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Volume LXXXVIII, Number 27	University of Southern California	Thursday March 13, 1980
Service groups granted 150 football tickets per game
By David Romero
Staff Writer
The Student Senate passed a motion Wednesday to give 150 football tickets per game to members of groups that perform services at games, such as the Trojan Knights, Squires and Phrateres. The motion also specified a seat placement pattern for crowd control and for dispersion of group members throughout the whole student section.
Members of the service groups have traditionally received prime seating.
The senate's motion evolved out of a memo from Paula
Tripp, a student senator, to Jim Dennis, chairman of the Games Committee.
Tripp said the allocation of tickets to the groups would be made by the committee.
The groups would have discretion as to which members would get tickets, Tripp said.
The committee had recommended 150 tickets for each member plus one ticket for a guest. The committee and the senate considered the amount to be excessive and the committee asked the senate to tine another figure.
The senate previously discussed allocating 75 seats to
service groups, a amount assumed to be close to the number of members who actually worked at games.
Dennis Alfieri, a member of the senate and the Knights, said Dennis felt at least 100 people are needed to work at games.
Th^ senate was concerned about complaints that extra tickets allotted to the groups were being given to friends of members.
However, the motion states that if a member does not show up at a game by a specific time to be designated by the service group, his ticket should be giv-
Students detest internment plan
Proposal calls Iranians ‘enemy aliens’
By Carey Jue
Staff Writer
Iranian students at the university said Wednesday they detest the legislation proposed by Senator S. I. Hayakawa that would allow' President Carter to declare all Iranian nationals in the United States enemy aliens so they could be placed in relocation camps like the Japanese during World War II.
Hayakawa said he believes that by placing Iranians in relocation camps, the United States would gam a better "bargaining chip'' for the release of the hostages.
“To hell with him,” exclaimed one student.
“You don't know what he (Hayakawa) is saying," said a senior in electrical engineering. "It differs so much from American 'policy."
Most Iranian students doubt that the U.S. government will be allowed to intern them.
"Take away the rights of one person and they'll put Jews, Mexicans, blacks and so forth away," one Iranian said.
Students insist Iran is not at war with the United States. They contend that the w’hole hostage crisis is blown out of proportion. ,
"If they repeat the mistake they made 20 years ago, they are stupid," another electrical engineering major said.
The students said they believe Americans overreacted to the hostage situation. Americans have always been treated fairly by the Iranian people, they said, and the Ayatollah Khomeini during the revolution ordered the people not to kill the Americans.
Most Iranian students agree, that the hostage situation-will be over shortly and that Iran should develop closer ties to the United States to combat the Soviet military threat.
They suggested that any future United States and Iran ties should be bilateral with both parties acting as partners sharing technology and military strength.
en to another member who will work or put in a lottery of undistributed student tickets on Saturdays before games. Students with tickets would be able to trade for better seats through this lottery.
The motion requires groups to designate before the day of a game which working members should receive tickets. The tickets W'ill not be given out un-
til the workers arrive at the game.
The seating pattern specifies two members to be seated at the end of each five rows, alternating sides each of those five rows.
This would space members more openly for better crowd control. Previously, service grouj? workers were seated in one section of the prime area.
Oakland Raiders employ former athletic adviser
By Richard Bonin
Associate Investigations Editor
Jeff Birren, the athletic department's academic adviser who resigned last week for trying to solicit unearned academic credit for 34 football players, has been hired by the Oakland Raiders football team.
John Robinson, head coach of the university's football team, used his connections with the Oakland Raiders to secure Birren's job. Robinson coached for the Raiders in 1975 before coming to the university. He also grew up with John Madden, the win-ningest coach in Raiders' history, and later served as best man at Madden's wedding.
Robinson said Birren's job with the northern California franchise is temporary.
Birren "is working on a day-to-day basis with the Oakland Raiders/' Robinson said. "I think it's a job for this week only. He asked me to help him find a job."
Robinson said Birren is looking for part-time work. "Obviously he (Birren) is struggling badly," Robinson said.-
"Make sure you understand he's helping them (the Raiders) unpack. Make sure vou don’t read anything into it." Robinson said in reference to his helping secure a' job for Birren.
The Oakland Raiders, embroiled in a legal battle with the National Football League over its sight to relocate at the Los Angeles Coliseum, has opened an office at the University Hilton.
The university forced John DeBross, debate squad coach, to resign and suspended Birren after learning that a number of football players were to receive credit for speech communication courses they w'ere not attending.
When asked Monday what his job with the Raiders entailed, Birren said, "I don't know. All I know is that I start in two days."
‘ANGELS,’ ‘HULK’
Shows filmed at students’ home
By Doug Hamilton
Last Friday when university students Signe and Paul Qvale went home they were greeted by spotlights, cameras, and the sumptuous stars of “Charlie's Angels," who were filming an episode at their Fremont Place home.
Fremont Place, an exclusive residential area near Hancock Park, has been used as the site for television and commercial movies because of its unique architecture.
The Qvales' stately home was built by Mary Pickford in the heyday of Hollywood, and became a white elephant as fashionable Los Angeles real estate maved to Beverly Hills.
Restored to its original grandeur, the home is now the setting for three to four television and film productions a year because of its ornate mahogany interiors.
This year the Qvales have already hosted four productions: "Dream Merchants," a television movie to be aired this spring; "Octagon," a new karate film; "The Incredible Hulk" (luckily the house survived); and currently "Charlie's An-gels."
The family is considering renting the house for the proposed life story of Jayne Mansfield, a glamour queen of the 30s, famed for her pink house and heart-shaped pool.
Although the Qvales do not have such a pool, the film company still wants the house and is willing to paint the house pink for the movie and then paint it white again.
The Qvales furar grown accustomed to this Hollywood attention.
"It's really quite boring to watch (the filming)," says Paul, an architecture major.
The family is amused at the elaborate remodel-
ing done by the film crews. Changes of rugs, draperies and furniture are common. Mollie Qvale has been given three sets of draperies for almost every room because the crews have no need for them once they finish shooting.
"It is interesting to see all the ways they decorate the house. It's like redecorating, but better — you don't have to pay," Mrs. Qvale said.
Signe Qvale, a senior majoring in linguistics, remembers coming home one weekend to find the entire downstairs decorated in a turn of the century motif. “It was quite a shock, but it looked neat," she said.
This week there is an enormous portrait of actress Jaclyn Smith over the living room fireplace where a serene landscape usually hangs. But after filming, the production crews are required to return the home to its original condition.
Though the crews try to be careful, accidents do occur. Film crews have marred walls, nicked floors, and once split a marbje step. But each time the studios were quick to repair the damage, Mrs. Qvale said.
She oversees this "little business" and is careful that the filming does not affect her family's life.
"I ask everyone if there are any objections to any of the projects," she said. “We limit the number of productions because we want our privacy, too." Filming could take place constantly at the house if the family accepted all of the offers it receives from production companies.
This family "business" started seven years ago when the Qvales lived in a different house in Hancock Park. Mike Connors, a friend of the family, asked if he could use the house in an episode of his show "Mannix."
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Staff photo by Richard Levitt
ANGELIC PORTRAIT — Paul Qvale stands next to a portrait of Jaclyn Smith hung in his house for the filming of an episode of Charlie's Angels. Television studios use the Qvale house, which is located in Hancock Park, several times each year.