Letters: USC’s dealing over the Coliseum
Re “USC lease talks a costly secret,” Dec. 28
As The Times followed the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum hijinks starting with the rave scandals, we assumed USC would be a logical replacement for the inept Coliseum Commission to manage the stadium. What we did not expect was to find out that USC, held rightfully high in worldwide esteem, would lower itself to corrupting public policy.
The first sniff of trouble was the free tickets provided by USC for the Coliseum commissioners. The Times ferreted this out into the open.
Now we find out that the university was working hand in glove with the commission to sweeten its deal and to help hide this from the public — which owns the Coliseum.
USC’s Gould School of Law is ranked by U.S. News & World Report in the top 20 nationally, but apparently that is only for theory and not practice concerning state sunshine laws.
Warren Evan Larson
Sunland
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