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Police find professor dead in home
"He may have sorely needed (admiration), but he wasn't oriented toward it"
JULIETTE WILLIAMSON former student of Duval
Memorial: Colleagues and students remember Duval as a caring professor and innovative intellectual
By STEVEN JONES and SOPHIA KAZMI
Staff Writers
A psychology professor known for his grueling work ethic and commitment to students was found dead Tuesday in his Silver Lake home after he apparently shot himself.
Aftpr Thomas Shelley Duval missed his undergraduate social psychology class Tuesday and last Thursday, department chair Gerald Davison asked for a safety and wellness
check and sent police to Duvals home.
Davison and USC officials are calling the death a suicide, but a cause of death investigation is pending, according to the coroners office.
A luncheon at the Seely G. Mudd Building was held in Duvals honor Thursday as friends and students gathered to remember the professor.
Although the graduate assistant office never officially belonged to him, Duval spent most of his time there, students who worked with him said.
On the bookshelf in office 824A sat a gold embossed plate with the inscription: “When you are up to your ass in alligators, it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.”
Juliette Williamson has thought often of the quote since she learned of
Duval's death. She could never remember the second half of the quote until now, she said.
Former students Williamson and Mathew Curtis examined the photographs on the bulletin board, but said they did not know who any of the people were.
Curtis stopped at a faded, milky Polaroid of Duval grinning impishly at the camera.
“That’s classic Shelley,” he said.
There were more quotes posted on the walls of the surrounding rooms. Williamson could recite most of them without looking, she said. Curtis said he had thought about taking them down but decided against it
Sitting in the laboratory where they all worked with Duval, Williamson, Curtis, former student Chadwick Snow
and professor Norman Miller shared their memories.
“His life was a life of intellectual exploration,” said Miller, who made Duval his second hire in 1972 when he was hired from the University of Minnesota to help start a social psychology department
Duval built on ideas from William James, one of the founders of modern psychology, including the notion of a self-concept He used them to explain areas of study such as expectancy and social facilitation theories, Miller said.
“He was brilliant as a theoretical integrator," Miller said.
Despite his brilliance, Duval was conspicuously free of self-promotion and materialism, Williamson said.
“He may have sorely needed
I	see Obituary, page 9 I
Duval
Housing ponders downtown option
Proposal: USC teams with developers to check student interest near Staples Center By ART PRIROMPRINTR
Residential Life Writer
A survey about a proposed housing development near the Staples Center was recently sent to students in a joint effort between USC and a private developer.
No firm plans are in place for the actual construction of student housing near the Staples Center, but the developer and university were interested in gauging student interest in the possibility of such an option.
The survey did not name the private developer and university officials declined to give it
The survey asked students about their preferred living arrangements and prices they would be willing ta pay for accommodations in the proposed downtown location.
Conducted for the developer and the university by the private firm Anderson Strickler, the survey was “designed to learn about (student) housing needs and how the
project may best meet (those) needs," it stated.
“(The Staples Center location) is an attractive piece of real estate... and USC students need housing,” said Mark Pavelchak, director of student outcomes research.
Housing shortage has been an issue at USC for years, and university officials — as well as housing developers — are interested in knowing the feasibility of building student housing at the location, Pavelchak said.
“This is just an information gathering process — nobody’s actually committed, nobody’s actually said what features are offered,” he said.
The survey has purposes for both the university and private developer, said Jeff Urdahl, director of Housing Administration.
On the most basic level, the developer conducted the survey to assess student interest in such a project, he said.
“From a campus perspective, it’s a reasonable way for us to gauge how students view various housing options (particularly in downtown Los Angeles),” Urdahl said.
The university’s cooperation in I see Housing, page 9 I
Being Coach Bibby
Masquerade.
Scott
Cushman, a sophomore majoring in theatre, wears a “Bibby Stick” at the men’s basketball game Thursday night. The SeCret SoCiety distributed hundreds of the masks to students in the audience to antagonize the Oregon players. Oregon fans taunted basketball coach Henry Bibby at USC’s last match-up against Oregon in Eugene, Ore.
College adds advisement staff to ease professor workload
Academics: Letters, Arts and Sciences adds two full-time advisers to assist students majoring in humanities
By KAREN ZLOTNIK
Contributing Writer
The College of Letters, Arts and Sciences has added two full-time advisers to help students in humanities disciplines.
The new advisers will relieve the many professors’ workload in smaller departments- that lacked advisers. Professors were advising students in addition to teaching.
Most professors should not be required to know the requirements for
graduation, said Debbie Bernstein, director of LAS advisement
"We really would like faculty to be doing mentoring rather than advising,” Bernstein said. “That’s what teachers are good at”
Carlos Cervantes, one of the advisers, had only advised in the Spanish department but now works with students in other foreign languages.
The other adviser, Lindsey
Andrews, recently graduated from USC and is a general adviser with a focus on the classics, religion, English, comparative literature and a few other majors.
They will focus on smaller departments and their requirements rather than be responsible for knowing everything about every major in LAS.
“Certain departments didn’t have full-time advisers or they had poorly trained advisers," said Cervantes,
director of advising for humanities, in reference to professors’ lack of knowledge about graduation requirements.
The small group of advisers did not always have adequate time for students in the past, but the addition enables them to focus on individual students, Cervantes said.
Now more students will be effectively advised and will know where I see Advisement, page 9 I