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Community basketball game, canned food drive
Students from the Marshall School of Business will host “Felix Chevrolet/Cadillac Wishes You a Happy Thanksgiving’ at 6:30 p.m. today in the Los Angeles Sports Arena. There will be a canned food drive and a USC vs. CSULB Men’s Basketball game to increase positive perception of the campus participating within the community.
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Community: Students in political science course want to educate campus area about safety, law
By SUZANNE WATKINS
Stiff Writer
The conflict between liquor store owners and neighbors in the community was recognized during a forum held Friday by USC students who are trying to promote civic education by stopping crimes associated with liquor stores.
•	During the 1992 Los Angeles riots, many liquor stores were magnets for crime, becoming centers for looting and in some cases, complete destruction of the store, said Los Angeles Police Department Officer Randy Cochran. A close monitoring of the operation of liquor stores ensued-
“Post-civil unrest, more than 100 liquor stores have been dosed or were never rebuilt, and 20 were converted to other businesses," said Lizanne Fleming, communications director for Los Angeles City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, whose district indudes USC. “Several more are going through the city’s revocation process,” she said.
One of the latest stores which will possibly have its license revoked soon is Benj/s, located on the corner of Vermont Avenue and 39th Street, Fleming said.
These issues were discussed at Friday’s forum called “1998 Forum on the Over-Conccntration of Liquor Stores in the Los Angeles County Area.” It was held at the Los Angeles Public Libraiy branch on Vermont Avenue.
Paul Miller, a freshman majoring in political science, and his classmates in Professor Mark Kann’s political science class organized the forum.
The students chose the LAPD as their political organization centering on the conflict between neighbors and liquor store owners, Kann said. This project was the springboard for Friday's forum.
The focus of the forum was to make the public aware of its role in ensuring that the community becomes clean and safe, especially when it comes to liquor stores.
Miller thinks there is still a long way to go before these issues are effectively addressed.
Along with fellow freshmen majoring in political science, induding Heather Aihara, Athanasia Korovilos, Luke Nolan, Luzanne Otte and Rudy
(see Liquor, page 2)
Turkey liberation. Cherylynn Brown, president of Love Birds, protests on campus Monday against eating turteys for Thanksgiving.
Medical faculty lawsuit close to end
Lawsuit: Dispute entails some professors who received letters about tenure contract changes
By MARGARET CHAPMAN
Assistant City Editor
A long-standing dispute between some members of the Health Sciences Campus faculty in the School of Medicine and USC appears to be coming to a close.
A lawsuit filed one year ago by 23 faculty members against the university in
Los Angeles Superior Court is being negotiated by lawyers toward settlement, though a court date is set for early next
year.
“I am optimistic that the case will be settled soon,” said Jeffrey W. Kramer, the lawyer representing the faculty members. The lawyer representing the university in the case declined to comment.
The breach of contract lawsuit, filed last November by members of the faculty, stems from the receipt of a letter on June 28,1995, from Stephen Ryan, dean of the School of Medicine, that was to change the employment status of the tenured faculty from fall-year employees to nine-month employees, and was to reduce salaries by 25 percent due to bud-
get deficits in the School of Medicine.
The members filing the lawsuit are only those Health Sciences faculty members who received the letter.
Negotiations toward settlement between the two sides have been ongoing since then, including a grievance filed by some of the professors and mediation between the two sides.
The professors involved in the case have reportedly argued that the university has violated the terms of their contracts and has undermined what it means to have tenure.
The university has reportedly argued that due to losses in revenue to the School of Medicine, the proposed changes were necessary.
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Los Angeles-based organization to educate area locale via new web site.
By MEREDITH COOPER
Staff Writer
Human Rights Watch, a local organization dedicated to protecting human rights, will feature USC on its new web site, University Watch, because of the university's location in a diverse community and the reputation of its School of International Relations. The web site will contain information on human rights and be an outlet for discussion on the topic.
‘Its purpose will be to encourage and promote human rights education in all depart-
ments,’ said Kathy Park, an intern at the Los Angeles-based Human Rights Watch. ‘Given where USC is, we thought it was a great place to start.”
Some USC students have volunteered to help with the web site by gathering information on human rights-related courses offered and the curriculums for those courses. A group of five students are working with Human Rights Watch through a political science course.
‘With a campus this size and this diverse, you will encounter problems with human rights,* said Brian Reagan, a freshman majoring in print journalism and a participant in the project. ‘It gives me pride to hdp people out’
The University Watch web site will inform students about human rights-related courses that are offered at different universities. It will start with USC and eventually indude other schools in the LA area, and possibly out of
state campuses later on.
Realistically, the international relations and political science students will use the site the most, Park said.
The web site will also have links to research sites. For example, if a student needs information on human rights violations in Indonesia, it will be easy to find.
Discussion of human rights is also in the plans for the site.
“We hope to have a news group moderated by a professor so students can ask questions online and get a quick response,” Park said. "We don't want it to be a dead web site; we want it alive and working’
Human Rights Watch hopes to extend University Watch outside the computer worid. It will announce internships for students inter-
(see Watch, page 2)