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Volume XCIX, Number 42
University of Southern California
Wednesday, October 30, 1985
SECURITY DROPS CHARGES
Exonerated student may enter complaint
By Dana Glad
Assistant City Editor
A student who was accused of threatening a security officer was exonerated of the charges by an administrative review panel and may file a formal complaint against the officer who reportedly used profanity and violence while questioning him on October 19.
Luis Collazo, a sophomore majoring in political science, said yesterday that he plans to lodge a formal complaint against Victor Gurguis, a security officer who recently graduated from Rio Hondo Academy and has been working at the university since February.
It was determined, however, that Collazo was uncooperative during the incident and he has received a sanction from the review panel.
Collazo was-accused of threatening Gurguis at about 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19 after he and his six friends were detained by security for questioning on suspicion of stealing bikes.
He and his friends were dropping someone off in the parking lot of Centennial Apartments after returning from the beach and a restaurant. They had spent the night showing a friend from Stanford around Los Angeles and Santa Monica, Collazo said.
Collazo said he and his friends had not been drinking during the evening because many are devout Christians and serious students.
As they were about to leave the parking lot of Centennial Apartments, several security cars rolled up behind them and officers told them to line up with their hands on a fence, said Simon Leo, a sophomore, who had been a passenger in the truck.
The students had no idea why they had been stopped and were told to shut up when they asked the officers to tell them the reason, Leo said.
Sgt. David Ritch reported that security had received a call that
identified the truck and that said the occupants had been throwing bikes from a bike rack into the street.
There had also been numerous bike thefts in the area that week and they were associated
with a vehicle similar to the blue Mazda pickup truck the students were driving, he said.
Collazo and Leo denied that they had been throwing bikes or tampering with them in any way. Leo said he considered the
call a crank.
The driver of the truck was questioned first by Ted Davis, a security officer. Leo and Collazo said they were straining to hear what was going on and this is <Continued on page 2)
Army cadets train at Camp Pendleton
By Joan Whitney
Staff Writer
In preparation for a national summer training program, the university's Army ROTC cadets conducted their first field training exercise at Camp Pendleton Marine Corp base in early October.
Last summer, the university's Army ROTC program earned a first-place raking for leadership and performance among all schools in California and Nevada during the rigorous training program at Fort Lewis, Wash. Cadets are sent there after their junior year to test their leadership skills and military knowledge.
All of the university's Army cadets participated in the training exercise at Camp Pendleton. Called Operation Goldquest, it is one of two field training exercises the cadets participate in to prepare them for Fort Lewis.
TTte training exercises were planned for the cadets by the corps' seniors, who have already participated in the Fort Lewis training program.
The program at Pendleton began with a road march to a camp site where the cadets were instructed in land navigation. Land navigation entails finding points in a field by terrain association and orientation with a compass.
The cadets were instructed to go in a specified direction for a
Army ROTC recently completed a rigorous three-day field training camp at Camp Pendleton.
certain distance, locating markers along the way, within a time limitation.
Before they were subjected to the night navigation course, cadets ate MREs, or Meal Ready to Eat, which are the current military field ration. The MREs are prepackaged, dehydrated food entrees.
The night land navigation course was similar to the day course, but was more difficult
because cadets had to locate terrain features in darkness.
The next day the cadets participated in tactical application exercises in which they had to react to a variety of enemy situations. Seniors in the corps disguised themselves as enemy soldiers and ambushed the cadets.
The cadets then experienced an airmobile insertion. They were flown in advanced, high-
speed Army helicopters to a ren-dezvous site, where they prepared a combat patrol and were given a mission to locate an enemy supply depot.
Operation Goldquest ended with a three-mile tactical road march in full field gear. Cadets had to be constantly alert to possible enemy contact.
At the end of the three-day exercise, the cadets were given a barbecue in recognition of their accomplishments.
Academic rankings often unreliable, officials claim
By Tommy Li
Staff Writer
Ranking university academic programs is often as difficult as ranking university football teams. But, using a variety of methods, various organizations try to rate the quality and magnitudes of programs in colleges and universities against the programs of competing colleges and universities.
And often these rankings are given as little credence as the football team rankings are, as is the case of the Gourman Report's ranking of the School of Architecture.
"The Gourman Report, is patently unreliable," said Scott Bice, dean of the Law Center.
The 1983-84 Gourman Report ranked the School of Architecture eighth, with the University of California, Berkeley rated first.
Robert Harris, dean of the School of Architecture, said the Gourman Report is "not a ranking that I respect."
Harris said he didn't agree
with its ranking methodology, because architecture schools have different curriculum programs than others.
The School of Architecture is a five-year program offering a professional bachelor's degree, while Cal Berkeley has a four year program. Students in Berkeley begin their major courses in their junior year, while students in the School of Architecture begin their major courses in their freshman year, he said.
"Our undergraduate program must be one of the strongest in the country/'he said.
"(The architecture undergraduate program) is the only one in the West associated with a private university," he said.
He added that the diversity of architectural programs in universities "makes rankings complicated."
A recent ranking of the School of Law commands more respect with Dean Bice.
The School of Law was ranked sixth in the nation in a
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survey of faculty productivity published in the Journal of Legal Education.
In the survey, schools were ranked according to the number of articles published by their faculties.
Bice said this is the only survey he has seen on faculty productivity and said, "I think, as far as it goes, it's accurate."
But he noted, unlike in sports where all the points are added
up at the end of the season to determine which team is the best, academic programs have many facets that contribute to their overall quality.
The university's is among the best law schools in the country because of faculty productivity, curriculum and resources available at the school. Bice said.
Graduate schools and departments are ranked nationally by various organizations as well.
From the first and most recent ranking of public administration / public affairs schools, the university's school was third among the 220 programs in the country.
Only Syracuse and Harvard were ranked higher.
An article entitled "Reputation and Productivity of Public Administration / Affairs Programs: Additional Data" said, "A random sample of members of the American Society for Public Administration were asked to rank order the 10 best graduate programs in public administration / affairs."
They were asked to "consider the quality of the faculty, the curriculum, the instructional and research facilities, and any other factor that may contribute to the effectiveness of the program," the article said.
Ross Clayton, dean of the School of Public Administration, said, "The basic reason for the high ranking of the school is the high quality of the faculty."
Other factors were the size of the school and the fact that it has been in existence for 56 years, Clayton said.
"Certainly we would like to be ranked number one," he said.
The program at the department of geological sciences was ranked in the top 25 by an organization funded by the Carnegie Institute for Higher Education.
Robert Douglas, chairman of the department of geological sciences, said the department's most recent ranking — conducted about three years ago — placed it between the 20th and (Continued on page 3)