CAMPAIGN '92: UC Irvine wants to be...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Dean Takahashi

Oct. 24, 1991 12 AM PT

CAMPAIGN ‘92: UC Irvine wants to be in the eye of the storm when George Bush seeks reelection. . . . It’s one of three UC campuses vying to host a 1992 presidential debate; 15 sites nationwide are under consideration. Being in the national limelight has its drawbacks: Chancellor Jack W. Peltason says it could bring 2,000 media people to the campus. The up side: “More people watch presidential debates than anything except World Cup soccer.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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