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Attorney hired for probe tied to trustee
Staff photo by Jon Soo Hoo
NO APATHY HERE — Steve Harber, left, and Robert Stewart take pride in their apprehension of a suspected kidnapper. The two Chi Phi fraternity members chased and caught the suspect after he attempted to force his way into a student's car. Harber and Stewart are being considered for a heroic citation.
SUSPECT CHASED, DETAINED
Students halt attempted kidnap
By Suzie Abdalla
Staff Writer
An attempted kidnap was thwarted Thursday evening when two university students answered another student’s screams, then chased and detained the suspect until he was arrested.
The victim had parked her car in a parking lot near her sorority house on 28th Street, and was getting out when she was approached by Michael Stanford, 26, of South Los Angeles, police said.
Stanford allegedly slapped the victim’s face, knocking her into the passenger seat, and told her, “Get back in the car, bitch. We’re going for a ride,” police said.
The victim, who was not injured, struggled with Stanford, slapping him back and yelling “Rape! Rape!”
Robert Stewart, a junior in political science, and Stephen Harber, a senior in public administration, said they heard the screams, thinking at first it was some students playing, but Harber said he told Stewart, “Let’s just go over and see any-" way.”
When the two approached the victim’s car, they said they saw Stanford jump up and start running. Harber said he asked the victim what happened and she said, “That guy
tried to rape me and steal my il
car.
Stewart and Harber chased Stanford on University Ave. and when they finally caught up with him on Jefferson Blvd^ Harber said Stanford asked them, “Why are you following me? I didn’t do anything.”
Harber said the suspect told them he was “out for a jog, and he was going to beat us up if we didn’t leave him alone.”
Harber said he left Stewart with Stanford and went to call University Security. He said he saw Stanford begin to run again with Stewart after him, and he notified University Se-
curity of this.
Stewart stopped Stanford a second time and while waiting for .police to arrive, said he saw Fred Wilmer, a member of his fraternity.
Wilmer, a junior in architecture, said he helped Stewart detain Stanford.
Officer Alvin Scott of University Security arrived within two or three minutes, Harber said, calling the response time “excellent.”
Stanford was taken to the 'Los Angeles Police Department Southwest Division and was booked on attempted kidnapping, Capt. Stan McGarry said, adding that Stanford had been on parole for armed robbery.
McGarry's reaction to Stewart’s and Harber’s actions differed sharply from that of Carl Levredge, director of Security and Parking Operations.
McGarry said Stewart and Harber are being considered for a “Police Commission Citation for the heroic act they did for helping mankind.” He said this is the kind of action the Police Commission	encour-
ages— people getting involved, people helping people.
Levredge, however, said the university does not encourage students “to actually pursue” suspects on their own. “There is a serious element of risk and we do not want to see anyone get hurt,” Levredge explained.
Levredge said the university administration is not trying to downplay the merit in Stewart’s and Harber’s actions, but is “concerned that had that suspect been armed,” he could have shot or stabbed the students.
Harber said he did not feel like a hero, but that what he did “seemed like the thing to do.”
Stewart said the initiative he took was “a matter of survival.” He said there were about 20 or 30 people walking
-	around at the time but that “there didn’t seem to be much caring about what was happen-
ing.
“We were the only two people who walked across the street (to help),” said Harber, noting that “there’s a lot Of apathy among students” of this university.
By George Aguilar
Staff Writer
The attorney hired by President James H. Zumberge to investigate possible National Collegiate Athletic Association rule violations by the athletic department, is employed by a law firm that has a university trustee as a senior partner.
Richard Field was chosen in early October by Zumberge to conduct the investigation because of his non-involvement with the university.
“We wanted to give a signal to the NCAA to make clear that we are doing a study that is unbiased,” Zumberge said two weeks ago.
However, Field is a member of the law firm of Adams, Duque and Hazeltine, based in downtown Los Angeles. Herbert S. Hazeltine, one of the senior partners, is a member of the university’s board of trustees.
Field still maintains, and there is no evidence to the contrary, he has no ties to the university.
He said he was aware that Hazeltine is affiliated with the university and refutes the claim that since Hazeltine is his employer, this would influence the impartiality of his in-
vestigation.
“It has no effect on the investigation,” Field said. “If I thought it did, then I would not have undertaken it.”
Field will submit a report on his probe to Zumberge in the next two weeks, and the presi-—dent will then submit it to the NCAA Standing Committee on Infractions by Dec. 21. Field does not believe the Hazeltine connection will in any way influence the way the NCAA views the report.
“I think the NCAA will consider (the connection) totally insignificant.”
Reached at NCAA headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., Ronald Stratten, assistant director of enforcement for the NCAA, said it is too early to tell how the NCAA will receive the university’s report.
“We’re not in a position to tell the university how to run its investigation,” Stratten said. “Often times universities go through internal investigations on (their) own, and it is up to the university who it hires to conduct them.”
Field was hired on the basis of strong recommendations, Zumberge said. It is not known
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Nursing degree program to be offered
By Mary Ann Meek
Staff Writer
In the fall semester of 1982, the university will officially begin conducting its new Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree program, with the first class scheduled to graduate in the spring of 1985.
“Nursing has been the most neglected area of health-related professions at the university,” said Leonard Wendland, director of the Division of Health Related Professions.
Wendland said that approxi-
*	mately four years ago, the director of California Hospital approached the university’s vice president of Health Affairs and suggested the possibility of establishing a BSN program.
“A lot of people were surprised when they realized that there wasn’t already a nursing program here,” Wendland said.
Until recently, he explained, there were no four-year nursing programs which gave an academic degree. Large hospitals used to have their own nurse-training programs, and many junior colleges gave two-year Associate of Arts degrees.
The program received approval from the Board of Trustees last February and gained its initial accreditation from the State Board of Registered Nursing in July.
“It takes about three years to develop a student body large enough to generate revenue to k support it (tue program),” Wendland explained, adding that the Board of Trustees agreed to underwrite the initial cost.
, “The program’s curriculum was then approved in October
at the first university curriculum committee meeting,” he said.
Wendland said the university received a pleasant surprise last July when the Division of Nursing-Public Health Services awarded the program a federal
grant of $560,000 over a three-year period.
“This makes it possible to not be so tuition-driven in the first years of the program while we are hiring staff and faculty.
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Photo courtesy of USC Sports information
AND THE WINNER IS — Marcus Allen, CISC tailback, was named 1981 Heisman Trophy winner Saturday at New York’s Downtown Athletic Club. The senior, who broke 11 NCAA records, is honored in today's special Heisman Trophy issue.
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University of Southern California
Monday, December 7, 1981