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University of Southern California
Vol. LXVII, No. 20	Los Angeles, California	Friday, October 11, 1974
(	ROUNDTABLE CONVERSATION
Lack of political responsibility hit
BY KEN COOPER
The removal of public officials from office may be necessary when they violate certain general concepts of decency, John S. Glaser, professor of international relations, said Thursday.
He discussed the concept of political justice with an audience of about 50 in a Roundtable conversation at the Faculty Center.
Glaser said that most convictions for specific Watergate-related crimes would not effectively solve the problem of abuse of power and public trust.
He said the most far-reaching crime—lack of political responsibility and political accountability—was one which could not be successfully prosecuted.
"The crime of Nixon and Watergate was the hypocrisy,” he said.
“We are not concerned with the act of perjury itself, not the violation of specific laws, but the whole iceberg. You can’t try the whole iceberg.”
Glaser said that successful prosecution of
Watergate defendants would not be constructive. He said rehabilitation would be impossible, because “in reality none will be able to enter the political system again.
“We are dealing with a small number of people who have received a tremendous amount of publicity. It is highly unlikely these people will be able to do anything in the future that they would have done without Watergate.''
Glaser also said prosecution for the purpose of punishment of deterrence would be equally ineffective. He said the defendants have already been punished. “They have been torn down from the top ofthe mountain and put at the bottom."
He said deterrence is better produced outside ofthe courtroom. “Public abuse, public exposure, Woodward and Bernstein—the way in which Watergate was discovered will deter,” he said.
Glaser said there was a “tremendous inconsistency” between the needs ofthe country an \ the legal actions in progress. "What is taking up
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Senate votes for appraisal of administrators
BY KEVIN McKENNA
Associate Editor
A proposal to evaluate the performance of university administrators and department chairmen has been approved by the Faculty Senate and awaits the approval of President John R. Hubbard.
If approved, evaluations of academic vice-presidents, deans, directors, and department chairmen would begin this semester on a voluntary basis.
Ifthe system works, it would eventually be expanded to include all administrative personnel, including the president, on a mandatory
basis.
The proposal is based on the faculty's feeling that because professors must submit to regular evaluations by their students, administrators should be evaluated by the personnel who work under them as well. Richard H. Perry’, president of the Faculty Senate, said Thursday.
The Faculty Senate proposal provides for the evaluation process to become mandatory- nextyear. It would be expanded duringthe 1976-77 academic year to include nonacademic vice-presidents and the president.
No administrator would be evaluated before completing two years in hisposition. The program would be implemented by the Office of Academic Administration and Research.
Evaluate performance
Perry said that because the university goes to great lengths to set up search committees to determine who the administrators should be, there should be a prescribed method for evaluating the performance of those administrators.
"The process will be not only inspective but introspective in its frame of reference,” Perry said. “It will determine how the administrators’ constituencies view the quality of their work.”
Paul E. Hadley, associate vice-president for academic administration and research, was in charge of coordinating a committee of faculty members and deans who worked together in developing the proposal.
Hadley said the Council of Deans agreed in principle last year that the evaluation process was an appropriate activity and it agreed to participate.
“The idea of the program is noncontroversial,” he said. “The purpose is not to penalize, but only for counseling purposes,” he said.
Details not revealed
Hadley declined to reveal the details of the proposal, which will be considered by Hubbard at his staff meeting Oct. 24.
Those details include who should be asked to evaluate the administrators, who should get the results, and how the information will be utilized.
He said that because the evaluations may deal with “sensitive, personal matters,” those involved with implementing the proposal should go to great lengths to ensure that “things are appropriately confidential should remain confidential.”
Hadley also said that it should be made sure that the appropriate questions are asked, the right people are asked to respond, and appropriate security is maintained.
“You can ruin a person by doing it wrong, and by releasing information that is not accurately and objectively obtained,” he said.
Hadley said that he felt some past evaluations of faculty members in the Course Evaluation Guide have not been objective and scientific, and are an example of what should be avoided.
JOHN S. GLASER
OT phot* by Mika Ito
NEW PHARMACY—Monday is opening day for the Student Health Center Pharmacy. Students with prescriptions from Health Center doctors can go straight from their appointments to the pharmacy to fill all their
prescriptions for only 50 cents. Jeff Fields, pharmacist, is checking files for medications available. DT photo by Mike Martinez.
Health Center Pharmacy to fill prescriptions for 50$
The Student Health Center Pharmacy, which will open Monday, will charge students %
only 50 cents for each prescription they need to have filled.
Jeff Fields, pharmacist for the Health Center and a graduate of the School of Pharmacy, said the low cost will be possible because of the $6-per-semester increase in the student health fee that took effect this semester.
“We have discovered that most of the students' visits to the Health Center result in the physician prescribing drugs,” Fields said. “With the pharmacy, we will be assured of students actually filling their prescriptions.”
Previously, Fields said, most students would not have their prescriptions filled because of the high cost.
Four prerequisities must be met before a student can buy his prescriptions at the lower cost.
The student must see a doctor in the Health Center to receive a
prescription.
A prescription will not be filled if it is from a private physician not associated with the Health Center.
Refills will not be given unless the student has been reexamined by a Health Center physician.
Most prescriptions will be filled on a short-term basis only.
Students who must take medication for long periods of time will be restricted from purchasing their medications from the Health Center, but may purchase medication from the Student Union Pharmacy.
The Health Center Pharmacy will sell only drugs that the pharmacist feels will cover the student’s needs and the physician’s demands.
“We feel that our supply will fill about 95% of the drugs prescribed by the physicians at the Health Center,” Fields said.
Students who purchase their medication from the Health Center Pharmacy will be re-
quired to fill out a drug profile sheet, which will ask for a history of the student’s treatment and reactions to different drugs.
“We will use the drug profile sheet in order to avoid giving students drugs that they are allergic to and drugs that cause adverse side effects and possible dangerous drug interactions,” Fields said.
He also said that he will advise students as to proper administration of drugs and the care needed in case of bad reactions to certain drugs.
The pharmacy was arranged to be set up in the Health Center by Dr. Addie Klotz, director of the Student Health Center. It offers a total health care package to students.
Planning for the pharmacy began last year by Dr. Klotz, Fields, James R. Appleton, vice-president of student affairs, the Student Caucus, the Student Health Advisory Committee and the School of Pharmacy.