Late rally averts loss
Sports, page 24
Voters’ apathy plagues election
Viewpoint, page 4
Figaro duo reveals truth
Life / Arts, page 9
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Volume CXIII, Number 44
University of Southern California
Tuesday, November 6,1990
A weight lifted off his shoulders
Chlmalne Pouteau / Dally Tro|an
John Pace, a senior majoring in business, works out with free weights in the Lyon Center to strengthen his shoulders. A friend looks on, making sure Pace doesn’t drop the weights as he brings them back down.
High student voter turnout expected for election day
By Janet Cavallo
Staff Writer
Despite confusion about ballot issues and the mud-slinging campaign waged by the gubernatorial candidates, many students are expected to turn out to vote today.
The success of Student Sentate's efforts to register students to vote and random student interviews indicate a pattern among university students that runs contrary to the nationwide trend of voter apathy among students.
"We registered about 1,700 students last month. We hope this will triple the usual student voter turnout," said Sam Sheldon, vice president of Student Senate.
Of students who registered to vote through Student Senate, about 70 percent, or 1,190, were Republican, about 425, or 25 percent, were Democrat, and the remaining 5 percent, or about 85 students, claimed other party affiliations, according to Student Senate statistics.
In the 1989 election, which was void of major campaigning, only about 330 students voted in university precincts, according to government statistics. In stark contrast, more than 2,600 students voted in the presidential elections of 1988.
(See Vote, page 7)
No deadline set for final draft of arena
If project gets go ahead, cost to students still nil
By Elizabeth Arucan
Staff Writer
The final draft of a proposal by the university Athletic Department for a 10,000-seat, on-campus event center has not been received by University President James Zumberge, and it is unclear exactly when this may happen, administration officials said.
The project, if approved, is expected to cost an estimated $35 million, to be funded largely by private donations and from two New York entertainment firms — Neder-lander Capital Group and Ogden Management Services, said Mike McGee, university athletic director.
The costs of the project would not be passed to students, McGee said.
A preliminary agreement with the New York entertainment firms stipulates that the university would own the building, but the private companies would hold a longterm lease, he said.
The proposal is still in the
planning stages and will not be forwarded to the president for approval until various university departments can be consulted to gauge whether the facility would serve their purposes. For instance, the Drama School may want to stage plays in the new facility, he said.
The proposal is currently being discussed by McGee and Thomas Moran, vice president of business affairs. The proposal needs Moran's approval before Zumberge receives it. If Zumberge then approves it, it goes to the board of trustees, who makes the final decision. The board has the option of approving the proposal or sending it back' to McGee for further revisions.
Besides arriving at agreements over site selection, parking and building requirements, McGee is looking into the possibility of a substantial gift to deflect much of the cost of the construction.
Students support the building of an on-campus event center by a 79-percent margin, according to results from a Trojan Opinion Poll of late October conducted by the (See Arena, page 16)
Traveler’s rider receives four stitches after fall
By Chris Fukunaga
Staff Writer
A post-touchdown gallop during the third quarter of Saturday's football game against Berkeley was suddenly interrupted when Traveler, the Trojan horse, threw off his rider and ran across the football field.
Tom Nolan, who rides Traveler as Tommy Trojan, the university's mascot, received four stitches in his nose because of the fall, said Donald Ludwig, director of the Intramural Recreation Department.
A horse handler, who tried to control Traveler's reins, was treated for tom ligaments in her right arm, Ludwig said.
"Traveler started getting real excited and he began bucking the rider until he fell off," said yell leader Shawn Needlman, who won the field at the time. "He tore across the field at a full gallop toward some players and they scattered to get out of its way."
Richard Saukko, Traveler's owner and trainer, said Traveler would not be punished.
"This is the first time the horse has acted this way during a game," Saukko said. "One possibility that I have heard is that some people were throwing ice at the horse."
Ludwig said an anonymous caller told him Monday that a UC Berkeley band member instigated the incident. The caller alleged that a nearby Cal drummer taunted Traveler with his drum stick, Ludwig said.
"Usually Traveler waits in the tunnel the players run out of," he said. "But this time the tunnel had been filled with Cal band members. (Traveler) had to wait on the grass area where he was closer to all the noise and the action."
Traveler, in two years of service, is the fourth horse to be paraded around the track at football
File photo
Traveler carries Tommy Trojan on each victory ride around the track of the L.A. Coliseum.
games when the university scores.
Last fall, the horse threw off another rider at a band dinner behind Heritage Hall, Ludwig said.
Despite Traveler's actions at the Cal game, Ludwig said the horse and Nolan will be at the Notre Dame game in three weeks.
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