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Volume XCVII, Number 6	University of Southern California	Tuesday, September 11, 1984
University to finalize university center plans
By Angel Blazquez
Staff Writer
The university will make a final decision on the design and location of the proposed university center within the next four to six weeks, Student Senate President Mike Singer announced Monday.
"In the next 30 to 45 days, we will be at a stage where a decision will be finalized on what type of facility (to have) and where (it will be)," Singer said.
"I think there's been significant progress, and the administration is very anxious to make a decision," he said.
The administration is currently waiting for advice from Mike McGee, the university's new athletic director, said Nancy Calle, chair of student affairs.
McGee said his experience in intramural recreation and athletics from his previous position as athletic director at the University of Cincinnati will allow him to make a fair decision.
"I'm in the process of gathering all the information. A decision should be made within the next three to four weeks," McGee said.
Calle said the senate is "basically playing a waiting game until we receive McGee's opinion."
The university center was first proposed in 1980 when the university realized there was a lack of recreational space on campus. The administration is currently looking at two possibilities.
The original plan called for a S14.8 million facility to be built over the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium, with further development to take place between the swimming pool and the West Complex residence halls for non-athletic activities.
The second proposal also being studied is developing a center for all university activities, and a 6,000- to 10,000-seat sports arena.
Singer said once the university has the information it wants, a decision will be made on whether the university center will include a sports arena.
"John Curry, the director of university budget, is in the process of conducting a feasibility study to determine if the arena concept is feasible," Singer said.
"He is looking at the costs incurred and at the amount of revenue which will be generated by basketball games, concerts and speakers," he said.
However, senators said Curry's study was also put on hold pending McGee's advice.
"They can't start campaigning for money until they decide whether (the project) is going to be the original university proposal or combined with the sports arena," Calle said.
Raising money for the proposed center will be a major part of the next development campaign. Singer said. He said it all depends on what the costs and revenues will be, since the project will cost millions of dollars in any form.
Trustee J. Robert Fluor dies of cancer
Leading industrialist fought illness for 1 year
Trustees are in no hurry to fill recent vacancies
Way clear for USC/Notre Dame telecast
By Joann Galardy
Campus Editor
Flags at the university flew at half-mast yesterday to mourn the death of J. Robert Fluor, leading industrialist and a university trustee for 22 years, who died Sunday after a year-long bout with cancer. He was 62.
University President James Zumberge called Fluor "a shining example of corporate leadership at its best." He characterized him as firm and gracious and a good listener.
John Hubbard, who was university president when Fluor was chairman of the Board of Trustees, said Fluor "loved USC with a passion. I've never met anybody more dedicated to w’hat a university ought to stand for."
Fluor, who became known for the bow ties he wore, joined the Board of Trustees in 1962, served as chairman of the board and was a voting member of the board until his death.
Last year, Fluor was diagnosed as having lung cancer, which he fought with chemotherapy and radiotherapy while continuing his work as chief of his family's engineering firm.
But despite his public vows not to retire because of the illness, Fluor was forced to sharply curtail his university activities. His last appearance on campus was last December in ceremonies renaming Residence West dormitory Fluor Tower in his honor.
"Bob Fluor was a model trustee. He was a dynamic leader of the board during his chairmanship from 1972 to 1980; and he continued, even through a painful illness, to
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the Pac-10 that gives it broadcast rights to all home football games of member schools, including USC and UCLA. Because of this conflict, USC, UCLA, the Pac-10 and the Big Ten Conference filed a complaint in federal court against the CFA, Notre Dame, Nebraska and ABC.
The USC-Notre Dame game will be played at the Coliseum, the UCLA-Nebraska game at the Rose Bowl.
University President James Zumberge and UCLA Chancellor Charles Young expressed their approval of U.S. District Judge Richard Gadbois Jr.'s decision in a joint statement.
"We are gratified that the federal court has supported our position that the provision of the contract between the College Football Association and the ABC Network which would prevent the televising of our home games with CFA members in 1984 may not be enforced," the statement said.
Zumberge and Young added that this university and UCLA should have the right to televise these crossover games with the CFA member schools. Both acknowledged the provision that proceeds from the broadcasts must be shared with the CFA.
Dick Snyder, a representative from the CFA, said Monday that "College Football Association attorneys are reviewing the decision with CFA officials, ABC and other involved schools" and will announce their future intentions today.
The decision handed down Monday is the first of a two-part lawsuit the Pac-10 filed against the CFA. The temporary injunction, which was granted to USC and UCLA and resulted in the television rights to the two (Continued on page 15)
By Joann Galardy
Campus Editor
Although the university's Board of Trustees has lost eight voting members in the last year, George Abdo, executive assistant to the president, said there is no rush within the board to fill the vacancies.
Within the year, four voting trustees have died, three have become Life Trustees and no longer have a vote, and one has retired.
The four trustees that have died are Justin Dart, J. Robert Fluor, John Wilson — all of whom served as regular trustees — and J. Howard Payne, who served as an associate trustee.
The board is made up of three groups: the regular trustees who serve three- year terms and can be re-elected; the associate trustess, who are all past presidents of the General Alumni Association serving one three-year term and have a vote; and Life Trustees, who have been members of the board for at least nine years, serve for life, but do not have voting rights.
According to the board's bylaws as amended June 1,
1983,	there can be a maximum number of 42 regular trustees and 12 associate trustess — a total of 54 voting trustees.
Abdo said, however, that the rules governing associate trustees will be changed, and as of June 1986 there will be only three associate trustees on the board.
Right now, however, the regular members of the board number 34 while the associate members number 11, creating eight vacant three-year voting positions.
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By Kristi Amoroso
Staff Writer
A federal court judge, ruling Monday on a controversial limitation of network broadcasting of football games, granted the Pacific 10 Conference and CBS the right to televise both the USC-Notre Dame and UCLA-Nebraska games this fall.
The decision came after much
debate over the television rights to so-called "crossover," or nonleague, games. Nebraska and Notre Dame, both members of the College Football Association, have a contract with ABC . which gives that network exclusive broadcasting rights to all of their football games, home or away.
But CBS has a contract with
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Thanks to a federal court ruling Monday, CBS will be airing the USC/Notre Dame football game.
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