Universities’ Olympic plans halted till 1980
MEELE INJURES STUDENTS
Football card stunts cancelled
By Brandon Bailey
Assistant City Editor
Although the university and UCLA have begun to discuss participation in the 1984 Olympic games, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee will not conduct formal negotiations this year.
A number of university offices are involved in planning participation in the 1984 Olympics. UCLA has established an office with a small staff to coordinate Olympic planning for its Westwood campus.
LAOOC organizers say however, that actual negotiations for use of facilities have not yet begun. No formal contracts for 1984 may be finalized until after the 1980 games are held, by rule of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). (The recently-announced television coverage contract was an exception authorized by the IOC.)
The university’s housing office has made preliminary studies on the costs of providing university residence facilities for Olympic athletes, said George Abdo, assistant director of research and program coordination for the university. Abdo has been assisting the administration in consultation with the LAOOC.
The university will advertise in a national journal this fall for an assistant to the executive vice-president with several responsibilities including Olympic planning, said a spokesman from the personnel office.
Consultations have been purely
informal, university officials insist, and no commitments have been made.
About 4,000 residential spaces will be provided for athletes on the UCLA campus, including 750 spaces in apartments which have not yet been constructed, said Norman Miller, UCLA director for Oly mpic planning.
Miller is an emeritus vice-chancellor of the University of California. The UCLA Olympic planning office has only one other staff member, but Miller said four students in the graduate school of management will assist him in preparing an organizational model for coordinating the various UCLA officials and groups involved in the Olympics.
A staff member in the LAOOC office however, stressed that no formal decisions on housing or other facilities for the athletes can come until actual competition sites have been assigned. Though sites are being considered, (including the Shrine Auditorium and the Coliseum) none can be designated without approval from the international federations responsible for each sport, after the 1980 games.
Formal negotiations for athletic facilities and housing may begin in early 1980, so announcements for 1984 will come soon after the summer games, the staff member said.
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By Mary Meloch
The Games Committee has cancelled card stunts for the rest of the football season after last Saturday's card-throwing incident which resulted in facial cuts and bruises for two students.
The committee, made up of representatives from the faculty, ticket office staff. Coliseum management and heads of various student service organizations, is also considering plans for changing card stunts in the future.
The committee banned card stunts from all night games because of card-throwing at the Michigan State game last year.
Rich Oswald, president of Trojan Knights and a member of the committee, was disappointed in student behavior at the game.
“I realize there were contributing factors,” Oswald said. “It was a boring game and it was hot so a lot of alcohol was consumed.
“Plus the score of the Angel game was flashed at the end of the stunts and some students were upset about that, but these are not excuses for throwing cards," Oswald said.
“The cards are weapons and it may seem like fun or look good to throw them but those who have been hit will vouch for the fact that it is a frightening experience,” he said.
Some Knights took immediate action at the game by collecting student identification cards from those involved and ejecting the instigators, but according to Oswald, many involved in the incident were not students.
The incident prompted a re-evaluation of current crowd control and game procedures. Because of the large number of non-students found in the student section after the card-throwing incident, there will be increased effort by the Knights to check students for identification cards. Those without proper ID will not be allowed in the student section.
The committee is considering three alternatives for next year's card stunts. The first is to discontinue card stunts at all future games. The second alternative is to allow card stunts only at the UCLA and Homecoming games. The third alternative is to allow stunts at all nationally televised home games and the homecoming game. At this time the second and third alternatives are unlikely, Oswald said.
Oswald is trying to persuade the committee to make a special allowance for card stunts at this year's UCLA game.
“I would like to have card stunts when we play our crosstown rivals but at this point it's doubtful. It's sad to see a small group of students ruin things for the whole Trojan family,” Oswald said.
Staff photo by Richard Levitt
WATTS TOWER II?—Though it is unknown what this local shopper was planning to do with his selection of car scraps and old pop bottles and cans, he is doing his part in keeping the neighborhood clean.
University satellite campus proposed for Orange County
By Aida Bustos
Staff Writer
A task force is studying the possibility of establishing a satellite university facility in Orange County. The facility will draw together several classes and programs presently offered by various schools.
Zohrab Kaprielian. executive vice-president, formed the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning task force last semester. The task force consists of 12 representatives including deans, vice-presidents and faculty members.
“We are studying what would be the advantage of having current USC educational offerings brought together under one facility," said Harvey Stedman. chairman of the task force.
“We are talking about more than just classrooms because these can be secured right now unit by unit," he said.
The university currently sup-
ports a variety of educational offerings in Orange County including graduate courses provided by professional schools, courses offered by the College of Continuing Education and non-credit programs such as seminars and workshops.
Stedman said these courses and programs are housed wherever convenient for educators and students to meet. Government buildings and similar facilities are frequently used.
The satellite facility would provide an "academic home” for the various educational activities in Orange County and establish a base from which pilot programs could be launched said Taylor Meloan, task force member.
Stedman said the study does not signify a move by the university to leave its present location in Los Angeles.
The task force will determine the type of facility needed. Stedman said the facility should be
“modest” and “limited in scope.”
Number and size of classrooms, need for offices, and other support services such as a library and snack bar are being considered.
If the Orange County facility is approved, Stedman said funding may come from several sources including the operating revenues of schools and departments using the facility. He said an attempt may be made to raise funds for the facility including donations.
Stedman said he is aware of opposition to an Orange County facility, but refused to name sources.
“There are those who believe the proposed facility represents an unwise development for the university. To some there is a question whether a high quality academic program can be maintained at the satellite.
“A second argument revolves around a sense of priorities. Some
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staff photo by Mark Sticht
band, Salongo, performed yesterday in the patio by the Village Faire in an extension of the festivities.
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