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Volume Cl, Number 3	University of Southern California	Wednesday, June 4, 1986
Spitzer will continue as dean of LAS for next year
First-choice candidate accepts provost position at Wellesley
By Bryon Okada
Staff Writer
William Spitzer will continue as dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences for the coming academic year as the frontrunner in the search for a new dean accepted another position at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
Dale Rogers Marshall, who is currently associate dean of the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California, Davis, will be the new provost at the eastern school.
Marshall was described as “one particulary outstanding candidate who seems especially promising" in a memorandum on the LAS deanship released May 29 by Provost Cornelius Pings.
A committee formed last year to find a replacment for Dean Irwin Lieb, who was fired October 1985, submitted a final list of four names to Pings and President James Zumberge on April 25 for particular consideration for the position.
Marshall was the first candidate for the deanship to be contacted to visit the university again, said Executive Vice Provost Robert Biller.
She was given the opportunity to make her second visit to the university, but she declined.
"She clearly was an outstanding candidate," Biller said "She could well have been offered the job if the second visit had come out as well as the first.
"She was so outstanding the president and provost really worked to get her to come here," he added.
When it was learned that Marshall would be going to Wellesley, Biller said that Zumberge and Pings were not as confident about making the same call to the second choice. The second-choice candidate was not contacted.
Biller said that a decision on the remaining candidates who are from the university could not be made until the summer was over and the entire faculty returned to the university.
"It's very unlikely," Biller said. "Summer's not a good time to make a decision like that."
Pings said in the memo, "We are now into summer, and it would not be wise to try to hurry such an important matter with so many faculty away from the campus at this time."
But while Zumberge and Pings continue to review the recommendations by the search committee, Spitzer will continue to serve as dean of LAS. Spitzer said last week that all the candidates showed a "quality and range" that would make any of them an asset to LAS.
When Spitzer was asked by Pings to fill the vacant deanship last year, he agreed to serve during the 1985-86 year and continue during the next year if needed.
Last January, Spitzer was named dean of LAS without the prefix "interim." Biller said it was to ensure that Spitzer could exercise the extent of the powers of the position until "an excellent candidate" could be found.
Spitzer did not seek the responsibility of full-time dean of LAS,
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JULIE M. SEIDEL SUMMER TROJAN
Mike Gillespie (left) and Rod Dedeaux at a press conference at the Town and Gown Tuesday.
Dedeaux retires as coach,
accepts new directorship
College of Canyons' Gillespie named successor
By Joan Whitney
Staff Writer
Rod Dedeaux, who as the winningest coach in collegiate baseball history captured 11 NCAA titles and produced dozens of major league players, announced Tuesday that he has resigned as head coach of the Trojan baseball team after 45 years.
Mike Gillespie of the College of the Canyons in Valencia will step in as head coach of the team and Dedeaux, 71, will become the Director of Baseball, a position specially created for him.
Gillespie, 46, was a one-time
Trojan baseball player who has won three California state commmunity college titles and was twice state runner-up all in the past six years while coaching at the College of the Canyons.
"Our search found Mike to be the most qualified coach of college baseball. . .it's obvious to all that he is a winner. I am so glad they went about it to chose the best. It's not a sad day to me. I take it as a challenge to make Trojan baseball the way it should," Dedeaux said.
Gillespie, who served as the athletic director of the College of the Canyons since 1977 and taught English, physical educa-
tion and health education there, was named National Community College Co-Coach of the year in 1981 and 1983.
While at College of the Canyons for 16 years, Gillespie won the state community college title in 1981, 1983 and 1986, and finished second in the state tournament in 1982 and 1985. No other California community college coach has ever been in the state finals five out of six straight years.
Of his appointment Gillespie said, "It represents an accumulation of a dream I have had for years. I am extremely honored (Continued on page 2)
Spring semester report cards mailed this week — on time
By Bryon Okada
Staff Writer
Spring semester report cards were processed last week and mailed out to students on Monday, said Mary Margaret Brennan, associate director of registration and records.
Brennan said that the grade process was right on schedule, three weeks after finals were finished.
Although the provost office set the grade submission deadline at May 15, registration and records extended it to May 23 to accomodate those professors with large classes, or with tests that required a more intensive grading procedure.
This was to ensure that students did not receive an "MG”, or missing grade, on their report cards which has to be corrected in the records by the professor.
After the cutoff date was set, Brennan said only about 20 grade sheets out of 8,000 were not submitted.
Because the majority of professors turn in their grade sheets in on time, there is no penalty for those who do not, said Nawal Abdel-sayed, records coordinator for the provost's office.
The time it takes for instructors to submit their grade sheets is still the bulk of the time that it takes to get grades out to the students, Brennan said.
Brennan said she considered the process to be verv efficient although it depended greatlv on the instructors getting their grade sheets in early.
"Our instructors are very’ conscientous about getting their grade
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RUDI ALEXANDER SUMMER TROJAN
The crew of “Amazing Stories” converted unoccupied Touton into “Grayson Hall” for an upcoming episode.