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Volume XCIX, Number 66
University of Southern California
Thursday, December 12, 1985
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This is the last issue of the Daily Trojan under the editorship of Jeff Tylicki. The Daily Trojan will resume publication on Jan. 10 under the editorship of Doug Lytle.
LAS dean search still in progress
Field narrowed
By Dana Glad
Assistant City Editor
When asked about rumors that a new dean for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences will be appointed from within the university by the end of the vear, Francine Rabinovitz, th selection committee's chair-w'oman, laughed and said, "There's no truth in that."
The committee is in the process of scheduling a meeting sometime next week, when it will either "decide what it wants to do or go forward," Rabinovitz said.
The chairwoman was referring to the committee's upcoming decision either to limit the selection process to tenured university faculty members who have already been nominated, or to solicit applications in a lengthy, nationwide search.
"If the committee is satisfied, thev (the finalists) will be candidates from within the university," Rabinovitz said.
The university solicited nominations as broadly as possible and received recommendations for about 40 faculty members, she said.
Many sources informed about the political climate of the ad-
The committee is interviewing candidates by asking them how they would solve the problems facing the college.
ministration believe there is already a very short list of finalists about to be submitted to Provost Cornelius Pings for a selection.
A memo WTitten by Rabinovitz in October stressed that there would be a "major advantage if such a small group could be identified without the one or two vears that might be required for an external appointment."
Among the candidates likely to be on such a list is Vice Provost Sylvia Manning. None of the committee members would confirm or deny this.
The criteria for selection currently applv onlv to members of the university faculty. The requirements were determined bv asking "a whole slew of people w’hat thev thought the criteria for leadership of the college should be" and what major challenges should be confronted. Rabinovitz said.
The committee is interviewing candidates bv asking them how they would solve the problems facing the college. Rabinovitz said the committee is still just "beginning to talk with people about that."
There is no deadline for a selection, Rabinovitz said.
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Senate passes scholarship resolution
By Matthew Gaven
Staff Writer
The Student Senate passed a resolution last night which will present the Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid and the University's Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid with a new financial aid policy for students who receive outside scholarships.
The senate resolution suggests a new system under which 100 percent of an outside scholarship award received by a student is deducted from the self-help aid category of that student's financial aid package. The current policy dictates that 50 percent of the award is deducted from the self-help category and 50 percent is taken from the gift-aid category.
Gift-aid includes university scholarships and grants, and self-help aid includes GSL- or NDSL-type loans and college work-study funds.
The awards in the financial aid package are based on an evaluation of the applicant's overall financial need.
"Students don't have to pay back their gift-aid award, but they must pay back the self-help award," said Daren Friesen, a student community senator and co-author of the resolution. "If a student applies for and receives an outside scholarship, the award is deducted from his overall financial need, which is a rule set by federal guidelines."
The rule that the student's outside scholarship is divided equally between the two categories in the financial aid package is set by the administration, not by federal guidelines.
"The new policy would take a student's outside scholarship and put it towards that portion of money in the financial aid package that the student is required to pay back," Friesen said. "This is the idea behind the scholarships. It also gives students a greater incentive to apply for outside scholarships."
The senate resolution defines 'outside scholarship' as scholarships awarded by companies, corporations, foundations, agencies and/or non-profit institutions.
The "financial aid (office) has received many letters from parents protesting the old policy," Friesen said. 'If anything the old policy is bad public relations for the university."
Friesen said that the issue was presented to the senate's Financial Affairs Research Action Unit for statistical investigation.
"We drafted the resolution based on their findings," Frie-(Continued on page 23)
Trustee chair lives bicoastal life
By Jeffrey Tylicki
Editor
George Scharffenberger will bemoan his "crazy" lifestyle as a bicoastal commuter, with a business to run in New York and a family in Palos Verdes.
Yet the 66-year-old Scharffenberger, elected chairman of the university's Board of Trustees last April, seems to thrive on his hectic schedule.
"What else does one do but keep busy?" Scharffenberger asks.
He appears to enjoy the challenge of running a company on the East Coast while volunteering service to one of California's most diverse private educational institutions. And despite his credentials that go against a long tradition of West-Coast businessmen heading the university's governing board, administrators and trustees alike insist that Scharffenberger, chairman of the Home Group, Inc., is well-suited to his new post.
Scharffenberger's stonv facial features are softened bv his youthful, pale blue eyes. His bovhood roots in New York City are betrayed by his Kenne-dv-ish Eastern accent. He is soft-spoken, yet acts completely at ease during an interview, settling into the overstuffed chair in the board room of Bovard Administration Building.
Scharffenberger's interview took place during one of his whirlwind visits to Southern California. On this particular trip, Scharffenberger met with the Board of Trustee's executive committee in the morning, attended a meeting of the academic affairs committee the next day, dined that night with university deans, and managed to squeeze in a trip to the dentist and some time with his wife before returning to New York. On other visits, he finds time to take in a Trojan football game, speak at a student affairs reception or address an alumni dinner.
"The situation obviously' is for me to make maximum use of my time," Scharffenberger said. He entrusts his New York secretary with total responsibility for his schedule, a dutv which Scharffenberger says she carries out "with a vehemence that allows me very little time for myself. And it works very well."
Previous chairmen of the Board of Trustees have been closely associated with Southern California and were based in and around Los Angeles. These men included late alumni Robert Fluor and Justin Dart, Kenneth Norris, Leonard Firestone, and the immediate past trustee chairman, Carl Hartnack, chairman of the international board of Security Pa-
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cific National Bank. Each was able to make frequent visits to campus and was easily accessible to the USC president.
Scharffenberger said he has a well-established system to ensure that he, too, can give proper support to the university, and has found it possible to conduct university business from New York.
"We have a very well worked-out process with the administration to insure that it identifies to me the things that I must be present for," Scharffenberger said. "I'm constantly on the phone. Obviously anyone who has lived like I do has learned that you have to use the telephone as effectively as you can."
As chairman of the Board of Trustees, one of Scharffenberger's main duties is to be available for consultation to President James Zumberge, to whom the board delegates its responsibility for university operations. Zumberge said his relation-
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