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Volume XCIX, Number 63
University of Southern California
Monday, December 9, 1985
Educator tells of lewd conduct experience
By Joan Whitney
Staff Writer
Jerry Gordon, the social chairman of the Gay and Lesbian Educators and the founder of the Arrested-Teacher's Hotline, spoke to the Gay and Lesbian Student Assembly Thursday night about lewd conduct in public and discussed his own arrest for lewd conduct.
Gordon, a history and government teacher at San Fernando High School and a graduate of Glendale Law School, gave advice on what to do if arrested for lewd conduct in a public bathroom. The only advice he could give to avoid arrest "is to not be there."
The Gay and Lesbian Student Assembly sponsored Gordon's speech. Paul Ballard, adviser to the Gay and Lesbian Student Union, said, "The people that are involved in the lewrd conduct are not members of GLSA or GLSU. The persons involved are those who don't identify themselves as gay."
Gordon also runs the Arrested-Teacher's Hotline out of his house. The hotline was started three years ago. He
gives advice to teachers on what they can do if arrested for lewd conduct.
The hotline is sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Educators. There are 300 members on the mailing list of GALE, Gordon said. He said there are faculty from this university who are members.
This year his hotline has received about 100 calls. Sometimes he also gets calls from students who have been arrested.
The definition of lewd conduct, under the penal code of California, fills three pages. There is no strict definition of the act. It depends upon the circumstances, and what the individual is doing.
"An arrest — which I have been through — is downhill from there. For me, it was an oral solicitation. I was charged with lewd behavior. I still don't know what that means."
Gordon said that it is not as bad for a teacher to get arrested, but said for a student "it could be disastrous."
The student could probably get a teaching credential.
but not a job, Gordon said.
"Once you have a record, even for an arrest, it's on someone's computer. Governments love to run computer checks. Jobs are closed to students immediately.
"The police have very dirty minds. They see crimes in looks, stalls, urinals. You are arrested because you are identitifiably gay."
Gordon said that people who go to the bathrooms in parks and other places are the ones who don't have a gay social network.
One member of the Gay and Lesbian Student Association said that when he first came to this university he had no gay friends in Los Angeles but had heard about the basement bathrooms of Taper Hall of Humanities as being notorious for gay activity.
He said he went down to the bathrooms with the purpose of meeting gay connections but was appalled with what took place there.
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Security Pacific gives $1 million 'Christmas’ gift
Budget office monitoring PUAD funds
By Roseanne Tellez
Staff Writer
The university has received an early Christmas gift of SI million from the Security Pacific Foundation in the form of an unrestricted endowment.
President James Zumberge and Carl Hartnack, former chairman of the Board of Trustees and Securitv' Pacific Corp.'s executive committee chairman, announced the donation Tuesday.
"By providing USC with this magnificent gift of SI million. . .the officers and directors of the Security Pacific Foundation have again demonstrated the type of visionary leadership that has characterized both their business decisions and their community service," Zumberge said.
The endowment is actually a pledge that is payable over five years, but Carol E. Taufer, president and chief executive officer of the foundation, said the first payment has been made.
"This gift (is) the largest the Security Pacific Foundation has made to an educational institution," she added.
Unrestricted endowment is used for investments decided upon by professional investment managers that the university hires, Zumberge said. The finance committee of the Board of Trustees acts in an advisory capacity. The details of the investments are left to the treasurer.
The money goes toward the support of the university in perpetuity, he said. "We only spend what that money has earned after it's invested. . .and for generations of students and faculty that will be here 50 years from now, the gift will still be here," he said.
"It's a significant gift to USC, and all the more so because it is one of those rare occasions where they don't tell you how to spend it," he said.
Since the funds are not earmarked fbr any particular use, the interest they earn will go into the general budget and their use will ultimately' be approved by the Board of Trustees, said George Abdo, executive assistant to the president.
For example, they could be used in such areas as library acquisitions, new academic ventures and building maintenance.
Hartnack said it is common for corporations who have an interest in the community to create a professionally-managed foundation to function as a philanthropic arm, involving itself in community service.
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By Frank Buckley
Staff Writer
The university's budget office is keeping a watchful eye on the School of Public Adminstration's attempt to fight back from "continuing deficit problems" that have left that school more than a million dollars in the red and caused a reduction in staff and faculty over the period of three years, from approximately 124 three years ago to 81 workers and instructors today.
"Right now, we're watching their expenditures very closely and discussing with them their projections for next year," said Veronica Tincher, associate director of the Office of the University Budget.
The school has had a deficit for the past two years, with the deficit figure nearly doubling since last year.
In a budget office status report dated Oct. 16, 1985, the public administration school is expected to show a deficit of $1.08 million at the end of this school year. That figure is $676,000 more than the deficit carryover of last year, according to the report.
The unit with the next highest deficit is the College of Continuing Education, with a $500,000 deficit projection.
"We knew there was a problem materializing for the last six months of the fiscal year (1984-85)," said John Curry, executive director of the Office of the University Budget.
Curry explained that the school's revenues — which come mostly from the tuition monies of the school's 1600 full- and part-time students but are supplemented with gift aid and research grants — have been declining.
According to the USC Financial Report of 1981-82, projected budgets for the following year for various schools and enterprises on campus, such as the bookstore, are submitted first to the budget office. After approval, the deans and other enterprise administrators spend the money during the next year according to their budgets.
Expenses include things like faculty and staff salaries, student aid, and certain overhead costs. Income comes from tuition and overhead recoveries, along with gifts and sales.
The public administration school has spent money that was expected to be matched with incoming revenue, but because enrollments went down, a deficit was formed. That trend has continued into its third year.
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Trojans encounter Far East
By Diane Diaz
Assistant City Editor
Although the group that went to the Mirage Bowl in Tokyo over the Thanksgiving holiday was not satisfied with many aspects of its trip, such as the spartan accommodations and "lack of good food" provided for them, the city itself was filled with many things unfamiliar to American culture that some Trojans were exposed to for the very first time.
Because the football team, the band and others who went over had a particular purpose for their visit, they were limited on how much they could get out and experience the Japanese culture that surrounded them.
For example, they were placed in an American-style hotel that had smaller rooms than an American motel. While all of their meals were provided for them, they did not have freedom of choice on where they could eat.
Meal tickets were provided that could be used in the hotel dining rooms only; that meant eating the Japanese version of such things as steak, hamburgers and spaghetti.
Few people in the group ventured out to a traditional Japanese resturant, where everyone is seated on tatmi (bamboo style) mats on the floor in small rooms separated by rice paper doors. Instead they ate in an Ameri-can-style dining room with knives and forks instead of chop sticks.
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DIANE DIAZ/DAILY TROJAN
(Top) Team managers Rick Martinez and Scott Weltman with Japanese hostess. (Bottom) Team managers, players and friends Brock Bolde, Rodney Peete, Scott Weltman, Bruce Tollner and Don Shafer with Makiko Aoyagi, a Japanese student.