Staff photo by Wayna Lavlna BUT IS IT ART? — Ruth Juechter, a freshman, apparently finds this painting at an art fair Wednesday very peaceful... or boring.		
■d Volume LXXXVIII, Number	Ml 56	trojan University of Southern California Thursday, May 1 1980
Faculty employed at hospital facing layoffs
By David Romero
Staff Writer
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, where over 110 fulltime faculty from the university are employed, is expected to make job and service cutbacks due to financial difficulties.
Although definite cutbacks have not yet been made
known, the Faculty Senate unanimously passed a three-part resolution concerning the expected termination of 17 of the full-time faculty at the hospital.
Richard Davis, associate professor of pathology, reported to the senate that six of these faculty members were tenured.
The resolution urges that the
university administration and the governing board of the hospital adhere to procedures, safeguards and severance policies outlined by the American Association of University Professors.
Davis said there are reports that no severance funds are available from the university. He said in cases of severe financial difficulty, the university is to provide a year's severance pay to tenured faculty and lesser pay to nontenured faculty to be released.
"If all of them got a year's severance pay, the total would be less than $400,000," Davis said.
The resolution urges the central administration to identify funds to support minimum severance pay, and find alternative positions for those faculty whose jobs are cut or assist them in finding alternative employment.
The Los Angeles Times reported on April 22 that 400 fulltime jobs would be lost at the
hospital, a cut of 20% of its staff.
Donald M. Cook, executive director of the hospital, said problems with Medi-Cal payments have weakened the operating budget of the hospital and cutbacks are necessary.
Medi-Cal and California Children's Services reimburse 81% of the amount the hospital bills for inpatients and 42% for outpatients. Shortages in this area increase the costs to private patients.
George Donnell, chairman of pediatrics at the hospital, said most of the faculty at the hospital are paid through the university with money from hospital funds.
He said the financial difficulties are real and meetings between faculty and hospital officials are taking place to assess the cutbacks needed.
"These faculty receive joint appointments at Children’s Hospital and the university to provide services, teach and research," Donnell said.
Transcript of former athlete seems forged
By Tim Lynch
Staff Writer The transcript of a former student-athlete who transferred units from California Lutheran College in 1978 was apparently forged, and credit the student supposedly received from Compton College could also have been fraudulent, President John R. Hubbard announced Wednesday.
Hubbard refused to release the student's identity because of privacy laws, but Vance Peterson, director of Academic Relations, pointed out that the student was not currently enrolled and had not been a member of the football or basketball team.
The university informed Pacific-10 investigators about the forgery in late March after completing a transcript evaluation of 24 athletes who, during the past three years, had transferred units from colleges suspected of possible transcript inconsistencies.
Michael Slive, assistant executive director of the Pac-10, confirmed that an investigation is being conducted, but he refused to clarify whether the university or the student involved in the forgery was the focus of the investigation.
"We try to analyze each case, not unlike a court, and we judge each case based on its own merits," Slive said. Pac-10 officials will meet May 23-25, and they could rule on the case then if the investigation is completed.
Peterson said he did not believe the university would be held culpable because it accepted the transcript in good faith. "Dr. Jack) Larsen looked at it and it looked legitimate, but that was before there was any question about its authenticity"
Larsen could not be reached for comment.
Cal Lutheran discovered the forged transcript after the university requested the records of four students be verified.
"Three of them were legitimate, but the fourth had never been a student," said David Schramm, vice president for Academic Affairs at the college. "At first glance, the transcript would appear legitimate, but the discrepencies were readily apparent once we looked. It's not the kind of thing that took a lot of inspection."
Schramm did not speculate where the student could have obtained the forged transcript (Continued on page 5)
Administrators say claims in athletics article untrue
By John Lamb
Staff Writer
Three academic administrators said Wednesday that various statements made in a Daily Trojan article claiming that at least four football players needed course units in Speech Communications 380 last fall to retain their player eligibility were false.
In the article published in Wednesday's paper, an unnamed source said "the athletic department lobbied administrators in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences to either fail the 20 football players (enrolled in Speech Communications 380) or grant them a crash course, but not to withdraw them from the course."
The source added that "by not withdrawing the players from the course, the 1979-80 football season, the 1980 Rose Bowl and the eli-giblity of returning players would not be invalidated."
In a memo released Wednesday by John Marburger, dean of LAS, John Schutz, dean of the division of social sciences and communications, and June Shoup, chairman of the communication arts and sciences department, stated "categorically no one 'lobbied' us regarding those decisions."
The same source also said Richard Perry, director of athletics, "went to Marburger and other university administrators and outlined the options open to the university."
This occurred, the source said, after Perry had learned that if any player needing the course to meet the 12 unit minimum had dropped the course, they would have become ineligible.
Marburger, Schutz and Shoup said in the memo that "Dr. Perry did not come to any of us to 'outline options to the university' with respect to either grades or eligibility of student athletes."
TTie options, the source in the article said, were to flunk the football players, give them a crash course, or drop them from the course and go on NZAA probation.
The source also added that "Perry was negotiating (with LAS administrators) to either fail them (the student-athletes) or give them a crash course."
The memo asserted that "at no time did Dr. Perry 'negotiate' with LAS administrators 'to either fail them or give them a crash course.' "
Perry concurred with the statements made by the administrators, but would make no further comment.
Firing of prof to be reviewed
Faculty Senate group will study case
The executive board of the Faculty Senate is setting up an ad hoc committee to assist in the resolution of charges against a tenured professor in systems management who was suspended and given a date for dismissal without due process.
A motion to censure President John R. Hubbard and Paul Hadley, vice president of Academic Affairs, for not acting quickly on the due process issue was presented but tabled until the senate's next meeting May 21.
These and other actions were taken at the senate's meeting Wednesday in an effort to persuade the university administration to rescind its actions against Kenyon De Greene.
John LeBlanc, president of the senate, said the committee should be together and operating by
the beginning of next week.
The committee will have three or four members of high standing in the university and who are not necessarily senate members, LeBlanc said.
LeBlanc said he has been warned that unless the leadership of the senate, including the executive board, asserts a firmer stance in efforts to correct the lack of due process, two or three senate members will bring forth censure action against the senate leadership.
LeBlanc said these members were in support of the immediate censure of Hubbard and Hadley.
John Elliott, professor of economics and a senate member, reported to the senate that Hubbard and Hadley have not directly responded to the (Continued on page 14)