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Volume CXIII, Number 67	University of Southern California	Wednesday, December 12,1990
Revenue woes force dining staff layoffs
By Gloria Lau
Staff Writer
A $l-million budget shortfall has caused dining services to dismiss most of its 30 temporary employees and cut the hours of most other retail facility workers, officials said Tuesday.
"Most employees who quit will not be replaced, and we're firing the temporary (workers) who were hired in September," said Susan Wilkie, director of dining services.
The exact number of employees laid off was not available, she said.
Implemented in November, the cutbacks have been successful in preventing further shortfalls but this does not mean there will not be changes, Wilkie said.
“We're working smarter. We've been rearranging shifts and cutting hours, but (employees) were hired knowing that cutbacks could result depending on business," said Clifford Blount, the manager of Elizabeth Von KleinSmid Dining Hall.
Though the cutbacks in staff-have been effective so far, stability in sales is not good, Wilkie said.
"Every year we've increased in revenue, but last summer we experienced a 6-percent drop in revenue over the prior year," Wilkie said. "So this all depends on our ability to forecast where our sales will be."
The nature of the current shortfall was mainly in the num-(See Dining, page 13)
Daniel De La Rosa / Dally Trojan
Jay Chee, a senior majoring in East Asian studies and a first-degree black belt, chops clean through four bricks while demonstrating Hwa Rang Do in front of Tommy Trojan.
Instant breakthrough
Suspect arrested
Police nab alleged ATM armed robber
By Annette Chadney
Staff Writer
University Security and Los Angeles Police Department officials arrested a suspect on Dec. 8 who robbed a university student at gunpoint and who may also be connected with two recent robberies at the Bank of America automated teller machine on Jefferson Boulevard across from the university.
Detective Oscar Lamarque said Derrick McNeal, 23, was charged Monday with three counts of second degree robbery by the Los Angeles District Attorney and is being held on $50,000 bail.
"We do have a strong case against the suspect. There is a good chance he will go to the state penitentiary," said Detective Mike Heffeman of LAPD.
The armed robbery occurred last Satur-
day evening at Founders Apartments, said Heffeman.
He said McNeal met the victims, who did not wish to be identified, on Dec. 2 at their apartment when he just walked in and asked to watch a football game. The victims told police they were afraid to ask him to leave.
"The suspect was not a friend, he more or less intimidated the young students," Heffeman said.
Sue days later, McNeal entered the students' apartment and asked for one of the roommates by name. Heffeman said the requested roommate was in the back room and he hid in the bathroom when he heard his name.
Believing the roommate was not in the apartment, McNeal then asked if he (See Robbery, page 6)
Students charged with rape in lawsuit
By David Hernandez
Staff Writer
A former university student has filed a civil lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court charging that she was raped in the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house Dec. 7, 1989.
The victim is seeking punitive and personal damages of an undisclosed sum from Chris Heath, the alleged rapist, according to the court clerk's office.
Also named in the suit was John Argue, in whose room the rape allegedly occurred. Argue is the son of university trustee John C. Argue, according to university records. The lawsuit charges the younger Argue with ha-
rassing the victim about the incident, both at the scene and afterward on campus.
The suit also charges the fraternity with negligence.
Alpha Tau Omega members reportedly engaged in an activity known as "playing brough," in which fraternity members walk through rooms where women are undressing, the lawsuit states.
The suit charges that nine fraternity members, some of whom were naked, burst into the room at the ATO house with golf clubs and hats during the alleged Dec. 7 rape, according to a Dec. 10 City News Service story.
(See Lawsuit, page 6)
New president, measles top list of fall events
By Anjanette Schouwe
Staff Writer
The fall semester brought the announcement of a new university president. The president-elect Steven Sample, 50, might want to consider some of the issues that faced the campus this semester as he prepares himself to be the 10th university president.
Colleges nationwide experienced a decrease in enrollment this year, and for the university there was no escape. Though the overall admissions numbers remained the same, the university experienced a 16-percent decrease in the freshman class, a deficit that forced a $10-million budget cut for the university.
Gerald Segal, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences called it USC's "worst financial crisis in more than 20 years."
Delays in financial aid packaging did not help the crisis. The deadline for tuition payments was postponed one
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week so officials would have time to fix problems caused by misplaced offer letters, errors in aid packages and computer system overloads. Long lines of students waited to complete their enrollment at the Annenberg School of Communications.
Meanwhile, complaints about the high cost of general services at the university were voiced by students.
The Office of Transportation Planning and Parking Management Services received the brunt of these complaints because of a 28.5 percent increase in the price of parking permits for residents of university housing.
Students returning to the university after summer vacation paid $211.80 for a fall parking permit — $60 more than last semester's price. A commuter parking permit, which used to cost $128.20, now costs $160.80.
But the spiraling parking prices went even higher. Parking officials projected another two-digit percentage increase in parking permit prices for next fall to pay for
the remodeling of the May Company warehouse, which will house 2,000 new parking spaces.
Printing papers at the university computer centers also became a luxury some students were loathe to afford. University computer centers began charging Macintosh users 25 cents to print each page. IBM printouts cost 10 cents.
"No cash," read the signs at the counters. To pay, students were forced to purchase a discretionary plan on their USCard worth at least $20.
The printing service, which used to be free, was "intended to cut down on the waste of paper," said James Pepin, director of University Computers Infrastructure.
And the semester had barely started before a wave of violent crime swept through the university and the surrounding area.
(See Review, page 4)