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The inhumane treatment of the animals we slaughter for food must stop. See page 5.
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USC basketball team runs its record to 4-0 after routing USIU. See page 24.
Volume CVII, Number 57
University of Southern California
Wednesday, November 30, 1988
Suspected rapist arrested
18-year-old’s bail at $250,000; link to attacks being investigated
By Chris Eftychiou
Staff Writer
An 18-year-old man arrested for kidnapping and grand theft auto on Thanksgiving Day is being investigated for three attacks that occurred in off-campus housing since Oct. 29, police said.
Deon Proby, who was released from juvenile probation camp on Aug. 26
and was living in the southwest area of Los Angeles, has not been charged with the USC attacks, said Lt. Nick Bakay of the Los Angeles Police Department.
The case will be presented to the district attorney during the first part of next week, Bakay said.
"The investigation is continuing, to correlate all the crimes committed by the suspect," he said. "I think your
students can breathe a little easier now."
Proby was being held in Los Angeles City Jail on $250,000 bail as of Tuesday, said Sgt. Dan Pugel of the LAPD.
The suspect was apprehended last Thursday when police in the southwest area saw him driving erratically and attempted to stop him for traffic violations, he said.
A chase ensued and lasted only minutes until the man was arrested. Pugel said Proby was driving a stolen 1985 Mustang and was charged for grand theft auto and a kidnapping that occurred in North Hollywood.
Southwest detectives later linked
the man to three attacks that have recently occurred in the parking garages of off-campus university housing.
The attacks each involved a female student who was approached by a gunman.
One of the attacks involved a rape, another involved forced oral sex and in all three cases the suspect forced the victims to surrender their cars to him. Formal charges were made only for the North Hollywood incident. Proby was arraigned there on Monday.
Chief Steven Ward of University Security said, "Southwest detectives linked him pretty conclusively to the (See Arrest, page 7)
Rally encourages university to divest from South Africa
By Scott Mullet
Staff Writer
Students, a faculty member and a representative from the Southern African Support Committee urged the university to divest from South Africa and allow student representation on the Board of Trustees during a "Speak Out" Tuesday in front of Tommy Trojan.
The USC Divestment Coalition, a combination of individual students and nine campus groups, sponsored the event. The coalition includes the Palestinian Cultural Club, Students for Peace and Justice, Student Solidarity, Black Student Union, Black Student Assembly, African Student Association, Student Alliance for a Non-sexist Society, Policy Alternatives for Central America and the Student Senate.
Speakers, addressing a scattered crowd of about 50 people, spoke against the university's investment policy, singling out the Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility, which the university established to evaluate investment policy.
The committee bases its current investment decisions on an outdated idea called the Sullivan Principles and must change its policy, said coalition member David Wells, a graduate senator of the Student Senate majoring in political economy and public policy.
"A year ago this week, Sullivan renounced his principles and told all to divest," Wells said. "The
JAMES SU / DAILY TROJAN
Michael Zinzun of the Southern African Support Committee speaks in front of Tommy Trojan in favor of university divestment from companies doing business In South Africa.
time has come to change — the Sullivan Principles don't work."
The Sullivan Principles, a six-point code calling for desegregation and equal and fair employment
(See Rally, page 7)
Security says ‘booming’ on,
rape activity off campus
By John Matthews
Staff Writer
The rape of a Pardee Tower resident by an armed intruder Friday — the fifth rape in the campus area this year — indicates that "business is booming" for the perpetrators of the recent attacks, said Sgt. John Lewis of University Security.
Keeping a tally of rapes at the university is like "counting apples and oranges" because the number of rapes that are officially recognized as having occurred on campus is deceptively lower than the actual number of rapes reported in the university area, Lewis said.
Since the start of the calendar year, three students have been raped outside of the official campus boundaries.
An Embassy Residential College resident was raped downtown in January, a student was raped in her Cardinal Gardens apartment in October and another student was kidnapped and raped at gunpoint at Regal Trojan Apartments earlier this month, Lewis said.
Only two recorded rapes occurred within the campus
KEVIN SCARLETT / DAILY TROJAN
Pardee Tower increases security by keeping doors locked.
boundaries of Jefferson and Exposition boulevards, Vermont Avenue and Figueroa Street, Lewis said.
A student was charged with the first rape that occurred at Parkside Apartments in March, and the most recent rape in South Complex is being investigated by detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department's Southwest Division who do not yet have any suspects in the case.
"There's a possibility that (the Pardee rapist) can be a university student," said Sgt. John Rice, detective in charge of investigating sex crimes at the Southwest Division.
The suspect is described as an (See Security, page 6)
Bush appointee outsmarted by university professor
Kevin Cullinane
Staff Writer
If an IQ test appearing in Omni magazine is any indicator of intelligence, then New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, President-elect George Bush's newly appointed White House Chief of Staff, was outsmarted by a USC professor.
Herbert Taylor, research associate professor for the School of Engineering, received the highest score on the nationwide test titled "The One-in-a-mil-lion IQ Test" — 45 correct answers out of
Nationwide IQ test given by Omni magazine shows faculty member brighter than Sununu
48 questions, compared with Sununu's score of 44.
The test ran in the April 1985 issue of Omni magazine. According to the test, participants were given an unlimited time period and were encouraged to use reference aids.
Taylor said he took the liberty of researching material with the assistance of a computer and library materials and sent
in his answers three months later, adding that he had some difficulty with the verbal section of the test.
He said most of the participants returned their results after only one month, so he is unsure of the validity of the test results.
"The test took me three times as long, so considering that, it does not indicate intelligence," Taylor said.
Ron Hoeflin, the originator of the IQ test, said in Omni that the point of devising the test was to make it more difficult than other standardized IQ exams, with 24 verbal questions and the remaining 24 questions dedicated to a math section.
Another USC professor, Solomon Go-lomb, vice provost for research in the School of Engineering, tied Sununu's score of 44 correct answers.
Golomb said he completed the test in a few days and returned it to Omni without consulting any reference guides.
(See Test, page 6)