Volume XCIi, Number 30
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University of Southern California
Tuesday, October 19, 1982
Officer charged in student’s beating
Accused in February assault
By Carmen Chandler
Staff Writer
William Rodgers, a 13-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, has been charged with two felony counts for allegedly beating a university student in the parking lot of a West Los Angeles nightclub last year.
At his arraignment Friday, Rodgers pleaded not guilty to one count of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of assault under the color of authority (acting without lawful necessity).
Rodgers is accused of beating Andrew Oldfield last February outside of Chippendales after an argument over a towed vehicle.
“Oldfield got into a verbal dispute with Rodgers and (Jeff Willis, Rodgers’ partner) over the towing of an automobile belonging to another patron,” said Micheal Delaney, deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County' and a member of the special investigations division.
The officers said they tried to arrest Oldfield for interfering with the duties of a police officer. The officers claimed that Oldfield res-
isted the arrest.
Oldfield was allegedly struck with a flashlight or a nightstick by Rodgers in excess of 10 times after he ceased resisting arrest, Delaney said. Oldfield was seriously injured.
“I was unconscious almost entirely through the whole incident,” Oldfield said. “W'hen 1 came to I was sitting in the (squad) car but after driving a while I blacked out and didn’t come to until the next day in the hospital.”
Oldfield’s injurie.? included three broken ribs, a collapsed left lung and 15 stitches in the head. “I was in a coma for six hours,” he said.
Delaney said the incident was witnessed by several people, many of whom were patrons of the nightclub who had come outside when they were told that their cars were being towed.
“It (the incident) only came to our attention in July and August because Oldfield was arrested for interference with a police officer and battery and he pleaded guilty to the interfering charges,” Delaney said.
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Advisement proposal gathers little support
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF ANTARCTIC COMMITTEE
Zumberge to supervise research
By Jeannie Wong
Staff Writer
President James Zumberge became a president and a board member again this summer, but this time it was not a university appointment.
Zumberge was elected president of the Scientific Committee. on Antarctic Research in July, and became a member of the Conference Board Inc., a non-profit, economic research organization in September.
SCAR, a non-governmental organization created in 1958, is primarily an advisory body surrounding research of Antarctica, said Timothy Hushen, executive secretary of the Polar Research Board.
During his four-year term.
Zumberge will review possible exploration and exploitation of Antarctic living and mineral resources, and will supervise the coordination of research programs. Hushen said.
A former geology professor at the University of Michigan and the former dean of the school of earth sciences at the University of Arizona, Zumberge will continue to serve as the U.S. delegate to SCAR, a position he has held since 1972. In this capacity, it is his responsibility to report American scientific research in the Antarctic to the committee.
Zumberge was elected unanimously by the delegates from the 14 other members of the committee from 14 countries.
Hushen said. These countries include France, Japan. Poland and the Soviet Union.
As a member of the Conference Board, Zumberge will be able to help direct the organization when a vote on changes in the board’s charter or on policies set by the trustees is called, said Diane Makovsky, the board’s staff assistant for public information. He was elected to a two-year term.
The board was founded in 1916 to help competing businesses exchange information in an open arena, Makovsky said. The organization now provides leaders from the public and private sectors with an opportunity to exchange information on management, economic and public policy issues.
By Michael Molinski
Staff Writer
The Student Senate is looking into the feasibility and possible benefits of mandatory academic advisement of students by faculty members at the university.
A resolution, which would call for the senate’s support of such a program, was introduced at a senate meeting last week by Lisa Livote, a student senator representing the residence halls. The resolution was tabled for further investigation. It is scheduled for additional debate at next week’s meeting.
“The basic reaction (of the senators) was that it is not our place to require this,” said Mark Di Jiacomo, a Student Senate cabinet member and coauthor of the resolution. “We are going to include this issue on a questionnaire to be distributed among the students at the university in order to get their opinion.”
The resolution would call for a system of advisement structured so that each student majoring in a specific department would have a faculty adviser from that same department to encourage long-range academic planning toward the desired degree.
One of the senators speaking against the bill was Kevin Hawkins, a graduate student who is an undergraduate public relations adviser for the school of journalism. “My interpretation of the resolution is that it is designed so that professors that don’t want to spend the time on advisement would be required to do so.” he said. “That’s not right.
"It would be disastrous to the journalism school,” Hawkins continued. “Mandatory faculty advisement, as written in the resolution, would invali-
date non-faculty advisement. Non-faculty advisers are rigorously trained for this purpose. W'e advise as many as 165 students in a three-week period. A regular professor would not be able to meet that demand. It would take them away from their classrooms. Many of them are full-time writers.”
Livote, on the other hand, said that faculty advisement would be in addition to regular advisement, and would not invalidate it.
Janelle Howatt, director of undeclared advisement for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, said many departments already have faculty advisement. “However,” she said, “it is practically very difficult for the larger departments such as political science, international relations and journalism. It is difficult for a faculty member to know about all the requirements of the school.”
Several other universities have successful faculty/student advisement programs as do several departments within the university.
“The school of music has a very successful advisement program,” said Bill Trusten. secretary for the keyboard studies division. “We have no trouble getting students to attend advisement. It is very beneficial to the students and saves a lot of grief.”
Luther Luedtke, interim director of the school of journalism, made a distinction between advisement and counseling. "Full-time faculty members counsel students on career plans, but in some areas they are incompletely informed. It would be almost impossible to give the same amount of advisement time to students if it were left up to the faculty,” he said.
Still, after all these years, Buchwald cracks them up
By Mark Gill
Editonat Director
Saturday night's event was scheduled to honor a tradition: 50 years of Jewish life at the university, but the featured speaker, Art Buchwaid. spoke in a manner that was anything but traditional.
An estimated 500 people filled Town and Gown to hear Buchwald, a nationally syndicated columnist, give an oral rendition of the humor he so often displays in print.
Buchwald attended the university for three years in the late 1940s, and it was here that his irreverent style went public — in the Daily Trojan and in a now-defunct humor magazine entitled Whompus. “I used to satirize O-M-I-G-A-W-D sorority, and I wrote letters to the editor under the name Howard Lindhoffer.” he said.
It was the beginning of Buchwald’s lifelong attack on the establishment, from university fraternities to European society to the U.S. government. He has since won a Pulizter Prize, published 20 books (collections), a novel and a play, and he writes a column which appears in more than 500 newspapers worldwide.
He spoke for no charge but insisted that Lou Garfinkle, a cohort from his days in Paris and a screenwriter whose credits include “The Deer Hunter," be at his side.
Garfinkle said of his old friend. “Once he told me. It's tough to get up every morning and bt funnv. He’s still doing it 30 years later. And he’s not only funny ha-ha.’ He’s funny wow.’ ” Garfinkle added. “ ’SC has spawned many heroes, but his mind, your MVP. is Art Buchwald.”
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‘When I was here you could look from Doheny to the La Brea Tar Pits. There was nothing but buffalo. The doctors were still using leeches. ’
ART BUCHWALD
Photo by Ken Fabrick