From divestment to campaigns, we look back
The fall semester in review
By Karen Kuettel
Staff Writer
As 1986 comes to an end and we look back on the fall semester, everything from Trojan Beer to an elevator entrapment and a divestment "study-in" to the dismissal of football coach Ted Tollner fills the pages of Trojan history.
At the beginning of the semester came the announcement that Maj. Gen. William Lyon planned to donate S6.5 million toward the construction of the long-awaited university recreation center.
Shortly after that, President James Zumberge announced the Campaign for USC would begin this year, in hopes of raising S557 million by June 30, 1990. Keeping with the theory, "You've got to spend money to make money," the universitv- created an operation budget of 51,058,070, to promote the campaign.
And the millions kept rolling in when ex-football quarterback Chester DoUey donated SI.8 million to the campaign. Part of his contribution went toward creating the Chester Dolley Chair for petroleum engineering, and the rest went toward the endowment of a scholarship for the varsity quarterback position.
However, in a full-page ad on the back page
of Daily Variety an animal rights group urged potential donors "not to give one cent to USC," and charged the university with not providing humane housing or adequate exercise areas for its research primates.
Another controversial issue this semester was the university's ties to South Africa.
Members of the Black Student Union and other students held an overnight "study-in"; they slept in the outer halls of Bovard Auditorium in a last-ditch effort to influence the Board of Trustees to reject a proposal that allowed the university to maintain ties with companies doing business in South Africa.
The board voted unanimously to allow continued investment in companies that "are making strong and visible commitment to ending apartheid." while conducting ''selective divestment from those that do not."
President Reagan appointed the first black ambassador to South Africa, Edward Perkins, a university alumnus.
When Palestinian terrorists hijacked a Pan Am jetliner in Karachi, Pakistan, the parents of student Devon Sloane were two of the 384 passengers aboard the plane. They escaped safely,
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Norris Cancer Hospital appoints administrator
Peter Shostak starts post Monday
By Lauren Kam
Staff Writer
The university's Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital has appointed Peter Shostak as its new administrator, effective on Monday.
Shostak is an employee of Pacific Health Resources, a health care consultant firm that has a management contract with the Norris Cancer Hospital.
He has 19 years of experience in the administration of teaching hospitals. Positions he has held have included chief executive officer of the Northern California Health Center and administrator of the Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, 111.
Shostak earned a bachelor's degree in management and marketing at the New York University School of Commerce in 1965 and a master's degree in health administration at the University of Minnesota in 1969. He has
also served as an officer of the Affiliated Hospitals of San Francisco and the West Bay Hospital Conference.
"I am very excited to become part of the Norris and USC organizations,'' Shostak said. "Working in an institution committed to finding an end to cancer is a meaningful and significant opportunity for me."
The former administrator of the hospital, George Mack, will now become administrator of the Martin Luther Hospital in Anaheim.
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This issue is the last issue of the Daily Trojan under the editorship of Aaron Van Curen. The Daily Trojan will resume publication on Jan. 9 under the editorship of James Lee.
Library to undergo changes
Additional shelving planned for Von KleinSmid
By Jim Logan
Staff Writer
Acknowledging a longstanding problem in the Von KleinSmid Center Library, university officials have implemented a program to shelve books that now litter the floor there.
"We know there's a problem," said Joyce Toscan, assistant university librarian. "It's an ongoing problem and we're doing what we can to alleviate (it)."
According to Toscan, a lack of space is the main reason for disorder in the stacks. Although the shelves are full, the library continues to acquire books. The result is a mess.
"It's a problem you will see at every research library," Toscan said.
"If you go over to UCLA at the end of the semester you'll see the same thing there. I spent 15 years there and I know what it's like."
Janice Hanks, VKC's head librarian, agreed with Tos-can's assessment of the library's troubles.
"It's been a combination of problems in that we haven't had adequate space for the books because we keep aquir-ing books/' she said.
To combat the problem, Toscan said the university must first reduce the number of books at VKC. Little-used books will be "weeded out" and taken to East Library for storage, where they will be available on a 24-hour turnaround basis.
To accomplish the move, new staff was hired and existing staff from other campus libraries was temporarily reassigned to aid in the weeding and sorting of books that
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Fifty hours of additional student assistant time per week has been authorized to help with the project, she said.
In addition, the university is taking bids on new shelving.
"With the other things we're doing, we expect that this will alleviate a lot of the problem," Toscan said.
Toscan said that the weeding program has been in pro-
gress for months. About 8,000 books were taken to East Library this summer alone.
Hanks pointed to tidy areas in VKC as proof that the weeding and sorting works.
"They're all off the floor because we worked on it this summer," she said.
In addition to having more books than available shelves, Hanks said university libraries have a built-in cycle of disorder in them.
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By Lori Grange
Staff Writer
The Reagan administration's credibility, foreign policies and relations abroad already have fallen or soon will fall victim to the storm of issues brought on by the Iran-contra arms deal, according to several university officials.
Professors in the political science, international relations and sociology departments contend that the recent controversial sale of arms to Iran bv the United States and the subsequent diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan rebels, known as contras, will have serious, lasting and largely negative impacts on those and other political facets.
The credibility of President Reagan and his administration, especially regarding his policy on terrorism, was probably most heavily damaged, officials said.
"The whole policy of terrorism has been undermined because (the president) has been totally inconsistent," said Shibley Telhami, a professor of international relations. He said the arms deal "indicates a break of policy because the president said he wouldn't deal with terrorist countries."
Prior to the discoverv of the Iran -contra arms deal, the Reagan administration encouraged such countries as China and France to resist dealing with nations the United States had labeled "terrorist." Iran was one of those nations.
"My first thought is that they finally got caught. My second thought is about the hypocrisy of the administration, condemning others for doing what we were doing," said Linda Fuller, an assistant professor of sociology and a member of Concerned Faculty, an issue-oriented university action group.
"I think people are going to have a cynical attitude about how much the administration wants to stop terrorism, and whether terrorist acts may further some purposes of the administration," she said.
This credibility gap already has begun to weaken ties between this nation and its allies, and to cause more damage to U.S. relations with its adversaries, the professors said.
"It might be impossible to get European support for U.S. foreign polio,7 after this. The Arab states are upset because the U.S. is seen as
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