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Volume CV, Number 43	University of Southern California	Tuesday. November 3. 1987
Professor finds no peace in
Midwest
By Danielle Sanford
Assistant City Editor
Controversy has followed the former director of the university's Defense and Strategic Studies program to Southwest Missouri State University, where faculty and students have blasted SMSU for hiring the defense expert.
William Van Cleave was hired to head the Center for Defense and Strategic Studies at SMSU amid accusations by faculty and students there, who said he was hired unfairly and is simply too conservative.
The SMSU Board of Regents unanimously approved a $68,000, nine-month contract to hire Van Cleave — making his salary second only to the school's president — despite protest from more than 50 faculty members who said the university violated Affirmative Action and standard hiring policies to employ Van Cleave.
"The opposition wasn't to me personally," Van Cleave said in an interview with the Daily Trojan. "There were complaints against the procedure used to bring me here and against the salary."
First program in Midwest
Van Cleave, who was hired as a Distinguished University Professor, will head the newly formed Center for Defense and Strategic Studies — the first program of its kind in the Midwest.
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Homeless seek to enlighten students
By Julia Kirkendall
Staff Wnter
Justiceville, a group of homeless seeking to inform students about the growing problem of homelessness, will quietly demonstrate on campus until Thursday morning.
The group spent yesterday in Alumni park. It had hoped to camp out on campus for the night, but was not allowed to do so because of a university policy prohibiting overnight camping.
As part of a compromise, the university arranged for Justiceville to spend the night at the United University Methodist Church on 34th Street.
"We, as a university, have tried to make appropriate arrangements," said James Dennis, vice president of student affairs.
Mike Neely, spokesman for Justiceville, called the agreement "a decent compromise ... as long as they're being fair with us, as long as there's justice."
Monday morning 25 demonstrators arrived on campus as part of
the group's "trek for justice." Justiceville has been on its march for 36 days, Neely said.
The group has focused its attention on college campuses, he said, because "students are the next leaders of this nation of ours and . . . (they) cannot allow this problem to get any worse than it is."
Although no study has addressed the issue of homelessness-reLat -ed deaths, Neely said that malnutrition, violence, inadequate health care and drug and alcohol abuse kill large numbers of street people eacn year.
Neely, who said he is a college graduate, said that he chose to be homeless because "somebody had to step down off their secure place to articulate the problem."
A college education, although important, was "not the be all and end all," he explained, "because there are college graduates who are out there in the street."
Justiceville hopes students here will open a Students Organized for America's Homeless chapter.
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Student group treats homeless to warmth, meal
By Tommy Li
Assistant Copy Editor
JOAN FRANK DAILY TROJAN
LOOKING FOR A HOME — Ted Hayes led a group of homeless onto campus on Monday morning to call attention to their plight.
Members of Justiceville, a group of homeless people who camped out on campus Monday, were invited to dinner by a student from the Colonial House, a self-directed house run bv students and a student manager
Cathy Herrera, a senior mayonng in business administration, invited the homeless people to dinner after hearing how they' had been invited to dinner brother universities in the past.
Herrera made Ihe invitation Monday morning, when she approached the group, camped in front of Alumni Park, and began a conversation with some of the members
"We started to talk to them about where they were in their lives." Herrera said.
'1 am glad I have the opportunity to sit
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Central American strife fault of U.S. — refugees
By Kevin Ota
Staff Writer
The United States government, not communism, is the major destabilizing factor in Central America, three youths from the region told an audience in Taper Hall of Humanities Monday night.
Sandra, 20, a refugee from El Salvador, and Marvvn, an 18-year-old Guatemalan refugee, who both declined to give their last names because they feared possible reprisals, spoke along with Nicaraguan refugee Reina Torrez about their experiences as "Children of War" — a movement organized for Central American refugee children.
"I need your help," Sandra said. "I need you to tell the U.S. government not to send money to my country.
"We don't need money to proceed in the killing of our people because our people are killing our own people," she said. "It is happening because of the influence that the U.S. is putting on our government!"
The three refugees spoke about their experiences in their war-torn nations in the first of a two-week series of events titled "Alternatives for W'orld Peace." The events are sponsored by four university' and community groups as part of Human Rights Awareness Week.
William Rodriguez, program coordinator for Policy Alternative for Central America said the series of events, sponsored by MEChA, a student Chicano movement; USC Students for Peace and Justice; El Centro Chicano, a university student resource center; and PACA will present university students with the opportunity to leam more about controversial issues in Central America.
Marvyn described his experiences as a child in Guatemala while also commenting on U.S. involvement in Central America.
"In Guatemala, we always live with the fear that one day you are
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University helps persecuted professor emigrate
Soviet scientist joins faculty
By Catherine Loper
Staff Writer
A celebratory reception was held Monday to welcome Sermon Katz, a Soviet scientist and refusenik, to the unversity faculty after a five-year effort by the university and community to achieve his emigration from the Soviet Union.
Katz, who holds degrees in geophysics and applied mathematics, will now be able to freely engage in intellectual pursuits, said Irwin Lieb, a philosophy professor who was instrumental in helping Katz leave the U.S.S.R. In the Soviet Union. Katz was "beaten, harassed and deprived of doing his work," Lieb said.
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WELCOME TO AMERICA — Sermon Katz, a recent emigrant from the Soviet Union shakes hands with Irwin Lieb, a professor of philosophy.
There are some 1,000 refuseniks in the Soviet Union, said Katz. They are persecuted intellectuals — many of them Jewish
—	who have had their degrees taken away from them and are not permitted to teach.
Katz ts the second Soviet professor to come to the university' and the fifth to be able to emigrate to the United States through the university's efforts Katz began a two-year visiting professorship in geological sciences at USC when he, hts wife. Vera and their two children arrived in Los Angeles on September 28. He will begin teaching m the spring.
The university first began its attempts to free refuseniks in 1962 to protest what the university "perceived as a hostile challenge toward academic freedom by the U.S.S.R- said William Spitzer. dean of the College of Letters. Arts and Sciences at Monday's reception in the lobby of the Annenberg School of Communications.
The process to get Katz and six other Soviet refuseniks out of the Soviet Union included what
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