of the nominees selected by its Executive Committee to attend a student leadership conference in Columbus, Ohio, that begins in two weeks.
The senate voted to send graduate senator Denise Guerrero to the American Association of University Students conference, instead of Michael Palmieri, chairman of the Program Board, who had been nominated by the committee.
Committee nominations for Pauline Ng, senate president, Wally Bobkiewicz, chairman of the senate's Academic Affairs Research / Action Committee, and Danielle Torres, member of the Council of President's Committee were accepted and those students will attend the conference at Ohio State University.
The decision to send Guerrero, the only graduate student considered for nomination by the committee, came after graduate senators complained that their constituency' would not be represented at the conference.
"This is symptomatic of the tendency of the undergraduate senators to neglect the needs of the graduate senators," said Bruce Clausen, a graduate senator from the Music School.
Chris Vivo, the senate's graduate speaker and a member of the Executive Committee, was not present when the group voted on the nominees. He said he had jury duty and arrived late.
At last night's meeting, Ng said she felt that there was definitely a lack of graduate student representation and suggested that the senators vote to correct the problem.
Dede Brown, a Greek senator, suggested that if Palmieri were to go, the Program Board should pay for it, since they have funds for such uses.
Although Ng's and Bobkiewicz's nominations were not formally submitted by the Executive Committee until this week, Ng announced last week that she and Bobkiewicz intended to attend the upcoming conference. The announcement was not well received.
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Family housing may shut down
Married students air concerns at forum
The flag was lowered to half staff Tuesday in memory of two Los Angeles police officers.
By Matthew Gaven
Staff Writer
Family Student Housing residents were given the opportunity to question rumors concerning the closing of their residence hall in a forum last Tuesday evening in the Andrus Gerontology Center auditorium.
"We want to emphasize that the decision has not been made to relocate familv student housing (FSH)/' said William Thompson, director of housing and residence halls.
Logan Hazen, director of residential life, also denied that the decision had been made, and both men stressed that the purpose of the forum was to determine what the concerns of FSH residents would be if they were told they had to be relocated.
The Family Student Housing complex has been a controversial topic since last year, when the School of Engineering con-
sidered annexing it.
The most recent argument between occupants and the university concerns whether FSH should be converted to a single student residence hall.
Currently, 215 families reside in FSH, which is located on campus, on Exposition Boulevard at McClintock Avenue. Thirty-five residents attended the forum.
Allison Schrier, a member of the Family Student Housing Committee, said, "We feel that
the decision to convert the facility to freshmen housing, has already been made without notification.''
But Hazen told the FSH residents that the university is leaning in the direction of relocating FSH residents to off-campus housing.
Thompson said the housing being considered is located on 28th and 29th streets, off Hoover Street.
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Contempt continues to mount for the housing office as residents of Harris Plaza staged a silent protest in front of Bovard (left) Wednesday against the building's closing and families occupying the Married Student Housing complex (above) discussed their building's fate with officials from the Residential Life and housing offices.