Dope on a rope
Edward Siegel / Dally Trojan
Joe Stapley, the head Yell Leader, prepares to hang the bruin in effigy. Troy Week runs until the USC-UCLA matchup Saturday.
Volume CXVI, Number 11	University of Southern California	Tuesday, November 19, 1991
Alcohol: the drug and the disease
Special supplement / Page A-1
Troy Camp volunteer elected to exec board
By Glenn S. Griffith
Staff Writer
Christy Pattengill, a junior majoring in marine biology, has been elected to the executive board of Troy Camp volunteers.
This will be Pattengill's second consecutive term in office.
Pattengill became involved with Troy Camp during her freshman year at the university. After passing the interview process, she was accepted as a counselor for the program.
Troy Camp is a student-run, nonprofit volunteer organization that has been in existence at the university for a quarter of a century.
The organization runs an activities program for school children from the community surrounding the university, including a week at a wilderness camp, at no cost to the children.
Children are chosen by their school teachers each year for the program on the basis of their effort and improvement in class.
In order to be eligible, the children must be between the ages of 8 and 12.
The children are then able to attend the all-expense-paid summer camp that takes place in Idylwilde, Calif.
The children attend the camp for about a week and participate in arts and crafts, swimming and other athletics.
The counselors also have discussions with them on topics that include drugs and college.
"It makes all the difference if just one of the kids end up going to college," Pattengill said.
Pattengill found her first camp experience extremely rewarding and decided to stay with the project.
"It is a real learning experience on both sides," Pattengill said.
Pattengill, a native of Arizona, graduated from Arcadia High School, where she was a member of the Scottsdale Honors Cotillion.
She plans on going to law school after receiving her bachelor's degree in May, 1993.
TODAY:
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Senate budget figures show $5,000 deficit for 1991-1992
By William Merone
Staff Writer
The Student Senate had $42,633.64 to re-allocate when it sat down to revise its 1991-92 budget in late September, with much of the money brought by the demise of SCoop magazine and low undergraduate enrollment figures.
Budget figures received by the Daily Trojan last week, however, show that the senate found uses for all of the new money and more — leaving a budgetary gap of $5,610 on their books.
Brian O'Patry, senate treasurer, said he was aware of the overspending when the budget was drawn up Sept. 24.
"It's kind of confusing," O'Patry said. "The numbers we have to work with are roundhouse numbers ... the numbers do not always add up, and my numbers are just a general idea to go by."
But Sam Sheldon, senate president, attributes the gap to a typographical error on the budget sheet.
O'Patry and Sheldon each said the budget is an internal senate document and that the figures are passed along to the Office of Student Activities, which maintains senate accounts and corrects oversights.
Sheldon said it is impossible for the senate to budget for a deficit.
Problems with its bottom line aside, the revised senate budget does make good on Sheldon's promise last April to restore funding to programs hit hardest by cutbacks in the initial 1991-92 budget authorized by the senate in April.
That budget represented a $60,000 decrease from the 1990-
(See Senate, page 3)
Trojan plates up for sale in 1992
Profits divided among DMV, state, USC
By Melanie Haseltine
Staff Writer
In an effort to promote the university and raise money for student scholarships, license plates displaying a university logo will go on sale next year.
The profits from these sales will be divided among the university, the state and
the Department of Moter Vehicles.
After costs are deducted by the DMV, 50 percent of the revenue will go to the university's scholarship fund and the other half to the cleanup of pollution caused by traffic, university officials said.
The program was initiated by Sen. Frank Hill of Whittier. He has worked
closely with USC and the University of California in drafting the bill, -recently signed by Gov. Pete Wilson, said Kristen Fry, university program administrator for external affairs.
The program is modeled after a successful fundraiser in Florida that raised more than $6 million in 1987 for scholarships.
"This idea came about as an innovative (See Plates, page 11)
Student robbed at ATM
Fourth such crime this year in area
By Walter Renwick
Staff Writer
A university student was robbed at gunpoint when he was forced to withdraw $300 at a Bank of America ATM machine on Jefferson Boulevard and McClintock Avenue on Thursday night, according to University Security reports.
The incident occurred between 11:45 and 11:55 p.m. The robbers — wearing Los Angeles Kings jackets — approached the victim from behind and demanded that he withdraw the money, said security Sgt. John Lewis.
The victim told the suspects he did not understand their demands, at which time
one of them produced a blue steel semiautomatic handgun and pointed it in his face, Lewis said.
After handing over the money, the robbers fled, laughing as they went. The victim waited five minutes before calling the police, Lewis said.
"The victim said he believes that all three of them (the victim and the assailants) were recorded on the ATM's videocamera," he said. "That was the second robbery at the Bank of America (ATM machine) this year."
The last robbery occurred in June.
Nearby Security Pacific Bank had customers robbed twice while accessing the teller machine last February, bringing the year's total to four local ATM robberies, Lewis said.
(See ATM, page 6)
Jeff Yakubik / Dally Trojan
USC student George Crain at an ATM.