By Gail Asayama
Staff Writer
Charles Robb, a Campus Security officer, has been suspended for 60 days without pay for statements he made in the KABC-TV series on crime at the university.
The Office of Security and Parking Operations issued Robb the letter at 6:30 a.m. Monday.
The letter stated the action was of a disciplinary nature against Robb for “willful and false statements and unwarranted and derogatory remarks concerning the university that were given and aired on the Channel 7 Eyewitness News,” said Carl Levredge, director of security and parking operations.
One source reported Robb may take legal actions in response to the suspension.
The series ran on the'KABC-TV 11 p.m. news broadcasts Feb. 13-15. Robb was appointed spokesman for the series because he was president of the Security Officers’ Assn.
The association is an independent group of security officers within the university who formed to upgrade the department and obtain written policies on regulations and procedures.
Robb said at that time he believed his job was in jeopardy because of the statements he made.
Robb said in the editing of some of his statements inferences were implied in the omissions. He was quoted in one of the interviews as saying he would
not send his daughter to school here because of the crime problem and that the university had the highest crime rate among colleges in the country.
When Russ Peterson, vice-president of the association, was asked to respond to the suspension, he said, “I would love to talk to you about the injustices of the Robb incident. However, I was just notified if I made any statements about the incident
I	would be terminated.”
One source said when the security and parking office was notified that a story would be printed in Tuesday’s Daily Trojan, Peterson was told if he spoke to the press he would receive a written reprimand for his participation in the newscasts.
Levredge explained that a section of officer regulations, referring to press relations states that information will be released only with approval of the director. Dismissal and suspension are alternatives for violation of this section.
Levredge, who also appeared in the series, said he was not informed that officers were interviewed by Wayne Satz, KABC-TV news reporter.
“The department policy that was violated was not just approaching the press without authorization but criticism on information of a critical nature." Levredge said. "Criticism must be submitted in a complete written report and shall not be submitted to any other agency.
“Other officers who were involved in the series will be issued appropriate disciplinary action."
SWINGTOWN—With a band playing and the son shining, students were unable to resist the temptation to dance at the International Festival in Alumni Park. DT photo by Mark Kariya.
University of Southern California
Volume LXXIII, Number 24 Los Angeles, California	Tuesday,	March	14,	1978
Campus Security suspends officer for comments aired on KABC-TV
Foreign flavors flow as foods consumed at faire
By Robin Oto
SUfT Writer
Chao shao pao, gulab jamoon, shawarma, tajeen and gado-gado were just some of the exotic foods offered at the International Food Faife in Alumni Park Monday.
“It’s really delicious. We asked the Cubans if it (the faire) was helping to build international relations and they said yes. I wonder if this is more fattening than this?” said Ann Enterline, assistant librarian at the Education Library.
Food tickets were sold for 75 cents each and one ticket provided three servings of dishes from each country.
The Campus Activities Allocation Board allocated $120 for each group to pay for food expenses, which is why many nations quickly ran out of food.
“You guys just ran out too early. You could also sell recipes and make money off them. But it’s beautiful even if it’s just to get your campus more cross-cultural. Except I saw 35 booths advertised and it was misleading because there aren’t 35 of them here,” said a Los Angeles.City School District coordinator of interracial programs, who read about the faire and decided to attend.
“We hit Cuba and Armenia and so far it’s good. It’s a change of pace but a lot of them sold out before we could get to them,” said one student.
“We were all sold out in 50 minutes. We cooked until 2:30 a.m. last night,” said one worker in the German food booth.
The booth featured German potato salad and Berliner Bouletten, which is sausage made with onions, milk and eggs.
The Austrian booth served a rich chocolate cake called sacher-torte that sold out in less than an hour.
“I’m from Fresno where there is a large number of Armenians and this is almost as good as home,” said a visitor of the Armenian booth.
The Armenians offered grape leaves stuffed with rice and sauce,
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Student Senate to vote on $250 limit on funding for publications
The Student Senate will vote today on a proposed $250 restriction of funding for publications by student organizations.
Suzanne Nora, a member of the senate’ Student Affairs Committee, said the recommendation was made because "it’s recognized that newsletters have a limited amount of impact in reaching a large number of students and one of the findings (of a Student Senate report) was that there were too many special-interest programs.”
The recommendation, based on an evaluation of the student programming fee, limits newsletters, magazines and newspapers to funding less than $250. The proposal urges organizations that require additional funds to use advertisement and subscription fees.
Nora said 13 groups received a total of $14,000 for newsletters this year and an extra $7,000 was used for the USC Engineer magazine alone.
The restriction may only apply to student organizations as opposed to publications such as AllUsWe, the black students’ news-
paper, and El Nuevo Sol. the	cerned with their publications'
journal published by MEChA,	survival.	They plan to seek ad-
the chicano students’ organiza-	vertising	to make up for the loss
tion.	in	funds	from student program-
ming fees.
Richard Tostado. editor of El Nuevo Sol, and Isidra Person,	James	Appleton. viceeditor of AllUsWe. said a $250	president	of student affairs, said
limit on allocations to their pub-	a student publication could not
lications would hurt their news-	simply take any advertisers be-
papers. Person said it takes $700	cause certain conditions must be
to publish a 12-page issue of All-	met before the newspaper can
UsWe	“engage in advertising at USC as
a USC publication."
Regardless of whether the se-	....	...	*
nate votes to reduce their allot-	"We have e*'st‘n*
ments or not. Tostado and Per-	ments t0 established publ.ca-
son said they were more con-	(continued on page 2)
Reports of measles cases lessen; outbreak predicted
Fewer students are reporting symptoms of the German Measles at the university, though a new outbreak of the disease may occur during Easter vacation and the following week.
The center is receiving few calls about the measles after it was “overwhelmed with calls" early last week, said Rue Kanemoto. outreach nurse at the center.
The second outbreak of what she termed a "mild" strain of the disease could occur toward the end of Easter break because of the diseases incubation period of two to three weeks.
“Most of the calls we’re getting now are for reassurance," Kanemoto said.
The health center offers no medication for students stricken with the disease, including rubella vaccine and gamagobulin shots.
“The medical staff decided it wouldn't be appropriate to give out vaccinations during an outbreak of the disease,” Kanemoto said.
“In normal circumstances we would give out vaccinations. . .we'll give vaccinations to people who have to have them — women who are getting married and future mothers.”
“As for gamagobulin, there is a lot of doubt as to whether it has any effect on the disease at all.”
A study of the susceptibility of college students to the disease has been started by the Los Angeles County Health Dept. The study will include figures from both UCLA and the university.
UCLA suffered two outbreaks of the disease last year and countered its effects with a mass immunization program.
The measles spread "all over the dorms," said a nurse at the UCLA Student Health Center.