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Volume C, Number 2
University of Southern California
Monday, January 13, 1986
Tutu speech moved outside to handle larger audience
By Beth Laski
Assistant City Editor
Bishop Desmond Tutu, who had been scheduled to speak on Jan. 21 at noon in Bovard Auditorium, will now speak in front of Doheny Library, in order to accommodate the tremendous audience anticipated.
"We would not be able to accommodate enough people and, therefore, the audience would be severely limited" if the original Bovard venue had been retained, said Donald Miller, director of the School of Religion.
In the past, at UC Berkeley and UC Davis, when Tutu spoke, the audience exceeded 11,000 people, Miller said.
"Last Monday, at the first meeting organized to decide where Tutu would speak, our concerns were two-fold. Because it is an academic event, we wanted Tutu to speak indoors where students could attentively sit and listen to the speech. We debated basically on whether to have the speech indoors or outdoors," Miller said. The problem with Bovard is that it can only accommodate 1,500 people, he said.
Michael Palmieri, chairman of the Program Board, said, "It will be more beneficial to the university to have the event outside where more people will be able to see and hear Tutu."
"We are expecting at least 2,500 to 3,000 people, and it wouldn't be fair to have half of these people have to listen from outside," Miller said.
'Since the media would take space otherwise allocated to student seating, we could more adequately provide for them on platforms built adjacent to Doheny Library,' Miller said.
"After discussion Friday about the pros and cons of holding the event indoors and outdoors, we felt that the speech should be held outside to benefit the university as well as the Los Angeles community," Palmieri said.
"We expect television coverage from both local and national networks, and since the media would take space otherwise allocated to student seating, we could more adequately provide for them on platforms built adjacent to Doheny Library," Miller said.
"After deciding on Friday that we wanted to have Tutu speak outside, we debated a number of different locations. Our choice was between in front of Tommy Trojan or in front of Doheny Library," Miller said.
However, Palmieri said, "The Program Board and the Student Senate feels it important to stress that Tutu's speech is an educational program and a great opportunity for students to actually see and hear what the Nobel Peace Prize winner has to say."
"We would like to create a more formal academic atmosphere, and we chose Doheny as opposed to Tommy Trojan because the setting in front of Tommy Trojan is more informal," Millet said.
Miller said that a stage will be built above the steps of Doheny in front of the doors of the library so that Tutu "will be elevated on a platform about four feet above the steps," Miller said.
Bovard Auditorium is still being reserved for Jan. 21, and, in case of rain, the event will be moved there, Miller said.
The press conference, originally scheduled before the event, has been changed to follow Tutu's address at 1 p.m. in Town and Gown.
Senior vice president named
Lyn Hutton may be first female to hold position
By David Miranda
Staff Writer
Campus AFROTC best in U. S.
By Tania Soussan
Staff Writer
Lyn Hutton has become the new senior vice president for administration and Anthony Lazzaro, the acting senior vice president for administration, has been made senior vice president for business affairs, according to an internal memo prepared late Friday afternoon by President James Zumberge's office.
Hutton had held the position of treasurer.
Lazzaro was formerly the vice president for business affairs, but he and Hutton will now join Senior Vice Presidents Roger Olson and Neal Pings to form the four-member Office of the President under Zumberge.
Hutton "could very well be the first female senior vice president in the school's history," said George Abdo, executive assistant to the president.
Zumberge made his final selections last week and Hutton and Lazzaro officially assumed their new duties as of Friday, Abdo said.
Among Hutton's responsibilities as senior vice president of administration are the university budget, financial affairs, treasury, comptroller, general
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Anthony Lazarro has been promoted to senior vice president for business affairs.
JUUE SEIDEL/DAILY TROJAN
Verne Orr, retired secretary of the Air Force, praised the members of the Air Force ROTC in Bovard Auditorium Friday afternoon.
The Air Force ROTC was honored Friday by the Department of the Air Force at a ceremony in Bovard Auditorium as the best unit in the nation.
Verne Orr, a retired secretary of the Air Force; Brig. Gen. Richard Heame, national commander of the Air Force ROTC; several university trustees and members of the AFROTC attended the ceremony.
The unit achieved the honor by consistently ranking in the top 10 in various areas of competition, said Capt. Jerry Garling, an assistant professor of aerospace studies.
"It is a well coveted award and there are a lot of people jumping at your heels to get it," Hearne said in an address to the cadets at the noontime ceremony.
The detachment rose from a 44th place ranking last year to number one in what Robert Biller, executive vice provost, called "just a magnificent achievement" that "reflects very well on our students."
To begin the ceremony, Harry Marlow, a representative of County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, made a presentation to the School of Public Administration from the Board of Supervisors for having the best command in the nation.
The ROTC program is a part of the School of Public Administration.
Orr, a former professor in the School of Public Administration, explained some of the recent changes in the Air Force nationwide.
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Late fee charges to be refunded
By Roseanne Tellez
Staff Writer
The deadline for students to pay their fee bills was extended last week following the discovery of a typographical error in a leaflet that was mailed to students along with their bills.
The leaflet, which contains information about the registration process, incorrectly states that Thursday, Jan. 9, was the deadline for fee bill payment. University policy, however, dictates that a late fee be assessed after Jan. 8, last Wednesday, said Jimi Bingham, university bursar.
When the mistake was brought to the attention of the Cashier's Office, cashiers began waiving the $50 late fee, but only for students who presented the leaflet, said Mark Decker, a student senator. Cashiers were instructed to tear up the leaflets so that they could not be passed on to other students, he added.
Bingham said that after his office was informed of the problem, it decided no late fees would be assessed to any students, whether they presented a leaflet or not, provided they had paid their fee bills by last Friday.
This amounted to a two-day extension of the deadline.
Roz Guerrero, manager of the Cashier's Office, declined to comment on the matter.
There was some confusion at the Cashier's Office, however. Friday afternoon, employees there were still saying that the deadline to pay without incurring a late fee was Jan. 9.
But Bingham instructed Guerrero to extend the deadline, and said any students who paid a late fee on or before Jan. 10 will automatically be reimbursed.
Students who deferred payment of their fee bills until after the Jan. 8 deadline saw the late fee postponed until today.