Volume Cll, Number 12
Seventy-Fifth Year of Publication
trojan
University of Southern California
1912 — 1986
Wednesday, September 17, 1986
Varied reactions greet council's S. Africa stance
By Kirsten D. Levingston
Staff Writer
President James Zumberge's decision to seek approval of the recommendations of the Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility was met with varied reaction from students and faculty members yesterday.
"If the university is getting money from the investments there, we shouldn't take them out," said Zeynep Ucer, a civil engineering major.
One student said he would like to see the university divest all its funds from companies doing business in South Africa, and invest them somewhere else in the world.
"It's not an appropriate decision," said Raji Chadarevian, a second year graduate student studying statistics. "(Making a decision to divest) half and half is just like having no policy at all."
Richard H. Dekmejian, Political Science department chairman, shares a similar view. "I would divest on moral grounds," he said.
Dixon Johnson, director of the Office of International Students and scholars, said his concern is with the majority of the people in South Africa and that "divestment is a simple solution to a complex problem."
He supports Zumberge's decision and said it is comparable to the policy adopted by Stanford University.
"The USC policy is much weaker than what Congress passed last Friday," said Carol Thompson, an associate professor in political science, irt refer-
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Dissension marks apartheid debate
By Katherine Dyar
Assistant City Editor
The recommendation that the university maintain its investments in South Africa while pushing for the end of apartheid, represents months of emotional discussion and dissension among the members of the Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility.
The 12-member committee, which was established to act as an advisory body to President James Zumberge on South African investment, submitted its interim report on Sept. 5 to Zumberge, who released the report yesterday, along with his recommendation for its approval by the university Board of Trustees.
One member of the committee refused to sign the report and another added her own addendum to the recommendations.
Wesley Robb, a religion professor and a committee member,
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Students staged a sit-in in 1985 to protest apartheid and the university’s investments in South Africa.
dissented from the recommendations and did not sign the report.
Virginia Huth, a junior majoring in international relations and a committee member, supported the overall recommendations, but added a list of suggested changes to make the standards more strict.
Another committee member, Norman Amheim, a professor of molecular biology, was excused from the meetings because of prior commitments but still stated his "general support" of the recommendations.
Abraham Lowenthal, a professor of international relations and the chairman of the committee, said the recommendations represent the committee's effort to urge actions that would at least "start the process and send a signal" to the companies operating in South Africa that the university is concerned with their corporate standards and their attempts to help end apartheid.
"We began with a lot of diversity," Lowenthal said. "There were on the committee people who felt from the very first session that we ought to make the most decisive, loudest, most ringing denunciation of apartheid possible and call for the university to divest itself from all ownership right away in corporations that are doing any business in South Africa because that would make a political statement.
"Others said . . . that if your objective is to get the university to actually do something, you can't say that. You have to think about what could get through the board," Lowenthal said.
"There were others," he added, "that said the university ought not to be turned into a political arena.
"And it was emotional ... on several sides of this issue. We talked it out and we had some very good discussions and we finally reached a very strong consensus" with one dissenting member, he said.
The recommendations listed in the report urged 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."
The committee also recommended that the university not make any new investments in corporations doing business in South Africa unless they have shown a strong commitment to ending apartheid and that it divest itself of investments in firms that do not meet this standard.
To implement this policy, the committee suggested the university do the following:
•	Limit its dealings to those companies that meet the highest requirements of the Sullivan Principles for corporate conduct, a set of standards for the equal treatment of employees of different races;
•	Not invest or do business with banks that continue to make new loans to the South African government in 1986;
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Royalty contest created in attempt to increase spirit
By Rachel Amone
Staff Writer
The creation of a Mr. and Miss USC contest, the equivalent of a homecoming king and queen contest, is the Program Board's most recent attempt to boost campus spirit this year.
It's been about 20 years since the university has had something of this sort, said Carol Silberman, executive director of the Program Board, and "this is a really big year to kick it off."
Formerly, the homecoming queen was called Helen of Troy and there was never a king, Silberman said. But this year the board hopes to find a Trajan couple.
The contest is open to everyone and corporate sponsors will be donating prizes to applicants, said David Price, chairman of publicity and advertising for special events at the Program Board.
Price said he hopes that the prizes, which will be given to every 10th applicant, will spark interest in the contest. Prizes will include clothing, donated by Camp Beverly Hills, albums given by Atlantic Records, and perhaps local trips, he said.
"A lot of people in the past haven't (entered contests) because they say, 'I don't have a chance,' " Price said, but all Trojans have an equal chance of earning this title.
"We're looking for personality, a sense of humor, knowledge of school history, but most especially school spirit. This isn't an ego thing. This is open to everyone," he said.
Price said he thinks that a "large portion (of the applicants) will probably be Greeks," but said that they're looking for school spirit. "Let them be Greek, but if they're a stick in the mud, they're a stick in the mud."
Age won't be a consideration, although Price said he's seen a lot of younger people with more spirit than upperclassmen.
"We want this to be the big event at USC — homecoming," he said.
Contestants will be required to fill out an application and submit a picture. Applications will then be reviewed by a panel of judges composed of Greeks, commuters, faculty members and others. Semifinal-
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Fans penalized for damages
By Jim Logan
Staff Writer
Nearly a year after our last Bay Area scrimmage, university students will be penalized by the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco for unnecessary roughness.
The hotel, for many years the traditional lodging of student
ber's Berkeley game.
Robert Wilhelm, managing director of the St. Francis, said the hotel will take student guests, but "they certainly won't be staying in the numbers they did last year."
Wilhelm said that student guests will be required to abide by new guidelines and agree-
Trojans will be able to ride the famed San Francisco cable cars during the upcoming Stanford game, but not as many stud' is will be permitted to stay at the St. Francis Hotel due to their unruly past behavior there.
rooters at Stanford and Berkeley football games, is limiting the number of students it will accept this year after guests caused about $10,000 in hotel property damage following last Novem-
ments this year if they wish to stay at the hotel, but declined to say what they were.
In a letter last November to James Dennis, vice president of student affairs, Wilhelm strong-
ly complained about the rowdy behavior of some students during the weekend of the game, when the Trojans were upset by the Bears.
■ "To say that the group who stayed in our hotel and their visitors were unruly and that their behavior was beyond acceptability would be an understatement." Wilhelm wrote.
The hotel was damaged not only by guests, but also by party-goers who attended the pre-game rally. More than 2,000 people showed up for that rally. This year's rally will be held at the Hyatt Hotel, but officials here said they do not foresee problems.
Steve Steinhart, director of sales and marketing at the Hyatt, said troubles there will not be allowed to get out of hand.
"The slightest hint of damage," he said, "and the responsible party will be arrested."
More important than any hotel's willingness to take students is their ability to accomodate them. The same weekend as this year's Stanford-USC game, the American Banker's Association will be holding its convention in San Francisco, and rooms are scarce.