No cheese, just $1 for a plot of land on the moon
By Marie Denunzio
Staff Writer
There really is a man in the moon and he was on campus Wednesday and Thursday selling shares of his planet. His real name is Moon Man (although his parents gave him the earth name of Barry McArdle) and he claimed the moon in l97l.He is sponsored bv the .Campus Speakers Board and the university will receive a share of the profits.
Since he claimed the moon he has been selling moon land deeds for $1 an acre. However Moon Man does not promise transportation or water rights on the planet.
In fact he doesn’t promise much of anything except that the certificate will cover a crack in the wall and will not break, even if dropped from a two-story building.
No guarantee
“I can’t guarantee you anything,” said Moon Man, who was clad in silver*pants, boots and a cape with a silver-glittered helmet. “Do I look like someone who could guarantee anything? But I’ll say one thing — I don’t guarantee anything, and I stand behind that.”
Moon Man said the certificates are conversation
pieces, collector's items and they make great gifts for the man who has everything. He said he wanted to discredit the rumor that the certificates can be ground down and smoked in order to get high.
“I know it doesn't work because I tried it—just to make sure.” he said.
Acid gave idea
The 26-year-old Moon Man said he got the idea of selling shares of the moon from “bad acid.” He said he had gone to Chico State University and found that the only people who were getting jobs were the drop-outs.
"I was out of a job and tired of frying burgers—it was bad for my acne—so I decided to try this,” Moon Man said.
Moon Man began traveling around the country with Ms. Honeymoon selling moon land. They later broke up because of personal conflicts. Since that time, Moon Man has traveled all over the world. He has sold about 20.000 shares during his career.
Already sold?
A prospective customer once asked Moon Man how he could be sure that he was not getting an acre that was not already sold. Moon Man said, “You can be sure I have. All moon acres are exactly alike.”
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Daily w Trojan
Volume LXVIH, Number 73
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, February 12, 1976
ADDITIONAL UNIVERSITY SUPPORT
KUSC gets $855,000 grant to extend services
By Cathy Taylor
Assistant Cit> Editor
KUSC radio, which has been called “the best-kept secret on campus,” has received a grant of more than $800,000 from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $300,000 yearly additional support from the university to extend its services to reach as many as 10 million people in the Los Angeles area.
The station, the first one to be awarded the Major Market Radio Coverage Expansion Project Grant, will get a $100,000 first-year grant, and $755,000 in support over a five-year period from the corporation.
The grant was awarded at a luncheon meeting at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Wednesday.
Wally Smith, general manager of KUSC, said the increased university support and the grant “will enable KUSC to upgrade its programming staff, add desperately needed promotional and developmental staffs and improve the quality of our technical staff.”
Smith projected that the staff, which has only five full-time
employees now, would have as many as 75 to 85 employees by 1980.
Currently the station broadcasts to less than one million people, but a new transmitting tower to be installed on Lookout Mountain will increase the station’s broadcast capability to a possible 10 million people.
At that time, the primary range of KUSC, Smith said, will be a triangle: Ventura will mark the northwest corner, Pomona will mark the eastern corner and Newport Beach will mark the southwest corner.
Henry Loomis, chairman of the board for the corporation, said KUSC was chosen because of the potential radio market in Los Angeles, the desire to increase the cultural and arts programming in that market and the feeling the KUSC was the right vehicle to do the job.
In order to accommodate the increased market, the station will change headquarters from its present cramped rooms in Hancock Building to the Research Annex on Hope Street by early May.
Smith said that although the university has, increased its funding for the station, he thinks that KUSC will become self-supportive.
Smith briefly outlined several programming areas that he hopes to introduce and experiment with in the new facilities.
He suggested the development of a professional-amateur theater, using students from Cal Arts, UCLA and USC and professionals to produce radio drama and variety shows.
Smith also proposed an events-analysis program that would investigate local, national and international problems.
“KUSC is licensed to the University of Southern California,” Smith said, “but we recognize our broad challenge to provide a unique, quality broadcast service to this community, and are including staff and representatives from many of the business, cultural and educational institutions in Southern California in the development of our program service.”
KUSC began in 1946 as a popular music station, but converted about five years ago to concentrating on classical music.
Marijuana use: no increase reported
By Denis Wolcott
Staff Writer
Marijuana. After Jan. 1 university administrators, police and state officials all feared everyone would be getting high.
People thought everyone would be toking up because of California’s new marijuana law, which says an offender is merely given a citation to appear in court for the possession of one ounce or less of the drug.
Officials thought more people would begin to experiment with the drug and that users would increase consumption because of the reduced penalty.
But so far this has not happened, at least not at the university.
Campus Security, resident advisers and administrators have not seen, noticed or even reported any problems of marijuana use on campus.
“Marijuana use at the university has never been a problem, nor have I seen one since the new law,” said Robert L. Mannes, dean for student life.
Mannes also said he felt alcohol is more of a problem at the university than marijuana.
But it was the consensus of the staff members that it is hard to tell if there has been increased use of the drug because it is usually used in the privacy of a person’s room, if at all.
“Dorms are really safe,” said Vimal Duggal, head resident at Men’s Residence West. “I don’t think the law will affect the student life or smoking public. Those who smoke a lot still smoke a lot, and those who smoke a little still smoke a little.
“An incoming freshman might try it, but he is just curious,” Duggal said.
Some say the law was passed merely to ease the crowded courtrooms. But many students on campus think it will really protect the person who uses the drug.	, . „ Q,
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Allocations board gives KSCR $5,000
By Peter Fletcher
Staff W riter
You Keep Me Hanging On has practically become this week’s theme song at KSCR, the student-operated radio station.
The song reached its position on the strength of requests made by students who support the station’s existence and those staff members who want money to expand the station.
Tuesday night, KSCR received a commitment of $5,000 from the Campus Activities Allocations Board. The station had requested an allocation of $9,000.
KSCR will receive the $5,000 only if two stipulations are met. The station must acquire the remaining $4,000 from another source, and the principal source of that funding should be a loan from funds reserved for the New Activities and Services Agency.
The agency is just now forming.
A meeting will be held Monday for prospective members.
The station needs $9,000 to buy the electronic equipment necessary to make the station self-supporting and more professional, said Kevin Keeshan, general manager of the station.
The allocations board voted unanimously to give KSCR the $5,-
000	but members felt the board’s resources were too limited to give the station the entire amount requested.
The preferred source of the additional funds is the new agency but any source will be acceptable, said Mike Peterson, chairman of the allocations board.
He is forming a subcommittee of the allocations board to work with representatives of KSCR, the Office of Campus Life and Recreation and the School of Journalism to develop a suitable loan arrangement.
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