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Volume LXXXIX. Number 61
University of Southern California
Wednesday, January 7, 1981
By Roger Gray
Assistant City Editor
In the wake of John Schutz's veto of a search committee's recommendation for director of the School of Journalism, university factions unhappy with the action drudged up a 1979 faculty survey reflecting unfavorably on his performance as dean of the Division of Social Sciences and Communications.
In December, the Daily Trojan received a copy of the report sent anonymously in campus mail, along with an index card which read "A good story in the Monday DT (on Schutz's veto.) Here's the real problem."
Use of the survey to try and discredit Schutz raises questions on how deans and administrators should be evaluted, who should see the reports and how confidentiality might be maintained.
"It's not a public document or a public communication," said John Elliot, president of the Faculty Senate. "It is a study of a survey of faculty opinion. The results are available to deans, vice presidents and executive committee members "
“It was similar to the notion of student evaluation of professors, to have a faculty assesment of performance," Elliot said.
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However, such a program of evaluation, already used by many universities, is "in its infancy" here, he said.
The report on Schutz, from a survev conducted by the Faculty Senate subcommittee on the evaluation of academic administrative performance, said he received "ratings of 'inferior' interspersed with several 'superior' ratings," in a faculty survey.
The report continues that "responses suggested that he lacks objectivity and resents disagreement, which results in a differential treatment of faculty and departments. He was criticized for 'meddling in departmental affairs,' 'sowing discord' and 'abusing faculty rights,’ " the report said.
Some of Schutz's actions as dean are called "well-meaning but inept or improper” in the report, w'hich concludes that "the survey suggested that Dean Schutz does not command the respect of many of his faculty."
The problem is that the survey information may or may not accurately reflect Dean Schutz's, or any other dean's, standing in the eyes of their faculty': a certain amount of disagreement over the survey's methodology and subsequent validi-
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REAGAN
Students confront draft
Antidraft groups offer advice
University faction leaks report on dean, raises ethics question
Economist urges industrialization
By Galen Gruman
News Editor
The political climate has changed, and for Arthur Laffer the weather may hold winds of good fortune.
The noted university economist has been a major advocate of the "New Right" economic policies promoted by Presidentelect Reagan and the Republican partv after the success of Proposition 13 and similar tax cut incentives.
Laffer is optimistic about the conservative trend. He is one of the best known "new" conservatives, and is famous for the Laffer Curve, which shows the relation between amount of taxation and incentive to work.
In a recent interview, Laffer discussed the importance of accelerated industrial growth, ways to employ those in job-depressed areas and the needs to balance environmental concerns with economic ones.
Industrial growth is the key to breaking the vicious infla-tion-unemployment cycle that has plagued the United States in the last decade, Laffer said. Substantial tax reduction, not merely a tax rate deduction as now proposed, w'ould increase industry's profits, allowing them to hire more people and produce more goods, as well as increase research and development.
"People aren’t going to work hard if they get less after a raise,'' Laffer said. Workers would be more willing to work knowing a pay increase would not force them to pay higher taxes that would wipe out the initial raise, he said.
Laffer supports Reagan administration plans to promote industrial growth through the use of tax incentives. Laffer has advised the Reagan team on these economic matters. He
said, however, he will not move to Washington to advise the President-elect. "I want to work in an academic environment. I'm not interested in politics."
Increased productivity is the only solution, in Laffer's view, to solve the country's economic woes. He commented repeatedly on the Kennedy presidency, praising his policy of industrial growth, which led to low unemployment during his administration.
Laffer, eyes gazing intensely, voiced his support of tax breaks for chronically underemployed areas.
"We're not getting taxes from those areas now anyway. If we stimulate business and give them a tax break, the city will get taxes in a few years it wouldn't have had before," he explained.
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Staff photo by Katy Smith
UNSEALED CEILING — The dark spots on the roof of this room in Founders Hall show the water damage that resulted from the rains in December.
Insurance office awaits flood damage assessment
The Insurance and Risk Management office has yet to assess the total damage caused by the flooding of Founders Hall last month. The office is still receiving claims on personal property, and there is still no definite figure on the total cost of the damage.
According to Harrv Kind, director of new buildings, "there has been no damage to audiovisual equipment. Only a repair for $60 was necessary."
"The damage to computer equipment was minimal. Also, construction (on an addition to Founders Hall) was not held up at all. They just lost a day due to rain," Kind said.
Damage to computer equipment, initially speculated to be as high as $275,000 should be substantially less than that.
"That figure is the total value of the computer equipment, and the equipment certainly wasn't w;ped out," Kind said.
The Hartford Insurance Company, which handles the university's insurance, should have an estimate on the damage within a week to 10 days, said an insurance company spokesman.
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Staff photo by Steve Hyman
CONFLICT — With the renewal of draft registration this week for those born in 1962, student rallies might result, like this one protesting last spring s registration.
If you are a male who was bom in 1962, this may be the most important week of your life.
Men born in 1962 are required bv law to register for the draft this week.
College students across the country are showing growing concern over the peacetime draft following this summer's registration of men born in 1960 and 1961.
Under the new draft laws, there is no longer a college student deferment.
Student gioups opposed to Jialt registration are organizing demonstrations at post offices where registration forms are filled out and seeking draft counseling. Some members of USC Students Against the Draft have stationed themselves at various post offices to trv to convince young men not to register.
The Central Committee lor Conscien-
tious Objectors, the nation's largest draft counseling agency, warned that the start of draft registration has added to the increased likelihood of an actual draft.
"This past summer's draft registration of men born in 1960 and 1961 was just the first step toward returning to the draft. Now the Selective Service is registering those men bom in 1962," said Larrv Spears, director of the central committee's Youth and Conscientious Objection Campaign.
Spear noted that the United States has never had a registration without a’ draft.
"The need for young people to be informed and to consider going on record as a conscientious objector to war has never been greater than it is now," Spears said.
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