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Volume XCVIII, Number 45
University of Southern California
Monday, March 18, 1985
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ED BATT DA1LY TROJAN
Bricks were splitting and legs were kicking as the university was treated to an exhibition of the martial arts at Tommy Trojan on Friday.
Charges of university code violations
40 students face review panels for possible grade tampering
By James Jones
Assistant City Editor
Review hearings have already begun for some of the 40 students connected with grade tampering, said James Dennis, vice president for Student Affairs.
"The reviews have started and we expect to have them completed by the end of the semester," Dennis said. "It is a long, drawn out process."
Sylvia Manning, vice provost, said each of the students will be reviewed individually by a panel of three faculty members. She would not comment on the identities of the panel members.
The students under investigation for possible grade fixing have been sent letters charging them with unauthorized discrepancies in their transcripts.
The procedures for the reviews will follow the guidelines described in SCampus, Manning said. As outlined, the names of those being reviewed and the punishments handed down by the review panel are confidential.
"The purpose of the panel is to determine whether an infraction of academic integrity has
Graphic department phase out leaves 16 without campus jobs
By Dina Heredia
Staff Writer
About 16 employees in the university's print and design centers will lose their jobs when their departments are phased out on April 30, said Ron McEl-haney, operations manager of the campus copy centers.
McElhaney said about 14 people in the print center — such as press operators, proofreaders and other skilled laborers — will be laid off, as well as a typesetter and the manager of the design center.
The campus copy centers, the third section of graphic services, will continue-to operate without any layoffs. Anthony Lazzaro, vice president of business affairs, said he expected Robert MacDonald, the director of graphic services to stay with the university and act as manager of the copy centers.
The university decided to dismantle the graphic department because of the results of studies conducted on its print and design centers, which showed continual financial losses over several years.
During the 1984 fiscal year, the graphic department registered financial losses exceeding $100,000.
In a Daily Trojan article on March 1, Lazzaro said the volume of business done by the design and print centers did not offset the costs involved in their production.
Lazzaro said employees who
have lost their jobs are being helped by the university personnel department to find positions inside and outside the university. McElhaney said some employees are already interviewing for other jobs on campus.
Those employees who cannot find jobs will receive severance pay as determined by their years
McElhaney said about 14 people in the print center — such as press operators, and other skilled laborers — will be laid off, as well as a typesetter and the manager of the design center.
of service to the university and the vacation time owed to them, Lazzaro said.
McElhaney said the university would discuss "in the near fu* ture" whether the equipment from the print and design departments would be sold or used elsewhere in the university.
Graphic services will take orders from departments until April 19. All orders after that date will be referred to the pur-
chasing department.
Lazzaro said the campus copy centers will now handle the printing of letterheads, envelopes and business cards with the USC logo. However, he said his office has no plan to increase the centers' budget since there is no indication that more money is needed.
He said business affairs might give them additional funding if they demonstrate a need for expansion.
The university will also reroute departmental printing orders for standard office items through the university purchase department. Emil Murarik, director of purchasing, said his department might add more vendors to the list of hundreds of printing businesses that have contracts with the university.
In the future, Murarik said departments on campus would send their orders through the purchasing department. Then the purchasing department would distribute the orders to outside printing businesses that would charge the university predetermined prices.
Murarik said the purchasing department has been duplicating some of the services offered by the graphic department, such as contracting printing orders to the outside for one-shot mailings and business cards.
Certain items that are popular with campus offices — such as campus memos and interoffice (Continued on page 2)
taken place and to recommend sanctions," she added.
In making its decison, the panel will "look into the person's involvement in the infraction. The punishment can range up to a dismissal," Manning said.
"The reviews have started and we expect to have them completed by the end of the semester," Dennis said. "It is a long, drawn out process."
Dennis is in charge of conven-ing the review hearing by "bringing the panel and the student together," and working out a hearing date that both the student and the panel can agree upon, she said.
Robert Mannes, dean for Student Life, is in charge of presenting the university's evidence to the panel, Manning added, but he does not act as prosecutor.
"It is not a courtroom situation. Mannes' presentation is designed to present the evidence to the board," she said.
Dennis said once the review process is over, a disclosure or statement will be made.
"When it is over, it will show the university identified a problem and moved to remedy it," he added.
The grade tampering scam was uncovered during the fall semester, and an investigation began in December when the provost's office organized the Task Force on Academic Integrity-
In June 1984, an employee of the Office of Registration and Records was fired during a university investigation into the falsification of grades by computer.
The employee admitted to university officials that she was paid $1,500 to falsify the grades of five students.
Greek; LAPD fracas; police arrest student
By Jennifer Cray
Assistant City Editor
Los Angeles Police Department units and University Security officers responded to a "major disturbance" at the Row Thursday night, when a large group of students returned to 28th Street from a Greek Week party at Julie's Trojan Barrel.
One student was arrested and booked into LAPD Southwest Division, and a non-university woman was detained by University Security for disturbing the peace and being under the influence of alcohol.
No students were cited by security or LAPD officers except those issued traffic violations by the LAPD on 28th Street.
Security and police cars began patrolling 28th Street at about 10 p.m. Around 11 p.m. officers responded to fights and street blockages, security said. At that time a large, loud, disorderly crowd of students was returning from a party at Julie's Trojan Barrel, security said.
When the crowd arrived at the Row, security estimated 1,500 to
2,000	people had gathered outside on 28th Street. Witnesses at the scene said a police helicopter was circling the area, and its loudspeaker was ordering people off the street.
University Security Lt. Dwight Sanders said eggs were thrown at security patrol cars and the air was let out of the tires of one LAPD car.
Security and LAPD officers patrolled 28th Street until 1:30 a.m. when the crowd finally dispersed. From 10 to 20 officers responded in all, Sanders said.
LAPD and security officers met earlier Thursday evening to coordinate plans for possible law enforcement, Sanders said. The decision to bring in the police helicopter was also made earlier that night, he added.
Sanders said it is not unusual for security and LAPD Southwest Division officers to meet prior to major events on the Row, such as Greek Week activities, to plan law enforcement strategy.
Sanders said there has been law enforcement activity during almost every Greek Week. He added that he thought the incident was not as serious as a similar disturbance on the Row two weeks ago, following a drinking contest at a bar in Westwood.
"We don't have evidence that it's every Greek Week that’s a problem," said Shannon Ellis, associate director of the Office of Residential Life.
Ellis said incidents such as Thursday night's are symptomatic of
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