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University of Southern California
Vol. LXXIV, No. 12
Los Angeles, Calif.
Tuesday, July 25, 1978
Group tries to stop spread of angel dust
By Therese Wells
PCP is now being produced in a much more dangerous form than when the drug was first introduced in the late 1960s, said Alex Poe, director of the Drug Alert and Research Assn. in Los Angeles.
In order to save the thousands of lives he sees being destroyed each year by angel dust, Poe, a former PCP user himself, organized a campaign to “Stop the Wack Attack.”
After spending time in a state mental hospital to cure his own heroin addiction, Poe and his wife Cheryl founded the Drug Alert and Research Assn. with their own money less than a year ago.
Located at 3600 Wilshire Blvd.. it is the only organization of its kind in the country devoted entirely to the elimination of PCP.
Based on nine months of intensive research in conjunction with the Central City Community Mental Health Center, the program's objective is to inform young people of the destructive aspects of angel dust.
Utilizing prerecorded tapes and written literature distibuted free of charge, the approach of the voluntary self-help program is straightforward and easy to understand in a language users can relate to, said Poe.
Poe said PCP. which can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected, is habit forming but not physically addicting. For this reason he feels many users are able to quit voluntarily once they are made aware of the severe damage they are doing to themselves.
Poe also said that the “Wack Attack" self-help
tape program is only the first in a series of taped programs on community and human illness. He encouraged anyone interested in the program or involved with PCP to contact the association or phone 387-1178 for more information.
Same time, place for two robberies
By Millard T. Goods
SUIT Writer
Men who have to use restroom facilities at the university during evenings may soon start being a little more choosy.
Two “force and fear" robberies have ocurred in the Founders Hall restrooms in little over a week. Both robberies took place between 5 and 5:30 in the evening.
On Friday. July 14, a 41-year-old visitor at the university was asked, ‘Do you have any money?" by a robber, who subsequently searched the victim’s pockets. A total of $109 was taken, and a Campus Security spokesman said only one suspect was involved.
Saturday, a university student was robbed of $12 by 2 suspects who followed much the same procedure used in the first crime.
One of the suspects allegedly ran from the restroom only to cut a path directly to an oncoming Campus Security officer.
The suspect was turned over to the Los Angeles Police Dept, for further action.
OPEC agreement for resource study made
The university recently concluded an agreement with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to develop a comprehensive world-wide oil and energy modeling system.
The computer-based system will provide a means for projecting and analyzing the future of the world’s major energy resources — crude oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear energy — as well as such potentially major resources as solar energy, hydropower, geothermal energy and winds and tides.
The project will involve faculty from the departments of petroleum	engineering,
economics and computer sciences, and the department of management sciences at the University of Ottawa.
Elmer Dougherty, professor of petroleum engineering will
direct the project, with advice provided by consultants from the United States. Europe and Canada.
The project faculty will examine such factors as global energy supplies, demand and costs, transformation and transportation costs, the effects of alternate pricing strategies, and the flows of funds generated by the international flows of energy resources.
Upon its completion, scheduled for mid-1980, the modeling system will provide an accurate mathematical representation of the economic and geographic interrelationships between all major energy resources at any given point in the future. It will also take into account the impact of significant economic factors affecting the growth of demand and supplies.
[ ‘Something Cool’ at Bing \
:j The dreams of a woman are tragically shattered in Something:: \Cool. an original stage play opening in Bing Theater July 27 at 8j: •p.m.	•:
: Rajan Productions, a theater company designed to introduce:] talented actors and to give the public a serious view of black en-:; ijtertainment, will produce the play.
:• Rajan founder David Robertson wrote the script for Something j: >Cool, the story of a woman who dreams of becoming a famous:; •: singer despite her lack of talent, and the results of her dream on:j
>	her life.	:■
>	Robertson has a bachelor degree in English from the Univer-j :-sity of California at Los Angeles and has been active in theater;: ^productions for the past 10 years.
Admission for the play is $6.50, but discount tickets are availa-:; :• ble at $5 for groups of five or more. Tickets are available in:; :|Booth Hall 110. More information may be obtained by calling] >741-7111.
By Sue Adams
The first of the Rolling Stones’ two Los Angeles appearances Sunday was marred only by too short a set and the miserable conditions of the farcical festival-style seating at Anaheim Stadium
Mick Jagger was responsible for taking away some of the misery, however, doing his usual strutting about the stage, pushing guitarists Ron Wood and Keith Richards out of the limelight when their solos were through and lifting his shirt to show off his chest, all to the crowd's delight.
The Stones opened with a few of their old songs, including Honky Tank Woman, and Star, Star, before launching into eight straight songs off their new album
The crowd seemed to jump right in with them, especially during Miss You, the band’s latest hit. But that song was only the fourth in the new set. The hot, cramped crowd had to endure four more unfamiliar new ones, which didn't include the controversial title cut from the Some Girls album.
When the Stones finally broke into Tumbling Dice, the crowd was revitalized again, expecting to hear a string of the Stones’ classic rockers. But the string just didn’t seem long enough to make up for the long list of new songs.
Jagger sang Sweet Little Sixteen, of all songs, before Richards came to the mike to sing Happy.
Only one or two more rockers were heard before the band
ended with Jumpin’ Jack Flash. And it wasn’t a flashy ending. Jagger walked around drinking out of a glass, seemingly getting ready for another number, before nonchalantly walking off.
The stage lights remained the same for some minutes while the crowd screamed, not believing they had just seen the finale. A few minutes later, a series of fireworks went off above the stage, but they were not a prelude to stunning finish. As Mick Jagger said, the Stones never do an encore.
Bill Wyman on bass and Charlie Watts on drums joined the rest of the group in a pretty tight set which saw Jagger play more than a little guitar, but were barely visible to most of the audience.
Jagger. luckily, was visible'
short set mars concert hted by flashy Jagger
throughout due to an extension of the stage in the crowd. Guitarists Wood and Richards could usually only be seen when they carried their cordless electric guitars down the extension near Jagger.
Throughout the United States tour, the Stones have expounded the virtues of playing in small "intimate” clubs and theaters. A day at the Big A, however, makes even a big place like the Forum seem intimate and definitely preferred.
Picnicking on the grass on a sunny afternoon while watching your favorite rock band is just not a reality. As soon as the band
comes on, thousands of people rush the stage, crunching the picnickers below them, and pack their sweaty bodies together like sardines, leaving no room to breath.
Security guards passed around bottles of water, and Jagger even sprayed the crowd with a hose, but still a large number of people had to be carried out. One wonders how anyone could have enjoyed the concert to the fullest under these conditions.
I kept thinking that if any band could make this crowd forget about how miserable they were, it would be the Stones doing more of their old familiar songs. Too bad they quit so soon.