Soviet envoys visit university facilities
Pre-Olympic venue check
By Carmen Chandler
Assistant Qty Editor
Seven members of the Soviet national Olympic committee visited campus last Thursday and Friday to inspect the Olympic Swim Stadium and university dormitory facilities that will be used during next year's Summer Games.
The Soviet representatives are part of a 15-man delegation headed by Marat Gramov, chairman of the Soviet Sports Commission. The Soviets' campus visit was part of a week-long inspection of Los Angeles Olympic facilities to help them make plans for the Soviet team's three-week stay in Los Angeles
The Soviet delegation is expected to visit other Olympic sites during their stay . . .
next year. The delegation arrived in Los Angeles Thursday.
The visit by the Soviets is seen as a determining factor in the Soviet Union's decision to participate in the 1984 Olympic Games. They have yet to confirm their plans to attend next summer, and in the past said they will not make a final decision until the deadline next spring.
On their visit to the university Friday, the Soviet delegation, accompanied by nine representatives from the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, walked through campus and visited the swim stadium and the Residence West dormitory, one of several university facilities being set aside to house the Olympic athletes.
The Soviets inspected the dormitory's second-floor lounge and a room on the seventh floor, said George Broder, deputy press secretary for the LAOOC.
The Soviets asked “technical questions” about transportation, financing, security, medical facilities and how the dormitories would accommodate the athletes, Broder said.
He added that the Soviets were interested in the campus because it was one of the sites assigned as part of the 1984 Olympic Village.
Duane Hickling, executive ad-minstrator of the university's Olympic planning office, said the earlier visit on Thursday by the Soviets was “preliminary.''
"They just made a short walk around the pool and left," Hickling said.
The Soviet delegation is expected to visit other Olympic sites during their stay in Los Angeles, including UCLA and UC Santa Barbara, but representatives for the LAOOC would not confirm this.
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Housing plan faces Board for approval
By Jeffrey Tylicki
Assistant Qty Editor
A proposed “pilot project" to build housing for faculty and senior staff on Adams Boulevard next to Kerckhoff Apartments will soon go before the Board of Trustees for initial approval.
Since less than 50 faculty or senior staff live within two miles of either the main or health science campuses, a proposal was put before the trustees' finance committee which calls for six condominium units to be built on a trial basis.
"This separation of faculty and students makes it very difficult to promote the sense of academic community that many feel is a necessary condition for the planned improvement in the academic quality of the university," said the proposal, prepared by Jon Strauss, senior vice president of administration.
The long-term plans call for a total of 21 units surrounding the Kerckhoff mansion, but the proposal says, "despite continued vocal claims from faculty of the importance of having good housing opportunities near campus, the real demand for such housing appears to be modest, at best."
In order to gauge demand, the administration is hoping for a successful demonstration project with the six new units.
The intent of the development plan, according to the proposal, is to create a "park-like" atmosphere centered around the Kerckhoff man-
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Members of the Soviet national Olympic committee toured the university to get an idea of what it would be like in 1984.
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Possible department shutdowns might pose problems for campus
tell the administration which services they absolutely need, some departments have already made that decision.
The dentai clinic, for instance, is one of several campus programs that will be affected by the Olympics. The program, which many community residents depend on for the low-cost dental care it provides, will be shutdown for six weeks next summer.
"It would basically affect all of our patients to a certain degree," said Randy Gates, associate dean for clinical affairs in the dental school, adding the dental clinic will not be able to provide ongoing care for patients. He said only emergency care will be provided during the six-week period.
He said, though, that he is most afraid of losing a new pool of patients after the Games are over, since anyone wanting to apply for care at the clinic during the Olympics will not be able to.
"We rely on a steady income of patients, and at this point, we
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By Mark Lowe
Assistant Qty Editor
Temporary' closings of some university departments during the Olympic Games this summer may create an inconvenience for campus employees and for people who rely on the university for certain services, said
university administrators w'hose departments will be affected by the shutdowns.
Programs and offices not absolutely needed during the Games will either have to be shutdown or have their staffs reduced. And although campus departments have until Jan. 1 to
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Dental technicians will be out of work for six weeks when the dental clinic closes for the Olympics.
1984: Orwellian year upon us, ready or not
By Sheldon Ito
Assistant Feature Editor
You're lying in your bed sound asleep, when suddenly, a crash next door makes you bolt upright. You sit on your bed listening intently. Heavy footsteps, barked orders, a scuffle, muffled yells, then silence. You lie awake the rest of the night, shivering from the cold and fear. The next day, your neighbor's door is fixed, but he is not there. Someone else has already been moved in. And your neighbor — he never existed.
Where is this? Is it Nazi Germany? The Soviet Union? No, it's London and the year is 1984. Thank goodness, it's George Orwell's London in "Nineteen Eighty-Four."
And although 1984 is less than a month away, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" appears to be all around us. The number of books, symposiums, television documentaries and magazine and newspaper articles about Orwell's grim, joyless tale of a totalitarian society seems to be endless.
It’s interesting to note that had Orwell set his book in 1980 or 1982, or entitled it "The Last Man in Eu-
rope" (all things he considered doing), you may have been reading this article four or two years ago, or perhaps not at all.
But Orwell chose 1984 as the year that Winston Smith, a minor bureaucrat in the totalitarian superstate of Oceania, commits his thoughtcrime.
Orwell and "Nineteen Eighty-Four" have been em-
Orwell and "Nineteen Eighty-four" have been embraced by both conservatives and liberals as being supportive of their positions.
braced by both conservatives and liberals as being supportive of their positions. Journals as disparate as the conservative National Review and the radical-liberal Village Voice claim to have Orwell on their side. This was called holding "Orwell's coat while sending his ghost out to battle" by a recent Time magazine cover story.
But what did Orwell, a democratic socialist until his
death, a self-proclaimed "man of the left," really want to say with "Nineteen Eighty-Four"?
As a socialist in the post-war '40s, Orwell perceived that in the regimes of the East — the socialist bloc — there had risen an authoritarian, bureaucratic upper class that was ruling over the people they were supposed to have liberated, said Clancy Sigal, an assistant professor in the school of journalism, and a novelist himself.
"He was sounding a warning against collectivism, the sell-out of the revolution in the Soviet Union," Sigal said.
Sigal said that while this explanation may be true, and it certainly has been taken as such by propagandists, Orwell may have had more subtle and profound reasons for writing the book.
"I think that one of the reasons why he wrote the book is that he perceived that regardless of the nature of the regime — whether it was a bureaucratic communism in the Soviet Union or whether it was semisocialist capitalism in England — we were moving into a technocratic, a technologically advanced so-
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