Volume Cll, Number 66
Seventy-Fifth Year of Publication
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University of Southern California
1912 — 1986
Monday, December 8, 1986
Construction of parking structure is halted
Roses win over parking
new plan has been proposed.
He said that the university will most likely be provided parking spaces if the new structure can fulfill the parking needs of the Exposition Park museums, as well as the university.
The alternate site will be located near the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Figueroa Street, Lazzaro said.
According to Lazzaro, this new site had not been considered earlier since most committee members thought the underground project was a good idea.
Successful underground parking projects were completed beneath both Pershing Square in Los Angeles and Union Square in San Francisco, he said.
However, the plans were preempted because, "There were a number of reactions to the concept, the reactions were quite vocal. They basically preceeded the planned effort to give the architects and designers an opportunity to show it was feasible and could be done," Lazzaro said.
By Karen Martinez
Staff Writer
Controversy has halted the planned construction of a parking structure beneath the Exposition Park rose garden, said Anthony Lazzaro, senior vice president for business affairs.
Lazzaro, a member of the Exposition Park Improvement Committee, had urged that the structure be built beneath the garden, which would then be re-established atop the two-story structure.
But at a Nov. 26 committee meeting, an alternate plan was discussed since some members voiced objections to digging up the rose garden.
When asked whether construction plans had indeed been halted for the structure, Lazzaro responded, "Well, what you're really asking is whether another plan is being considered, and the answer is yes. A plan which will add 3,200 spaces."
The university had committed itself to 500 spaces in the originally proposed structure, but Lazzaro said an entirely
Director of dining services named to oversee bookstore
Different divisions combine efforts
By Terry Allen
Staff Writer
Gene Lawless, executive director of Dining Services, has been assigned to oversee all phases of the new university bookstore.
The current director of the bookstore. Jack Arnold, has not been replaced or removed, Lawless said, but will now report to him on the progress and development, organization, budgeting, and general operations of the bookstore.
"It's really a transparent kind of move on the part of the university," Lawless said. "There is no major change at all. I'll just be adding the bookstore to my responsibilities. Hopefully, I'll be acting as a continuing asset to the university."
Lawless said he and Arnold are "good friends" and will be working together to help establish the new bookstore, which is scheduled for construction beginning this summer.
Arnold could not be reached for comment.
Lawless came to this university three and a half years ago from Cornell University. "I was looking to take over dining services at a large private university, and USC was the place," he recalled. "I think since I've been here during the past three years we've made some real improvements. Especially during the Olympics, we wanted dining services to provide a real service to the community."
Lawless said his promotion was effective about a week ago.
Early in November, Robert Harris, dean of the School of Architecture expressed reservations about the proposed structure, because he felt the garden would indeed be changed, but other architects disagreed.
Harris, a member of the architectural subcommittee, had said that the garden
would be exposed to gas fumes since the proposed structure would not have been completely enclosed.
On Friday, Harris' secretary in the School of Architecture said, "He's really not giving any comments. He's just fed up with the whole thing."
Chairman endorses university's partial divestment
Fluor leaves South Africa
By Jim Logan
Staff Writer
Two months after university trustee David Tappan Jr. voted to adopt a university policy of limited divestment, Tappan's own Fluor Corp. announced Friday that it was fully divesting itself of operations in South Africa.
Tappan, chairman of Fluor, said that although he believes sanctions are not an effective way to end apartheid. South Africa's uncertain economic future forced the action.
"We have reached the point-. . .where an orderly transfer of ownership is in the best interests of the corporation, its employees, shareholders and clients," Tappan said in a prepared statement released on Friday.
Polish professor notes differences in students and teaching methods
By Valerie Martinez
Professor Ginter Trybus, who teaches several high level programming languages here at the university, was bom in Poland. It is there he received his master's degree after a five-year period of study.
Trybus has spend much of his life traveling throughout Europe. He is fluent in six languages including Polish, Czech, Russian and German. It is through the knowledge of these languages that his greatest barrier arose. When he arrived in America, he could not speak English. He learned the language in one semester before beginning to teach.
"It was very difficult (to understand him)," one past student said. "To begin with, the man is a genius. He thinks on a very high level. At the same time, he has a heavy Russian accent, which made it all the more difficult to understand."
Even now, Trybus still struggles with his accent.
"The Russian and the English languages have two totally different pronunciations," Trybus
explained. "Words are accented differently. There is no changing, though. I could stay here a hundred years and still could not pronounce my words as you do," Trybus said.
Trybus feels there are differences between both the students and the methods of teaching at this university and in Poland. He feels that the students are better prepared for college in Poland.
"In America, the students are free to choose their classes leading up to their college education," Trybus pointed out. "They are free to take physics if they want, or not take physics if they want. In Poland there is no question. The students are given a set curriculum."
Trybus does like the fact that the students in America feel very at ease with their professors.
"They are open. They feel free to ask questions and discuss problems," Trybus said. "In Poland, it is not like that. The teachers are almost put on pedestals. It is very different."
Trybus has traveled a lot throughout his life, and lived in many different places. But does he want to stay in America?
"This is a nice country. I don't know if I'll stay, but I would like to," he said.
Under terms of the agreement, Fluor, one of the world's largest engineering and construction firms, sold its operations to an unnamed independent trust company in Europe, according to Rick Mas-lin, director of media relations at Fluor.
Hoping to return to South Africa in the future, Fluor retained a repurchase option on its interests there, which are valued at almost $38 million.
Fluor argues that leaving South Africa would only hurt blacks there.
Fluor's South African operations represent less than one-half of 1 percent of its worldwide investments.
As part of the sale, Maslin said, Fluor's 100 employees will be retained by the new owners in their same positions.
Fluor, which has been in South Africa more than 20 years, maintained two operations there: Fluor South Africa and Fluor-Engineering, South Africa.
Since the late 1960s, it had been involved in major energy-jelated construction project-
s. . .including two of the country's principal (coal-to-gas) refineries, according to a report written by the Investor Responsibility Research Center in Washington, D.C.
Earlier this year, a stockholder's resolution calling for Fluor to cease its services to South Africa's primary petroleum producer was defeated when only about 15 percent of its stockholders voted in favor of it.
At the time. Flour management said that although it found apartheid morally repugnant, it pointed to its technical training of 20,000 blacks over a period of
10	years and Category I rating in the Sullivan Principles as the main reasons to reject the resolution.
Like most opponents of divestment, Fluor argued that leaving South Africa would only hurt blacks there.
Fluor's operations center on fuel for South Africa. Since that country has little of its own natural oil and an abundance of domestic coal, it developed the world's first commercial coal-to-
011	liquefaction process.
The coal liquefaction plants are owned by South Africa Coal and Gas Corp. (Sasol). Fluor built South Africa's last two plants — Sasol II in 1975, and Sasol III in 1979. The contracts for the projects were worth an estimated $4.5 billion.
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The Exposition Park rose garden is at the heart of a controversy over a new parking development.