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Volume CVII, Number 21
University of Southern California
Wednesday, October 5, 1988
Ex-Beirut hostage joins campus staff
By Kevin Cullinane
Staff Writer
Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, the Roman Catholic priest who was held hostage in Beirut, Lebanon, for 19 months in 1985-86, arrived at the university Monday where he will be an associate director of the Newman Center.
Jenco, who arrived in Los Angeles Monday, said he was still recovering after being greeted by a barrage of reporters.
"With the hostage situation being as it is, I accepted (interviews) basically to make sure that (the remaining hostages) are not forgotten," he said.
Jenco was in charge of Catholic Relief Services in Lebanon when he was abducted by Islamic Jihad terrorists in 1985. After 564 days of captivity, he was released to the Syrian army on July 26, 1986, because of "deteriorating health" caused by a heart disease.
"To be suddenly released after a long period of captivity is both physically and emotionally exhausting," Jenco told reporters in July 1986.
Jenco, who was held in solitary confinement for the first six months, said that during his ordeal he received cheese and water for breakfast, beans and rice for lunch, and bread and jam for dinner.
During the next 13 months, Jenco shared a cell with three otl.er American hostages: David Jacobsen, director of Beirut's American University Hospital; Terry Anderson, an Associated Press correspondent; and Thomas Sutherland, an agronomist at American University.
On his release, Jenco visited President and Nancy Reagan at the White House before returning to hiis hometown, Joliet, 111.
Jenco will begin work on Nov. 7 at the Newman Center, where his duties will include "the pastoral ministry of Catholics on campus," he said.
In the interim, he will visit Pittsburgh, where he is scheduled to speak at the National Conference of Slavic Sisters.	(See	Jenco, page 2)
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MICHAEL KIM / DAILY TROJAN
Thom Mason, a professor of music at the university, leads a band of 10 others during Tuesday’s noontime concert in front of Tommy Trojan. The band “Elf” (German for 11) is made up of graduate and undergraduate students.
L.A. debate in question
2nd meeting needs sponsor
By Carole Cleveland
Staff Writer
Despite the League of Women Voters' decision to withdraw its sponsorship of the second debate between presidential candidates George Bush and Michael Dukakis, the event remains tentatively scheduled for next week at the Shrine Auditorium, a spokesman for the Dukakis campaign said Tuesday.
"The debate will take place either Oct. 13 or 14," said Steve Hopcraft, press secretary for Dukakis' California Campaign '88. "It totally depends on when the baseball playoffs occur."
The exact location of the debate is also in question.
"It's a little premature to discuss it," said Matt James, a spokesman for the Commission of Presidential Debates. "Ideally, we want the Shrine if we can get it, but an alternative site may have to be selected."
James said the bipartisan Commission of Presidential Debates, which sponsored the first debate at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., last month, may sponsor the Los Angeles debate if it can obtain the necessary finances.
No final estimates have been made of the total costs of a Bush-Dukakis debate in Los Angeles, a spokeswoman for the commission said.
The League of Women Voters' decision to withdraw its support stems from its disapproval of the format the candidates have chosen to showcase the debate and the candidates' decision to control the debate's agenda.
Nancy Newman, president of the league, said the candidates are "hoodwinking the public" by the way they are structuring the debate.
(See Debate, page 2)
Special event parking fee keeps permit prices down
By Colette Maandig
Staff Writer
Funds generated from special event parking are used to offset the costs of parking expenditures, thus preventing an increase in the price of parking permits, said Roy Heidicker, assistant director of Parking Operations and event manager.
But Parking Operations expects a decrease in revenue from special events this year because parking spaces for USC football available to the general public will be limited this year to ensure enough spaces for regular permit holders, Heidicker said.
"There's a perception out there that we sell parking spaces to the general public at the expense of our permit holders," said Carl Levredge, director of University Security and Parking Operations. "That is not the case. Permit holders are our first and foremost priority." ’
The university charges non-permit holders $6 for all events held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which includes concerts and Los Angeles Raiders games.
University Parking Operations generated $30,000 by allowing the general public to park on campus during the "Monsters of Rock," tour in July, and $20,000 during last month's Amnesty International concert.
However, during the recent USC-Oklahoma football game, special event parking generated only $4,000 in revenue by selling about 660 parking spaces to the general public, Levredge said.
Although the sale of extra parking spaces will be limited during the football season, Heidicker said there will not be any drastic loss of revenue.
(See Parking, page 6)
Women’s center considered
Task force checks cases for, against additional services
By Chris Eftychiou
Staff Writer
A university task force is reviewing the need for a proposed women's resource center and will determine by November whether the program would unnecessarily duplicate existing services.
But officials who currently provide counseling services say the center is needed.
Allan Ebbin, executive director of the Student Health and Counseling Center, said a resource facility for women would complement the services his office currently provides.
"Is a women's shelter needed? Absolutely. Let's say a woman is battered, and she's afraid to go back to her home. Where does she go for shelter? There are such places for that in the community, but maybe we need something like this on campus," Ebbin said.
He said a center could fill in
How women’s resource centers are funded at other universities
Money allocated to women's resource centers at selected universities for the 1988-89 school year. The year in parentheses represents the date the school's center was established.
SCHOOL	MONEY	ALLOCATED
UC Santa Barbara (1975) ..................$150,000
Cal St. Los Angeles (1976)................$ 3,000
Cal St. Long Beach (1982) ................$	2,700
gaps that now exist in women's services. "The question is how we can make up the difference," he added.
Student Health and Counseling works with about 50,000 patients each year, and about half of those are women, Ebbin said.
A women's center could provide a supportive environment for women on campus by offering programs on current issues, he said.
The proposed center would provide a small resource library, a newsletter, monthly speakers
and peer counselors.
Connie Horak, a representative of the women's resource center planning committee, said the center's programs would focus on issues such as sexual harassment and self-protection, as well as a support network for campus women.
"Women can help one another. You don't always want to go to the police or student conduct," she said, adding that many incidents go unreported because of a lack of supportive (See Center, page 6)