Trojans slip past Titans
Sports, page 36
Jackson: She has come of age
Life / Arts, page 13
(MS^iraan
Volume CXI, Number 66
University of Southern California
Wedneeday, April 25,1990
3r<5*r
In Brief
Hostages likely held in same place; Polhill reunited with kids
WIESBADEN, West Germany — Robert Polhill was likely kept in the same building as other Western hostages in Lebanon and intelligence experts can pinpoint where they were held in Beirut, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Earlier Tuesday, Col. Kenneth R. Koskinen, medical director at the U.S. Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden, said Polhill’s anger at his captors and strong sense of humor helped keep him sane.
Polhill, 55, was reunited Tuesday with his two sons for the first time in more than three years.
In Beirut, the newspaper An-Nahar said pro-Iranian kidnappers will not free any of the remaining seven American hostages unless Israel releases Arab prisoners.
From the Associated Press
Index
Viewpoint..........................	............ 4
Komlx................................	............ 6
Security Roundup............	............ 6
Life/Arts..........................	............13
Sports...............................	............36
shortfalls, not security
By Michael Utley
Assistant Gty Editor
Another Access security system failure was reported last week, but things are at the point now where that information does not even warrant a headline.
The only difference this time was that Access manager Terry Riley was at the scene to be interviewed — only the second time he has done so since January 30, when the first serious flaw in the system was reported at Century Apartments.
News Analysis
A student at the Bimkrant Residence Hall found on April 18 that the building's main entrance could be pulled open without using the computerized card key. Similar flaws have been reported at several other complexes.
"Why weren't these problems weeded out of the system before it was installed?" the manager was asked.
Riley glanced at a security consultant who had accompanied him to the site and asked rhetorically, "Are you aware of any problems?"
This is what students living in Access-equipped housing complexes have to deal with.
(See Analysis, page 9)
Senate may impeach president
By Michael Utley Assistant City Editor
For the first time in Student Senate history, the Executive Committee received a complaint Tuesday calling for the impeachment of the senate president.
Authored by former President Tara
Brigham and former Vice President Gantry Wilson, the complaint calls for the immediate removal of graduate student Steve Webber as President of the senate on charges that he has abused his power and disregarded undergraduate concerns.
Webber shakes things up
President still has hope for separate graduate senate
By Michael Utley
Assistant Gty Editor
After he was elected president of Student Senate, Steve Webber said he wanted to shake things up. He did.
Not only are certain factions of the senate maneuvering to impeach the Canadian graduate student, but also he is convinced and half-hoping that they will succeed.
Though it was not part of his plan, Webber said Tuesday that impeachment might further his goal toward creating the separate graduate senate that he so ardently pursued this year as graduate speaker.
The university turned down Webber's request for an autonomous graduate senate earlier in the year. But now that a definite rift is being created between undergraduate senators — the force behind the push for impeach-
ment — and graduate senators, many of whom support the president, Webber said he has a good chance of reviving his crusade.
"The administration would have no choice but to recognize us," he said.
The graduates would set up a provisional senate, disavow any association with the Student Senate and pressure James Dermis, vice president of Stu-(See Webber, page 11)
Steve Webber
"We believe that (our) grievances prove undeniably that Mr. Webber, through his abuse and misuse of his position, his threats and actions to impede the due process of the Student Senate and his blatant inability to represent the entire student population is in neglect of his duties as Student Senate president and chief spokesman of that body," the complainants wrote in their five-page impeachment request, which was signed by seven other senate committee members.
Webber said he has "no doubt" that he will be removed from office. "There will be no equity or fairness at all," he said, because the four-member Executive Committee will have an undergraduate majority when they hear the case this morning.
The committee consists of Steve Webber (a graduate student), Vice President Sam Sheldon (an undergraduate) and both the graduate and undergraduate speakers. But Webber, as the subject of the hearing, is not allowed to vote, thus creating a 2-1 majority.
"I'm sure it's going to happen,” Webber said, "because I came in to change the senate and those people don't want it to change."
Webber accused what he called the "Tara Brigham senate'' of trying to preserve a senate that, instead of serving the students, throws parties in Palm Springs and is only concerned about its resume.
"The real losers in this whole thing will be the students," he added.
If Webber is successfully impeached, he has the option of appealing the decision to the Judicial Council. The council could then uphold or deny the impeach-
(See Impeach, page 11)
Officials talk with students about Access
By Katie Sweeney
Staff Writer
About 20 students met with Access officials and representatives from the Office of Student Conduct at Fluor Tower Tuesday night to express frustration about high vandalism costs and Access officials' slow response to system failures.
The most recent system malfunction occurred Tuesday, when the front entrance door at Century Apartments broke down at 2:45 p.m. As of 7 p.m. Tuesday, Access officials had failed to correct the problem, said Century residents present at the meeting.
Tim Needham, an undeclared freshman and a resident of Century, said he called the Access office Tuesday afternoon to inform them that the system was down. Access officials told him they would fix the door, but the door had not yet been repaired.
"I knew no one would show up (to fix it)," Needham said.
"We've come to expect problems with Access," said Brian Dean, a junior majoring in mathematics. "It's kind of a given that the system's going to fail."
Yoshi Kubota, senior data entry clerk for Access, and David Ouimette, director of Student Conduct, were present at the meeting to answer questions and hear students' concerns.
(See Panel, page 23)