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Reagan's intervention in Honduras may be a ploy for Contra aid — page 4.
	
Alumnus chronicles Hollywood experience in the ’30s and '40s — page 9.
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Meet two USC walk-ons: Maryanella Cruz and Mike Lauterman — page 24.
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Volume CIV, Number 50
University of Southern California
Wednesday, March 23, 1988
JIMMY LEE / DAILY TROJAN
"BLOOD MONEY" — Mark Forte (left), president of the Black Student Union, and Laurence Bademosi, former president of the African Student Association, protest the university’s continued investment in South Africa on Tuesday at Hahn Plaza.
High school recruiting is poor, counselors say
By Kevin Ota
Staff Writer
At a time when the university's admissions office has come under fire for falling numbers of student applications, high school counselors charged Tuesday that university officials aren't effectively recruiting high schoolers locally or statewide.
Counselors at neighborhood higl schools said the university hasn't made-enough effort — and sometimes, no effort at all — to recruit neighborhood students this year.
"I feel USC neglected us this year," said Felicia Bams, a college adviser of Dorsey High School. "Every year there is someone who comes to talk to the students, but this year no one came/'
Bams said many of her students were interested in applying to the university, but applications — which are usually in abundance at Dorsey — were hard to find this year. Bams said she had to call the
admissions office several times before they were mailed.
"A lot of my students know about USC because they live in the neighborhood and have been involved in many of USC's community programs," Barns said. "I don't know why no one came to Dorsey."
Marilyn Goodman, a college counselor of Crenshaw High School, said the university's recruitment at Crenshaw this school year was not only nonexistent, but misleading as well.
"Recruitment by USC this year is the lowest it has ever been," Goodman said. "I guess that's because no one ever came here."
Goodman said Tracie Stokes, an officer of university admissions and school relations, did take prospective students from Crenshaw on a tour of the university in November. When the students submitted their applications after the tour, Stokes told them they would hear from the ad-(Continued on page 19)
Senate will select president; ‘underdog’ competes for spot
By Shannon Rafferty
Staff Writer
A weeklong battle between officers vying for executive positions in the Student Senate will end tonight, when senators elect a new president at their regular 5:30 meeting.
The three candidates running for president are Phil Clement, the senate's current vice president; Alison Smith, a two-year senate veteran; and Jacques
Bouvier, a Commuter senator elected earlier this month.
Bouvier acknowledges that he is an underdog but isn't intimidated by his lack of senate experience. He said he expects to do "exceptionally well" in the voting despite this apparent handicap.
At 36, Bouvier said he has more expen-ence with "real life and the real world" than his fellow candidates.
"I've seen more sunsets and sunrises (Continued on page 8)
Police battle local gangs
Neighborhood hoods
hit with ‘the Hammer’
By Christine Carr
Staff Writer
The series of weekend gang "sweeps" in South Central Los Angeles have resulted in a total of 721 area arrests — and a dramatic decrease in local crime, police said.
Known affectionately by police Chief Darryl Gates as "The Hammer," CRASH — Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums — is a 180-officer task force that targets gang areas to get members off the streets through sweeping arrests and vehicle seizures.
Unlike most officers, who must answer the hundreds of radio calls that come in during any one shift, CRASH officers are free to comb the streets breaking up gang-related activities, said Detective Verne King, assistant commanding officer of the CRASH task force.
"Normally, officers on the street don't have the opportunity to drive around and look for crime. With the operation, we have
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What three sweeps have yielded:
$9,000 in cash
94 grams of cocaine
about five pounds of marijuana
3 impounded vehicles
to reclaim streets
Ellendaie gangs bring sweeps close to home
By Christine Carr
Staff Writer	___
The Westwood drive-by shooting and the subsequent creation of a police gang task force have brought local gang activity into public focus, but most university students don't know how close to home these police "sweeps" come to gang-infested areas where students live.
Police officers say gang members are concentrated heavily in the area north of campus on the west side of Hoover Street — specifically near Orchard Avenue and Ellendaie Place. There, the population is an even mixture of students and other area residents.
Sgt. Tom Maeweather of the Los Angeles Police Department's gang unit said the Ellendaie area is turf claimed by the "Los Harpies" gang but is disputed constantly by "18th Street," the largest gang in Los Angeles.
Although Maeweather says the Ellendaie area "is not a hotbed of gang activity," students who live there claim that it is gang-infested and praise the increasing police presence.
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