Trojans split with Stanford
Sports, page 24
Trustees ignore issue of ethics
Viewpoint, page 3
Volume CXI, Number 30
University of Southern California
Monday, February 26, 1990
Suspect netted for robbery near off-campus bank
By Bob Elston
Assistant City Editor
A man arrested for robbery Thursday night by the Los Angeles Police Department has also been charged with a Jan. 23 robbery of a university student, LAPD detective Bill Pavelic said Friday.
Gregory Charles Jones, 28, was arrested by LAPD officers about 8:30 p.m. near an automatic teller machine at the Bank of America branch located at 985 W. Jefferson Blvd. after stealing a purse from a woman in a parked car, Pavelic said.
After the arrest, the student who was the victim of the Jan. 23 robbery near the same bank machine, positively identified Jones in a photo lineup, he said.
Jones, an admitted cocaine addict, approached a woman in her car Thursday night and demanded her purse. She screamed loud enough to draw the attention of two passers-by, Pavelic said.
Jones allegedly forced his body through the open car window and snatched the woman's purse from between her legs and fled across a parking lot at University Village, he said.
The two passers-by chased Jones across the lot. Jones tripped and the pursuants held him until LAPD officers arrived. The woman's purse was recovered, according to a release from Pavelic.
(See Arrest, page 16)
In Brief
Thieves break into Wendy’s restaurant looking for the beef
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. —
Thieves looking for a midnight snack broke into a Wendy’s restaurant, fired up the grill and cooked up batches of hamburgers and french fries before leaving.
“They didn’t take any money or anything like that," Police Chief Rusj Miller said. “They cooked up some items and messed the plat* up somewhat, but it looks like they primarily went in there for the food.”
Store employees noticed several hamburgers and fries were taken out of stock and cooked, said Dee Murphy, a shift manager for the restaurant. The bun warmer also was turned on, and several buns were missing, she said.
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Katarina Zaricaa / Daily Trojan
Nicholas Koluncich, a senior majoring In English, and Hljary Crow, a junior majoring in business, study for midterms on the Von KlelnSmld Center steps.
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By Kathy Kelleher
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Funeral services were held in Hollywood last Wednesday for a university graduate who was struck and killed by a car in a freak accident 10 days ago.
Richaid R. Tufenkian, 29, had just emerged unscathed from a six-car pile-up on the Arcadia Freeway and pulled his car onto die shoulder. The California Highway Patrol was slow in arriving, so Tufenkian's wife, Madeleine, came to pick him up, said Tufenkian's sister, Sandra Kalemkiarian.
Tufenkian left his wife in her while he gave directions to a tow truck driver. As the two men stood talking on the freeway's shoulder, a car, driven by a 16-year-old, veered out of control and hit them, Kalemkiarian said. The tow truck driver was listed in critical condition at a nearby hospital, Kalemkiarian said Friday.
Though Madeleine Tufenkian witnessed the tragedy, she told her sister-in-law she was glad to have been with her husband in the last moments of his life, Kalemkiarian said.
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Tufenkian's death occurred only six days shy of his 30th birthday — a birthday for which his family and wife of nine months had planned a surprise party with a guest list of 250 friends and relatives, his sister said. Half of the guests were affiliated with the university, she said. The birthday invitation playfully suggested that even his turning 30 would not diminish his allegiance to "liberatem, defiant behavior and rock 'n' roll."
(See Tufenkian, page 14)
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New system to curb false theft reports
Parking permit thefts face closer scrutiny
By Vivien Chen
Staff Writer
A series of steps aimed at deterring students from falsely reporting lost or stolen parking permits will be implemented this week by University Security and Parking Operations, officials said Friday.
Beginning March 1, anyone reporting a lost or stolen parking permit will be warned with an advisory statement as to the illegality of filing false reports and/or possessing a stolen permit or knowingly claiming a lost permit as their own, Sgt. Michael Heckelman of security.
Claim forms that students file to report a lost or stolen permit now include a waiver clause that testifies students' understanding of the consequences of filing false documents, said Roy Heidicker, associate director of Parking Operations.
Parking officials also are planning a hand-held computer system to enable parking enforcement officers to check quickly a row of cars for lost or stolen permits. Heidicker said the system may begin as early as July:
These enforcement measures come after a security study concluded many parking permits are falsely reported lost or stolen by students and resold for $10 to $50 each.
Statistics from January, 1988 to December, 1989 show a majority of the 400 lost or stolen reports were filed during the first six weeks of the semester, when permits are at their full value, Heckelman said.
Of 206 thefts reported from cars with no evidence of forced entry in 1989, 102 were thefts of parking permits alone. In 1988, the figures were similar.
In contrast, there were four times more burglaries — evidence of forced entry — in 1988 and 1989 but with far fewer reports of stolen parking permits.
Heckelman noted that because faculty and staff members pay for their permits monthly, they are less likely to falsely report them lost or stolen during the first six weeks than at any other time of the semester.
(See Permit, page 8)
Bulletin system shut for repair
By Christa Hohmann
Staff Writer
The USC Bulletin Board System, a computer resource and message center, was turned off Wednesday evening to enhance and upgrade the system, a Microcomputer Users Group official said Friday.
The BBS, sponsored by the Microcomputer Users Group (MUG), may be accessed by computer modem through telephone lines. The system is used to obtain public domain software and as a means for users to send messages through public message boards on specif-
ic subjects or through private and public chat lines, said Edward Mooney, head of systems development for the School of Engineering and president of MUG.
"Basically, we want to evaluate the system and take a closer look and then turn it back on. We can't work on it when the system is up and running," Mooney said.
There has been some controversy, however, surrounding misuse of the system.
At least two incidents of sexual harassment have been reported by BBS users who used the chat lines with other users.
(See Bulletin, page 8)