Monday
September 20,1993 Vol. CXXI, No. 14
Weather
Not much change from the weekend. Morning clouds will bum away to mostly sunny skies. The afternoon high will reach the mid-70s, while the overnight low drops to the mid-60s.
Inside
thing as true love
Despite sweaty palms, racing hearts, and the sickly sweet feeling in the pit of our stomachs, none of us can truly love another enough to completely understand them.
Viewpoint, page 4
When all of the world’s on stage
Peter Gabriel's global gathering of music in Saturday's WOMAD festival at Cal State Dominguez Hills was a palooza success, despite an unbalancing act between two stages.
Diversions, page 5
Women of Troy upset Stanford
Behind the play of junior Meika Wagner and senior Katie Haller, USC's women's volleyball team defeated the No. 1 Cardinal Friday night for the first time since 1989.
Sports, page 12
Bovard hosts free concerts
The American Jazz Philharmonic will perform free concerts tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
Among the featured musicians are grammy award-winning USC alumnus Tom Scott, former musical director of "The Tonight Show," Tommy Newsom, and jazz pianist Mike Melvoin.
The event is sponsored in association with the USC School of Music, Program Board and the Office of Student Activities.
The concert is open to the public, and seating for evening performance will be limited to ticket holders.
Tickets are available through the USC Ticket Office.
Newspaper
the University
Southern California
Senate, URSC join efforts to address phone problem
By Nekeidra Shegog
Staff Writer
When the university unveiled its new phone system this year, it promised lower rates and more convenient use. What it's delivered so far includes unnecessary busy signals, call-waiting hassles and four people sharing a single line.
As students returned this fall, they found the old service gone, replaced by a university-run operation that neither new nor returning students knew anything about.
"At first, it was a pain. It wasn't clear as to what we were supposed to do with our phone," said Joe Douglass, a freshman majoring in theater and education.
Almost a month later, there are still questions on how to use the telephones or what the rates are, so Student Senate and the
University Residential Student Community have decided to step in.
Shabazz Moye, a residence hall student senator, received numerous complaints from students about their telephone services. In response to student concerns, Moye will develop a task force to deal strictly with addressing phone system concerns.
Last Wednesday night, the Student Senate passed a resolution to create such a task force and hold an open forum for students with complaints and suggestions for the phone operators. The forum is slated for Tuesday, Sept. 28.
"I'm willing to go in the long haul for this," said Moye, who said he plans on taking the student comments directly to Jeffrey Urdahl, the director of University Housing.
Moye said that the system will work well for the students once the bugs have been worked out.
"You get basic service for free, and you can't beat that," said Moye, a junior majoring in international relations.
The old system, run by Pacific Bell, required students to pay a $17 to $30 monthly service fee in addition to long distance charges. In the past, yearly costs of telephone service could easily amount to over $200 a year.
The university is now providing basic service for free in all university housing.
Unfortunately, along with cost-free service come many irritating mishaps with the phone lines, students said.
Glen Stanford, supervisor of customer service for Sun Belt Computers, is fully aware of the problems.
"Students have come in and
Richard D. Bakar / Dally Trojan
Jimmy “Shabazz” Moye
told me about (their complaints), but it would be easier if they wrote them down so I could take them to the proper people," Stanford said.
Sun Belt Computers operate the hardware for the new system, which is owned by the university.
The complaints that Stanford has received include difficulty making international calls, one phone jack per residence and having to use a seven-digit code (See Phones, page 2)
More reported stalking cases an indication of awareness
Sleepy heads
FNa photo / Dally Trojan
It’s nap time for some students as they catch some z’s and rays at Hahn Plaza.
By Allison Vana
Staff Writer
Reports of stalking are increasing, both on campus and dty-wide.
The increase, however, is attributed to an awareness of stalking rather than an actual increase in cases.
"A lot of people who were being stalked didn't necessarily realize it or know how to respond. But as people are becoming more informed, there are more reported cases of stalkings than before," said Jeep Hauser, coor-' dinator of Creating Attitudes for Rape-Free Environments.
As defined by California State law, a stalker is "any person who willfully, maliciously and repeatedly follows or harasses another person and who makes a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear of death or great bodily injury or to place that person in reasonable fear of the death or great bodily injury of his or her family...	I
Because of this definition, a person following someone around cannot be considered a stalker. Rather, this is considered stalking behavior, said an LAPD spokesman. '
Jennifer Jordan, a freshman majoring in art history, was the victim of stalking behavior for a year and a half.
Jordan met and briefly spoke with a teenage boy at a monthly dance she attended. However, after that first encounter, the boy continuously followed Jordan around the dance floor, sitting near wherever she danced
and staring motionlessly at her without speaking.
"He made me nervous. It was scary because I didn't know what he was thinking and what he'd do, if anything. Finally, I just stopped going to the dances, in part because of him. After that, I didn't sfce or hear from him again," Jordan said.
Detective Greg Boles, supervisor of the LAPD Threat Management Unit, said that a person feeling as if he or she is being stalked should immediately begin documenting the activity and also notify the proper authorities.
"Above and beyond all, take every threat seriously. Don't say to yourself, 'this isn't so bad after all,' and don't try to contact •the stalker. This may only feed their obsession," Boles said.
Sgt. John Lewis of the USC Department of Public Safety, said USC's South-Central location doesn't necessarily play a J«y role in stalking occurences.
"I don't view the problem as being that we're located in South-Central L.A. I think it's
more driven by our environment and the fact that the university fosters interaction. I believe that the function of a school as a central source for interaction plays more of a role in stalking occurrences than the location of that school," Lewis said.
On campus, stalking victims can turn to the Office of Women's Issues as a resource for support and counseling. This
Brogram also works closely with fniversity Housing, DPS and with the LAPD Threat Management Unit. In addition, the Department of Public Safety can assist in legal actions, Lewis said.
"Each reported stalking case is different, so the actions taken by the university vary. For example, we (USC) can put campus restraining orders on a rson, change the phone num-r of a victim or relocate the victim. We give full support and full resources to the victims," Hauser said.
A stalking fonlm was held last Thursday as part of CARE
Week. Boles and Detective Doug Raymond of the Threat Management Unit outlined the function of the unit, categories of stalkers, types of victims and what actions to take if being stalked.
"I felt that the forum was very effective. The discussion was active, everyone seemed interested, and there was a good exchange of information," Boles said.
Formed in 1990 in response to growing concerns fueled by incidents such as the stalking and murder of television actress Rebecca Schaffer, the Threat Management Unit has handled over 200 cases, Boles said. The four-man unit deals specifically with stalkings.
Boles said as far as he knows, the Threat Management Unit is the only of its kind in the world.
"Not all of the cases we receive can be defined as the crime of stalking. We receive reports .of incidents‘such as annoying phone calls, burglary and trespassing, all of which are considered stalking behavior," he said.