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Volume XCIX, Number 40
University of Southern California
Monday, October 28, 1985
Lieb 'the best thing in years’
Faculty Senate votes to examine Lieb firing
By Diane Diaz
Assistant City Editor
Nearly two-thirds of the Faculty Senate voted at their monthly meeting to begin an investigation into the firing of Irwin Lieb as dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
The resolution — which was moved by Al Marston, a professor of psychology, and passed 44 to 23 with three abstentions — read: "I move that the senate go on record as deeply concerned with discovering the facts involved and with the procedures followed in the dismissal of Dean Lieb, and that the University Administration Committee, be specifically charged to examine the events and procedures surrounding Dean Leib's dismissal and to recommend appropriate action to the senate.”
Gerald Davison, chairman of the psychology department, seconded the motion.
Lieb, who came to the university four years ago last May, was fired
'It's like telling Ronald Reagan that he has to keep Carter's Secretary of State because everyone likes him.' Don Yett, professor of economics.
by President James Zumberge on Oct. 8. He had publicly resigned from the post last May, but withdrew the resignation on Oct. 4. His resignation was scheduled to take effect next June.
"I informed Dr. Lieb that I did not choose to have him continue as dean,'' the president stated in a press release. “He was allowed to submit a letter of resignation."
“Last summer. President Zumberge insisted on my resignation," Lieb said in an earlier Daily Trojan SoCal interview. "He mentioned that I kept fighting decisions after they were made, and an allusion to my not being a 'team player” was made."
Davison described the Oct. 16 Faculty Senate meeting, which was attended by Provost Cornelius Pings, as a very lively and good meeting for the faculty and the university. "It was a meeting which said, 'Faculty have a certain right and responsibility to review Deans.' "
He cited an American Association of University Professors' statement concerning faculty participation in the selection and retention of administrators that said "principal administrative officers should not be dismissed for any reason without significant involvement of the faculty of an institution. They should be protected from arbitrary removal by evolving procedures through joint effort, by which both their rights and the interests of various constituencies are adequately safeguarded."
Don Yett, a professor of economics, said that the university does not have any obligation to go by what the American Association of University Professors recommends and that any recommendation the university does follow is done so on a voluntary basis only.
Davison said he thinks this university should follow such a guideline.
"I would be speaking out about the review process even if I were not enthusiastic about the dean in question," Davison said. "It so
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Students u	pset about	par	kir	
Damage to gates vexes residents				
By Gordon Gary
Staff Writer
Widespread parking problems at Cardinal Gardens Apartments are causing students to complain and break rules in order to find spaces for their cars.
Four gates to the main lot are consistently out of order, either frozen open or stuck closed. Cars without permits to park, consequently, are able to enter and park.
"People are parking down the middle (of the lot) and it makes it nearly impossible for me to get my car out," said Scott Peterson, a Cardinal Gardens resident.
Peterson, who pays $102 per semester for his space, along with a $10 deposit for his gate access card, said he is sometimes forced to park across the street or in campus parking structures when he can't find a place for his car in the Cardinal Gardens lot.
"It's especially difficult," Peterson said, "when I have to transport large quantities of parcels home."
Another resident who paid for a parking permit at the beginning of the year, Paul Ahn, said he has gotten three tickets for parking outside the lot when parking was unavailable inside.
Daren Friesen, a student community senator, said much of the problem stems from the broken gates. One of the four gates is broken two or three times a week, one works "on and off," and two never work, Friesen said.
Walter Doty, Cardinal Gardens complex manager, said gate damage is usually caused by students w'ho want to enter the lot but do not have gate access cards.
Damage to the gates usually occurs after big events like football games and fraternity row parties, when residents have guests over to visit, Doty said. Iron gates are knocked off of their tracks and the motors become jammed, he said.
A maintenance man comes out one or two times a week to fix the gates, but they are damaged very quickly after repair, Doty said.
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University schools highly rated in past decade
Tommy Li
Staff Writer
The most recent rankings of the majority of the university's schools and departments show no school or department ranked lower than 25th in the nation, according to a resource fact book kept by the public relations department.
The university's programs in accounting, business, music, social work and journalism have all been mentioned by various ranking organizations in the last ten years.
The organizations, which range from colleges- to professional societies, rate university schools and departments using many different criteria.
Rating university programs is an imprecise art, however, because these ratings are usually based on surveys or polls and, in most cases, there is no definitive source for rankings.
Some organizations base their
rankings on polls or surveys given to college administrators, as in the ranking of the School of Accounting by Public Accounting Report in its December, 1984 issue.
The magazine ranked the school fourth in the nation in a survey that asked administrators from about 400 colleges to name the top five undergraduate accounting programs in the United States.
About 40 percent of those polled responded. A point system was used to determine the top schools — five for a first-place vote, four for a second-place vote and so on.
The top three accounting schools were at the Universities of Illinois, Texas, and Michigan.
In a spring issue of School of Business Administration Quarterly, Doyle Williams, dean of the university's School of Accounting, said "Given that USC has the fewest alumni as accounting
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administrators among the top five schools, we believe our ranking is legitimately objective. The faculty, staff and students can take pride that their efforts and commitment to excellence continue to be recognized nationally."
Joan Hill, associate director of the School of Business Administration, said her school was na-
tionally ranked in the top ten by an independent survey of senior personnel executives from the Fortune 500 companies.
Hill said the problem with ranking the School of Business Administration is "that there is no one ranking body, unlike a medical school. (There is) no one nationally recognized authority."
The School of Music was ranked seventh nationally in a January 1979 Meyer-Lipsett report, published in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
William Thomson, dean of the School of Music said, "My opinion is that this indicates, certainly, what now the strongest schools in the country are."
Thomson said it was generally accurate, but said, "I don't think it should be taken too seriously."
He said "It's like comparing, to a certain extent, tangerines and oranges, or apples and or-
anges. And (music schools) don't really have the same kind of goals. But certainly our faculty here is as strong as it was in
1979	when this survey was made."
The winter 1974-75 issue of Change, an educational magazine, ranked the School of Social Work sixth in the nation, among 90 accredited graduate schools of social work. This survey asked the deans of the 90 schools which school ranked at the top.
Robert Roberts, dean of the School of Social Work, said, "I would rate it about third now," because other schools of social work must have experienced enrollment and budgetary problems that may have decreased their status.
“We now have about 350 students in master's and Ph.D. programs," he said.
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