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Volume C. Number 44	University of Southern California	Friday, March 14, 1986
University chefs to recreate gourmet menu for students
By Katherine Dyar
Staff Writer
The culinary delights of The Sardine Factory are coming to the universitv- to satisfy the sophisticated tastes of its students.
The chefs of the university's dining services will be recreating a select menu of specialties next week from The Sardine Factory restaurant in Monterey as the second presentation of “Culinary Classics," a program to provide the works of culinary experts from all over the U.S. to campus customers.
Some of the delectables that will be offered for the five-course meal include Escargot California, Artichoke Bisque soup, Veal Cardinal, and White Chocolate Mousse.
The meals will be available at the Commons Garden Court from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and at tiie Edmondson Faculty Center on the Health Sciences campus Tuesday and Friday during the same hours. The meal costs $24.95 and reservations must be made.
A buffet dinner featuring the same menu will be presented at Trojan Dining Hall March 18 through 20, from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., for S13.87.
Reservation spaces are still open for Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at Commons, and for Tuesday and Friday at the Health Sciences campus. Residents with dining plans can make reservations for Trojan Hall at any time.
Eugene Lawless, director of Dining Services, said The Sardine Factory’ was chosen as the featured restaurant because it is "one of the finest seafood restaurants" and is known for "doing amazing things using products and ingredients indigenous to California."
"We wanted a restaurant with a history and a background of excellence, so we could expose our clientele to fine seafood," he said. "Our primary objective is education. We're giving the customers at USC the opportunity to try new and different things."
The two owners of The Sardine Factory, Ted Balestreri and Bert Cutino, will be on campus for a reception on Wednesday to sample the replication of their menu and "to keep us on our toes," Lawless said.
Lawless said that a three-member culinary team from the university traveled to Monterey to study the preparation and presentation of the selected menu before returning to tram the 300 people involved in the dining operation here.
"After (the restaurant's chefs) got over the shock that a universitv dining service would dare to duplicate their menu, we spent two-and-a-half days at the restaurant finding out what was special about it," he said.
The idea for Culinary Classics came from a similar program Lawless worked on when he was assistant director of dining services at Cornell University. After coming out to Southern California, Lawless said he decided to "flatter" Cornell's program by creating one for the university community here.
Last November, Culinary Classics debuted with a menu from Chicago chef Louis Szathmary and his restaurant, The Bakery. Lawless said campus customers gave a tremendous response to the selection.
P.E. staff to speak
By Katherine Dyar
Staff Writer
Five members of the physical education faculty will leave next week for Beijing, China, to deliver a week-long series of lectures at the Physical Education Institute there.
Professor J. Tillman Hal! said he and four other physical education professors will be traveling to Beijing on March 17 to deliver lectures to instructors at the institute and to sit in on classes during the week.
As well as speaking to the institute's instructors, Hall said, the faculty will be exploring the possiblities of an exchange program between the university and the institute.
"We are doing this as a pro-
fessional endeavor," Hall said. "We feel it is our professional duty to help them catch up. If the university attracts students (from China), so much the better."
Hall said the university was first contacted by representatives of the institute two years ago, when they visited the campus during the Olympics.
"They said they felt 50 to 75 years behind what they saw in the U.S.," Hall said.
After seeing the program here, the institute representatives asked Hall to arrange the lecture series in China to provide the university faculty with a chance to share knowledge with Chinese professors and make recommendations for im-
JOEL ORDESKY DAILY TROJAN
The street painted with the logo “Fiji” was the site of an accident where an automobile slid out of control and collided with four parked vehicles.
Girl injured in Row wreck
Gerhard Taeubel
Staff Writer
A female non-student was injured Wednesday when the automobile she was a passenger in allegedly slid out of control on a Row street painting and collided with four parked vehicles, University Security said.
The unidentified woman was taken to California Hospital and treated for a probable concussion. The driver was not injured.
Sgt. Herman Aviles said the driver allegedly lost control of the car as it drove over the painted “Fiji" logo on 28th Street.
Although street painting is popular among the fraternities and sororities at the universitv.
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provements in their program in Beijing.
Throughout the week. Hall will be lecturing on physical education and competitive athletic programs in the United States, and on physical education administrative problems in universities.
Robert Wiswell will speak on the lifetime benefits of physical education, as well as its influence on disease and reducing fatigue.
The scientific principles of physical training and evaluation, and the relationship between nutrition and athletic performance, will be addressed by Robert Girandola.
John Callaghan will speak on psychology and sports performance, and Robert Pestolesi and his wife, Marillyn, will discuss the physical education curriculum and requirements in the United States.
Hall said the physical education department is "extremely interested" in setting up an exchange program and will be trying to negotiate arrangements through university officials after the lecture series is completed.
Although the proposed pro-
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Aviles said the activity, which is considered vandalism, is illegal.
Security is increasing the number of citations for the paintings, he said. Last month, two sororities were cited for street painting.
Jeff Stokes, president of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, which is known as the "Fiji" house, said Thursday that he was aware of the accident, but had not been contacted about the details leading to the collision.
Stokes said he was not aware that security was attributing the cause of the accident to the Fiji painting.
The accident leaves open the question of who is liable if the collision is legally determined to
be a result of the street painting and the victim decides to initiate legal action.
Alex Ratka, the university's director of insurance and risk management, said that negligence would have to be shown on the part of the fraternity for the house to be liable.
If the street painting was legally determined to be the cause of the accident, however, both the university and the fraternity could be held liable, since the university is responsible for the supervision of the Row, Ratka said.
Ratka also said the university requires fraternities and sororities to carry their own liability' insurance.
Cinema professor given award by honor society
By Tommy Li
Staff Writer
The Mortar Board Honor Society, which consists of approximately 25 top senior students, awarded the Faculty Member of the Month award for March to Richard Jewell, associate professor of cinema, Thursday afternoon during his class, "History of the American Film Before 1950."
"I'm very enthusiastic about (the award). It's very' gratifying," Jewell said.
When seven members of Mortar Board walked into Norris Cinema Theatre with graduation gowns and lit candles, Jewell said, in front of his class of 60 students, "What in the world is going on here?"
After Christine Suh, chairwoman of the Faculty Member of the Month awards, introduced the Mortar Board to Jewell and his class and said, "This award is our way of expressing our appreciation to the faculty who have served us so well," the students applauded.
"We are pleased to announce that Dr. Rick Jewell has been selected as the Faculty of the Month winner for the month of March," said Bill Chandler, president of Mortar Board.
He said Jewell was awarded this honor because of his "dedication to students both in and out of the classroom."
Ria Snoek, one of the Mortar Board members and a senior majoring in cinema, said, "Rick genuinely cares about students."
"As director of the critical studies program this year, Rick has allowed students to plan whatever activities they wanted," Snoek said.
Chandler and Snoek were the two members of Mortar Board who nominated Jewell to be a recipient of the award.
"(Rick's) Cinema 293g, 'History of the American Film Before 1950,' is one of the standards of the cinema-critical studies program. (His) lectures are straightforward, easily discussed and his tests fairly evaluate the materials," Chandler said.
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