Presidential search may be concluded by mid-November
By Richard Bonin
Staff Writer
The next university president may be chosen as early as mid-November, said J. Robert Fluor, chairman of the Board of Trustees.
“Neither the candidates nor the university like to be kept with a decision left in the air,” Fluor said from his Irvine-based headquarters.
'‘Assuming nothing falls out, the decision could be made by mid-November."
Fluor, chairman and president of the Fluor Corp., said the board is pursuing two lists of nominees to replace President John R. Hubbard next August.
One list consists of “six or seven” candidates most likely to become the university’s ninth president, he said.
The principal nominees are from government, universities or scholarly organizations. “They all have very strong academic backgrounds,” Fluor said.
If candidates on the primary list fall through, either through self-disqualification or dissatisfaction on the part of the trustees, candidates on a supplemental list will ascend to primary consideration, Fluor said.
“We want the best candidate we can get,” he said.
Fluor refused to comment on names or the make-up of the top six or seven candidates. But he confirmed an earlier report (Daily Trojan. Sept. 28) that women and minorities are among the top 20 candidates.
Fluor refused to say if someone from within the university will become president.
“If he turns out to be an internal candidate, that’s the way it turns out. Insiders or outsiders have no bearing on their academic and administrative skills.”
When President Hubbard announced his retirement plans last February, the board formed a 23-member Presidential Search Committee with representatives from primary university constituencies including eight trustees, six faculty, two deans, one administrator and two alumni. Two members were later added to provide neighborhood and community representation.
Ultimate decision-making authority, however, rests with the Board of Trustees.
In August, the board’s executive committee interviewed the top candidates for the presidency. Six or seven candidates have been invited to campus for the second stage of the selection process.
The remaining competitors will meet separately with the rest of the board and anyone else they choose, Fluor said.
After the second interview some candidates will return to the university again, this time for broader exposure meeting with the search committee and various university constituencies, Fluor said.
Fluor also hopes the potential successors will choose to meet with Richard Perry, athletic director.
“The board (trustees) feels the athletic program is a strong rallying point for alumni support," Fluor said.
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Volume LXXXVtl, Number 13_University ol Southern California Wednesday. October 3, 1979
Construction of new LAS building begins next month
By David Rompf
Staff Writer
Groundbreaking for a SI2 million classroom-laboratory building for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences is scheduled for sometime this fall, said Mike Bocchicchio, university architect.
Although an actual groundbreaking date has not been set, construction will begin in early November.
The 10-story building, which will house the undergraduate program in chemistry and most of the psychology department, will be located on parking lot K adjacent to the new Grace Ford Salvatori Hall, now under construction near Cromwell Field.
No contractors have been awarded construction bids as yet, Bocchicchio said.
The new building will be named after the late Seeley G. Mudd, a
long-time university trustee, medical educator and philanthropist. The bulk of the building cost will come from the Seeley G. Mudd Foundation.
Part of the building will be named for the James Irvine Foundation of Newport Beach which donated $2 million for the project.
The largest structure in the four-building plan is an attempt to relieve crowded conditions in several programs and give some breathing room to the department of psychology, according to Don Lewis, chairman of the department.
“The department is now in six locations. And this (the building) will allow all but a couple of units to be in one building,” he said.
Lewis said the psychology clinic is presently located on Adams Boulevard, about six blocks from the main campus.
Lewis said clinical and research facilities will probably be moved closer to the department near the new building.
Chemistry instruction laboratories and administrative offices will occupy the first three floors, but research labs will not be located in the building, said Eugene Gerlitz, assistant to the dean of LAS.
A planetarium on the main floor will also double as a science lecture hall, he said.
During construction of the new building, the remodeling of Founders Hall and work on a Founders Hall addition will also be in progress.
“I understand that there are several more (building projects planned),” Gerlitz said.
The building should be completed between 18 months and two years.
J. ROBERT FLUOR
Carter appoints faculty, alumnus to court posts
By Brandon Bailey
Assistant City Editor
President Carter is seeking to fill three of six openings in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals with two university faculty members and an alumnus.
Dorothy Nelson, dean of the Law Center, and Warren Ferguson, a federal district court judge and a faculty member of the medical school, were formally nominated by Carter last week.
Arthur Alarcon, university alumnus and associate justice, California Court of Appeals, was nominated last month. He will appear in Washington. D.C. before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week.
Alarcon serves on the Legion Lex board of directors, a support group for the Law Center. Alarcon said he expects the Senate committee hearing to last only one afternoon.
The full Senate should vote on Alarcon’s nomination within the next week ox. two. Hearings for Nelson and Ferguson have not yet been scheduled.
Ferguson is associate professor of psychiatry at the university, as well as a federal judge. He has been on vacation, but a spokesman for the university’s Institute of Psychiatry and Law said Ferguson’s university position is a voluntary, non-paid service.
Ferguson does not teach a regular class but participates in seminars conducted by the Institute, the spokesman said.
Ferguson, also an associate professor of law at Loyola University Law School, is interested in the psychiatric basis for legal defense of the accused in criminal cases.
Nelson announced her resignation as dean, effective July 1980, in her commencement address last spring (Daily Trojan, May 23, 1979). She said she intends to leave her university post sooner if her nomination is confirmed by the Senate.
Nelson said she may leave within two to three weeks after being confirmed, but hopes to continue serving the Law Center in an advisory capacity.
Alarcon came to the university as an undergraduate transfer student from UCLA in 1948.
Alarcon received his doctorate from the Law Center in 1951. He was a legal adviser to former California Governor Edmund Brown, Sr. in the early 1960s.
As an alumnus, Alarcon has been involved in recruiting other judges into Legion Lex membership. The group provides fund-raising and academic support for the Law Center.
Track to begin hosting meets upon completion
By Grant Chun
The year was 1930. Prohibition was in effect. The United States president was Herbert Hoover and USC defeated Pittsburgh in the Rose Bowl 47 to 14.
That year also marked the 50th anniversary of the university’s founding and the acquisition of a physical education building and the athletic field.
With the arrival of the university’s centennial next year, Cromwell Field has been undergoing a renovation.
Vern Wolfe, head track coach, sees the new track as a definite improvement.
“Before last year, the dirt track at Cromwell Field was the worst in the nation. When the new track was being constructed last year,
the team had to shift to five different sights to practice. Needless to say it hurt our performance.
“So you can see the new track is like heaven. We haven’t had a home track meet in six years. With the facility, we will be having some this year,” Wolfe said.
The field was originally developed in conjunction with the construction of the Physical Education Building in 1930. It was about 1/3 its present size. In the 40s, the rest of the four acre field was acquired.
“The renovation is a tribute to a man who helped USC gain its reputation of athletic excellence. Coach Dean Bartlett Cromwell," said John Reynolds, the university’s historian.
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THE WAY IT WAS—Cromwell Field as it appeared	Photo by Garfiaid studio*
in 1930, the year it was acquired by the university,	elude an eight-lane, all-weather, cardinal and gold is now undergoing renovation. The field will soon	running track and seating for approximately 5,500 be enclosed in a multi-purpose stadium and will in-	people.