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Officials try to fix Access
By Christine Klor
Staff Writer
Access system officials are working to rectify yet another problem with the university's residential security system after student residents demonstrated Monday that loopholes at complex entrances persist.
The partial cage that surrounds the entrance to Vista apartments, for example, allows people to reach through with sticks and trip a manual unlocking mechanism from the outside, said Terry Riley, general manager of Access.
Riley said Tuesday that he knew about the problem for a month and a half, but he said Physical Plant had yet to act on a work order for another section of wire mesh to be welded around the entrance area.
The mesh, which had to be ordered, is set to be installed this week while security patrols have been increased, he said.
Though criticism has centered around the malfunctioning of the $1.5 million system, Riley said the biggest problem is vandalism.
"Students need to change their habits," Riley said, adding that students jeopardize their own safety by inflicting damage and advertising ways to break into their buildings.
Having a personal stake in the quality of the system, Riley said he understands the students' concerns.
"My daughter is coming here next year and I don't want her security jeop-
(See Access, page 8)
arctica
By Chad Reed
Mari writer
University President James Zum-berge's two-week trip to Antarctica last month allowed him to spend time with and lecture to Trojan alumni and their spouses, Zumberge said Tuesday.
"I got to know some of our very loyal and strong alumni who were on the journey much better than I did before," he said.
Zumberge served as a guest lecturer aboard the lUiria, a small cruise ship carrying about 150 passengers. Zum-berge's trip lasted from Feb. 16 until last Saturday when he returned to his
San Marino home.
The voyage originated in Southern Argentina and took the passengers through the Drake Passage to the Shetland Islands and to Palmer Station, another U.S. research facility.
Zumberge delivered five lectures while on board, his topics from glaciers and glaciology to
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warming to the Antarctic Treaty and mineral resources.
The cruise line chose him to be a lecturer because of his work in and knowledge about Antarctica. In the , (Set Zumberge, (
Brief '■ ' Moslem guerrillas defeated by loyal Afghanistan troops
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Soldiers led by the defense minister joined with Moslem guerrillas Tuesday to try to overthrow Afghanistan’s government, but were defeated by troops loyal to President Najib, Kabul radio reported. ,
The official radio said the loyalists controlled Kabul, the capital, and an indefinite curfew was imposed at 7 p.m.
In the Soviet Union, which sponsors the Najib government, the official news agency Tass said: “The loyal troops have now mopped up the main pockets of resistance, leaving the situation in Kabul firmly controlled by the government.’’
Western diplomats, guerrilla leaders in Pakistan and the Soviet media reported heavy fighting and said Afghan air force planes had bombed Arg Palace, Najib’s headquarters in the heart of Kabul.
Nation: Postal Service votes for small rate hike
WASHINGTON — The governors of the U.S. Postal Service voted Tuesday to raise rates, including a nickel jump in the cost of mailing a first-class letter, but there could be as much as a year of skirmishing before any increase takes effect.
The proposal calls for the cost of a first-class letter to increase from a quarter to 30 cents, with the price for each additional ounce rising from 20 cents to 23 cents. Post cards would cost 20 cents, also up a nickel, while Express Mail would go from $8.75 to $9.75.
Postmaster General Anthony M. Frank noted that U.S. postage remains the lowest in the industrialized world.
Local: Aftershocks still rumbling after one week
UPLAND, Calif. — The Pomona Valley quivered again Tuesday as the number of measurable aftershocks of last week’s rumbling earthquake reached an estimated 400 to 500.
The aftershock at 10:01 a.m. measured 3.1 on the Richter scale and was centered four miles northwest of Upland, said Bob Finn, spokesman for seismologists at the CaHfomia Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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Volume CXI, Number 37	University of Southern California	Wednesday, March 7, 1990
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