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Volume XCVII, Number 57	University of Southern California	Tuesday, November 27, 1984
Basketball relay is planned for proposed campus arena
By Karen Kucher
Assistant City Editor
To inform students about the proposed University Center and arena, as well as to show the administration that student interest for the center exists, the Student Senate is planning a basketball relay encircling the campus Dec. 5.
The senate has divided up campus streets into "something like a monopoly board" and will have students — after donating SI — dribble a basketball and pass to the next student around a 10,000-foot long course.
"This stack of SI bills will be presented to the (university) President (James Zumberge) as the honorary opening contribution for the center along with the petition," senate President Mike Singer said in a memo sent to various campus organizations.
"The money is really nominal when you are talking about raising $25 million. The aim is participation, and giving the opening contribution to show students' support," Singer said.
Don Ludwig, director of intramurals and recreation, called the upcoming event "an effort that will generate excitement," and said he is supporting the senate's basketball relay promotion.
"I like any idea to promote it. We are definitely hurting for facilties," Ludwig said.
Lilly Araya, chairwoman of the senate's University Center committee, said the committee has been working on the event about a month.
The senate is sending representatives to talk to resident advisers, sororities and fraternities, and other campus organizations, trying to drum up at least 500 students to participate in the event.
The basketball relay will start at the Physical Education building at 10:30 a.m., will travel around through campus streets and will end at Tommy Trojan at 12:45 p.m. At the end of the course, there will be a presentation to Zumberge of the list of students who signed a petition in favor of the University Center, the student donations and the basketball.
Singer said he expects a lot of participation from the intramural clubs, since they will be "directly
affected" by the university arena, although the senate is soliciting support from all aspects of the university committee.
The senate will set up a table at Tommy Trojan for a week starting Tuesday from noon to 3 p.m., signing up interested participants for the basketball relay.
"It is very positive and will affect every’ student," said Araya, a commuter student, adding, "If they approve the plans, then student organizations could hold meetings there."
The basketball relay event will "show student support and encourage the administration," Araya said.
There will be a basket set-up near Tommy Trojan, and the men's and women's basketball teams will do passing drills and lay-ups before the ball is presented to Zumberge.
"This is a simple, fun concept, and should take up 15 to 20 minutes of their time. As individuals it is not a major contribution, but with 500 individuals it becomes a major event," Singer said.
The senate expects the media coverage of the event and the interest generated by word of mouth to affect the donations for the University Center.
"We think if potential donors see the intensity of the student's desire for this type of facility on campus it will encourage them," Singer said.
A multi-purpose recreational facility on the campus has been discussed for over 10 years. The University Center will include locker rooms, basketball and volleyball courts, weight rooms, multi-pur-pose rooms for dance classes, handball, racquetball and squash courts, jacuzzis, as well as auditoriums.
Singer said the proposal has been expanded to include an arena for both athletic and cultural uses.
"... we have no auditorium on the campus to house concerts and speakers which would attract more than 1,500 people" since Bovard only holds 1,500, he said.
The administration has "set aside a six-month period when they will be talking with potential donors to try to build the University Center with the
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Student Senate dissolves academic excellence unit
Chairwoman quits: third resignation within past month
By Maria Villarreal
Staff Writer
The Student Senate Task Force on Academic Excellence has been dissolved following the resignation of its chairwoman, Hilary Kaplan, on Nov.
6,	Mike Singer, senate president, said Monday.
Kaplan's resignation was the third by a senate member within the past month.
Kaplan said her resignation stemmed from the "outstanding" restructuring of the Academic	Affairs
Research / Action Unit by its chairman, Michael Reilly.
"I resigned because my position is no longer necessary," she said. "Michael Reilly is £o-ing a tremendous job in Academic Affairs, and so what I was doing was becoming duplicative.
"Before, Academic Affairs was not as broad as it is now. Reilly has used a lot of initiatives to make the unit bigger and stronger than it's ever been," she said.
The task force, created by Singer last May, examined specific areas within Academic Affairs, such as the Freshman Writing Program, Freshman Access and admission stan-
dards. The task force was to make or suggest improvements in these areas.
Singer attributed Kaplan's resignation to lack of time.
"There's a very strong time commitment involved,” he said. "She's been very busy getting ready to apply to (medical) school.
"Hilarv may have felt the task force was an addendum to the senate," Singer speculated.
But Kaplan, though not officially a member of the Academic Affairs unit, will work with Reilly on the issues originally covered by the task force.
"Mike Singer encouraged me to work with Reilly informally rather than formally on the issues," she said.
The Academic Affairs Research / Action Unit of the senate has assumed the responsibilities of the task force.
"The way it was set up, the task force was supposed to start on January or February 1985 and report its findings," Reilly said.
"Mike (Singer) and I are confident that specific areas the task force was going to examine can be incorporated into the Academic Affairs agenda," Reilly said.
Kaplan speculated that the findings of the Academic Affairs report would surface at the end of Reilly's term.
"Invaluable7 videotapes missing; reward offered
By Dana Glad
Staff Writer
A $300 reward is being offered for the return of 15 "invaluable" videotapes which contain interviews with the renowned anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss that may have been stolen from Hancock Auditorium on Nov. 14, Timothy Asch, an associate professor of anthropology, said Monday.
The 3/4-inch Sony U-matic tapes are clearly marked in red ink with Levi-Strauss' name and dated October 9-11, Asch said. The six hours of footage are significant because they may represent one of the last recordings of Levi-Strauss, who is 76.
Asch called the missing tapes a "disaster for the whole university" since only the university's anthropology department had been invited to videotape Levi-Strauss during a conference at UCLA.
Levi-Strauss is a French anthropologist and philosopher acclaimed for his theories on cross-cultural myths, his questioning of objectivity in studying other cultures and his criticism of existentialism in the 1960s.
The theft was not reported to University Security until one week after the tapes were missing because they were believed to be misplaced.
This made the investigation considerably more difficult because it was "too late for actual
investigative work" such as fingerprinting, said Robert Wade, University Security officer.
The master tapes were stored in an open box along with five to 15 blank videocassettes in a room adjacent to the restrooms in the basement of Hancock Auditorium, Asch said.
The broadcast journalism department had planned to use the blank tapes to reproduce
and time the original tapes, Asch added.
Although 3/4-inch videotape is specialized and usually used professionally to record television news or for industrial purposes, it could have been mistaken for the more common 1/2-inch tape used in home video, said Randal Schultz, broadcast studios coordinator.
Wade said the "general size of
the cassette could be confusing," adding he also believed the thief may have thought the tapes could be used in a standard home video recorder.
The door to the room, which contains an automatic lock, was found ajar on Thursday morning and may not have been closed properly, Schultz said.
However, Wade said he had received conflicting reports and
was unsure whether the door had been locked.
Wade said he had no suspects but was continuing the investigation because of the importance of the materials.
Asch said that if the tapes were returned there would be no questions asked and urged anyone with information to contact him at 743-7100.
KUSC radio to expand to Santa Barbara
By Frances Hong
Sun VVnttT
After three years of planning, KUSC-FM, a public radio station licensed to the university, is going to expand into Santa Barbara next spring by creating a new station, KSCA-FM, adding it to its two-station network.
KSCA will follow' the same format as KUSC, but "with a slight more emphasis on news," said Hugh Paul, director of engineering for KUSC. Paul said 85 percent of programming will be classical music, and the balance will be fine arts features, news and public affairs of classical music.
KUSC, at 91.5, is a professionally run fine arts station that caters to classical music buffs, ft is on the air 24 hours daily and already broadcasts to the greater Los Angeles area, including Newport Beach, Pomona, Santa Barbara, Riverside and other areas by cable.
KUSC has another station, KCPB, which is heard in Ventura County. KCPB, located on 91.1 FM is a direct simulcast of KUSC. KSCA, however, will not be a simulcast.
"Seventy-five percent of what KSCA will air will be produced by KUSC," Paul said, "and the reason for this is that it is more cost-effective.
"Since the cost of production is so high, it would be ridiculous not to distribute good programs on as many stations as possible. If
we produce an exceptionally good program, why not (use it elsewhere?" Paul said.
KLISC started out as a student-run radio station m
"Prior to 1973, the government began tightening requirements for the types of services radio was providing," Paul;said, "and they (the government) believed that they owed it to the public to provide a public-sen ice station."
Currently, there is no more spectrum space on the radio in the greater Los Angeles area.
"We are a three-station network now that is continuing to grow." said Natalie Ellington, a public relations assistant.
'rThe station received the stereo signal in 1976, and that was when we began the transition from a student-run radio station to a professionally run station," Ellington said.
According to Paul, KUSC is one of the premier public radio stations in the country. "We are members of the National Public Radio svstem and one of the founders and members of American Public Radio."
The station also produces programs that are aired nationally and syndicated by satellite. Paul said they produce and distribute all concerts by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and prbduced the Olympic Arts Festival.
"Our three stations serve about 5 percent of the it.S. population/' Paul said.