Volume LXXXVIII, Number 36
University of Southern California
Wednesday, March 26 1980
Officers to get advanced training
Will learn investigation techniques
Staft photo by Richard Levitt
LOBBYISTS — A couple relax on a plush couch in the lobby of the newly completed Grace Salvatori Hall.
By Stephanie Chavez
Staff Writer
University Security officers will receive instructions that will include how to lift fingerprints from crime scenes, and techniques for personal crisis intervention during an advanced officer training program to begin in April.
The program, under the Support Services division of University Security, will attempt to fill the gaps in officer training, said Hermin Avilas, training coordinator of University Security. Some of the "gaps" have occurred due to the change in the recruitment and training process of new officers intitiat-ed in the summer of 1979.
The inservice training program will focus on five topics: follow-up crime investigation, crisis intervention, courtroom procedure, cardio pulmonary resuscitation and a review of criminal law.
Any officer who has not previously received training in these categories will do so under the program.
University Security has developed follow-up investigation training to "fill the gap between LAPD (Los Angeles Pol-
Students may not lose registration fee when vacating campus housing early
By Paul Escobar
Staff Writer
Despite potentially confusing wording in the university housing contract, students who decide to leave university housing will not necessarily lose all of their reservation fee.
Students who are forced to cancel their housing contract prior to the end of the academic year can obtain a portion of the fee if they abide by the contract and submit a written intent to vacate prior to the end of specific dates outlined by the contract. The fall semester's date is Aug. 1, and the
spring semester deadline is Dec. 14.
Under priority housing policy, students must pay a $200 reservation fee before Aug. 1 to secure a living space for the months of September through June. Half of the fee applies to September and October rent, and the other half applies to the months of May and June.
The reservation fee prevents the university from evicting students for the academic year, as long as they abide by regular university housing standards, said Carol Miller, a spokesman from legal services.
PLAYER ABUSE
"The reservation fee hedges the tenant against a landlord's attempt to evict," Miller said.
The housing contract is actually an option contract, or a contract that gives the tenant the option of choosing to live in university housing for the academic year, she said.
However, if they for any reason vacate prior to the contract cancellation deadline, or if they must leave after the deadline during the second semester, they will not receive the portion of their reservation fee, according to the contract.
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Football recruiter refutes charges
By Ezell Gray jr.
A former university recruiter for the football team has refuted charges made by a university professor of education two weeks ago that black football players at the university are being abused.
Al Cole, who claims he recruited Mike Garrett, the 1965 Heisman Trophy winner, said in a Heritage Hall office last Friday "That guy is definitely wrong. It disturbed me when I saw the story."
Nat Hickerson, a 15-year faculty member at the university, was quoted in a Daily Trojan article March 13 as saying that black football players are being exploited once the "Snake Oil Salesman," or paid recruiters, recruit them.
Cole says in direct rebuttal of Hickerson's statements that the university "has never employed paid recruiters. There never have been."
Currently, the football coaching staff does all the recruiting. Cole said. All he does now is "attend a football game, and if I see a kid that looks good, I'll give the coaches a call and they'll decide for themselves whether to recruit him or not."
A black freshman on the football team would not comment on Hickerson's charges. He said that this is one subject "the brothers won't say anything about."
According to Cole, Hickerson caused some kind of trouble at a university baseball game three years ago. "He was just ripping SC to pieces. When 1 read the story his name rung a bell."
Hickerson also said that John Robinson, head football coach, is merely a practioner of the system that is abusing the black players, and that he could not do anything about it.
Throughout the interview. Cole had nothing but praise and respect for Robinson. “Obviously I am high on Coach Robinson, not only as a coach, but also as a person. Coach Robinson is as straight as they come."
Cole nowr works at Oshman's Sporting Goods in Longdale. "My whole association with the university is my love for it," he said. "Hickerson has a lot of nerve collecting a salary from the university. If I was him and I disliked the university as much as he seemingly does, I would leave."
A good friend of Garrett , Ricky Bell and 1967 Heisman Trophy winner O.J. Simpson , Cole also said the majority of the recruiting he did was in black areas.
Cole was so outraged at Hickerson's charges that he has asked for a meeting with him. Hickerson is presently in Europe.
ice Department) and us (University Security) when it comes to investigating crimes. We will also establish a procedure for handling evidence," Avilas said.
In order for the LAPD to investigate a crime, the loss has to be a certain level. Most often university crime does not reach this level and no investigation of the crime is done, Avilas said.
"On the ground level all officers will learn how to lift physical fingerprints from a crime scene, maintain the integrity of the evidence and obtain information from witnesses," he said.
Oten two or three students will see a robbery take place. If a description of the suspect has been given to security and the suspect is found, matching fin-(Continued on page 8)
Zimbabwe works toward building nonracial society
By Qebbie Latish
Staff Writer
Change mil not come easily or quickly to Zimbabwe, a country that struggled for independence from Britain for almost a century, said Tirivc-fi Kangai, the country's acting ambassador to the United Nations. Kangai spoke in the Von KleinSmid lounge Tuesday.
The newly elected government, headed by Robert Mugabe, who once commanded guerrilla forces against the British, will work toward creating a nonracial society whose wealth will be evenly distributed among the people, Kangai said.
To achieve this end, land, 55% of which was owned by Europeans, will be turned into collective farms, and industries, all owned by multinational corporations, will be nationalized. "Change will not come overnight," he said.
"Some w'ill not accept the nationalization of industries, but thev w'ill be forced. The peasants and workers should control the means of production and distribution, and thev should realize a share of the profits. This is what the revolution was all about."
The government will not compensate those farmers or corporations who lose their property because of redistribution.
"Who's going to compensate the Africans who have been paid poor wages for decades and treated like fourth class citizens in their own country?" Kangai asked.
The government will not seek revenge on the whites who choose to remain in the country. But those who do stay must be willing to accept the new government.
"Whites who are willing to give up their privileges and abide by majority rule are encouraged to stay," Kangai said.
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Stall photo by Richard Levitt
MOVING DAY - Empty bookshelves wait to house the journalism library on the third floor of the new Grace Ford Salvatori Hall.