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Former employee gets plea bargain in grade scandal
By Pablo Lopez
Staff Writer
The sentencing of a former university employee who pleaded guilty to tampering with grades and selling cocaine has been postponed as part of a plea bargain arrangement with the Los Angeles Countv District Attorney's Office.
Darryl Gillard, who was employed at the Office of Registration and Records, pleaded guiltv to one count of malicious tampering with grades and one count of selling cocaine.
Initially scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 22, Gillard was granted a continuation to Dec. 17, said Stephen Plafker, a deputy district attorney.
Under the agreement, Gillard will testify in the trial of Mehr-dad Amini, a former university student who faces charges of possession of a controlled substance.
In exchange for his testimony, Gillard's sentence will not exceed two years, the deputv district attorney said.
Gillard was convicted along with Amini in August for illegally changing students' grades in exchange for cash. Amini was sentenced in September to two years in prison, Plafker said.
Amini now faces federal prosecution in Louisville, Ky., for (Continued on page 2)
No trouble during road trip weekend
Students well-behaved
By Lori Grange
Staff Writer
History did not repeat itself in San Francisco last weekend: the university's football team won its annual "Stanford Weekender" game, and the Golden Gate was still intact after students headed home.
Just as the Trojans defeated the Cardinals 10-0, students defeated the tarnished image they received after last year's event, when they were called vandals and some were arrested. One San Francisco hotel administrator called this "the quietest" weekender university students have ever had.
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JOEL ORDESKY DAILY TROJAN
Things got crowded and lively as the band played at the cocktail party in the Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco this past weekend.
Seventy-Fifth Year of Publication
trojan
Volume CM. Number 40
University of Southern California
1912 — 1986
Tuesday. October 28, 1986
Doheny to discard up to 2,000 books
Library lacks adequate shelf space
By Hortensia Lopez
Staff Writer
Despite efforts to sell books at a fraction of their original price, Doheny Library employees will discard 1,500 to 2,000 books because thev say they have a lack of shelf space.
Usually the library holds a three day book sale a few times each semester. However, this semester the first sale lasted only one day.
Three-fourths of the 6,000 to 8,000 books sold were either duplicate copies or were not in as good a condition as the ones on the shelf, said Lee Wise, gifts and exchange librarian.
"It costs more to donate them (than to throw them away) because we have to pay for trucking operation," said Earmie Edwards, library assistant.
In the past, campus organizations or charities registered with the state have taken the unsold books. One year, a fraternity took them and another year, the Library School Student Association took them, Wise said.
"We’ve donated them to groups, but we couldn't find anyone who wants such a large number of books," Wise said.
However, in telephone interviews on Monday, the Salvation Army, Goodwill and The St. Vincent de Paul Society of Los Angeles all expressed an interest in acquiring the books.
"We wouldn't (pick them up) all at once but over a period of time," said Sonia Powell, a Salvation Army telephone operator.
"We do pick up donations. We could pick them up by Thursday afternoon," said Andrew, an employee who refused to give his last name.
The St. Vincent de Paul Society of Los Angeles also offered to pick up the books this week.
Although efforts to contact charity groups are not made, "if they call us and are registered with the state, they can have them," Wise said. However, they must pick up the books immediately because of the need for space, she added.
Some books are given to libraries on an exchange basis. For example, if the library is going to eliminate a certain book and another library needs it, they may exchange books. Wise said.
"Last year, we shipped some books over to Poland and the Philippines. They use them to start libraries," Edwards said.
The money collected from book sales, each book selling for 25 cents, "usually goes into the replacement fund," Wise said.
"The ones that are left tend to be old novels, out of date technology or business things, out of date tax laws, or educational things. . ." Wise said.
The cost of maintaining books in libraries is substantial and includes: entering each volume into the computer, using the telephone on the data base, the time it takes for reshelving books, payment for employees, and maintaining the building which houses the book, Wise said.
Feature.
By Sharon Casamiquela
Staff Writer
Peer Review Boards regulate conduct, behavioral standards
They are committed to the ideals of peer review and take their role very seriously," said Terry Zacker, program coordinator for Student Conduct.
According to the 1986-87 Student Conduct Code, review panels "conduct initial reviews, render decisions, and recommend appropriate sanctions in cases of alleged misconduct by an individual student or by a student organization."
A review can be initiated by any student, staff member or faculty member wishing to confront an incident or behavior that allegedly violates university policv or behavioral standards. A clear written statement and a description of the incident must be sent to the Office for Residential Life or the dean of student affairs to begin the review process. A review date and time is then arranged. Both parties involved in the incident will be notified 72 days before the review.
Peer reviews are not open for public viewing unless both parties involved agree to open their review. The proceedings themselves are broken into three phases. First, the board members go over the background information of each case in a preparatory discussion. The people involved in the incident, however, are not present for this phase of the review. A discussion and question phase follows, which enables both parties to present their version of the (Continued on page 7)
The Siudent Conduct system at this university operates on two levels, the first being its review boards, and the second being the Student Behavior Appeals Panel.
Although each of the review boards are important in and of themselves, the Student Review Panels affect the greatest percentage of the university's students. There are six Student Review Panels in the Student Conduct system; one for each of the four housing complexes, another representing the campus fraternities and sororities, and the last covering areas outside university-owned housing.
Each panel consists of an adviser from the Office for Residential Life staff and three to five student members. The student members live in the area that the panel has jurisdiction over and are selected annually through an interviewing process. Since the panels mainly consist of students, they are usually referred to as peer review boards.
"This fall we had over 60 applicants for 20 vacant spots on the peer review boards, so we were able to be very selective. We have a total of 68 peer review board members this year. I am very pleased with the high quality and diversity of the members we have.
Recommendation shows flaws in system
Student review with many small
By Aaron Curtiss
Assistant City Editor
Following recommendations from the Peer Review Board, a pre-med honor student will be put on suspension and removed from university housing because of his involvement in a fight in the hallway of his apartment building.
However, 21-year-old Dan Carpenter said that he was "railroaded" and called the review board's procedure "unfair."
Carpenter was punished for having been involved in a fight outside a party in Kerckhoff Apartments with students Rick Smith, Tim Janes, Eric Meuse, and a resident adviser at Pardee Tower. They maintain that Carpenter started the fight while walking past the party which was being dispersed by a loss prevention officer, Bill McGreevy, and a resident adviser, Chris Stein.
However, Carpenter said that it was not a "fight," but rather, he was "jumped by five or six guys who beat the heck out of me." He does admit that, after treating his wounds in his apartment, he tried to seek revenge because security refused to arrest his attackers.
"I thought I was a victim," he said. "I wake up every morning and I think it's a dream."
Sanctions levied against Carpenter for his involvement in the Aug. 28 fight
process marred inconsistencies
include being suspended next semester and removed from university housing. He must also attend an alcohol rehabilitation workshop and write letters of apology to the others involved in the incident.
Although Carpenter has appealed his case and received a new hearing, he said that even if he "is 100 percent vindicated," the mark on his otherwise clean record will limit his chances at being accepted to medical school.
"How children can sit on a board and do this to a person's life is an awesome power that I cannot comprehend," Carpenter said of the student board. "They've taken my dream away. . .they've ruined my life."
Although the other students recei\«. sanctions, they were not as severe a; those levied against Carpenter. Meuse said he was fired from his RA position, received probation until Jan. 1 and must attend an alcohol workshop, which is standard procedure for alcohol related offenses.
The fact that Carpenter did not appear at the peer review hearing may have affected the severity of the sanctions imposed on him, but Carpenter said that he understood his role in the episode as that of the victim.
He said that Terry Zacker, program coordinator for student conduct, told him the only reason he had to be there
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