Daily m Trojan
Volume LXVII, No. 120
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California	Friday, May 2, 1975
Proposed apartments will not be ready by fall term
FREEWHEELING IT—John Polasky, a sophomore in architecture, appears to consider himself a big wheel by starting a new trend in neighborhood commuting—the unicycle. Jacket slung over one shoulder, Polasky makes it look easy. But what do you do at turns? And . . . ouch! those curbs can be painful.
Committee reaffirms two tenure denials
BY SHERIE STARK
The International Relations Tenured Faculty Committee reaffirmed its earlier decision to deny tenure to John S. Glaser, assistant professor of international relations, on April 22. Glaser’s case was being reevaluated as a result of student protests.
The committee also reached a decision on Michael H. Fleet, assistant professor of international relations and political science, who had been accepted by the International Relations Department but denied tenure by the Political Science Department. Fleet was being reevaluated because of the departments’ conflicting decisions.
The committee decided to inform the next level of authority that unless the Political Science Department reconsidered Fleet’s case, the International Relations Department would not recommend him for tenure.
The Political Science Department subsequently decided not to reconsider Fleet’s case, a staff member said.
Since the first tenure decisions were made two months ago, the students have protested the criteria used to make the decision.
Both professors were denied tenure because their publications were not judged to be sufficient to fill the research requirement.
The students asked for an exception to these criteria or a shifting of priorities because of the professors’ outstanding teaching abilities and service to the students.
“With the committee s latest ruling, we more or less have to accept the specific cases of the professors as being dead issues,” said Sue Hullett, a graduate student in international relations.
“We’ve talked to all of the other decision-making levels including President John R. Hubbard, and were told that while they might be sympathetic to our stand, they could not interfere with the department’s decision.”
Hullett said that as a result of the student interest in represen-
tation generated by the tenure controversy, an Undergraduate Studies Committee has been established to regularly attend faculty meetings and represent the students’ interest.
Ward Ching, a junior in international relations, and Maria Galindo, a sophomore in international relations, were chosen by the students to serve on the committee. Charles A. Powell, associate professor, and Rick Ashley, instructor, in the Department of International Relations, will serve as faculty advisers.
The committee will meet Mondays at 3 p.m. in Von KleinSmid Center 42. Also, representatives for a student steering committee, chosen from each class, will meet Thursdays at 1 p.m. Both meetings will be open to all students.
BY TOM ROSA
Staff Writer
Apartments to be constructed in the Hoover Redevelopment Project will not be available for occupancy at the beginning of the fall semester.
The project is a multimillion dollar plan to renovate the area surrounding the university.
David D. Lewis, Hoover project manager for the Community Redeveloment Agency of Los Angeles, told members ofthe Hoover Urban Renewal Advisory Committee Wednesday that the financing of the apartments has fallen through in a number of areas.
Garden apartments were proposed for construction on the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and McClintock Avenue and on the corner of 32nd Street and Royal Street.
The apartments bordering Jefferson Boulevard were originally scheduled to be finished by September.
Financial problems
The Cardinal Development Company, which will build the complex, has finished plans for the apartments but had difficulty in completing the financing of the project.
The money lenders for the apartments would not finance construction unless the university was willing to take a master lease, guaranteeing 100% occupancy and also to help finance the construction.
At a meeting of the Hoover Advisory Committee, Leonard R. Wines, executive director of university relations, told committee members that the university, with the approval ofthe Board ofTrustees. was willing to assume a second mortgage on the apartments.
However, recent demands on the university by the lenders has stopped all construction at the site, Wines said.
He said the lenders were demanding not only a 100% occupancy guarantee by the university but more than 40% of the financing of the apartments.
‘Incredible demands'
Lewis called them incredible demands’ by the lenders and said he did not blame the university for negotiating instead of financing the apartments.
The university has been in constant negotiation with the lenders, hoping to reduce the amount of financial commitment on the part ofthe university, Wines said.
He said a detailed list of the additional expenditures would have to be approved by the Board of Trustees before a final commitment by the university could be made.
The university also wanted to secure some changes in the construction of the apartments before financing. Wines said.
Lewis and Wines said the demands on the university by the lenders could possibly justify the university developing the apartments on its own, since it would have to finance so much in the first place.
Exhausted resources
The vacant lot on the corner of 32nd Street and Royal Street was to be developed in the near future by the Frederick Development Company. The company told Lewis they could not find any lenders to finance the apartments.
“Frederick has completed all plans for the site but has exhausted all its resources,” Lewis said.
He said the Community Redevelopment Agency will try to work with the developers in hopes of securing finance for the project.
“Frederick has a really good track record in getting lenders. If he can’t, I don’t see who can,” Wines said.
Wines said the reasons for the developers' difficulties in finding financiers are due to the tight economy and the fact the apartments would be in the central area.
Neighborhood uninviting
One of the committee members said lenders are hesitant to build in this area because ofthe neighborhood and its history.
“If a lender had only a certain amount of money to finance a project and he had a choice between Beverly Hills and the central area, he would choose Beverly Hills. The central area is a high risk area in the lender's mind,” Wines said.
The university has recently purchased three apartment complexes around the university for housing next fall.
Wines said students who are in need of housing in the university area should check with the Housing Office for information about living in one of the apartments.
Lewis said a branch of the Los Angeles Library system is scheduled for opening within 30 days. The library is located on the corner of Vermont Avenue and 37th Street.
Three businesses will open during this month in the University Village, Lewis said. These include 32nd Street Market. Rexall Drugs and a laundromat.
He also said the opening ofthe University Hilton Hotel and restaurant facilities was a definite plus for the Hoover project.
Few react to dorm search policy
BY CONNIE LYNCH
Student input on the university’s search-and-seizure right regarding campus housing has been nonexistent, said two university officials who are examining student attitudes toward the policy.
Student input was invited after charges were made that students had not been consulted about a new Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities that will replace the present statement in SCampus, the student handbook.
The new statement contains a provision that gives the university the right to search student housing in emergency situations without search warrants.
Both Robert L. Mannes, dean for student life, and Alvin S. Rudisili, university chaplain and chairman of the University and Community Life Committee, said they had received no response from students at all.
“We have not heard one word,” Rudisili said.
Hunt Braly, president of Trojan Hall, originally questioned the failure to consult students on the new statement in a letter to Rudisili and the committee on Feb 28
He said he was appalled at the committee’s failure to consult students when it had endorsed the university’s right to search student housing without a warrant.
As a result of Braly’s objections, Mannes was delegated by the committee to monitor student input on the policy. Last week, he said he had received no response at all.
“No one else (aside from the Daily Trojan) has come in and talked about it,” Mannes said.
“I had one conversation with Hunt Braly,” he said. “I think part of the problem was a misunderstanding.”
He said that Braly felt that student input had not been solicited for the judicial draft ofthe policy, when, in fact, the present search-and-seizure statement came out of a joint student-faculty-staff initiation. It was later approved by the Board of Trustees.
Rudisili concurred in Mannes appraisal of Braly’s objections.
“The real question Hunt raised was not the content, but the process,” he said.
“We felt that policy was not unreasonable, but we recom-
mended that the document be reviewed again.
“Mannes reported to me that it (the review) was largely completed, and that he would report it to the committee,” Rudisili said.
He said that the search policy was not a punitive procedure, but a counseling one. and that the issue didn’t concern student rights, but rather student safety.
The policy would largely be used when a clear danger to students existed, such as psychiatric problems or possession of dangerous weapons.
“Someday there might be abuse ofthe policy, but there are built-in safeguards in the system,” Mannes said.
“There is no question that USC has this right, as established by court precedent.”
The controversy over a university’s right to search student lockers or dormitory rooms has reappeared in the courts on various occasions and remains unresolved.
In the comment of Moore vs. U.S., the court recognized that searches conducted by university officials would be subject to constitutional restraints.
The court said that due to the
special relationship between college and student, the students’ “rights must yield to the extent that they would interfere with the institutions' fundamental duty to operate the school as an educational institution.’’
The court concluded that where the university has “reasonable cause to believe that a student's conduct is illegal, or would otherwise interfere with campus discipline," it may search a student’s room
“W hether or not they have the legal right doesn't matter,” Braly said. “It's whether or not they should.
“People living in university dorms should have the same rights as people living elsewhere.”
Hesaid he felt thal this was the prevailing view among dorm residents, as it was expressed to him
Various factors led to the lack of response to the policy, he said.
“I think the students are concerned with the issue, but they expect the appropriate bodies to take care of it," Mannes said.
Another factor is that the semester is drawing to a close.
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