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Volume XCVII, Number 4	University of Southern California	Friday, September 7, 1984
ADAM KRAJCHIR DAILY TROJAN
William Thomson
University given grant for new safety center
By Jennifer Cray
Assistant City Editor
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has awarded a $3.3 million, five-year training grant to the university's Institute of Safety and Systems Management to support occupational health and safety programs at the university.
The grant establishes the 15th NIOSH educational resource center in the United States. Other centers are located at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and UC Berkeley.
Most of the other educational resource centers are located at schools of medicine or public health, said John Grimaldi, director of the Institute of Safety and Systems Management.
The institute's curricula will not change with the establishment of the resource center, but was chosen because of its emphasis on safety, Grimaldi said.
This emphasis makes it "unique in the country in terms of concept and academic program," he said.
James Pierce, professor of occupational health and safety, will direct the resource center at this university.
The university's center will include graduate degree programs in industrial hygiene and occupational safety and health, as well as continuing education classes, said John Cohoon, a spokesperson for the institute.
The grant will enable the institute to expand its continuing (Continued on page 11)
Journalism graduates to study craft abroad
By Joann Galardy
Campus Editor
Because the role of foreign correspondents and the importance of foreign affairs are growing throughout the world, the School of Journalism has decided it must prepare reporters for experiences they will encounter abroad.
The school is creating a Center for International Journalism — which will begin accepting students in the fall of 1985 — to train reporters who are skilled in international affairs and prepared to deal with the cultural adjustments that await them.
The program's director, Murray Fromson, an adjunct professor of journalism and a foreign correspondent for 20 years, said the concept of the center — the first of its kind in the nation — has been in his mind for eight years.
"I've been thinking about the problems and preparations that
foreign correspondents go through before they are assigned overseas," Fromson said.
He said the two-year program will combine academic training on campus with practical experience in reporting abroad.
The first program to be implemented at the center will focus on Latin America and will require students to spend their first year at the university and their second year in Mexico City.
Speaking from his own experiences, Fromson said foreign correspondents need to be prepared to deal with the logistics of living in a foreign country.
He said reporters who are caught off guard by problems with transportation, customs or censorship are forced to spend less time on their writing.
"These logistical things are not to be dismissed," he said. "Thev consume your life."
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Dean of music will resign after five years at post
By Lawrence Toffler
Feature Editor
Citing a desire to return to teaching, William Thomson, dean of the School of Music, will resign his post at the end of this academic year. Thomson has held the post five years.
"I've been in administration for 10 years," said Thomson, who came to the university from the State College of New York. "I'm afraid I'll forget how to teach. I want to get back into that."
He said he plans to teach at this university.
Cornelius Pings, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, said the university will conduct a "national — international search," for Thomson's successor.
He did not rule out the possibility that the administration will try to find a replacement from within the university.
Last spring, the faculty of the music school evaluated Thomson's performance as dean, but he said the rev iew did not affect his decision to resign.
"It wasn't even completed," Thomson said.
Thomson's tenure as dean of the School of Music was marked by achievements but also by a recent series of bitter controversies.
Pings commended Thomson for the role he
played in creating new scholarships for the School of Music and for his fund-raising efforts.
He said he thinks Thomson's greatest achievement was helping to engineer the return of Daniel Lewis, the conductor of the university's symphony orchestra, from the New England Conservatory.
But along with the successes came a string of problems for Thomson and the music school.
While Thomson was dean, Jascha Heifetz, the internationally acclaimed violinist, left the university after a prolonged and bitter confrontation.
The controversy began in 1983 when Heifetz filed a lawsuit against the university for allegedly reneging on a promise to lend financial support to a graduate program he was teaching.
The case was settled out of court, but Heifetz resigned from the university.
Thomson said, "What was done was in the best interest for the School of Music."
James Hanshumaker, associate director of academic affairs for the School of Music, added, "He took the administrative step and made a decision that had to be made against the monetary priorities for the school."
Thomson was also disappointed when the Phi-
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SAE begins rush under sanction
Alcohol use last semester forces action
By Doreen Guarino
Assistant Feature Editor
The university's chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity will begin rush this year under an unspecified sanction imposed fox violations of alcohol policies during a party last February.
"The sanction came from the administrative review panel, which consists of students and staff," said CeCe Freeman, program coordinator of student affairs and residential life. "It was at the end of the spring semester that they came to this decision."
The sanction came about after the university investigated an
incident last February in which a Long Beach woman was allegedly raped in the area around the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house on 28th Street.
Bruce Bennett, president of the fraternity, and members of the fraternity's national chapter in Illinois, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Peter Lund, vice president of public relations for the Interfra-temity Council, said the sanction against the fraternity is a total prohibition of alcohol at the fraternity during rush this fall.
"Rush is technically a dry rush," Lund said. "There is no alcohol permitted during rush."
But Lund said fraternities may get around the rule by holding "dark parties," where alcohol is permitted on exchange nights at the different houses before the start of the rush event.
"Part of (the Sigma Alpha Ep-
silon fraternity's) sanction is that during rush they will not be allowed to have the dark parties," he said.
According to a report released last April by the office of student affairs, no disciplinary action was taken against the fraternity or any of its members as a result of the investigation into the alleged rape.
No other individuals affiliated with the university were charged or arrested.
Last May, Jeremy Stringer, assistant vice president of student affairs, said the investigation showed that no university-related personnel were involved in the alleged rape. The investigating committee found the university to be free of involvement in the incident.
But as a result of the university's investigation into the inci-(Continued on page 2)
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