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USC knocks down Bears
Sports, page 24
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Monday, March 19, 1990
University of Southern California
Volume CXI, Number 45
Residents complain about missing mail
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Julie Freeman / Dally Trojan
A giant inflatable pink volleyball shares the sunlight with Tommy Trojan on Friday. The volleyball is part of the logo for ‘I dig’ sportswear.
U. S. Postal Service denies responsibility for Embassy thefts
By Dave Hernandez and Gloria Lau
Staff Writers
Questions surrounding possible mail theft at Embassy Residential College surfaced when two residents filed complaints Friday with university security officials about missing mail.
Carri Cleaveland, an undeclared sophomore, said she ordered tickets more than a month in advance for the March 12 Erasure rock concert at the Forum.
They never arrived. So Forum officials reissued the tickets to her for the same two seats, Cleaveland said.
"When we went to the seats, our seats were already occupied by university students," she said.
Cleaveland identified one of the students as a weekend distributor of mail at the Embassy.
Weekend mail distributors could not be reached.
Complex manager Michael Cragin said he was determined to investigate the possibility of any theft, but as of early Friday had not received notice of the complaints.
Students said they believe the problem is within the university and not with the U.S. Postal Service.
In Brief
Atlantis’ mission hardware may fall from the sky soon
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department says “hardware elements” carried into orbit by space shuttle Atlantis last month are expected to fall from the sky soon.
A statement said only that the mission “achieved its goal in association with a classified DOD program.’’
Atlantis was launched Feb. 28 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a secret military mission that, sources said, included the launch of a sophisticated spy satellite.
“Hardware elements are expected to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere,” the statement said. “We believe there is no risk to life or property.”
From the Associated Press
Election dispute
Incumbent alleges city code violations
tty Christa Hohmann
Staff Writer
Two more complaints were filed Friday afternoon with the Student Senate's Judicial Council by the senate and an incumbent senator, who was defeated in last week's senate elections, in hopes of obtaining another hearing regarding the validity of the election.
In her complaint, Nicole MacDonald urged the Judicial Council to hold another hearing to decide the validity of the election, held March 5 to 9, because she claims new evidence will show that city and state election codes outlaw the use of party affiliations on non-partisan ballots.
MacDonald's complaint did not include
—	as they said it would — an allegation
she and her campaign manager, Hunter Goodman, raised Thursday.
MacDonald alleged the chairman of the elections commission, Anthony DeBarry, had a conflict of interest because he dated a candidate on the "I" slate, Sinne Mutsaers.
"I didn't feel that this issue of conflict of interest had anything to do with the re-election," MacDonald said.
DeBarry, who had denied any conflict of interest Thursday, said Friday, "It is basically just the hurling of accusations. I never felt accused, because everyone on the commission knew it wasn't true.
"We hope there are no more conflicts that stoop to this level," he said.
(See Senate, page 9)
Search committee to be named
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University officials will announce the names of the 16 recently selected members of the Presidential Search Committee in a press release early this week, said George Abdo, executive assistant of President James Zumberge, Friday.
Abdo said the committee has been selected and approved."It's just a matter of getting the paper work done," he said.
The search committee is chosen by George Scharffenberger, chairman of the board of trustees, and is comprised of
students, staff, deans, faculty and alumni. The committee will be- chaired by Warren Bennis, distinguished professor of management and organization and the author of numerous books on leadership.
"The search committee . . . will publicize the search, solicit nominations and applications and make intitial screenings and evaluations of potential candidates," according to the letter sent to prospective search committee members.
—	From Daily Trojan Staff Reports
"I think that it's an honest assumption to say that (students) are responsible,” said a resident who lost credit cards and asked to remain anonymous.
“(The university) should make sure that those who sort the mail are full-time employees and not just anyone,” Cleaveland said.
Cragin urged students to report all cases of missing mail to officials in charge.
"We're willing to do anything to help, but we haven't heard (of reports) until now," he said.
Dave Eikel, a senior accounting major, was billed more than $100 on a Robinson's credit card that he never received.
"I didn't report it immediately (to University Security), because I didn't know how it was happening," he said.
Robinson's traced the Dec. 24 charges to one of its area stores.
But the U.S. Postal Service denies anv responsibility for missing mail.
"Once we leave the mail at the residen tial halls or any address, it is not our problem," a postal official said.
"That's where (delivery personnel) art instructed to deliver it," said O. Gaither, a Los Angeles official of the U.S. Postal Service.
Postal employees are instructed to deliver mail directly to individual mailboxes at university-owned apartments, he said Local postal policy dictates deliveries be made to the front desk of residential
(See Mail, page 12)
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