Woman demands to be fed, steals food from dining hall
German Department still plagued by tenure dispute
By John Lamb
Investigations Editor
and Darren Leon
City Editor
When a university professor applies for tenure he would assume — at least after reading guidelines in the Faculty Handbook — that the university would judge him according to his excellence in research, publications, professional activities and teaching.
But these qualities apparently are not always the overriding factors in the final decision.
“If (members of the department) are offended by the applicant, they won’t vote to give him tenure. There's a very human dimension: humans interact with humans,” said one former university administrator who asked not to be identified.
“A professor can be the most brilliant in the world, but your attitude must be a positive one,” said the former administrator. “Tenure is basically a high-level popularity contest."
A young professor applying for tenure, therefore, must try to appear with “the right people,” the former administrator said.
“These applicants are social butterflies,” the former administrator said. “Human beings don’t make decisions in a vacuum.”
Gunner Huettich, a former assistant professor in the German Department, was anything but a social butterfly in his relationship to that department. The tensions that resulted from this relationship led to a chain of events that have raised questions about the administration of the German Department and the integrity of the university tenure process in general.
Unconventional style
Described by university administrators and colleagues as controversial, intolerant, moody and a free spirit, Huettich did not match the conventional style of his department colleagues. Students have often rated him highly on teacher evaluations and say that he is the kind of classroom teacher they can rarely find on this campus.
Based partly on these evaluations, the President’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure unanimously recommended that the East German native Huettich receive tenure.
Huettich’s teaching ability was exemplified by David Malone, then dean of Humanities, in a March 1980 recommendation for promotion co-signed by John Marburger, then dean of the College
(Continued on page 5)
Dental professor accused of illegal medical practices
ment. Galaway said the procedure was “outside the scope of dentistry.”
Describing the treatment. Galaway said the 39-year-old professor used an elaborate machine combined with viles of various medicines and chemical substances to diagnose his ailment.
“What he did was put the machine's probe in the patient’s hand and brought the chemicals in contact with the skin.” Galaway said, adding that Eggleston claimed the machine would monitor biological reactions to the substances via a low electrical current that ran through the patient’s body.
“The bottom line is not whether his treatment worked or not. but that he didn’t have a medical license and what he (Continued on page 6}
By Charla Foster
Staff Writer
A university dentistry professor was arrested on suspicion of practicing medicine without a license after he allegedly claimed he could detect and cure allergies with the help of a new electric testing machine.
Orange County authorities said Thursday they believe that dentist David W. Eggleston, associate clinical professor at the university’s School of Dentistry, may have treated patients illegally in his Newport Beach offices for at least a year before city police arrested him on Jan. 8.
Investigator Ken Gala way of the stale Board of Consumer Affairs, said he made the arrest with police officers shortly after posing as an allergy patient and receiving Eggleston’s treat-
A woman entered the Trojan Dining Hall Tuesday, demanded to be fed and threatened to pour urine on food if she was refused, said University Security Sgt. Carole Steele.
The woman, identified by Steele as a “non-USC female,” reportedly entered the dining hall shortly after 4 p.m. and demanded food. Dining hall authorities escorted her out, but she returned and demanded once again to be fed, Steele said.
The woman reportedly produced a plastic container with a liquid in it and allegedly threatened to pour what she said was urine on the food unless she was fed.
She then allegedly took five uncooked steaks from the k^chen and left the hall.
Security officers arrested the woman on charges of theft soon after she left the hall.
Trojan Dining Hall is open only to university faculty and students who possess a Validine card. It is also open to guests of card holders. Validine is the trade name of a computerized meal card service.
READING BETWEEN THE LINES
trojan
Volume XCI Number 15	University of Southern California	Monday, February 1, 1982
Light shed on sorority hazing
Expert discusses mental anguish
By Chris Navarro
Staff Writer
Reaction to the suspension of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority has been one of shock, possibly because it marks the first time in recent memory that a sorority, not a fraternity, has been found guilty of hazing.
The unintentional, yet potentially fatal, incident which involved- the consumption of an overabundance of alcohol by a pledge, has shed some light on the occurrence of hazing in sororities.
“Sororities are a little steeped in tradition, maybe more so than the guys. They do not address hazing as openly as the guys do. I feel they bury their heads in the sand and say there is no problem.”
These are the feelings of Eileen Stevens, head of the New York based Committee to Halt Useless College Killings (CHUCK). Although not all sororities haze their pledges, this practice must be confronted as a reality if it is to be eradicated, Stevens said in a telephone interview with the Daily Trojan.
Sinde her son's death in a fraternity hazing incident, Stevens has organized CHUCK and has been speaking on campuses nationwide on the issue of hazing. She spoke last year to
a group of university Greeks at a Santa Barbara retreat sponsored by the Interfratemity and Panhellenic Councils. Stevens said she will be on campus in April.
From speaking to sorority members during her campus visits and through letters she receives from those involved in the Greek system, Stevens said she has learned that hazing is not as prevalent in sororities as it is in fraternities. The hazing which takes place in sororities, however, is more “mental."
“They are aware that it goes on. They experience intimidation, the peer pressure and the harassment one year and in turn subject a pledge to the same things the following year.”
Stevens cited a case at Rutgers University in which an overweight pledge was forced to wear a bikini and walk across a dining room table.
“She (the pledge) told me it was a humiliating experience and that she sobbed in her room for hours. She honestly considered killing herself,” Stevens said.
Another incident Stevens recounted had to do with a sorority requesting its pledges to sit (Continued on page 8)
Staff photo by Jessica Friedheim
THE HOUSE — The Alpha Delta Pi sorority was suspended last week because of hazing violations. House sponsored activities will be curtailed for two months, and the university will enforce a probation period through the 1982 fall semester.