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Volume XCIV, Number 56	University of Southern California	Wednesday, November 23, 1983
Plans made to relocate foreign hall
By Joann Gekko
Staff Writer
The international student program at Marks International Hall, the only such program on campus, may be relocated next fall because of an inadequate number of program participants.
The Housing Policy Advisory Committee (HPAC), which makes housing decisions, recommended last Friday that the international program currently in the south complex's Marks International Hall be relocated to two floors in Marks Tower, located near Parkside.
A dwindling number of applicants for the 94 spaces in its present location was cited as a factor in the recommendation. In its newly proposed location, only 56 participants would be needed to fill the program.
"The first time around, (the core group's) suggestions for recruiting residents were not strong enough, so they re-evaluated the situation and detailed it thoroughly. And that is what we based our (HPAC's) final projection of 50 to 60 successful recruits on," said Logan Hazen, director of residential life.
The governing body in Marks International Hall has come out against the relocation and is circu-
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A decline in the applicants for the international student program at Marks International Hall may force the program to move.
Student poll on presence of pub starts next week
By Susan Rimerman
Staff Writer
A survey of students concerning a proposed campus pub will be conducted by the pub advisory committee next week, said Nancy Calle, chair of the Student Senate's student affairs research action unit and a member of the committee.
Beginning Tuesday, students will be polled on several major issues yet to be resolved involving the pub — including the decor of the facility, the minimum age limit, types of food and drinks to be served, entertainment, and the pub's hours, Calle said.
"Students will be playing a major role in this survey. Their input will determine what will happen and what goes into the pub," said Calle, who added the results from this survey will be used in fashioning a final survey in January. The recommendations the senate makes will be based on this survey, she said.
Anthony Lazzaro, vice president of business affairs, said, "There's no question that student input, intentions and objectives would be kept in mind."
But Guy Hubbard, director of auxiliary services and member of the advisory committee, noted that the major decisions on the pub will ultimately be made by the administration.
Hubbard explained that the committee, comprised of himself, Calle, Gene Lawless, the new director of food services, student senators and other student representatives, still has to address some unanswered questions.
The pub will serve beer and wine, and, depending on the administration's discretion, hard liquor. It will be located in the new West Complex Dining Facility currently under construction between Webb Tower and Residence West.
A resolution passed by the senate earlier this year requested that the pub be built on the upper level of the dining complex. Conversion of the level for the pub won't begin until after the 1984 Olympic Games.
The senate has also asked that students manage the proposed facility. Currently their are no students working in the managing or supervisory capacity with food services, said Mark Marrow, a spokesman for food serivces.
Lazzaro said due to the "uniqueness of this particular operation, the greatest participation in supervisory and management capacity (positions) by students is important while still maintaining respon-sibilty."
Thanksgiving Break for DT
Due to the Thanksgiving break the Daily Trojan will cease publication Thursday and Friday this week — and Monday next week. Publication will resume Tuesday.
SAC changes intials to TSC for Topping Student Center
By Lawrence Toffler
Staff Writer
In order to minimize confusion and, in deference to its original namesake, the Norman Topping Student Activities Center will no longer be referred to as the Student Activities Center.
The idea behind the change had been discussed before, but only became an issue in July, when the Student Activities Center merged with the Student Programming Office, creating the Office of Student Activities.
Nadine Felix, director of student activities, said two university services with the title of "student activities" would have confused students, many of whom are already slightly bewildered by the assortment of buildings with various different initials identifying each one.
Felix said, "We get people in SAC everyday looking for the SAS."
But she added that in addition to a desire to distinguish the various different buildings and functions from one another, there is another reason for the change from SAC to TSC.
"There is a reason you name a building after so-meone,"she said, referring to the fact that although the building bears the name of Norman Topping, the former university president, students know the building only by its acronym — SAC. Topping now serves as Chancellor Emeritus of the university.
She added, "(We wanted to) pay some tribute to Norman Topping."
Felix explained that once she overheard a student ask Topping why the center did not bare his
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Olympic food vendor chosen
By Cornell Barnard
Staff Writer
When 7,000 Olympic athletes descend on the university next summer, thousands of other special people responsible for feeding and transporting the athletes will join them. They are the people of ARA, a national food service and transportation company.
The ARA's food employees will work not only on the Olympic Village at this university, in conjunction with the university's food service, but at the other Olympic sites at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. More than 15,000 of these employees will work at the three sites, feeding 60,000 meals a day to 12,000 athletes, coaches and support staff.
At the university alone, athletes will be fed four meals a day at various locations across campus. Trojan Hall dining facility will seat 400 athletes and members of the Olympic support staff, the EVK-'Bimkrant facility will seat 500 and the new West Complex dining hall currently under construction will seat 900, said Guy Hubbard, director of Auxi-Iary Services.
"Other areas on campus include a 24-hour restaurant to be set up in Parking Area P, across from Norris Dental School, and a commissary at the Shrine Auditorium's exhibition hall — in which many food stuffs will be donated by Vons Supermarket, a new Olympic sponsor," Hubbard said.
About 511,000 pounds of fresh fruit, 680,000 gallons of milk and 457,000 pounds of meat, will be
shipped in for athletes to the three sites, said Roger Pondel of the public relations firm of Rifkind, Pon-del and Parsons, which is handling the ARA account.
For the university's service staff, who will be working during the summer at pre-determined areas, the ARA has plans to provide bag lunches.
In addition to supervising food preparation, ARA personnel will be responsible for coordinating transportation for the athletes and Olympic support staff.
"We are employing a fleet of 500 buses, and a staff of 15,000 drivers, mechanics and staff to serve an approximate area of 22 square miles that includes five Southern California counties," Pondel said.
ARA transportation managers have spent over 12 months developing a safe, secure program of transporting the Olympic family between the three Olympic villages and the 60 venue sites spread across 2,200 square miles of Southern California.
"The buses which are to transport the athletes are estimated to travel a distance of 2.5 million miles during the run of the Games and use an estimated 416,000 gallons of fuel.
"It's quite a lot when you think about it," said Pondel.
The ARA, a Philadelphia-based company, has provided transportation and food service to the past four Olympiads — in Mexico City, Munich and Montreal. TTie ARA will also service the 1984 Winter Olympics at Sarjevio, Yugoslavia.