Volume CVI, Number 15	University	of	Southern	California	Monday,	February	1,	1988
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Resident physicians protest contract policy
High-speed chase hits campus; one man caught, other escapes
Resident physicians (above) walked off their jobs at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center on Jan. 29, but doctors like Keith Crouthamel, Todd Torney and Keith
By Karen Denne
Staff Writer
A 10-minute chase between two recent parolees and patrol units of the Los Angeles Police Department ended on campus about 9:30 Friday morning with the arrest of one of the men.
The two men, paroled from prison two months ago, began the chase on a stolen motorcycle at the 1900 block of 22nd Street and, pursued by several patrol cars, reached speeds estimated at 80 mph before driving onto campus, said LAPD officer Charlene Laughton.
The two men rode northbound on Trousdale Parkway, ditched the motorcycle in E.F. Hutton Park and fled on foot in opposite directions, said officer Craig Baxley, who was watch commander during the incident.
One of the men was caught by University Security between Bovard Administration Building and the Physical Educaton Building and was arrested by police. The other man escaped.
Brad Bayan, a junior, was in class on the third floor of Bovard when he “saw these three cop cars . . . and the cops jumped out of their cars with guns." He estimated that the motorcycle rode through campus at 30 mph.
The chase and subsequent campus arrest began when the LAPD received a call Friday morning about a family dispute and a possible stolen motorcycle. When a police chopper in the area spotted the two men “driving crazy" on the motorcycle, four LAPD units were radioed and “ended up getting into a pursuit," Baxley said.
History Professor John Wills was walking to his
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Senate hopes new election plan will attract candidates and voters
By Yumi Wilson
Staff Writer
In an effort to increase the quality of Student Senate representation and to spur voter turnout, the senate's Elections Commission has designed an innovative format for the next senate election, scheduled for March 7.
"We want the most qualified to be elected — that's what this whole format is all about," said Hanh Cao, elections and recruitment chairwoman.
In the past, a brief position statement printed in the Daily
Trojan and fliers passed around campus were the only sources of information about candidates available to students.
Cao felt that this method was “very impersonal" and believes students "can't be expected to cast an informed vote just on that."
“Before, it seemed like anyone could run and not necessarily the most-qualified person would get elected, " said Ner-issa Dominguez, vice chairwoman of the commission.
Cao, who devised and implemented the new process, believes her plan will not only
attract more students to run for senate .positions, but will attract more voters as well.
A new part of the election will be a forum-style debate. During this phase, candidates will debate important issues while students obse'rve. "It's something we always wanted to do, but 'forum and debate' is still in its planning stage," Cao said.
To view the candidates on a more "personal level,” Cao said, the commission plans to publish a newsletter titled "Who's Who in the 1988 Election," which will contain the (Continued on page 2)
By Karl Kahler
Staff Writer
After a court order required Los Angeles County nurses to return to work last week, resident physicians took up picket signs over the weekend to protest the policy of contracting residents out to the university.
A temporary restraining order was issued on the morning of Jan. 29 by a Los Angeles Superior Court that required the striking nurses to return to work.
As the nurses returned to County-USC Medical Center Friday, resident physi-
cians picketed the 1,445-bed facility.
They protested out contracting, a policy in which interns and residents are under contract to USC rather than to the county.
“What out contracting does, essentially, is to eliminate our collective bargaining rights and our grievance procedure, and it eliminates our say in patient care,” said Chris Ho, a backup negotiator of the Joint Council Of Interns and Residents.
All County-USC interns — first-year postgraduate physicians — are under contract with the university, Ho said.
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Prince still went inside the facility to check and discuss the treatment given to their patients. As of Sunday afternoon, the physicians were still on strike.
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A NIGHT AT THE IMPROV — Collin Brady, a pledge in the Delta Chi fraternity, and John Colleti, an active, perform an improvisa-tional comedy act in which they have to act out what offstage comedians say.