Dean takes leave to lead foundation
By Barry Sloan
S?aff Writer
University President James H. Zumberge last week granted a request by Grant Beglarian, dean of the School of Performing Arts, for a two-year leave of absence so that he may establish a national foundation in the arts.
Beglarian will relinquish the deanship on Dec. 31 and will begin his presidential duties for the Miami-based National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in January 1982. He will maintain his professorship in the School of Music, but he said he probably would not teach during his first year as the foundation’s leader.
The foundation will provide scholarship assistance, recognition and career counseling and development to young people interested in dance, music, visual arts, film, theater or writing, Beglarian said. High school students, collegians and university graduates may participate in the program.
Principal trustees of the foundation have garnered enough funds for the program’s operation, so Beglarian said it will be his responsibility to oversee the distribution of them and to secure future endowments.
During his 12-year stint as head of the School of Music, the Divisions of CinemaTelevision, Drama and Inter-Arts and Cultural Studies, Beglarian played a decisive role in the growth and advancement of the School of Performing Arts.
Beglarian credits himself with bringing to light “the enormous asset that USC has in the arts (which) had not been noticed throughout the university’s illustrious history.”
The Department of CinemaTelevision is recognized as the top film program in the world, and the School of Music has consistently ranked amongst the best 10 such programs in the country.
“In a sense,” Beglarian noted, “it was as if we had a jewel kept under a blanket, and it was my job to lift off the blanket.”
President Zumberge had this to say about the departing dean:
“Grant Beglarian has provided superb, visionary leadership to the USC School of Performing Arts for over a decade.
“He has imbued the school with his passion for the arts and their centrality to the human spirit. He has been a dean among deans.
“Grant Beglarian has been a national leader in the arts, and the university enthusiastically supports this extension of his national role,” concluded Zumberge.
Russell McGregor, co-chairman of the Division of CinemaTelevision, said Beglarian was “a very positive force in the department” and saw to it that the money was evenly and fairly apportioned between the various arts in the school.
“Grant had a concept about the arts that very largely worked, and I know it was a dream of his to begin an arts program for young adults. We wish him well,” McGregor commented.
W. Duncan Ross, chairman of the Division of Drama, said he will be sorry to see Beglarian leave.
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Suspect dies while in security custody
By Bill Truman
A man suspected of lewd conduct died Saturday of “natural causes” after having been taken into custody by University Security, a Los Angeles Police Department, Southwest Division source said.
Two suspects were arrested after a student reported a possibly drunk man lying on the ground in the 900 block of Adams Boulevard.
Upon transport to the Southwest Division police station, one suspect began to show signs of respiratory difficulty. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation proved futile, and medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene, the source explained.
Apparently, two witnesses called the Southwest Division after they reportedly saw two men indecently exposed, but all police units were involved in an ongoing hostage situation.
The lewd conduct call was monitored by University Security. Twenty minutes later, a student reported a drunk man lying on the ground at the same Adams location.
Two University Security vehicles responded to the call, and the two officers quickly arrested the suspects. The officers determined that the drunk and lewd disturbances were the same, and immediately informed LAPD officials that
they would handle the problem.
The suspects were placed under arrest and transported in a security vehicle to the Southwest station. The witnesses were also transported, and both arrived within minutes of the arrest, the source said.
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utKAKIb Grant Beglarian wil take a two-year leave of absence after 12 years as the Dean of the School of Performing Arts. In January, he will be presiding over the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts in Miami.
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Volume XCI Number 10_University of Southern California Tuesday, September 15, 1981
SITE CALLED UNSAFE
Hopes fade for student-staff pub
By Wendell Mobley
Staff Writer
A campus pub may be further from reality than originally thought.
“Under this administration, I don’t see us getting a place on campus that we can control and that is ours,” said Larry Fox, president of SoCal Student Agencies, part of a nonprofit corporation formed by the Student Senate to increase student services.
“We are faced with a problem regarding a student-run pub. I can’t see the university giving one of its facilities on its property that will compete with its eateries,” Fox admitted.
But the president said anoth-
er problem existed. “The corporation had to build itself up before attacking a problem of that magnitude,” he said. “It doesn’t mean we won’t try.” The idea of converting the Joint Educational Project house into a pub was discussed by SoCal, Fox said. “The pub has been talked about for years.” Tom Coffin, university architect, said the idea of using the JEP house as a pub is not feasible. “They say they don’t build them like they used to — true. We build them better. What made them beautiful was the "beautiful finish, but they are not structurally sound. There’s nothing in that house to turn into a pub.
“(The JEP house) is a 1900
JEP may be forced from home
Beautification project may destroy home
By Wendell Mobley
Staff Writer
The Joint Educational Project’s house may not have much longer to creak and moan. The house, located at 801 W. 34th St., may give way to a beautification project initiated by the university, according to Dick Cone, director of the project.
The building has housed several university-affiliated groups during its 81-year life, including Marion M. Bovard, former university president.
“We’ve wanted to save (the house) for historical purposes, but I think it’s in the way of the greenbelt plan,” Cone said.
This plan is a project the university is pursuing in an attempt to increase greenery on the campus. “There is something to be said for the preserving of the old part of the university,” Cone said.
He has no real objection against relocating JEP, but he said he does not want the house to be torn down. “With some repairs done to it and with some new paint, it would be a beautiful house,” he said.
JEP moved into the house in September 1975. Cone said he anticipates that the project
will be moved out of the house by the summer of 1982, but he could not give a specific date.
“Typically, the university has delays, then it moves fast. In other words, (the university) could get us out of the house fast,” Cone said.
The JEP was initially supposed to move into the second floor of the old Letters, Arts and Sciences advisement building, the director said. The university was to remodel the floor, allowing the JEP to move into the building in April 1982.
“That was if everything went as planned. Now there seems to be a hitch: the university wants to do earthquake testing to bring the building up to code,” he said.
“The move is supposed to happen . . . we’ve been told (the house is) definitely to be torn down,” said Eugene Gerlitz, director of Business and Financial Affairs of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Tom Coffin, university architect, said he sees no reason why the house should be restored. “There’s nothing to restore. It’s not like one of the mansions on Adams or Hoover. It is not an architectural masterpiece.”
building that does not meet (safety) codes for earthquakes and fire. The potential for fire is exceptionally high," he added.
"If the university is so hard up for space, I don’t see why it should turn the house down. It is attractive. It would be beautiful with some paint and some work,” countered Dick Cone, director of JEP.
“Every year for two weeks during each semester, 600 students tromp through the house. If there’s a strong earthquake, I’d rather be in the (JEP) house than in one of new buildings on campus,” Cone said.
Students and the administration are interested in a pub, said Jim Dennis, assistant vice president of Campus Life and Recreation. “People are looking for a place to relax and unwind with the staff and people their age.
“We have come close to establishing a pub with a joint student/staff venture.”
The Student Senate, students, Architectural Services, USC Food Service and other groups have met in the past to discuss the issue of a pub, the assistant vice president explained.
A pub committee was formed to address the question, but stopped meeting about a year ago because it realized the financial burden, he said.
A pub on campus is in the university’s best interests if the university is included, he said, adding that university food services should support such an idea.“This would allow profes-' sionals to create and maintain a different place with a different theme with student input,” Dennis said. “Students, staff and faculty should work on projects of common interest.”