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Committee elects chair with no ties to center
By Carole Long
Staff Writer
In keeping with the guidelines issued by President John R. Hubbard, the special committee on the Middle East Center has elected a chairman who has no connections with the center or with the research or teaching involving the Middle East.
Carl Q. Christol, professor ot international law and political science, was elected chairman and spokesman of the seven-member committee Friday.
Christol has	held
several honorary and professional appointments, including the chair of international law at the U.S. Naval War College, president of the American branch of the International Institute of Space Law, and chairman of the international law section of the International Studies Assn.
The six other members of the committee are Barbara MacEach-em, director of the master of liberal arts program; John A. McCone, a member of the Board of Trustees; Dorothy Nelson, dean of the Law Center; William Spitzer, a professor of materials science, electrical engineering and physics; Leslie Wilbur, a professor of higher and postsecondary education; and J. D. Crouch, a junior in international relations and head of the registration task force of the Student Senate.
The committee also appointed John Griffith, executive assistant to the chairman of the President's Advisory Counsel, as secretary.
The purpose of the committee is to assist in planning the academic programs and operating policies of the center.
"Our goal is to reach decisioi s so thatanv concerns of the world can be alleviated and that the university can continue to hold its head high with the community's confidence that we will preserve and protect the academic integrity of the university,'' Christol said.
The committee will come up with suggestions for revisions of the various agreements on the center, with the hope that a new document will be formulated.
The committee will not select the director of the center
Christol did not know how long the committee would meet before any final recommendations were made but said "we won't let any grass grow under our feet."
The original agreement for the center included a provision which said "the obligations of the foundation and USC herein are expressly contigent upon" having available 55 million no later than 2 vears after the date of the agreement.
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University of Southern California Volume LXXV, Number 52	Monday, December 11, 1978
Fire in structure destroys car, causes other smoke damage
By Chuck Coppola
Staff Writer
A fire broke out Friday in Parking Structure D at 35th and Figueroa Streets totally destroying one car, scorching two others and causing smoke damage to an undetermined number of cars parked nearby.
The fire, which destroyed a 1967 red Volkswagen parked on the second level, erupted at about 1:20 p.m.
A Datsun 510 and a Volkswagen Dasher were on either side of the Volkswagen. Firemen broke a window on the Dasher in order to move it out of the way, but it suffered extensive damage to the hood and left front end. Firemen reported no injuries in connection with the blaze.
The fire erupted after the car's driver tried to start the car. Two passengers were in the car at the time.
Lt. Don Petn’, a Campus Security patrolman, reported three students said the car backfired and burst into flames. The students apparently escaped and went to call the fire department, he said.
Petry arrived on the scene before Los Angeles
Police Dept patrolmen. He said by the time he got there the smoke was so thick he couldn't get near the car.
"It was like midnight in there," said Capt. Wesley Hawkes of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Three engine companies and two fire trucks responded to the call, arriving in two to three minutes at the most, Hawkes said.
With all of the smoke in the parking structure, ’ Hawkes feared the possibility of a gas tank explosion.
"Also, these students and Campus Security aren't trained in fighting fires," Hawkes said.
A student who had been a volunteer fireman for two years, said a Campus Security officer told him not to use the hose, the student said.
LAPD officers said over 50 people tried to move their cars when they saw the smoke, but Campus Security officers later blocked off the area and kept the area around the burning car clear for firemen.
"What I can't figure out is why aren't there sprinklers in here?," said Jeff Reichman, a student.
LET YOUR FEET DO THE TALKING
Forget biorhythms, personalities tied up in shoes
columns of heavy black smoke hundreds of feet in the air. visible throughout the campus. There were no injuries.
UP IN SMOKE — Fire destroyed this car early Friday afternoon in a campus parking structure. Though quickly extinguished by city firefighters, the fire sent
By Pat Franklin
It used to be predictable. In the quest of finding out what a person was really like, there were means, unfounded though they were, to help one go beyond the exteriors, to further delve into the psyches of near strangers.
Body language, astrological signs, biorhythm charts and graphology, (the study of handwriting) were just some of the ways to find out about others without ever having to talk to them.
Comments such as, "Are you really into that stuff?" and "Vou don't really bcliei’e in that, do you?" became well-known responses to the partakers of these psuedo-sciences.
Now there is something new to be "into." Shoes. Never mind the "Are you a Gemini?" "Do you fold your arms a lot?" "What does your bio-chart have in store for-you on the 16th?" and "Do you cross your Ts with an upward slant?" nonsense. This is the big time.
Shoes are where it's at as far as indications of personality traits.
A medical trade journal which specializes in the problems of feet w’arns that your shoes may be revealing a lot about your psycho-sexual make-up.
An article in the Journal of the American Podiatry Assn. claims that shoe styles reflect the "behavior patterns and personal lifestyles" of the wearers.
William Rossi, author of The Sex Life of the hoot and Shoe, says women's shoes fall into four general categories: sexy, sexless, neuter, and unisex or bisexual. Boots, high heels and strippy sandals are supposed to be indications of sexiness, worn bv "sexuallv aggressive women, or those with strong sexual awareness; or they are worn more occassionallv bv more "average" women at times when they wish to make a stronger sex-attractive impression."
Loafers and sneakers (Topsiders fit in here), said to be "unisex or bisexual" shoes, are "social rebellion footwear" says Rossi, and are usually worn by the
young as a protest or challenge to established conventions; or as a symbol of equality of the sexes. Neuter shoes are neither sexv or sexless and are worn by the majority of American women over 30 or 35. These women supposedly do not want to appear or feel sexually aggressive, but neither do they wish to be ruled out of the circle of sexual interest. So called "sensible shoes" are reportedly clues that the wearer is dull and sexkss.
Rossi contends that men's shoes fall into five categories: macho, sensuous, masculine, peacock and eunich. Again, each reflects the particular psychosex* ual personality of the individual who habitually we^rs each type
Rossi suggests the sensuous styles equate with the sexy shoe for women; the male eunich shoe with the female sexless shoe (known as "old ladies' running shoes" or "sensible" shoes); and the male masculine shoe with the female neuter shoe. But the male peacock
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