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Volume CIV, Number 10	University of Southern California	Wednesday, July 22, 1987
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Summer crime rate rises
By Xiaodong Zhang
Staff Writer
This could be the worse summer in the last four years in terms of security with more crime and incidents plaguing the university communitv.
Security statistics show that the first month of the summer scored the biggest jump in reported crime and incidents compared to the same period over the last four years. The 193 reported cases of crime last month is about a 30 percent increase over June, 1986.
Rape was on the record for June for the first time in four years. And it occurred on campus. There were only two rape cases last year and both happened off campus.
This period also saw 34 percent more burglaries and thefts over that of last year. These crimes are on top of the list, as usual.
Motor vehicles are obviously among the most attractive targets for burglars. Motor vehicle break-
ins made up two-thirds of the total number of burglary cases. There were 49 motor vehicle break-ins in June '87 as compared to 14 last June.
Burglars are also more likely to break into offices on campus rather than try the residential area. Sixteen burglaries were reported in office buildings as compared to only six in houses, five of which were on the Row.
"A lot of burglars are drug users." said Sgt. John Lewis who is in chatge of security's reports and analyses. "They can immediately trade in car stereos and other merchandise for cocaine. Just look at the parking structures, we have too manv cars."
Lewis said most of the on-campus burglaries took place early in the morning or late at night under the cover of darkness. There are about 150
Original Schoenberg documents found
By Joan Lapeyrouse
Staff Writer
The Arnold Schoenberg Institute was presented with original Schoenberg documents found among university library acquisitions.
The Friends of the USC Libraries placed several Schoenberg documents on indefinite loan to the Schoenberg Institute on July 14.
The documents were found among a colection recently purchased by auction in Germany.
Besides the letters, the library also acquired the original manuscript to "In Hellen Traumen.” In English, the title means "In Lucid Dreams." This manuscript is the earliest of Schoenberg's works to have been preserved.
The director of the Schoenberg Institute, Leonard Stein, said that the documents were valuable material for the Institute.
Stein said it is difficult to document the activities of Schoenberg's younger days and the manuscript is helpful in doing that. The 94-year-old manuscript of "In Hellen Traumen" was composed when Schoenberg was 19.
Charles Ritcheson, dean of the university libraries, presented the works to the Institute. He noted that the gift of the
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ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS — The Schoenberg Institute received 94-year-old original manuscripts of composer Arnold Schoenberg. The university libraries discovered the documents in material that they bought in Germany.
buildings on campus with a total of 400 floors to deal with.
"We can't be everywhere all the time." Lewis said. "USC is like a supermarket during the day with so many people and activities, and the burglars could come during the day to search and plot their targets."
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Schoenberg documents accentuated the closeness of the Institute to the university libraries.
Immediately following the presentation, several Schoenberg songs were played and "In Helen Traumen" was placed on display.
The Schoenberg Institute is dedicated to promoting interest in the early 20th century composer and his works.
The Schoenberg Institute was founded in 1975. Its present facilities were dedicated in February, 1977. The Institute serves as a depository of the documents of Arnold Schoenberg, an Aus-trian-bom composer who spent the last 14 years of his life in the Los Angeles area. It also promotes the composer through research and performances of his works.
The Neighborhood
Local upgrading not preposterous
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A BMW IN EVERY DRIVEWAY — The Row and the immediate area is a good place for gentrtfication to begin. Gentrtfication is the conscious attempt at upgrading a neighborhood.
By Joan Lapeyrouse
Staff Writer
Take a look at the immediate neighborhood surrounding the university. Now imagine renovated housing with a BMW in every driveway and residents to match these conditions. Preposterous? Maybe not.
At first, you may' laugh at this concept, but there are those in the university community who see the immediate USC neighborhood as a prime candidate for the process of gentrification.
Textbooks lable this process as "the opposite of residential decline" or "the process of upgrading a neighborhood." Why in this area?
"There is a high degree of accessibility' to opportunity," said geography professor Fred Shelley. The proximity of this area to downtown Los Angeles, accessibility’ of two major freeways and the university campus were the main advantages Shelley noted
Barbara Gardner of the Joint Educational Project also listed the attractions of downtown Los
Angeles as an advantage to this area She further mentioned the cost of distance and changing patterns of the American family as a reason for the renewal of this area — the high cost of transportation and the fact that people are having children at later ages make living in suburbs less attractive.
But what gives the area its main qualification is its housing stock.
"During the 1880s and 1890s the area surrounding Adams Boulevard was the Beverly Hills of its day," said Thomas Jab-lonskv a geography professor. During this period. Adams Boulevard between Figueroa and Hoover was Los Angeles' most elegant residential area.
"I see this area as being drained by the development of Hollvwood and Beverly Hills." said Jablonsky. "Those with money began to move elsewhere
The area was also deteriorated by "white flight" — the mass ( Continued on page 3>