Staff photo by Kannath Laaria
RAINING AGAIN — Jim Empey uses a makeshift hat as protection from the rain which has returned once again to Southern California.
Director negotiating for hostages in Colombia
By Eileen Lowden
A university research director is negotiating for the release of political hostages taken in Colombia last week.
Frederick Hacker, director of the Psychopolitics and Conflict Research program, was asked Saturday by Bruno Kreisky, the president of Austria, to aid in negotiating the release of the Austrian ambassador.
Guerrillas took 16 ambassadors and about 40 others hostage Feb. 27 after shooting their way into the Dominican Republic Embassy in Bogota.
Three soldiers and a civilian were wounded during the assault. Diego Asencio, the U.S. ambassador, is among those being held.
Members of the leftist M-19 organization are demanding the release of more than 300 leftist political prisoners,
a S50-million ransom and safe passage out of the country.
Hacker, an expert in terrorism, aided in the release of Russian Jews held in Czechoslovakia in 1932.
This incident is discussed in a book Hacker authored called Crusaders, Criminals, and Crazies.
In the book, Hacker describes the various terrorists throughout history and how they have been dealt with.
The book states that negotiations with terrorists are often negotiations in name only, conceived by authorities as a cover for more or less sophisticated strategies of deceit.
Another passage in the book says: "Delay is sought, and every imaginable trick is pulled, not to gain concessions, but to stall the oppos-(Continued on page 8)
Impact of Olympics studied
Games in ‘84 stir mixed blessings
By Cliff Tan
Staff Writer
Relocating the summer session and establishing a university communication system with simultaneous translation capabilities are among a number of ideas that have been advanced as possible parts of the university participation in the 1984 Summer Olympics to be held in Los Angeles.
The Olympics may conflict with the summer session and result in an alteration of the schedule or a relocation of the program to another facility, said James Bodovitz, a senior in business administration. Bodovitz is vice chairman of the Environmental and External Affairs committee of the President's Advisory Council.
Cancellation of the summer session will result in the loss of S4 million in university revenue.
The committee is the only one to be considering the university's participation in the Olympics.
Herold Sherman, university liaison to the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, asked the PAC committee in February to consider a university communication system, said Pauline Ragan, chairman of the PAC committee.
Other ideas discussed include an international Conference of scholars that may be held shortly before the Olympics, Ragart said. The medical campus may also sponsor a conference on sports medicine.	N
The Olympics is a tremendous opportunity for the university to implement educational program-
ming centering around the games, said Sherry May, director of the summer session.
Summer workshops and courses that deal with the Olympics, such as an Olympic history class, may be offered, May said. Students interested in broadcasting and graduate students seeking research and professional internships can also benefit from the games.
How research and teaching in the university will be affected by the greater security measures surrounding the Olvmpics should be considered, Ragan said.
No money will be made available from the operating budget to support the university Olympic participation, Sherman said.
One of three recommendations the PAC committee has made concerning the university's role in the Olympics is that the university should not have to meet any of the expenses of the games.
The university will spend money onlv if reimbursed, Bodovitz said.
By June, a plan should be developed on what the university wants to do in the Olympics. Sherman said.
The organizing committee should also have some anticipated needs by then, and Sherman said he will try to match the university's resources with the organizing committee's needs, acting as both a salesman and negotiator.
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Volume LXXXVIII, Number 22 University of Southern California
Thursday March 6, 1980
PROJECT HALF—FINISHED
Permit for marine center revoked
The construction permit for the university's half-completed marine research center in the Los Angeles Harbor has been revoked and construction halt-
ed.
The South Coast Regional Commission revoked the permit for the $1 million center Monday because the university and the Los Angeles Harbor Department failed to furnish the commission with names and addresses of parries affected by the construction.
Mel Carpenter, executive director of the commission, said the action was necessary because without the names and
addresses, the commission could not perform its legal obligation of notifying all interested parties of the construction permit.
The center site, at 820 S. Seaside Ave. in the Fish Harbor area, was leased to the univers-
ment, as landowner, and the university, as tenant, made the joint application for the construction permit.
Revocation of a permit after construction underway is highly unusual, Carpenter said. The permit was issued last August.
The university has 10 working days to respond.'
ity by the harbor department for 25 years at $36,000 a year in rent. Though the university is to bear construction and operating costs, both the depart-
Program seeks increase in minority students
University, high schools work to motivate applicants
By Rhanda Kahawaii
Staff Writer
Professors, intern teachers and tutors from the university are cooperating with administrators and teachers at three local high schools in an effort to increase the number of inner city minority applicants to colleges and universities.
Through a High School — University Interaction Program students receive motivation and academic preparation for higher education. The program was developed last fall by Donald Wilson, director of the university's teacher education department, Leni Pros-ner of the Los Angeles Unifiecf School District and Dick Lawrence, area superintendent.
Three hundred students from Fremont, Washington and Manual Arts High Schools are involved in the program.
Wanda Meier, assistant professor in the teacher education department and director of the program, said Jay Berger, director of admissions, agreed that the university would admit a minimum of 50% of the program's students who apply.
She also said at least 20 full scholarships have been pledged for eligible graduating seniors in the program through organizations
such as the Mexican-American Programs, the Norman Topping Student Aid Fund and Ebonics.
Through field trips, guest speakers and special activities the program offers a personalized instruction program which includes
courses necessary to meet admission requirements for four-year colleges and universities, Meier said.
The students also meet with representatives from the university and learn about admission and financial aid procedures. The admissions and financial aid departments hold meetings at the university to explain the forms and procedures to the students and their parents.
Meier said one of the basic tenets of the program is to try to personalize both the classroom counseling and instruction at the high schools.
Intern teachers and tutors work with the program's resource teachers at the high school campuses, conducting a college preparatory program that focuses on English, mathematics and science and emphasizes individualized instruction. Field trips and special class sessions given by university professors are geared to cover the three target areas.
Meier said she is hoping that the program will help to provide some continuity for students at the high schools by immersing intern teachers in the campuses who will remain there for an extended period of time and will act as catalysts in training others in individualized classroom instruction.
"It's an exciting program, and the kids are responding very well," Meier said.
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"The revocation is final and they (the university and the harbor department) have no recourse but to file for another permit," he said.
Robert Friedheim, associate director of marine policy at the university, said regulations give the university 10 working days to make some form of response to the commission. He would not say what the response would be.
The university is going to carefully consider what response it makes because it will have to deal with both the harbor department and the coastal commission in the future, Friedheim said.
The city Planning Department recommended the marine research center be located elsewhere before the harbor commission leased the land to the university.
The location has also been opposed by Marine Protein Inc., a firm that wanted to use the site for a processing plant of underutilized varieties of sea-life for human consumption.