With the theme “Let the Music Play," the Songfest committee has begun to sell tickets for the annual charity show at the Greek Theatre April 20.
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Volume XCVIII, Number 55
University of Southern California
Tuesday. April 9, 1985
Paul Newman gives $1 million for center in memory of his son
By James Jones
Assistant Qty Editor
Actor Paul Newman donated $1.2 million to the university's School of Pharmacy on April 1 to establish a research center for drug abuse prevention.
The Scott Newman Center for Drug Abuse Prevention and Health Communication Research was created in memory of the actor's son, who died of a drug overdose in 1978 at the age of 28.
Carl Johnson, director of the Health Behavior Research Institute, said the center will be established in his department and the funds will be contributed over a five-year period.
"The objective of the center is to develop research on how to use the mass media of television, film, radio and newspapers for drug abuse prevention and health promotion," Johnson said.
"The research will look at what works and what doesn't to change behavior through the media."
Johnson said they already have ideas of using the media for drug prevention, including cable and broadcast television programs where kids can interact with the show by calling in a response to a given scenario.
Another idea involved the university's School of Cinema-Television, where an award will be offered to young filmmakers to produce three-minute films on drug prevention.
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University terminates relationship with Idyllwild music and art school
Bungalows to barbecues; Senior Park plans revealed
Richard MacNeal, right, vice-president of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation, presents the final mortgage payment on the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts to the university's Senior Vice President for Administration Jon Strauss.
By Aaron Van Curen
Assistant City Editor
A 21-year relationship with the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts formally ended on March 28 when the the university accepted a mortgage payment that returned ownership of the school to its parent organization.
Jon Strauss, senior vice president of administration, accepted a $384,674 check from the Idyllwild Arts Foundation, the school's parent organization, returning the school to the completely independent status it had before founders Max and Beatrice Krone donated it to the university in 1964.
Max Krone, now deceased, was then a professor of music at the university, and later a professor emeritus.
When the university accepted the donation, it agreed to absorb the school's $400,000 debt — in effect, making that the purchase price.
The repurchase price of the school — 21 years later — was $528,809, but the smaller amount was
accepted because the 6 percent, 20-year mortgage was paid off almost 19 years early.
The school was given to the university with the stipulation that the foundation could buy it back with the 20-year mortgage at the 6 percent interest rate, if the university withdrew or severely cut its support for the school. This right was exercised when the university ceased funding the school in 1983.
The contract also prevented the university from selling more than 20 acres of the 205-acre campus without notifying the board of directors of the Idyllwild campus one year in advance.
The university decided to sever its ties with Idyllwild after it was unable to renegotiate the contract that granted this right.
In a 1983 Daily Trojan article, Strauss said that the contract favors the foundation. Strauss said, "I think we've got all the down side," and "We can't profit by ownership."
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By Susan Ham
Staff Writer
Plans for the Senior Park — the Class of 1985's gift to the university — were recently unveiled, showing a stark change from the cinema school bungalows that once stood in its spot on the northeast comer of campus near Bimkrant Hall.
The area, empty since the last of the bungalows was razed early this semester, will feature recreational and leisure facilities for the university community.
The majority of the work will be completed by graduation on May 10, said Steve Leland, co-chairman of public relations and park coordinator for the Senior Development Committee.
To commemorate the Class of 1985, the Senior Park will include a baseball diamond and football field for intramural ac-
tivities. For leisure activities, there will be barbecues, wooden benches and picnic tables, he added.
Originally planned as a recreational area by the university, landscaping would include grassy mounds, trees and Spanish brick pathways, which would match those on Trousdale Parkway near the Bovard Administration building, Leland said.
The university is also trying to obtain Hoover Boulevard from the city, said Thayer Weddle, assistant director of annual giving and the Senior Development Committee adviser.
The 24-member Senior Development Committee wanted to donate a visible and tangible gift to the university and decided upon a park because other gifts, (Continued on page 19)
LEE-ANNE LEONGr)AILY TROJAN
This site of the old cinema school will soon be converted to a park with funds from the 1985 Senior Development Committee