Student assaults firemen with board at Row blaze
2 students hospitalized after separate accidents
By Darren Leon
Staff Writer
Alpha Delta Pi and Kappa Alpha Order activities on the Row Thursday resulted in an injury to one Row member and the arrest of another. Another student was also injured after he fell from a tree in front of the Sigma Chi house.
Shortly after 12 a.m. Friday, John Engler fell 30 feet from a tree and is in critical condition at California Hospital. At 2 p.m. on Thursday, a Alpha Delta Pi member choked on a burrito during an eating contest, and that night a fraternity member was arrested for assaulting a firefighter with a two-by-four.
Kappa Alpha bonfire
For the third time that day, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call at the Kappa Alpha house on 28th Street at 11 p.m. and found a bonfire on the front lawn. As firefighters attempted to extinguish the fire. David Fuller, the fire captain, began to explain that the bonfire was illegal, said Sgt. Herman Aviles of Campus Security.
A fraternity member then picked up an eight-foot-long wooden board and struck the captain and another firefighter. The firemen requested assistance and Los Angeles Police Department officers arrived and arrested the student, who was pointed out by the fire captain, Aviles said.
The student was booked for assaulting a firefighter with a deadly weapon. Bail was set at $2,500. The charge is a felony and is equivalent to assaulting a police officer.
“I have no doubt that the fire department will prosecute to the fullest,” Aviles said.
According to Aviles, on the fire department’s previous responses that day to the house, fraternity members yelled, “I’ll have your job for this. I know people in high places." Another student told the firemen, “I'll get you guys. Do you know who my dad is?”
30-foot drop	«*
Paramedics responded to a call after midnight when John Engler fell while trying to climb down a tree from the roof of the Sigma Chi house but lost his grip and fell 30 feet to the lawn below. When paramedics arrived, he was unconscious.
The student was stabilized and immobilized by paramedics and a university emergency medical technician unit at the scene in order to prevent further injury and then taken to California Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition. He was placed in the intensive care unit and has improved greatly, a hospital spokesman said.
DT correction
The egg fight that broke out on the Row Thursday was not connected with the Sigma Chi Fraternity’s Derby Days, as a front-page cutline implied. Members of Sigma Chi did throw the first eggs, according to eyewitnesses, in an annual event unconnected with the Derby Days.
The student suffered a brain contusion and multiple trauma, but no broken bones or internal injuries were detected.
He was reported in stable condition but will be under close observation for the next 24 hours.
A sorority member had just
finished her eighteenth “garbage burrito" and was working on her nineteenth when she began choking. Witnesses said that the student turned blue just before Mike O’Toole and Bob Bogelzang of Sigma Chi and Mark Tober of Sigma Alpha Epsilon attempted to re-
suscitate her.
The students were only able to partially clear her breathing passage and began mouth-to-mouth resuscitation when the paramedics and a medical technician unit arrived. The paramedics eventually man-(Continued on page 6)
GANG ACTIVITY RISES SHARPLY
Youth crime up, supervisor says
By Brian Johnson
Staff Writer
The rise in youth crime in the Los Angeles area and the measures being taken to control it were discussed by Los Angeles County Supervisor Ed Edelman at the annual Malcolm B. Stinson lecture held Friday in the university’s Town and Gown.
“Crimes committed by the
18-to 25-age group are going up very rapidly,” Edelman said. “The programs we have are not going to do away with the problem.”
The lecture, held this year as a part of the Inaugural Week Celebration, is an annual event sponsored by the School of Social Work. The series, now in its fourth year, is named after a former dean of the school
TV mitigates value of life, news, says radio pioneer
By Kate Flaherty
Staff Writer
“If I had the opportunity to write the first three lines of my obituary, I think it would run like this: ‘Norman Corwin, at 112, the oldest Olympic marathon runner, was killed in a gun duel yesterday with a jealous lover. Although Corwin had the draw on his opponent, his gun jammed. It was found to have been tampered with, and Corwin was declared winner by default. Interment will be at Westminister Abbey,’ "said radio journalist Norman Corwin Thursday night at Henry Salvatori Hall.
Corwin is best known for his radio dramas and documentaries in the 1930s and 1940s. He has been called radio’s brightest star and The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, The Undecided Molecule and We Hold These Truths were shows that people of that generation instantly recognize.
We Hold These Truths was a radio show endorsing the Bill of Rights, and was broadcast over all three networks simultaneously, an unprecendented event in the history of broadcasting.
“I know it was Norman Corwin’s word buried in my mind that made me care about the individual,” said Joe Saltzman. chairman of the broadcast sequence in the journalism department.
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who served for nine years.
The topic of this year’s lecture was “Youth Violence: An International Phenomenon.” The featured speakers were Supervisor Edelman. who spoke on youth violence in Los Angeles; and Nicholas Hinton, a former director of England’s National Association for Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders. former member of Britain’s Royal Commission of Correction and current director of England’s National Council of Voluntary Organizations.
“There has been an upsurge in violence in Los Angeles in the past few years, as anyone knows who watches television, reads the newspaper or listens to the radio,” Edelman said. “Over le last six months, community concern for the problem has risen. It is obviously affecting the way we live, the way we think and the way we act.
“A lot of that violent crime is committed by young adults in the 18 to 25 range. Obviously, some young people have started the pattern of crime at an earlier age. The programs we have are going to help, but I don’t think anyone can do away with the problem as much as we would- like to.
“The roots of the problem are very deep, its causes are (Continued on page 5}
CRYSTAL CLEAR — To mark James Zumberge's inauguration as the university's ninth president, artwork of London's Crystal Palace, a first in modem architecture, was exhibited last week in the Annenberg School of Communications.
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Volume XC, Number 59
University of Southern California
Monday, May 11, 1981