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Volume XCV, Number 44	University of Southern California	Tuesday, March 13, 1984
Man shot, killed behind fraternity
CRAIG STEWART DAILY TROJAN
A non-unlverslty mate was killed on the porch of this apartment building, near the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house.
Police search for male suspect near university
By David Jefferson
Assistant City Editor
A non-university male died Monday morning after being shot and stabbed on the porch outside his apartment at 44 St. James Place, just north of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity at 909 W. Adams Blvd., by a man who evaded police and had not been apprehended as of Monday evening, University Security said.
As he fled the scene, the assailant ran through the Delta house, continuing across Adams to the Theta Chi fraternity, 2715 Portland St., and then toward University Village, where he was last sighted.
University Security described the man as black, 25 to 26 years old, about 5 feet 8 inches tall,
with a medium build and no facial hair. He was wearing a red jacket and blue shorts when police last spotted him.
"He still could be hiding somewhere in the area," said Sgt. Hermin Aviles of security Monday afternoon.
Neighbors said the victim, who they could only identify as a 24-year-old black man named Terrence, was returning to his first-floor apartment after checking his mailbox when the incident occurred around 11 a.m.
The victim opened the door to his apartment, at which time the assailant, who was inside, fired a shot from a handgun which grazed the victim's head, said Marzell Land, 22, a witness who lives on the third floor of the building.
Land's sister, Burnell, 18, said the victim stumbled onto the porch outside his apartment and was subsequently attacked by the assailant, who had gone (Continued on page 17)
Dean of engineering looks toward future
By Sheldon Ito
Assistant Qty Editor
Leonard Silverman, the newly appointed dean of the School of Engineering, said although the school has fared well over the two years it was without a permanent dean, "it's much easier to move things when you have someone who can say 'yes' or 'no.' "
"We've been very fortunate that in spite of not having a permanent dean the school has carried on very well over the past two years," he said. "(But) there are decisions one has to make which an interim dean doesn't always feel comfortable with, because he doesn't want to saddle the person who follows him with an onerous decision."
Silverman, who was appointed last week after a three-year nationwide search, said there are a lot of intangibles which affect decision-making in the absence of a permanent dean.
"There are a lot of large projects and development plans that have really been getting into high gear now . . . that are much easier to implement with a well-defined leader," he said.
Silverman said the most pressing matter at hand now is the "fleshing-out" of the plans to construct a new engineering building.
"That's a very pressing matter," he said. "We want to make sure it gets into the big fund-raising drive."
He said plans to increase the size of the school's faculty require the construction of additional classroom and research space.
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Business, engineering schools lower student-to-facuity ratios
By Sheldon Ito
Assistant City Editor
The Schools of Business Administration and Engineering are dealing with the problem of high student-to-faculty ratios in two different ways — the School of Business choosing to decrease enrollment and the School of Engineering opting to increase the size of its faculty.
The Business School will decrease its enrollment by decreasing the number of classes offered, said Jack Steele, dean of the Business School.
Currently, the student-to-fa-culty ratio for the university is approximately 16 to 1, but the School of Engineering has a 30 to 1 ratio. The figure for the School of Business was unavailable.
Steele said 4,500 student credit hours — the number of students multiplied by the credit
hours they are carrying — have been eliminated this year and 4,500 more are scheduled to be eliminated next year. The classes have been and will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The reduction will prevent approximately 600 otherwise qualified full-time students — based on 15 credit hours per student
—	from entering the school, he said.
Steele said the reduction was imposed both internally, as a means of improving quality, and externally by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). The AACSB is the body which accredits business schools, and one of the criteria for accreditation is that a school not exceed
100.000	student credit hours.
Last year, the school had
109.000	student credit hours,
Steele said, adding that the university's business school is one of only 271 (out of 3,000 business programs across the nation) that is accredited.
He said the Business School has more demand from applicants than any other school on campus, and if the demand keeps up it may necessitate raising the required minimum grade point average from 2.75 to 3.0.
Leonard Silverman, dean of the School of Engineering, said there have been discussions over the past couple of years on whether to increase the faculty, "hold the line" or decrease the number of students admitted to the Engineering School.
He said the school has decided to increase the size of the faculty before deciding whether it (Continued on page 7)
Experts discuss arms race
‘Star Wars’ technology and nudear weapons discussed
By Jolin Kirby
Qty Writer
Although a variety of viewpoints were expressed on the issue of nuclear proliferation, 20 experts on the subject agreed on the need to end the arms race and the danger posed by the possibility of a militarization of space, when they gathered for a conference Saturday at the Annenberg School of Communications.
Robert Woetzel, a visiting professor at California Lutheran College and moderator of the event, opened the conference with a speech stressing the responsibility of scientists in the proliferation of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear countries and proposed an addition to the current Non-proliferation Treaty which would provide restrictions against the transferring of nuclear technology by individuals.
"To strengthen the Non-proliferation Treaty, individuals should be held responsible for violations of its provisions," he said.
After Woetzel finished, he introduced the only speaker on the panel who was not an "expert" on
some -aspect of the nuclear issue.
Mrs. Norman Cousins Sasamori was 13 years old when an atomic bomb was dropped on the town in which she lived — Hiroshima.
Sasamori expressed the honor she felt at being allowred to speak at the conference and stressed the responsibilities of world leaders toward the young.
"I am here as a representative for the victims of war," she said.
The balance of the first half of the conference, sponsored by the University Speakers Committee, the Nuclear Awareness Group of USC and the Church State Circle of the California Lutheran College, consisted of an introduction to the dangers of nuclear proliferation and Star Wars-type military projects in space.
Speaking on these issues was a long list of distinguished authorities including a representative from the United Nations, two members of the Soviet consul in San Francisco and two senior analysts from the Rand Corp.
Benjamin Sanders, chief of the United Nations Department of Disarmament, emphasized the importance of the current Non-proliferation Treaty while at the same time warning that in order for the Treaty to continue to receive support, it is im-
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Vladimir Bakhunov (left) and Vladimir Golubkov, members of the Soviet consul in San Francisco, attended a conference on nuclear proliferation at the Annenberg School of Communications Saturday.