Special football supplement inside
Volume Cll, Number 9
Seventy-Fifth Year of Publication
University of Southern California
1912 — 1986
Friday, September 12, 1986
Luxury boxes to be added in Coliseum
TV, wet bar and fridge included
By Kirsten D. Levingston
Staff Writer
Raider and Trojan football fans will soon be offered alternative seating at the Coliseum. Beginning next season, spectators will be able to enjoy their favorite teams from the luxury of private boxes located in the upper tiers of the stadium, stretching from end zone to end zone.
Each of the 100 new boxes will be leased for a five-year period for $50,000 a year, said Irv Kaze, Raider senior administrator.
Completion of the project will cost the Raider organization an estimated $15 million. If all the boxes are leased, the project will pay for itself in a little over two years, he said.
"It's a great way to watch a football game," Kaze said.
The facilities will be completely self-contained, and equipped with 12 seats, two color televisions, a refrigerator, a wet bar, and an ice maker, Kaze added.
The boxes have "things that you and I have in our homes," Kaze said. In addition, box holders will be taken to their seats in a private elevator and given access to VIP parking.
Aside from luxurious surroundings, those who lease boxes will receive 12 tickets for all pre-season and regular season Raider and Trojan games.
There is a chance that the boxes will extend into a section now reserved for university students. However, Tim Tessalone, director of Sports Information said it might "take a couple of rows away but won't have a major impact (on the student section)."
"We wouldn't do anything without the agreement of Mike McGee (athletic director^ and Dr. Zumberge ThT^* are vwy-pleased with it, and so are we," Kaze said.
"Everyone welcomes this," said Anthony Lazzaro, senior vice president of administration. "The construction of the boxes will be beneficial to the Raiders, the university and the Coliseum."
AI Davis, general managing partner of the Raiders, "has a close affinity with USC," Kaze said. Davis was an assistant football coach here from 1957 to 1959.
The Coliseum will have a new look as luxury boxes are added to the rim of the stadium.
Kaze said that the Raiders are in total accord with the university in its attempt to upgrade the Coliseum and the Sports Arena.
"Just keep sending us the Marcus Allens and Don Mosebars of the world," Kaze said.
This year Allen will begin his fifth season with the Raiders, while Mosebar will begin his fourth. Both athletes attended the university.
' Currently, close to 20 percent of the boxes have been leased, Kaze said. A list of Trojan fans who might be interested in the facilities was provided by McGee, he added.
According to the agreement between the Coliseum and the Raiders, initial profits from the boxes will go directly to the Raiders, Kaze said.
"After a couple of years, the Coliseum will begin to get a share," he added.
Defends Daniloff
Instructor to be on TV
By Roseanne Tellez
City Editor
Murray Fromson, the director of the Center of International Journalism, will be appearing on the KCBS program "Newsmakers" on Sunday to discuss the Soviet Union's arrest of Nicholas Daniloff, a correspondent from U.S. News & World Report.
Fromson, who was a Moscow correspondent for CBS News for three years, will be appearing with former NBC correspondent Frank Bourgholtzer, who was also stationed in Moscow but now is retired.
"I've known Daniloff for more than 25 years, and I'm 100 percent certain he's not a spy. However, he was performing the duties of a reporter, and in Soviet terms, that is tantamount to being a spy."
Daniloff was arrested in Moscow on Aug. 30 and charged with three counts of spying after he allegedly received confidential information from a citizen there.
Fromson said Bourgholtzer also has known Daniloff for more than 25 years and is equally convinced Daniloff is (Continued on page 5)
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Foundation" gives $500,000 toward library renovation
By Denise Hendricks
Staff Writer
The Ahmanson Foundation has given a 5500,000 grant to the university that will be used to help renovate and expand the architecture and fine arts library at Watt Hall.
The library' will be named the Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library at the request of the Ahmanson Foundation, university President James Zumberge said.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the library addition is scheduled for Sept. 23, at 4 p.m.
. . .the expanded library will provide much-needed space for books and computer terminals, while providing students with a "more quiet and scholarly atmosphere."
"Our plan is to double the size of the existing library, and that is going to cost a total of $1.5 million," Zumberge said.
The other funding needed for the extension of the library already has been donated through "gifts and commitments from private sources," said Paul Blodgett, assistant vice president of development.
The library will be kept on one floor for the convenience of the students and faculty, while expanding through the north end, said Alson Clark, librarian of architecture and fine arts.
Clark said the expanded library will provide much-needed space for books and computer terminals, while providing students with a "more quiet and scholarly atmosphere."
The Ahmanson Foundation was founded in 1952 with funds donated by Howard Ahmanson, a university trustee under former President Norman Topping. The foundation makes grants nationally, although its primary interest is in California education, arts, humanities, medicine and health.
The computer systems available to students in King and Bimkrant Halls are a result of a $2 million grant made by the foundation in
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By Bryon Okada
Staff Writer
The emergency^ medical technicians' ambulance is finally rolling after sitting idle for a year while University Security waited to receive its license from the city.
The acquisition of the ambulance has been long in coming, said Bob Friar, a senior security officer.
The proposal wras made in late 1982 by two officers who said they were dissatisfied with the slow response of the ambulances dispatched by neighborhood hospitals. The proposal was made to "provide better service for the university people," Friar said.
Local hospitals take as long as 15 minutes to arrive at a local emergency, while the university-owned ambulance can arrive as soon as three minutes after receiving a call, Friar said.
The ambulance first went into service in May, on graduation day. "We've had plenty of calls since then. We're averaging about three a week," said Steve Ward, chief of security.
The technicians are security officers trained to respond to medical emergencies on or near campus.
Trained to act as paramedics, except for the administering of drugs, the officers patrol the university area and surrounding neighborhood. Friar said.
The ambulance is used to take
MOLLY M. HUNTSMAN DAILY TROJAN
Security's new ambulance has been a welcome addition in providing emergency service to the university area.
victims with minor injuries to either the Student Health Center, the Orthopaedic Hospital or the California Medical Center.
Ambulances from local hospitals are called for more serious injuries and the emergency medical technicians stay on hand to assist them, Friar said. However, the team can respond to any emergency, such as the fire last week at the Sigma Chi fraternity house.
Because they respond quickest to emergencies on or near campus, they are taught to evaluate major situations immediately with an assessment technique called triage.
About 20 officers currently are involved in the voluntary program, while another two or three officers are starting a required semester of medical classes at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank and the UCLA Medical Center.
Officers on the medical team get "a different outlook when dealing with people," Friar said. Friar is a former firefighter and said that dealing with criminals all the time gets tiring.
The technicians handle as many as 700 emergency calls every year, though many of the calls are minor problems that are (Continued on page 3)