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Volume CXVI, Number 17	University of Southern California	Wednesday, September 25, 1991
Lisa Love’s new challenge
Sports, page 28
Space program must be priority
Viewpoint, page 4
When wheels break down, help is merely a walk away
By Arwen Adams
Assistant City Editor
Consider the bicycle. It is a source of transportation and exercise, fun and convenience. But it can also be a source of headaches, difficulty, worry and expense — when it needs repairs.
Those students who have not mastered the art of bicycle repair will need to search out assistance from professionals.
Though bicycle repair shops are not to be found on every block in the university area, there are a few options open to students having problems with their set of wheels.
A look through the phone book will tell you that bicycle shops abound. But there are a handful close enough to the university campus that students might have their bikes fixed without making arrangements for a car.
Collins' Bicycle Shop, at 3763 Western Ave. (737-9500), is two miles away from the university at the corner of Exposition and Western.
It is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday.
Collins' offers a 10-percent student discount with a valid student identification, and the rates are reasonable. The cost to tighten a chain at Collins' is $2.
If convenience is important, one place to visit is Tom's Wheelworks, at 3347 S. Hoover (747-2629) in University Village across from campus.
Tom's is open from 10 a.m. to 6:30 ?.m., Monday through Saturday.
Tom's Wheelworks, however, is more expensive. The cost to tighten a chain is about $5, and, unlike other stores, Tom's does not offer student discounts.
Lee's Cycle Centers, at 4006 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (295-0680), is west of the university, just past Crenshaw.
Lee's is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. A chain adjustment costs about $4.50, and student discounts are not offered.
Lee's Cycle Center specializes in Schwinn bicycles.
Finally, CTC International, at 2024 Santa Fe Ave. (488-9745), is east of the university at the comer of Santa Fe Avenue and 15th Street.
CTC International is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to midnight on Saturdays.
A chain adjustment costs $3.50 and 10-percent student discounts are offered with student identification.
Repair time varies with extent of the work to be done, but all store repre-1 sentatives claim that most repairs can be done in a day.
Coliseum plans unveiled
Estimated cost of renovation is $150 million
By Brian McDonough
Staff Writer
University President Steven Sample joined Mayor Tom Bradley and Raiders owner Al Davis Tuesday in unveiling plans for the $150 million renovation of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
The 18-month project, tentatively set to begin in January of 1993, will force both the university football team and the Raiders to find alternative venues for the 1993 season.
The Trojans may relocate to Anaheim Stadium, said Athletic Director Mike McGee.
"Anaheim is the only facility we've gone into any detail with," McGee said. "The Rose Bowl would present scheduling problems with UCLA, and there are only 45,000 viewing seats at Dodger Stadium. That's a real problem when tve're averaging 70,000 fans per game."
The Anaheim venue offers about 73,000 seats, with the potential to expand, McGee said.
A final agreement with Anaheim will not be announced until construction dates for the renovation are finalized, but "all of our conversation in the last six
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Plans revealed for the $150 million renovation of the Los Angeles Coliseum include a new deck and box seating. The Trojans will play elsewhere due to the remodeling.
months has been with the place in Anaheim," McGee said.
Ed Snider, founder of Spectacor Management Limited Partnership, the private manager of the Coliseum, estimated the costs of the renovation between $100 and $150 million.
Terry Miller, director of sports architecture for HNTB, the firm hired to redesign the 68-year-old Coliseum, put the price tag between $150 and $200 million.
"There's a wide range (in the estimate) because designs aren't finalized at this point," Miller said.
Sample said the university will not contribute to the reconstruction at all.
"The only commitment we've made is to play here," Sample said, "and that's an important one."
McGee said the university has signed a letter of intent to renew its lease with the (See Coliseum, page 16)
Violent robberies reported
Suspect in one incident had a gun
By Ray Delgado
Staff Writer
Two robberies, one with a gun, and a hit-and-run accident highlighted the incidents reported to University Security last weekend, security officials said.
Late Friday afternoon at 36th Place and Vermont Avenue, a 21-year-old student was opening her car trunk when a man approached her from behind and grabbed her purse, said security Sgt. John Lewis.
The student threw her briefcase into
the trunk and struggled with the man for the purse, Lewis said, when the man struck the woman in the chest and threw her to the ground.
The robber then fled the scene, taking the purse with him.
The woman was taken to the Student Health Center for treatment of a wrist injury suffered during the fall.
The man was never located, Lewis said.
In an unrelated incident, a 22-year-old
student was walking to his apartment on Menlo Avenue when he saw two men run up behind him.
One of the men stood approximately 10 feet away from the student's doorstep to act as a lookout while the other man ran toward the student with a gun.
The gunman demanded the student's watch and wallet.
The victim handed over the goods and the gunman searched him. Not finding anything else, both men then fled the scene, Lewis said
(See Crime, page 6)
Student Senate plans political honors house
Sam Sheldon
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By Glenn S. Griffith
Staff Writer
The Student Senate will vote tonight on a proposal that would create a "House of Public Life" for students to live in, intended to increase political awareness on campus.
The proposal, authored by senate President Sam Sheldon, would grant student senators guaranteed membership.
The proposal cites "(increasing) political awareness among students ... regardless of field of study, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or
political affiliation" as a principal goal of the theme house.
"The house would have students from diverse areas and won't be controlled by a certain group of people," Sheldon said.
However, the last page of the proposal includes a clause stipulating that senators "automatically be allowed to live in the House without going through the formal application process."
Sheldon said he wrote the clause into the proposal because "I feel that the fact that the house would be originally set up (See Senate, page 19)