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Volume XCI Number 7	University of Southern California Wednesday, January 20, 1982
UNIVERSITY PLAYS DOWN ASSUALT CHARGES
Professor denied tenure
By Wendell Mobley
Assistant City Editor
Michael Fody, 35, a former professor who was arrested last September on charges of assault with intent to commit rape, has been denied tenure by the university.
Fody, who believes that the university is using the assault charge as an excuse to deny him ♦°nure, pleaded not guilty at his Dec. 30 arraignment. Cornelius Pings, senior vice president of Academic Affairs, said Tuesday that the initial decision to deny tenure was made in the spring of 1980. ‘‘There were subsequent steps of appeal,” Pings said, but added that these attempts failed.
University President James H. Zumberge recently reaffirmed the decision, Pings said. Zumberge was unavailable for comment.
James Parr, chairman of the Spanish and Portuguese department — the department Fody was affiliated with'—refused to comment.
David Epstein, the attorney who is handling Fody’s university affairs, said his client was recommended for tenure by the Spanish and Portuguese Department in the spring of 1980.
The division of humanities originally did not recommend Fody. It recommended to Zumberge in July of 1980 that the professor not be retained.
Fody was denied tenure soon after the negative recommendation and appealed the decision to a grievance committee. The committee, in a
6	to 1 vote, decided that the procedure used to deny tenure was improper. Epstein said, and it advised Zumberge to grant tenure.
Zumberge informed Fody by mail in early January that he had denied the former professor tenure.
Fody was arraigned in superior court on Dec. 30, on charges of assault to commit rape to which he pleaded not guilty. A pre-trial conference is scheduled for Feb. 8. The date and time of the trial will be announced March 22.
The former professor surrendered to police by prearrangement, Epstein said, on Sept. 23. The attorney said Fody had been informed earlier that he would be served with a warrant for his arrest on that day.
Greg Monroe, a detective with the Southwest Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, said the alleged attack occurred at 5:30 a.m. Fody reportedly called the victim at her Portland Street apartment and asked to speak to her sister. Fody reportedly knew the victim’s sister through the Spanish and Portuguese Department.
Fody is said to have explained to the victim that he wanted to talk to someone after being told that the sister was not there. He reportedly visited the apartment after convincing the victim that he needed to discuss the problem.
Shortly after he entered the apartment, he reportedly attempted to rape the woman, who fought off the former professor and fled to a nearby apartment. Monroe, when interviewed in the fall of 1981. said he knew of no witnesses to the alleged act.
The victim’s sister called Fody after hearing about the incident, Monroe said. During the call. Fody made several incriminating remarks which were heard by the sister's boyfriend on another
telephone, the detective added.
The police were immediately notified after the alleged rape attempt and Fody was taken into custody. Police later released him pending further investigation.
Photo by Richard Levitt
CAUGHT IN THE ACT — A photographer is seen in a security mirror in the university bookstore.
Journalist noted for saving school dies
By Mark Grabow
Staff Writer
Theodore Kruglak. former director of the School of Journalism who single-handedly restored accreditation to that school after it had fallen into disrepute for several years, died Tuesday at his home in Oceanside. He was 70.
After joining the university in 1963 as director of the School Journalism. Kruglak held the post for 10 years be-
Donations make for smooth sailing
Nautical gifts to university average 10 per year
By Mark Shikuma
Staff Writer
Tuition alone cannot support the tradition of high stature that has always been part of this university: donations or “gifts” play a large role in perpetuating this tradition.
The school has received a wide variety of donations, not always money, including gifts ranging from yachts to unique memorabilia.
“We want to bring money into the university,” said Jon Engstrom, the director of program development for the Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies (IMCS). He is in charge of dealing with boats donated to the university.
“This (taking in boats) is a good source of money,” he said.
In the past year, the institute accepted about 10 boat donations. Engstrom's objective for this year is to take in one boat per month.
“We're in heavy competition with the other schools,” said Engstrom, pointing out that many local schools and groups have found boat donations a profitable venture and a good way to finance their institutions.
All of the boats that are currently being maintained by this university were donations. Engstrom explained that four boats are used extensively for marine research and for ferry-
ing people to and from Santa Catalina Island.
The Seawatch, a 65-foot sport fishing vessel, was modified for oceanographic research in 1977. It is also used for training students taking oceanography classes.
The Golden West, a 43-foot, former commercial fishing boat, is used for in-shore transportation of personnel and equipment and scuba diving operations.
The Espoir is the smallest boat the universitv maintains.
The 34-foot motor launch can be used for light oceanographic work and as a support vessel for larger ships.
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MAKING WAVES — The Velero IV, one of the ten boats that the university has acquired via donations, is designed for oceanographic research.
fore retiring in 1973. He is distinguished as the only journalism educator to have received three professional awards in a single year — the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Research Award, the Frank Luther Mott Award for the best book on journal research and the George Polk Memorial Award.
Joe Saltzman. director of the journalism school's broadcast sequence, is one who knew Kruglak intimately. “Ted Kruglak came here and made the School of Journalism what it is today,” he said. “I would not be at USC if it w’asn't for Ted.”
Saltzman. who taught under Kruglak for eight years, said that prior to the director’s arrival, “the School of Journalism had gone down the tubes. It had lost its accreditation as a national organization and was an embarrassment for graduates."
“Kruglak was an incredible man who really loved journalism more than any man I have ever met,” Saltzman said, adding that Kruglak started the Trojan Fourth Estate, a journalism support group.
Kruglak fought to obtain money for the journalism school and brought in the most professional journalists in the country, Saltzman said. When Kruglak took over the journalism school, there were 60 undergraduates majoring in journalism compared to 750 today, Saltzman said. The director also created classes that never existed before.
“He gave us the tools, the foundation, and the plans.” Saltzman said. “I owe everything from an academic standpoint to Ted Kruglak.”
An expert in international communications. Kruglak was the author of the award-win-ning The Two Faces of Tass, a book simultaneously published by the University of Minnesota Press and the Oxford Press.
Born in New’ York City in February 1911, Kruglak earned a bachelor’s degree from Long Island University, a master's
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