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Volume XCIII, Number 35	University of Southern California	Thursday, March 3, 1983
Students may lose prime seats with administration proposal
By Steve DeSalvo
Assistant City Editor
Students will lose prime seating for the 1983 football season if an administration proposal to move the student section 20 yards downfield goes into effect.
The plan, which would move 1,558 student seats from the 50-yard line to the end zone, is one of three separate seating proposals being considered by the administration in the wake of an announcement made by the Coliseum Commission that the football field will moved 4.7 yards east for the 1984 Olympics.
Patricia Tvner, director of tickets and game management, said a change in seating arrangements is necessary because alumni and donors W'ould stand to lose quality seats as a result of the field movement. Tyner has come up with three alternative proposals for football seating:
See page 6 for explanatory illustration.
Plan 1 — This would leave seating as it- was last year — there would be no change in seating arrangements.
Plan 2 — Student seating in
University, Idyllwild officials to confer
By Joann Galardy
Staff Writer
The destiny of the Idyllwild school of music, which is considered by the university to be a financial drag, will be decided within two weeks when university administrators meet with the board of directors of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation.
Unless a viable plan for the continuation of the school, located 150 miles east of the university in the San Jacinto Mountains, can be determined at that meeting, Idyllwild will close its doors after this year's summer session.
The university's board of trustees unanimously passed a draft resolution last month stating that funds to Idyllwild would be cut off after the summer session unless changes are made that would justify the university's investment.
In response to this resolution, the Idyllwild board of directors has told Jon Strauss, senior vice president of administration, that they are willing to negotiate terms in an attempt to reach an agreement.
"They would like to get together and talk," Strauss said.
It is expected that in attendance at this meeting will be Strauss, Patricia Clark, acting director of the Idyllwild school, and members of the board of directors of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation.
According to Strauss, the issues to be discussed include the updated budget plans and a review of the university's purchase option to the land.
In expressing the position of the university, Strauss said, “We want to keep Idyllwild if we can find a way to justify it."
The university’s affiliation with the Idyllwild campus began in 1964, via a deed-of-gift agreement with the school's founder Max Krone, a former music professor at the university.
In acquiring the campus, the university assumed more than S400,000 in liabilities, a debt which has since been paid, Strauss said.
The current situation stems from Idyllwild's inability to provide the university with enough benefits, both financial and academic, to justify the expenses.
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sections 22 and 23 would be eliminated and replaced by a 1,613-seat "special donor" section. The loss of 1,558 student seats would be made up by creating student seating deep in the end zone, beyond the goal posts. The "special donors" would be persons who give at least 512,000 to the university. This proposal is certain to meet opposition from students because, under the plan, they would not be able to get seats beyond the 35-vard line.
Plan 3 — Student seating in only the top portion of sections 22 and 23 would be eliminated, allowing students to continue to sit in the lower (and often least desireable) portion of the sections. The top portion of sections 22 and 23 wrould be reserved for over 900 "special donors." Similar to Plan 2, additional student seats will be placed in the end zone.
Last Friday, Jon Strauss, senior vice president of administration, met with the leaders of the various groups that would be affected by a change in seating — students, faculty, staff, alumni and donors. The meeting wras intended to inform them about the three propos-
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Student seating for football games at the coliseum mav move from the 50-yard line tu the end zone, ll the administration proposal is accepted.
Political, social issues raised during professors' debate
By Laura Castaneda
Assistant City Editor
The many political and social problems that face the United States today — such as drug abuse, a corrupt democratic system and voter apathy — must be confronted before they become accepted norms, university panelists warned Wednesday at an open forum.
The forum, entitled "The State of American Politics: Can the Big Issues be Confronted?" featured four university professors in a debate over what the
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David Beilis, an adjunct professor of political science and public administration, told the audience at the Von KleinSmid Center lounge that "the big enemy is apathy among the people.
"Even though people know they're getting burned, they have not been able to get up off their asses to do something about it," said Beilis, also a Signal Hill coundlman who investigated police corruption after the 1981 jailhouse hanging of Long Beach football player Ron Settles.
"If we're going to sit back and take this, we deserve it," he said.
Beilis also focused on what he believes is the "big" problem confronting the nation today— drug abuse. He said that a recent report by the General Accounting Office in Washington, D.C., indicates that the use of all drugs, including alcohol and prescribed drugs, is at an all-time high.
He said the government has fought a "chain of symbolic wars" in the last 50 years against drug smuggling and dealing, but that only the "small fry" is ever caught while "Mr. Big" gets away.
"There may be problems that have no solutions, and this (drugs) may be one of them," Beilis said.
He also attacked corruption at all levels of the American political system. As a councilman in Signal Hill, he has witnessed this corruption at the local level, he said.
"I call it a mini-Chicago," he
said. "I've seen it all there."
He also advised students to "turn off the TV, put down the joint or beer, get up off your ass and do something about these issues. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.”
But James Rosenau, a professor of international relations, said that the public cannot confront these issues in an efficient manner because different groups disagree on what the future of America should be.
Rosenau, the creator of the linkage-politics theory on how issues are related, passed out three mimeographed handouts which describe the growing problems of the world and the United States; three domestic policy belief systems held by American leaders; and three foreign policy belief systems held by these leaders.
Because the leaders cannot agree on the best route for America to take politically, and because of the increasing "subgroupism" of the American public, is it almost impossible to find a basis on which to cooperate.
"These cleavages are deep and enduring," he said. "It's hard for me to imagine what crisis, what jolt out there, is going to join these cleavages."
However, Harlen Hahn, a political science professor, did not agree with Rosenau's theory that these problems cannot be solved.
"Something in my soul didn't take too kindly to that," he said. "There is no problem in which there is no solution."
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