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Volume CXIII, Number 57
University of Southern California
Wednesday, November 28,1990
ATO member arrested in assault case
By Glen Justice
Staff Writer
A member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity was arrested Monday night in connection with a Nov. 15 assault on two university students in front of the 901 Club, police said.
Mark Johnstone, 22, was arrested at 10:30 p.m. by Los Angeles Police Department officers at the ATO house on 28th Street, LAPD Lt. Allen Kerstein said.
He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with great bodily injury and held in lieu of $30,000 bail. Johnstone made bail and was released early Tuesday morning after eight hours in jail, Kerstein said.
Police said the incident may be related to a similar occurrence involving Vincent Terrasi, another member of Alpha Tau Omega. Terrasi was arrested Nov. 16 in connection with an assault in front of Carmel's restaurant ai 3009 S. Figueroa St.
"The investigation is continuing," Kerstein said. "We're not sure if the two (incidents) are connected. It's something we'll look at. There are some other angles too, so this is by no means the end of it."
There are distinct similarities between the two incidents.
Johnstone was arrested for allegedly delivering a roundhouse "martial arts style" kick to one of the victims who was entering the 901 Club about 11:30 p.m. that night, Kerstein said.
Though police refused to disclose the names of the victims, the man kicked in the face had the bone surrounding his right eye shattered. He underwent more than six hours of reconstructive surgery over Thanksgiving break, Kerstein safd.
One of the victims involved in the incident at Carmel's received an identical injury. He required surgery.
Terrasi, identified as the one who caused the injury, was charged with one count each of battery and assault with a deadly weapon — his hands and feet.
In Johnstone's case, the second victim escaped with cuts and bruises. Kerstein said there were three suspects involved in the incident along with Johnstone, but refused to disclose names, pending possible future arrests.
"Through our investigation, we managed to identify Johnstone as the one who made the kick," he said. "We interpret this as a serious felonious assault. When people interpret a bar brawl, they think of a mutual-combat situation. This was an unprovoked attack."
While Kerstein expects felony charges to be filed at the district attorney's office next week, Johnstone maintains that he was not even near the 901 club that night and denies any involvement in that incident.
"I was at my house all night," he said. "It wasn't me. I wasn't the person who did that act. The police are going by what they heard. I have witnesses.
"I got accosted by police and spent eight hours in jail," he said. "I've done nothing wrong. I'm sad that people point the finger at someone who is innocent."
Police said the suspects were identified either by victims or by witnesses.
School daze
Daniel DeLaRosa / Daily Tro|an
Julie Keller, a sophomore majoring in international relations, ponders what classes to take next semester as she sits outside of the Registration Building. The deadline for Spring, 1991 registration is Feb. 1.
Judge sets trial date, adds two charges against accused rapist
By Brian McDonough
Staff Writer
Two charges were added and one was dropped against accused rapist Willie Damone Taylor as the victims testified at a pretrial hearing in Los Angeles Municipal Court on Tuesday afternoon.
Judge David Horwitz ordered Taylor to be held for trial in Superior Court on Dec. 3 on 26 charges stemming from the rapes of three university students in September and the assault and robbery of a West Covina woman last year.
Taylor continues to be held without bail.
Horwitz dismissed one count of rape with a foreign object for insufficient evidence, but added two counts of rape based upon the testimony of one of the victims.
Taylor now stands accused of 14 counts of rape, three counts of sodomy, four counts each of burglary and residential robbery and one charge of assault with intent to rape.
If Taylor is convicted on all charges, his maximum sentence is roughly 120 years in prison, Deputy District Attorney Andrew McMullen said.
If Taylor is convicted and given the maximum sentence but receives credit for good behavior and working while in prison, he would serve at least 60 years according to the California penal code, McMullen said.
Taylor, 28, attended the hearing handcuffed and chained. He was quiet throughout the 90-minute proceedings, only exchanging whispers with his attorney and signaling to his mother.
McMullen called all four of Taylor's alleged victims to
(See Hearing, page 14)
Life after football can frustrate players
By Vivien Chen
Staff Writer
The 1980 Rose Bowl belonged to tailback Charles White.
The 1979 Heisman Trophy winner scored on a game-winning, one-yard touchdown dive with 1:32 left on the clock. And he set a bowl record with his 247-yard rushing performance.
He was the Cleveland Browns' first round pick in 1980, but failed to equal his college performance in his yearis there.
In some ways, White's past personal troubles have overshadowed his football career.
He was slapped with a four-game suspension after he was arrested for driving under the influence of cocaine in 1987, .the same year he led the National Football League in rushing with the Los Angeles Rams. In 1988, he received a 30-day suspension from the league after testing positive for alcohol.
Now retired from football, White is back at the university Athletic Department working as the director of a pro-that brings former athletes back to lish their degrees.
His successor at tailback, Marcus Allen, has had a distinguished career with the Los Angeles Raiders for eight years. Allen reluctantly joined training camp this summer after asking to be traded. He is expected to earn $1.1 million in the last year of a three-year contract.
After switching from fullback to tail-
After the Roses fade. . .
This is the second in a series of seven articles examining what has become of the players from USC's 1980 Rose Bowl team.
back, Allen became college football's first 2,000-yard rusher and the 1981 Heisman Trophy winner.
But the names of other tailbacks and fullbacks on the 1979 team probably could not gamer even a hint of recognition from the most die-hard Trojan fans.
As former tailback Anthony Gibson explained, "Any time the university has a Heisman Trophy campaign going, the back-up guys virtually never play."
Gibson and former tailback Mike Harper entered USC together as freshmen that year, but were destined for completely different paths.
Gibson was brainy enough to be recruited out of high school by universities
such as Harvard and Stanford.
But he picked USC for its combination of athletics and academics. He never looked back.
A badly tom ligament in his ankle wiped out any chance to start at tailback during his senior year. It left him feeling unfulfilled, he said, "because I had walked in with high hopes and an ability to really shine."
An industrial engineering major, Gibson received a job offer from a university alumnus at Universal Studios that he immediately grabbed.
He worked as a production assistant on films such as "Back to the Future" and "Brewster's Millions," but quickly fell out of love with his job.
Gibson says he wanted a more "transient" career, so he found work at Guy Martin Honda in Woodland Hills, where he was their top salesman.
Still unsatisfied, Gibson said he is now training to be a financial adviser to automobile dealers.
Harper got the big break at USC that Gibson never did. He was the starting tailback in his senior year, filling Allen's shoes. Since then, he has had a rocky pro football career that ended abruptly when the New York Jets released him in April of this year after he had played on special teams since 1986.
A football career is an unstable one at best, in which a player can be released as (See Players, page 4)