Volume CV, Number 52	University of Southern California	Monday, November 16, 1967
THE RIVALRY
Troy Week kicks off with ‘Drag the Bruin’
By Craig Hausman
Staff Writer
Parking may be difficult when U2 plays Coliseum
When the band U2 performs at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Tuesday and Wednesday, students may experience some difficulty with parking because the Menlo parking lots will be dosed to students at 4:30 each afternoon.
Commuter students who normally park in the Menlo lots will be redirected to alternate parking at the Shrine Auditorium if they need to be on campus after 4:30 p.m., said Roy Heidicker, assistant director of Parking Operations.
Heidicker also said students should not remain parked in the Menlo lots if they will be attending the concerts. The lots are owned by the Coliseum and are used by the university only during the week.
For such special events as concerts, the Coliseum resumes management of the lots, and spaces are sold individually.
Parking Operations will staff all gates to campus and to Menlo lots with extra personnel Tuesday and Wednesday. Parking officers will ask students not, to park in the Menlo lots if they will not be on campus past 4:30 p.m.
—	Danielle Sanford
Hunger benefit to raise awareness
By Yamil Berard
Staff Writer
In an effort to raise public awareness of world hunger, Oxfam America, a private enterprise dedicated to aiding the indigent in Africa, Asia and Latin America, will hold its annual fast and
Thanksgiving fund-raiser this Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in the Newman Catholic Center.
University students and other devotees to the cause of world hunger will join millions of Americans in the nationwide fast. The fast, titled "Fast for a World Harvest," commemorates Oxfam's 13th consecutive "hunger banquet."
"The last thing on most students' minds is fasting. Yet this is exactly what some are doing to commemorate Thanksgiving. The purpose is not only to donate money saved for the hungry, but to bring attention to the problem/' said Kart Brier, a member of the Newman Catholic Center.
Participants in the hunger banquet will break a self-imposed fast with a light meal of soup and bread after celebrating Mass at 5 p.m.
"The (extent of the) fast depends on them. They can give up a snack on any day — save it and wrap it up for Oxfam," said the Rev Don Duptessis. director of the Newman Cathobc Center Participants may cut down on food intake or certain foods, or they may simply not eat at all 'It's all volunteer," he said.
Fasting, generally associated with the need for "mortification'' and spiritual deansing. is "to deprive oneself in order to share the lot of the poor, in Oxfam's case," said the Rev. Perry Graffius. assistant chaplain of the Newman Catholic Center Monetary- contributions go to alleviate the suffering of others," he said.
Brier said, "Fasting is a means in which students can experience personally what it means to be
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MCHAEL KJM DALY TROJAN
FLYING MACHINE — Jeff Stein, a freshman aerospace engineering student makes final measurements after 25 hours spent constructing an intricate model airplane Friday at Dedeaux Field. The plane serves as a practical way of demonstrating theoretical aerospace principles.
University’s public radio station gains top spot for most listeners
By Kevin Davis
Staff Writer
Its beginnings may have been humble, but KUSC-FM has grown up — in a big way.
The university-owned and operated public radio station, broadcasting on 91.5 FM, has overtaken the No. 1 spot with the largest weekly listening audience of any public broadcasting station in the nation. KUSC ousted longtime cross-country rival WNYC-FM from the coveted position, according to the Summer 1987 Arbi-tron ratings.
"It is certainly an honor for the station that enough people in Southern California listen to KUSC to give us the No. 1 ranking," said Susan Taylor, the station's director of public relations. "It is also a tribute to us that we have found the programming that people want to hear."
But the achievement, Taylor said, is especially gratifying for other reasons as well — chief among them the fact that the station's general manager, Wallace Smith, left for a post at WNYC a little over a month ago.
'Tor many, many years, WNYC was No. 1 in the country, and for many, many years, KUSC was No. 2 or No. 3," she said. "It's sort of ironic and slightly humorous that he left the No. 2 station only to end up at the No. 2 station all the way across the country."
Smith, who is now working in New York as vice president of WNYC, served as general manager of KUSC for 15 years and is considered by the station to be largely responsible for the
achievement. He sees the irony in the situation perhaps better than anyone.
"It's ironic that I can't fully enjoy KUSC's new status since it's WNYC it beat in the rankings," Smitn said. "But I guess it isn't too often' that a man has a chance to beat himself at this game. Still, the real fight is to stay on top. That's the challege for KUSC now."
Taylor said the No. 1 status is also significant because KUSC is one of only a handful of public radio stations that does not carry National Public Radio programming.
NPR's news service and programming attracts a large listening audience for public radio nationwide. Considerable controversy accompanied KUSC's departure from NPR nearly four years ago, Taylor said.
"The fact that we don't carry NPR anymore makes the achievement even more meaningful," she said. "In fact, when you say 'public radio,' people often think of NPR programming.
"We pioneered those programs in Los Angeles, but by the time 1981 rolled around, every public radio station around was carrying that program," she said. "So, out of the belief that there needed to be alternatives in news, we dropped the service, and we are the first to achieve such high status without it."
In the course of disassociating from NPR, KUSC was instrumental in forming another radio service, American Public Radio, which distributes programming from around the nation
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Troy Week kicks off today at noon with a "Drag the Bruins" procession down Trousdale Parkway featuring Trojan Marching Band members, Yell Leaders, cheerleaders and the Trojan helmet cart, which will drag the Bruin bear sentenced to bum Thursday night.
In previous years, Trov Week would have been more appropriately billed as Troy Night because Thursday's traditional rally • bonfire was the only event to attract much attention, said Karen Kuettel. special events director for Trojan Pride, which is coordinating the week's events.
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