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By PAULA WETHINGTON
Staff writer
Btring! Brring! The telephone
rings and the dispatcher for the
Alpha Phi Omega Escort Service
answers. The caller is at the
library and needs a ride to Bates
^ House. "We'll pick you up in a
few minutes," the dispatcher
says.
This scene is typical for the
members of the Alpha Phi
Omega service fraternity, usually
occurring about three or four
; times a night. Formed in 1974,
their eScort service started before
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istence and now continues as an
evening service for USC students.
"We started the service after
other chapters of APO had
established escort services at their
schools," said Ernest Anderson,
? APO vice president. Visually only
a few calls are received each
nignt, out during coia weatner
they may make yp to 20 runs a
night.
The escort service itself is run
by the members of APO and
funded by USC. About 15 active
members currently make up the
co-ed fraternity, who take turns
as dispatcher and driver while
they are in service. However, they
use university-owned equipment
and must follow certain proA
cedures to insure both their safety
and those of the passengers.
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Menkhaus said he agrees with
separate entity from the universi
exist between the two bodies.
"Our strategy is not to let hii
from the funds." Menkhaus saic
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( the foundation and USC would
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First of all, when a caller asks
for an escort, the dispatcher
enters in the log with the caller's
name, number of passengers, oncampus
location and destination
and phone number in case the
caller will have to be reached.
The driver then picks up one of
the portable radios supplied by
USC Police and goes out to the
car to pick up the passenger. The
car is owned by USC and has a
USC decal on the side for easy
identification.
According to Anderson, the
only other identification currently
used by the escort service is the
occasional wearing of fraternity
jerseys, but he said the USC car is
usually all the identification thai
is needed. "Sometimes othei
drivers think we are the USC
police, but when they see a stu
dent driving the car, they are sur
prised," he said. "People whc
have called us usually don't hav<
a problem finding us."
Except for the occasional callei
asking why APO doesn't rui
their service on certain nights
USC Police Corporal Gar;
Crump says there have been fev
complaints. Anderson explainc<
APO only runs 8 p.m. to \ 1 p.m
Monday through Thursday. Th
phone number is 777-3825.
"USC doesn't provide th
transportation it should with th
library open until midnight," h
iage 1.
I'm confident every member of the
i on that. There's nothing but de
uestion is whether or not divestmeni
nse to it," Vlahoplus said.
cation foundation, are not garnerec
:ss but are solicited through private
s invested and funds a number ol
ry endowments for USC.
aundation board, three of which an
the chairman of the board, Holder
ncmbers of the public.
Vlahoplus that the foundation is ;
ty, but emphasized that a link doe
m (Holderman) disassociate himsel
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ree the advantages of divestment fc
far outweigh the complications,
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money," Menkhaus said.
Vlahoplus refuted this claim.
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f investment counselors weren't
we'd find other ones," he said.
Vlahoplus estimated that ther
Educational Endowment Fund,
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hand with USC's .sensitivity to ,
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ade by the foundation.
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else," Anderson said,
e police cot them back for us
in the week."
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