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Volume XCV, Number 25	University of Southern California	Monday, February 13, 1984
Council to examine university athletics
By Catalina Camia
Assistant City Editor
University President James Zumberge has formed a new 18-member advisory council, consisting of alumni, faculty members, former athletes and students, to help identify the strengths and weaknesses of the university's intercollegiate athletic program.
The President's Advisory Council on Intercollegiate Athletics w'as formed to “thoughtfully deliberate on (the) past and future in men's and women's programs," according to a statement released by Zumberge Friday.
Also in the statement, Zumberge said the athletic programs have been "a great source of unity and strength for our Trojan Family (and) it is appropriate to call on representatives of the Trojan Family to assist me and our senior vice presidents in charting the next five to 10 years to assure our position of excellence in athletics at USC."
Marshall Green, former president of the General Alumni Association, will chair the council.
Green said he wasn't sure what the council's responsibilities would be, only that its main function would be to advise Zumberge on the state of athletics at the university.
He also said he is honored to chair the council, and feels it will be a "positive force."
The council will meet later in the month to define its goals and assignments, and is expected to present Zumberge with a written report and recommendations by May 1.
Four athletes will serve on the council, including O.J. Simpson, former Heisman Trophy winner and running back for the Buffalo Bills, and Pat Haden, former quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams.
Melvin Gerstein, interim dean of the School of Engineering, and Margaret Gatz, associate professor of psychology, will represent the university's faculty on the advisory council.
Two students have been asked to serve on the council, but have not confirmed their interest at this time.
Two representatives from the Cardinal and Gold alumni support group have also been selected, as well as representatives from Trojan Clubs, Women of Troy support group and other alumni organizations. Four "at-large" members have also been chosen.
University to give proposal for Sports Arena by April
By Doreen Guarino
Citv Writer
The administration will respond soon to the Coliseum Commission's request for a proposal on the university's plans for acquiring the Los Angeles Sports Arena, said Jon Strauss, senior vice president of administration.
The Coliseum Commission will send out a formal request for a proposal this week to those who have expressed an interest in managing the Sports Arena.
During an informal meeting with officials of the commission at the university last Wednesday, the university received a draft of the commission's request for a proposal, which is due by April 20.
"We will probably be responding to that request in the next couple of weeks," Strauss said. "We'll be stressing why we would want it (the Sports Arena) and what kind of business arrangement we'd be proposing."
Strauss said he couldn't comment yet on the type of proposal the university would submit.
"The request for a proposal calls for a leasing arrangement," he said, "but the university is more interested in buying."
However, Strauss added the university might respond saying that while it prefers to buy the Sports Arena, it will lease it.
He said the potential use of the facility was also discussed at the meeting, which he said just showed the general interest of the university in the Sports Arena.
"We would use it for more than intercollegiate basketball but we don't have a complete planning study of how it would be used," he said. "That's something we'll be doing in the next week."
Strauss said the commission would like to be relieved of the burden that the Sports Arena imposes on it.
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University faculty handbooks scheduled for May distribution
By Diane Olivo
City Writer
The publication of the 1984 Faculty Handbook, the university's first faculty handbook in five years, is expected to be distributed to all faculty members at the beginning of May — about the sawe time the faculty is scheduled to receive their contracts.
The Faculty Senate approved the new edition of the handbook at its meeting of Jan. 18, by a vote of 88 to 1.
The dissenting vote was cast by Donald Yett, a professor of economics. The reason for Yett's dissenting vote was that he was not given a clear explanation of how the incompetence of a faculty member would be deter-
School prayer argued in Moot Court
By Diane Diaz
Qty Writer
In a hypothetical case concerning constitutional law as it applies to the separation of church and state, four second-year law students demonstated their oral advocacy skills during the final round of the annual Hale Moot Court Competition held Friday in Norris Theater.
The arguments of the four finalists were presented before a panel of judges who chose the winners of the competition based on their skills of clarity, organization, knowledge, poise and legal analysis.
Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court William Rehnquist presided over the panel, which included Warren Ferguson, judge of the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Amalva Kearse, judge of the United States Second Circuit of Appeals.
The panel awarded Mark Werksman first place and Stuart Tochner second place in this year's competition that began with 40 participants.
The 40 students who were chosen to participate in the Moot Court are second-vear law students who demonstrated the best appellate oral and written advocacy skills during their first
year in law’ school.
The participants were required to prepare written briefs on the pre-selected case that would be argued throughout the competition and then presented their arguments orally in the preliminary rounds.
During the first round of the competition held last October, 16 students were selected to continue to the quarter-final round. From there, eight students were chosen to continue to the semi-final round, which determined the top four finalists.
The case disputed in the court dealt with the constitutionality'
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Second-year law students Mark Werksman (seated at left), the eventual winner in the annual Hale Moot Court competition, listens as his partner Stanley Friedman (center) argues a religious issue before a panel of three judges in Norris Theater on Friday.
of a high school religious group that met for fellowship, prayer and hymn singing in a campus classroom during the lunch hour.
"It was a hard issue to argue because it's an issue that's charged with emotion," Werksman said. “School prayer touches people in an emotional way that doesn't translate so easily into courtroom talk. It's not strictly a legal issue."
The four participants were divided into two teams. Two students argued as the petitioners who initiated the suit, while the other two acted as respondents. Each of the four participants had 15 minutes to present their cases and answer questions from the bench.
Werksman, who had been preparing for the Moot Court for approximately six months, said he was pleased with the way he argued.
"I think I said everything that I wanted to say," he said as he assessed his performance. "If I compared myself to the others, I felt like I was good but I couldn't tell that I would win.
"I felt my partner Stanley (Friedman) was phenomenal," Werksman said. "I would have been honored to have been second and have Stan be first."
Werksman, Friedman and the other finalists, Stuart Tochner and Pamela Westhoff, were awarded the E. Avery Crarv Award, which is a cash prize for the Hale Moot Court finalists each year.
Werksman and his partner, William White, also won for written advocacy as petitioners.
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mined before a faculty member would be dismissed.
The 1984 handbook replaces the 1979 edition and the old manual on appointments and promotions.
The new' 100-page handbook will be divided into five sections, said Frank Mason, dental librarian and chairman of the committee. The five sections include university administration; government, which outlines faculty status; faculty/student relationships; a faculty benefits and a section which outlines addi-tonal services provided to staff members.
"The administration and the faculty worked closely together in a joint committee, in a yearlong negotiation. We didn't think it would be as difficult," said Robert Biller, vice provost and one of the composers of the handbook.
The final approval of the document was made by university President James Zumberge upon the recommendation of Cornelius Pings, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs.
"I am, the president is and the faculty members are very pleased with the improvements of the handbook," Pings said.
He said the handbook updates internal procedures such as tenure, grievances and dismissal in addition to many other important procedures.
The grievance procedure allows a faculty member nine months from the discovery of a grievous offense to file a grievance complaint.
This is a revision of the procedure in the previous handbook in that the grievance does not have to be filed within nine months of the event responsible for the grievance, if only within nine months of its discovery’, even if that occurs years after the original event.
Tenure — the right of a regular faculty member to hold his/her position until the age of retirement, as stated in the 1979 handbook, is another important factor that went into the new edition of the handbook. The faculty wanted tenure to be grant-(Continued on page 7)