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A new era: The USC baseball team will play against Washington State in a conference game for the first time since 1971.
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NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
George Lucas
A new digital studio will be built at USC courtesy of a $1.5 million donation from director George Lucas, the USC School of Cinema-Television announced Wednesday.
The new studio will be named after the late Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and will be an addition to the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, which is set to be completed in 2001. Part of the construction cost for the new digital stage will be funded by the $5 million that Zemeckis donated to the cinema school in October.
“With this gift, George Lucas continues to demonstrate his heartfelt support of young filmmaking talent at USC," said Elizabeth Daley, dean of the School of Cinema-Television. “It’s especially gratifying to see his name paired with Robert Zemeckis in this gift to the new Center for Digital Arts. Both of them are masters of experimentation, and both are genuinely invested in helping the next generation continue to push the envelope.
"The state-of-the-art digital studio will feature the latest in digital filmmaking. Besides digital stages with motion-control computers, the studio will have equipment to allow digital shooting and editing, digital editing stations with at least 60 work stations, computer graphic interactive classrooms, multimedia cable connections and suites for digital sound and picture editing.
The Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts and the Akira Kurosawa digital stage will be built in the Performing Arts Annex at 30th and Figueroa streets in the Figueroa Corridor, an area from downtown Los Angeles to USC that is proposed for multimedia industry development. Construction of the 20,000-square-foot building is set to begin in June 1999.
Students were impressed with the donation, saying that the gift will propel USC past its competitors.
“Wow,” said Joel Revoreido, a senior majoring in cinema-television production. “I think that (Lucas') generosity is only superseded by the necessity of that medium being stressed in the academic field. I hope
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Play that funky musk. Musical group East L.A.'s Sabor Factory (above) played with Quetzal and Ozomatli on Thursday night in Bovard Auditorium as part of Latino Heritage Month’s Festival de Aztlan in a performance that drew around 300.
Bulletin boards provide advertising
Service: Five electronic signs also give traffic information to those leaving campus lots
ByANNEWONSONO
Staff Writer
Just as the electronic bulletin board at one campus gate has been providing traffic information since the end of February, four more signs will soon be in operation to provide commuter updates as well as for campus organizations to promote their organizations or announce meet-
ings, Transportation Services officials said.
The signs, which will be located at gates 1,3,4 and 5 in addition to the original one at Gate 6, will begin operating March 29.
They will provide another medium for students and staff to learn about campus events as well as pressing traffic issues that affect their daily commutes in Los Angeles and Riverside counties, said Brian d’Autremont, director of Transportation Services.
“There is always a need for better communication,” d’Autremont said. “The bulletin boards will allow traffic conditions to be announced to people driving home and (for them to know of) events in the campus community."
Traffic information is fed from the computers at the Transportation Services office, where data is entered and then sent to be displayed on the boards. The $40,000 project and subsequent maintenance fees of $1,000 will be funded through the parking operating budget.
The electric signs will operate 24 hours a day at Gate 3, located at Figueroa and 35th streets, and Gate 5, located at Jefferson Boulevard and McClintock Avenue.
“The idea for the board was first conceived a year ago," d’Autremont said.
The first electronic board was set up at Gate 6, located at Vermont Avenue and 36th Place, because that site has the highest volume of exiting traffic, d'Autremont said.
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Former basketball coach dies at 85
Obituary: Graduate also worked in real estate, co-owner of rubber company
By MELANIE SCOTT
Staff Writer
Bobby Muth, a one-time USC basketball and baseball player who was also the team’s head coach for a year-and-a-half during World War II, died from complications from a stroke March 7 in Huntington Beach. He was 85.
“Muth was a charismatic indi-
vidual who was a Trojan through and through,” said a friend of the Muth family who declined to give his name.
Muth took over the Trojan coaching job in the middle of the 1944 season when then-Head Coach Ernie Holbrook was called to serve in the military.
Muth retained his coaching position through the 1945 season. His coaching record was 17-17 overall, including a 15-9 record in 1945-
Muth lettered at USC from 1934 to 1936 on Trojan baseball teams that won three consecutive league titles under Head Coach Sam Barry.
During Muth’s playing career,
the Trojans went 50-26, including a 12-0 mark against UCLA	“Muth was a After serving as a head coach chcrismatic for the Trojans, Muth worked for jndjvkjua| wtl0 Goodyear Tire and Rubber and went on to be the co-owner of was a r0,an Brown-Muth Rubber Company in through and Los Angeles. through."
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Muth is survived by his wife, Bobby Muth Jeanette, and three sons,
Dudley, Rodney and Greg, as well as eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held privately. The Muth family requested donations be made to the USC Athletic Department.
Rain should prompt caution on campus
Though the weather is set to clear by Saturday, ti e Department of Safety still advises faculty and students to take precautions during rainy weather.
"Anytime it does rain, we have to be concerned for some of the facilities,’ said DPS Lt. Art Blair.
Sandbags should warn passersby that flooding is possible in those areas, Blair said. Common areas for flooding include Bing Theatre and Parking Structure A
Today's weather will be mostly cloudy, clearing by tonight. Saturday will be sunny, though clouds will begin building by Saturday with a chance of rain again on Tuesday, according to weather reports.
One good side of bad weather is that there is leas crime, Blair said.
"There are fewer people out, and anytime you have fewer people, the possibility of becoming a victim ia less. Frankly, I think (criminals) don't want to be in tbe rain any more than you do.”
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Lucas gives $1.5 million to university
Donation: Gift to endow studio to be named after famed Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa
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