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Volume CIV, Number 63
University of Southern California
Tuesday, April 19, 1988
Nighttime lineup nets no suspects
Student can’t identify private guards who beat him at Bovard
By Christine Carr
Staff Writer
An investigation into the alleged beating of a student by private security guards at Thursday's X concert has been slowed because he was unable to identify his attackers in an impromptu lineup of suspects. University Security said Monday.
Elliot Lucas, a sophomore majoring in English, has claimed that he sustained a gash on the forehead and extensive bruises on his back and face at the hands of event security guards outside Bovard Auditorium on Thursday night.
Lucas and Jimmy Mulhollan, a friend who witnessed the incident, said they were driven by University Security officers less than an hour after the beating to a nearby street comer, where three men employed by Contemporary Security were being held.
But as the three stood for inspection, Lucas and Mulhollan coulan't match their faces with the men who beat Lucas, security said.
Meanwhile, a Program Board volunteer, who allegedly kicked
Elliot Lucas claims that he suffered bruises and a forehead gash after being assaulted by event guards hired to supervise last Thursday's X concert.
and assaulted Lucas Thursday night, called the Daily Trojan on Monday to deny any wrongdoing.
Lucas claims that the volunteer first kicked him while he was on the ground being beaten by four or five guards. Then, after he reentered Bovard to try to get the names of any of the guards, the same volunteer shoved him into a wall and threw him out.
The student, who requested anonymity, said he never kicked Lucas. In fact, he claimed, Lucas kicked him during his struggle with the guards.
Sgt. David Ritch said that University Security took a report of the incident and referred the Program Board volunteer, who is a freshman ROTC student, to the Office of Student Conduct, where he may receive university sanctions for his actions.
The Office of Student Activities and University Security are now asking any witnesses to the incident to give their accounts.
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Tuition	$8,625	9,436	10,374	11,302
Fees	175	182	190	206
Board	2,175	2,290	2,290	2,290
Room	1,450	1,424	1,524	1,638
Total Source: Office of the	12,425 Budget	13,332	14,378	15,436
Seniors weigh expenses of education, graduation
By Jordana Bieze
Staff Writer
With commencement ceremonies less than three weeks away, many seniors are now assessing the amount of money they have poured into this university vs. the value of the education they have received.
But they'll have to pay even more money to go through the ceremony.
After four years at the university, the average member of the Class of 1988 will have paid $55,571 in tuition, room and board and mandatory fees, according to university records.
Those students planning to participate in commencement on May 6 can count on paying at least another $16.75 to rent a cap, gown and tassel. Graduates who will receive master's or doctoral degrees must pay $22.75 to rent a cap, gown, tassel and velvet hood.
That academic regalia is now being distributed outside the Student Union Building. Distribution will continue until 11 a.m. on graduation day, at the start of the ceremony.
In addition to the required expenses attached to cap and gown rental, students have the option of
purchasing personalized class rings and graduation announcements.
Twenty years ago, a men's gold class ring cost $140, according to university bookstore officials. Today, a men's gold class ring costs between $245 and $597.
Personalized announcements now cost $30 for a box of 25. In the past two years, the same number of announcements cost $3 more, said Jack Amold, director of university bookstores.
The lower price is thanks to a student-designed computer program that allows the university to print its own announcements for the first time ever, Amold said.
"USC is the only university that prints a student's name, degree, and major in the text of the announcement," Amold said. Students at other universities must write this information on cards that are inserted into the announcements.
Students can get their^announcements within 24 hours if they pay a $7.50 premium, Amold said, but there is no deadline for ordering announcements.
"We've had people order them after graduation," he said.
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Study will compare USC with 20 universities
By Anh Do
Staff Writer
In an effort to identify how it competes with other institutions nationwide, the university has nearly completed a comprehensive study that is expected to compare USC favorably with 20 other major research universities.
The 325-page booklet, titled "Facts about USC, Its Quality, Importance and Impact," has been compiled by the academic affairs committee of the Board of Trustees. The study, which is now in its fifth draft, will be submitted to the board at its June meeting.
Upon evaluating the draft, the board will concentrate on "what the academic makeup of the university is, how it functions, its relative position with its peers and the quality of its academic programs," said Gordon Marshall, a trustee and chairman of the academic affairs committee.
"Facts" assesses the quality of USC education in four areas: its research and Ph.D. programs, undergraduate programs, professional schools and continuing education programs, said Janet Chaudhuri, assistant provost of student affairs.
In looking at "how the university as a whole is developing academically," the booklet "is not an attempt to copy what other institutions are doing, but to inform ourselves in the process," Chaudhuri explained.
Robert Biller, vice president of external affairs, noted:
"Any university that copies is foolish — but you need to understand what others are doing. What it reveals about the university is how special it is. We are completely different from any other university."
Groundwork on "Facts" started when university President James Zumberge assumed his office in 1980, Chaudhuri said.
At the time, Zumberge had announced his intent to establish USC among the top dozen universities by the year 2000, said Renee Raithel, chairwoman of the academic affairs research action unit of the Student Senate. Raithel is currently the only student representative on the trustees' academic affairs committee.
The trustees' committee first began to identify strengths and weaknesses of each academic unit in 1981, Biller said. Both he and Chaudhuri work under Provost Cornelius Pings and Zumberge, who oversee the committee's research.
Since then, initial drafts have been circulated to collect input from the deans and directors of each academic unit and the university's vice presidents, Chaudhuri said.
In examining the academic scope, the booklet also breaks down student population, salaries of faculty members, published research and scholarships, Raithel said.
It focuses on the number of students enrolled at major research universities, faculty-student ratios, the number of international students, the number of countries repre-
sented and the number of Rhodes and Truman Scholars, Chaudhuri said.
Although the booklet will not be released publicly until the board approves a final draft, Biller hinted at some of the "facts" to be revealed.
Biller said this university, in the study, reveals a diversity and scope found at few others. "It's the real solid private universities in America that are doing diversity at scale," he said.
The university's School of Accounting remains ranked among the nation's top five, Biller said. He noted that many prestigious universities — including Harvard, Stanford and Columbia — have no accounting major at all.
In addition, "Harvard has no engineering school, Stanford has no gerontology, Princeton is without a law school — we have all of them."
In emphasizing the university's uniqueness, Biller cited the Health Sciences campus, which is involved in the operations of County-USC Medical Center, the Children's Hospital, Doheny Eye Institute and the Norris Cancer Hospital and Research Institute.
Biller said the university recently entered into an agreement with NME Enterprises, a private chain of hospitals, to operate a 330-bed hospital next to the county hospital.
"lt will be the leading hospital" in Los Angeles, he said, "with the most advanced equipment and most per-
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