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Student radio broadcasts at dining area
Technology problems hud previously prevented student radio station from streaming music to campus locations
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Heat tion has been positive since campus radio station KSCR began streaming broadcasts to Cafe 84 Aug 18 station officials and university administrators said,
The broadcasts come aftei the station spent years trying to get the technology needed to stream live music into Cafe 84 KSCR now has the technology to stream broadcasts into the-facility the same way they stream off their Web site This allows the station to produce music inequality sound, station officials said
"Students have said it’s different,” said Dennis Miller, manager of Cafe 84 "We re not listening to the same music everyday."
Station pfficials said they faced a difficult road in getting broadcasts streamed into a campus dining facil ity, however. The station had not been able to broadcast at venues on campus before.
"We’ve made efforts to have our station playing at Cafe 84 and also other venues in the past, but this is the first time we have been successful,’ said Chris Kampmeier, KSCR’s webmaster.
One of the reasons the station faced such difficulties might have been that it was not approaching the proper officials with its broadcasts, said Chris Cruse, KSCR general manager.
“We went to every manager at every place, but then we gave a proposal to their supervisor,” Cruse said.
Eventually, Donald Ranasinghe, director of retail operations, agreed to play the station at Cafe 84. While he initially liked the station, he had to work with KSCR to make sure the station was playing music legally.
One of the things Ranasinghe had to verify of was that the station had a license, he said, because the music was going to be played in a public place.
“We offered to do it for free. We said wed pay the licensing fees," Cruse said.
Since the station has been streaming to Cafe ’84,
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"We are going to be more creative in our approach to crime fighting’ SGT. JOHN PASQUARIELLO, Los Angeles Police Department
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Ervin of the LAPD's West Valley division Mid he has boen responding to mere crime thfn in the pafct.
Local police face challenge fighting crime after California cuts $460 million in police and fire Junds; local murder rate up 26 percent
By KEVIN MERKKEL
AuisUnt City Editor
The Los Angeles Police Department said it is changing its crime-fighting strategy, as statistics revealed the USC areas homicide rate rose 26 percent from the first seven months of last year With California cutting $460 million in police and fire department funds, city officials said they are con-. cerned that they won’t meet their public safety goals. •
“We are not going to lose any officers, but we are not going to gain any,’ said Lt John PasquarieUo. assistant officer-in-charge for LAPD Media Relations.
Although crime rates are down in Los Angeles, the USC area has seen a rise in homicides this year. / The Southwest Division of the
LAPD, which includes the North University Park area around USC, has had 37 murders since January, the same number the Southeast Division, which indudes Watts.
While the local homicide rate increased, sexual assault and other violent crimes are down slightly, lowering the total violent crime rate, Pasquariello said.
Aggravated assaults and larceny were down about 3 percent and overall violent crime fell 1 percent Pasquariello said.
Citywide, the homicide rate dropped nearly 20 percent while violent crime fell about 5 percent, Pasquariello said. Rape was down 9 percent and aggravated assault was down 6 percent
Capt Morris Smith of the LAPD Southwest Division refused to comment on the USC area’s higher homi-
cide rate.
In order to continue the downward trend in crimes while undergoing budget cuts, the LAPD said it is going to improve its 911 response times..
“We are going to be more creative in our approach to crime fighting," Pasquariello said.
Without additional officers, the LAPD is going to focus on reducing 911 response times to fight crime from the current 10-minute average to seven minutes, Pasquariello said.
The LAPD also plans to reduce the time it takes for a detective to arrive on scene at night Pasquariello said. Crime is higher at night he added.
If detectives arrive on the scene earlier, the patrol officers who arrive
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Job connections abound
Career Center helps alumni to find work years after their graduation
By GREG DAMIANO
Staff Writer
In the Alumni and Student Career Services office, Lori Shreve Blake sifted through a thick pink folder bulging with alumni thank-you letters, some directly addressed to USC President Steven Sample. Blake, the offices director, searched
through these personal stories like photographs hidden within a worn album.
Some alumni, who are now returning to their alma mater in a highly unstable job market wrote in to thank USC for its employment services provided by the Career Planning & Placement Center “Seventy-five percent of people who enter my office are there for a career change; many just want to move up. Things are changing,” Blake said. ‘It used to be years ago
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Plans set
Building plans. Four years after promising a sports and events venue, USC officials announced Wednesday that they have raised enough to begin construction on the Galen
Center See story on page 20.
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