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Volume CV, Number 3	University of Southern California	Thursday. September 3, 1987
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MEETING OF THE MINDS — Anthony Lazzaro, senior vice president for business affairs, listens to Athletic Director Mike McGee at Wednesday’s meeting of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission. Lazzaro told the commission to examine all options before deciding on the Sports Arena’s fate.
Failed coup against Aquino incites local responses from Troy Philippines
"Fortunately, international flights were not canceled/' she said. "The situation was more stabilized. When I left (Sunday), it was quite peaceful."
Before the attempted coup, a nationwide strike had been planned because increased oil prices were causing transportation costs to rise. Aquino rolled back the oil prices, which relieved some of the strikers. However, the nation remained semiparalyzed.
"They are still demanding a rollback of oil prices," Roxas-Chau said. "It's still quite high."
She said the military seized the opportunity when businesses began to close, leaving people
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By Michael Cary
Staff Writer
The unsuccessful military coup against Philippine President Corazon Aquino incited local responses from members of Troy Philippines, one of whom was in Manila last week.
"I couldn't go out," said Sheree Roxas-Chua, acting public relations chairperson for the International Students Assembly and a Troy Philippines member, who was in Manila when the military uprising occurred. "We were advised not to leave. . . My parents didn't allow me to go out because of stray gun shots.
Professor develops world’s first set of ‘test tube’ triplets
By Shawn Pogatchnik
Assistant City Editor
A professor at the university's School of Medicine has achieved a medical milestone in the field of "test tube" pregnancy — the world's first triplet pregnancy created artificially with frozen embryos.
The successful operation was announced publicly last week at the university-affiliated California Medical Center of Los Angeles. The procedure, executed by the school's In Vitro Fertilization Service, marks the first time ever that frozen embryos have yielded three surviving fetuses in a single operation. In addition, it is the first time in the history of artificial insemination that two embryos have produced three fetuses.
Dr. Richard Paulson, the doctor who performed the frozen-embryo procedure, indicated that the triplets came as a pleasant — and history-making — surprise.
"It's like someone hit three grand-slam home runs in an inning," said Paulson, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology who has directed the fertilization service for over two years. "It's a historic event. It's the first time that two frozen embryos have yielded such a high success rate."
Paulson's patient, an unidentified woman who had tried unsuccessfully for the past 10 years to become pregnant, was directed to the clinic last April. Eight of the woman’s eggs were artificially inseminated at the time, and four of the fledgling embryos were reimplanted into the patient.
But that procedure failed. "They didn't take," Paulson said. "The most we normally ever get is twins, and then only about 5 percent of the time. This time, none of the four (embryos) survived."
Paulson then directed technicians to place the remaining four embryos in suspended animation, frozen in liquid nitrogen nearly 200 degrees below zero. "We had (four) extra, so we froze the others," he said.
Only two embryos survived the freezing process, and hopes were low that a second attempt at embryo implantation would work. "After freezing, the pregnancy potential is substantially damaged," Paul-
Arena’s improvements top university concerns
By Danielle Sanford
Assistant Qtv Editor
First-priority scheduling and improvements to facilities are the university's top concerns involving the possible purchase of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, regardless of who will eventually hold title of the property.
Although the university would like to acquire the arena through either a master-lease plan or through ownership, renovations and improved scheduling are its primary concerns, said Anthony Lazzaro, senior vice president for business affairs for the university, at a meeting of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission Wednesday.
"The challenge would be to address what is now a deficit operation," Lazzaro said, referring to a possible university bid for the arena.
Citing the need for better seating and adequate locker facilities. Mike McGee, athletic director, echoed Lazzaro's comments, saying the university would work with any organization as long as its needs were met.
McGee said that the university is the only school in the Pacific-10 Conference that is faced with the "dilemma" of not having its own basketball facility.
"We would like to see the home court advantage that major basketball teams have now," he said, adding that the university's team is rarely able to use the facility for practices.
McGee said the university- should be the Sports Arena's No. 1 tenant, but in the past this has not been the case.
He stressed the need for additional locker rooms, noting that the men's and women's teams share the same facilities on game da vs The men’s team dresses while the women's team finishes its game, he said.
During the commission's regular meeting Wednesday. County Board of Supervisors' Chairman Mike Antonovich suggested that the university's needs may be more adequately met by one of several sports and entertainment management corporations that have expressed interest in the Coliseum complex
"It's all about money," Antonovich said, adding that a professional management company would bring increased rev enue to the community, possibly add to the number of available jobs and generate greater safety for university students who live and work near the Coliseum complex.
"We can make more money for the community’. . .and enhance this surrounding for the University of Southern California . .and the Clippers," Antonovich said. "Hopefully we are going to retain the Raiders. That is our whole effort. We want the Raiders here. We feel that they will stay here after 1991. But, in the meantime we can operate this facility ail year. . .and everybody will benefit.
"It*s taking a negative and turning it into a plus."
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rrs A MIRACLE — Good heavens, it’s “Brother Dominic,’’ on campus Wednesday to promote Xerox copiers.
Semion Katz
Refusenik arrives in November
By Mika Manty
Staff Wnter
Distinguished Soviet geophysicist Semion Katz, one of seven refusenik scientists recruited by the university, was recently allowed to leave the Soviet Union and is expected to arrive in Los Angeles this November.
The university offered Katz, who specializes in seismology, a two-year visiting professorship, said William Spitzer, Dean of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Katz and his family arrived in Vienna last week, but it will take some time until everything is arranged and Katz can immigrate to the United States, Spitzer said.
"The usual procedure with Soviet exiles starts in Vienna." he said. "The next stop is Rome, where visas and the immigration paperwork will be taken care of. Now it seems he won't be here until in November."
Katz is one of seven Jewish scientists the university recruited with enormous pubbcity in
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