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Volume CVI, Number 16	University	of	Southern	California	Tuesday,	February	2,	1988
CHRISTOPHER FLANAGAN DAILY TROJAN
TOO MUCH TO DRINK? — Workers Jim Zuziak (left) and Guadeiupe Navarro conduct their monthly maintenance check on the Gavin Herbert Plaza fountain.
University law students help Cuban detainees
By Christine Carr
Staff Writer
A group of university law students has volunteered to counsel Cuban detainees who rioted at two federal prisons late last year and may now face deportation and imprisonment.
About 32 students responded to a plea from the Atlanta-based Coalition to Support Cuban Detainees, which began its legal recruiting efforts after the U.S. government announced it would review the cases of the 2,400 Cubans involved in last November's riots at federal penitentiaries in Atlanta, Ga. and Oakdale, La.
Because the Cubans came into the country without proper documents, even minor - infractions in this country can mean indefinite incarceration in U.S prisons, university law professors said.
Noel Ragsdale, an associate clinical professor of law who is supervising the
students' work, said indefinite imprisonment is unconstitutional.
''We think they can't be held indefinitely as a matter of law," Ragsdale said. "The (U.S.) Supreme Court hasn't dealt with the issue yet. If they are retained without a release date, then there will be lawsuits challenging the indefinite imprisonment on constitutional grounds. They can't be forced to continue in federal limbo."
Charles Weisselberg, an assistant law professor who is also supervising the students' work, said, "Some of (the detainees) have been in prison for a very long time, just for (possessing) a small amount of marijuana or under a gram of cocaine. The students are challenging their indefinite confinement."
Students had initial meetings with the detainees on Jan. 26 and 27. More meetings are scheduled for todav and (Continued on page 2)
Two students held up at downtown Embassy
By Karen Denne
Staff Writer
Two male students were held up by a pair of armed men as they were walking to a bank Sunday afternoon near Embassy Residential College.
The two students, who asked to remain unidentified, were walking down Grand Avenue toward Eighth Street at about 12:30 p.m. when they were approached by two men. According to the students' accounts, one man demanded their money and said nervously, "My friend has a
gun. Don't try anything."
The other man opened his jacket and displayed a gun — described by one of the students as a stainless steel pistol — which was tucked in his pants.
"I gave them my wallet and thev took the money out and handed me my wallet back," said the student.
The other student jokingly said to the men, "I have no money. I'm going to the bank machine — just give me a couple of minutes."
After the men had searched his empty (Continued on page 2)
Campaign for USC will get boost from donation program
By Beth Laski
Staff Writer
After 42 months of fund raising, the Campaign for the University of Southern California has taken on a new direction by allowing interested donors to open personalized accounts, which will enable donations to be pledged through an installment plan.
The new Personalized Endowment Program, which was previewed on Nov. 1, 1987 and "is just getting off the ground," is a new concept at the university, said Shari Thorell, vice president for alumni relations. The program was publicly announced this month through the Trojan Family publication, and as of Dec. 31, 1987, had brought in $250,000 in pledges.
Those directly involved with the program — modeled after a program at Harvard University — are projecting that the success of the university's fund will be due primarily to loyalty of the university's alumni and friends.
There are 185,000 alumni of the university, and together with friends of USC, 70 percent to 80 percent of them reside in Southern California, according to Roger Olson, senior vice president for university relations.
The relative proximity of alumni and friends to the university ‘makes it very convenient for them to contribute, Olson said. At other institutions, alumni do not have the opportunity to meet the president of their university. But at USC, "if President Zumberge laughs, they can hear him," he said.
These factors will make it "very easy to bring to our USC family this personalized endowment program," Olson added.
The personalized accounts, which provide donors another vehicle through which they can contribute to the university on a lifetime basis, differ greatly from other university donor programs.
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NEEDS FOR THE FUTURE
CURRENT MARKET VALUE
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STANFORO SI 7 BILLION
NOTRE DAME S418 MILLION
USC $401 MILLION
While USC’s endowment is large in absolute dollar terms, ranking 24th among 260 colleges and universities reporting endowment figures, it lags behind universities of comparable size, stature and ambition.
ENDOWMENT PER STUDENT RATIO
STANFORD S'03 CC0
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Moreover, when endowment is measured in relative terms such as endowment dollars per capita (per student), USC lags still further behind its peers.
Source: University of Southern California, Personal Endoivment Program Prospectus
KSCR DJs locked out by vandals
KSCR, the campus radio station, was forced off the airwaves much of the day Sunday and Monday morning because vandalism to the studio door locked disc jockeys out of the studio.
Vandals jammed the keyhole of the door to Studio A, the station's only operable studio, sometime between 1 a.m. Saturday and 7:30 a.m. Sunday, said Grant Weyman, head disc jockey.
Last October, the studio doorknob was damaged in the same manner, but radio employees were able to remove the doorknob and switch it with another doorknob in the office', said John Eberhardt, KSCR production manager.
"We didn't think anything of it (then) because we could get around it. Now we can't," Eberhardt said Monday morning.
Eberhardt said he felt that either a "disgruntled (KSCR) staff member" or just an ordinary vandal damaged the doorknob.
In a separate incident, the station's "On Air" signs were stolen in late November, Weyman said.
He suggested that KSCR staff (Continued on page 2)