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Volume XCVII, Number 41	University of Southern California	Tuesday. October 30, 1984
Students fooled by ticket scam
Buyers conned by lure of good seats
By Dana Giad
Staff Writer
Many university students were apparently conned last week by a man who took their money and promised that tickets for concerts and football games would be waiting for them at will-call windows.
Students said a man who identified himself as Andre D. offered them two Bruce Springsteen tickets for S45, and tickets for UCLA, Stanford and Raiders games. When students tried to pick up their tickets, the employees at the windows said their names were not on the list.
Andre, students said, could be found either near the 32nd Street Elementary School or University Village, offering to sell them prime tickets in the early afternoon every day last week.
He was described as a slightly heavy-set male in his late '20s with short black hair, a moustache, a goatee and a space between his front teeth. He allegedly approached students and told them he worked for the athletic department in Heritage Hall or for the Sports Arena.
His white Oklahoma State football jersey and red Adidas sweatsuit helped convince one girl that he was legitimate, as did the waves and greetings Andre received from students driving by in cars who called him by name and thanked him for getting them great tickets.
Many students were skeptical about Andre's reported practice of taking their money without immediately producing tickets, and apparently checked with f-iends who were completely satisfied with Andre, until they failed to receive their tickets.
One student, who asked to remain anonymous, said a friend of his paid Andre for 10 Springsteen
tickets, planning to sell them in turn, but said he did not know if his friend actually received tickets. The student's friend highly recommended Andre, however.
But the student, who thought he was buying two Stanford tickets, four UCLA tickets and four Raiders tickets, found no sign of Andre when he went to the ticket window Sunday to claim his Raiders tickets and discovered he had apparently been duped.
He believed he could recover the 560 he had paid because Andre had given him an address and two phone numbers. The address turned out to be for a nonexistent block on 29th Street. Andre's "business" phone number reached a female dorm room, while his "home" number belonged to a phone in the hallway of a dorm complex.
Andre, students said, explained that the National Collegiate Athletic Association would apprehend him if he gave students the tickets immediately after he took their cash. He also reportedly told students that he had been given the tickets by alumni who decided not to attend the events and were his friends.
He allegedly promised to meet and help his customers at the will-call window and carefully took down their last names and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers.
A spokeswoman at the Sports Arena said she had not received any calls from students seeking information about Andre. Tickets, she said, are usually left at will-call only by ticket services such as Ticketmaster that use chargelines.
Otherwise, she said, people who want to leave tickets for their friends that are late might ask the will-call window to hold them, but the window is seldom used for any other purpose.
Documentaries give life to history
By Diane Diaz
Staff Writer
The people who record history’ in documentaries and docu-dramas control Ihe consciousness of the nation, and because television reaches huge audiences, these historical accounts of events and people can be profoundly influential.
"Historians need to take very seriously their subject matter," said Brendan Nagle, associate director of the new History Me-
dia Institute. "They touch the national consciousness and that requires great care."
The institute, formed in the spring of 1984, allows campus historians to produce their work visually for large scale audiences, by combining the disciplines of history and media.
The social science division of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences formed the institute "to provide facilities for faculty in the history department to en-
Accounting now a major, no longer an emphasis
By Gina Frederick
Stafi Writer
Beginning this fall, university students can obtain a bachelor's degree in accounting instead of a business administration degree with an accounting emphasis.
Previously, students interested in an accounting degree could only parenthetically indicate on their business administration degree that thev had specialized in accounting, but no actual accounting degree was available, said Merle Hopkins, the associate dean of the School of Accounting.
The degree is being offered because the School of Business feels accounting students should have more experience in accounting than the old program required, Hopkins said.
The new degree is available to incoming students and those currently enrolled in business administration who are interested in accounting. The old program will eventually be phased out.
Basically, the two programs are equal, except now seven accounting classes are required instead of five. The previous program did offer all seven classes, but students were only required to take three core accounting classes and had a choice of two of the other four.
About 90 percent of the students took six of the seven classes anyway, Hopkins said. The other class. Computer Applications in Accounting and Auditing, was a class the majority of students didn't take.
"Anyone who wants to be a success can easily see the importance of this class,'' Hopkins said.
gage in the study and application of media to history," Nagle said.
Nagle, who first initiated the idea of application of history to media when he was chairman of the history department, said, "Employing the new visual technology of the media to history is a very challenging, very difficult job."
History, Nagle said, is an attempt at recalling an event or the subject of an investigation. History media requires the ability to convey history with visual and dramatic elements, both of which must be used to make it work.
He said the institute is the culmination of several years of preparatory work and is still in a developmental stage. "The concept of it is exciting," he said.
The institute will be open to students through a course that will be offered next spring. The class emphasizes learning to write history through the media and learning to solve the traditional historical problems all historians attempt to solve. It focuses on history as a visual presentation as opposed to written texts. So far this is the only course the institute offers.
The course was offered one time before in the spring of 1983 and was taught by Nagle, who had students develop historical projects suitable for use in visual media.
"The students chose a topic, did research and developed their own historical concept appropriate for television or film," Nagle said.
The course did not go as far as producing the concepts, but it set the idea of what would be (Continued on page 2)
Fisher Gallery will feature art works such as Papo Colo's "American Enigma" shown here with Selma Holo, left, and Denise Lugo, right.
Latin American artists showcased by university
By Azniv Ketenchian
Staff Writer
An exhibition of Latin American art opens today at the Fisher Gallery on the university campus, and at the USC Atelier Gallery, the School of Fine Arts' satellite gallery at the Santa Monica Place Mall.
The exhibition Aqui, meaning "here" in Spanish, is billed as the first to feature works by artists bom or raised in Latin America who now live and work in the United States.
Aqui is meant "to express the contributions these works have made to contemporary art because the authors were there once and they are here now," said Marie de Alcuaz, curator of Fisher Gallery.
John Spray and Denise Lugo-Saavedra, both graduate students in the Museum Studies Program and curators of the exhibition, invited major galleries and organizations across the country to ask their artists to submit works for the exhibition. From over 500 entrants, 27 artists — all well known scholars of contemporary Latin American art — were chosen to display their work. The artists represent 11 Latin American countries.
Selma Holo, director of the Fisher Gallery, said the assumption in California is that anything Mexican is Hispanic, and while this may be partially true, people from Mexico are different from people from the Honduras, Columbia and other Latin American countries.
While Americans have been long influenced by German, French and Italian culture, they have viewed Latino art as subcultural, Holo said. She added that she sees the exhibition as a completely internationalized show.
The works of New York artists, who make up more than half of the exhibition, have an international flavor, while those from other states have been influenced by both their current North American geographic locality and their original ethnic environments, de Alcuaz said.
The exhibition will include paintings, photography sculptures, performances and installations such as three-dimensional paintings that can be heard, seen, touched, smelt and tasted.
The show reflects the "tremendous breadth of expression and variety of influences" that the Latin American artists work with in the United States, de Alcuaz said.
"It would be a wonderful opportunity for students to come and experience art from Latin American artists," de Alcuaz said. "This is something that they can come to see, enjoy, and increase their aesthetic experiences by."
The exhibition is partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency in Washington, D.C., and the Friends of Fine Arts of the university.
The exhibition will run Tuesday to Saturday, from noon to 5 p.m., until Dec. 15 at the Fisher Gallery. At the Atelier Gallery, it will run Tuesday to Sunday from noon to 6 p.m., and on Fridays until 9 p.m., until Dec. 23. Both galleries will hold receptions tonight.