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LAPD leader talks prevention
William Bratton answers questions about how to better protect the South Central Los Angeles area
By KEVIN MERICKEL
Staff Writer
Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton spoke about community involvement and crime prevention Wednesday night at a town hall at the Community Coalition office, which sponsored the event.
A panel of four speakers outlined their personal stories of living in South Los Angeles and outlined problems including crime, gangs and after- school programs that the LAPD needed to address.
Lawrence Williams, leader of Neighborhoods Fighting Back a program to make South Los Angeles a productive and safe society, spoke about public drunkenness spurring stabbings and shootings.
Every day at 69th Street and Western Avenue, a large group of men loiter and drink continuously, Williams said.
“Help us build a good community, and help set up a system to support the community,” Williams said.
The problem of liquor stores causing violence is not new for Los Angeles, Bratton said.
Instituting community policing in which the citizens know the police officers is critical to crime prevention, he said.
Bratton combated crime
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Up front. Los Angeles Police Department Chief William Bratton addresses the South Central community.
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Study cites federal loan caps as not needed
BY UDIANA PORTALES
Staff Writer
Although the percentage of students resorting to private loans is rising across the country and at USC, the percentage is still small in comparison with the number of students who rely solely on federal loans such as the Stafford Loan.
A recent study by an education activist group found that only a small number of students resort to private loans because their federal loans are not sufficient
The group says its findings nullify the need to increase the loan limits on Stafford Loans. What students need, the study authors say, are more grants.
The California Student Public Interest Group (CALP1RG) found that only 4 percent of students borrow from private-label loans nationally and that few students do so because they have reached their federal loan limiL These recent findings contradict arguments for a proposal to increase federal loan limits.
The proposal’s supporters argue that most students borrow from private loans because their Stafford Loans do not sufficiently cover education costs. The best solution, they say, is to increase the maximum amount a student can borrow from the low-interest Stafford Loan.
The Stafford Loan allows freshman undergraduates to borrow a
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Health center criticized by some students
Even with accusations of mishandling cases, officials say facility has a 95 percent student approval rating
By ANNIE MUSKE-DUKES
Staff Writer
Students have claimed they did not receive proper treatment at the University Park Health Center for symptoms ranging from a breast lump to a cough even though the response in student-submitted surveys is overwhelmingly positive.
Elizabeth Martin, a senior majoring in English, found a lump
on her breast two weeks before the end of the fall semester of her sophomore year. She called the health center and asked for an appointment and they said no one could see her until after break, almost two months later.
Lawrence Neinstein, executive director of the University Park Health Center, said this was unlikely. Most appointments are made within a week of when the student
While Martin was at home in New Jersey, she found a surgeon who discovered the tumor was a cys-tosarcoma phyllode tumor — a rare tumor on the skin of the breast.
The tumor was removed and found to be benign, but her surgeon asked her to see a gynecologist in a few months.
Martin returned to the health center and said the gynecologist who examined her had not heard of the tumor and had to look it up.
"1 think he thought I was making it up,” Martin said. “I was telling
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USC administration looks for a place to move the Ahn family home, which has been part of world history
Courtesy of Kenneth Klein
History revisited. Philip Ahn, Helen Ahn and former USC president Rufus von Kleinsmid pose at a commemoration.
asks for one and doctors see students with an urgent problem the same day.
“We don’t wait two months,” Neinstein said. "The appointment book doesn’t even go out two months.”
*“A breast lump on an 18-year-old girl is not an urgent issue,” he added. “Doctors often tell women to wait one or two menstrual cycles and then have another examination.”
But Martin says she was never informed of these facts and had to wait for an examination until she went home for break.
By SEUNG HWA HONG
Staff Writer
Walking down McClintock Avenue toward the International Residential College at Parkside, students page a small blue house. Once used by the School of Engineering, the house now lies empty and was slated to be moved off campus by the university to make room for a new engineering building.
The house’s story, however, has inspired the administration to search for a new on-campus location.
The small two-story blue house was home to Korean independence leader Ahn Chang Ho and his family after he arrived in Los Angeles in
1914. The Ahn family was among Los Angeles’ first Korean immigrants, and Ahn was instrumental in helping Korea gain independence from Japan.
University officials are investigating a number of on-campus sites for the Ahn house, but a final location has not yet been identified because of the lengthy process required for placement of a historic structure, said Carolyn Webb de Macias, vice president of external relations, in an e-mail.
The house, called “Dosan" by Ahn, was recognized as the Ahn residence in 1986, said Kenneth Klein, head of the East Asian library.
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