Volume Cll, Number 63
Seventy-Fifth Year of Publication
trojan
University of Southern California
1912 — 1986
Wednesday, December 3, 1986
JOEL ORDESKY DAILY TROJAN
Lynda Mohr, song girl, shed a few tears for the senior football players as fans booed them after the heartbreaking loss to Notre Dame last Saturday.
Treasurer claims partial divestment is ineffective
By Jim Logan
Staff Writer
The university's policy of limited divestment in firms doing business in South Africa, adopted by the Board of Trustees in October, will have a “negligible" effect on the endowment pool, said William Hromadka, assistant university treasurer.
"It's not going to totally skew our operations," Hromadka said in a recent interview.
In fact, it is likely that the greatest strain on the university will be an increased administrative workload, rather than a potential loss of millions of dollars.
Before the trustees voted to adopt limited divestment, the university's endowment pool of more than S280 million was frequently mentioned.
Bv uttering "divestment" and "endowment pool" in the same breath, it seemed to some that similarly vast sums were invested with U.S. corporations in South Africa, or that the university's investments were tightly interwoven in that country's finances.
A closer examination, however, reveals that small percentages of the university's capital are involved.
As of Aug. 31, S26.7 million was invested in American businesses in South Africa. That figure represents 9.1 percent of the endowment pool's nearly S282 million market value.
Yet, of that S26.7 million, only about S5.6 million is invested with companies that will be unacceptable, as rated by the Sullivan principles, for continued investment after Dec. 31, 1987.
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Students asked to 'take a bite out of campus crime'
By Joanne Sims
Staff Writer
University Securitv, the Student Senate and the Graduate Program Board are urging students to "take a bite out of campus crime," at their second annual Crime Prevention Fair today at Founders Park.
"Security hopes (the fair) will bring more information to the student bodv, staff and faculty, so that they mav better protect their property and themselves," said Terry Riley, a security officer and head of the crime prevention division.
The fair, which is expected to draw.as manv as 40,000 people, is being held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Officer McGruff, the television crime dog who coined the term.
' Take a bite outta crime." will be speaking at Tommv Trojan at 1 p.m.
Rilev said that McGruff has already made several appearances at local elementary schools promoting crime prevention and safety "McGruff shows the community we care," he said.
Sara Hirsch. a commuter senator and the senate's chairwoman for the Crime Prevention Fair, said senators are concerned about crime prev ention and feel that working with secuntv is a good wav to "provide students with the information necessary to be aware of crime in order to prevent it."
Hirsch said that one of the primary objectives in this year's fair is also "to get the community involved, as we!! as the students," Hirsch said.
Invitations were sent out to local churches and elementary schools within a 10-mile radius of campus.
Highlights of the event wil! include a dunk tank with three plain-clothed securitv officers, a talking police car and a walking, talking robot
Juggler*-, mimes, and the band Concrete Blond will also be performing today at noon
There will be 2s booths and displays at the tair Police officers from as far awav as San Diego will be passing out brochures and talking with students, faculty ana =>tatt about crime prevention.
Vendors of home and car securitv alarms and locks wil! also be at the fair to display and demonstrate their products, Hirsch said.
Officer Steve Sickles and his canine partner, Hero, will give a demonstration on how the dog works under command," bv having Hero attack a person who will be wearing a special sleeve on his arm made out of heavy canvas.
"The majority of students don't take advantage of programs that the Crime Prevention Program offers free of charge bv highly trained personnel with years of experience," Rilev said.
These programs range from seminars on crime prevention to individual identification engraving.
"Sororities especially don't take advantage of rape self-defense and acquaintance-rape workshops” that arg available to them, Riley said.
He also noted that fraternities don't make use of programs offered to educate students about such local crimes as auto theft.
Riley commented that the university's greatest security problem is that people lack basic common sense and "street-wise" wits necessary- to live in a high-crime area.
Encouraging students to be aware of their surroundings, Riley said they should feel free to call security and report suspicious activities so that crime can be stopped before it starts.
"We can't stop all crime without help from the university's community," he said.
Gerontology dean appointed
Doctor will head Andrus Center and Davis School
By Lauren Kam
Staff Writer
Dr. Edward Schneider has been named the new dean of the Andrus Gerontology Center and Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.
Schneider was deputy director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda. Md., as well as a professor of biochemistry at George Washington University and professor of medicine at Georgetown University, both in Washington, D.C.
"We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Schneider to the USC community. . said Cornelius Pings.
His appointment at the university was effective as of Monday.
"We are verv pieased to welcome Dr. Schneider to the USC community as he assumes responsibility for leadership of our programs in gerontology." said Cornelius Pings, provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs, upon announcing Schneider's appointment.
“We believe his extensive background, especially as deputy director of the NIA, will be of great significance to the university in all our programs and will be especially critical to the ongoing development of our gerontology programs," Pings said.
Schneider has held many posts with the NIH, including associate director for biomedical research and clinical medicine from 1980 to 1984 and chief of the Section on Cellular Aging and Genetics at the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Gerontology Research
Edward Schneider
Center from 1978 to 1979.
A licensed medical practitioner in New York, California, Maryland and Colorado, Schneider has received numerous honors including the Roche Award, the Boston University Alumni Aw’ard and membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigators.
Schneider earned his medical degree from Boston University's School of Medicine cum laude in 1966 and his bachelor's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1961.
Established in 1964, the Ethel
Percy Andrus Gerontology Center was designated a leader in its field in a December 1983 report by the Visitors Committee, an impartial academic review committee composed of national experts in the field of gerontology.
Schneider replaces Dr. James Birren, who retired from the post in June 1986 and is now professor and director of the university's Institute for Advanced Study in Gerontology and Geriatrics.
Dr. David Peterson has served as interim dean at the center since Birren's departure.