Volume XCIV, Number 51
Olympic sites: not
university’s concern
University of
trojan
Southern California	Wednesday, November 16, 1983
trolled by university security, such as the area around the Coliseum and Sports Arena, will be patrolled, instead, by local or county police departments, Ward said. He added that university security's activities in those areas would be suspended during the games.
Ward, in explaining the need to control crowds, said: “(Major events) like this attract thousands of people without tickets. Some are there to prey on others, but most are just there to be where the action is. There could possible be upwards of 30,000 of these types of people (around during the Games)."
Ward said university security's role in the Olympic Village areas will be an advisory one. He said university security officers would serve as "liaison officers" at each site.
"Their primary responsibility will be as technical advisers inside, since they will be familiar with the buildings," he said.
To familiarize the LAPD and security officials with the campus, Leveredge said the university is putting together a detailed profile of the campus which will aid the deployment of police if emergencies arise during the Games.
Ward explained that a floor-by-floor composite of each building on campus will be compiled, indicating emergency exits, shut-off valves, and similiar information. He said this will assist officers in quickly getting to the root of any problems which may arise inside of the Village or out.
Ward expects the Exposition Park area to receive the most visitors during the Games. He pointed out that the most popular events — opening and closing ceremonies, track and field, boxing, and swimming — will all be held on or near the university.
Security at the Olympics has been a major concern to both University Security, the LAPD, and the LAOOC. Security officials do not have to be reminded of the terrorist nightmare that occurred in Munich during the 1972 Games.
Ward said the question "who's in charge?" during a crisis will ultimately depend on which security agency is on the scene.
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Security will handle mostly crowd control
Mortar Board holds 'meeting of minds’
By Lawrence Toffler
Staff Writer
Joseph Goebbels and Socrates were resurrected and joined with Richard Nixon for Mortar Board's "Meeting of Minds" in Hancock Auditorium Tuesday.
The senior honor society invoked the spirits of Goebbels, propaganda minister for Hitler's Germany; Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher; and former President Nixon to bridge the gaps of time and space in a forum for the participants to discuss the issue of freedom of information.
The noon-time event was based on the PBS series produced by Steve Allen with the same tide. The presentation was part of the university's Troy Week activities.
Each individual presented his own
point of view, which was followed by a three-way debate between the men. Afterwards, the audience was given an opportunity to ask specific questions of the panel.
Socrates, who was portrayed by Dallas Willard, chairman of the department of philosophy, looking like a man in search of a toga party, fully supported the idea of complete freedom of information.
"If you are going to have a doctrine in which supposedly the people rule themselves through their elected representatives," he began, "you must have people who are informed."
He added, "Our lives run upon our beliefs like a railroad engine runs on its tracks. If they are false beliefs, they go into a wall."
As expected, Goebbels, recreated by Joseph Nyomarkay, associate professor of political science, rejected Socrates' argument, saying that government should control all information, and that true citizens of a nation will accept the information given to them by their government.
"We (Nazis) are realists, we are not dealing with the abstraction of truth. We are dealing with real truth," said Nyomarkay, who wore a grey three-piece-suit and a swastika on his left arm. Nyomar-kay's thick Hungarian accent brought an air of authenticity to the role.
"We know that what counts in the world is power. Information has always been, and will always be, a means for national power.
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Security officers Fitzgerald, left, and Fraser, right, pass by the security office. During the Olympics they, and their collegues will find themselves patrolling non-Olympic Village areas and the area north of 28th Street.
By Jeffrey Tylicki
Assistant Qty Editor
University security officers will not patrol the designated Olympic Village sites on campus during the 1984 Olympic Games, University Security Chief Steven Ward said Tuesday.
Ward predicted that security officers will be deployed in the areas of campus apart from the Olympic Village and in the area north of 28th Street. The major task for the university's security force, he said, will be crowd control.
University dormitories, the Olympic swim stadium, and track and field facilities at Dedeaux and Cromwell Fields — Olympic Village sites athletes are expected to use — will instead be patrolled by private security companies hired by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing and directed by the Los Angeles Police Deportment, announced Carl Leveredge, director of university security and parking operations.
In addition, other areas normally pa-
Olympic gateway may not be built; no location found
By Doreen Guarino
Staff Writer
While the university campus is being considered as the site for a proposed "gateway arch" illustrating the spirit of the 1984 Summer Olympics, chances of it being constructed appear slim due to the inability to find an appropriate location.
Estimated to cost up to $100,000, with most of the money expected to come from private donations, supporters of the arch have had difficulty finding a site for the structure.
"Hope isn't gone but what it depends upon is the right site," said Robert Harris, dean of the school of architecture. "If there was a terrific place, I would propose it to the university, but I wouldn't ask the university for the money for it."
The design of the gateway arch, the winning entry in a recent international competition sponsored by the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), was created by Robert Jamieson, a Los Angeles architectural designer. The design was • selected this fall from a total of 355 entries received worldwide.
"It's a very simple form," Jamieson said about his design. "It's a laurel wreath made up of palm fronds which, when you put it together, looks like a sunburst."
Jamieson added that his 15-foot archway, which will be constructed over a pool, will look like the sun setting in water. The design also calls for laser lights resembling Hollywood search
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Supporters of the proposed Olympic arch are having trouble finding a location for the structure. Designer Robert Jamieson says the symbols in the arch describe Los Angeles- “brief but glorious history."