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Volume CXI, Number 14
University of Southern California
Wednesday, January 31,1990
In Brief
World: Malaysians charging elephants for destroyed crops
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia —
The government has built more than 600 miles of electrically charged fences to keep wild elephants from destroying crops, a newspaper said Tuesday.
The fences are not designed to kill the animals but only to scare them away from the plantations, said Mohamed Khan Momin Khan, director-general of the National Parks Department.
The problem is a result of Malaysia’s expanding crops, which have forced the country’s 1,000 or so wild elephants off the jungle lands on which they once roamed. As the land is cleared for oil palm, rubber and other crops, the elephants return in search of food and eat the crops.
Nation:Southeast cops make crooks drop pants
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Eight men have been arrested in an undercover sting operation and charged with dealing in stolen jeans which agents said, were destined for European markets at inflated prices.
The buyers expected to receive
200.000	pairs of stolen Levi’s 501 jeans initially, with an additional
200.000	pairs monthly, said agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Investigators said the pants that sell here for $30-$35, bring $55 or more in Italy.
Local :Heavyweight jet needs 4,000 pound diet
LONG BEACH, Calif. —
McDonnell Douglas Corp.’s new jumbo jet may need to diet.
The MD-11 passenger jetliner began flight tests this month, six months behind schedule. It is at least 4,000 pounds over its target weight of 290,000 pounds,
McDonnell Douglas Vice President Louis Harrington said.
The extra tonnage could cut the weight the $90 million plane is capable of carrying or the distance it can fly without refueling. But Harrington said the company was not in violation of any contract specifications with airline customers for the MD-11'8 range or payload.
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Access system defeated
Michael Utley
Assistant Gty Edit
For all the praise university officials have bestowed upon the new high-tech $1.5 million Access security system, a freshman resident at Century Apartments demonstrated Tuesday that —
with a few well placed jolts — the system's vast array of sophisticated gadgetry simply does not work.
Tim Needham, an undeclared freshman, led Daily Trojan staff members on a tour of his complex Tuesday and basically taught them how to gain entrance to the
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building without a key or Access identification card.
"It's easy," Needham said, “just jerk the outside door a couple of times and one hard kick to the inside door and you're at the elevators," which lead to the individual apartments and do not require an I.D. card to operate.
Needham's procedure for entering the building is threefold, and can be used by "any guy off the street," he said.
First, all a would-be burglar needs to do is climb a six and a half-foot chain-link fence — a relatively easy task — to enter the parking lot.
Second, he can jerk the main glass door by its handle once or twice to disconnect it from the Access magnet, gaining entrance to the closed parking garage.
Third, a sharp kick to the magnetized door pops it open for him as if it were never locked.
"I don't see how they're ever going to fix it," Needham said. "It's just a bunch of magnets. It's a dumb idea, I think."
University Security was immediately notified and an officer was sent to guard Century Apartments, said Terry Riley, general manager for the Access System, who said he did not originally believe the system could be broken into.
When notified of the situation Tuesday afternoon, Riley asked that he be given the same tour of Century and be allowed to witness the forced entry. But his skepticism quickly turned to anger as he kicked open the door himself, after being shown Needham's procedure by a DT reporter.
“Goddamn it! I was assured this wouldn't happen," he said, as the door swung open and bounced against an adjacent wall.
"They guaranteed it would hold at least 1,200 pounds," said Riley, referring to Securitron, the company that supplied the Access System, which is reportedly still under warranty. -
Riley said he called the company immediately after notifying security and arranged for them to "come and explain why this is happening." A representative will be at the university today at 11:30 a.m., he said.
All of the university's facilities on the Access network must now be checked for Century's easy-access problem, he said.
The opening of the main glass door was not a surprise, Riley said, because
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By Christa Hohmann
Staff Writer
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bate anti-Arab activist hane, a Hillel Jewish Tuesday denounced scheduled month.
Rabbi Laura Geller of the Hillel Jewish Center said she will decline the invitation to debate Kahane, who was denied permission to speak in Bovard Auditorium last November.
in Tuesday's Daily Trojan, Kahane urged Geller to stop "attacking and behaving intolerantly" and to debate and "have students listen to both sides."
The ad stated Kahane will appear in Hancock Auditorium on Feb. 12.
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Kahane was denied access to Bovard in November because university officials could not guarantee his or students' safety and because no (See Rabbi, P*g* 9)
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