At The Final Frontier,’ Kirk and the Enterprise find God, go for laughs
See Performance, page 4
Raveling turns down Maryland, will stick with coaching at USC
See Sports, page 8
Volume CVIV, Number 5
trojan
University of Southern California
Wednesday, June 14, 1989
Glasnost Bowl? Nyet this year
CAMPUS
Campus shakes, rattles and rolls during quake
An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 rattled the downtown area Monday at 9:57 a.m.
The jolt was felt as far east as Banning, 83 miles away from the quake's epicenter in Montebello, the USC geology department reported. An aftershock of magnitude 4.3 followed 30 minutes later.
No injuries or damage were reported other than a few new cracks in the Health Science Campus’ condemned administration building.
Debra Storm, a secretary in the 10th-floor neuro-biology lab in the Seely G. Mudd Building, said of the quake, “It was scary up here. It’s so difficult to tell how strong the earthquakes are up here.’’
Barbara Lake, a university health benefits worker, said that she believed otherwise.
“I think that a lot of times people live in a fantasy world and think they are in control, but an earthquake allows them to see their humanity,” Lake said.
Jim Dennis, vice president of student affairs, expressed a lighter view of the situation.
“I hope this shakes up the Pistons,” Dennis said.
INSIDE	
Performance			 4
Sports			 8
By Trad Huahn
Staff Writer
Football fans who had hoped to get a taste of Russian caviar and borsch this fall when the Trojans played the University of Illinois in Moscow's Dynamo Stadium must now settle for hot dogs and nachos.
The Glasnost Bowl, which would have taken the university football team, Song Girls and Trojan Marching Band to the Soviet Union for aSept. 2 game, was canceled June 8by Raycom, the television syndicator that organized the event.
The season opener between USC and Illinois will be played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, chosen as the alter-
native site during contract agreements. The date and time have not yet been determined.
"Our main reason for canceling was that the Soviet Union could not guarantee the availability of adequate housing and transportation," said Ken Haines, executive vice president of Raycom.
"We were not concerned so much with the quality of housing and transportation, but whether or not it would be there when we arrived/' Haines said.
The possibility of the game's cancella-ton was always present because of difficulties inherent in staging such an event, said Haines. For example, arrangements
Plans are under way for renovations that will Include a locker room specifically for the USC basketball team at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
had to be made to ship meat, poultry and Astroturf into Moscow.
"Both schools have been very supportive and understanding in this project, and it is a tremendous disappointment to all of us that it didn't work out as we had originally planned," Haines said.
"The idea for the game was originated after talking with some American teams who had played minor sports — soccer, rugby — in Moscow. The feeling had been that the situation would be good to do a major football game."
After dealing with the problems of organizing the Glasnost Bowl, Haines con-(Continued from page 1)
Remodeling of arena will benefit USC
By Tracy Imes
Staff Writer
The luck of the USC men's basketball team may change if having their own locker room facility at the Los Angeles Sports Arena proves to be an extra incentive to win.
In addition to the expansion of the locker rooms, planned improvements may include luxury boxes and more seating, said Peter Luco, general manager of the arena.
"We're waiting for the results of our study, due at the end of the month, on the logistics of increasing seating and adding luxury boxes/' Luco said. "Demolition has begun on the locker room facilities, with construction scheduled for completion in October at a cost of $1.3 (See Arena, page 2)
After thefts, armed guard hired for construction site
By Robin Hardie
Staff Writer
An armed security guard has been hired to patrol the Kaprie-lian Hall construction site after materials and equipment worth more than $37,000 were stolen in the last five months, the superintendent of the construction company said Friday.
The construction site, located at the comer of 36th Place and Vermont Avenue, has been broken into six times since January, and property valued at $37,260 has been reported missing, said Sgt. John Lewis of University Security.
"These guys can cut these fences in 20 seconds," said Allan Juliussen, superintendent for McKee Construction, which was commissioned iy the university in December, 1987, to build the hall. "Even a locked gate won't stop them. They'll just take it right off."
There was no need to take the gates off — there were large
holes in the fence through which construction pipescould be passed, according to police reports.
"The fence is more for security purposes — to keep people from walking in — than it is for theft protection," Juliussen said.
The security guard was hired to patrol the site after a May 30 break-in, in which $18,370 worth of construction equipment and materials were taken, including pipe-bending equipment, copper pipes, welders, dollies, drills, compressors and electrical cords, Lewis said.
Some building materials that had been installed already were ripped out of the structure during the break-in, Juliussen said.
Five people have been arrested in three separate incidents involving theft from the site, Lewis said.
The Los Angeles City Attorney's office has filed a misdemeanor charge of grand theft (See Theft, page 5)
Film
Academy gives nod to student
By Cheiyl Smith and Linda Ornelas
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Many students dream of winning an award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But Howard Slavitt, a graduate student in the School of Cinema-Television, has made his dream a reality.
Slavitt was one of 10 students honored June 11 by the Academy for his thesis film, "Summer Rain," which earned a Merit Award in the dramatic division.
In their 16 years of existence, the student awards have become stepping stones for many directors.
"Since 1980, 11 student film (See Award, page 5)
Trustees ignore protest, oppose total divestment
By Jason Carroll
Staff Writer
Despite recommendations by the Student Senate, Faculty Senate and the presidentially appointed Committee on Investments and Social Respon-, sibility to divest completely from South Africa, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously in its meeting June 7 to continue the university's policy of selective divestment.
While a small but vocal group of pro-divestment protestors chanted outside the window, trustees defeated the commit-, tee's proposal for divestment "in a deliberate and phased way."
The board approved President James Zumberge's recommendation to continue USC's selective policy, though some critics charge that it is based on a principle that has recently been renounced by its author.
Trustees attending the meeting were met by about 18 pro-
testers lining the walkway of Bovard Auditorium, holding signs and shouting, " 'SC, Zum-berge, you can't hide; we charge you with genocide," and "From Johannesburg to Beijing, we will win."
Many of the protesters said they were members of the Coalition for Divestment.
"Trustee means trustee. It does not mean they can ignore the will of the university community," said Harry Brighouse, coordinator of the coalition. "If they vote against the will of the university, there will be 100 (protesters) back in September."
After the meeting began, the protesters moved to the rear of Bovard Auditorium and started to chant below the window of the room where the board was convening, despite warnings from James Dennis, vice president of student affairs.
(See Divest, page 3)