Staff must vacation during Olympics
mand on university services such as eating facilities and, to a lesser extent, security for the games.
The staffing plan for each department will be required by Jan. 1, 1984. It w'ill include a description of what staff positions are necessary during the games, as well as those that will require access to the Olympic Village. Special passes will be issued to staff personnel who need to enter the portion of the campus housing the village.
To help accommodate affected staff members, two exceptions will be made to nor-
mal university leave policy.
For employees wanting to work during the games, special temporary positions will be made available. These jobs include additional staff needed to run the residence halls, which will house 7,500 athletes in the Olympic Village, as well as positions with the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee and several support contractors.
These employees, though technically on paid leave, will be allowed in this special case to draw salary from the temporary jobs as well.
Employees, who for some
reason do not have the necessary 10 days of paid leave at the time of the Olympics, will be allowed to “borrow ahead” up to six months of vacation time, so they won’t be forced to take unpaid personal leave.
Despite these concessions, many employees still feel that it’s unfair for the university to tell them when to take vacation.
“But, on the other hand,” Harrington said, “there are people who are hoping that their positions aren’t declared essential, because they don’t want to put up with the hassle (of the games).”
Campus' Olympic role includes network of shops, security
By Scott Howard-Cooper
Assistant Sports Editor
Additional details of the university’s role during the 1984 Summer Olympics were brought to light Wednesday afternoon, including plans to establish a network of shops and stores on campus and to use extra guards to patrol the Olympic Villages.
Anita DeFrantz, director of Olympic Villages for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, said in a 90-minute presentation to administration, faculty and student representatives that the first concern of Olymp’ ~ officials are foreign athletes and coaches.
Because of this, she said, a fence will be built around the perimeter of the Olympic Village, which will include parts of the north, south and west housing complexes as well as much of the area in between.
“We are responsible to make the athletes secure," she said. “They must be able to compete in confidence that no one will bother them.”
Past Olympic Villages have had a “Main Street" for shops, but the plan for a university village square is, for the most part, a new concept. The square, which stretches from some housing facilities to the Physical Education building to Norris and Bing Theatres, will offer athletes and coaches all facets of “normal living,” including a 24-hour food service.
“We are going to make this as easy a system as possible,” DeFrantz said. "We will do the best we can to meet the needs inside the village with a small amount of work. This, after all, really will be the home for the athletes.”
Under the proposal, smaller versions of major stores would be brought on campus and set up within a single room. A 7-Eleven convenience store, for example, may be placed inside a room in Taper Hall.
"All we would need to do would be to move the chairs out and put in a counter and some racks.” DeFrantz said. "This is Hollywood, after all.”
Following the general Olympic policy of using
already existing facilities, little construction is anticipated for the square. And even if extra rooms are needed, they may be nothing more than tents put up overnight.
“It sounds ridiculous, but we would like to come here, be here for four weeks, and leave and have no one even know that we were here,” said DeFrantz, a member of the United States Olympic rowing team in the 1976 and 1980 Olympics.
Security precautions have been a major concern of all Olympic preparations, but particularly since a raid on the Olympic Village at the 1972 games in Munich, West Germany, that led to the death of several Israeli athletes.
DeFrantz would not disclose plans for high-caliber security on campus, but only said that “it will not look like it looks like now.”
She did say, however, that an accreditation system will be set up soon which only allows certain university workers and officials on campus during the games. Procedures to sort out “non-essential” workers have already started, the first step being the University Olympic Advisory' Committee’s announcement on a special vacation policy during the two-week period of the games.
“The more respect and privacy we give the Olympians the better,” she said. “We can’t say that nobody else can get in (the Olympic Village). That would only invite some people to go ahead and try.”
Further details w'ill be worked out in a “partnership agreement” between the university and the LAOOC, of which President James Zumberge is a member of the board of directors.
Several faculty representatives expressed an interest Wednesday in filling many of the roles within the Olympic Village, such as translation and certain business aspects, since they may not be allowed on campus as part of the university staff.
“I am concerned about how' the people who work here and how they will respond to all this (planning),” DeFrantz said. "I worry that people don’t feel bad about us, that they don’t feel we are just coming in and shoving them around.”
By Sheldon Ito
Staff Writer
The administration’s announcement of a policy requiring non-essential university workers to take leave during the 1984 Olympic Games has been met with strong resentment by the staff assembly, mainly because of the manner in which the policy was conceived and presented.
“This is the first time in anybody’s recollection that the university has ever told people when they had to take vacation,” said Margaret Harrington, president of the staff assembly. “Most of the people I talked with were not really pleased about it.”
Harrington added that it was “unfortunate” that the staff assembly was not directly consulted ahead of time to see if there was another way around the problem. She said the pol-
icy was announced “out of the blue” by the administration.
Although she said she understands the problems the Olympics will bring to the campus, primarily overcrowding, Harrington had hoped that staff members would have direct input into the decisionmaking process.
“I just think it w’as unfortunate that there wasn’t more discussion of the policy change,” she said.
Under the new policy every school, department and administrative office will be asked to designate which of its staff personnel is not necessary for basic university operations from July 28 to Aug. 12, the period during which the games will be held.
The policy is designed to help ease the expected problems of traffic congestion, parking shortages, heavy de-
Get rich quick plan shown by millionare
By Steve DeSalvo
Assistant City Editor
William Montapert says you can become rich.
All you have to do, he says, is listen to him speak, read his book, follow his advice and, with a little luck, you can become a millionaire just like him.
But judging from the small audience that turned out to see and hear Montapert at Hancock Auditorium Wednesday, there are either a lot of people already rich or many others who do not think they can get rich.
Less than 50 people turned out to hear the author of The Omega Strategy — How You Can Retire Rich by 1986, speak about the subject he said is dearest to his heart — money.
“You can get money if you think positively and have knowledge,” he told the audience. “With kxiowledge and positive thinking, you can turn economic ‘disadvantages’ into advantages for you.”
If Joe Granville is the mad prophet of the money markets, Montapert sounds like Norman Vincent Peale. Just use the power of positive thinking, he said.
Montapert, who earned his bachelor's degree and law degree at the university, said. “I wasn’t born rich. I worked
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hard to get what I have.”
He said his hard work involved a 30-year study of inflationary cycles. Knowledge about inflation and howr it works as the key to “beating the markets to death and getting rich," he said.
Montapert said his studies reveal that periods of hyperinflation are always preceded by “credit binges” by banks and other institutions that lend large amounts of money to less developed countries. The problems begin, he said, when these countries cannot pay' the principal or interest on the loans.
Montapert said the world, with private and public debts totaling $16 trillion, is confronted with the same situation today.
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