AN EYE ON CAMPUS
Idea for Middle East Center
Different kind of all-nighter expands as financing increases
pulled on university grass
By Amy Alpem
Feature/Focus Editor
Ah yes, the good ole days, when being a spectator meant nothing more than attending games, sipping beers and munching peanuts.
Looking at the lines from Hancock Auditorium, one thing is clear — things have changed.
For this year's Rose Bowl game spectators will have to wait overnight in line, and probably take more pushing and shoving than the linemen in the actual football game.
Some of the students have complained of having to pay $17.50 to see their own team play, and are even more irate about the lines that must be endured.
"Bad habit of mine, having to work and go to class instead of standing in a line for 24 hours," said one student.
But don't forget, this is USC, football capital of the colleges.
Diehard fans came to accept the fact that only 10,000 tickets would be sold on a first-come, first served basis. They had already started to line up by 5 a.m. Monday, just 29 hours before tickets went on sale.
But an interesting phenomena took place as the line began to grow — democracy was in the making.
Students were told three ticket booths would be set up, so they immediately formed three separate lines.
In each line a list was made of up to ten people. Rules as to the amount of people that must wait in line were established.
"Some guy from the ticket office came out and said that if any fights or anything broke loose,then nobody would get tickets," said one student who was in the front of the line. ^
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By Marsha Johnston
Assistant City Editor
Throughout the Middle East Center controversy, one piece of information has been missing.
The question of how the Middle East Center concept was first conceived has never been answered.
University administrators have repeatedly denied accusations that the Middle East Center began as clandestine negotiations between President John R. Hubbard, J. Robert Fluor, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Willard Beling, director of the Middle East Center, and various American corporations.
But no specifics have been conveyed about how the advisory committee on a Middle East Center perceived the idea when they began meeting 18 months ago.
The committee that discussed the Middle East Center in its infant stage was comprised of Beling, Norman Fertig, dean of Let-
Growing up here forces a person to open his eyes early and learn to survive fast.
Barrio more than gangs
This article is the second in a series examining gang violence in Los Angeles.
By David Watson
Associate News Editor
Murder, assault, kidnapping, rape, firebomb-ing and shooting into inhabited buildings are common occurrences in the East Los Angeeles barrio.
Almost all of this activity is initiated by youth gangs and is considered a national problem of major importance.
A university El Centro Chicano research team has been studying the behavior of nondelinquents in the barrio and hopes to determine how these youths learn to stay out of this trouble. They hope to teach nondelinquent behavior to others.
The study was conducted by Thomas Aiken, a doctoral candidate in the department of special education, under the direction of Jerome Stump-hauzer, a clinical professor of psychiatry at County-USC Medical Center.
Caesar Nunez was one of the youths singled out for this study. He is 24 years old and has lived in the barrio all his life.
Nunez has never been part of a gang. He said growing up in the barrio forces a person to open
his eyes early and learn to survive fast.
Nunez observed early that membership in a gang doesn't do anything to improve an individual's life. He said the youths join a gang just because they want to belong and sometimes give up their life for the gang. He just doesn't believe it's worth it.
Nunez knows every gang in East Los Angeles and tries to know as many members from each gang as possible. He said he tries to make them feel proud that he knows them. In this way his lifestyle remains compatible with theirs.
A young boy growing up in the barrio has to learn to help himself, Nunez said. No one else has the time or desire to worry about a child's social development when merely surviving is the primary goal, he explained.
Most parents in the barrio don't have much education so they don't earn enough to afford to lose one day of work to help their children in what they consider unimportant affairs, Nunez said.
He said he never felt he had to belong to a gang. His family now lives in an area bordering (continued on page 10)
ters, Arts and Sciences advisement, Zohrab Kaprielian, executive vice-president, John Marburger, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, John Schutz, dean of social sciences and communications and Paul Hadley, academic affairs vice-president.
"We (the committee) weren't talking about the center as it later
became. That was done in the upper stratosphere, so to speak," Marburger said.
"At that time (May, 1977) we didn't know what kind of (financial) support there would be and we didn't dream that the trustees would be involved.
"I thought it (the Middle East Center) would be similar to the (continued on page 3)
DT photo by Doug Gray
NO ONE’S TAKING MY BABY — Trojan split end Calvin Sweeney hauls in fourth-quarter pass from Paul McDonald to set up Troy’s game-winning field goal against Notre Dame Saturday. Trojans won, 27-25. Story on page 16.
NO ROSE BOWL LOTTERY HELD
Distribution of tickets changed
Approximately 10,000 student tickets for the Rose Bowl game on Jan. 1 go on sale at 11 a.m. today on a first-come, first-served basis.
More than 14,000 activity books were sold this semester and students began lining up at the three ticket booths on University Avenue as early as Monday morning to assure themselves of a seat.
"We really hadn't thought about how we were going to distribute the tickets until after the UCLA game,” said Pat Tyner, manager of the ticket office.
"We had considered using a lottery system, but there were so many complaints about the way the UCLA tickets were handled that we felt this was the better way."
When the ticket lines began forming Monday, strict rules were imposed concerning the number of people required to stand in line throughout the night until the ticket booths opened.
Only two tickets can be bought by each person.
The tickets are sold in sequence, so students in line together will be able to sit next to each other.
"We imposed the two-tickets-per-person rule be-
cause it really isn't fair for one person to stand in line and get 16 tickets, while the people who took the time and effort to stand in line may get poor or no tickets at all," Tyner said
She said many season ticket holders will also find themselves without tickets for the game.
"People are going to complain no matter how we distribute the tickets," she said.
The university was allocated 44,000 of the 104,697 seats in the Rose Bowl by the Tournament of Roses Commission — 10,000 for students <nd 34,000 for season ticket holders.
Michigan, the Big-10 Conference representative, was given approximately 25% of the seats. The remaining tickets were distributed among Tournament of Roses Commission members, the other Pac-10 conference schools and the general public.
The student section is located on the east side of the stadium beginning at the 30-yard line and extending around to the end zone. The tickets will be distributed in this order.
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Volume LXXV, Number 43 University of Southern California_Tuesday, November 28, 1978