Thursday February 24,1994 Vol. CXXII, No. 29
Weather
The sun still shines today with some breezes, The afternoon will warm up into the lower 70s and the night will cool to the 50s. Expect the rest of the week to be the same.
USC grad starts posh LA Art Seen
Leonardo Ledesma started his agency, LA Art Seen, while he was an architecture student at USC. His agency features elaborate artworks from his palette of varied clients.
Diversions, page 9
Guard Harris asserts himself
Burt Harris, USC's sophomore point guard, utilizes his competitive edge to the fullest both on and off the court. The Trojans will play Stanford tonight at 7 in the Sports Arena.
Sports, page 16
Generation gap explored in series
In the first installment of a series, the lack of a distinct American culture in the 1990s — a decade that some say has more minorities than Americans — is looked at.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
Last night of the Last Lectures
Tonight is the last night of the Last Lecture Series sponsored by Mortar Board Senior Honor Society. Tonight's lecture features Alvin Rudisill, a professor of religion, university chaplain and associate vice president of Civic and Community Relations.
The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. in Taper Hall of Humanities, Room 112. The event is free and open to students, faculty and staff.
The Last Lecture Series is designed to allow outstanding faculty members the opportunity to sum up their lives and work, presumably what they would say to their last class ever.
Newspaper off the University of Southern California
Kemp says to empower poor
Local Native Americans call for grand jury investigation
By Travis Smith
Assistant City Editor
A small group of USC students traveled to Huntington Beach on Tuesday night to hear members of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Indian Movement speak. They hope to bring awareness of Native American issues to campus.
AIM, supported by a wide cross-section of organizations, was calling for a grand jury investigation into a cover-up by a large property owner of an
8,000-year-old burial site.
An unconfirmed estimate puts the number of bodies found in three neighboring locations at 40, making the Huntington Beach site eligible for legal graveyard status, said Terrie Restivo, sacred sites chairperson of AIM. However, environmental impact reports have previously made no mention of the burials, she said.
One of the three students who turned up to support the call for an investigation was
Alisa Caldwell, a member of USC's little-known Native American	Student
Association.
"I just (want) to raise Native American awareness on campus. Asian, Hispanic, white, black — it seems that's all we hear around here," said Caldwell, a freshman majoring in international relations.
Alisa heard of the event from her contact with AIM.
"I went down (to the event) because I had the time, and (See Protest, page 11)
About 1,000 people attend $18,000 speech in Bovard
Student fed up with car vandalism
By Trent K. Tanaka
Staff Writer
A Troy Hall senior resident advisor was outraged when the Department of Public Safety failed to respond to her call to secure the south gate parking lot, leading to the ninth vandalism of her car.
"I came home about 12:30 a.m. (Tuesday morning) and saw that the gate was broken so I called security to close the gate,” said Jimmie Akin, a senior majoring in business.
The next morning, Akin found that the inside of her car had been stripped.
"It was a big deal. It's not the car; tomor-
row night it could be rape or something worse.
"I felt I had to take care of this because my car was broken into eight times previously. I really wanted security to come over last night," Akin said.
"My car was completely torn to pieces. The door locks and dash were completely tom up as well as everything inside,'' said Akin.
Akin's 1983 Mazda RX-7 sustained an estimated $5,000 in damage.
Akin said that her car has been vandalized eight times since last May and that she re-
ported six of those attacks to DPS. Several items have also been stolen from Akin's car, including a car battery and a Thomas Guide.
"The gates have been broken and fixed off-and-on every two weeks," Akin said.
"I wouldn't call it secured parking, I don't think it's secure at all. The consensus of the complex (Troy Hall) is that something needs to be done," said Cheryl Wadeson, a senior living in Troy.
"I really feel they should respond to the students better. There needs to be some security changes," Akin said.
(See Akin, page 3)
Calling card to offer more services and easier access
By Jack Whitman
Staff Writer
University administrators and faculty have a new telecommunications tool available to them regardless of where they travel: a USC Calling Card.
Brenda De Long, a representative of Telecommunication Services, says that this new card can take the place of other national cards because of its efficiency and competitiveness.
One of the services the USC card offers that gives it an advantage over other calling cards (See Calling, page 3)
By Nik Trendowski
Staff Writer
In his speech to a crowd approaching 1,000 at Bovard Auditorium last night, Jack Kemp asked the audience, mostly students, to help in his crusade to "empower America" by providing opportunities to the poor to own their own homes and get a piece of the American dream.
Kemp decried the Democratic policies on poverty and welfare, saying that to tax the rich and put the poor on welfare and in public housing was to deny them the opportunity to better themselves.
"The great economic theory of the liberal left is for the people to borrow back that which was taxed away in the first place," Kemp said. "I've got a better idea. Why not leave the money in the hands of the people?"
Kemp touched on issues of taxation, free trade and immigration in his one-hour speech and in his answers to the questions from the audience that followed.
The former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development said the best way to eradicate poverty is to build up enterprise, and one of the best ways to do this is to allow the poor to
own property so that they will have a tangible stake in their community. This would lead to hope for themselves and pride in their community, and there would be no more riots, he said.
"You don't need to tell people to improve that which they own.
"You can change people's attitude and behavior if you change the reward," Kemp said. "You can't create employment if you don't create enterprise."
He noted that it is 40 percent more profitable for people on welfare to stay on welfare than work and have their earnings taxed, saying it is this system that discourages the poor.
"It's not the values of the poor that we should question so much as the welfare system,” Kemp said.
The former representative from New York said the tax system in America punishes minorities and the poor, discouraging them, and the rich can find ways to win anyway.
"We're saying in effect, if you're successful we're going to tax your success," Kemp said. "Poor people don't want to soak the rich — they want to get rich."
Kemp extolled the virtues of
Kelly Noary / Dally Tro|an
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp spoke to 1,000 people at Bovard Auditorium on Wednesday night.
American democracy and enterprise, quoting Jesse Jackson's statement that "capitalism without capital is just an -ism."
He said taxation was a good way to discourage enterprise,
especially the capital gains tax, and proposed a flat tax, with no tax on savings for those earning up to 190 percent of the poverty level.
(See Kemp, page 11)