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When fall semester started, incidents around campus increased, students have been informed via USC e-mail accounts
By KIM SIM
Staff Writer
Student newspaper of the University of Southern California
DPS continues
investigations ol local crimes
Three weeks after the Department of Public Safety issued a warning about robberies on and around campus, DPS said it is still looking for the perpetrators responsible.
There have been about 15 robberies or attempted*rob beries reported since the weekend before school started on Aug. 23, according to DPS crime logs.
The majority of those incidents were strong-arm rob beries, or those that involve the use of force. In several cases, the perpetrator or perpetrators carried a weapon — either a handgun, a knife or a metal pipe.
No one has been seriously injured in any of the rob ' fcfties.tifRdaissaid.
DPS sent a crime alert bulletin via e-mail to all USC account holders on Aug. 29, notifying them of the rob beries and providing tips on keeping safe.
Although no perpetrators have been caught yet, the Los Angeles Police Department and DPS are working together, said John Matthews, program manager for the DPS Crime Prevention Unit
“LAPD, in cooperation with DPS, is in the process of investigating these (robberies) for any possible identifica tion of the suspects,” Matthews said.
lt is believed that several different perpetrators have committed the robberies because some victims and witnesses have provided varying descriptions of the perpetrators, Lt. Mike Kennedy of DPS said. Most of the victims have been students traveling alone late at night.
In two separate incidents on two separate days,*male bicyclists riding alone late at night were aqgcked after dismounting and walking their bikes to a gate. Both times, a perpetrator punched the student in the face and rode away on the bike.
The first crime happened on Menlo Avenue, and the second on Ellendale Place.
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.	Lizzie	Leitzell I Daily Trojan
Moment of joy. Maria Vega, right, speaks after finding out she was selected to be the homeowner of a restored Victorian house. Her
daughter, Isis Navarro, and granddaughter Destinie Cuadrado are pictured to her left.	Vnfc
Making a home on
Housing lottery provides nearby residents first opportunity to own home
By BLAKE HENNON
Staff Writer
On Thursday, three qualifying applicants and their familes gathered at a house on Bonsallo Avenue for a drawing. The winner would get to purchase a restored Queen Ann-style house and become a first-time homeowner.
As Los Angeles Councilmember
Ed P. Reyes jokingly asked for a drum roll and reached to pull the winner’s name, 7-year-old Destinie Cuadrado fanned herself with her hands and wiped sweat from her forehead with her hair. The audience began drumming on their laps and Reyes called out “Maria Vega," Destinies grandmother.
“1 can’t believe it,” Vega said after a gasp as she, her daughter Isis Navarro and granddaughter Destinie rose from their seats and walked up to the porch of their new home.
The house, a relocated and restored home originally built in 1900, was made available through
the Move-On Program, which is facilitated by the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency and Los Angeles Neighborhood Housing Services. Move-On saved four houses that were set for demolition, moved them, restored them and then offered them through lottery to moderate-income first-tjpne home-buyers.	.
The house on Bonsalto Avenue had been slated for demolition to make way for the Staples Center development.	-v
“This is my first house ever,” Navarro said. “I’ve always rented.
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ED P. REYES councilman Los Angeles
Commuter election results in
By BRIAN REED
Staff Writer
Commuter students elected sophomore Tamar Gabriel as their newest representative on Student Senate, Ali Rubin, director of elections and recruitment for Senate, announced Monday.
Gabriel, an international relations major, thanked all those who voted for her and expressed her excitement to begin working with Senate.
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Faith helps form senator’s political role
Eugene Lee I Daily Troian
Religion and Politics. Senator Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) gave the 5th annual Carmen and Louis Warschaw Lecture at the Davidson Conference Center.
Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman says he learned ethics of politics from his childhood upbringing in a Jewish home
By SUSHMA SUBRAMANIAN
Staff Writer
Using his Jewish faith as a moral guide in his work in the Senate is not a violation of the separation of church and state, said Norm Coleman, chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and former mayor of Saint Paul, Minn., Sunday night at the annual Warschaw lecture exploring the Jewish role in American politics.
“The separation of church and state means government cannot support a religion," he said. "But that
doesn't mean people in government need to take religion out of their lives."
Coleman said he and other senators have often turned to religion when making legislative decisions. He described Wednesday prayer groups he attended with other government officials and meetings outside the Senate chamber where he and his colleagues bowed their heads in prayer between sessions.
"To believe there is a god makes the miraculous realistic,” Coleman said. Coleman added he needed faith when conducting his cam-
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