STOPS PROVIDING COMMERCIAL AIR TICKETS
Travel service complies with federal regulations
'The campus security report said one of the chocolates hit Brand.'
scrambles with student over candy eggs
By Randy Oliver
Staff Writer
A student reported being handcuffed and taken to Campus Security's office Monday night for throwing chocolate Easter eggs from her dormitory room window. Jenny Longlav, a freshman in drama, said she had been throwing the chocolate eggs at the street bordering parking structure C from the second floor of College-University Residence Hali.
Steve Ward, chief of Campus Security, said all the information has not been ascertained and that the matter would need to be investigated further.
John Brand, the security officer involved, was not available for comment because he was not on duty Tuesday.
Individuals are normally handcuffed when they are taken into custody, Ward said. "This procedure is under continuous review, and it will be reviewed in this specific case for its appropriateness," Ward said.
Ward said Longlav had not been charged.
"When dealing with students, faculty and staff we trv to verify their status with two IDs and write a memo to Dean Mannes,'' Ward said. "We trv not to make charges, but to make it a university action."
Robert Mannes, dean for student life, said he had not yet received a memo but university judicial reviews such cases. After seeing if the complaint is grounded and if the person did what was said judicial can recommend appropriate sanctions.
Mannes said throwing objects from windows is a violation of the housing contract and could result in termination of the contract.
"No matter what it is, it can hurt if it hits someone, especially if thrown from any height," Mannes said. "For example, a water balloon tossed from the eleventh floor of Residence West will break the windshield of a car."
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University seeks funding sources to upgrade international services
By Teresa Watanabe
Staff Writer
Several international students declared the university should provide the funds to upgrade services at the Office of International Students and Scholars.
But James Appleton, vice-president of student affairs, said it was "not likely" funding could be drawn from university resources.
'There just are not many dollars available for new programs," Appleton said. Earlier, he unsuccessfully attempted to secure increased funding for the international students office.
Levying a fee on students is under consideration as another way to create funds.
Appleton said he would prefer not to levy a fee on international students, but would favor it if there was no other funding sources.
Berthe Von Allmen, director of international student services, believed the university should "go wirh caution" in introducing a fee.
"I don't feel comfortable about assessing a fee,"
she said. "It's the easy way to solve the problem. I worry about how the money is going to be used and how the university will look globally and nationally if it levies a fee on the international students."
Some have contended that since the international students are asking for services not extended to the general university population, they should pay an additional fee. But Von Allmen pointed out that there are several services that international students cannot use, such as financial aid, work-study and the Career Development Center.
A group ot international students and the Office of Student Affairs are now assessing basic program requirements, the cost and possible sources of financing the program.
Tarek El Mallah, international peer advocate, said the group is also exploring the possibilities of fundraising by international students, levying a fee on the entire university population and approaching foreign alumni for funds.
The group will meet April 18 to decide on a policy.
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Council task force recommends revisions in housing contracts
By Gail Harris
Staff Writer
Specific revisions of the contract for students in university housing have been recommended for next year by a task force of the President's Advisory Council.
Land VVayland. an attorney for student legal services, said a number of sections of the current contract "create an appearance of unfairness as far as students are concerned."
The revisions under consideration bv the student affairs com-
mittee of the council include rewording and additions to contract terms.
No major policy changes are involved, said Michael McCarthy, assistant director of auxiliary services and a member of the committee's task force on housing priorities and contracts.
The revisions are normal procedure and done annually at this
time, McCarthy said.
Wayland sent a memo to Jerry' Wiley, a professor of law, after Wiley had asked him what he thought of the contract.
In his response Wayland cited several areas of the contract that he believed to be worded un-clearlv, unspecifically or unfairly for students.
Wayland suggested the paragraphs concerning financial agreement that states the university can hold all or part of the $200 advance payment required for housing he reconsidered.
"It occurs to me that under both standard contract law and landlord-tenant law, the university should only be allowed to (continued on page 8)
By Karen Holloway
Staff Writer
The USC Travel Service stopped providing commercial airline tickets for students and staff earlier this month to comply with regulations of the Air Traffic Conference.
The travel service had been providing a pick-up service for commercial flight tickets for customers for the past year.
The travel service cannot issue commercial airline tickets because as a nonprofit organization it cannot be considered as a commercial travel agency, said Dan lives, director of the travel service.
"The way the regulations are currently set up the industry' would consider that any money we made from selling commercial airline tickets would be a rebate to the university," lives said.
Since the travel service is not a commercial travel agency, it is
not under the regulation of the traffic conference, lives said.
However, commercial agencies, which are "appointed" by the traffic conference, are obligated not to provide the university service with commercial airline tickets.
The manager of a commercial travel agency appointed by the conference said the nonprofit status of the travel service was not the reason for the concern over the commercial flight service. The on-campus location of the service could be in violation of conference regulations, he said.
The conference is part of the federal Department of Transportation and acts as a domestic cartel between travel agencies and airlines.
"If you don't follow the rules, the airlines won't give you the tickets," said Alan Kornfeld, an employee of USC Travel Service.
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thing they (the conference) would not want us to be doing," lives said. "We’ve abided by everybody's concerns and regulations that we are aware of."
The travel service did not originally intend to provide a pick-up service for commercial airline tickets, lives said. He said the travel service initiated the practice "to provide a service for students and staff who kept bugging us for
tickets." Although no profit was made from this service, lives said that customers are expected to keep them in mind for other services.
"We can afford to provide services which are not money making," he said.
"A package which includes air (tickets) is a totally different thing," lives said when asked if the travel service would continue
to provide commercial airline tickets as part of a tour package.
Airlines may be reluctant to provide the travel service with commercial flight tickets because of an ATC prohibition against in-house travel service operations.
The Travel Agents Handbook, a publication of conference regulations, defines an "in-plant loca-
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SERVICE CURTAILED—Federal regulations say the USC Travel Service must stop providing commercial airline ticket pick-ups, because it is a nonprofit agency.