Iranians abroad denied visas
Drama workshops aid prisoners
Inmates write, perform musicals
Students unaffected by suspension
President Carter, responding to the Ayatollah Khomeini's insistence that U.S. hostages will not be transferred from the American embassy to the Iranian government, issued an executive order Monday suspending visas to Iranians seeking future entrance into the United States.
Although the order applies to all Iranians living abroad, those within the United States with valid visas will not be affected, according to a Defense Depart-
ment spokesman.
In spite of Carter's declaration that new visas or renewals will not be issued except in unusual cases, Iranian students with expired visas will not have to leave the country, as long as they remain students, the spokesman said.
Most of the Iranian students at the university will not be affected by the order, said Berthe E. Von Allmen, director of the Office of International Students. "After speaking to offi-
cials in the State Department, I can say that for the moment, our students (Iranian) won't be affected directly."
Von Allmen said that upon entry into the United States, all visitors receive an 1-94 extension of stay permit to remain in the country for a specific amount of time. However, foreign visitors with 1-94 s can remain in the country even if their visas expire.
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By Natalie Perlin
Staff Writer
The auditorium is large, with pictures of celebrities painted on the walls. John Wayne, Gladys Knight and the Pips, and Laurel and Hardy greet you as you walk in the door.
Music comes from a stage crowded with electrical guitars, drums, saxophones and several other well-worn instruments.
Two men standing in a comer practicing guitars harmonize. Soon a drummer joins in. From another comer of the stage the sounds of a flute softly blend with the guitars and drums.
After a few moments, the musical director, Peter Spelman, calls the musicians to order. Soon the room is filed with the sounds of a driving rock beat.
If you close vour eyes, you can lose yourself in the music and forget where you are. You can forget you are in Terminal Island Prison and that the men onstage are prison inmates.
For a few hours each week, the men are able to forget — when Spelman visits — they are in prison. Every Monday night, he helps the inmates practice for the July performance of an original musical production that will feature songs written by the inmates and showcase the combined efforts of music and drama workshops from the prison.
Spelman belongs to Artists in Prison and Other Places, an organization that provides creative experiences through theater, dance, writing and music workshops for people in social institutions and special constituencies in the community.
Since 1974, Artists in Prison and Other Places
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A PORTRAIT OF ANGUISH — The expression on this anonymous Iranian student's face sums up the feelings of many in reaction to President Carter’s invalidation of future Iranian visas.
Burglary suspect faints to avoid apprehension
By Stephanie Chavez
Staff Writer
After physically resisting apprehension by a plainclothes University Security officer and supposedly fainting to trick officers, a male juvenile suspect was arrested and charged with burglary of a motor vehicle Thursday.
Assault upon a security officer and bicycle theft are also pending charges, according to Sgt. George Farina of University Security.
He said Joseph Picou, a security officer, observed the suspect in parking lot E breaking a louvered window on the passenger side of a camper and reaching his hand inside.
Picou approached the suspect and identified himself as a University Security officer. The; suspect pulled his arm out of the window, mounted a nearby bicycle and attempted to escape.
Picou pursued the suspect on foot and forced him off the bike. The officer attempted to radio for help but no communication could be made because the suspect began to physically resist him, Farina said.
Within seconds a community service officer passed the area and observed the fight scence. He recognized the officer and assisted
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has conducted workshops in 17 hospitals, prisons and community centers in Southern California.
Since June 1976, they have presented nine original theater pieces and two published plays, including Jump Street, the subject of a television documentary schedule to air on the Public Broadcasting Service in the coming year.
Artists in Prison's first production. Convictions, evolved from a workshop and sketches written and performed in prison into five performances at the Center Theatre Group, the Mark Taper Forum's laboratory theater.
University students may participate in the work of Artists in Prison and Other Places through internships offered in the College of Continuing Education. Although the program attracted students in its first one and a half years of life, no students have enrolled yet this semester. Students interested in participating may call Judy Williams in the Performing and Fine Arts Office at 741-7469 for more information.
In addition to the internship program the Terminal Island Prison Theatre Workshop was involved with the university when it performed its fourth original work, Wolf Tickets, on campus last year.
Although prison officials estimate 10% of the nation's prisoners are involved in some arts activity behind bars, taking the arts to the prison is not easy.
"When you're creating theater, everything is possible," said Susan Loewenberg, Artists in Prison's producing director. "In prison very little is
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ATTENTION! — Members of the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps’ drill team practice for an upcoming contest. The little-known team has been very successful in competitions against other colleges. See story page 12.
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DISPUTES CONTINUE
Marine Center work to resume
By Tim Lynch
Staff Writer
The university has received a permit to resume construction of its $700,000 marine research center in Los Angeles Harbor, but disagreements with local fishermen and the California State Coastal Commission remain to be overcome before construction crews return to work.
The South Coast Regional Commission granted the permit at its March 31 hearing on the condition that the Harbor Department refrain from demolishing the only ice house that serves fishermen in the port, said Mel Carpenter, a spokesman for the commission.
Although the department terminated the operating permit for the ice house (which is now operating illegally), it has supported the development of a new ice facility, which will begin service in early May, said Steve Dillenbeck, property
manager for the Harbor Department.
The university must wait 10 working days from the date of the permit before resuming construction of the center (to allow individuals to protest the commission's action), but a group of fishermen were expected to lodge a complaint with the state coastal commission, Carpenter said.
A formal protest would further delay completion of the center by a month or longer, depending on the state commission's decision.
Fishermen and the Harbor Department have feuded over proper use of the Fish Harbor
section of the port for years, and the controversy involving the research center is the latest episode in that feud, said Don Keach, deputy director of the Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies for the university.
"The fishermen view the Harbor Department with a lot of suspicion," Keach said. "They're using us to force the hand of the Harbor Department."
The dispute between the fishermen and the university began last year when the Harbor Department condemned the old research center and leased land
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