DAILY California State March 26,1987 University, Northridge Volume 31, Number 92 THURSDAY Looking up Arsonist sets garbage on fire twice at UTA By R. DANIEL FOSTER invitation to a banquet maUed out Staff Writer by a campus organization. He suspects the arsonist is connected University Tower Apartment in some way to the organization. residents were evacuated "Not everyone "would get the Tuesday night after an arsonist invitation," he said. tossed a flaming object down a Wanek wiU also taUt to several trash chute, starting a fire in a students at UTA who say they dumpster twlow, according to know the person who set the fires, campus police. Wanek said he has no reason to Smoke rose up through the suspect any UTA residents. chute and spread to the seven Mark Laurent, a fourth-floor floors of the structure. resident and a radio-TV-film A trash chute fire set by an senior, found the invitation. arsonist Saturday afternoon at "I thought it was kind of UTA was "alMolutely connected" weurd," Laurent said. "It looked to the Tuesday fire, said Vic like someone had deliberately set Wanek, campus police in­ the piece of paper on fire. When I vestigator The building was not had opened the trash chute room evacuated during that incident door, big clouds of smoke came and there were no injuries or out and the whole haUway was damages in either fire. fiUingupwith smoke." Although two Los Angeles fire Kari Dahl, a UTA resident companies responded to the assistant and an athletic training blaze, the building's sprinKer senior, said a fourth-floor system was credited with dousing resident discovered the smoke. the flames. "When she got to the trash A twisted piece of paper, burnt chute room it was fUled with at the tip, was found near the smoke, and then she screamed," NEIL RAMBALOI/Daily Sundial fourth-floor trash chute by a Dahl said. "The haUway was resident at about 9:45 p.m., ac­ fiUed pretty thick with smoke. Kappa Alpha Psi pledges (right to left) Steve Bluford, Allen Frelin, Jonathan Scott, Craig cording to a poUce report. Cornwell stand at attention near Sierra North. Wanek said the paper was an Please see ARSON, page 6 Juvenile arrested in VW burglary; break-ins now at 31 By STEPHANIE A. STASSEL his parents brought him to the High School student, was chased juvenile by the license plate been the means of entry in most Staff Writer . station. Investigator Vic Wanek by the car's owner after he saw number taken by the victim of the VW burglaries.' said. A juvenile court petition wiU the young man leaving his 1985 '"I don't feel there is a con­ In the crime Monday night, the Campus police formally be fUed by campus police and the Volkswagen convertible nection between this suspect and passenger's wind-wing window arrested a juvemle Wednesday juvenile wiU be placed on sum­ Cabriolet, Wanek said. the other VW burglaries because was scratched, but Wanek said he who was seen leaving a mary probation. The victim chased the suspect the window was not smashed,'-' is not sure how the suspect en­ burglarized Volkswagen in a Wanek said this is the first in coin lot J untU the supect Wanek said. tered the car. CSUN parking lot Monday night, charge against the juvenUe. His dropped the stolen stereo and Since the beginning of January, In the last three weeks, four officials said. famUy agreed to pay restitution camera and drove off in a car 31 cars, 26 of which were late VWs and three other makes of The juvemle, whose name to the victim for the damaged parked next to the one he had model VWs, have been cars were burglarized in campus cannot be released because of his car. burglarized, Wanek continued. burglarized in campus lots. A lots. The windwing window was age, was formaUy arrested when The suspect, a Birmingham Wanek tracked down the broken windwing window has smashed on each of the VWs. USA slate takes nine of 15 seats By BRETT HANSARD puter assisted registration form two seats in the Lower Division, and BOB KAYNE to vote, apathy on the part of and the seats for the School of Staff Writers students and campaigning that Commuhication and Professional was not as vigorous as in Studies, the School of Education, The United Students Alliance previous elections. the School of Science and slate won nine out of 15 seats, HedwaU said that as AS Mathematics and the School of including president and vice president he will work to improve Social and Behavioral Sciences. president, in the Associated communication on campus by The UP slate won one Upper Students Spring 1987 Senate attending campus organization Division seat, the Graduate election, according to AS election meetings and that he hopes to set Division seat and seats from the results released Wednesday up an organizational workshop School of the Arts and the School evening. that would include represen­ of Humanities. USA's Laine Hedwall and Mimi tatives from campus The two winners in the Upper Constantinou defeated Gilbert organizations. Division race were Lynn Lopez and Lori Hicks of United Hedwall also proposed writing Westlund, USA, with 553 votes, People by 66 votes, 891-825, a weekly column in the Daily and MicheUe Labgold, UP, with winning the presidential and vice Sundial to help communicate 466 votes. Ari Kalechstein, USA, presidential races in an election with students. and Socrates Tuch, UP, followed in which 1,761 of the ap­ Although the UP slate won only with 458 votes each. proximately 30,000 enrolled four seats, Lopez said that his The two new Lower Division students votieKl. This is the lowest senate^ are Karen Hoffman and slate had already won by just THERESA CHISHOLM/pally Sundial voter tumout since Fall 1984. putting together the UP slate. GU Breakman, both from the Vrej Grigorian, director of ""I know that we put up a heU of USA slate, who received 286 and elections, speculated that the low a fight," Lopez said. 273, respectively. Kenneth Wynn Newly fleeted A.S. Vice President Mimi Constantinou, CAPS voter turnout may have t)een The USA slate, retaining and Victoria Gates, both UP, Senator Mark Miner, Phi Delta Theta President Brian Ring, caused by confusion over the control of the Senate, won one and Lower Division Senator Gil Breakman celebrate at the Phi requirement to present a com­ seat in the Upper Division race. Please see ELECTION, page 6 Delta Theta house after hearing the election results. Travellln'urge ake up call New ora A photographic look at The man behind The The attacks "^m Bracken will try to hit a hole in Griffith Park's Travel musical drivel while writing about the one when he fills the coach's golf Town. dark side of society and politics. shoes. See pages See paga 7 See Spofia, paga 16 V^- I 2NEWSnrhursday, March 26,1987 DaNy IN THE NEWS Stars tied to aUeged fraud Emest M. Grunebaum of unlawfuUy aiding in the The court rejected an appeal by Paul E. Johnson, preparation of false income tax returns. who was denied promotion to road dispatcher by the NEW YORK (AP) — Three businessmen were in­ Santa Clara County Transportation Agency in dicted Wednesday on federal tax charges for creating CaUfomia. The job went to Diane Joyce, who Johnson Umited partnerships — some involving celebrities — Women job preference OK'd said was less quaUfied than himself. that aUegedly generated $350 milUon in false tax WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court, The court said Johnson, who tKored two points higher deductions. upholding an affirmative action plan for female than Joyce on a test, may have been mhilmaUy more The 31-count indictment listed a number of business workers, ruled Wednesday that employers may give quaUfied for.the Job. But the justices emphasized that and entertainment celebrities as limited partners in special preferences in hiring and promoting women to their ruUng does not mean unqualified pec^le wiU be two of the partnerships, including actors Lome create a more balanced workforce. hired or promoted. Greene, Michael Landon and Sidney Poitier, television By a 6-3 vote, the justices said a 1964 civU rights law "Sex is but one of several factors that may be taken producer Norman Lear and CBS Chairman Laurence banning on-the-job discrimination aUows such into account in evaluating quaUfied appUcants for a A. Tlsch. preferential treatment. And they said employers may position," Justice WUUam J. Brennan wrote for the The cdebrities were not named as defendants in the adopt affirmative action plans without adimitting past court. indictment, which accused Charles Agee Atkins and discrimination against women. Please see NEWS.page 4 CAMPUSCALENDAR Today Univaraity Raadtaig CMnlo — A series of three workshops to Thaatra CSUN — Soiled Pamela, an original play by Wesley help students prepare for the reading portion of the CBEST Walker, opens In the Studio Theatre at 8 p.m. Other days in­ from 5-6:30 p.m. The dates and topics for the sessions ar6: clude Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. with a matinee at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Ticket prices aree $3.50 for student/faculty. For Club — Meeting from 3-4 p.m. in Mush: 111. Analyze Your Fteading Skills and Learn Test-Taking Techniques; April 2, Reading for the Main Idea and Supporting Details; April more information call the box office at 885-3093. USU Programa — Uve )azz in the Pub featuring Port of Call 9, Reading for Inference and Judgement. Students may from 8-10:30 p.m.