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Volume CXVII, Number 27
University of Southern California
Tuesday, February 25, 1992
University lecturer convicted of battery
Incident involved student from Moorpark College
By Robin Rauzi and Stephanie Tiemann
Staff Writers
Alejandro Paredes, a part-time lecturer in the USC Spanish Department, was sentenced to 240 days in the Ventura County jail and five years probation in Ventura County Superior Court Friday for assaulting a female student at Moorpark College on May 8, 1991.
Paredes, 40, was convicted lan. 7 of a felony charge of sexual battery by restraint and a misdemeanor charge of sexual battery of an 18-year-old student, according to Superior Court records.
The student testified that Paredes had invited her to talk in his office because a loud band was playing on campus. Once in the office, Paredes held her
down, fondled her breast, put his hand under her skirt, and touched her genitals, said Michael Frawley, Ventura County District Attorney.
The student struggled and hit Paredes over the head with a sandal she was carrying, Frawley said.
Paredes had been teaching Spanish at Moorpark College. He was fired two weeks after the incident.
Paredes is teaching a Spanish 220 class this semester, in which 21 students are enrolled. Paredes started teaching at USC in September 19^1, working in the Spanish laboratory.
He is out on $10,000 bail until he begins serving his sentence.
Paredes asked the court for a stay of execution on his sentence, so that he would not be-
gin serving until May 15 when he would be finished teaching his class at USC, Frawley said.
The court will decide March 6 whether the disruption of his class is cause enough to delay the beginning of his jail term, he said.
The decision of Paredes's sentence will be largely in the hands of university administrators.
"It depends what kind of picture the USC administration paints," Frawley said. Their recommendation to probation officials regarding the need for Paredes to remain at the university will be critical, he said.
"Any institution the size of USC should be able to find a substitute teacher," Frawley added.
The district attorney's office assumed that the USC administration knew about Paredes' history and conviction, Frawley said. There was a letter of recommendation entered on Jan. 7 (See Battery, page 9)
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Charles Conley, a General Services employee, shoots a basket at Trojan Pride’s promotion for Thursday’s USC vs UCLA game.
Security officers protect own cars, catch suspects
By Liz Washburn
Assistant City Editor
A lesson for crooks: do not burglarize the cars of security personnel.
University Security officers caugh three thieves red-handed in Parking Structure A on Friday at 2 a.m. The three suspects had burglarized four cars in the structure and were on the brink of opening another when the officers spotted them, said University Security Sgt. John Lewis.
"All the cars belonged to (Security) staff members," Lewis said. The suspects had punched out the locks of passenger doors and a trunk, he said A briefcase had been taken from one of the cars, but was recovered when the suspects were arrested, he said.
Two of the suspects were arrested immediately, but the third jumped from the second level of the parking structure and fled, said University Security Officer Joe Lovercio, who assisted with the arrests.
Five officers chased the suspect and a search with the K-9 unit was initiated, Lewis said.
"The suspect was located under a house about four houses down on 36th Place," Lovercio said.
"The dog went under the house after the suspect and the suspect came out," he said.
All three suspects were turned over to the Los Angeles Police Department and booked at the Southwest station on $5,000 bail each, Lewis said.
"When we take somebody off the street, the frequency of events tend toj decrease," he said.
TEP indefinitely suspended
National headquarters to investigate revoking campus charter
By Bronagh Byrne
Staff Writer
The university indefinitely suspended its recognition of Tau Epsilon Phi Monday pending a review of its activities, said James Dennis, vice president of Student Affairs.
The chapter was also suspended by their national headquarters pending an investigation which will begin later this week, said Jonathon Seidel, the fraternity's national executive director.
The suspensions are the result of a party the chapter held Friday which featured hot oil wrestlers from the Tropicana club
and violated sanctions imposed on the fraternity Oct. 22, 1991 regarding a similar incident last April.
The university's decision was based largely on the Minimum Standards Policy, which sets the guidelines for fraternities and sororities.
"There appears to be a variety and large number of violations of university policy," Dennis said. "There appears to be a gross misunderstanding about how the university is recognizing fraternities under the new standards."
The violations included improper guest treatment and exceeding noise level
guidelines, said Jeff Shields, Student Affairs adviser to Greek organizations.
Shields said the chapter was fully informed of the possible repercussions and discouraged from hosting the event.
"They were so informed, not only by Student Affairs but through their national headquarters, the Interfratemity Council and Panhellenic Council, and yet they still went ahead," Shields said.
A hearing will be held when a date can be agreed upon by the fraternity and Student Conduct, Dennis said.
(See Suspension, page 10)
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First Look under scrutiny
Jeff Sherwood / Dally Trojan
Eric Koyanagi, a cinema graduate student, works with film at an editing table.
Cinema students upset over potential changes
By Heather Reid
Staff Writer
Film students who participate in the School of Cinema-Television's First Look program may see some changes by spring of 1993.
Although a final decision to cancel the program has not been made, students petitioned to retain it for two more semesters, said Elliot Jacobson, a senior majoring in film production.
"The program will continue in April but it is being re-examined. We are in consultation with student and faculty committees," said Mark Harris, associate professor and chair of production for the
School of Cinema-Television.
First Look features films by undergraduate and graduate film students. The five day screening runs at the Academy of Motion Pictures every semester, Harris said.
The program gives students a chance to show their films to the Directors Guild Association, producers, writers, actors and others involved in the industry as well as family and friends.
Graduate students are required to raise money to rent the auditorium in addition to production costs for their own projects including film, costumes, set design and feeding actors and actresses, said Raoul Rosenberg, a graduate film student.
"Our budget is $30,000 and we raise everything from corporations, film com-
(See Film, page 3)