SPORTS EXTRA
Stanford vs. USC
Memorial Coliseum. 1
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Friday, October IQ, 2003
PART FIVE OF A FIVE PART SERIES
More than 1,500people plan weeks in advance for every home game.
By GINA GOODHILL
Contributing Writer
USC students attending tlie football game this Saturday might not think about tlie fact that all the bathroom doors are in perfect working order or that the ticket takers' uniforms are all matching.
They might not notice that all the tailgating parties are in desig nated spaces or tliat the tunnels leading into the Coliseum are mom tored by a specific number of set u rity guards.
However, these are the details that make a big difference to him dreds of USC, Coliseum, 1 ,os Angeles Police Department, Department of Public Safety and Los Angeles Department of Transportation employees.
Each home football game is the result of hours of planning, weekly meetings and pre-game run throughs involving more than 1,500 people who do everything from
Ori Thursday, representatives from various city groups met at the Radisson Hotel to discuss building of new sports arena.
By KEVIN MERICKEl
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The Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles postponed a decision that would impact the uni versity’s ability to replace a parking lot on the corner of Figueroa Street and Jefferson Boulevard with the Galen Events Center, a new sports arena
About 45 local residents, leaders and university officials commented on the center’s possible construction at a four-hour meeting Thursday.
Representatives from the university and the Figueroa Corridor and local community members made their cases to the Community Redevelopment Agency yesterday at the Radisson Hotel Midtown Los Angeles about transferring the title of the proposed arena over to USC.
The Board of Commissioners for CRALA postponed the vote until early November in order to further investigate economic impact studies conducted by USC.
The issue before board members is whether the arena should be built instead of a retail center.
USC and private developer Jim Jones originally formed an Owner Partnership Agreement with the redevelopment agency to develop a retail center on the proposed site, which is next to Sizzler.
USC Plaza was supposed to be a 916,000 square foot commercial facility occupied by retail businesses, a hotel and additional office facilities, said Carolyn Webb de Macias, vice president of External Relations.
The groups who signed the agreement were part of the Figueroa Corridor Associates, a group from which USC and Jim Jones have since broken away.
I see Galen Center page 14 I
Debate is over whether the arena should be built instead of a retail center.
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Foetbefl. Setting up Tor a USC .football game at the Los Angeles Mei
Thursday, workers added the finishing touches on the endzOne lines
Tfje arena would be built on Parking Lot T, which is next to Sizzler.
separation a success
Last months surgery lasted 24 hours and required a team of more than 50 specialists. -
Tripus twins on Sept 11. Such twins are con- couldn’t have walked.” joined at the hip and posess three legs	Gross said he remains intrigued by the
between thism. v	r	notion of identity. In the few months since
- The girls were bom as triplets, two of meeting the twins, he recalls referring to the whom were conjoined.	.	girls as "they” rather than as separate individ-
Only 58 of the 1,000 documented cases of uals. conjoined twins have been in this category.	Gross suggests that the freedom given by
Only one other known pah of conjoined twins	the surgery will open a tremendous amount of
One month after their surgery, 10-month-	were also triplets. ^ ^ ^	options,
old previously conjoined twins are “happy	“Could they have lived? Yes. Could they	“Going down the road, they would never
and smiling,” said John Gross, assistant pro-	have had a normal existence? No,” Gross said,	had had separate identities. The justification
fessor of clinical surgery at Los Angeles	“The way they were joined with the posterior	and rationale for undertaking this is being
Childrens Hospital.	'	appendage, they would not have had a func-	mobile and (claiming) separate identities,” he
A team of USC surgeons successfully sep-	tional • existence with the ability to travel,	said. “Now they’ll be able to function and
arated the pair of conjoined Isehiopagus They couldn’t have fit in a wheelchair and	I	see Twine, page • i
By KRISTIN MAYER
Contributing Writer
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