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Volume CVII, Number 63
University of Southern California
Thursday, December 8, 1988
JAMES SU / DAILY TROJAN
Members of the Board of Trustees were greeted on campus Wednesday morning by a crowd of more than 50 people calling for university divestment in companies doing business in South Africa.
Coalition urges university to divest from South Africa
By Nola Sarkisian
Staff Writer
Amid placards calling the university to "take the chains off — DIVEST/' the Divestment Coalition staged a rally in front of Bovard Auditorium Wednesday morning urging the university to pull out of corporations with ties to South Africa.
More than 50 students listened to speeches, signed a petition demanding immediate action and marcbcd around Bovard chanting for divestment under a window where the Board of Trustees convened for a meeting.
"It was handled orderly and (the coalition) had a chance to say their piece," trustee Kennedy Galpin said. "We really appreciated their orderliness."
See related story on Board of Trustees meeting, page 3.
Among those proposing divestment was political science professor Carol Thompson, who questioned the credibility of a recent speaker at the board's Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility meeting.
"I think the committee needs to explain the outrage of inviting the South African council general to speak on behalf of his country because he's a paid liar," Thompson said.
Because the council testified the university should not divest, students felt the committee was soliciting speakers that members wanted to
(See Rally, page 3)
Senate missing $4,000 from fund
Cash, movie tickets allegedly stolen by someone in program operations
By Bryan Culp
Staff Writer
Student Senate members on Wednesday said they suspect $4,000 in cash and movie tickets was stolen by someone involved with senate operations.
The money, discovered missing on Nov. 18, was part of a $6,000 fund used to buy movie tickets sold to students at reduced rates, said Hanh Cao, chairwoman for senate public relations.
Every two weeks the senate buys more movie tickets using the revenue from the previous two weeks' sales, she said.
About $12,000 to $15,000 from the ticket sales passed through the senate office this semester, said Harry Marshak, a commuter senator who helped Cao with the project.
"We may not have imposed the right kind of checks and balances to satisfy such a big program," he said. "It started as a small program, but it grew overnight."
"The senate has most likely been victimized by theft," said Phil Clement, Student Senate president, in a written report to the senate Wednesday.
"We've been robbed and we have all the feelings of someone who has been robbed," Clement said. "We didn't have the strong control we would have liked."
Two students in charge of ticket sales resigned last month because of time conflicts, he said.
The senate treasurer, Amy Curtis, and the person in charge of the senate's table in front of Tommy Trojan, Marina Ter-(See Theft, page 5)
Rape suspect pleads not guilty to charges
By Bryan Culp
Staff Writer
The suspect police believe is responsible for the recent kidnapping and sexual assaults of two USC students pleaded not guilty Tuesday at his arraignment at the Los Angeles County Municipal Court.
Deon Proby, 18, is being held on $500,000 bail in the Los Angeles City Jail. The bail, originally based on charges related to a
North Hollywood incident, was increased from $250,000 because Proby was linked to additional crimes at USC and in Sylmar, said Detective Richard Jamison of the North Hollywood Police Department.
"We were aware of these other crimes but did not have time to evaluate everything when the first bail was set,” Jamison said.
A preliminary hearing at San (See Proby, page 14)
Columnist says Bush owes win to loyalty toward GOP
New faults raise safety concerns
By Colette Maandig
Staff Writer
President-elect George Bush was nominated by the Republican party because of his loyalty and service, not because of political ability, a syndicated columnist told a group of political science students Tuesday at Waite Phillips Hall.
"I counted, and in Bush's seven years as a vice president, he attended 3,000 meetings and he didn't take a position on anything," said Robert Novak in a political speech analyzing this year's presidential campaign.
Novak, who shares a column with political commentator Rowland Evans, spoke to a political science class, "Political
Parties, Campaigns and Elections."
"I would like to make a moderate suggestion in making (Bush) the permanent institutional vice president of the United States," he said.
The Republican party could have nominated Kansas Sen. Robert Dole or Rep. Jack Kemp from New York — "somebody with life," Novak said.
"Someone said that Bush reminded every woman of her first husband," he added. "He doesn't look too excited."
Novak criticized the Democrats for not capitalizing on Bush's failure to take a position on any issue.
Although the Democrats had (See Novak, page 5)
City officials may ask university to renovate 12 campus buildings
By Jeordan Legon
Staff Writer
Two geological faults running directly beneath downtown Los Angeles could pose a threat to 12 university buildings in need of seismic renovation, a city safety official said.
The faults could prompt the dty to ask USC for the second time to renovate Parkview Apartments, Harris Plaza, Bruce Hall, Touton Hall and eight other structures considered unsafe under current law, said Carl Deppe, assistant chief of the earthquake division of the Los Angeles Building and Safety Department.
"We must look at a number of things before we can determine whether the codes defining unsafe structures need to be changed," Deppe said. "It could affect USC if we find that an earthquake caused by the new faults would have more of an impact on buildings in your area."
The newly discovered faults will not cause any
great danger to on-campus structures, said Richard Stupin, associate director of new university construction.
"You know how many years these buildings have been standing? Nothing happened to them so far and this whole area is full of earthquake faults," Stupin said.
TT\e faults might be more threatening to downtown Los Angeles than is the San Andreas fault, said Egill Hauksson, an assistant professor of geophysics in the geological sciences department, which discovered the faults.
"They lie beneath L.A.'s large structures and massive population center. And the closer a fault, the more you experience an earthquake's ground motion," Hauksson said in a recent press release.
He said the Torrance-Wilmington fault and the Elysian Park fault were first discovered after the Whittier earthquake in October 1987, which caused seven deaths and $360 million in damages.
The earthquake activity along the two faults was unknown until now because the faults are buried far beneath the earth's surface, Hauksson said.
(See Faults, page 14)