during his career at USC, Lazzaro's areas of responsibility included the present-day divisions of capital construction, facilities management, auxiliary services, career and protective services, and compliance, among others. Additional areas he led include campus master planning, the ticket office, real estate, the bookstore, transportation, licensing, student housing, campus security, and risk management. While serving as a business manager and later vice president for business affairs, Lazzaro applied lessons learned as an engineering officer in the U.S. Navy, mandating an organized and economized approach to the administration of the university's physical plant and business operations. He was paraphrased in the Los Angeles Times as saying that "No one can change a light bulb on the USC campus without a work order and maintenance workers must account for each one-tenth of an hour's time." Development of USC's campuses As a senior leader of the campus master plan team, Lazzaro was principally responsible for the construction of 132 buildings on USC's campuses and oversaw landscaping that transformed city streets into walkways and pedestrian malls. USC President James H. Zumberge said in 1987: "Anthony Lazzaro virtually built the USC we know today...No single individual has had more impact on the development of this university." Prior to this development, USC's campus had largely consisted of several neo-Renaissance buildings surrounded by city streets and 27 donated U.S. Army barracks buildings which had been converted for classroom, office, and housing space by the university. Lazzaro was personally responsible for one of USC's most iconic features, the placement of a globe atop The Center for International and Public Affairs. He had seen a similar globe during a visit to New York (built for the 1964 World Fair) and decided that the globe would be a perfect reflection of USC's increasing importance in a global world, as well as Von KleinSmid's desire to have a distinctive memorial for his legacy. The globe was suggested to architect Edward Durell Stone who added it to the final design. Also during Lazzaro's tenure as chief of capital construction, USC acquired and established its Health Sciences Campus, with the first of USC's academic research and clinical care buildings built around the existing County-USC Medical Center north of Downtown Los Angeles (then called the County General Hospital). Liaison for the university As the university liaison to the Olympic organizing committee, Lazzaro played a key role in the planning of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games