Wednesday July 13,1994 Vol. CXXI, No. 10
Weather
After the marine layer bums off around noon, it should be mostly sunny this week with highs in the low-to-mid 80s and lows in the low-to-mid 60s. Clouds may linger at the beaches and highs there should be in the upper 60s.
Inside
Isaacs plays the lead In “Tommy”
The former MTV veejay portrays the deaf, blind and dumb pinball wizard in The Who's Tony Award-winning rock opera. The show will run for two weeks at the Universal Amphitheater.
"Diversions, page 12
Raveling plans to stay at USC
After reports that he may have been accepting a multiyear contract with Seton Hall, USC men's basketball coach George Raveling told USC that he would fulfill his contract obligations.
Sports, page 9
Is star hounding out of control?
O.J. Simpson's case is just the latest development in popular culture's fascination with putting celebrities on a pedestal and then bringing them down when they remind us of their humanity. Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.I.
Last issue of Summer Trojan
The Summer Trojan ends its 10-week run toiday with the final issue of the vacation months. The Daily Trojan will return with the orientation issue on Thurs., Aug. 25 and will resume regular publication on Thurs., Sept. 1, during the first week of fall classes. Have a great summer!
Rasta Trojans?
SummTbjan
R.M. Burg* / Dally Tro|an
Engraved forever In Student Union, early Trojans actually had dreadlocka, wore dreaaea to claas and uaed atone books.
Faculty health clinic to open
Open house to be held today
By Jeff Nuttall
City Editor
The opening reception for the University Park Faculty/Staff Clinic will be held today, followed by a university-wide open house.
The reception is for USC senior administrators and staff involved in the clinic's development, and only invited guests may attend. Expected to speak are: Steven H. Gardner, M.D., M.P.H., Executive Direc-‘or, University Park Health Center; Dennis F. Dougherty, Senior Vice President for Administration; Joseph Van Der Meulen, M.D., Vice President for Health Affairs; and David A Goldstein, M.D., Associate Professor & Chief, General Internal Medicine.
The university-wide open house will follow from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Food and mementos of the event will be available, and doctors and nurses will be on hand to answer medical questions.
Faculty and staff of the University Park campus and the Health Sciences Campus are encouraged to attend the open house, said Barbara A. Hayes, director of the clinic.
Located in room 220 of the University Park Health Center, formerly the Student Health Center, the Faculty/Staff Clinic is open to all USC employees enrolled in the USC self-insured plans.
"The Department of Student Affairs, the School of Medicine, and the Office of the Senior Vice President for Administration have joined forces to create a health care center on the University Park campus for faculty and staff," Hayes said. "The clinic is USC employees' opportunity to procure services from doctors who are encouraged to practice their art in a most productive way."
The ' J nlc has been open since February, but had been in the works since some time before, fn the fall of 1989, the Office of the Senior Vice President of Administration decided to create a new unit to oversee health bene-(See Clinic; page 2)
be staffing the new University Park/Staff Clinic, opening today.
USC professors study oceanic murk
By Jeff Nuttall
City Editor
Beachgoers speak of crystal-dear waters off Caribbean islands. Southern California waters meet public health standards, but are far from crystal dear. But what makes some waters clear and others cloudy? Two USC oceanographers have researched this and other questions about marine murk.
What makes water murky?
Tommy Dickey, professor of earth sdences and head of the ocean physics group in the USC department of geological sci-
ences, and Burton H. Jones, a research professor in the same department, found that the clarity of water depends on particles suspended in it, in the same way that air clarity is affected by particles of smog, fog, or dust.
Near the shore, the clarity is severely affected by waves. Breaking waves bring to the surface sand and sediment particles that decrease visibility. Farther offshore, waves have less to do with it, and microscopic algae (phytoplankton) absorb much of the light.
(See Murk, page 3)
At-risk youths learn sports on campus
National Youth Sports Program teaches benefits of ‘a sound mind in a sound body’
By Nik Trendowski
Staff Writer
Four hundred and fifty economically disadvantaged and at-risk youths ages 10 to 16 are on campus for five weeks to leam about sports and get the message that they can be successful if they stay in school and stay out of gangs, drugs, and |alcohol.
I	Dave Koch, the project administrator for the National Youth Sports Program and assistant director of intramural re-
creation, which organizes the NYSP here, said the partidpants are recruited through area schools and community organizations. About 40 percent nave returned to the program from last year's group.
The program includes instruction for the partidpants in various sports as well as an educational component where the youths leam about the dangers of drugs, alcohol, and gangs, among other things, Koch said.
"The purpose is to provide the youngsters an opportunity to leam a variety of sport j skills as well as get some educational benefits," Koch said. "It's important for youngsters to leam that they can make a difference in their lives if they stay in school.
"We're not trying to create college scholarship or pro athletes here, we're just trying to show them that they can have a sound mind in a sound body," he said.
About three-fourths of the program is the athletic component and one-fourth the educational component, Koch said.
The NYSP was started in
1968, and USC was. one of 10 schools chosen for pilot programs by the federal government, which continues to provide most of the funding, Koch said. Now 169 schools around the country offer such a program.
Fadlities for USC's program are donated by the university, and various departments, such as Dining Services and the University Bookstore, donate what the federal grant money does not cover.
Lunches are provided each day for the boys and girls in the program.