University of Southern California
Volume /.XX/, Number 56	Los	Angeles, Colifornia	Tuesday, May 10, 1977
Daily
Trojan
Pieces of cadaver found in trash; error attributed to dental students
By Elizabeth Thompson
Staff Writer
Human body parts — bits of bone, fat and skin — were discovered Saturday night in a trash bin near the loading dock ofthe School of Dentistry.
Capt. William Burke of Campus Security said an anonymous phone call was received Saturday evening informing them that parts of cadavers were lying in the trash bin. Burke said the body parts were removed and sent to the County Crematorium.
McCormick Templeton, associate director of anatomy at the dental school, said disposal of the body parts in the trash bin was the result of human error. Templeton said the error occurred during a cleanup of the Gross Anatomy Laboratory.
“Two students were separating the real trash, that’s plastic bags and such, from the human remains, putting them in two different buckets, both of which
were white. At lunch the two went out and two others took the trash down to dump it. They didn’t realize there were two (different) buckets.”
Templeton said the bucket of human parts had been removed from the bin as soon as the error was discovered. He added that the mistake was entirely a matter of human error.
“Human error you can’t absolutely forestall,” he said, adding that this was the first time such a mistake had occurred in the dental school since he came there in 1965.
According to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office, the unauthorized disposal of human remains is a felony. Arrangements must be made with the health department or with a Los Angeles hospital for removal of the remains to the County Crematorium where they are cremated.
Templeton said he was worried that stories about the error
might adversely affect the Willed Body Program, of which he is chairman. He said there were 2,000 people in the program who had bequeathed their bodies for scientific purposes after their death.
The dental school has had the Willed Body Program for 15 years and is responsible about the use and disposal of bodies, Templeton said.
“Bodies are hard to come by,” he said, adding that the story of the error would be extremely bad publicity for the program.
This was the most recent occurrence on campus involving human remains. In fall, 1975, a cadaver was stolen from a laboratory in Science Hall and recovered 18 hours later in a parking stall at the Troyland Apartments. Police officials assumed the body, which was used for study by premed students, had been stolen as a prank.
Sell-out crowd views Songfest productions
WINNER — The Delta Gamma sorority/Kappa	the overall sweepstakes winner Saturday night at
Sigma fraternity production number, titled "Birds Do	Songfest. DT photos by Dougjas Gray.
It, Bees Do It," won first pbce in its division and was
By Mike Simpson
Staff Writer
The first sell-out crowd in 20 years attended Songfest Saturday night at the Greek Theater in Hollywood.
Eleven groups and nearly 500 students competed at Songfest, which was altered in format this year by the addition of entertainment between competing entries.
Jerry Papazian, Songfest Committee chairman, said many of the past guest hosts and people long associated with Songfest said this year’s production was the best Songfest ever.
“A lot of credit should go to Mark Bevan as executive producer, and Bob Dyer, as producer of the show, because, unbelievably, everything went smoothly Saturday night,” Papazian said.
Proceeds from the show, which will benefit Troy Camp, will not be officially confirmed until ticket revenue is tabulated and bills paid, Papazian said. Hiring the required union crew cost more than anticipated, but Papazian was optimistic Songfest ’77 will be able to donate approximately $3,000, more than any donation in previous years.
The new format for the time-gaps between competing entries was designed in order to provide a more entertaining break in the show without creating a burden on Bernard Pipkin, the show’s guest host and a geology professor at the university.
Designed by Lee Anderson and narrated by Bob Murrin, both past Songfest participants, the gaps were filled by a slide show in the form of an educational filmstrip parodying Songfest itself.
The Sweepstakes award went to the Delta Gamma/Kappa Sigma entry, “Birds Do It, Bees Do It.” The group also won first place in the production division.
Second place in the production division was won by the Alpha Chi Omega/Phi Gamma Delta entry, “Oh, Those Passion Pit Nights.” Third place went to the Kappa Kappa Gamma/Alpha Epsilon entry, “Fun With the Radio,” and fourth place to the Alpha Kappa Alpha/Kappa Alpha Psi entry, “Wizzin’, A Tale From Oz ”
The small group division, which had only two entries, awarded first place to the Trojan Knights entry, “Four Years of Fun, That Elusive M.R.S.”
BERNARD PIPKIN
WILL SEEK RESEARCH GRANTS
Toward Century II group to emphasize private funding
By Gary Linehan
Staff Writer
In conjunction with Toward Century II, a new committee has been formed to place greater emphasis on university efforts to secure funding from private foundations.
. The major activity of the University Committee on Foundation Support will be to aid faculty members in extracting foundation funds to further their research efforts, said John Marburger, interim dean ofthe College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the committee’s chairman.
Since private foundations provide a major source of support for the university and many faculty members are unaware of the thousands of foundations available, the committee hopes to match faculty interests with foundation concerns, Marburger said.
Private foundationsprovide charitable grants and may be established by persons or corporations. These foundations give cash awards to institutions that satisfy the intentions of the corporation or the person who leaves the money.
The committee operates on the theory that credible research proposals can be generated only by individual faculty members. The committee also gathers data on foundation areas of concern, so that foundations and faculty may be matched in a systematic way. “Individual faculty members identified through this process will be assisted in developing proposals and strategies for securing foundation funding for their research,” Marburger said.
The proposals state which research projects would be undertaken if a certain amount of money were available.
The committee is a formal part of the Towards Century II campaign, but Marburger hopes it will continue to function after 1980. Concrete results of the committee’s efforts will not be apparent for another year, he said.
Some possible areas of foundation support include crime and nutrition research, energy conservation and community health programs, among many others, Marburger said.
Although the goal of the committee is to extract research funds, Marburger said, “Our aim is not to alter
the direction of faculty research to make it more fundable.”
Research interests of the faculty will be collected by academic unit in a sequence deteremined by the committee. As a unit is selected to be surveyed the unit dean will be consulted. The committee and staff will assist the faculty member in developing proposals and strategies for favorable consideration by the proper foundation, Marburger said.
The Humanities Division of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences will be the first unit to receive tt\,e committee’s attention.
Like all funds for Toward Century II, these awards will be designated, so that a foundation grant for one research project cannot go to another project.
It was announced Friday that nearly half of the Toward Century II campaign’s goal of $265,340,000 had been achieved in a little more than a year. Cash and pledges include $37.7 million from trustees, $25.5 million from individuals, $22 million from foundations and $9.7 million from corporations.