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Volume CVII, Number 32	University	of	Southern	California	Thursday,	October	20,	1988
Campus security force expands
Students demand extended library hours at Doheny
By Bryan Culp
Staff Writer
About 20 students sat outside Doheny Memorial Library Tuesday night to demand longer library hours and protest a black-tie dinner held in the Reference Room that forced the library to close.
The first annual Scriptor Award, sponsored by Friends of USC Libraries, was a fundraiser honoring author Helene Hanff and screenwriter Hugh Whitemore for their work on 84 Charing Cross Road, a movie detailing the correspondence between a New York-based writer and an antiquarian bookseller in London.
Demonstrators displayed signs reading, "Longer Hours," "Money for Maintenance," "Dollars For Longer Hours" and "We Want to Use Our Libraries Not UCLA's," said Stephen Elder, public relations specialist for the library.
Elder said while the university should not have scheduled the event during midterms, the issue at hand was the extension of library hours.
"The party provided us with a good chance to draw attention to the problem of longer library hours," he said.
(See Library, page 7)
Education the priority, Cabinet member says
By Bryan Culp
Staff Writer
Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos said Wednesday that educating students to their full potential is the "number one priority on the agenda of America."
Speaking to a standing-room only crowd of 300 at Commons Restaurant, Cavazos, the first Hispanic appointed to a Cabinet post, said Congress, student groups, parents and school boards should unite to promote education.
"The agenda is to educate every student to their full potential, to teach the illiterate to read, to bring dropouts back into the system, to reach out to the handicapped," he said.
Cavazos, addressing students, faculty members and community leaders, said the education "problem" goes beyond money.
"There are attitudinal problems," he said. "There are expectation problems within some of the people themselves."
During his senate confirmation hearings in September, Cavazos said he made a commitment to help acquire as much money as possible for education.
(See Cavazos, page 3)
DAILY TROJAN
Lt Art Blair
By Sabrina Thomas
Staff Writer
Citing increases in the number of security employees, patrol cars and the department's budget, officials said University Security has changed dramatically in the past eight years.
Since 1980, the number of department employees has risen from 68 to 133, making the university's security force one of the largest at U.S. college campuses, security chief Steven Ward said.
The number of patrol vehicles, excluding cars used in Es-
cort Service, have doubled from 12 to 24.
"The department's budget has increased 400 percent in eight years," Ward said. He estimated the department's annual budget at $5 million, collected from housing, parking and tuition fees, aside from other university funding.
Departmental programs have also expanded, Ward said.
"The Crime Prevention Program has expanded to focus on three general topics," he said. The program educates students by presenting seminars on personal safety, protection of prop-
erty, rape awareness, office safety issues and residential crime issues.
University Security has also started a program called "Gotcha," in which certain members of the force, usually students working undercover, wander through buildings to see how far they are able to penetrate before being questioned or stopped. Ward said they leave cards stating "gotcha" at all the places they were able to enter unquestioned to show that these areas are ideal targets for potential crime.
(See Changes, page 18)
DAILY TROJAN
Chief Steven Ward
New coalition promotes divestment
Group attempts to raise students’ awareness of S. Africa inequality
By Nola Sarkisian
Staff Writer
Although plans to hold a protest rally promoting divestment failed Wednesday, the newly created Divestment Coalition succeeded in obtaining petition signatures and fostering awareness of apartheid among students.
"Students are aware of the moral implications of apartheid, but when it comes to the facts, students are unaware," said David Wells, a graduate student who is a
member of the coalition. "We want to set up a process of informing them."
The coalition, which includes representatives from Human Justice, South African Student Association and the African Student Association, held its first meeting at the beginning of October to discuss means of influencing the university to divest, Wells said.
"The group has no formal structure or officers," he said. "It's just a team effort to educate others without a hierarchy."
To encourage awareness, Wells said, the group plans to make stickers that say "Whites Only" and plaster them on restrooms and drinking fountains around campus. He
(See Divestment, page 8)
Dining club gives students chance to sample ethnic food and culture
By Jeordan Legon
Staff Writer
Imran Qamar, an international student from Pakistan, is unsure how Americans will react when they realize -there will be no silverware at Friday's traditional Pakistani dinner at Anar-kali Restaurant in Hollywood.
"The Pakistani people eat mostly with their fingers," Qamar said. "It's kind of like Chinese chopsticks, only we use our fingers.
"I hope people will like to try something new. If they come out for the night, they are probably adventurous, and they won't mind eating with their fingers."
The Pakistani dinner is part of The International Dinners Club, a new organization that plans excursions to various ethnic restaurants in Los Angeles in order to introduce international and domestic students, faculty and staff members to food and customs of other cultures.
Several students have already signed up for the dining excursions — some without knowing what to expect.
Bill Cole, a graduate student in electrical engineering, was (See Club, page 7)
ALL LINED UP
A row of motorcycles was parked along West 36th Place Wednesday, across from the Hedco Neurosciences Building, which is under construction.