Panel prepares report on community relations
By Joann Galardy
Assistant Gty Editor
The University Community Task Force, assigned by President James Zumberge to study the relationships between the university and the surrounding community, has begun its preliminary work and will put together a report for the president outlining issues it should address.
Zumberge has asked the task force to determine both long-term and short-term community interests involving the university. Many of the issues under study will affect university students directly and indirectly.
For this reason, Alvin Rudisill, university chaplain and chairman of the committee, has asked Student Senate President Bill Lilia to nominate students to serve on the seven subcommittees of the task force.
These committees will be composed of faculty, staff and community members, in addition to the appointed students.
The nine-member main committee includes Ray Watt, a member of the Board of Trustees and Dan Dunmoyer, former Student Senate president.
In addition, Norman Topping, chancellor emeritus, and John Hubbard, president emeritus, will serve as advisers to the committee. Los Angeles Councilman Robert Farrell and Mayor Tom Bradley will represent community views to the task force.
"Our purpose," said Rudisill, "is to iook at USC and its entire urban environment to evaluate what steps need to be taken to improve community relations."
Zumberge created the task force last summer in response to the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency's extension of the boundaries of the Hoover Redevelopment Area. It will concentrate its efforts on the area bordered by Normandie, Central, and Vernon avenues and the Santa Monica Freeway.
The subcommittees will study such issues as faculty and student housing in the area, recreation and greenspace, the Hoover Redevelopment Project and the possibility of bringing high technology to the surrounding community.
"The role of the students could be as important to the task force as the role of any other constituency," Lilia said.
Seven faculty members will be appointed to oversee the subcommittees which will be required to submit their preliminary reports within the next six weeks.
"The uniqueness of our assignment is that we are asked to look at this as a university concern in a holistic fashion," Rudisill said. "We must begin to ask ourselves what it means to be an integral part of downtown Los Angeles."
To answer this question, the task force will investigate the possibility of bringing light industry to the surrounding community.
Rudisill said that over the past five years industries have located themselves around major universities, because of the advantages of being near intellectual resources.
Rudisill said the implementation of the task force is an example of "greater openness on the part of the university to get to know the neighborhood," adding that university relations with the community are as good as he has seen in his 22 years at the university.
He believes the university has this relationship with the community because
many university faculty and staff members have chosen to live in the area, so they can have the advantages of living close to their jobs.
"The community is on an upswing," Rudisill said. "Inner-city neighborhoods have problems, but we're working on them. The university shares a common welfare with the community."
The senate will ask for student input on the committee's work to ensure that students have a voice in what the committee does.
"We are always trying to get student input on the issues," Lilia said. "Our goal is to represent students in the best way we can."
Because the task force, which meets weekly, is in its beginning stages, it has not received much feedback from local community groups — a situation it hopes to change in the coming weeks.
"The task force welcomes as much interaction with the community as we can develop, maintain and encourage," Rudisill said. "We will be reaching out to enter deliberate conversation with the community people."
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ANDREW PEARCE
Cello protege accepts $10,000 scholarship
By Jennifer Cray
Staff Writer
Andrew Pearce, a freshman in the school of music, received the first S10,000 Hammer-Rostropovich scholarship prize in cello last week at a ceremony at the downtown Biltmore Hotel.
Armand Hammer, chairman and chief executive officer of Occidental Petroleum Corporation, a patron of the arts, and Mstislav Rostropovich, a world-renowned cellist and conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, presented Pearce with the award.
Pearce, a 17-year-old first year music student from La Canada, began playing the cello at age 9. He made his performance debut at age
10,	playing a solo with the University of Utah Symphony. Since then he has given solo performances with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Pearce has made two solo performances with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta. Pearce described his most recent performance in January as "very exciting."
"I very much enjoyed working with Mr. Mehta," he said.
In addition to winning several national, state, and local competitions, Pearce was recently named a 1983 Presidential Scholar. He also earned high honors and scholarships from the Community School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, the Young Musicians Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. This year Pearce was chosen as one of 12 cellists from around the world to participate in the annual Gregor Piatigorsky Seminar for Cellists.
Pearce came to the university to continue his studies with Eleanore Schoenfeld, chairman of the string department at the school of music. Prior to the beginning of his freshman year, Pearce had taken private cello lessons with Schoenfeld for three years.
This semester Pearce is taking only music classes and performs in the university symphony. As for his future plans or goals, Pearce simply wants to be a "world-renowned concert artist."
But in the meantime, he said, "The only thing I'm concerned about is to keep learning. As long as I continue to make progress and keep learning, I'll be happy."
Pearce's $10,000 prize money will cover his tuition and expenses at the university.
Hammer established the $100,000 fund for the Hammer-Rostropovich cello scholarship last May. The competion for the scholarship is open to any cellist who will be attending the university in the fall.
Since this was the first year of the award, Pearce did not have to go through a formal competition, though Rostropovich personally selected him as the winner. In the future, the scholarship will be awarded on the basis of a competition to be judged by a panel from the university, with the final winner chosen by Rostropovich. Ten scholarships will be awarded over the next 10 years.
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Volume XCIV, Number 34 University of Southern California Friday, October 21,1983
IN STABLE CONDITION
Sorority pledge hit by auto
By Mark Lowe
Assistant City Editor
A Delta Gamma sorority pledge is in stable condition after she was hit by a car while crossing 28th Street late Wednesday evening.
Jodi McGaughey, 18, a freshman in nursing, was hit by the car as it slowed for a stop sign at the intersection of University Avenue and 28th Street about 11:30 p.m., witnesses said.
"I was talking to Sue (Pitre, another pledge) and Jodi," said Kelly Manson, a sophomore in public relations and a Delta Gamma pledge. "Sue went into the street and Jodi followed her."
Manson said she and other pledges, who were participating in a Big Sister/Little Sister night, shouted at Pitre to warn her, thinking she was in danger, just before the car hit McGaughey.
"She bounced up on the hood then back off when the car stopped," Manson said.
Paramedics and University Security arrived at the scene, and the paramedics took McGaughey to California Hospital. She was treated for a fractured right knee and lower right leg, and was reported stable and in good condition Thursday afternoon.
"She's in intensive care for observation purposes," a hospital spokesman said. 'They'll be moving her shortly."
Officers for the Los Angeles Police Department's South Traffic Division Follow-up unit said no arrests were made, and said no investigator had been assigned to the case yet.
Witnesses said McGaughey was standing with the other Delta Gamma pledges when she stepped
out into the street. She was not in the crosswalk at the intersection, police said, and University Security added she walked out from between two parked cars.
"There was a group of girls outside the house and one girl ran out," said Loren Katzovitz, a junior in public administration. "The car really never had a chance to do anything."
The driver of the car, a 19-year-old undeclared university student whom police would not identify, has known McGaughey since she was 16.
"I was going 40 (mph) at the most," she said. "I was slowing down for the stop sign. The next thing I knew she was on top of the windshield. I really feel bad."
Tracy Young, a sophomore in broadcast journalism, said she was in front of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house with a friend, Fred Eder, a junior, when they "heard the thud and saw the body fly into the street."
She said she and Eder went to the scene, and Eder put his coat over McGaughey and placed a handkerchief over her head "because it was bleeding pretty badly."
A crowd began to gather around the scene, but security officers broke it up when they arrived.
"It was pretty controlled," said a member of the Delta Gamma sorority. "They knew she was all right."
She said she was with McGaughey while she was being treated at the hospital, and said McGaughey was "completely conscious."
Kendra Ensor, staff writer, also contributed to this story.
MICHELE DURANT/DAILY TROJAN A Delta Gamma sorority pledge is in stable condition after being struck by a car here late Wednesday.