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I lectric scooters may bf thr up-and-coming mode of I transportation around campus and the surrounding area, but possible theft and safety issues still remain for potential buyers.
Although the number of these battery-charged scooters are scarce as of now around campus, they seem to have the interest and likelihood to increase in the upcoming months.
“There has recently been a big boom for these scooters in the last six months or ao, and the sales continue to boom." said Bobby DeLarasa, owner of Electric Scooters 4-AU in El Monte, Calif.
Because the scooters motor runs on a battery, which usually needs recharging after two to four hours of riding, using a plug Smart charger, it is cost-efficient transportation to avoid high gas prices, he aaid.
DeLarasa said the scooters have been gaining attention from college students and the reat of the nation.
But Capt Joseph White, commander of Department of Public Safety field aervicea, said he has not yet seen many electric scooters on campus.
Besides wanting the owners to remember the ban of vehicles, including electric scooters, in the middle of campus from 10 a.m. to 2 ptm. during the week. White’s main concern is the scooter's attractiveness to thieves.
"When Razor scooters became popular, they got ripped off right and left around campus, f would imagine that these, too. are light enough to get stolen." he said.
The safety issue of the scooter, for which the average cost hovers around $400, has kept many students from purchasing one.
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One Christmas communion, the Rev. Susan H. Craig joined the dean of the chapel at Princeton University to celebrate the holiday. Craig was a chaplain at the time, an ordained member of the clergy. But what might have been more compelling on this evening was that she was a woman performing a task only men were accustomed to doing.
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County-USC Medical Center will lose 100 beds during the courae at th*
l/Os Angeles County IJS( Medical ( enter, winch is already near full rapacity, will experience a 100-bed reduction during tiie course of a yeai and is expected to have layoffs, said David Kunke, chief executive officer lor tlie medical center.
As a result of a November dm sion by the Los Angeles County Hoard of Supervisors, two of the county's six public hospitals and 16 clinics have closed. The county's u I ready-packed hospitals have reported increases in incoming IMitienls and in patient-waiting time, the Loa Angeles Times and tbe Los Angeles Daily News reported.
The closure* are expected to save the county $225 million from the reduction In health facilities.
Loa Angeles County-USC Medical ( enter has not yet reduced its beds by, but the hospital haa been experiencing difficulties. It is operating 645 beds, which are often occupied.
“It is common for 20 to 30 people to be waiting in the waiting room for in-patient beds," said Dr. David Altman, chief medical officer.
He added that after patients are evaluated, aome have lo wait between 4# hours and 72 hours before a bed is available to them.
The real challenge will come when the firat 50 beds are removed in July, along with some anticipated layoffs and
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Student groups uiterealed in advertiaing face stricter regulations on demonstrations and greater penalties for not following the new regulation*
Changes in the advertising poll cy include a $1 fine for each incor rectly posted flier, the prohibition of chalk on campus sidewalks, a ban on inaerts in official univeraity publications and the elimination of banners
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one or two warnings to the offending group, uid Heather Urabee. direc tor of campus activities. The fine money goes to pay the workers who take down the illegal fliers. To her knowledge, no fines have been col
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UCLA deals with advertiaing vio-lationa ty student groups on a disciplinary level and does not levy fines againat offenders, said Kenn Heller, aaaociate director of UCLA's center for atudent programming.
Becauae USC is a private institution, its policies on advertising are within the law. aaid Jonatyian Kotler, director of graduate and profession al programs for the School of Journalism af the Annenberg School for Communication and associate
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