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University of Southern California	Wednesday, February 19, 1986
Volume C, Number 27
It’s National Condom Week
Photos by Joel Ordesky/Daily Trojan
To draw attention to a serious issue, the Student Health Center is sponsoring such inanities as “Pin a Condom on Elvis” Cfar left) and a condom toss. Health center staff wearing “condom crusader” T-shirts blew up and passed out condoms in front of Tommy Trojan (left), where condom met reincarnation, as a Hare Krishna and health center staffer swapped books and condoms (above).
By Richard Hatem
Assistant City Editor
Many instructors of courses that have been removed from the list of courses approved for general education credit on the recommendation of the General Education Committee do not agree with the committee's decision and plan to appeal it.
But Allan Casson, chairman
Attorney lectures students on values of being an agent
By Tommy Li
Staff Writer
Removal of GE courses debated
Professors appeal committee decision
of the General Education Committee, says the instructors have already had their chance to appeal the decisions of th« committee.
"The committee discussed and decided on appeals'' at its last meeting, Casson said.
All further appeals would be directed toward William Spitzer, dean of the College of Letters Arts and Sciences, Casson said.
But Spitzer has signed the minutes from the Feb. 3 meeting of the General Education Committee — at which all appeals were heard and the recommendations made — thus formally accepting the committee's decisions. Any appeals he received, Spitzer said, would be turned back to Casson and the committee. "You don't form a faculty committee and then pull the rug out from under them," Spitzer said.
The committee took one of three actions for each class it reviewed: unconditional approval, one-year extension with the condition of re-evaluation at the end of that time, or recommendation for removal.
"If we erred in any way," Casson said, "we erred on the side of charity. We were much more likely to give a one-year extension than to remove the class completely."
Although some professors did not disagree with the committee's decision, others complained that they were not aware of the criteria on which their classes were being judged and that they were not given enough warning that their classes were being examined.
Joan Wiebel-Orlando, associate professor of anthropology, said, "I left the meeting with the committee feeling we had negotiated changes and these changes would be submitted. I wasn't given enough time to institute these changes, though they could have easily been made."
Thom Mason, an associate professor of jazz studies, said he met with Richard Fliegel, assistant coordinator of general education, in November, when he first heard there were questions regarding his class, "Jazz, Ragtime and Blues."
Mason said, "It was clear we were willing to meet with (the committee)."
When he was again informed on Jan. 20 that the committee had concerns with his class, he said, he called Casson to find out how he could best prepare for the meeting with the subcommittee on the aesthetic approaches area of G.E.
Mason said he "prepared for the meeting, and left (it) feeling that all concerns had been allayed."
Casson said, "We told them (instructors) the specific questions being raised regarding their courses."
"We asked that all their complaints be made clear. We found out the next day that the class had been dropped. And then we later found out that we could have made an appeal on Feb. 3, but we didn't know about that until the 13th," Mason said.
"I wrote the committee a letter on Feb. 4 requesting a proba-(Continued on page 24)
Leigh Steinberg, lawyer and agent for over 100 sports and entertainment figures, addressed the topic of sports / entertainment law before a crowd of more than 50 people Tuesday at the Law Center.
Steinberg's speech was sponsored by the Entertainment Law Society, a Law Center student group.
Although the topic was sports / entertainment law, Steinberg focused primarily on the values and roles involved with an agent and athlete, the state of the field of sports representation, sports economics and contracts and the drafting system in baseball, basketball and football.
"I don't think that it takes any genius to assimilate the lessons they teach you in law school about the law," Steinberg said.
He encouraged students who will be going "out there into the world" to ask themselves, "Is there anything especially compelling you're going to take, any social vision, any dreams of your own about how this can be a nicer world?"
"There are things that you can do with your law degree rather than simply make money. You can take a social philosophy that you have out in the world and try to make it a nicer world," Steinberg said.
With all the problems the world faces, such as famine, the possibility of nuclear war and political repression, Steinberg said he finds it difficult to understand why someone would not use whatever skills and energy he has to make an impact.
He challenged those in the audience who plan to study * for a degree in law to spend some time thinking about
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LEIGH STEINBERG