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Volume CVI, Number 2	University	of	Southern	California	Monday,	January	11,	1988
Maree may still face kidnapping charge
Rose Bowl player abducted ex-girlfriend, attorney says
JEFF MAREE
By Kevin Davis
Assistant City Editor
The El Monte district attorney's office is trying to reinstate a felony kidnapping charge against Jeff Maree, a member of the university's 1988 Rose Bowl footbail squad, the Daily Trojan has learned.
Maree, who was a backup safety on the team, was arrested Dec. 2 after allegedly kidnapping his ex-girlfriend after visiting her at work.
The felony charge against Maree, a senior public administration major, was dropped at his Dec. 23 court hearing after a false imprisonment charge was added and then lowered to a misdemeanor by Judge Richard van Dusen of the Po-
mona Municipal Court.
However, Ross Alari, the assistant district attorney prosecuting Maree's case, feels the change in charges was unwarranted and said he will make a motion to reinstate the original complaint on Feb. 8, Maree's next scheduled court date.
"In my opinion, enough facts were presented in testimony to substantiate the felony kidnapping allegation," Alari said. "No persuasive legal cause was given by the judge to back up what he did."
The principal investigators of the case agree with Alari.
"The way he acted warrants the serious
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Zumberge, West Germans negotiating library’s fate
By Jordana Bieze
Staff Writer
Recent talks between university officials, West German politicians and intellectuals may result in a $15 million endowment to preserve a 36,000-volume library as a monument to West German culture.
In a meeting Thursday between university officials and the West German consulate, President James Zumberge announced that a West German endowment of $15 million would be necessary to secure and maintain the late Lion Feuchtwanger's estate and library.
The library collection was compiled by Feucht-wanger, the late German novelist and playwright, at Villa Aurora, a Pacific Palisades estate he purchased in 1941 after fleeing Germany to escape Nazi attacks on his pro-socialist writing. Feucht-wanger died in 1958.
His wife, Marta, donated the estate to the university in 1959, subject to her lifetime use. She lived at the estate until her death last October.
Unwilling to finance the maintenance of both the library and the 22-room, Spanish-style mansion after Marta Feuchtwanger's death, the university made plans to sell the estate and move the 36,000-volume collection to Doheny Library.
Selling the books in the library, which include thousands of first editions published from the 16th-20th centuries and several books published before 1500, could easily pay for the repair and upkeep of the estate. However, Marta Feuchtwanger stipulated in her will that the estate was of secondary importance, said Robert Biller, the university's executive vice provost.
"She valued knowledge higher and said, 'Sell the house to save the books,' " Biller said.
After Marta Feuchtwanger's death, a movement was instigated in West Germany to raise the money needed to secure the library at its present location. The preservation effort, headed by West German journalist Volker Skierka, plans to target private foundations and the West German government for funding.
West German President Richard von Weiz-sacker, former Chancellor Willy Brandt and Hans-Jochen Vogel, chairman of the Social Democratic Party's parliamentary delegation, all support the preservation effort, Skierka told the Los Angeles Times in December.
Included in the $15 million figure are estimated costs of repairing the estate and maintenance costs of $500,000 per year, Biller said.
Also included are the projected costs of storing
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WE’RE NO. 1 ? — A youthful Trojan roots on his favorite basketball team.
Cal State L.A. paper faces unsure future
Many students fail to receive class confirmations in the mail
By Jordana Bieze
Staff Writer
Long lines and financial aid complications last week greeted returning university students who pre-registered for the spring semester but failed to receive the class confirmations they were expecting in the mail.
Despite assurances from university officials that "all confirmations were mailed out," many students who pre-registered in November or December were forced to wait outside the Student Administrative Services Building for copies of their confirmations.
Registration officials were aware that an unknown number of students failed to receive confirmations but were unable to offer an explanation.
"I wish I had an answer," said Howard Saperston, university registrar. "The computer people tell me that all confirmations were mailed out."
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By Brad Bowlin
Staff Writer
The staff of the University Times, the financially and politically beleaguered student newspaper at California State University Los Angeles, began the new quarter Jan. 4 still uncertain about the future of the paper.
For the first time in 23 years, the newspaper is not published on a daily basis; it now comes out only Mondays, W'ednesdays and Thursdays because of financial difficulties.
The Times is losing advertising revenues because of the change, said publisher Joan Zyda.
"We've already lost some display ads from some national advertisers" because of the cutback, she said. "I'm concerned that once we lose those people, it will be hard to get them back."
The newspaper's fall from the ranks of daily college newspapers has many other implications for the paper and its writers, Zyda said.
"Coming out only three times a week means we are not eligible to compete in many national and state competitions," she said.
While the Times receives money from the sale of advertisements, its main funding sources in the past have been various campus organizations including the Associated Students and the Instructionally Related Activities board.
The IRA will vote whether or not to approve $23,000 in fund-
ing for the paper later this month.
If the board denies the request, which was narrowly approved by the Communications Board last December, the newspaper can appeal directly to California State University Los Angeles President James Rosser, who has the final say in funding approvals, Zyda said.
Without the funds, further drastic cuts will have to be made in the newspaper, she said.
Those cutbacks could include further reducing the number of issues, eliminating photographs from the paper and not reimbursing students for transportation costs incurred while working for the paper, she said.
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