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Volume XCVIV, Number 7	University of Southern California	Wednesday, July 3, 1985
DAWN IRVINE'SUMMER TROJAN
American flags are especially prominent this week in light of the return of the former hostages from TWA Flight 847 and tomorrow’s Independence Day celebration. For a complete listing of Fourth of July events, see page 3.
Recurring fire and safety violations cause Fiji house owners to close down building
By Stacey Schmeidel
After a series of recurring fire and safety violations, the Fiji House Corporation Board — a group of Fiji alums who own the Fiji house and rent it to current fraternity members for residency — has decided to close the house rather than pay for continuing repairs.
"The house is rather old," said Jim Glenny, a member of the House Corp Board. "We just do not have the money to remodel in the way that is necessary at this point."
Captain Rose of the Los Angeles Fire Department agreed that because of the building's age and the recurring number of violations, the cost of continually repairing and maintaining the structure was probably greater than the cost of obtaining a new house.
Both Rose and Glenny emphasized that the Fiji house was not closed due to unsafe living conditions.
"There was a point last February," Rose said, "when we were ready to close it because it was unsafe. But in June, it was not an unsafe structure."
Rose said although the Fijis "had a bad history with the fire department," they had been "very cooperative" with attempts during the last six months to correct problems with the building.
Rose explained that fraternity and sorority houses — like apartment buildings, restaurants with certain high seating capacities and similar structures
—	are inspected bv the fire department four times a year, once during the day and three times at night for "things pertaining to darkness — making sure exit signs are lit, doorways are clearly identifiable and so forth." During the inspection, safety violations are noted and recorded.
Rose said a new prevention program instituted by the Fire Department last July has greatly facilitated cooperation between USC Greeks and the Fire De-
partment once a violation has been reported.
"Prior to last July," Rose said, "we had problems because we would deliver our notice (of violations that needed to be corrected) to the people living in the houses, who would fail to get the money required to correct the violations."
Under the new program, Rose explained, if safety violations are found during the inspection of a fraternity or sorority house, copies of the list of infractions are delivered not only to house residents but also to the House Corporation Board president, the University Greek Affairs Office, and to USC Safety Administrator Noble Kuwata. The house is given a certain amount of time to make the necessary corrections. If the corrections are not made by the given deadline, the fire department's legal liaison contacts the House Corporation Board president and schedules a city hearing.
"The Fiji house was already involved with the legal system when we began the prevention program a year ago," Rose said, adding that the fraternity had failed to comply with citations for violations.
"Then, in February, it was the normal time to inspect the building," Rose said. "We went in there and saw violations of the fire code that were critical violations," he added.
Rose said the Fire Department contacted the Corp Board president and the Fiji president and explained the violations.
Rose declined to list the specific infractions, saying that it would be unfair to the house. "Let's just say that there was a lot of self-induced vandalism/' he said.
"We told them to take care of the corrections immediately or we'd close them down," Rose said.
Rose said the Fijis were "very cooperative. Thev spent a lot of money and made all the corrections in a very short amount of time."
But when the Fire Department inspected the house again in May, Rose said, several safety violations were found, many of them things that had been corrected after the previous inspection.
Rather than pay for these repairs, the House Corporation Board decided to close the house at that point, Rose said.
"The house is just too old," said Fiji Tre Lawrence. "You just can't expect a house that old to hold 40 young men. It's like expecting a 90-year-old man to run a marathon."
The Fijis hope to be able to rent another house on 28th Street and live together as a fraternity next year.
'To stay on the Row." Lawrence said. "That's what you've _otta do."
Grad student found dead in university apartment
By Stacey Schmeidel
A female USC student was found dead in her room at university-owned Terrace Apartments on Ellendale Place last Monday, June 24. The coroner has determined that the death was a suicide.
USC Security Officer Robert Wade said the woman's roommate heard her come into the apartment around midnight Sunday and found her dead the next morning. The victim had apparently "taken a quantity of pills and strangled herself by tying a scarf around her neck," said USC Security Officer Charles Ritch.
Because of "unusual circumstances" at the scene, Wade said, "the investigation was originally set up to be a homicide investigation, so that we would not have lost the time or evidence that would have been important had it been a homicide."
Wade added that during the course of the investigation, the inconsistencies of the case were cleared up, making it apparent that the incident was a suicide.
"The student had apparently been seeking out psychiatric help on a number of things," Wade said. She had reportedly threatened suicide several times, he added.
University officials declined to release the student's name, but Logan Hazen, Director of Residential Life, identified her as a graduate student and said he believed she was taking summer school classes.
Hazen said representatives from USC Security and the Office for Residential Life sponsored an information session for Terrace residents the night after the incident occurred.
Hazen said this was the only suicide on campus this year.
He also reminded students that help and support are available during the summer through the University Health Center and at the University Counseling Center, located in University Village, Suite K. The Center is open Monday — Friday from 10 - 12 and from 2 - 4 on a walk-in basis.
USC School of Music appoints new dean
Larry James Livingston, dean of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, has been appointed dean of the USC School of Music. His appointment is effective July 1, 1986.
Due to previous committments at Rice, Livingston will not be able to be at the USC campus full-time until next summer, USC Provost Cornelius J. Pings said. In the meantime, it is believed that Livingston will function as "dean-designate" during the 1985-86 academic year, "commuting" from the Rice campus in Houston to Southern California and participating in budgetary matters and decisions affecting the School of Music.
Before assuming his post at Rice in 1982, Livingston served for five years as vice president and music director of the New England Conservatory of Music, where he was also a conductor and chamber music coach. He has taught at several other universities, including UC San Diego, Northern Illinois University, and Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
In addition, Livingston has directed such groups as the Illinois Chamber Orchestra, the New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, and the New England Conservatory Contemporary Ensemble. He conducted at the International Festival de Musique and has also been guest conductor of the Stockholm Wind Symphony and the Houston Symphony Orchestra.
An accomplished woodwind player, Livingston holds a bachelor of
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Dean Lieb announces resignation; plans to teach full-time next year
Irwin C. Lieb, vice president and dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, has announced that he will leave his post on June 30, 1986, in order to resume full-time teaching and research in the department of philosophy.
Expressing his appreciation for Lieb's contributions to the college during the past four years. University President James Zumberge has accepted Lieb's resignation and asked that a committee be established to begin a nationwide search for the vice president's replacement.
"Vice president Lieb has asked to be relieved of his administrative duties a year from now, at the completion of his five-year term as dean of the college," Zumberge said. "We are honoring this request and, in concert with the provost's office, are working together for a smooth transition in 1986."
Lieb hopes that the early announcement of his resignation will facilitate the search for his successor.
"I have enjoyed my service as dean, but 1 am
looking forward to completing a number of works of scholarship that have not had my full attention these last few years," he said. "In the meantime, I will use next vear to provide an orderly transition to new leadership."
A graduate of Princeton University, with a master's degree from Cornell and a Ph.D. from Yale, Lieb taught at Yale and at Connecticut College before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.
Lieb was a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas and also served as chairman of the philosophy department, associate dean of graduate studies and vice president and dean of graduate studies.
Lieb left the University of Texas and came to USC in 1981.
Lieb is the editor of Charles S. Pierce's Letters to Lady Welby and is the author of four books — The Four Faces of Man; Experience, Existence and the Good; Our Uncertain Universities; and Past, Present and Future: A Philosophical Study of Time.