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Volume XCV, Number 67	University of Southern California	Monday, April 23, 1984
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Tri-Delts, Phi Kappa Psi thrill judges at annual Songfest
By Nora Perren
Entertainment Writer
Shakespeare once said, "All the world's a stage, and we are but merely players." And Saturday night, the principle actors were the Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, winners of the Songfest Sweepstakes award at the Shrine Auditorium.
The number "All the World's a Thriller," complete with brides of Frankenstein and Draculas with high red satin collars, was judged to be the best performance at the 31st annual Songfest.
"All the World's a Stage for Love," presented by the Delta Gamma sorority and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, won
first runner-up, and "All the Store's a Stage," performed bv the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and the Kappa Sigma fraternity, was named second runner-up.
Third runner-up was awarded to the Alpha Phi sorority and the Phi Delta Theta fraternity for "All the World's a Pajama Party."
The performances were judged by a panel of eight celebrity judges, and the votes wre tabulated while the groups waited anxiously. The judges included KNBC weatherman Kevin O'Connell, game show host Tom Kennedy, singer Janet Lennon of the Lennon Sisters, and "Days of Our Lives" star Joseph Gallison.
Four additional awards that
had been determined before the show by the Songfest committee were also presented.
John Fink, a member of Kappa Sigma, earned the Best Director award for "All the Store's a Stage," and Delta Gamma and Sigma Alpha Epsilon won the Most Enthusiastic award.
Best Sets was awared to the Gamma Phi Beta sorority and the Sigma Nu fraternity for their giant computer backdrop in "All the World's a Stage in George (Continued on page 8)
Olympic Games stir enthusiasm among foreign students
By Sheldon Ito
Assistant City Editor
International students at the university have been generally enthusiastic about finding ways to assist their countrymen visiting Los Angeles for the Summer Olympics, said Dino Vega, president of the International Students Assembly.
"We are enthusiastic about the Games, it's the opportunity of a lifetime," said Vega, a native Indonesian. "Several students I know have contacted their consulates here and asked them what they can do to aid the athletes from their countries."
Vega, a senior in civil engineering, said that while the students' visas do not allow them to hold paying jobs, they have been volunteering as interpreters and hosts and hostesses.
He said some students have even been asked by their consulates to march with the athletes in the opening ceremonies, dressed in the traditional costumes of their home countries.
Frederick Hall, student coordinator of International Peer Advocate Programs, said while the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (LAOOC) has not specifically asked for the students' participation, it has enlisted them in putting together a manual that tells a little about the customs and life styles of each participating country.
Many students cannot afford to return home. Hall said, and they are the ones who have expressed the most interest in helping out during the Olympics.
"Quite a number of students are interested, but do not know how to go about getting a job with the Olympics," he said.
Dixon Johnson, director of the office of international students and scholars, said his office expects to receive information next week on the LAOOC's host and hostess program.
Johnson said the committee is seeking volunteers to become bilingual escorts, hosts and hostesses for visiting athletes, coaches and International Olympic Committee officials. These volunteers will be stationed at this university, UCLA, Los Angeles International Airport and the Olympic press center.
He also said that when it is known which teams will be staying at the university's Olympic Village, his office will try to link them up with students from their respective countries who wish to assist them.
Johnson said the attitude of international students toward the Olympics is not very different from that of domestic students.
"Some say 'I want out of here,' (and) for others it's the opportunity of the lifetime," he said.
Hall said housing during the Olympics has not been as much of a problem as was anticipated. He said the university housing office offered 180 spaces to international students, but so far only 101 have been filled.
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Libyan student group to demonstrate today
By Catalina Camia
Assistant City Editor
A group of Libyan students from this university, UCLA and other local colleges will be protesting in light of the recent seige of its embassy in London, with 20 to 30 of their countrymen inside. The group will demonstrate in front of the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles today.
A Libyan student at this university, who would only identify himself as Fouze, is organizing the university's part in the protest.
A peaceful demonstration involving approximately 50 Libyan students from Los Angeles area universities, known as the Libyan Student Union, will take place Monday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the federal building, Fouze said.
Fouze said the Libyan students were mainly protesting the dictatorship of Col. Moam-mar Khadafy, the controversial Libyan leader, and recent terror-
ist actions of his government, including the killing of twro university students this month in Tripoli, the capital of Libya.
Fouze described the Libyan Student Union as an anti-Kha-dafv organization that began in Libya in the 1960s, and was at its strongest during the 1970s.
"The union was outlawed in 1973 by Khadafy," Fouze said, adding that this has caused the organization to remain underground since that time. Its American counterpart began in
1980,	he said.
Through the protest, Fouze said he'd like to show everyone why his group is so against Khadafy.
"There is no place in the world for a madman like him," he said.
Besides Khadafy's reaction to the British incident, Fouze said the students have also been appalled by the killing of 12 students in Europe in 1980 by the Libyan government, and espe-(Continued on page 12)
The special spirit from within makes an Olympic champion
Gold mined from the heart
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By Lawrence Toffler
Assistant Feature Editor
n the 1948 Summer Olympics, a Hungarian athlete, Takacs, won the rapid fire pistol shooting competition. Some time after his victory, his right arm — his shooting arm — was ripped off in an accident. Rather than give up all competition, he learned to shoot with his left arm and won a gold medal in the 1952 Games.
In the 1968 Summer Games, a Japanese gymnast with a broken kneecap competed on the rings; and aware that his landing would smash his knee nonetheless also won the highest honor — the gold medal.
American discus thrower Al Oerter, who has won four gold medals in four different Olympics between 1956 and 1968, wants to try again this year.
The gold medal. It drives people to endanger their own physical well-being, it leads people to devote their entire lives to sports, and it challenges people to push themselves to their physical limits.
This summer Los Angeles will be inundated with thousands of these special human beings — Olympic athletes — whose occupation and aim is to go for the gold.
They run, they swim, they jump and they wrestle. They spend 365 days of the year for almost all of their lives in training. They push,
push, push themselves to their physical limits every day. Then, when they are prepared, they must confront the opposition, rise above all the pressures and bear the pride of their countries, all for a goal that is fleeting at best.
Despite the fact that most athletes endure the same level of physical training, and many have almost immeasurably close amounts of skill, a select few will nonetheless transcend the rest of the pack and win the highest honor.
Something more than talent separates them from the crowd and makes them superior to the competition, said John Callaghan, a university professor of the psychology of sports in the department of physical education.
"We've got a certain profile of what a top-class athlete is," Callaghan said. "(They) are dominant, extroverted, assertive, competitive, usually intellegant and rather self-sufficient."
But, he added, since most athletes, indeed most people, have many, if not all, of these characteristics, these qualities alone are not enough to make an athlete consistently do better than his fellow competitors.
“I think it can be divided into both physical and mental. . . (But an athlete) has to have it from within. . .it's a desire to excel. . . In the inside is what makes him tick — makes him a good competitor. 1 think so much about it is confidence. Of course, nothing succeeds like success.”
—	USC and U.S. Olympic baseball coach Rod Dedeaux.
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