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Volume LXXXVHI, Number 15 University of Southern California Tuesday February 26, 1980
Agreement reached on Coliseum
Remodeling will cause 7,000 seat loss
University officials have reached a tentative agreement with the Coliseum Commission on remodeling the football stadium to accommodate the Oakland Raiders, but other major questions still remain.
Representatives for the university, the Raiders, UCLA and the commission met a week ago Saturday to resolve the conflict over the proposed construction of 99 luxury box suites that would be built as part of the offer to entice the Raiders.
Virgil Lubberden, associate director of athletics for business affairs, had previously expressed concern that the luxury boxes would displace about 11,000 seats, most of which were between the goal lines.
He said the university might consider playing some of its games at another site, perhaps the
Rose Bowl, since the school's lease with the Coliseum has expired.
During the meeting, however, the1 officials reached a consensus agreement that they said would affect far less than the 11,000 seats contemplated.
Under the new proposal, the Coliseum field would be lowered six rows for the installation of almost 4,000 temporary seats. Lubberden could not be reached to explain the 7,000 seat shortage that apparendy still existed.
Hank Rieger, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Olympics Organizing Committee, said the new seating arrangement must still leave room to provide a legitimate track and field facility for the 1984 Olympics.
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Conference meets on energy problems, ARCO chief blames past economics
By Roger Gray
Staff Writer
The existence of an energy problem was about the only issue energy and economic experts could agree upon at a conference on the future of energy at the university last week.
How to solve the problem, the consequences of various solutions, and even the extent of the problem were subject to wide debate.
Thornton Bradshaw, president of the Atlantic Richfield Co., and a former candidate for president of the university, said that energy problems are bringing the country together.
"We are getting over the malaise of the '60s and '70s. We
are coming together on a rational and realistic energy approach," Bradshaw said.
Bradshaw told the conference of oil company executives, economists, and energy consultants that America's energy problems came from economic policy based on two myths: the first, that energy is abundant and Mideast oil fields will "pour out oil forever," the second that energy is cheap.
"Energy is cheap because Congress said it should be," Bradshaw said, blaming price controls on domestic oil for encouraging heavy energy consumption and waste.
Government policy based on those myths has been first, use more foreign oil because it is
cheaper and fetches a higher price than domestic oil and second, break OPEC, Bradshaw
said.
Because Americans were used to an abnormally low price for energy, when prices began to reflect the true scarcity of the resource, OPEC received the blame, he explained.
"Both policies were successful, with catastrophic results," Bradshaw said.
“U.S. oil production ran down, because there was a lack of incentive to go out and drill for 'expensive oil' if energy was cheap, and we pushed oil producing countries too hard, beyond their capacity to absorb (Continued on ^age 10)
Alumni receives honor of trustee appointment
9tafl Photo by Wayna Lavina
HIGH STEPPING IT — Larry Doubley won a long jump competition Saturday at the Cromwell Field Opening Day. See story page 16.
INCREASE PREDICTED
Rise in auto burglaries continue
By Stephanie Chavez
Staff Writer
University Security predicts that by the end of this month, motor vehicle burglaries may total up to 50, which would be the highest number of automobile crimes ever reported in a one month period.
There have been 41 burglaries from motor vehicles as of Feb. 24, with stolen property valuing over $10,000. This past weekend, $1,670 in property was stolen from five Volkswa-gens.
The highest number of auto burglaries in one month was 45 in January, 1980. However, Sgt. Gary Rus of University Security said, "if things keep going the way they are, we project there will be around 50 for this month."
Burglars have smashed car windows 23 times and pried open locked doors or window wings 14 times to break into the vehicles.
Foreign cars, especially Volk-swagens have been the hardest hit by the auto crimes. In each of the 27 burglaries to Volkswagens, stereos averaging $238 were taken.
Usually most auto crimes occur in the parking structures to various makes of cars. It now seems as if burglars are looking just for foreign cars scattered out in the structures or on the streets. There are no particular
areas or times in which the crimes occur, Rus said.
"What we probably have is someone looking for a particular type of car, mainly foreign." The burglar may be looking for certain types of stereos in foreign cars, or it could be it is just easier to break in and get them frbm makes of cars such as Volkswagens, Rus said.
At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, University Security officers spotted a male Negro, 39, hammering at the dashboard of «. Volkswagen Scirocco parked on Exposition Boulevard. The right front door to the car was open and the window was smashed.
Upon seeing the officers, the suspect ran toward Exposition Park, while University Security pursued him in their vehicle. In Exposition Park a car and driver was waiting.
The chase continued to a parking lot at 37th and Hope Streets, where Los Angeles City Police Department officers arrested the suspect, booking
him with robbery from a motor vehicle. The driver escaped on foot.
"I wouldn't doubt it if he got out on bail that same night...It would seem a good possibility that he might have been involved in the weekend break-ins," Rus said.
When asked if University Security was planning to initiate any special surveillance or sup pression programs to combat the high crimes to autos, Rus had no comment.
"Right now we're just trying to make people aware of the problem. That's all I can say. We are working on something else that has priority over this."
He did say that students should consider installing tapered door locks or an alarm system depending on the value of the car and its contents. Also, valuables such as tapes, books, and tennis racquets should not be visible from the outside of the vehicle.
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Kenneth T. Norris, chairman of the board of Norris Industries, Inc., has become the university's fortieth trustee.
Norris, who graduated from the university in 1953 with a B.S. in industrial management, is best know>n for his contribution to the Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Cancer Research Institute, totalling $5 million. He is the project director and chief executive officer of the institute which, when it opens in 1981, will be the first facility in the Pacific Southwest devoted exclusively to the study, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.
Norris is also a trustee of the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation, a philanthropic organization named for his parents, a sergeant in the reseiye forces of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and an b norary director of the Estelle Doheny Eye Foundation.
Kenneth T. Norris, Sr., chairman of the university's Board of Trustees at the time of his death in 1972, began the tradition of Norris family contributions to the university. They include funding for the Norris Medical Library, adjoining the site of the Cancer Institute on the Health Sciences Campus, and funding for the Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre and the Dental Science building, both on the main campus.
As an undergraduate, Norris was a member of the honorary organizations Skull and Dagger, Blue Key and Beta Gamma Sigma. In 1978 he received the Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement from the School of Business and in 1979 the Salemi Collegium of the School of Medicine conferred on him its annual Distinguished Service Award for "outstanding contribution to the School of Medicine."
Norris will begin his three-year term at the next meeting of the Board of Trustees, March 14-16 in Palm Springs.
Kenneth T. Norris, Jr.