University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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One half of a million people are poised to invade Southern California in the summer of ' 84. They bring with them dollars and desires to see the games of the 1984 Summer Olympiad. Thousands of them will be coming to UCLA to see the tennis and gymnastics events that will be held in facilities on campus, while others will come to visit the Olympic Village that will be on campus near the dormitories housing athletes. Gridlock will likely extend from the San Diego Freeway throughout Westwood Villiage and many Angelenos have made plans to leave town to escape the chaos. Meanwhile, students will find many job opportunities tied in with the Olympics, but those jobs promise to be short-lived. What will remain beyond August however are the facilities that different events will be held in. Most of the facilities needed to stage the games already existed when Los Angeles was chosen to host the games, but

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OLYMPICS

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some additional facilities were needed. Thus UCLA has become a recipient of the L.A. Olympic Organizing Commitee ' s generosity. A tennis stadium is going up where a parking lot once stood and the office building that the LAOOC built for itself on the southern side of Lot I will be given to the University when the commitee closes down at the end of the year. Other local universities have new facilities that were built with Olympic money. USC received the new McDonald ' s pool for the swimming and diving events, CSU Dominguez Hills built the velodrome for cycling events and Loyola Marymount now has a gymnasium that will be used for the weightlifting events. Memories will remain long after the Olmypics have gone and it is very likely that some UCLA students will have fond memories of participating in the events. The basketball, rowing, swimming, gymnastics, and track teams look forward to seeing some of their past and present members on the 1984 US Olympic Team.