Interview with Leigh Steinberg — see page 9
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Volume XCIX, Number 49
University of Southern California
Wednesday, November 13, 1985
Crash kills student on road from Cal
Bv Matthew Gaven
Start Writer
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'This year they were fine. Probably because they got beat. They were better than last year.'
there was a lot of "exhuberant behavior'' at the St. Francis over the weekend.
Sandy Mishel, a senior journalism major, said, ''People had ripped mirrors off the wall, tore the curtains in the hotel rooms and ripped w’allpaper off the hall walls” at the hotel.
"The lady at the St. Francis was checking the rooms for damage before the students were allowed to check out,'' Mishel said.
Stephanie Rossen, a senior communications major, said
"The employees in the hotel took all the pictures off the walls because they had found pictures on the floor and far away from where they were originally hung."
"People were pulling the dri-ed-flower arrangements out of their pots. A security guard said that the flowers were worth $200," Rossen said.
Monika Kochs, a senior majoring in business, said "There was sand piled up in the elevators. People had dumped out
the ashtrays and there was about a foot of sand."
At other hotels the students reportedly behaved better than thev did at the St. Francis.
Raymond Flores, assistant manager of the Cecil Hotel, said "They were pretty good, actually. There was some writing with shaving cream on the mirrors but that is about it."
"This year they were fine. Probably because they got beat. They were better than last year," Flores said.
The general manager of the Hyatt on Union Square, John Pritzker, said, "There w'ere pranks but I don't think there was any damage."
Shirley Drysdale, the general manager of the Bellevue Hotel, said, "We didn't have anv problems at all.'
Security refutes crime statistics reported by Herald Examiner
By Sean Grady
Staff Writer
The Los Angeles Herald Examiner says the university had more violent crimes in 1984 than any college campus that reported crime statistics to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Carl Levredge, director of Security and Parking Operations, says the paper is wrong.
In a press conference held at Topping Student Center yesterday afternoon, Levredge refuted a statement in the Herald Examiner that claimed that 58 on-campus violent crimes were reported in 1984.
The statement was part of an article which combined University Security statistics with statistics from an FBI report on on-campus violent crime for 1984.
"The correct figure for violent crimes for 1984 on the USC campus is 17, not 58 as reported in the Herald Examiner,” Levredge said.
The figure in the Herald Examiner was the total number of violent crimes reported both on and off campus, Levredge said. That figure itself was incorrect, as security "shows a total of 55 such crimes in 1984," he said.
According to the FBI statistics, the University of Maryland reported the highest number of on-campus violent crimes, with UCLA and Michigan State University reporting the second-highest numbers.
The university was not represented in the FBI report because it has a private security service, and is therefore not required to report to the FBI.
"We report to the Los Angeles Police Department, not to the FBI," Levredge said.
Of the on-campus crimes, 10 were robberies and
seven were aggravated assaults, he said.
"Most of the violent crimes occurred on the streets to the north and west of campus," Levredge said. He added that it was possible that some occurred in or around off-campus housing.
So far this year, the number of reported, on-campus violent crimes has risen to 23, with the number of off-campus crimes rising to 61, Levredge said.
Asked whether these figures represented a significant increase in violent crimes, Levredge responded, "It is a moderate amount more than we had last year."
Some of these crimes can be attributed to university students, Levredge said.
Levredge estimated that six alledged perpetrators of violent crimes have been arrested. He later added that this figure was just a general statement, and that he could not be sure of the exact number without going over the results from reported cases.
After the press conference, Levredge said the Herald Examiner reporter had not given security officials time to compare the FBI report to university crime statistics.
"This information needs to be analyzed very carefully" before any statements regarding it can be made, Levredge said.
The difference between the reported crimes for 1984 and 1985 does not constitute a crime wave, he said.
"Because of the Olympics, 1984 was a little bit of a different year than what we would normally expect," Levredge said.
The increased security around the campus at the time acted as a deterrent to crime, he said.
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ABEL ESPINOZA DAILY TROJAN ''Finding the common in the uncommon,” Jim Turner played a unique version of "Chariots of Fire” on glasses half-full with water, to a lunch-time crowd last Thursday. Turner has performed with his glasses across the nation and has appeared in several television shows, including "The Tonight Show.”
One student was killed and two were injured Sunday afternoon when their car ran off the road on the way back from the annual Bav Area road trip.
Greg Gudis, a freshman from Dallas, Texas, was killed when his car ran over a dirt embankment on Interstate 5.
Two passengers in the car, Craig Van Wav, 18, of Englewood, Colo., and Brvan Robb, 18, of Chino, Calif., received minor injuries. Both students are also freshmen at the university.
Van Wav and Robb are residents of Trojan Hall, as w’as Gudis.
Al N'ebelung, accident information officer for the Coalinga office of the California Highway Patrol said, "Gudis was driving a 1984 Honda Prelude, silver in color, southbound on Interstate Highway 5 in the right hand lane at an undetermined speed.
"Gudis spotted a tire or part of a tire tread in the roadway and swerved to drive around the obstacle. He lost control of the car as it drove up and over a dirt embankment on the side of the road," he said.
The accident occured at 3:15 p.m. Sunday at the intersection <Continued on page 7)
S.F. hotels shake, but don’t fall
But Trojans ravage the St. Francis
By Joan Whitney
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Students staving in San Francisco hotels last weekend for the Berkeley game were, for the most part, on better behavior this year than they were last year. But students carried on the tradition of excessive behavior at the St. Francis Hotel.
A spokesman at the St. Francis Hotel said in response to students behaving well in other hotels, "Thev must have come here and raised all hell then. There were broken mirrors and broken chairs. It wras very bad."
The supervisor of the telephone room at the St. Francis, Sallv Patterson, said, "Thev ripped up a lot of phones. The next dav there were a lot of phones missing. Phones were also hanging off their hooks all over the hotel."
The manager of the St. Francis said the hotel is sending a report to Robert Mannes, the dean for student life, about the behavior of university students in the hotel. He would not say what the report contained.
Dean Mannes said he had not received the report yet, but said.