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Volume CXVII, Number 7
University of Southern California
Friday, January 24, 1992
Students tied up in recent break-ins
Resident nabs alleged criminal after third trip
Victor LI / Daily Trojan
USC students enter to win one of two $500 prizes or a roundtrip airline ticket to any city in the United States at the GM Car Exposition on Trousdale Parkway.
Trojans collect the awards of car expo
Prizes range from cash to free trips
By Lisa D. Braverman
Staff Writer
Two university students won cash awards of $500 and another won a free trip Thursday during the General Motors Auto Exposition vehicle display that has been at Shumway Fountain since Tuesday.
Sophomore Mike Langolf and graduate student Bogdon Marcu won the money, and graduate student Ti Chien Wu won a round-trip ticket to anywhere in the United States on Continental AirHnes.
The awards were given as the culmination of a three-day exhibit of 11 cars and trucks sponsored by General Motors and its finance corporation, GMAC. GM and GMAC sponsored the cash awards, and the ticket was donated by Continental Airlines.
According to Shawn Valance, one of the GM representatives on campus, GM sponsors expos at college campuses across the country, as well as at military events. He explained that all of the entries not picked for the awards today would go into a drawing at the end of the semester for a free trip to Cancun, Mexico.
Jim LaScala, the GM senior representative on hand, explained that the Office of Student Activities sponsored the event, and that in return for the right to hold the expo on campus, GM will present the GM Volunteer Spirit Award on April 9 to three USC students who volunteer their time on campus.
None of the three winners was present to accept any of the awards.
Max Gallegos, a junior majoring in public administration, waited for the drawing commenting, "They should have disqualified the people if they weren't here. I was here ready to deposit the money in my account."
By Travis Smith
Staff Writer
Los Angeles Police Department officers, responding to a call concerning a burglary at Troy Hall, entered the apartment early Monday morning only to find the suspect hogtied on the* resident's floor.
Police arrested Nilesh Bhakat, 21, who is also a resident of Troy Hall, after the victim, John Shafer III, a senior majoring in finance, explained how Bhakat had come to be tied up.
Shafer, 23, was asleep on his couch at about 4:15 a.m., when he woke to see Bhakat kneeling behind the couch, Shafer said.
"I heard the door open," he said. "It sounded like my roommate was coming home. I heard someone getting a glass of water. I thought he might try and pour it on me. We do things like that around here.
"I was sleeping and thought I'd surprise him," Shafer said. "We were both kind of surprised."
Shafer told Bhakat not to move while
he called the police. When Bhakat refused, Shafer wrestled him to the floor and tied his hands and legs together behind his back with a phone cord, he said.
Shafer said Bhakat was bleeding from the mouth after the struggle.
He then went to call the police from another phone, Shafer said.
(See Troy, page 2)
Burglar catches woman during attempted theft
By Lore Unt
Staff Writer
A female student was assaulted and tied up during a burglary in a rooming house last Friday, according to reports from University Security and the Los Angeles Police Department.
The student arrived at her 29th Street residence at 12:30 p.m. and surprised the suspect on the second floor of the house.
The suspect forced the student into the second-floor bathroom and attempted to kiss her, but stopped when she pushed him away, said LAPD Detective John Bunsch.
The suspect reportedly tied the stu-(See Assault, page 2)
USC alumnus, leader dies
Arnold Eddy, 88, a university alumnus who was instrumental in the development of the ice hockey team and the General Alumni Association during a lengthy career at the university, died of cancer at his Los Angeles home Jan. 10.
Eddy, a native Californian who graduated from the university in 1924, also helped bring the Olympics to Los Angeles in 1984.
He started the General Alumni Association and served as its executive director, said Nick Pappas, athletic department consultant.
"He was Mr. 'SC/' Pappas said.
During the war years of 1941-44, Eddy served as business manager and director of the athletic department.
Eddy also founded the David X. Marks Foundation, which funds more than 50 athletic scholarships annually.
Eddy was chosen to coach the ice hockey team even though he didn't know how to skate. He did, however, learn to skate well enough to practice with his teams and coach his players with success from 1927-44.
(See Eddy, page 3)
Fraternity announces plans for tree-planting program
By Bijal Parikh
Staff Writer
University students may be seeing a lot more green this semester as a result of a new program by the Sigma Pi fraternity.
Sigma Pi plans to execute its All Row Tree Planting project, said Dan Wool, a senior majoring in communications, who founded the project with Capm Petersen, a sophomore majoring in business. As part of the program, the fraternity's members will be planting 49 trees on 28th Street between Figueroa and Hoover streets and on University Ave-
nue between 28th and 30th streets.
The project was made possible by the Los Angeles Conservation Corps, which is providing the training, technical assistance and trees. The corps is paying at least $100 per tree through a state grant that is designated to assist environmental upgrading.
The grant was established because the Harbor Freeway Expansion Project, the construction of a second-story carpool lane on the freeway, will increase pollution in the community. The tree-planting is intended to reduce pollution, said
Martha Diepenbrock of the LACC. This is the first year the grant has been available.
Though the LACC is paying for the planting-, Diepenbrock says the community must take on the longterm commitment. Before actually planting the trees, Sigma Pi must go door-to-door in the neighborhood and get the community's permission. They also must file for a city permit.
After planting the trees, the fraternity and community groups have to take care of them for at least three (See Green, page 2)
Robert Pufleb / Dally Trojan
Sigma Pi is sponsoring a Row tree planting project.
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