Hubbard may chair committee set to organize L.A. Olympics
By Carole Long
Staff Writer
President John R. Hubbard is one of several candidates under consideration for chairman of the 1984 Olympics organizing committee.
"Hubbard's name was mentioned bv a number of people as someone who would be a good chairman," said John C. Argue, interim chairman of the organizing committee.
Argue did not know when the seven-member interim committee would come up with a name for the job, but said it was "more important to find the right guv than to choose one immediately."
"We have a lot of good candidates for the job. It is true that we've talked to several prominent businessmen in Southern California about the job, but we have not offered or refused the job of chairman to anyone."
A Los Angeles Times article said several persons had been informally offered the job, including Charles Thornton, chairman of the board of Litton Industries, Inc. and a member of the Board of Trustees, but "the reply in all cases was negative."
"Time is part of the problem for many of the business executives, and someone like Hubbard w'ould have to consider whether he has enough time to handle the job," Argue said. "The chairman should be someone with a special interest in the Olympics."
1	lolding the position of chairman would not interfere with Hubbard's duties as president of the university, said Leonard Wines, executive director ot university relations.
"All of the other people offered the chairmanship had other full-time jobs, and they would be earn ing on their same positions while being chairman."
Although basically an honorary, ceremonial-1\ pe position, the chairman will have to handle the leadership of the organizing committee, be involved in U.S. Olvmpic Committee and International Olympic Committee relations and, as the time for the Games approaches, expect to spend more than eight hours a day on the job. The position is a non-pa\ ing post.
You'd have to be lucky, maybe find a person ju^t phasing into retirement to fill the position, s.iid a source in the Times article.
Hubbard is expected bv many university officials to announce a 1980 resignation sometime this spring.
The Times article said Hubbard "reportedly would like the job," but had opposition in the outside community, and according to several sources, was not acceptable to some members ot the interim committee.
Argue said the chairman will need to be able to
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Volume LXXV, Number 59 University of Southern California	Tuesday, January 9, 1979
Major donor harbors shah’s mother, sister in home
By John Antczak
Staff Writer
Walter Annenberg, a major donor to the university, is providing protection for the mother of the Shah of Iran at his Palm Springs estate.
The shah's mother and sister Princess Shams, went to the estate Thursday after a violent attack on the princess' Beverlv Hills home.
An estimated 500 Iranian students broke away from 2,000 other marchers and attacked the home, setting fires and throwing stones at police.
The shah's mother and sister were moved from the house be-
cause the demonstrators were able to get near enough to the home to break windows and do other damage.
Annenberg, former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain and president of Triangle Publications, a major U.S. publisher, founded the Annenberg School of Communications at the university. He also established the Center for the Study of the American Experience.
Annenberg explained why he offered the use of his estate to the shah's mother and sister in a statement to the Palm Springs Desert Sun. He said the estate "has facilities that enable me to offer them a temporary haven which they have accepted and I could
have done no less as a responsible citizen."
The "facilities" include a compound completely surrounded by a fence topped with barbed wire.
Given the ferocity of the Tuesday attack in Beverly Hills, the estate's most useful facility may be it's steel-reinforced concrete bomb shelter, reportedly as big as a four-room house.
"The outraged conduct of so-called Iranian students in Beverly Hills earlier this week in threatening the lives of the shah's mother and his sister their anarchistic drive to murder them enraged Americans," Annenberg said.
While most Americans may have been enraged by the Be-
ASKS FOR ADMISSION CUT-OFF
Senate proposes housing changes
By Shari Cookson
Staff Writer
The Student Senate proposed Friday that the university should construct more housing, increase campus security and establish a May 1 admissions cut-off date.
These proposals will now be considered by the administration.
Jeff Gates, senate chairman of student affairs, said the university' must increase university housing as it continues its trend of national recruitment. Unlike local students, out-of-state students need to live near campus, he said.
Adequate security must be provided for students living in university housing, especially for those outside of the campus, senators said.
One senator, explaining why the university has difficulty retaining security guards said, "Guards here earn 40% less than they could in many other security positions in Los Angeles."
Senators agreed poor security is bad for the university's image. The university's image is also hurt because there is no firm admissions cut-off date, senators said.
"Lack of a firm cut-off date makes the university look bad. It's like saying, if you have the money, you
can get into USC no matter w hen you apply," one senator said.
"UCLA has a Nov. 30 cut-off date. If USC adopts a May 1 cut-off date, it's not going to break anybody," another senator said.
With a May 1 admissions deadline, housing placement and financial aid would run more smoothly, Gates said.
The senate proposed that housing applicants be informed of their chances of obtaining housing, their relative position on the waiting list and the other options available to them.
The senate also voted that employees working in housing offices undergo an intensive training program so they may become better informed of student needs.
The senate proposed to make funds available to hire a full-time off-campus housing coordinator w'ho would be responsible for Operation Find-A-Flat and related programs.
Funds for such a position have survived the first budget cuts, Gates said.
Senators also agreed that the Student Senate Housing Task Force should further investigate the effects that Proposition 13 and the Los Angeles city rent freeze might have on university housing costs.
verly Hills violence, Iranian students who participated in the riot have found one group of supporters.
The Sparticist League, a socialist organization, announced Monday it was organizing a demonstration to defend Iranian students who might be deported for breaking U.S. laws.
Paul Hunter, a spokesman for the league, said the group sides completely with the Iranian demonstrators and approves of their actions.
"We take the attitude that the police provoked the riot." Hunter said.
"I don't recognize that the Iranians have broken law s. I saw the
Iranians responding to police .attacks.
"I'm totally sympathetic to the slogan of Death to the shah' We re not non-violent. Certainly the Shah and his familv deserve the wrath of the masses," Hunter said.
When asked whether the Spar-tacist League's support of the Iranians was an attempt to gain publicity for the group. Hunter said that support was part ot the league s philosophy.
"Our goals are to make revolution throughout the world. We're not doing this because it's a wav to jump on the bandwagon. We don't care that public opinion is against the demonstrators," he said.
New academic units group chooses head
The President's Advisory Council special ad hoc committee on new academic units selected Donald J. Lewis, chairman of the Department of Psychology, Friday to serve as chairman.
Established in the wake of the Middle East Center controversy, the committee was charged to determine how other universities establish new academic units and to recommend procedural changes in the university's policy.
In order to make the recommendations, the committee has begun a fact-finding search of the procedures at universities such as Northwestern, Brown, Brandeis and Stanford.
"We (the committee) haven't drawn a hard line as to what an academic unit is," Lewis said. "Sometimes it amounts to a couple of courses, sometimes a program without a director and sometimes a director without a budget. But I don't think we'll be involved with those kinds. We're not going into the department's (business)."
One of the first things the committee has to do is decide what academic units they will deal with, Lewis said.
"We don't want to set up rules to hamstring the university in setting up new academic units, but we want some guidelines as to who should be consulted," he said.
Once the guidelines have been established, they will have to be approved by the Board of Trustees before they could become actual practice.