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University of Southern California
Thursday, December 3, 1981
Staff photo by Pam Veasey
INVESTMENT PROTESTThe Rev. Ronnie Martin spoke out against the university's investment policies in South Africa at Wednesday's rally at Tommy Trojan. Approximately 150 students joined Martin in protesting the use of university funds in the racist nation.
S. African investments attacked
Use of funds criticized at rally
By Ken Alexander
Assistant City Editor
University investments in corporations that do business in South Africa came under fire Wednesday in a rally at Tommy Trojan and a Student Senate meeting. The emotion of the 150 mostly non-white students at the rally was not present among the senators, however, as a resolution condemning investments in South Africa was introduced.
Students at the rally, led by Mark Shaw of the Black Student Union and Randy Ziskin of Students for Economic Democracy (SED), heard five students call for the administration to stop using tuition funds for investments “lacking a social conscience.”
Ziskin, a senior majoring in history, charged that the federal government, “does not have a coherent foreign policy about South Africa.” He said South Africa is a “client-state,” a term given to nations whose governments are friendly to our own. This allows investments in a nation that is “totally racist.”
Chris Covert, a junior in economics, and a member of SED, charged South Africa's government of being racist, “a disease of ignorance. South Africa is the atrocity of the Western world.”
Ziskin could not offer the crowd specific cases of university investments in corporations which do business with South Africa, saying, “(Senior Vice President Jon) Strauss wouldn’t give us the portfolio. But they admitted it’s true.”
Covert added that the Fluor Corporation does millions of dollars of business with South Africa. Fluor is a member of the university’s Board of Trustees.
David Morisaki, a Student Senator, was on hand to en-
courage the crowd to attend last night’s Senate meeting. He said he would introduce a resolution calling for divestment of the investments.
Ziskin said he hoped that 100 students would attend the Senate meeting. However, only about 25 showed up, representing the BSU, SED, and MEChA.
Tony Miller, President of the Undergraduate Political Science Association and the Trojan Commuter Alliance, introduced the resolution to the senate. Miller wrote the resolution on behalf of Senator's David Morisaki and John Kennedy.
Student Senate Chairman Andrew Littlefair tried to limit
the discussion of the resolution to 10 minutes, but it actually lasted 45.
Ziskin, present at the senate meeting, said Littlefair cut them off. “The Student Senate is doing what it always does. It’s just absurd.”
The senators argued over the definition of investments, much to the discomfort of the audience. “I think they totally ignored the issue. It amazes me how they lack knowledge on issues concerning university policy,” said Ronnie Martin, a junior from the BSU.
Graduate Senator Art Simon asked for the amount the university has invested in South Africa. Miller answered that (Continued on page 20)
Senators criticized for neglecting duties
By George Aguilar
Staff Writer
In a rare moment of self-criticism, several people associated with the Student Senate took a swipe in its meeting Wednesday evening at the lack of knowledge senators have about constituents’ concerns.
Senator Dan Dunmoyer presented an amendment to the senate’s bylaws which will force senators to become ^members in at least one research-action unit of the senate and to hold office hours for a minimum of two-hours per week.
Dunmoyer expressed the concern that senators were not meeting obligations toward their constituents by not being present in senate offices.
Bryan Howard, chairman of the environmental and external re-search-action unit, went one step further.
“We have a few senators who have very little knowledge of what is going on in the senate,” he said. “Senators need to be aware of what is going on.” He added that one way to ensure senate accessibility to students was the adoption of the amendment next week.
"(The amendment) is to help the senate out,” Dunmoyer said, explaining that the office duties in the senate have been neglected.
If the amendment is passed, senators can be expelled from the senate if they neglect their duties. The amendment did not specify the senators it was aimed at.
An example of this neglect was brought up by Senator Tom Rinear, who urged the senators to become more active in the tabulation of the student surveys that were passed out to students and returned more than a month ago. More than 1,700 surveys were collected from students during October. It was done in an effort to better understand the concerns of students. However, senators still do not have the complete results from those surveys.
"We have got 1,700 surveys back from students. Please let’s get the (tabulation) done before we leave for Christmas,” Rinear said.
Although Dunmoyer presented the amendment, he still feels senators are responsive to their constituents. “Most of the constituents’ needs have been met.”
Andrew Littlefair. chairman of the senate, said the amendment will increase the already efficent service senators give their constituents. The amendment will serve to get senators more involved with the paperwork aspect of the senate office.
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NCAA investigation spurs athletic probe
By George Aguilar
Staff Writer
In response to the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s official inquiry into the university’s athletic practices. President James H. Zumberge has hired an independent in-1 vestigator to look into possible NCAA violations.
Richard Fields, an attorney
FIRST IN NATION
Urban planning dean appointed
By Charla Foster
Staff Writer
Alan Kreditor has been named dean of the School of Urban and Regional Planning, the first in the nation and which he helped to create.
While announcing the appointment, which becomes effective July 1, 1982, President James H. Zumberge said last week, “As director of the graduate program of urban and regional planning, Kreditor was instrumental in merging the university’s programs in planning and urban _ studies and in creating the first school of planning in the United States.”
The president described Kreditor as an “able administrator and fund-raiser” who helped secure a $2.7 million endowment fund from the-James Irvine Foundation, create the Irvine chair in urban and regional planning and propel the school of planning to national prominence.
An internationally recognized educator and urban planner, the 45-year-old professor said he first stressed the importance of both national and international involvement in 1975 as the graduate school's first department head.
The professor explained that, as developing nations increasingly recruit urban planners, ur-
ban studies students will be expected to apply their expertise to international, national and local affairs.
"Foreign countries are more sophisticated now and they need more things, such as software technology, so that they can better utilize their scarce resources,” he said.
Many foreign students study urban planning return to their native countries, while an equal amount of American students spend at least a portion of their post-graduate years in neighboring nations, Kreditor said. He added that he expects that future planners will be increasingly mobile.
Recently elected the vice president of the International Association of Urban and Regional Research and Education, the professor has long involved himself in the international arena, consulting on problems of national and regional development and urban design in Latin America, Africa,' the Middle East and Europe.
Additonally, he was adviser to the Republic of Ireland for the United Nations Special Fund.
As dean of the school of planning, the professor said he plans to underscore the school’s in-
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with no apparent ties to the university, was hired in early October. A report on his findings will be submitted to the president, who will in turn submit it to the NCAA’s Standing Committee on Infractions by Dec. 21.
"There have been a bunch of allegations and rumors,” Zumberge said. “I want to make sure we get the right story.”
He added that the present NCAA inquiry7 is an expansion of the Pacific 10 Conference’s investigation in 1979, which resulted in the probation of the Trojan football team, barring them from appearing in a postseason bowl game in 1980. That investigation also made the Trojan track team forfeit its 1978 national championship.
The NCAA will, or may have already, investigated new allegations concerning individual athletes, rather than a large group of players as was the case in 1979, Zumberge said. He would not divulge the nature of the new allegations because he felt it would invade the individual’s right to privacy.
The NCAA will also investigate old allegations dating from the Pac-10 investigation, which included attempts to obtain academic credits for football players who did not attend class and fabricated transcripts for members of the track team, according to Zumberge.
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