Woman tenured
By Gina Becchetti
Assistant City Editor
The first woman in the 51-year history of the School of Public Administration received tenure on Monday.
Catherine Burke, who came to the university in the fall of
1973	as an assistant professor, was notified of the tenure decision by Robert Biller, dean of the School of Public Administration.
"It was so funny because the phones weren't working and it took four calls for Dr. Biller to get through to me," Burke said, adding that the decision is significant not only to her but to other women throughout the university.
"I feel a great many women are involved in this with pie," Burke said. "No one gets to these positions without help. It has been terribly important for me to have women, both faculty and staff, who have been supportive.
"There have not been very many women who have Ph.D. degrees," said David Lopez-Lee, associate dean of the School of Public Administration. "That's a sad commentary on our colleges and universities and our society at large.
"Our public administration school probably has a higher proportion of women Ph.D. candidates than other universities," Lopez-Lee said.
'Traditionally it has been difficult for women to get tenure," Burke said.
"A lot of top universities who were not opening up to women have realized that it is not to their benefit to waste half the brain power," Burke said. "One of the indications of a top flight university is to seek out talent wherever it may be.
"USC is moving in the right direction," Burke said.
Burke, 40, is the first woman in public administration to go through the tenure process, which takes about a year, although another woman was hired with tenure by the School of Public Administration.
Burke said she is very happy here at the university but is : glad the grueling tenure process is over so she can finally let go of the extra work that goes with the process and put her energy into teaching and research.
The process involves an elaborate evaluation of the person applying for tenure. People are hired on the tenure track at the university, and the university has seven years to evaluate their performance before they decide to grant tenure.
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Staff photo by Richard Lavttt
ERIK ESTRADA, WATCH OUT! — This University Security guard is watching for bad guys, ready .to fire his moped in case of the slightest problem. University Security recently purchased the mopeds forbet-ter accessibility for officers.
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Volume LXXXVIII, Number 9 University of Southern California Thursday February 14, 1980
AFGHANISTAN
Soviet warns against U.S. force
By Linda Suzuki
Staff Writer
Using armaments or troops to stop the situation in Afghanistan and Iran would be a dangerous move, said a former Soviet Union ambassador to the United Nations at a forum Wednesday.
While emphasizing his present status as a visiting scholar and merely a "Russian citizen," Nikolay T. Fedorenko said that "as a Russian (I can say) we are not going to declare war, we are fed up. If someone wants, let him go and try, but absolutely not the Soviet people."
Fedorenko accused the newspapers (he did not specify which) of creating new problems, saying he saw the real situation as being "a little bit different. Calm must be with us," he said.
Fedorenko defended the existing policy of allowing veto in the Security Council by only five nations, China, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States, saying that these nations, because of their contributions in World War II and because they had "done so much for peace," deserved some priority and re-
spect.
Fedorenko dismissed recent charges of Soviet espionage in the U.N. as "exaggerated" adding that an ambassador who does not collect information is of no use to his country, but that reports of KGB influence at the U.N. was "too far from reality." He also said that in his career in the foreign service he had "never relied on information of espionage, I have never considered it reliable."
Answering a question from the audience, Fedorenko said the most important thing for a (Continued on page 17)
Ex-med student sues university
A former medical student filed a $20 million lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court last November against the university, its board of trustees and several faculty members of the School of Medicine.
The former medical student, Franklin C. Valvo, who is now a practicing attorney in Los Angeles, filed the lawsuit on his behalf, claiming that the university — specifically, the School of Medicine — conspired to force Valvo to withdraw as a full-time student from the school. The request for withdrawal, as stated in the lawsuit, resulted from Valvo's refusal to carry out “unlawful orders to . . . falsely imprison a patient at the Medical Center," during a clinical clerkship course in psychiatry he was taking at the university in 1964-1965.
The Medical Center is allowed to restrain or imprison patients who endanger either themselves or other people, Valvo said. His objection that resulted in the lawsuit was based upon a belief that to imprison the patient would violate his civil rights, as well as that of the patient.
Valvo's lawsuit further claims that since 1932 the university, the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges have "entered into and maintained contracts, combinations and conspiracies in restraint of trade to control the number of medical graduates from American medical colleges," and have "entered into and maintained contracts, combinations and conspiracies to monopolize, combine or conspire to monopolize any part of interstate trade or commerce to control the number of medical graduates from American medical schools."
Although violations of antitrust laws only come under the jurisdiction of the federal courts, Valvo said he hopes the L.A. Superior Court will consider the university's alleged antitrust violations in any decision it might render with regards to the lawsuit.
A spokesman for the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., however, said that although the commission was aware of Valvo's allegations, it currently has no ongoing investigation in the matter.
Valvo said, however, that he (Continued on page 16)
Dean of social sciences budgets time between departments, special projects
This is the third in a series of profiles on various university administrators.
By Hollis Evans
"I came to USC because I like the football team." At least that is what John Schutz, dean of social sciences, lets students in his History 200 class believe. "I tell them that for humor," Schutz said. "I actually came to SC because of Norman Topping. He was a great president . . . under him SC blossomed and became a respectable school."
In addition to his routine administrative duties and his history class, Schutz also plays a role in the special projects in
the social sciences division such as the controversial Middle East Center.
Schutz was actively involved in the proposal for the center last year before it was rejected and placed in an administrative limbo. Even though the controversy surrounding the center could now be heightened by the crisis in Iran, Schutz maintains that in the long run the center might benefit the school.
"It's a good idea. After all the Middle East is the center of our great cultural heritage in the world," Schutz said. "The question is how can this idea be used. There are many ways which a center like this can g°"
Schutz said the proposal is
now in the hands of John Marburger, dean of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and in two or three years there may be efforts to reactivate the proposal for passage by a more receptive administration.
A graduate of UCLA, Schutz taught at Cal Tech, Boston College, New Hampshire, UCLA and Whittier College before his arrival at the university in 1965 as a professor of history. The move lead to his career as an administrator.
"I came here as a professor, but after a while they needed someone as chairman of history," Schutz said. "The chairmanship is a three-year term, and it's a pain-in-the-neck posi-(Continued on page 3)
Activists say draft violates rights
By David Rompf
Assistant Gty Editor
Joyce Fisk thinks it would be ridiculous to register women for the draft.
The same Joyce Fisk works for the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that is supporting the draft of women.
"I oppose on a theoretical basis the notion of adding women to make the draft seem more equitable. The draft is an unconstitutional position imposed on people. You can't make it more fair by adding another group of people to it," Fisk said. "It would be like adding Chicanos in slavery with blacks (during the early 1800's). It wouldn't make it more equitable."
Fisk and David Edinger, the disarmament and peace conversion coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee in Pasadena, spoke to a handful of students Wednesday on draft registration. They were invited to the university by a group of cinema students who thought "people might
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