Additional inauguration coverage:
•	Reaction from the campus community, page 2
•	Inaugural ball, page 2
•	Highlights from inaugural address, page 3
•	'Dear Mr. President'— address to Sample, page 4
•	View from the outside, page 9
•	Trojan on the street's advice to Sample, page 10
•	Inauguration in pictures, page 12
Volume CXVI, Number 15	University of Southern California	Monday, September 23, 1991
LAPD cleared of ATO favoritism
Police detective calls probe biased; Gates’ office chose investigators
By Robert Moran
Staff Writer
An investigation by the Los Angeles Police Commission into alleged favoritism toward the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity by top Los Angeles Police Department officials, including Chief Daryl Gates, found no evidence of wrongdoing, officials said Friday.
"The board was advised of the investigation in closed session," said a spokes-
man for Richard Dameron, the police commission's executive officer. "The commission is satisfied that there wasn't any wrongdoing or impropriety," Dameron said.
The spokesman, Sgt. Nicholas Wade, declined to say when the the closed session was held.
However, Wade acknowledged that the selection of officers to investigate the allegations against LAPD officials, includ-
ing Gates, was done through Gates' office.
Wade said investigations initiated by the commission are routinely conducted through the chief's office.
Lt. Fred Nixon, a police spokesman, confirmed that the chief's office is in charge of selecting officers for police commission investigations.
Asked whether it was proper to allow Gates to be involved with an investigation that included allegations against himself, Nixon said, "I think you should go back to the commission and ask them that."
Wade would not comment on whether
it was proper to allow the chief to be involved with the investigation.
Calls to commission president Stanley Sheinbaum were not returned Friday. Other commission members could not be reached for comment.
Detective Bill Pavelic, one of the officers who brought forth the allegations, said he was outraged by the commission's acceptance of the investigators' findings.
"I'm appalled that (the commission) ruled on this in closed session," Pavelic said. "That is a cover-up."
(See Favoritism, page 19)
Trojans fall to 1-2 with loss to Sun Devils / 24
‘To
do
morew th less'
In inauguration, Sample stresses fiscal stringency
By Brenda Rosales-Chavez and Martin Wahl
Staff Writers
It was his day.
Surrounded by a regal atmosphere, more than 5,000 people filed into Alumni Park Friday to witness the inauguration of Steven Browning Sample as the university's 10th president.
Amid cardinal and gold banners waving in the air and professors decked in flowing academic robes, all eyes were on the new president as he delivered his inaugural address.
During the speech, Sample announced five goals for his term as president and said many at the university would need to do more with less, and do it better.
After his address, Sample made his way to Tommy Trojan, where hundreds gathered for a commemorative photograph.
Students, faculty and alumni clustered around the 50-year-old president afterward for individual photos and autographs, each eager to meet the man that will lead the university in the 1990s.
But Sample was quick to douse the notion that the $100,000 party was all for him.
"It's been a great day, a long day,'' he said, following the group photo. "But I don't think that the focus is the president; I'm more a symbol of the institute. What we're celebrating today is a day in the life of this university, not the day in a life of one man."
Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley was at the ceremony and praised Sample's speech.
"It was a wonderful setting of specific goals," he said. "The university is not resting on it's laurels."
The ceremony began at 9:30 a.m. with a regal procession of campus figures. An air of tradition overcame the park as the processioners, dressed in brightly colored caps and gowns, made their entrance.
(See Inauguration, page 19)