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A look at the upcoming women’s basketball season. See page 24.
Proposition 97 to reinstate safety regulation agency
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Eric Poholsky (on bike) gives a dramatization of reckless riding Wednesday by nearly running into James Kyle (left) and Renee Taylor. The bicycle program is currently running a campaign to let students know the liability they face if they hit a pedestrian or another cyclist while bicycle riding on campus.
Bicyde hazards questioned
Hit-and-run prompts heightened concern over pedestrian safety
By Sabrina Thomas
Staff Writer
University Security and the Los Angeles Police Department are still searching for the suspect involved in a hit-and-run bicycle accident that occurred late September outside the Financial Services Building.
The incident left a female pedestrian severely injured.
In an effort to prevent such hit-and-run accidents, the university's bicycle
program has taken steps to inform bicyclists of the liability they face when they hit a pedestrian or another bicyclist.
"When bicyclists run into people, they are liable for any damages done to that individual and their property," said Dennis Archambault, special projects administrator and head of the bicycle program.
"Running into someone is not a crime, it's an accident. But not stopping is a crime," he said.
Archambault said bikes are included under the California Motor Vehicle Code and are treated as vehicles in court.
(See Bikes, page 6)
Bush will win, says campus faculty panel
By Colette Maandig
Staff Writer
Vice President George Bush will win easily in the 1988 presidential election, predicted five university faculty members on Wednesday at an open election forum held at Von KleinSmid Center lounge.
Herbert Alexander, Joseph Cerrell, Sheldon Kamieniecki and William Lammers of the political science department, and Fred Shelley of the geography department were panelists at the forum, which focused on political financing, campaign reform, political geography and political attitudes.
"It doesn't take a genius to know that Bush is ahead not only by polls, but also by electoral college votes," said Kamieniecki, associate professor of political science.
The panelists stressed weaknesses in the Republican campaign that the Democrats have failed to capitalize on.
(See Forum, page 2)
Speaker Brown says colleagues betrayed him
By Ken Jorgensen
Managing Editor
California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, D-San Francisco, told a crowd of about 80 students Tuesday night that attempts to remove him from his post have been inspired by his political enemies' pursuit of power.
Speaking before Joseph Cerrell's "Political Parties, Campaigns and Elections" class in Waite Phillips Hall, Brown also decried a lack of voter
(See Brown, page 18)
Select university officials denounce AIDS initiative
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USC and Shrine consider parking structure venture
By Sabrina Thomas
Staff Writer
Parking Operations is evaluating a prospective partnership with the Shrine Auditorium's parking contractors to build a five-level, 1,200-space structure that will be located between the International House of Pancakes and the auditorium on Jefferson Boulevard, a parking official said Wednesday.
"We're looking at the costs of construction, the cost to operate it and the security measures we'd put in there," said Carl Levredge, director of Parking Operations and University Security.
"We will analyze that information in comparison to costs of adding spaces on campus or utilizing more existing off-campus lots.
"The numbers look good so far. The location is good and the working relations are good, but we need to analyze it more," he said. "Nothing's been signed or inked out."
Levredge said the Board of Trustees and the administration will make the final decision.
The Shrine "would like a shovel in the ground by March or April," Levredge said. "They want the structure completed by the next Academy Awards."
It would take about 18 months to build the structure, Levredge said. The ground floor would be finished for the next Academy Awards in April.
"Most of the Shrine events occur when they wouldn't conflict with the university's peak park-(See Structure, page 7)
By Roger Tefft
Staff Writer
Proposition 97 — which would reinstate California Occupational Health and Safety Administration (Cal-OSHA) — has wide support among labor unions, environmentalist groups and politicians but is opposed by the governor and businesses.
Last year Gov. George Deukmejian abolished the $8 million program to save money because he believed its federal counterpart, Fed-OSHA, provides the same protection for workers in hazardous occupations.
But supporters of Proposition 97, including the California Labor Federation, Sierra Club, American Cancer Society, League of Women Voters, and both California U.S. senators —
Democrat Alan Cranston and Republican Pete Wilson — disagree with Deukmejian's appraisal of Fed-OSHA.
Supporters claim the last half of 1987 showed a 53 percent increase in work-related deaths in the state over the same period in 1986, when Cal-OSHA was in charge.
Workers will have better protection than currently offered by Fed-OSHA because of an additional 170 toxics and 95 chemicals regulated by Cal-OSHA.
But in a signed statement in the ballot pamphlet, Deukmejian said since the 14-year-old Cal-OSHA was abolished, "the rate of occupational injuries and illnesses has actually declined."
"Proposition 97 has nothing to do with worker safety. It has everything to do with big gov-(See Prop. 97, page 15)
Students debate Proposition 102 in AIDS course
By Kyra Phillips
Staff Writer
Students enrolled in the university's AIDS course said they were sympathetic to persons with the disease and opposed to Proposition 102 — the initiative that would require reporting virus carriers to health authorities.
Dr. William Crary, a biology professor, spoke to more than 200 students Wednesday in Seeley G. Mudd auditorium about the psychology of AIDS.
"If we are to understand AIDS, or any illness, we must understand behavior," Crary said. "The psychology of AIDS is parallel to the psychology of life."
(See Class, page 15)
By Jeordan Legon
Staff Writer
The office of University President James Zumberge released a statement on Friday calling for the defeat of Proposition ,102, which would require doctors and blood banks to report to state health authorities patients and blood donors they believe have contracted or tested positive for AIDS.
Rep. William Dannemeyer, R-Fullerton, said the measure will decrease the number of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome cases in the state by making sure the patient is reported and the victim's sexual partners are informed of possible infection. Dannemeyer is a main proponent of the initiative.
Opponents of the measure argue it would only blacklist AIDS
Thursday, November 3, 1988
See related story on Proposition 96, page 3.
patients and keep them from getting jobs and health and life insurance.
"Making lists of people who are positive for the AIDS virus is not the way to solve it," said Allan Ebbin, director of the Student Health Center.
"The physician should counsel the person about safe sex and how to avoid the spread of AIDS," Ebbin said. "I think we've seen the difference that education toward practicing safe sex is making. This proposition violates the civil rights of the patients."
The measure is geared toward oppressing gay males and other
(See Prop. 102, page 6)