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Volume CXVI, Number 63
University of Southern California
Friday, December 6, 1991
Vstaff to fight end of paper
Senior wins trip to Japan for cultural exchange
By Liz Washburn
Assistant City Editor
Katherine Ratliff, a senior majoring in East Asian languages and cultures and chemistry, has won an all-expense-paid trip to Japan from the General Consulate of Japan.
She was nominated by the EASC department to participate in the first "grass-roots cultural exchange." The purpose of the exchange program is to improve Japanese-American relations through learning about both cultures.
Ratliff spent a week in Japan, attending discussions and touring Tokyo, Kyoto and Nara.
She said that becuase there were 500 Americans together, "it was hard to get a sense of what Japan was like."
Jane G. Pisano, dean of the School of Public Administration since September, was elected to the National Academy of Public Administration.
She is the 12th university faculty member to be elected to NAPA. There are more NAPA fellows from the university than from any other college or university in the United States.
There are 400 NAPA fellows elected by their peers on the basis of their ability to work on major government problems and their exemplary cdntri-butions to the field of public administration.
NAPA, formed in 1967, conducts studies and provides counsel on public management issues and the practical implications of public policy.
Paul A. Lapchak, senior research associate at the Andrus Gerontology Center, was awarded a $60,000 fellowship by the French Foundation for Alzheimer's Research.
Lapchak is one of six scientists in the United States to receive a grant from the foundation. The grants are given to further research into the possible causes of, and ultimately a cure for, Alzheimer's disease.
Lapchak is a researcher in thelabora-tory of Franz Hefti, director of the Gerontology Research Institute and \older of the James E. Birren Chair in Gerontology.
WEATHER
TODAY:
Partly cloudy, 54/73
TOMORROW:
Partly cloudy, 53/74
Publisher plans to rally support
By Ray Delgado and Oscar C. Villalon
Staff Writers
The editorial staff of the campus newspaper V, which will publish its final edition today after administrators cut the paper's funding this week, decided unanimously Thursday to fight the university for money to continue publication.
"We started something from nothing," said Publisher Jason Brown to a room of about 25 staff members. "A year ago, nobody heard of V. Today, everyone knows of V, and a lot of people support us.
"Is it something that you personally are going to invest time in? This means rallying for support. I believe we can turn it around. If you flake, it's over. If we go balls out, we win," he said.
The closing of V by the Office of Auxiliary Services prompted inquiries into university expendiatures and questions as to which campus programs deserve funding.
V has received $45,000 a year from the university's housing office since 1990. But Don Mask, acting head of Auxiliary Services, which supervises housing, decided
Your $18 Fee-Where Does it Go?
Every student in USC Housing pays an $18.00 programming fee at the beginning of every semester. Here's where that money goes (per semester):
• Se« p.(p 4 for a breakdown of MCh housing unit s contribution to th#** fund*.
Embassy Residential College funding:
REP Board	$15,000.00
University Residential Student	$45,900.00
Community (URSC) Faculty/Program Development	$31,635.00
Greek Honors House Faculty	$500.00
ERC Faculty Master	$3,(XK).00
Marks/Trojan Faculty	$3,000.00
Pacific Faculty	$5(X).00
KerckhofT Faculty	$1,000.00
Parkside I	$1,200.00
ERC Faculty II KerckhofT II	$2,000.00
	$500.00
Jr./Sr. Honors House	$500.00
Parkside II	$500.00
TOTAL EXPENDITURES:	$105,235.00
to stop funding the paper this week.
"As we evaluate our budget, we're not in a position in auxiliarys to subsidize that type of program," Mask said Wednesday. "If V is a capable program, let it stand on its own two feet."
Meanwhile, V supporters have alleged that administrators in Student Affairs and the Office of Residential and Greek Life pushed Mask to cut the newspaper's funding.
Erik Loyar / Daily Trojan
"(Housing) is in support of V; it serves as an important means of communicating in the residence halls," said Bill Thompson, director of university housing. "I feel personally that taking money from housing to support a program that benefits those living in housing is not out of line.
"In meetings that I have been in, (Kristine Dillon, associate vice president for
(See V, page 10)
Former officer blasts security
Documents detail internal investigation
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THURSDAY
• A detailed account of one case against security that took $ years to settle. Also, allegations that one officer involved has been the source of costly problems for the University:_
FRIDAY
• Former officer blasts the department. What security does to prevent lawsuits. What oiners think they could do.
By Robert Moran
Staff Writer
"This incident is just one example of a 'problem' that must be faced by the dept & the university, before someone gets seriously injured or killed"
— Memo from security officer David Watson to Capt. Luther Lanier
In 1984, four University Security officers allegedly beat a student unconscious just outside the doorway of his apartment. The university settled the resulting lawsuit, filed by Daniel Escamilla, in 1989 on the steps of the Los Angeles Superior Court building before the trial was to begin.
Under the terms of the settlement, neither side would discuss the monetary amount. However, a university source said it was close to $140,000.
David Watson, a former security officer who responded to the Escamilla dispatch call, alleges that members of the department tried to cover up the incident. He pointed to the fact that officers did not file a report on the incident until more than a week later, which was confirmed in documents obtained by the Daily Tro/an.
The four officers did not make written reports until 10 days after the incident, when they were ordered to by a senior officer who learned of the alleged beating.
(See Security, page 2)
HIV tests increase
By Arwen Adams
Assistant Gty Editor
The marked increase in HIV testing at the university following Magic Johnson's announcement that he tested positive for the virus has continued, officials at the Student Health Center said Tuesday.
"We've had an almost fourfold increase in calls," said Dr. Steve Gardner, director of the health center. "We've added several counselors to the existing counselors to accomodate those interested in getting tested."
The test, which costs $20, also has a four-week waiting list. Gardner said the health center's testing
schedule is booked through the end of December.
Gardner also said anonymity is assured.
"While all cases at the health center are confidential, this goes further," he said. "This is a completely anonymous testing process. This information doesn't go on their files anywhere.
"Students come in, give a fourdigit code and get the test," he said. "Then when they come back in, they are given the results in person. No names are ever used."
Gardner said people must come to the health center for the results. No results are given over the telephone.
Hepatitis-A cases rising
By Arwen Adams
Assistant City Editor
The number of hepatitis-A cases on campus has risen to "about 15," officials at the Student Health Center said Tuesday.
"The reason it's 'around' is because a couple of those are still being tested," said Dr. Steve Gardner, director of the health center. "We still need to determine which kind of hepatitis those cases are."
"It's only been a gradual trickle," he said. "There hasn't been a new surge of cases."
(See Hepatitis, page 2)