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Volume XCIII, Number 11	University of Southern California	Wednesday, January 26, 1983
JOHN ROBINSON
Senate to support officer status
Robinson makes adjustments to his vice president position
By Michael Molinski
Assistant City Editor
The student senate has announced that it will support the administration in its pursuit of reserve officer status for University Security but will recommend that certain restrictions be placed on the officers to limit authority and responsibilities.
Reserve officer status would grant the officers peace officer status while they are on duty and would give them the same powers and responsibilities of regular on-duty police officers.
The administration is expected to give its final approval on a form of peace officer status (most likely as LAPD reserves) sometime this spring.
The student senate passed a resolution last week listing its recommendations.
It was not in full form, however, and an amendment is expected to be introduced next week by some of the senators.
Included in its recommendations are provisions that University Security and the LAPD should have concurrent jurisdiction over the area covered by campus and a one-mile radius around it. and that security should handle ail calls involving “possible physical harm" within that area. All reports of burglary and theft within the one-mile radius and not on campus would be handled by LAPD, the resolution recommended.
Concurrent jurisdiction would also apply to the university's health sciences campus in East Los Angeles.
The question that attracted the most controversy was whether or
not university officers should have the option of arresting a student for a misdemeanor or sending him through the university’s judicial review system. The clause concerning this was defeated by senators who felt that no arrests of students should be made for misdemeanors. Some senators, however, feel that without this clausa, any student could be automatically arrested for a misdemeanor.
Chief Steven Ward of University Security didn't see a need for this clause. “We will continue, regardless of peace officer status, with our current policy to develop as many alternatives to arrest as we can possibly develop,” he said.
Next week's amendment will deal with this issue.
Overall, Ward said that the senate’s recommendations are a “very positive step." but added that they are too simplified and in some cases disagreed completely with the provisions.
Regarding concurrent jurisdiction, Ward said that LAPD would still have primary jurisdiction and added “I think we would be more restrictive than a one-mile radius."
A point which all of the senators agreed on was that university officers should leave their guns at work when they are off duty due to liability purposes. Ward agreed with this.
Another provision stated that each officer should meet the standards set by the LAPD. Ward disagreed strongly with this.
“If they can meet LAPD standards they can go to work there and make a lot more money,” he said. “It would make it more dif-(Continued on page 5)
By Steve DeSalvo
Assistant City Editor
When John Robinson traded in his windbreaker jacket and whistle for a three-piece business suit, leaving coaching to become senior vice president of university relations, many people doubted the wisdom of the move—including John Robinson.
“Sure, I’ve had doubts. There have been times when I’ve asked myself, ‘what am I doing here?’ ” said Robinson, sitting in his spacious, comfortable office located in the northwest corner of the Bovard Administration building.
“But there are other times when I say, ‘thank God I’m here,’ ” he added.
“There is risk and security in every job. When I was head football coach. I would wake up every Saturday morning half-crazed with fear and anxiety and wonder if I could sneak out of town without anyone knowing. I’ve felt the same way about this job at times."
Robinson, 47. spent 16 years coaching before deciding to call it quits. He left because, he said, “coaching was becoming more and more narrow. Instead of being open to more ideas. I was being exposed to less and less things. It frightened me."
Today, he is one of the most important administrators on campus, sharing the title of "senior vice president” with only two other people. Since starting the new job on Dec. 1, Robinson says he has spent most of his hours meeting new people and getting used to the change of style in his work.
“In football, there are lots of people interested in the bottom line. They want immediate results and your success is measured by your win-loss total. In this job. I work toward a long-term completion of goals. I also have more constituents. The decisions I make affect the entire university."
When Robinson talks about the university, he exudes a passion and
commitment that is probably unmatched by anyone else. He said he is proud of the university, of its "special" quality and tradition. This is from someone who earned his college degree at the University of Oregon, not this university.
Robinson's unwavering commitment to the university was cited by President Zumberge as one of the reasons Robinson was chosen to fill the post of senior vice president for university relations. When Robinson’s appointment was announced. Zumberge noted that he was impressed when Robinson turned down the lure of a multimillion dollar contract to coach the New England Patriots and instead chose to remain at the university.
As the person in charge of university relations. Robinson said his primary responsibility is to serve as a representative of the university. He said he expects to deliver more than 100 speeches this year. “I’m a tool of the university. I have to make sure our image is projected honestly.”
Robinson says he is not worried that recent NCAA sanctions against the university may have tarnished the school’s image and convinced some people that the university is more committed to athletics than academics.
“What somebody else believes is not important," he said. “What we believe is important. And I know this university is great academically and athletically.
“I can talk with the same passion about faculty and students as
I	do when I talk about Marcus Allen," he adds.
In regard to the “Study Harder” campaign instituted by the student senate last fall. Robinson laughed at the suggestion by some that it may have inadvertantly hurt flie university’s image.
“Who cares? It’s positive," he said. “How can something be wrong with that? No one was hurt by it. It’s part of what a university
for the university. Robinson also is the liaison between the university and its alumni. It's an important role. Robinson said, because good alumni support is vital to fundraising for the university—another one of his duties.
“My job is to rekindle the feeling that alumni had when they went to school here,” Robinson said, “Often, the passion dissipates so we have to give alumni a sense of belonging.
“We have to let them know that USC should still be important in their lives and the university needs their support.”
Robinson said that in the past, alumni have been encouraged to donate money to capital projects. But he said that strategy will begin to change.
“The attitude of ‘let’s raise money and build a building' is disappearing," Robinson said. “There are fewer places to put them now. But we're abandoning that attitude because we want alumni to identify with academics to a greater extent.”
Alumni will be encouraged to fund scholarships, research or improvements in academic programs, Robinson said. “We want alumni to say, ‘hey, I might be responsible for bringing a Nobel Prize or scholarship to USC.' ”
The change from head coach to the university's public relations representative and fundraiser is one that Robinson said he is still adapting to. He said it was “too early" for him to make an evaluation of whether his job as a university administrator has met his expectations.
“No job is everything you want it to be.” he said. “But it’s really hard for me to do something that requires no commitment. All the things I want in work — commitment, variety and challenges—I find in this job.” Robinson said he has come to one conclusion since he started the job a month and a half ago.
“I have a stronger feeling about USC than I ever did."
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Besides serving as spokesman
High court justice to preside at
law school moot competition
By John Lee
Staff Writer
Thurgood Marshall, the 74-vear-old U.S. Supreme Court Justice, will make a campus appearance Friday by presiding over the final round of the university Law Center's Hale Moot Court Competition.
Apoointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967, Marshall is the only black ever to become a justice of the highest court in the country.
He will be joined in the moot court by U.S. Circuit Court Judges Jon Newman and Stephen Reinhardt. The three men will serve as the panel of jurists to hear second year law students argue a hypothetical case.
This year's case is a civil suit
that involves two separate arguments to a municipal zoning ordinance based on contract theory and suggested violations of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
Held in honor of the late William Hale, a former dean of the Law Center, the competition will be conducted by the executive board of the moot court program.
The members of the board are third year law students who argued cases in last year's competition.
Each year the competition attracts a distinguished bench, said Sally Blowitz, director of public affairs at the Law Center and director of the competition.
“In the last 13 years of the moot court competition, we
have gotten at least one supreme court justice," Blow itz said. “The law school is very pleased to get Justice Marshall to appear on the bench.
Marshall, who is considered to be one of the U.S. Supreme Court's few liberal justices, earned his law degree from Howard University.
In 1934 he was the leading counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Later he became director-counsel for the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund, serving from 1940 to 1961.
As a leading advocate for the NAACP. Marshall argued 32 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and wrote the briefs for
11	others.