University officials upset over article
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Volume XCI Number 17 University of Southern California Thursday, September 24, 1981
Olympics worry local residents
Leaders seek jobs for minorities
By Ken Alexander
Assistant City Editor
“This is no time to look for an improvement in quality," (President James H.j Zumberge told his advisers recently. "It’s important to get the same numbers. If we don’t generate the tuition revenues we've anticipated, we’ll be in serious trouble. ”
—	Quote from an article entitled, “Southern Cal striving for more than Surfing U.S.A.” by Kenneth Eskey, a staff writer for Scripps-Howard Newspapers.
At issue is whether President James H. Zumberge made these remarks and the way in which the university is portrayed in the article. Vance T. Peterson, executive director of University Relations, said he thinks the president did not make the statement. “We don’t think Dr. Zumberge ever said that,” Peterson insisted. "1 can’t imagine that was fully in context.”
“I was quite frankly angry,” he said of the representation of the university in the article.
Eskey came to the university last spring when he was working on a series of articles about the vanishing freshmen. He was on campus two days in May to conduct interviews.
In a recent Los Angeles Times interview, Zumberge said that a major problem facing universities in the future will be to maintain quality student enrollments: “As the pool of applicants becomes smaller, the competition to recruit them becomes more intense and there is always a temptation to reduce your standards so you can compete more. Basically, the goal should be to accept only students who have the ability to meet faculty expectations.”
It is clear that a major difference exists between the Scripps-Howard article and the Los Angeles Times article.
Charles Wolfkill, director of student financial operations, also is quoted in Eskey's article: “This university has grown dependent on large enrollments. We have built this monstrosity. Now we have to feed it.”
When asked about the quote, Wolfkill said, “The whole article was taken out of context. (We felt) the individual involved was doing more of an extensive research project.”
Peterson was also surprised by the fifth paragraph of the story, which reads, “Southern Cal’s parklike campus is wedged into a seedy section of Los Angeles where visitors are advised not to wander too far, even in the middle of the afternoon.”
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By David Wharton
Staff Writer
Apprehension and concern dominate the reactions of local community leaders to the effects the 1984 Olympic Games may have on the neighborhoods surrounding the university.
"I wonder: can something be developed or is something being developed to make this (the Olympics) a worthwhile thing for the community?” asked Pastor Brian Eklund of nearby St. Mark’s Lutheran Church.
Eklund’s reservations concerning the promoted benefits
of accommodating the Olympics in Los Angeles characterize the feelings of other community leaders.
“My opinion of the Olympics is that it is only a three-week event and the community should be minding on what is going to happen after the three weeks are over with,” said John Black, a member of the Vermont District Merchant’s Association and owner of the Trojan Bowl restaurant.
A chance exists. Black said, that outside interests will reap all of the lasting benefits of the Olympic Games, leaving nothing for the community. The
restaurant owner commented that local businessmen are waiting to see what the city plans to do with the community-
Bob Reid, president of the North University Park Citizens' Association, agreed with Black that the community must be careful not to allow outside private enterprise to exploit the area.
"The community’s resources should be highlighted and not obliterated,” he explained.
Eklund expressed his hopes that the Olympics will provide temporary' jobs for the minority inhabitants of the local area and employment that will give local people a chance to learn needed job skills.
“The Olympics are a great thing if they are handled right. I hope jobs will be available to minority people around USC,” concurred Pastor Farabaugh, leader of the. St. Agnes Church congregation for the past 13 years.
Despite Farabaugh’s optimism, the pastor fears that because private enterprise is sponsoring the Olympic Games, the community will not have the opportunity for input it would have if the government were in charge of planning.
"The way it is going down now, you might wake up some morning and find a bulldozer in your backyard because no
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CHARGED WITH RAPE
Former professor arrested
Michael Fody, a former university professor
in the Spanish and Portuguese department, surrendered without resistance Wednesday morning after being served with a warrant for his arrest on charges of assault with intent to commit rape. Southwest Police Detective Greg Monroe said.
The arrest came after a lengthy investigation of the Aug. 21 incident. According to Monroe, the attack occurred at approximately 5:30 a.m. Fody allegedly called the victim's Portland Street apartment and asked to speak with the victim’s sister, whom he knew through the Spanish and Portuguese department office.
After Fody was informed that the sister was not at home, he explained that he wanted to talk to someone.
Fody apparently convinced the victim to allow him to come by the apartment and discuss the problem. Shortly after he entered her apartment, he reportedly attempted to rape her.
The victim reacted quickly, fighting the assailant off before escaping to the safety of a neighboring apartment. The police were notified immediately and the suspect was taken into custody. He was later released pending further investigation.
Fody came to the university at the beginning of the 1976-77 school year. During the past year, he served as language director of the Portuguese program. As of the Fall 1981 semester, Fody was no longer a member of the faculty, and no reasons for his departure have been given.	_
Need seen for youth events, interns in area -
DAVID LOPEZ-LEE
By Katy Smith
Assistant City Editor
The University-Neighborhood Relations Commission called Wednesday for a more centralized system of providing information to students and community agencies about internships.
The commission also discussed developments concerning the Olympics and the need for programs, both athletic and cultural, to occupy the community youth during that time.
Referring to the internship programs, Joseph Logan, associate director of the Urban University Center, said, “The important thing is that it’s a marvelous way to build a bridge between the university and community, and to get the students to participate in
-We feel this is very important now,” Rogers said. “The School of Public Administration already does
this on a weekly basis and some of the other masters degree programs are doing it on a regular basis. So we need to get some of the other programs to know about this and be able to contact their students.
“We need to work out a smooth operating system so that when Career Development gets this information, it goes directly to the correct school or department.”
The center of the system would be the Career Development Center. “I was really hoping that from the center of (the university) there would be letters going out to the various organizations and then they would be followed up on back to (the) Career Development Center," Logan said.
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(community) organizations.”
A proposal advocated that a letter be sent to all interested groups in the community explaining how internships work and the types available. Students can work as interns either as volunteers, as full-paid employees or under the work-study programs.
“Many of the non-profit groups we are working with are real excited to find out that they can get some expert help,” said Jamee Rogers, an assistant to Logan. “Many times the students they can get are practicing in the field they may not have any access to.” A list of available internships would be sent weekly to the various academic departments to inform students.
DALLAS WILLARD
Staff photo by Al*xl» Ignatleff