Gary Karz, a finance major, checks out a convertible Cadillac Aliante yesterday at Hahn Plaza. General Motors Corp. is showing its '88 models and offering $500 scholarships.
Volume CVI, Number 7	University	of	Southern	California	Wednesday,	January	20,	1988
By Kevin Ota
Staff Writer
After refunding a $25 language lab fee to students enrolled in Korean III and IV in December, the university's department of East Asian languages and cultures has refused to repay students who want their lab money refunded from previous semesters.
The lab fee, which has been abolished, had been charged to students enrolled in Korean IH and IV for the past 10 years. It was eradicated after Kirk Kang, a commuter student senator enrolled last fall in Korean HI, submitted a petition in September to the East Asian languages department demanding a refund.
"1 did some research and asked what the $25 was for," Kang said. "They said h was (for the use of audio) tapes at Taper Hall, but when I went there they only had three copies of one tape, and it wasn't even relevant to our class."
Kang said he submitted the petition to the department on the advice of his instructor, Nam-Kil Kim, a professor of East Asian languages, and discovered that several students had already tried to correct the problem.
"I asked several Korean students if they knew they were being unfairly charged," Kang said. "They said they tried to do something and talked to the department officials, but they just ignored them and did nothing."
Kang said his attempt to talk with John Wills, acting chairman of the department, had the same results until he mentioned to Wills that he was a student senator.
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Senator objects, but past lab fees won’t be repaid
Kerckhoff complaint
Residents cite poor conditions
Teenager in custody for attacks
By Shannon Rafferty
Staff Writer
By Georgina Mota
Staff Writer
University students, frustrated by continued vandalism and lack of improved services in Kerckhoff Apartments, have sent a petition to the director of housing demanding improvements to the university apartment complex.
Sixty-six FacuIty-in-Residence students signed the petition last December. They itemized several complaints with Kerckhoff, located at 711 W. 27th St., claiming that the apartment complex needed locks for the stairwells, parking lot gates that work properly, an improved hot water heating system, better television reception and increased security patrols, particularly on the first and second floors.
William Thompson, director of housing, replied to the petition in a letter dated Jan. 8 and stressed that students needed to help prevent the "truly deplorable" amount of vandalism at Kerckhoff.
As of Jan. 1, a new manager has been hired for the apartment complex after the last manager resigned, Thompson said.
"We were not totally satisfied with the level of service (she was) giving residents," he said.
Eric Lorr, chairman of the FIR's Grievances Committee, said some problems reported to the last manager were never forwarded to the housing office and went unnoticed.
Thompson's letter read that he would bring Kerckhoff's vandalism problem to the attention of University Security's director, Carl Levredge, and would ask security to patrol the complex perimeter and lower floors more often.
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A 17-year-old Pico Rivera youth was arrested on suspicion of rape and robbery Saturday night in connection with the attacks on two women at Embassy Residential College downtown, authorities said.
The suspect, whose name was not disclosed because of his age, stepped off an RTD bus nearby Embassy when Fred Clayton, a community service officer at Embassy, recognized him from a composite drawing that had been circulating throughout the building.
"He looked exactly like the sketch," Clayton said. "As soon as I saw him I knew it was him."
Clayton, who doesn't carry a weapon, said he called Sgt. Peter Whittingham, a University Security officer, and together they apprehended the youth without a struggle just outside Embassy on Ninth Street and Grand Avenue.
Upon searching the suspect, they found property of the rape victim and a folding buck knife, Clayton said. They arrested him for carrying a concea ed weapon.
The security officers notified the Los Angeles Police Department that they may have the alleged rapist in custody and waited for a squad car, which took the suspect downtown to the police department's Central Division.
There he was booked on suspicion of rape and attempted robbery and transported to Central Juvenile Hall, where he was held without bail, Detective Dave Grey said.
The youth signed a confession admitting to the Jan. 10 rape but not the robbery, which happened two nights earlier, Grey added.
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A 17-year-old was arrested by two security officers in front of Embassy Residential College Saturday night on suspicion of the rape and robbery of a resident on Jan. 10.