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Volume LXXXVIII. Number 70 University of Southern California Wednesday, May 21, 1980
DISMISSAL OF PROFESSOR
Committee calls for due process
By David Romero
Staff Writer
The administration has accepted without change the recommendations of a special committee looking into due process in the intended dismissal of Kenyon De Greene, an associate professor in the Institute of Safety and Systems Management.
The committee's recommendations called for the administration to replace a letter that indicated De Greene's suspension and set a date for his dismissal. The new letter is to contain no mention of a dismissal date or suspension.
Rather, the committee said full dismissal procedures must take place and a decision reached before the dismissal or suspension, if either, are set.
The committee was concerned De Greene was not immediately informed that dismissal proceedings against him were being discussed within his department. It recommended that De Greene be
given copies of three memos relating to his dismissal which were sent before De Greene was notified of the dismissal.
The memos were from the tenured faculty of the department to the chairman, Mark Van Slvke; from Van Slyke to Herold Sherman, director of the institute; and from Sherman to Paul Hadley, vice president of academic affairs.
De Greene has contended that the dismissal action against him was in retaliation for his seeking a grievance against Sherman. De Greene later filed a grievance against Hadley. The committee urged these grievances be included as part of De Greene's challenge of the dismissal action.
The memo from the tenured faculty, dated Feb. 8, recommended De Greene's dismissal. Thev af-Tfirm that they did not know of De Greene's grievance against Sherman before recommending dismissal.
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Medical faculty contacts lawyer to fight dismissals
By David Romero
Staff Writer
Several faculty intend to fight their dismissals from Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles and have contacted a lawyer to review their case.
Godfrey Isaac, who was contacted by some of the 16 faculty members involved, said much of the income from private patients will be lost if those faculty members are dismissed,
"I'm hopeful of getting their old positions back. I think talking about alternative positions is a cop-out," Isaac said The hospital has made extensive staff cuts due to underpayments from Medi-Cal and California Childrens' Services programs - that supjjwrl many of the patients there. The teaching faculty are set to be put on indefinite leave until July 1.
"I think there is going to be an inquiry* as to whether there is a true financial exigency that necessitates releasing teaching faculty," Isaac said. He said there are indications of poor management of the hospital's finances.
"The manner of accounting itself changes Row the situation looks. And I'm not sure that firing faculty is necessary." He said manv of the faculty bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue.
George Donnell, chairman of pediatrics at the hospital, acknowledged that the faculty' bring in revenue, but said thev do it through the hospital's departmental private practice.
The university has indicated previously that alternative positions would be given where available to the teaching faculty, who have joint appointments at the hospital and the medical school.
Some of the faculty members said the only assistance thev have been notified of is that they have been placed on a priority list for openings at the medical school's main campus.
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Parking fees boosted to meet rising costs
pus, apparently due to the climb in gas prices.
Fee increases have nothing to do with higher wages for parking lot attendants, who will be voting June 6 whether or not to unionize, Levredge said. Some workers have complained of low pay. LeVredge admits there is a problem with pay, but feels the university is working to solve it.
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New president may be revealed
A press conference to announce the status of the search for a university president will be held at 10 a.m. today in the Security Pacific Bank building at 333 S. Hope St. The Board of Trustees, which makes the .final approval of a presidential candidate, is meeting prior to the press conference.
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Critics charge advisory council of dividing university
Others defend presidential panel as adequately representing various groups
By Cliff Tan
Staff Writer
This is the second in a two-part scries on possible changes in university goivr nance.
The survival of the university's President's Advisory Council may depend on whether criticisms that have been made of the council are convincing.*
The council process may possibly divide constituencies of the university. Percentages of professors surveyed who thought the council had developed a university consensus dropped from 55‘7r in 1973 to 32% in 1978. Pollsters questioned 289 professors in
1973	and 271 in 1978.
"One of my chief goals is to reduce tensions and divisiveness oh campus and to bring all of us together into a unified institution," said President John R. Hubbard, in a memo after his first year in office.
"The essential rationale of PAC is to have a single body that is representative of the various constituencies of the university so that the president does not have to go to each constituency individually to try to arrive at a consensus," he said recently.
It is good to have representation from faculty, stu-
dent, staff and administration constituencies, since each constituency 's proposals must be sound to be defensible before other constituencies, said David Mars, chairman of the council.
However, this strength of the council is also its weakness, since consultation means that a pet proposal will be chewed apart and diluted, he said.
"I don't believe there is such a thing as a university consensus on most issues even within a single conr stituencv," said Melvin Gerstein, chairman of the Council of Deans.
"1 would prefer to see what has often happened: that differing forms of advice are transmitted to the president with a measure of support indicated so that he mav choose among the alternatives."
Constituent representatives can advocate each other's interests, said John LeBlanc, chairman of the Faculty Senate. The faculty supported the use of excess funds to increase staff salaries and decrease tuition, he said.
"PAC is only a vehicle," said Susan Brown, chairman of the Staff Caucus. "If we don't use it to reach a consensus, then it's not PAC's fault."
A study conducted last year comparing the governance systems of different universities showed that in those universities where similiar systems had been
used, the diversity of issues studied, the size of the governance body, and the lack of time and commitment of representatives all decreased (Ineffectiveness of the systems.
These possible weaknesses, however, do not seem to assume crippling proportions in the council, con- •-stituencv leaders said.
Since the council examines a wide range of concerns, having both the people who logically would be interested in. an issue, and those who would not, study the issue may lead to uninformed and unfruitful advice.
Committee members who debate an issue should have some background in that issue, or else their.ap-pointments were mistakes, Brown said.
Many staff members not in high-level positions have done amazing jobs, and people should not assume that these people have nothing to offer, she added.
"In most cases, those constituencies less involved or less knowledgeable have deferred to those having more concern with the issue," Gerstein said.
Council committees usually handle issues of "alluniversity concern," and not more specific constituency concerns, Hubbard said.
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