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Emily Dewey I Daily Troian
Securing the future. A national teleconference at Town and Gown Saturday attracted a packed house to discuss women and Social Security.
Meeting held on Social Security
Obscene phone caller may face 69 misdemeanor charges
Crime: Suspect may have to serve a yearlong jail sentence and pay a $5,000fine
By J.P. CASSIDY
Staff Writer
A USC student suspected of making scores of obscene phone calls during the past three years may face misdemeanor charges, the Department of Public Safety said.
The student, whose name is being withheld pending a decision by the city attorney’s office on whether to
prosecute the case, confessed to Los Angeles Police Department officers that he’d been calling “female friends and girls (he’d) gotten phone numbers from” to make lewd remarks since one week after his arrival at USC three years ago..
Officers interviewed him Dec. 7 at LAPD Southwest Division after a student read a Dec. 2 Daily Trojan article regarding the investigation and told DPS that she thought she knew who was making the calls, DPS Deputy Chief Bob Taylor said.
The 69 counts of obscene and annoying phone calls could cost the suspect a year in jail and $5,000, but are likely to be dismissed in favor of counseling, Taylor said.
“He understood that he had a problem and he’s going through counseling with someone from his church," Taylor
said.
DPS conducted the investigation using phone taps with the permission of the students who had reported previous obscene phone calls.
The calls started before the semester began when many students were not on campus.
If one does receive a phone call, the best thing to do is hang up on the person immediately rather than talk to him or her, said Bradford King, director of Student Counseling Services.
“Some men call to hear a woman's voice and masturbate while on the phone," King said. "These men are trying to fulfill their own fantasies and it is best to hang up on them quickly.’
A few actions that DK discourages are extending the call to try to figure out
who is calling, letting the caller know you are angry or frightened and making a witty response. These types of. reactions are usually signs of encouragement to the caller.
Reporting obscene phone calls quickly is also important. “Reporting early helps us because we can look at patterns of other calls made during that time which are similar,” Taylor said.
Taylor also advised taking one’s name and phone number off his or her answering machine so that a potential obscene phone caller cannot keep a record of it.
The Student Counseling Center and the Center for Men and Women offers counseling and advice in dealing with the fear and threat felt by victims of obscene phone calls.
“He understood that he had a problem and he's going through counseling with his church."
Bob Taylor
deputy chief DPS
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Sailing team wins national competition
Spoit Squad’s teamwork and companionship combine to form winning combination
Tales of big parties, singing, laughter, jokes and more stories.
Although this may sound like a typical evening in the dormitory, it was an interview with five enthusiastic members of the USC sailing team. After winning the Rosebowl Regatta on Jan. 2 and 3, the USC sailing team is ranked No. 1 in the national coed rankings.
Wait...USC has a sailing team?	A column
“We’re USC’s best-kept appearing sports secret," said Ellen every Monday Haynes, a sophomore mooring that highlights in theater and religion. It’s not members of the sailing club, emphasized the the USC five members of the team, and community it’s not yachting. While the team is a social group of people, they compete on a national level.
“We get all the perks of being a varsity sport,” said co-captain Daniel Meade, a junior majoring in English. “But we aren’t regulated like a regular one.”
Many students don't realize that a sailing team exists at USC, much less that the team is No. 1 in the nation. Co-captain Dalton Bergan, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, recently won his first college national championship.
“Dalton and 1 will probably be All-American, while the girls will probably be All-American for crew,” Meade said. “And Dalton is a contender for the College Sailor of the Year."
Their winning secret?
“If we win, the coach takes us out for dinner,” said Jessica Amen, a freshman majoring in jazz vocals.
Another motivator that Head Coach Mike Segerblom uses is to threaten recent transfer students Bergan and Meade with “If you don’t beat Stanford, I’m sending you back (to the U.S. Naval Academy).”
Team members said that Segerblom has a personal vendetta against Stanford because the Cardinal has traditionally been the top-ranked team I see Sailing. page 12 I
January 25,1999
Vol. CXXXVt, No. 6
ISSlie: Hillary Clinton speaks at teleconference about women’s futures
By CHRISTI SCHULER
Staff Writer
While democrats and republicans dominate headlines with President Clinton’s impeachment trial, Washington administrators predict that the current Social Security system will leave younger generations in a financial crisis. The organization, Americans Discuss Social Security (ADSS), held a four-hour teleconference entitled, “What Every Women Should Know About Social Security,” Saturday morning at Town and Gown to generate public feedback on various reform proposals that would preserve the system.
The 10-city conference, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, featured First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as chair, Rep. Jennifer Dunn (R-Wa.) as co-chair
and nationally syndicated columnist Jane Bryant Quinn as moderator. Broadcast live in 7 million hoities nationwide, the event linked Los Angeles with Washington, Albuquerque, Atlanta, Cleveland, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Portland, Me., Portland, Ore., and San Antonio.
“The financial issues women face today, are far different than those that prevailed when Social Security was launched more than 60 years ago,” said Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer, executive director of ADSS. “As the momentum for Social Security reform continues to build, it’s highly appropriate to examine how well the current system works for women and how some of the proposed reforms will affect them.”
The mission behind the conference was to educate and talk about ways to preserve Social Security as a “rock-solid guarantee” for future generations, Hillary Clinton said. “The more I’ve learned about Social Security, the more I’ve' learned what a critical role it plays in all our lives.”
Clinton stressed that Social Security
was “America’s family protection system” for unpredictable hazards in life,, giving multiple examples of situations in which men and women relied on Social Security after losing a loved one or a source of income.
Nearly a full house of students, volunteers, organizations and congress members joined more than 2,000 Americans via satellite, telephones and e-mail to discuss what they liked and disliked about the current system, particularly issues concerning women, families, children and disabled citizens.
Most of the participants consisted of both working and retired women with middle incomes. About one-fifth of those present were age 34 or younger. Although Los Angeles had the most men in its audience, men only made up 10 percent of nationwide participants.
Kelly Hayes-Raitt, who moderated the event, noted that no TV cameras, broadcasters or reporters from city and national papers were present at the teleconference. She said most health issues in the media were skewed more toward men, I see Confer*nee, page 2 I
By KIMBERLY TABA
Staff Writer