Staff photo by Jon Soo Hoo
WHO BUILT THIS MESS? — Believe it or not this mechanical monstrosity is really a group of rides at the Oklahoma State Fair. If they want to see the right way to do things, they should come to California.
Carsons to donate $1 million
Funds to build television center
Gubernatorial candidate will speak on campus
By Larry Thomas
Libertarian gubernatorial candidate and Marin County businessman Dan Dougherty will speak today at noon beneath Tommy Trojan in his first university engagement in Southern California.
Dougherty currently trails Democrat Tom Bradley and Republican George Deukmejian by 44 and 22 percent respectively, according to a recent Los Angeles Times poll.
Dougherty hopes that his visit will be well-received by university students, who his campaign manager said are traditionally open-minded and have been supportive of previous Libertarian candidates.
Johnny and Joanna Carson have given Si million to the university’s division of cinema/television.
The funds will be used to build a television center in a planned cinema/television complex at the university.
The center — to be called the Carson Television Center— will contain a 3,500-square-foot television sound stage, in addition to a video production wing -.that will include master control rooms, telecine, video-record-ing and post-production facilities.
In a joint statement announcing their gift, the Carsons said: “We’re honored to invest in the future of television at USC, and we can only hope that once the facility is in place, a
generation of creative and technically proficient individuals will provide quality entertainment well into the next century.”
Construction of the five-building cinema/television complex is scheduled to begin in late October. The Carson Television Center will be situated next to a motion picture sound stage. Other elements in the “mini-studio” complex include a music scoring stage, a post-production building and an instructional and production support building.
Television was first added to the university’s cinema curriculum in 1977. Students majoring in video and film production are exposed to a broad range of course work in writing, production design and his-
tory and criticism.
In the relatively brief time since television was incorporated into the curriculum, two division of cinema/television students have won first place awards in competition sponsored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Mort Zarcoff, one of the division’s co-chairmen said, “Our successes indicate that our students bring to USC the ideas and the imagination necessary for the distinction in the im-age-making business.
“The new technologies in video pose new challenges for students and instructors alike. The timely gift from Mr. and Mrs. Carson will help us immeasurably to meet those challenges.”
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Volume XCII, Number 16 University of Southern California Tuesday, September 28, 1982
International students may still purchase health-care insurance
Arriving from a campaign tour that began on Labor Day in Northern California, Dougherty will speak for approximately 20 minutes, primarily on the nuclear freeze initiative, which he supports, and the gun control initiative, which he opposes.
He will also speak about basic Libertarian principles such as tax cuts and reductions in government spending and general public assistance. He has made these principles the major theme of his campaign.
After his speech Dougherty will conduct an informal ques-tion-and-answrer session.
Tom Palmer, campaign man-(Continued on page 3)
By Carmen Chandler
Staff Writer
International students still have a chance to purchase health care and accident insurance although the Sept. 24 deadline set by the university has passed.
University spokesmen were quoted in the Aug. 31 issue of the Daily Trojan as saying the university would suspend all international students who had not bought health insurance by the deadline.
It would also deny petitions asking for reinstatement into the university by suspended students, spokesmen said.
“According to a policy in the office for international students and scholars, all enrollments will be cancelled,” said Gail Walenga. outreach nurse at the student health center. “They will be notified that their enrollment will be cancelled, but they will be given time to get some insurance.”
The university set the dead-
Suspect in student’s death described
The Los Angeles Police Department has released a composite drawing of a possible supect who is wanted for questioning in the death of a university student two weeks ago.
The suspect is described as a black male, between 28 and 35 years old, standing approximately 5 feet 8 inches, and weighing about 145 pounds.
Lt. Duane Gansemer said the suspect was seen “lingering in and about" the Regal Rita apartment complex three to four days before the body of the female student was discovered.
On Sept. 13, police found the decomposed body, believed to have been that of Laurie Crawford, a 24-year-old student who was work-
ing on her doctorate in petroleum engineering, in her apartment at 803 W. 30th St.
The discovery came after Crawford’s parents, who live in Bakersfield, became concerned and notified authorities after not hearing from their daughter for several days.
Although the coroner’s of-
fice has not released an official cause of death, a note attached to the composite sketch given to University Security by the LAPD reported that “hands" where used as a weapon.
LAPD has assigned two detectives to the case, in what Gansemer called a “full-blown investigation.” He said that the case is “not necessarily a homicide” and repeated the coroner’s assertion that the cause of death has not yet been determined.
The composite drawing, which was completed with the help of university students who saw the alleged suspect, depicts what police call a “very scruffy-looking individual with unkempt hair and beard."
line for Sept. 24 because it was the last day insurance was sold on campus, Walenga said.
Students still have time to buy insurance but it will have to be an independent policy obtained off the campus, said Elena Garate, acting assistant director of the office for international students and scholars.
International students must have a minimum coverage of health care and accident insurance that is valid in Southern California.
Walenga continued. “We really don't want to cancel their enrollment but most international students don’t appreciate how expensive it is to get health care in the United States.
“Wrhat we will try to do is make them aware of the fact they've got to get some kind of insurance coverage. The university has stated a position and this is the only way we can enforce it.
“It’s to their benefit to buy insurance,” she added.
“As far as I know, the university is planning to cancel the registration of those stu-
dents who did not meet the insurance requirements,” Garate said. “The university will have to evaluate each student on an individual basis. The university will probably ask the student to come forth with their insurance at any time. We are trying to see how many there truly are without insurance,” Garate said.
“This has always been a university policy but it had not come out as strong as this semester. We’ve always encouraged students to do this, but now the directive has come from the president’s office,” she said.
No one in the president’s office could be reached for comment.
The policy was adopted, she said, because international students have had some problems meeting medical costs. “Some (international students) have gotten into great financial difficulty as a result of not carrying insurance.”
New international students were notified of the requirement at their Aug. 23 orienta-(Continued on page 6)
Vandals agree to pay for broken sorority window
The two men who threw an empty beer bottle through an expensive picture window at a sorority house last Tuesday night have agreed to pay for the damage and replacement costs.
The men, who are reportedly members of a fraternity, approached Laura McDowell, president of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, Friday. They confessed to their involvement in the incident and agreed to pay for the window, which housemother Jacqueline Bartholomew said “is running at around $3,000.”
“They were very nice about it,” McDowell said, “and very ashamed.”
Bartholomew said that the two men “verbally agreed" to pay, and said that she will not be satisfied until the window is replaced.
The broken 4-by-8 foot section of the custom-made 12-by-20 foot frosted window had the sorority's crest etched into it. It has been temporarily replaced with a plastic substitute.
Sgt. Art Blair, an officer with University Security, said that no charges wrill be pressed against the two men.