It’s not that you win or lose, it’s whether the media comes
By Don La Plante
Editor
Since the Trojans couldn’t win a baseball championship this year, the university did the next best thing, it brought a championship game to it. This championship game wasn’t for the national or college title, it was for the championship of Hollywood.
There has been a revival of motion pictures about sports, most especially baseball. The first one out was The Bad Neivs Bears, about the exploits of a Little League baseball team. Coming out next month is The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor tings about the days of the old Negro leagues.
Well, the Bingo Long team issued a challenge to the champion Bad News Bears and then the show was on. They set it up for Dedeaux Field and did the most important thing, they called the press.
After all, the championship game wasn’t for the benefit of
the actors, or the directors, or the studios, it was all for the media, the better to get publicity for both of the films.
The public was also invited, via large ads in the Los Angeles Times, and they came. There was the Locke High Band and the Reseda Youth Band, and about 2,000 other people there to cheer on their favorites. Rod Dedeaux wishes he could get that many out there for his games.
No one may ever be sure what strategy the managers had for the game, but the media strategy worked to perfection. There were more photographers than players on the field, and film crews appeared from all of the major Los Angeles television stations.
After spending an hour in pregame festivities, which were almost as intriguing as the game, the players were ready to play ball.
But before the game, the introductions. Most of the cast of
both films was there. It was just the big names that didn’t quite make it. Walter Matthau was recovering at home from the heart attack he suffered a few weeks back, and Tatum O’Neal was off trying on her tuxedo for the next Academy Awards ceremony. Billy Dee Williams, of the Bingo Long team, was in Philadelphia playirg Martin Luther King in a play and couldn’t make it into town for the affair.
There were a few big names such as James Earl Jones of the Bingo Long team, and some of the people billed as the Friends of the Bears, such as Marty Allen and Sally Kellerman.
Oh yes, after all the picture taking and filming and interviews were over, it was time for baseball.
It wasn’t exactly your typical baseball game. It looked more like the Harlem Globetrotters had traded in the basketball outfits for baseball uniforms.
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Summer
Trojan
University of Southern California
READY FOR THE BIG PLAY?—With that mitt, he better be ready for a big play. The Bingo Long all-stars did some clowning around, before they got
down to serious business, playing against a team of kids. ST photo by y0|ume LXVIV Number 2
Robert Chavez.
Los Angeles, California
Friday, June 18, 1976
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED ALSO
PAC increases parking fees for summer
In its final meeting of the year, the President's Advisory Council approved a proposal that will raise parking fees for the first time since 1964.
Presently parking fees have been $5 a month for anyone purchasing a parking permit; faculty. administration, staff and students. This is the same fee as was implemented when the university began to charge for parking.
The new system differentiates for the first time between stu-
dents and the staff by charging faculty and staff more for their parking spaces. Students have complained for many years that although they pay the same for parking as the faculty they were never able to have parking spaces that were as good or as close to the center of campus.
The new rate for students will be $7.50 a month, or $37.50 for a semester parking permit. This will allow the students use of the parking facilities west of McClintock Boulevard. This will
include Lot S, Lot 1 at the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, and the two new parking structures next to the Gerontology Center and Men's Residence West. Residents of the Men’s and Women’s Complex will have access to permits for the parking structure on the east side of campus.
Parking fees for faculty and staff are being increased to $8.50 per month, or $42.50 per semester. This will permit faculty parking in the parking struc-
Search committee reconstituted after provost nominees rejected
The search committee for a provost has been reconstituted by President John R. Hubbard to resume its search for a person to fill the position.
During the spring semester, the commitee presented the names of three possible nominees to Hubbard, said Paul Knoll, associate professor of history and chairman of the search committee.
“President Hubbard reviewed the names and decided they did not meet his specifications for the position to be filled. The committee was instructed to continue its work.” he said.
“The committee did important and useful work last year. I am confident we will complete a timely search in time for a recommendation for an appointment by the end of the next academic year.”
Knoll said that Hubbard found all three persons that were proposed to mim to be wanting in some aspect or another of what he believed the provost should be.
The committee will be meeting throughout the summer to review applications that are made and to examine candidates that may have been omitted from consideration the first time.
Although Knoll would not reveal the names of the candidates proposed, he said that all three were from outside the university. (Hubbard is out of town until June 28 and cannot be reached to say whether he will announce the names.)
Even though there were no university administrators in the final three this year, Knoll said that the committee will consider present staff members when it reconsiders the matter.
Knoll said that one problem in picking an administrator from within is that one charge the committee has been given is to nominate a candidate with high national visibility.
“We are supposed to try and name a person who when the appointment is announced will have people talking about the person coming to USC. No one on our faculty at this time has that kind of national visibility. It also would be viewed as just an appointment from within,” Knoll said.
He cited one problem in obtaining a provost of top quality this year as there was a higher than usual number of quality schools appointing either academic vice-presidents or provosts.
“There was competition with good schools. Four AAU (American Association of Universities) schools appointed provosts or academic vice presidents this year. They were Oregon, Tulane, Duke and Colorado. Tufts University appointed a president,” Knoll said.
Knoll said that another problem was to convince top quality administrators to come to the west coast.
“The basic problem is for universities on the—4 coast to convince potential candidates T*om elsewhere, particularly from the east. +’.at the potentials and the aspirations of th^ schools are equal. Many, rally from the e- coast, do not view the potential of UcsC - ~diistically as we do,” he said.
“The past is with us. The awareness of the academic USC is not perceived as widely as it should be,” he said.
Knoll said that the committee would engage in a good and complete search. He said that Hubbard has made it very clear that the committee should not recommend a candidate just to get an appointment made.
“We’ve been told ‘Don’t compromise on quality’,” he said.
tures, any students areas, and the other parking areas west of McClintock Avenue not being used for either reserved or assured parking.
Two new categories of parking have been established for the coming year. Certain high-level administrators such as the President, Vice President, Deans and some directors will be able to have a parking place with their name stenciled on it, to allow parking in the same place and close to their offices.
They will, however, pay greatly for the privilege, $18 a month, or $90 a semester. Of course, those eligible don’t have to accept the space and can purchase cheaper parking.
Faculty and staff will also be able to purchase assured parking space for $12 a month. This will allow them to have space assured in a certain lot. So far, Lot E, near the Law Center; part of Hoover Street; part of Lot K, near the Engineering Complex; and part of Lot M, behind the Religious Center, will be available to assured parking. More areas may be designated ifthe demand warrants it.
The issuance of second car permits has been discontinued for this year. Second car permits will be available only upon payment of the full fee for the permit.
In the past there has been many abuses of the second car
permit system with people getting permits for other people and splitingthecost so that some people wound up getting half-price permits.
For those who will be using different cars regularly a transferable permit on a chain will be available so that the permit can be transfered from car to car.
In other actions, the President’s Advisory Council elected the chairman and vice-chairman for the following two-year period. Jay Savage, professor of biological sciences, was elected chairman over John Elliott, professor of economics, by a vote of 50-35.
Elizabeth Horowitz, associate clinical professor of law, defeated Elliott for the vice-chairman position by a vote of 67-21.
The Commission on Credentials and Elections has not yet met to decide on what action to take on the two posts from The Graduate School that are unfilled. In the original elections, James Lamb was elected as was David Blackmar.
The seating of Lamb was challenged because of a complaint about irregularities in his election as a representative from the School of International Relations.
Blackmar was challenged on the basis that he was no't a graduate student at the time of his election.
ST schedule announced
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