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Volume LXXXVIII, Number 46	University of Southern California	Thursday, April 17 1980
Faculty Senate resolution challenges plans to dismiss tenured professor
By David Romero
Staff Writer
A Faculty Senate resolution passed Wednesday challenges the university administration's intended dismissal of a tenured safety and systems management professor.
The resolution said Kenyon De Greene, associate professor of human factors, had not received due process when he was informed of termination on March 27. The date specified for dismissal was June 30.
Paul Hadley, vice president of Academic Affairs, said due process is still available if De Greene chooses to fight the dis-
missal. A three-phase grievance procedure is outlined in the Faculty Handbook.
Hadley notified De Greene of the impending dismissal, but would not specify the reasons.
De Greene said the notice of dismissal also suspended his teaching duties and access to departmental facilities, and would discontinue his salary as of June 30.
De Greene said he was to have taught two courses in an eight-week term beginning March 31. One was to be at an Air Force facility near Los Angeles International Airport, the
Over 30 files of speech class students separated
The transcripts of more than 30 students enrolled in three speech communication classes have been separated from the regular depository of files to "prevent unauthorized inspection" of the documents.
James Jones, executive director of Student Administrative Services, said that when the list of students of the three speech communication classes was provided, their files were pulled. "There are 30 or 40 files," he said.
Thirty-four football players were found to be enrolled in Speech 380, 422 and 490 during the fall 1979 semester.
These students were slated to receive passing grades for those courses without having attended class sessions.
Jones said he did not know if all the files were athletes' files.
The reason for the segregation of the files, Jones said, was "for undue or malicious reasons, so that there is not ready access to them."
"I don't know if anyone without authorization tried to look at the files. We moved them to avoid temptation.
"It's the students', not the world's business. No one should have (unauthorized) access to files.
"I am embarrassed for the people whose files are inspected by
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other at Point Magu Naval Base near Oxnard.
He has been with the university 15 years.
"A number of faculty members in the Institute of Safety and Systems management have been concerned over the quality of working conditions and management of the institute for a long time," he said.
He filed a grievance with Hadley against the institute's director, Herold Sherman, complaining of mismanagement and heavy travel and teaching loads. He said he met with Hadley on March 24 and was handed a letter stating dismissal would be sought.
The dismissal notice was in direct retaliation for filing the grievance, De Greene said.
De Greene said he had no chance to question witnesses, offer evidence or have counsel on his behalf before the administration took its action.
Due process should have been available before any suspension of duties or salary was made, De Greene said. The senate's resolution calls for his immediate reinstatement and for the administration's close compliance with tenure guidelines.
John Elliott, professor of economics, said current nationally accepted standards of academic tenure and those outlined in the faculty handbook have not been met by the administration.	. -The handbook states tenure is-the right of a regular faculty (Continued on page 20)
Campus vulnerable to big quake
By Craig Gima
Staff Writer
A large earthquake on the San Andreas fault of a magnitude of eight or above on the Richter scale could cause serious injury on campus, according to Thomas Henyey, a professor of geology at the university.
"There are probably a large number of potential earthquake hazards on campus," Henyey said.
Masonry, windows and decorative overhangs on campus would probably be shaken loose and fall because of the large forces generated by a major quake. Computers, large heavy desks and other heavy equipment not secured may move
about and cause injury. Walkways in some buildings like the Engineering Quad may slip and fall, Henyey said.
"No building on this campus is 100% safe. Any building that's got one piece of brick on the outside, could potentially cause injury to somebody on the ground. But it may not be desirable for somebody like USC to go and strip all the brick off their buildings. I think you have to look at it in a practical sense," Henyey said.
Henyey is doing research on methods of predicting earthquakes.
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Staff photo by Hugh Robinson
SLIP SLIDING AWAY — This is one of the activities provided by Delta Tau Delta, who will be hosting its 37th annual Mardi Gras on Saturday. A $7 entrance donation includes a concert with Cecilio and Kapono and Jerry Riopelle and unlimited ampunt of Coors beer.
Stan photo by wayne Levine
HOUSING BLUES — Freshman Dayna Dubrow, one of many students seeking reassignment, was disappointed yesterday when the Housing Office posted residential assignments for next year.