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Southern California	Thursday, January 3, 1980
Volume LXXXVII, Number 60	University of
USC wins Roses the great White way
By Mike Ventre
Sports Editor As Rose Bowls go, this one was a hybrid. It had two exceptional quarterbacks, one a senior giving a curtain call, one a sophomore on a collision course with John Heisman's legacy'. It had the best football player in the country (bv decree of John Robinson and a mass of experts selected by New York’s Downtown Athletic Club). It had dramatic excitement, laughs and tears, thrills and spills. It had one loser and one winner.
USC beat Ohio State in the Rose Bowl Tuesday, 17-16, in what had to be one of the best football games ever. It w'as not without flaws. Both the Trojans and Buckeyes made costly errors that disqualifies the game from most coaching manuals. But both teams seemed to sacrifice cautious precision for the uncertain rewards of risk-taking. The 1980 Rose bowl was one continuous riverboat ride, with a surprise ending that would have warmed O. Henrv's heart.
Gardner confers with selection committee
By Susan Pedersen and Bob Conti
David Gardner, a potential candidate for the university presidency, met Wednesday with the presidential search commitee at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in a slight alteration of the Phase II stage of the search process.
Gardner, president of the University of Utah, cancelled a previously scheduled campus visit due to the adverse climate generated by certain media publicity.
Some articles in the Los Angeles Times implied politicking for certain candidates among committee and Board of Trustee members and that Zohrab Kaprielian, executive vice-president of the university, had engineered the circulation of a faculty memo asking faculty members to send their suggestions for candidates to the board.
Because of these developments, J. Robert Fluor, chairman of the search commitee and Board of Trustees, felt it was better for Gardner to meet with university officials at a later date in hopes that some of the negative feelings might have cleared.
Fluor would not comment on the Times article, although he
suggested that the leak to the press was coming directly from a member of the Board of Trustees.
"I'm not saying I believe it is someone on the board (who is the leak), I'm saying I know it is someone on the board," Fluor said.
In addition to the meeting at the Beverly Wilshire, Gardner attended a dinner Wednesday night that included the executive committee of the board and other board members.
At the conclusion of meetings with Gardner, the committee will decide if they want to widen the search and go to a list of other possible candidates.
"We had a list of candidates all of whom the committee felt would be good candidates. We have not exhausted that list," Fluor said.
The other candidates on this list have not yet been contacted, Fluor said.
"If we have to stretch the
process, we will," he said.
Fluor believes that there will be no major revisions in the search process. "If we can conduct the search in a norma! manner we can find just as
good a candidate as we have had...the desire is still there," Fluor said.
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The whole story
See Sports beginning on page 12 for a complete report o' USC's Rose Bowl win:
♦	Both coaches and sports writers made the Trojans the No. 2 football team in the country.
♦	A tough defense on the goal line makes for a new gridiron tradition.
+ A close game leaves two people disappointed — Ohio State's Earle Bruce and Art Schlichter.
Staff photo by Doug Hoover
RISING TO THE OCCASSION — USC’s Charles White makes a Trophy winner’s fourth quarter heroics brought the USC team one-yard leap over a pile of Ohio State defenders to score the back from behind, 17-16, in a game that matched the two of the winning touchdown in Tuesday's Rose Bowl clash. The Heisman top teams in the country.
Staff photo by Mark Stlcht
PUT OUT WITH THE TRASH — On campus offices cleared out pre-vacation decorations yesterday. Discarded Christmas trees, with dangling tinsel, could be found throughout campus reminding students that the holidays are over.
Search to widen as candidates drop out
By Brandon Bailey
Assistant Gty Editor The list of candidates to replace President Hubbard w-ent through a number of changes in December — the search may be widened as two candidates dropped out and one cancelled an on-campus visit.
The Board of Trustees wTas expected to meet last month to discuss three candidates — Thornton Bradshaw, president of the Atlantic Richfield Co., Richard Atkinson, director of the National Science Foundation, and David Gardner, president of the University of Utah — who had been identified in previous weeks.
Gardner is reportedly the only one of the three
candidates left for consideration by the board.
Bradshaw withdrew Dec. 6 and there were reportedly strong feelings among trustees and some members of the presidential search committee that the university should ask Bradshaw to reconsider.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Bradshaw dropped out because of attempts by adminstra-tors and trustees to create support for Atkinson and an unfavorable feeling for Bradshaw. Bradshaw has not been available for comment.
But the board also decided last month not to pursue Bradshaw further, after J. Robert Fluor, chairman of the board, reported that Bradshaw
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