Volume Cll, Number 11	University of Southern California	Tuesday, September 16, 1986
Investments limited to anti-apartheid corporations
Seventy-Fifth Year of Publication
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Committee decides not to divest holdings
By Robyn Epstein
Staff Writer
The university will not immediately divest its holdings in companies doing business in South Africa if the Board of Trustees accepts a recommendation that university President James Zumberge forwarded to it yesterday.
Zumberge released the long-awaited report of the Committee on Investments and Social Respon-sibilty, and it did not contain the divestment recommendation that many had hoped and called for over the last several years.
The committee report said, "We recommend that the university limit its investments in corporations that do business in South Africa to those that are making a strong and visible commitment to ending apartheid.
"We recommend that the university announce a decision not to make any new investments in corporations doing business in South Africa unless they have shown a strong record of commitment to ending apartheid; and that it make public a determination to divest itself, in a phased and deliberate manner, of current investments in firms operating in South Africa that have failed to demonstrate a high level of commitment to ending apartheid."
The committee signed the report on Aug. 29 and submitted it to Zumberge on Sept. 5, but no one would release the details of or comment on the report until today, when Zumberge issued his favorable review of the report.
Zumberge will present the report to the Board of Trustees, which will decide whether or not to accept its recommendations.
The committee recommended that:
•	The university make no new investments in corporations doing business in South Africa that do not have a one or two rating in the Sullivan Principles, which measure a businesses respect of civil rights, and that in 1988 it divest from companies that have not achieved this rating and that
have not evidenced a strong commitment to racial justice to the satisfaction of the committee;
•	The university should not invest in, nor do business with, any bank that makes new loans to the South African government;
•	The university inform any companies it has holdings in that do business in South Africa of its concerns about corporate social responsibility to oppose apartheid;
•	The university continue to use its proxy voting power to press corporations to work to end apartheid;
•	The president report on the university's policy on investments in South Africa and the steps that have been taken to provide educational leadership on this issue;
•	The committee continue to monitor the situation.
"The recommendations of the Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility are a sound, reasonable interpretation of the university's policy on investments and social concerns as approved by the Board of Trustees last year," Zumberge said in releasing the report.
"I endorse the recommendations and will recommend their adoption by the (Board of Trustees) at its October meeting," he said.
Lyn Hutton, senior vice president for administration, said, "These recommendations lay out specific and sensible guidelines for clarification of our existing policy and represent the next logical step in addressing this issue of continuing concern to all its members of the campus community."
Hutton's and Zumberge's statements were issued in a press release from University News Service. The report was issued yesterday at 4:45 p.m. and no members of the committee could be reached yesterday evening.
The committee has been discussing the stand on the university's policy on South Africa all year.
In October 1985, the Board of Trustees adopted a
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With the release of the university’s long-awaited report on South Africa, protests on the divestment issue may soon either start up again or disappear from campus.
Concerned faculty group urging university activism, awareness
Discussions planned on international issues
By Rose Anne Rodriguez
Assistant City Editor
In an attempt to provide what they hope will be an alternative forum for foreign policy discussion, a group of faculty members is forming USC Concerned Faculty.
The interdisciplinary group met for an organizational session yesterday, during which future goals and commitments were discussed, said Sheldon Kamieniecki, associate professor of political science.
"We see the organization as being political, although somewhat educational. Later on we will be taking stands on South Africa, Latin America, academic freedom and subjects like 'Star Wars' (Strategic Defense Initiative)," Kamieniecki said.
Leslie Gasser, assistant professor of computer science, said he foresees two possible goals for the new organization. "The first goal is an informational one — bringing to light an alternative viewpoint from the vocal one found on campus. The second goal is advocacy — supporting human interests and pro-humanity issues," Gasser said.
Drawing form the first meeting, Gasser defined the type of alternative view he thinks the organization will offer.
"I find that this group is progressive in ideas as opposed to conservative," he said.
Gasser said he is concerned about professors who accept research fund-
ing for SDI and other classified research, and this prompted him to join the organization.
"The organization encourages activism and involvement. I'm concerned with groups who don't," said Steven Lamy, assistant professor at the School of International Relations.
Lamy said the organization is attempting to gather concerned faculty members and focus their attention on the issues at hand. One such issue that Lamy said he hopes will be discussed is academic freedom.
"There is now a movement on the right to essentially restrict what is being taught in the classroom. In a sense it is censorship," he said.
"There is a group in the U.S. Department of Education trying to change what is being taught in the high schools, especially regarding international issues. They are not yet focusing on the universities, but I've felt that there is a need for the faculty to deal with the situation," Lamy said.
Nora Hamilton, associate professor of political science, said the group offers a format for faculty that the Faculty Senate does not provide. "We are mostly concerned with foreign policy as opposed to administrative policy," she said.
"I foresee that we will be working very closely with student groups. We will be collaborating with groups who are concerned with the same sort of (Continued on page 6)
Position still up for grabs
LAS advisory committee releases list of dean candidate nominations
By Rhoda Fukushima
Staff Writer
The committee searching for a new dean for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences has formally submitted its list of candidates for the job, and yesterday the provost appointed a faculty advisory committee to review the search committee's findings, said Robert Biller, executive vice provost.
"With the nomination process having gone fully forward, this committee will help the provost think through what will be done with that advice," Biller said.
Last spring, the search committee recommended four candidates to President James Zumberge and Provost Cornelius Pings. One candidate took a position at another college. A decision on the remaining candidates was postponed until the entire faculty returned to campus this fall, Biller said.
"No one has been selected, and no one has been ruled out," Biller said. "We're just not done yet."
The advisory committee consists of four members from each of the LAS divisions.
"It's time to move to the permanent resolution of the deanship search," Pings said. "I had a sense that all 12 committee
members share that sense of timing with
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Pings will meet with the advisory committee for the first time on Sept. 23.
The search committee was appointed last year to find a replacement for the former dean, Irwin Lieb, who was fired in October 1985.
"The search committee's charge was to
generate information concerning nominations inside and outside the university and to present recommendations based on that broadly cast and affirmative search to the provost and president," Biller said.
In April, the search committee submitted a list of four names to Pings and Zumberge for consideration. Two of the four finalists were from the university and the others were the result of a national search.
The first finalist contacted to visit the university a second time was Dale Rogers Marshall, then associate dean of the College of Letters and Sdences at the Univer-
The advisory committee consists of four members from each of the LAS divisions._
sity of California, Davis. Rogers declined the offer, having accepted the position of provost at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
Pings asked William Spitzer to serve as interim LAS dean, Oct. 8. In January, the prefix "interim" was dropped, fully enabling Spitzer to exercise the responsibilities of his position. Biller said.
Spitzer has agreed to serve through the 1986-87 academic year.
"The search committee has done its job and submitted its report," he said. "The university must move forward to complete the process. I'm glad to see things are proceeding," Biller said.