Special footbail supplement
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(M% trojan
Volume XCIX, Number 14
University of Southern California
Friday, September 20, 1985
PAUL PELLEGRINO/DAILY TROJAN
The steps to Bovard were the site for an AFL-CIO rally Thursday afternoon. The union members were protesting the county’s proposal to cut sick leave for new employees.
Fireworks ignite trees on Row
Second violent attack this week
By Corii Berg
Staff Writer
At approximately 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, two palm trees in front of the Theta Chi fraternity house were set ablaze by what witnesses said were bottle rockets shot from a nearby fraternity house.
“We received word that four or five individuals had been shooting off bottle rockets, which in turn set iwo 100-foot-tall palm trees (afire)," said Dwight Sanders, a lieutenant at University Security.
“Although we have no suspects yet, people are spreading word that there was one fraternity involved," Sanders said. “But we don't know how valid these statements are,” he added.
"We have eyewitnesses that have said that the Phi Delts
were the ones that had been shooting off the rockets, and they will definitely inform security as to what they've seen," said Barry Staton, Theta Chi president.
"I have no knowledge of any Phi Delt shooting off any rockets and I really doubt any of us would do that," said Paul Fra-port, a Phi Delta Theta member. "There is no way we can be accused of it."
"By the time we had reached the location there were no suspects around to question, so we really have no proof that any fraternity was involved," Sanders said, adding, "The only thing we can say is that rockets had been shooting from the north to the south."
University Security indicated that they will investigate the fire to see if any fraternity was in-
deed involved.
Terry Zacher, coordinator of the student conduct system, said that her office was looking into the incident and expected to take action on it soon.
"The trees were the only things to catch fire, which, in a sense was very lucky," Staton said. "Unfortunately, the branches on the tree, after they had burned, fell down on the roof and on a couple of bikes.
"We're just hoping that there isn't any damage that we can't yet see," he said. "It would just be great to find out that there are a couple of leaks the first time it rains as a result of the fire.
"The trees are in bad shape as it is. They look like toothpicks now, and anything else wouldn't be too great," he said.
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Joe) Oraasky Daily Trojan
MOST PEOPLE BARBECUE HAMBURGERS — The palm trees in front of the Theta Chi house were set ablaze yesterday after a nearby fraternity reportedly shot off some sky rockets. The Theta Chi house was not damaged.
Residence Hall Senators quit, lose eligibility
By Terry Allen
Staff Writer
The Student Senate has announced that two of its members resigned Wednesday night and is now seeking to enlist their successors by reviewing the results of its spring elections.
Tom Becktold, a junior who served last year on the senate, and Tony Salerno, a sophomore elected last spring, withdrew voluntarily from duty because neither could live with the constituency they represented.
Becktold, a residence hall senator, was unable to obtain housing in a residence hall.
Salerno, also a residence hall senator, has pledged the Sigma Chi fraternity, thereby abandoning his elected constituency and removing himself from senate eligibility.
The loss of Becktold and Salerno reduces the number of undergraduate senators to 14 until the Senate Elections Committee can find replacements.
“There's a procedure that we follow," said Pauline Ng, senate president. "The people who were next in line (received the next greatest number of votes) in the spring elections are contacted to fill the positions. Of course, they too must still be living in their constituencies."
Ng expressed surprise and regret at the announcements of the two resignations.
'Tom Becktold is an unfortunate case," she said. "He is probably the best senator we've had so far.
"Tony had indicated late in the summer that he wanted to rush, but his decision was still somewhat of a surprise," she said.
Becktold explained that his decision to leave was both unavoidable and frustrating. "I would have loved to stay," he
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Student brutally beaten in Parking Structure B
By Dana Clad
Assistant City Editor
A female student sitting in her car at about 4:30 p.m. Monday was severely beaten by a man who pummeled her face with his fists and then took her wallet, University Security reported Tuesday afternoon.
It was the second violent assault in the university community this week.
University Security has also released a detailed description of a man whom they suspect raped a female student on Monday morning near Kerckhoff Apartments.
The car-attack victim was followed to her car on the northeast side of the third floor of Parking Structure B by a man who began to strike her about the head when she got into her car, reported Lt. Art Blair and Sgt. David Ritch, senior security officers.
The woman struggled, attempted to slam the door on the attacker's leg and scratched his face.
She suffered a broken cheekbone, nose, eye socket and broken teeth, the officers said.
The attacker then took the woman's wallet and fled, they said.
University Security provided initial first aid before the victim was taken to Orthopedic Hospital for further treatment.
She has undergone reconstructive facial surgery because of the severity of her injuries, the officers said.
She is now being treated by a specialist and should be back at school on Monday, the officers said.
Her attacker is described as a black male, about 30 years old. He is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs between 150 and 170 pounds, the officers said.
Because of the unusual viciousness of the attack, the Los Angeles Police Department has made the case a high priority, security said.
The officers also provided a more detailed description of a suspect who allegedly raped a woman near Kerckhoff Apartments early Monday morning.
Last day to drop
Today is the last day for students to register, and drop and add classes without a mark of
"W."
It is also the last day to change a class from credit to pass / no pass or vice versa, and from credit to audit or vice versa.
Students registering or changing programs should go to the basement of the Student Administrative Services building.
Three satellite registrations stations are in Olin Hall of Engineering, Rm. 101, Grace Ford Salvatori, Rm. 115, and the School of Pharmacy basement, and primarily serve students of schools that are housed in those buildings.
The alleged rapist was picked out of a Los Angeles Police Department mug book by the rape victim, and has been picked up by security nine times in the past five years, Ritch said.
The rape suspect is a member of the local Hoover Crips gang, Ritch said.
In 1983 he was arrested for robbery, the officer said. A gun was taken from him in 1980, and a marine combat knife he had used in a fight was also taken from him that year, Ritch said.
A composite drawing, made by university security with the help of the rape victim, is similar to the police mug shot.
However, no conclusive identification can be made before a full police line-up occurs, the officers said.