Administrators assess athletic medical aid
BY LOREN LEDIN
No< al Editor
The difference hetween life and death is often a shadow. F ickle circumstance. a wisp with thinly-edged black and while, holds mortality in an uncompromising grip. The light-gray of time and events can sway every heartbeat.
If man has an edge in the retention of life, it lies in preparedness. Entailing anticipation and execution in a crisis, the preparation is both personal and institutional.
Students, faculty and employees alike at the University of Southern California seldom think in such terms. But the tragic death of
George Stewart, a USC football player, on March 17 is a grim reminder of how harsh reality can be.
Furthermore. the tragedy poses the disturbing question of how adequately prepared is the university — and are the individuals who study, work and live here — to cope with a medical crisis.
“I'm not blaming anyone for George's death," says Joe Grotsky, who was with Stewart when he was fatally stricken. “The doctors, the coaches and the trainer did everything they could. But I think the school could have
had better things at hand than it
did.”
Says Addie Koltz, director of USC's Student Health Center: “I think most of our fears and apprehensions about a tragedy like this comes from a lack of knowledge. I wonder how many faculty and students would know what to do if they were stricken. Would they even know who to call?”
The death of Stewart focuses much of the attention on the Athletic Department, where intense physical activity places special demands on the student-athlete. But the accident is
something that the entire university community must keep in mind, said Klotz.
“When we have something like this happen it seems that people become more aware,” she said. “They seem to notice what we do a little more carefully, which I believe is good.
“What I would like to point out is that we (the Health Center personnel) are always aware that things like this happen. We are constantly focused on the problem of emergency treatment because these things do happen repeatedly."
On the athletic level, Stewart's
death raises some crucial issues in regard to medical availability for the student-athlete. Stewart collapsed — the victim of a massive heart attack — in a Heritage Hall locker room after participating in a physical education class.
Point number one: some eyewitnesses report that oxygen was unavailable for approximately eight minutes following the time Stewart collapsed. The first several minutes are reputed to be the most crucial for getting oxygen to the heart attack victim.
(contnjod on pop* 8)
Daily W Trojan
Volume LXVII, Number 98
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, April 2, 1975
FRENCH EXHIBIT — Lilian Roth, a senior, left, and Michelle Tutelian, a sophomore, view exhibit on the French novel on display in the Treasure Room of Doheny Library this week. DT photo by Bob Selan.
KSCR airs today, broadcasts to Grill
KSCR. the new student radio station, will begin broadcasting live on the air to approximately 3,-
000	people in the Student Union Grill today.
KSCR was unable to begin broadcasting Tuesday, as originally scheduled, when a misunderstanding occurred between the telephone company and the staff of the radio station.
The telephone company thought it had already installed the power line that enables the station to begin broadcasting. The KSCR staff was unaw are of the confusion until it contacted the telephone company on Monday. The line was installed Tuesday so that the station could begin broadcasting today.
Bob Moore, a senior in telecommunications and the general manager of KSCR. said that the station does not yet have enough power to broadcast to the dorms and the Row. but hopes to contact as many people as it can in the Grill through piped-in radio.
The station will begin broadcasting every day at 6 a.m. with a Spanish-Lnglish hour for the workers in the Grill.
From 8 a.m on, the station will
have a "middle-of-the-road program.” said Moore, where anything from jazz and rock and roll to comedy spots (brief humourous sketches interspersed with music that relates to the comedy) will be presented.
from 6:40 p.m. to ll:40 p.m., the station will give on the hour news of the university for six minutes.
The station has not sold any advertising yet, but local businesses have expressed a desire to advertise through the station once it does go on the air, Moore said.
KSCR has 30 student disc jockeys and a staff of 104 students. Not all of the students are telecommunications majors.
The student disc jockeys on the station were picked from about 50 applicants. Each student was asked to audition with a 15-minute broadcast that included news, public service announcements, and a demonstration of musical ability using the technical devices of the station.
Each student who is broadcasting on the air will have a two-hour show in which he will be able to play whatever type of music he chooses.
Permanent married student housing committee formed
BV JOCELYN WARFIELD
C ampus Staff W riter
As a result of last month's controversy of whether to allow single undergraduate students to live in the Married Student Complex, a permanent married student housing committee has been established.
The committee was formed at the request of the university administration, which decided there should be a permanent married student organization after the recent housing issue, Arnold McMahon, chairman of the committee, said.
Eight students have been selected by the married student residents to serve as representatives. They are McMahon, Yu Hock Oo, Deepak Bhat, Reza Agahi, Djamel Belhadi. Tomaz, Perez-Ascensio, Pekka Uusivuori and Maaret Toprakci.
Since about 75% of the married student residents are international students, the representatives were chosen by geographical area.
“We decided to choose members by geographical area to secure as broad a representation as possible,” said McMahon, a graduate student of philosophy.
“Each resident knows most of the other residents from his part of the world, so we thought this manner of representation would be the most effective."
The residents of the Married Student Complex have never before formed a representation committee, although the need for one has existed throughout the complex's 10-year history, McMahon said.
“I guess it just took this recent controversy to get us organized," he said.
“It's probably due to our protests and outcries that ihe university reversed its decision to move single students into our housing.”
The only other time the complex's residents banded together to fight an issue was when the university raised their rent. The residents showed that the suggested rent increase was larger than necessary, McMahon said.
“There are many other things we can do to improve the quality of life in the complex,” McMahon said.
The chairman said that unlike the dormitories, the Married Student Complex has no study lounge or recreation rooms. One of the committee's initial goals is to change this.
“The problem of no study or recreation facilities causes many other problems for us. but the solution is a simple one,” he said.
“There are two adjacent studio apartments on the ground level which can easily be converted with the university's approval.
McMahon said the committee also plans to become a part of the campus political structure.
“Married residents have practically no input into campus life, even though we are the most permanent residents of the university community, staying on campus during school holidays and summer vacations.
“The dorm residents, the commuters and the Row residents all have seats on President Hubbard’s advisory council, but there is no Married Student Complex representation.
"We think we have things to offer the university. Being older and having more responsibilities than most undergraduate students, we can share what we have learned from our exposure to different areas.”
McMahon said the committee wants to help the university as well as itself through political representation.	(conhnumd on pop* 2)
r
Focus ‘Temporary’ facilities: 30 • ■ years later, many remain
on
Editor's Note: This is the first in a three-part series examining the older buildings on campus. Four weeks ago the Daily Trojan ex-amined the university's Master Plan for new buildings—now a look at plans for older existing structures.
Just after World War II the university acquired 26 Army barracks and moved them onto campus to fill the growing need for classroom space.
The increasing demand for education, created by the GI Bill, made it impossible for the university to accommodate the thousands of former servicemen who began to take advantage of the educational funds provided.
The university simply didn’t have the facilities.
The skyrocketing enrollment.
which neared 20,000 students just after the war, also forced the university to expand physically. The western boundary moved slowly from McClintock Avenue to Vermont Avenue.
In the process of land acquisition — which sometimes was as little as 50 feet at a time — several old houses were obtained and converted into classrooms.
“There was such a demand for the use of existing buildings that it was necessary to utilize these temporary structures (barracks)," explained Anthony D. Lazzaro, vice-president of business affairs.
“The university could not afford the expense of additional new facilities to meet the increased student enrollment,” he said. “And we couldn't destroy the old structures without replacing them.”
The barracks and old houses were supposed to be temporary structures, lasting no more than five years and were to be replaced by permanent structures as money became available.
Nearly 30 years later the university is still in the process of removing buildings.
Five of the 26 barracks are still being used, and nine of the approximately 40 old houses remain and are still occupied Although the 1961 Master Plan has provided for the replacement of most of the buildings, the adequacy of those that remain is questionable.
“We feel these buildings have served their occupants only marginally, and therefore the goal is, to the extent that our resources
(cortmumd ON pap* 3)