Volume LXXXIX, Number 49
University of Southern California
Monday. November 24. 1980
GEORGE LUCAS FUNDS PROJECT
Cinema department receives $4.7-million grant
By Matthew Kane
Staff Writer
George Lucas, the university alumnus who created Star Wars, has pledged a 54.7 million donation to the Division of Cinema-Television.
The donation will provide approximately one-third of the $14 million the film school needs to build a new five-building center for film production, instruction and research.
Lucas will make an initial donation of $1.5 million for a post-production center — where students can edit film and video productions as well as produce sound tracks and titles. Russ McGregor, co-chair-man of the Division of Cinema-Television, said the building, which is still in early planning stages, is scheduled to begin construction in 1981.
McGregor said the post-production center will be a state-of-the-art facility with 14,000 square feet of total floor space.
The building will be no taller than three stories.
At the same time the postproduction center is built, or shortly afterward, construction is expected to begin on the second building in the complex, a cinema studies center. The building — which will house screening rooms, classrooms, offices and lounges — is expected to cost $3.3 million, of which $2 million will be covered by Lucas' gift.
The remaining three buildings in the planned complex will be a film studio, a video studio and a film library and research center which would house the school's motion picture archives.
In the center of the complex, McGregor hopes to build a patio where students and faculty from the school's various programs can meet.
"That's the place where much of the magic occurs," McGregor said.
Dreams reveal psyche, life’s tragic experiences
By John Aube and Wendy Keough
For manv, experiencing a nightmare means awakening from sleep with a racing pulse, sweaty palms and an extremely frightened feeling.
In a three-day symposium entitled, "The Anxious Subject: Nightmares and Davmares in literature, art and film," held at the university last week, various aspects and sensations inherent in dreaming were analyzed by a panel of professors from across the country.
The svmposium was held at the Davidson Conference Center and the Schoenberg Institute
"Dreams reveal the psychic structure of a person's individuality," said Joseph Natterson, M.D. Natterson discussed "Dream, Aggression and Individuality," Natterson said there are three phases of the dream axis that show people's individuality, patience and maturity.
"A dream reveals the psychic structure of a person. Quite often a dream exemplifies fear and aggressive behavior," Natterson said.
Dreams symbolize past experiences or present anxieties occurring in the dreamer's life, Natterson said. 'The tragic dimension of human experience is what causes us to have dreams," Natterson said.
Natterson cited an example where a man had a reoccurring dream in which his wife's face grew older and disfigured. When his dream was analyzed, it was found that right before the dream, he found out his wife had betrayed him. The intensity of his trauma caused him subconscious anxiety desiring his wife's face to become disfigured.
Continuing the seminar, Claude Friedmann, M.D. commented that nightmares occur most frequently among children. But "for most people a dream is a hellish, frightening and unusual experience," Friedmann said.
Friedmann explained that sleep falls into four stages. Rapid Eye Movement occurs about 70 minutes after falling asleep. The-first dream occurs during this time and another one is followed in the next 70 minutes. The same process continues throughout the night.
"It is not unusual to wake up right after a dream and remember in great detail what vou have just dreamed. Your eyes move rapidly when you are dreaming because they are tracking what your brain thinks you are seeing. The event in your dreams are as visual to the brain as if it reallv happened," Friedmann said.
The fourth stage is what Friedmann believes is the deepest stage of sleep. "It's the closest stage to death," he said.
Friedmann made a distinction between "night terror" and a nightmare. "A night terror often begins with the dreamer screaming out things like 'he is gonna get me' or 'I'm gonna kill him,' while a nightmare has a more physical reaction like muscles tightening and respiration speeding up. An absolute feeling of terror is experienced in a nightmare and usually the dreamer will awaken not knowing where they are or feeli.ng that someone has been in the room with them," Friedmann said.
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The patio could also serve as a location for filming. McGregor would like the buildings surrounding the patio to have facades of various styles, while
retaining a unity of design, to make the patio area more useful for filming different scenes.
The designs for the complex are preliminary, McGregor said. The school has talked to a number of architects, but has not made a final selection.
McGregor said he was anxious for building to start as soon as possible because of rising building costs.
"Now, our big job is to solicit the remaining $10 million we need to complete the project," he said.
Plans had been drawn for a film center to be housed in a single building which would have been larger than the An-nenberg School of Communications. McGregor and the film school's faculty, staff and students rejected those plans because of its large size and "coldness."
"These buildings (now being planned) we hope will retain
the feelings, the hominess, the human scale of the facilities we've been in these past years," McGregor said.
McGregor said Lucas shares their feeling that the film school should not be housed in a large institutional-style building.
"The USC film school gave me my start . . . and lots of other current and successful filmmakers their starts," Lucas said. "It's logical and appropriate for me as a film producer to support one of the main sources of young talent.
"I hope that the film community will recognize the incredible contribution that USC Cinema has made — and can continue to make to the industry — and will support this major endeavor."
Federal abortion ban possible
Extent of amendment uncertain
By Pamela Savage
A lawyer specializing in abortion rights cases said that a constitutional amendment banning abortion eventually might be passed. The only question is, how extensive will it be?
Dorothy Lang, a lawyer with the federally-funded National Health Law Program addressed an audience of law students Thursday on the topic of "Abortion Rights: Where W'e are Now and WTiere We May be Headed." Lang's presentation was sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Women's Law association.
Lang has extensive experience in cases regarding federal-ly-funded abortions and has filed "friend-of-the-court" briefs in several national and state cases.
She spoke extensively on the progress of abortion laws since 1967 when California "tremendously loosened up” laws regarding abortion as a criminal act.
A United States Supreme Court decision, the 1973 Roe vs. Wade case, legalized abortion nationwide.
Lang said the court based its decision on the constitutional right to privacy of a woman de-
Irvine Foundation donates $2 million to construction
The James Irvine Foundation has recently committed another $2 million to the construction of the Seeley G. Mudd building, which is being built next to Grace Ford Salvatori Hall. This second contribution makes Irvine the largest contributing foundation to the university's Toward Century II campaign.
The building will house the undergraduate chemistry programs and permit the creation of new undergraduate psychology programs. W'ith the Irvine Foundation's $4 million, 86 percent of the money needed to build the facility has been raised.
The Seeley Mudd Foundation made the first contribution of $5 million, making them the largest single contributor to the construction of the building.
Seeley G. Mudd is the son of Seeley W. Mudd, the one who provided the funding tor Mudd Hall of Philosophy on the univ-
ersity's 50th birthday, said Donald 1. Winston, director of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Development.
All the undergraduate chemistry labs will be held in the new Mudd Building. Most of the undergraduate labs are now in Science Hall.
Science Hall is a verv old building and the labs there could be quite dangerous, said Kenneth Servis, the chemistry professor in charge of the labs in the new building.
"The labs in Science Hali are well past their useful lives," he said. "The new labs will be verv welcome."
The university Medical Campus also has several buildings named after the Mudds. Mudd Memorial Research Building and the Seeley W. Mudd Memorial Research Laboratory have been funded mainly by the Mudd Foundation.
riding on an abortion. She added that states have no right to legislate to protect fetal life before the final three months of pregnancy.
It was a violation of Roe vs. Wade when the Supreme Court
—	bowing to state pressure — ruled this past summer to ban federally-funded abortions, Lang said.
"Barring a large and liberal change in the Supreme Court, federally-funded abortion is down the tubes," Lang said bitterly. She blamed the abortion derision on constitutional crisis created by the Hyde Amendment, a bill attached as a "rider" to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's appropriations bill every year since 1977.
Written by Henry Hyde of Illinois, the amendment eliminated Medicaid-funded abortions.
"The real power of this approach is that the appropriations bill will not pass if any part of it doesn't go through, and this would shut off HEW salaries and all Medicaid funding. It is absolutely clear that the point of the Hvde Amendment is to provide a base for eliminating all abortion," she said.
Lang said she cannot believe the Supreme Court would not see the Hvde Amendment as a direct violation of the 1973 abortion law. But, she said, "1 think that at least five Supreme Court members were afraid a constitutional crisis would occur if thev told Congress they couldn't make a decision."
In California, as a result of the recent election, Sen. Dave Roberti, a key anti-abortion leader, will become the majority leader in the State Assembly.
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