Trustees agree on S. Africa divestment
Selective divestature plan approved
President Zumberge reccomended a selective divesture which will involve a case by case evaluation of each corporation.
recommendations may be held in confidence, the memo said.
The committee will be separate from and independent of the university's Investment Committee, although the Investment Committee will have the right to review the committee's recommendations and to make comments on their consistency with the university's overall investment policy.
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case evaluation of each corporation's adherence and promotion of the Sullivan Principles.
“I believe that the United States has a better chance to affect change for the better by having a presence in South Africa than by pulling out.
"And finally, there is a serious legal question of whether the trustees would be acting responsibly by arbitrarily causing the university to divest itself of holdings in corporations doing business in South Africa," Zumberge said.
The board modified the University Policy on Investments and Social Concerns, as proposed in September, to state that the university will take more interest in the investiture of its funds by reviewing, on a case by case basis, where those funds are invested and the related social concerns, Zumberge said.
Previously, the question of ownership of stocks was a matter primarily for fund managers hired by the university to invest its endowment funds, Zumberge said.
This is "not policy on investment and social concerns in South Africa, but policy on investment and social concerns — period," Zumberge said. It can be applied to situations in other parts of the world if the university has to deal with similar questions, he said.
The policy modification was the only action related to South Africa taken by the board, Zumberge said, although he has also set up a standing committee.
According to a campus memo written by the president and released yesterday, the Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility will "research and monitor the social corporate conduct and practices of the university's portfolio companies case by case."
The committee will issue an annual report on its work and recommendations to the president and the community through Transcript. The committee's deliberations and
Nancie Mack
Assistant City Editor
The Board of Trustees voted unanimously yesterday for selective university divestment of corporations doing business in South Africa.
University President James Zumberge recommended this tvpe of divestment, which will be based on a case by
Cornelius Pings, university provost, has been asked to establish a task force to study apartheid issues.
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Volume XCIX, Number 23
University of Southern California
Thursday, October 3, 1985
Student Senate dismisses graduate representative
By Nancie Mack
Assistant City Editor
The Student Senate voted last night to dismiss Sharon Dolezal, one of its three graduate school senators.
Dolezal had missed the senate's Palm Springs planning session and three senate meetings, said Chris Vivo, graduate speaker.
Vivo said that for the last two weeks he has left messages at Dolezal's permanent and local addresses and in her senate mailbox, but has received no response from her.
Dolezal has been involved with the senate for four years and last year held the equivalent of the graduate speaker position, Vivo said.
Vivo suggested elections be
held simultaneously for Dole-zal's replacement and the fourth graduate school senator.
The graduate school gained a fourth representative last night when the senate amended its constitution.
The number of graduate senators remains the same — 16 — because the amendment switched the senator's representation from library science to the graduate school.
Also approved was the nomination of Michael Palmieri as the new Program Board chairman.
In her presentation of Palmieri, Senate President Pauline Ng said the criteria for the position included strong communication and leadership skills and the ability to motivate people.
There was also a question of whether the candidate's allegiance was to the senate or the Program Board, Ng said. When asked about a hypothetical situation, Palmieri answered that he would "fight to the death" for a Program Board event that the senate disliked, she said.
Palmieri said if there is such a controversy, he would notify the Program Board directors of the senate's decision, but would not support it.
•	A senate resolution also recognized and thanked the university's Hispanic Assembly for "spear-heading the USC Mexico City Disaster Relief Effort." Another part of the resolution requires senate participation in passing out fliers and staffing a fund-raising booth at Saturday's football game.
Earthquake
Students on campus yesterday may have been slightly shaken up by an earthquake that occurred at about 4:44 p.m.
The earthquake registered
5.0	on the Richter scale and was centered about six miles southeast of the city of San Bernardino on the San Jacinto fault, according to a preliminary report from the California Institute of Technology Seismic Laboratory in Pasadena.
San Bernardino is about 65 miles east of Los Angeles.
'To our knowledge there's been no major damage," said Officer Jim Jeffries of the San Bernardino Police Department.
Special task force formed
Gold Seal Task Force takes look at academic integrity
By Diane Diaz
Assistant City Editor
A task force to examine and discuss the issue of academic integrity has been set up by Pauline Ng, senate president.
The President's Gold Seal Task Force on Academic Integrity has been appointed by Ng and assigned to draft two reports that will concentrate on the issue.
"The reason why it was set up is to stress the issue of academic integrity on this campus," Ng said, citing the grade tampering incident as a major factor that emphasized the need for such a task force. "The task force should be active by next week," she said.
"Academic dishonesty is really a student problem and it's the students who have to solve it."
According to a press release issued by Bill Chandler, the senate's public relations chairman, "The purpose of the task force will be to: investigate the possible implementation of an honor code, study and recommend examination procedures and guidelines, recommend reporting guidelines and procedures for faculty and staff in incidences of academic dishonesty, research the roles of faculty and staff in preventing cheating incidences and, most importantly, listen to the student body to find out the concerns and worries that lead to infringements of academic integrity codes."
One other goal of the task force will be to have admissions officers and recruiters talk about academic integrity while they are recruiting, Ng said.
"The university should be perceived as an institution of academia, not for its football team.
"What needs to be emphasized is its (the university's) academic excellence and students' concern for academic integrity at the university," Ng said.
The members of the task force were selected after they were nominated by deans of various schools and interviewed by Ng.
She said she received over 100 nominations, and about 20 were chosen to serve on the task force.
Ng said she sent over 100 letters to nominees asking if they were interested and could make the time commitment, but that several of the students contacted were already committed to other organizations.
Of the applications she finally received, she said she was able to choose about 20 of the "very best students."
The task force will meet biweekly and each member will be required to commit at least four working hours per week.
The task force will have two months before it must submit its first report of findings to the Student Senate.
This student task force comes at a time of much concern about the university's academic integrity.
Last month the university's Task Force on Academic Integrity, which is made up of faculty, released a broad-based report containing 21 recommendations for the handling of grades, exams, and the computer system.
Robert Mannes, dean of student life, said in an interview last month that, "The charge of the task force was to look at the whole issue of academic integrity and what should be done to try to prevent further instances from occurring."
The problem of academic integrity at this university was discovered last year when a student on probation said he was not.
A records check on the student revealed inconsistencies and led to the discovery that some students had paid staff members to have their transcripts altered.
To date, 17 students have been expelled and six students have been suspended.
"If students, as a general group, do not want cheating to occur, then they are probably more instrumental in preventing it than anybody else," Mannes said.