Watts Community Symphony Orchestra
Comedy show turns profit for Troy Camp
The George Carlin comedy show Saturday in Bovard Auditorium created a profit of about $600 for the Student Committee on Popular Entertainment, which will go into the Troy Camp fund, said John Crichton, a committee member.
The concert grossed $5,668 Carlin's promoter was paid $2,015 and he in turn paid Carlin an unspecified aipount. The remaining amount will go toward expenses. Crichton said.
Expenses included payments forthe hall rental, specially printed T-shirts, ushers, ticket printing, extra security and extra hospitality forthe large production crew, said Judy Rivkin, committee chairman.
The show was also filmed for a cable television firm. “Home Box OfTice," a subsidiary of Time/Life, Inc. Many members ofthe capacity crowd will be a part ofthe show, but it will not be aired here since the company has no affiliates in Los Angeles, a spokesman for the company said.
The show will be aired April 8. It will be called “On Location with George Carlin.” “On Location" is a comedy series that has featured such performers as the Smothers Brothers, Phyllis Diller, David Steinberg and Henny Youngman.
The series is one of the cable firm's most successful shows because it gives the comedian a chance to perform material that would not be suitable for network television, the spokesman said.
Production and design was done by Fiorentino Associates, the company that did the recent Neil Diamond television special. “The cooperation and organization of the students on the committee was fabulous,” said Barry Kaplan, of the production firm. “They played an integral part of putting the show together and seeing that it ran smoothly.”
Student Senate approves $5 increase in health fee
Two world-renowned scientists to start energy research institute
Two of the world’s leading scientists are coming here to establish an institute devoted to the research of chemical replacements for petroleum.
The institute — the first of its kind in the country — will be a center for long-range basic research in hydrocarbon chemistry, a field newly developingas a scientific response to the energy crisis and world-wide petroleum shortage.
It will bring in experts from all over the world to exchange ideas and give lectures, said Gerald A. Segal, chairman of the Department of Chemistry and the executive director of the institute.
Segal also said the institute will be Organized to train research personnel in the field of hydrocarbon chemistry and to establish rapport with the chemical, petroleum, gas and power industries and appropriate government agencies to insure that research results and discoveries
of significance to energy needs will be effectively exploited.
The two scientific directors of the institute will join forces in the fall. Both are world-re-nowned scientists and world leaders in hydrocarbon chemis-. try. Segal said that bringing them together will undoubtedly form one of the most distinguished teams on the problem in the world.
Sidney Benson, one of the future directors of the institute, joined the USC chemistry department last fall. He won the American Chemical Society Award for Research in Petroleum Chemistry and has served as an adviser to the petroleum industry on problems related to fuels and pollutions.
George Olah, presently a Research Professor of Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, will be the second scientific director of the institute. Olah is a member of the U.S. National Academy of
Sciences and also a winner of the American Chemical Society Award for Research in Petroleum Chemistry. He will move to the Los Angeles area early this summer.
The founding of the institute will bring distinction as well as money to the university, according to Segal. He said the university’s quality of education will improve with the addition of the two scientists to the faculty.
“Their presence will have a major effect on our organic chemistry department in particular,” he said. “Not only will they be involved in research and the training of graduates in hydrocarbon chemistry, but they will lecture in undergraduate chemistry classes.”
The Century II pledge fund will help finance the institute but, because part of the money is not yet solvent, the institute is making efforts to raise funds from private industry, Benson said.
Suspect sought for attempted rape
By David Black
Assistant City Editor
Los Angeles police are searching fora black male wanted in connection with two Thursday night incidents. including the attempted rape of an 18-year-old student.
The first incident occurred shortly before 8 p.m. in the Stauffer Science Lecture Hall, said Capt. William Burke of Campus Security.
The student told officers she was alone in one of the rooms when the man walked in and grabbed her by the arm.
The man warned her that he had a gun and ordered her to be quiet or she would be harmed, Burke said.
The suspect then tried repeatedly to force the girl down on a desk, but the girl kept resisting, Burke said.
The rape attempt was thwarted seconds later when a third man walked into the room, scaring the suspect who then fled, a report on the incident said.
The woman was not injured, but herclothing was torn.
The second incident occurred about 30 minutes later on the first level of Parking Structure A, located on McClintock Avenue across from the engineering complex.
The victim, who refused to file a report on the incident, was walking in the structure when she was approached by a black male fitting the same description as the suspect in the first incident, Burke said.
The woman told officers the man said nothing but raised his hand and struck her on the side of the head. She was not injured.
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Arousing the senses for 10 musical years
A recommendation for a maximum $5 student health fee increase to maintain the current level of health and counseling services was approved by a 7-4-1 vote Thursday at the Student Senate meeting.
In a written report, the Student Fees Committee proposed the increase and a consideration of further budgetary reviews to lower the hike even more.
The recommendation came a day after the Executive Committee of the President’s Advisory Council proposed a $6 increase. All recommendations will be considered and the administration's final proposal will be presented Wednesday to the Board of Trustees.
According to the report, the committee believes that some of the advisory council's 1976-77 budget calculations are questionable.
The report said the committee was able to recommend only a $5 increase per semester because of several questionable items.
The council's original budget listed $1,106,000 for the health center's operational expenses. The report said this was in-
creased to $1,200,000 and the committee said it was not satisfied that the $94,000 increase was attributed solely to increased usage.
If students are required to tighten their belts, then so should administrative sections, the committee said.
In an effort to improve the health center, the committee suggested an enlarged role for the Student Health Advisory Committee.
Another proposal included the implementation of a pay-for-service pilot program for students receiving medical service more than three times per semester. The committee said the Student Affairs Unit and the Student Health Advisory Committee can work together to see whether the program is causing a loss of students forthe center.
The committee also suggested a better information campaign that would make the students aware ofthe programs available in health and counseling care. One aspect ofthe proposed campaign includes publicizingthose times when the health center is the least crowded.
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Volume LXXI, Number 19	Los Angeles, California	Tuesday, March 8, 1977
IN CONCERT—Bovard Auditorium was filled Monday with the varied sounds of the Watts Community Symphony Orchestra in celebration of the orchestra's 10th anniversary. Under the conduction of Octave Bonomo, the orchestra performs annually for thousands of Los Angeles-area residents. DT photos by Mark Kariya.