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Volume CV, Number 5	University of Southern California	Wednesday. September 9, 1967
JOAN FRANK / DALY TROJAN
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Professor from East Coast named new dean in LAS
By Catherine Loper
Staff Writer
C. Sylvester Whitaker Jr. was appointed dean of the division of social sciences and communication on Sept. 1, upon the retirement of Paul Bohannon.
Bohannon served as dean of the division for the last five years.
The division of social sciences and communication is one of the three major divisions of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Whitaker will assume responsibility for the 11 departments, 180 full-time faculty members and 2,500 students enrolled as social science majors.
Whitaker was formerly the di-
rector of international programs and a professor of political science and African studies at Rutgers University. Whitaker's expertise in African political studies has earned him a position on the Council on Foreign Relations and on the council's study group on United States policy toward South Africa.
A former professor at UCLA and Princeton, and the chair of the department of Afro-American studies at Brooklyn College, Whitaker is seen as an ''essential part" of an effort to make the division grow, said William Spitzer, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. "We're certainly anticipating (Continued on page 12)
No classes in August preserves vacation time
Faculty causes re-scheduling
By Karen Kuettel
Staff Writer
Because some faculty did not want to begin classes in August, students had to attend Monday classes on Wednesday.
Starting classes in August ''cuts into vacation time and research grants," said John Elliott, a faculty representative who helped to plan the fall schedule. The schedule was planned by the acada-mic calendar committee two years ago.
But why were students asked to go to their Monday classes on Wednesday?
"Because there was no class on Monday and next week is Labor Day. When Labor Day is eariy, you don't have this problem,” Elliott explained.
Yet, why couldn't classes begin late in August for those years that Labor Day occurs during the first weekend into school, approximately three times within seven years?
"I don't think it would answer the concern that once class started before Sept. 1, the tendency would be to keep pushing the starting date (for fall classes) back," Elliott said.
In other words, some faculty believe that scheduling classes for late August would eventually lead to scheduling mid-August classes, and then starting school earlier and earlier in the month.
'To eliminate the hassle and faculty in an uproar," Elliott said, "classes began on Tuesday."
And for the approximately 15,000 students af-
fected by this arrangement. "1 presume it would be an inconvenience," Elliot admitted
However. Elliott was quick to point out that there were student representatives, as well as faculty and staff representatives on the academic calendar committee who helped create the class plan and were well aware of the possible inconveniences.
In response to many students who have complained about the situation last Wednesday, Elliott said, "Whatever hassle there is the first vear. it seems to fade out."
Bob Biller, executive vice provost, said the academic calendar committee was concerned with the "historical family vacation period," between August and September, and took this under great consideration when the 1987-88 school calendar was created about two years ago.
Biller said that Yale University uses Labor Day Monday as a regular teaching day, but USC wouldn't "like that or understand it, it would be too abrupt."
Thus, the committee was faced with the problem of how to make up for two Mondays and a Thanksgiving Thursday. And after looking at more than 20 academic calendars from other schools. Biller said, the USC academic calendar committee used UCLA's plan: Going to classes on a day they are not scheduled for.
"UCLA — they've done this for some years It
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Professor reacts to freeway shooting
By Tommy Li
Assistant Copy Editor
Lying on his stomach on a hospital bed,- David' Comelsen was in disbelief when he heard a television news report state that his former student, Paul Nuss-baum, had become another victim of freeway violence.
"My initial reaction was that I couldn't believe it. . . .It must be someone else," said Comelsen, assistant director of the industrial social work program and clinical assistant professor at the School of Social Work.
Nussbaum's July 18 injury left him paralyzed from the neck to the waist. He is currently receiving treatment at the Fountain Valley Regional Hospital.
Comelsen, 35, said he first met Nussbaum in September 1986, when Nussbaum was interning at the Security Pacific Bank's employees assistance program. He said he was Nussbaum's supervisor.
He said Nussbaum was a so-
cial work intern there and counseled employees who were in need of counseling
After the shooting incident, Comelsen, who has been at the university for over a year, spoke with Nussbaum only once — by telephone last Sunday.
"He's completely coherent," Cornelsen said. Nussbaum, though, is unable to speak.
Comelsen has also been writing letters of encouragement to his close friend and former student.
'1 sent him two letters," he said.
It takes a big effort for Comelsen to write these letters because Cornelsen, like Nussbaum, is paralyzed and has been lying on his stomach and on a gumey since his auto accident, which also took place in July.
He said he was injured in an auto accident in San Felipe, Mexico on July 3 at 11:45 a.m., just 15 days before Nussbaum's (Continued on pmge 9)
‘Men of USC’ model shot; loses leg
By Christopher Dorobek
Staff Writer
A university student, who was one of the models in the 1986 "Men of USC" calendar, was shot in the thigh as he walked to Cardinal Gardens Apartments from the 32nd Street Market on July 31.
Mark Little, who graduated in May, is in the hospital recovering after his leg was amputated because of what the doctor called a "warlike" bullet wound.
Little was shot in the "thigh up close to the groin area," said Detective Robert Clark of the Los Angeles Police Department.
After buying a loaf of bread at the 32nd Street Market, Little was walking home when he was stopped by a man, later identified as Tony Jackson, who allegedly asked Little for money.
Clark said Jackson and his driver, Anthony Harper, "had parked at the curb in front of Mark's (apartment) and (they) were just sitting there, ap-
parently working on a car that they had recently stolen."
As Little crossed the street from the market to Cardinal Gardens, his girlfriend, Tegra Hearns, walked out to meet him.
As they walked by the suspects, Heams was near the apartment when "the suspect just reached into the car and pulled out a shotgun and then pointed it at him and demanded money," dark said.
Little "didn't have any and so (Jackson) butt-stroked him," Clark said. As Little was on the ground, Jackson stood over him and shot him in the leg at point-blank range, he said.
Both suspects have been arrested and are being held on $500,000 bail, Clark said.
Harper, who was allegedly the driver of the stolen car, was arrested the day after Little was shot in the area of 28th Street and St. Andrews Boulevard when police recognized the car.
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AIDS seminar scheduled; a discussion of viral effects
By Brad Bowlin
AIDS will be the topic erf a free seminar given by Suraiva Ra-sheed, professor of pathology at the USC School of Medicine. Sept. 15.
The seminar will center on the "pathogenesis'' of deadly disease, or how the virus progresses once it has infected its victim, according to Rasheed. The development of treatment and the dt^ in the future will also be topics of discussion, nature of the topic, the seminar won't be pe person to understand, Rasheed satd attendance wiB probably be non-btok^ it easy for everyone to understand." open to the public and begins at noon in the of the Norris Medical Librarv on the
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' topics, has worked at the School of Medicine for 17 years. She has been doing AIDS research since the rise of the disease in 1982 That same evening, a two-hour AIDS information special, sponsored by the Metropolitan Insurance Company, will air on primetime television over most of the country
Because of local coverage of the Papal visit, the program will be delayed until Sept. 17 in Southern California It will broadcast from 8-10 p.m. on the local Fox Network affiliate, KTTY (channel 11).
'The National AIDS Awareness Test: What Do You Know About Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome?" will feature a test format that will allow the viewer to answer questions on AIDS. Following that, answers based on the latest medical research wiH be given.
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