Effect of television ruling uncertain, says Zumberge
By Paul Vercammen
Sports EcSfix
University President James Zumberge said it’s too early to determine exactly how the recent ruling that only individual schools have the right to sell their games to television will affect the university.
“First, we have to read the judge’s decison and his background brief on it,” Zumberge said Friday.
“Second, we have to find out if the decision is going to stick or whether the NCAA is going to get a stay in that order, which means that it (the ruling) will be nullified and not go into effect until the appeal is heard in the district court in Denver."
Since the probation was levied last April, the university has considered taking legal action against the NCAA. If the Oklahoma ruling holds, there would be no need for such action and all television schedules for this season would be thrown out, allowing teams to negotiate contracts on a week-to-week basis.
If upheld, the ruling would also negate the sanctions that forbid the university from appearing on television in 1963 and 1984. "That is the relief I was attempting to seek by other means, Zumberge said. “But in fact that may have been accomplished for us now.”
He said he thought the decision was one that “truly reflected the facts — that the NCAA is a cartel, that it is restraining trade, that it is fixing prices on collegiate football. I therefore think the decision is the correct one.”
If the desicion stands, Zumberge stressed that the university would not go out and seek new contracts with televsion networks for this season.
He said that the university has planned four national television appearances this season. If one of the contracts should fall through, such as this Saturday’s with Oklahoma, the university would consider trying to negotiate a contract with another network, assuming that Oklahoma would be willing, he said.
“If the ruling of the judge in Albequerque should prevail, then USC would not be out trying to sell itself on television every week of the season. VVe would try to use some good sense since anything else too much of a good thing can backfire.
“We still like the idea of people coming out to our stadium to watch us play.”
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Volume XCII, Number 10 University of Southern California Monday, September 20, 1982
University negotiating for magazine; hopes to upgrade academic prestige
By George Aguilar
Assistant City Editor
The university is actively negotiating to acquire Saturday Review, a financially troubled monthly magazine devoted to the arts, and many see the opportunity as a way to upgrade the university’s academic prestige.
The unique attempt to buy a general circulation magazine has been carried out in the past week by Irwin Lieb, vice president and dean for the college of letters, arts, and sciences. Lieb said Friday that a decision is expected to be reached either today or Tuesday.
No purchase price has been announced. It has been reported that if the acquistion is completed, the university would relocate the publication’s editorial offices from New York to Los Angeles, and it would be administered separately from university publications.
“It would be wonderful for the university,” Lieb said. “And it would be splendid for Los Angeles. It is something that has not been (done) by a major university.”
However, the deal is far from complete. Saturday Review is said to have lost $3 million in the last two years. Lieb made it clear that the financial side of the deal needs work.
‘‘If we purchase it, there would be no financial liability for the university,” Lieb added. “It has to be started from scratch.”
Although the editorial format of the magazine is not likely to change, Lieb hinted there may be other changes.
Saturday Review is owned by Macro Communications Co., which purchased the magazine in 1980. The publisher, Robert Weingarten, was not available for comment Friday, and an attorney for the magazine said anv comment would have to
come from the university.
Weingarten announced last month that Saturday Review would cease publishing after 58 years as one of the most respected of the cultural journals. He cited massive business losses and hoped that a buyer could be found.
Prior to 1980, Saturday Review was a weekly magazine with a circulation of 630,000. It has always been committed to representing the world of theater, art, dance, film and intellectual forums.
Norman Cousins, the editor of the magazine from 1939 to 1971 whom many described as its guiding spirit, enjoys tremendous respect within the academic world. He now teaches medicine at UCLA.
“I have a lot of respect for him and for what he has done,” said Norman Fertig, dean of advisement and honors at LAS.
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University provides assistance for disabled students
Office for handicapped helps students participate
By Brenda Wong
Assistant City Editor
If the office of handicapped students services had a motto, it would be “accessibility and assistance.”
“It’s our goal to assist students with disabilities to fully participate in campus life as well as helping them become responsible and independent students,” said Lynne Bejoian, director of OHSS.
Services offered by the office include assistance in housing, parking, counseling, registration and providing readers, note-takers, tutors, attendants and interpreters to handicapped students.
The services are available to both temporarily and perma-
nently disabled students. The temporarily disabled are described as those students who are disabled for less than a semester. Up to 150 temporarily disabled students and over 150 permanently disabled students use the services. Bejoian said.
To familiarize students with the campus, orientations are offered which emphasize accessibility routes such as ramps and entrances to buildings.
“Accessibility doesn’t necessarily mean that every older building must be physically accessible, but the facilities housed in that building must be accessible to the (handicapped) student,” Bejoian said.
For example, if a handicapped student wants to check out a book from a campus library, but is unable or unwilling to enter that library, the student may still check out the book by proxy.
To demonstrate the university’s commitment to handicapped students, 85 percent of the buildings on campus are physically accessible compared with 15 percent 10 years ago.
Most of the buildings on campus have ramps, elevators and at least partially modified bathrooms, according to a 1978 pamphlet published by OHSS.
“A partially modified bathroom is a bathroom that has a heavy curtain instead of a door,” Bejoian said.
Some of the buildings have elevators that require keys to operate them. These keys may be obtained from the office after the student pays a $1 deposit per key, she said.
Students who encounter problems in gaining access to buildings should tell Bejoian. Need for an easier way to enter Stabler Hall resulted in a temporary ramp in front of the building. Similar accomodations can be made in the future.
“When problems come to my attention, I work with Physical Plant to work out the feasibility of the (proposed) plan,” she said.
With emphasis on accessibility, handicapped students may find assistance in purchasing books and supplies at the university bookstore. During the first week of school, handicapped students receive assistance in obtaining their books, Bejoian said.
“Robert Sewell, (textbook supervisor), has been very good about it. He would put aside books so the students need not wait in the lines. They go to a
place where it’s less congested and pay for the books that way,” she said.
In addition, OHSS can provide special arrangements for housing “if a student has a disability with specific needs, and provisions must be made,” she
said. Several apartments in Troy Hall East are specifically designed for handicapped students. The counters and sinks are lowered and the apartments are equipped with wider doorways and accessible bath-continued on page 5)
Coroner to determine cause of woman’s death
The county coroner’s office is expected to release the results of a test later today that could determine the cause of death of a woman believed to be a university student.
The office tentatively identified the body as that of 24-year-old Laurie Crawford.
University Security found the body in a West 30th Street apartment last Monday night after receiving a call from her parents who seemed worried because they had not heard from her in several days.
A coroner’s office spokesman said there was no evidence of trauma or injury to the woman caused by violence.
Lt. Duane Gansemer, commanding officer of the LAPD’s Southwest Division, said the woman was last seen alive Sept. 10.
Vance Peterson, executive director of university relations, said Crawford had moved into the private apartment building, the Regal Rita, located at 803 W. 30th St., in August. She came to Southern California from Houston, Texas, where she had worked for Texaco Inc. for two years, he said.
Crawford, Peterson said, had been working on her doctorate in petroleum engineering. This had reportedly been her first semester at the university.
Gansemer said the woman had earned her bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Staff photo by Dan Canales
WHEELS KEEP A ROLLIN’ — Becki McCafferty. a graduate student studying exercise science, is one of about 300 disabled students at this university.