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Volume CVIII, Number 31
University of Southern California
Tuesday, February 28, 1989
In Brief
WORLD
Violent protests mark Bush’s visit to Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Student radicals with firebombs battled riot police Monday in Seoul and five other cities to protest President Bush's visit to South Korea.
A major clash broke out in Seoul when about 700 radical students and dissidents, throwing rocks and firebombs, battled riot police around Dongguk University. No injuries were reported.
NATION
Eastern flight carried alleged illegal aliens
ATLANTA (AP) — Thousands of illegal aliens may have been shuttled across the country on a daily Eastern Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York, an official said Monday after 79 people were apprehended.
Agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service apprehended the suspected illegal aliens shortly after Eastern Flight 80’s arrival for a stopover at Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport.
LOCAL
Deputy denies role in prostitute slayings
(AP) — Prosecutors charged a longtime sheriff’s deputy Monday with first-degree murder in the slayings of three South-Central prostitutes, allegations that could warrant the death penalty if he is convicted.
Rickey Ross, 40, maintains he is innocent, defense lawyer Jay Jaffe said after a brief court appearance by the 18-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
INSIDE
Viewpoint...................................... 4
Komix............................................ 6
Security Roundup________________________ 6
Pcrformti7 Sports_______________________________........... 16
WEATHER
Today —
Morning fog with highs in mid-70s. Wednesday -
Partly cloudy with highs in low 70s.
Good Day Sunshine
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MATT COBLEK3H / DAILY TROJAN
Don Friesen, a senior studying Elizabethan poetry, “bumps” a frisbee Monday to keep it in the air in Alumni Park.
Guard booked for assaulting man with gun
By Vivien Lou Chen
Staff Writer
A community service officer, employed with the university for about a year and unauthorized to carry a gun, was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon Friday after he allegedly waved a .45-caliber pistol in the face of a university custodian.
Charles Ross was arrested and booked at the Southwest division of the Los Angeles Police Department with bail set at $12,000, said police Sgt. Dave Young.
Police will ask the district attorney to charge Ross with an additional count of possession of marijuana. It was found in the back pocket of his pants during the arrest, Young said.
Angel Coronado, 46, and Ross began arguing when Ross tried to cite Coronado for parking in a red zone on 35th Street about 9:45 p.m. Wednesday, said Chief Steven Ward of University Security.
Coronado, who does not speak English, told his supervisor about the incident that night and filed a report two days later, Ward said.
Coronado, claiming he did not pay attention as Ross tried to detain him, tried to drive away.
Ross took out a .45-caliber pistol and waved it in his face, Young said.
The weapon was found in Ross' locker after the arrest. Ward said.
Ross is one of 55 community service officers hired to check if doors are locked, answer calls from students and patrol student residences, Ward said.
Ross was placed on administrative leave and may be terminated, Ward said. Meanwhile, police will handle the investigation.
Ward called the incident "highly unusual" and said current hiring procedures of security will re-
(See Arrest, page 3)
Senate officers defend funding of Springfest
Complaining groups didn’t go to planning sessions, Cao says
By Kevin Cullinane
Staff Writer
Complaints that the Student Senate took money from student assembly accounts to fund Springfest, an upcoming all-campus event, were called "petty concerns" Friday by a senate official.
The April 8 event is well-planned, said Rodney Maddox, Springfest public relations chairman. This contradicted comments made by senate vice president David Simon last week.
Minority assembly group leaders who complained that Springfest should not be funded by money from their accounts will benefit most from the event, Maddox argued.
"They are losing sight of the forest for the sake of a few trees," he said.
"Before, there was a small amount of money for a small amount of people. Their concerns are a bit petty," Maddox said.
The senate has held frequent meetings to plan Springfest, and all assembly groups were invited, said Hanh Cao, senate public relations chairwoman.
She said the complaints from Black Student Assembly leader Mark Forte are not justified, because Forte did not come to
any of the planning meetings.
"Why is he making such a stink when he didn't even come to the meetings?" Cao asked.
Forte said Monday he was not invited to any Springfest meetings. He said only one BSA member attended the Council of Presidents meeting last Wednesday because it was not a priority.
"It is unfortunate that they are singling people out, because Springfest is supposed to benefit all students," Forte said.
Forte said he has spoken to senate President Phil Clement several times, and the two are "working to patch things up."
He said senate plans for Springfest (See Springfest, page 3)
Columnist Buchwald: The laughs started here
By Kyra Phillips
Staff Writer
Art Buchwald combines humor and the madness of our society to write columns that leave millions of readers demanding more. He has written nearly 30 books, and he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for his ccdumns, which run in more than 500 newspapers worldwide . . . and it all started at USC.
After three years in the Marines,
Buchwald to get school's Julius Award. See page 2.
Buchwald attended the university in 1945 under tire G.I. Bill of Rights with no high school diploma and no intention of receiving a degree.
"I didn't want a degree," Buchwald said Monday. "I was a free spirit who wanted to experience life."
Buchwald said he thought he benefited more from the university's extracurricular activities than from the structured classwork.
"I came here to find out what I needed, not to study," he said.
"I did all my work, but got more out of writing a column for the Daily Trojan and editing the former humor magazine Wampus."
Considered a liberal by felktw stu-(See Buchwald, page 3)