Volume CV, Number 42
Homecoming festivities will exalt ‘Power of Troy’
By Yamil Berard
Staff Writer
Cardinal and gold will dominate campus this week during homecoming festivities exalting the "Power of Troy," a theme symbolized by Tommy Trojan and his representatives — the USC student body.
"Homecoming is a time when everyone can show their Trojan pride in a fun wpy," said Karen Kuettel, director of special events for Trojan Pride. "It's not so much the events but the bringing together, creating a warm unity in fun and games that express the power of USC and what the guy with all the muscle (Tommy Trojan) stands for."
The festivities are sponsored by Special Events, Trojan Pride, Coffeehouse, USC Travel Service, the Black Student Assembly, the Asian American Student Assembly, the Assembly for Human Sexual Diversity and the Latino Student Assembly.
"(Homecoming Week) will unite USC students — giving
them nothing but the best to look forward to," said John Binkley, director of special events for the Program Board.
'This hands-on sponsoring by seven out of the 10 Program Board committees will give all students a chance to come together like never before. It could easily be one of the biggest events on campus this year."
“We've taken the initiative to use our money for ourselves. The game will be for alumni."
— Karen Kuettel, director of special events for Trojan Pride
Founders Park will be filled with cardinal and gold balloons beginning today, and various performances and games will be held at the park through Wednesday.
Today's entertainment features magician / comic Terry Lunceford at noon. Jazz bands will provide music at the park
on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mike Price's Jazz Sextet performs Tuesday at 1 p.m., and a four-piece jazz band will perform Wednesday at noon.
Besides a water balloon toss and a jeilo-eating contest today, more competitive activities are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.
The events include a three-legged race, a banana-eating contest, a tug-of-war and a Tommy's burger-eating contest, in which participants try to swallow as many double cheeseburgers as possible within 10 minutes.
The winning team will receive weekend air fare to San Francisco, courtesy of USC Travel Service.
A dance party on Thursday night culminates Homecoming Week with the selection of Mr. and Miss USC at 11:30 p.m. The "All-University Homecoming Party," with $150,000 worth of lights, sound and video equipment, will simulate a dance dub in front of Tommy Trojan from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Binkley said.
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GAME FACE — USC Coach Larry Smith sports a new look for Halloween at Friday’s pep rally on Cromwell Field. For a complete look at how the USC football team fared against Washington State, see SPORTS, page 12.
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Curator of university-owned library, Marta Feuchtwanger, dies at age 96
By Mika Manty
Staff Writer
Marta Feuchtwanger, the widow of anti-Nazi, novelist-playwright Lion Feuchtwanger and the curator of the university's Feuchtwanger Library, died in a convalescent home near her Parific Palisades home Sunday a week ago. She was 96.
Mrs. Feuchtwanger, the playwright's companion in an escape from 1-11116/s Germany, served as curator of the 38,000-volume library, located in Feuchtwanger's 25-room Spanish mansion in Padf-ic Palisades.
The library features thousands of first editions published from the 16th through the 20th centuries and several editions of books printed during Gutenberg's times, said Harold von Hofe, the director of Feuchtwanger Institute for Exile Studies.
The Feuchtwanger home used to be a friendly oasis for other emigrated German intellectuals, such as Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Arnold Schoenberg. Entertainers Charlie Chaplin and Peter Lorre occasionally visited the house.
The library belongs to the university under an agreement Mrs. Feuchtwanger made in 1959, a year after her husband's death.
In 1977, she willed the remainder of her estate,
more than $1 million, to the university to either maintain the library in Pacific Palisades or build a new one on campus.
Von Hofe, who is now also the curator of the library, said he will discuss its future with President James Zumberge this week.
"One of the main items in the agenda is whether the library will stay in Pacific Palisades or have a new location on campus/' he said.
On her 75th birthday, Mrs. Feuchtwanger, who escaped from Germany with her husband in 1940, was honored by both the Federal Republic of Germany and the dty of Los Angeles.
In 1980, she was made an honorary doctor of humane letters at the university's 97th Commencement ceremony.
As a girl in her native Bavaria, Mrs. Feuchtwanger was denied much of an education out of a belief that girls from good families should attend only private finishing schools and only until age 15.
But the young Marta, hungry for knowledge, taught herself French, English and Italian.
She met her husband when she was 18, and he was working as a theater critic and poet. Their first and only child, a daughter, died of puerperal fever.
A memorial service for Mrs. Feuchtwanger is expected to be held in about one month.
Professor may steer cars clear of hydraulic steering systems
By Kevin Davis
Staff Writer
Thanks to a continuing grant from the National Sdence Foundation and General Motors Corp., the research of a university professor may soon produce revolutionary changes in automotive computer and control systems.
Petros Ioannou, an electrical engineering systems professor,
is attempting to perfect a "steer-by-wire" system in cars that would make hydraulic steering control obsolete, making cars lighter and more economical.
Ioannou's research is based on his Robust Adaptive Control strategies, which attempt to produce products less sensitive to aging, production variability and environmental changes.
Now in the third year of a five-year grant from the sdence
foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Awards, Ioannou is once again being additionally funded by GM.
The designation as a Presidential Young Investigator carries with it a basic grant of $25,000 for five years. To encourage participation by industry, the science foundation provides additional funding of up to $37,500 per year on a (Continued on page 3)
World-famous inventor shares success story
By Mika Manty
Staff Writer
Considered to be the world's "most prolific and successful inventor/' Yoshiro NakaMats spoke to students and faculty Friday about the relevant issues of creating new products for commercial markets.
NakaMats, the inventor of the floppy disk and more than 2,300 other patented products, said the secret of an invention is a threefold combination: theoretical approaches, practicality and freshness of ideas.
About 100 people gathered in an auditorium in the Seeley G. Mudd Building to listen to the highly praised Japanese inventor who said he would only speak from his 50 years of experience
Instead of giving a traditional lecture, he asked the audience questions to convey his message. "If you don't know the answer to my question, you should stand up. If you know, I will give vou the Dr. NakaMats Award — I'U shake your hand." he said.
He said different types of approaches could be divided into ideas, invention, and research and development.
"Many people confuse these things," he said. "If you are doing something, you must dedde which of these you want to do.
"There is no definition of invention. . . . Through my experience, I have found three elements of invention/' said NakaMats, who holds more patents than Thomas Edison.
"Theory, the freshness of the idea and practicality are essential for invention," he said. "Don't go to idea or research and development, go to invention.
"I have many ideas, even when I'm traveling. Dunng trips, I immediately telephone my office to transmit my ideas," NakaMats said.
He said he can also invent "in a toilet, in a bathtub, everywhere."
Emphasizing the importance of knowledge, he said, "If you have two ways — an easy way and a difficult way — take the difficult one. After overcoming the difficulty', you know how to create more on your own.
"You must recognize others' creative products and respect them. You can't create anything alone."
He introduced "bungineenng," a word he has coined, and said students should not only pursue technical knowledge but also study the opposite.
NakaMats created his first invention at age 5. Bv eighth grade, he had developed his first patented product, a non-fuel heater. He has also invented talking paper and a "brain chair'' that cures jet-lag
The university's Office of Patent and Copyright Administration, the East Asian Studies Center and the Entrepreneur Program sponsored the event.