Seventy-Fifth Year of Publication
1912 — 1986
Volume Cll, Number 43
University of Southern California
Friday, October 31, 1986
Business school dean will resign: search for new dean under way
Jack Steele, dean of the School of Business Administration, announced his resignation yesterday and will leave his position at the university on Saturday.
Doyle Williams, dean of the School of Accounting, will serve as interim dean while a search committee looks for prospective candidates.
In a news release, Cornelius Pings, the provost and senior vice president for academic affairs who accepted the resignation, said he appreciated Steele's contribution to the university over the past decade.
"A great many things have been accomplished within the business school during Jack Steele's stewardship,” Pings said.
"The university as a whole has benefited from his contributions," he said.
Steele joined the university as dean of the School of Business Administration-in 1975. He previously held the same position at Texas Tech University for five years.
He has also taught at Stanford, Kansas, Harvard and Texas A&M universities.
From 1967 to 1970, he served as general manager of New York operations for the Xerox Education Group.
Steele earned his doctorate in business administration from Harvard University.
University bit by animal cruelty issue
By Aaron Curtiss
Assistant City Editor
Citing the university's "cruelty" in its primate research, an animal rights coalition is urging potential donors to "not give one cent to USC."
In an advertisement that filled the back page of Wednesday's Daily Variety, an entertainment trade paper, The Coalition To Save The USC Primates maintains that the university does not provide humane housing or adequate exercise areas for its research primates, and urges potential donors not to give money to the university's Campaign for USC until the situation is rectified.
The ad said that this is not an issue of vivisection, performing surgery on live animals for research, but is rather "a distressing case of animal cruelty that can be corrected quickly and easily."
The coalition, which comprises 33 animai rights organizations, is headed by Bob Barker, host of "The Price is Right" game show.
"We are calling attention to the fact that USC is being very cruel to its research primates," said Barker, a longtime animal rights activist. "It's beneath the dignity of such a fine university and it should be stopped."
University officials declined to comment on the ad.
The ad comes at a time when the university is embarking on what President James Zumberge called an "audacious" fund-raising effort to raise over S557 million by 1990.
The ad urges protential donors to write to Roger Olson, senior vice president of university relations, and "inform him that you will not make a contribution to USC, and that you are urging your friends not to do so until the university provides more humane housing with adequate exercise area for its research primates."
Barker said that his group has written numerous letters to the university,
all of which have gone unanswered.
"We made requests and our requests were ignored," he said. "Our letters have been unanswered. We have had to turn to the public and use an area in which the university is most susceptible — money."
However, Olson said he is uncertain whether there will be any significant decreases in donations because of the ad.
An attempt to ease the overcrowding of primates was made by the university last spring when it made an unsuccessful bid for space near the Los Angeles Zoo.
That move was blocked by Barker's group because it didn't want the zoo to be associated with biomedical research.
"We are in compliance with all of the animal health regulation provisions," said Dr. Robert Benedict, assistant vice president of health affairs, in the Jan. 21, 1986 Daily Trojan.
Professor expects Prop. 63 will pass
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•	A special Halloween issue.
•	Preview of Arizona / Trojan matchup.
•	A tale of two tailbacks.
By Kirsten D. Levingston
Staff Writer
Proposition 63, the English-only initiative, will win overwhelming voter approval in Tuesday's election, according to Sheldon Kamieniecki, a political science professor.
Kamieniecki, who is opposed to the proposition, told a group comprised of mostly international students that he predicts it will be passed by a 2 to 1 margin even though it will isolate and alienate international people.
He said Proposition 63 is indicative of a fear of foreigners that pervades American society.
Kamieniecki gave his predictions for the upcoming election in one of a series of lectures for international students.
He also discussed the possible outcomes of California's gubernatorial and senatorial races. He said that both Tom Bradley, the Democratic candidate for governor, and Ed Zschau, the Republican candidate for senator, have run ineffective campaigns.
Bradley has concentrated too much on the toxics issue in his race against Republican Gov. George Deukmejian, however "his main problem is that he is black," Kamieniecki said.
He said prejudice still exists and "it is on the minds of people when they vote," even though race has not been an issue in the campaign. "California is not ready for a black governor," he said.
Zschau's problems have been campaign mismanagement, division within his party, his inability to make his name known and his inability to attack his opponent's liberal ideology, Kamieniecki said.
Although Zschau has recently begun to attack the liberal views of his opponent. Democratic Sen. Alan Cranston, it is "too little, too late," Kamieniecki said.
California Supreme Court Chief Justice Rose Bird will lose in her attempt to be reconfirmed, he said, because the death penalty issue has turned the campaign into a "political battle" rather than a test
of her legal competence.
However, candidates who have supported Bird will not be negatively affected in their races, Kamieniecki predicted. The real question, he said, is whether other judges who have voting records similar to those of Bird, Cruz Reynoso and Joseph Grodin, will be denied confirmation as well.
Kamieniecki's Thursday lecture was one of a series sponsored by the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and designed to "introduce international students and recent immigrants to the American way of life," said George Irani, director of international student advisement.
The series continues on Dec. 4 at 1 p.m. in Seaver Science Auditorium when Vice Provost Sylvia Manning will discuss the value of international education. Kamieniecki was also one of four political science professors to discuss election previews and predictions at a forum on Wednesday.
Sign-ups for annual blood drive exceed senate hopes despite donors’ qualms
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Dan Potter signs up Liz Larco as a blood donor for the Student Senate’s annual blood drive.
By Rhoda Fukushima
Staff Writer
Although students have been cautious about donating blood, sign-ups for the Student Senate's annual blood drive have exceeded expectations, said Liz Larco, chairperson of the Environmental and External Affairs Research Action Unit.
"People in general are good-natured and want to help one another," she said. "But they're scared of needles so they hesitate to give blood. When they realize it won't hurt and they won't contract diseases from contaminated needles, they agree."
The senate's original goal was 120 pints, which was "small, considering the number of students on campus," Larco said. Of the 135 people who had signed up by Thursday, 80 percent had given blood previously, she said.
The sign-up table will be set up in the Engineering Quad on Monday between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Larco predicts a total of 150 pints of blood will be donated.
On Tuesday and Wednesday the Red Cross bloodmobiles will be located in front of Student Union on Trousdale Parkway from 8 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Students who wish to donate blood but miss the Monday deadline can either call the senate office for available time slots or go to the bloodmobile
next week and see if there is a space available.
"It's never too late," Larco said.
The donations will go to nearby hospitals, Larco said. "Hospitals are in great need right now. (Giving) a pint of our blood wouldn't harm us in the least and would help someone live. It also symbolizes us as a citizen of the community — that we do care about the community and want to create a cohesive bond among the citizens."
Advertising for the blood drive is being paid for by the Engineering Graduate Student Association.
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"Certain senators felt we shouldn't fund certain community events," Larco said. "EGSA decided to help. They also feel it's important. They have been very cooperative."
Paying for the blood drive's publicity is a way for the graduate engineering group to become more visible on campus, said Ed Herbulock, president of the association.
"EGSA wants to actively participate in all aspects of campus life," he said.
The senate would have had to pay about $325 to conduct the blood drive if the graduate engineering group hadn't stepped in to help, Larco said. Instead, the senate is spending only $16 on the drive, she said.
"It's a good feeling when you do give blood and save someone's life," Larco said.