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Volume CVII, Number 16
University of Southern California
Wednesday, September 28, 1988
TAKE THAT
MCHAEL KIM / DAILY TROJAN
Davkf Oles takes a blow to the upper body from Morris Choi during a Hwa Rang Do demonstration Tuesday in front of Tommy Trojan. Both Oles and Choi teach the martial arts form.
Papers for sale a big business
Firm profits from potential plagiarists
By Chris Eftychiou
Staff Writer
Business cards advertising the sale of research papers are surfacing on windshields, in student publications and in dorm rooms, sparking administrators to protest such "intellectual fraud" by students.
The bright yellow cards are distributed by Research Assistance, a Los Angeles-based company that after 18 years in business has accumulated 16,278 research papers on topics ranging from anthropology to zoology.
Bart Lowe, president of Research Assistance, said the business is a legitimate service because it serves as a "data base of information on things books aren't out on yet."
Although Lowe said his business is not responsible for acts of plagiarism, he admitted that problems arise when students
claim the archived papers as their own work.
"They shouldn't do it — but they can use a book and they can use Cliff Notes," Lowe said. "If someone wants to plagiarize, they're going to find a way." Lowe said he did not know how many USC students actually use the service.
David Ouimette, associate director of Student Conduct at the university, said the number of plagiarism cases has slightly risen over the past two years. In 1986-87, 43 cases were reported compared with 56 cases in 1987-88.
Some of those cases may have involved Research Assistance material, Ouimette said.
"It's hard to prove. We can't say it's specifically Research Assistance. But I suspect there have been (Research Assistance) cases we haven't been able to trace yet," he said.
(See Plagiarism, page 3)
Campus break-ins up; total losses estimated at $816,978 in 1987
By Kay Devgan
Staff Writer
University Security statistics show the number of on-campus burglaries has increased 72 percent in the last year, but security officials say that most could have been prevented.
In 1987, there were 167 reported burglaries of on-campus buildings compared with only 97 in 1986, said Steve Ward, University Security chief. He said thefts in 1987 cost the university an estimated $816,978.
But the university has no official standards or rules for the protection of university property, Ward added. The best advice, said crime prevention Officer Terry Riley, is to "lock it or. lose it. And that certainly applies to the university offices."
University Security officers were notified of a break-in at President James Zumberge's office in the Bovard Administration Building Sept. 8.
Two doors were forced open and a television, videocassette recorder, coffee machine and electric fan were stolen, security reported.
Campus burglaries occur because buildings and facilities are "frequently too easy to get into," Ward said.
"In all honesty, if we could get people who are in charge of offices to be more responsible
—	to anchor their electronic equipment, to use their locks, to establish an internal security procedure — we would make a bigger impact on the amount of office crime than if we were to hire more security officers," Ward said.
Riley said the majority of office thefts occur during the day. He said on-campus burglaries are "crimes of opportunity/' in which individ-(See Burglaries, page 7)
University phone system expands
$23.4 million AT & T network to better telecommunications
By Carole Cleveland
Staff Writer
KEVIN FUNT / DAILY1
Workers bury concrete casings Tuesday near Parking Structure D that will house wires for the university’s new $23.4 million tele* ohone svstem to ba comolatad In December 1989.
The University Communication Network and the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. have teamed up to install a $23.4 million telecommunications and data transmissions network, administration officials said.
On Monday, work crews began excavation ot the underground telecommunications system, which will be installed at both the University Park and Health Sciences campuses.
Workers will dig more than four miles of trenches to accommodate the 18 miles of copper cable and 20 miles of fiber optic cable that will stretch across the campus, said Hugh Kelly, public relations manager of University Communication Network.
The system will be operational by December 1989, said Lyn Hutton, senior vice president of administration.
"The system we have now is leased equipment from Pacific Bell," Hutton said. "This new system will be owned by the university and will be completely independent of Pacific Bell. Everything we need for the transmission of calls will be right here on campus."
AT & T was selected from a competitive bidding process in September 1986 to install the new telecommunications system, Kelly said.
The university originally planned to buy two of AT & Ts System 85s, each of which can accommodate up to 14,000 stations — computer terminals or telephones.
But the university opted instead to install the 5 ESS Switch, AT & Ts largest and most sophisticated switching system. Each 5 ESS switch can accommodate 45,000 stations.
AT & T customizes each 5 ESS system according
(See Phones, page 7)