University leaders to investigate new ways to govern
By Sean Dunn ah oo
Assistant Editor
A group consisting of the leaders of the five university constituencies has been formed to devise alternate models for university governance.
These models will be presented to presidential candidates being interviewed by the Presidential Search Committee before the Committee's expected work completion date, which could be as soon as October, said John C. LeBlanc, president of the Faculty Senate.
President John R. Hubbard resigned effective August 1980, and the Committee was formed to screen candidates for Hubbard's office.
The group was formed in response to the Faculty Senate's opposition to the present governance structure, said John Griffith, executive assistant to the chairman of the President's Advisory Council.
The senate had expressed dissatisfaction with the President's Advisory Council and had proposed guidelines for a new governance structure to be called the University Constituency Coordination Council.
Both LeBlanc and Donald Yett, professor of economics and chairman of the committee that drafted the guidelines, had stressed that the draft was no more than a list of proposals. The draft called for a meeting of the university constituencies to make changes in university governance.
In addition to formulating proposals for governance changes, the Faculty Senate had asked all faculty members to end participation on the council until changes were made.
Those involved in the newly-formed group are LeBlanc, Mel Gerstein, associate dean of the school of engineering and chairman of the council of deans, Jeff Gates, president of the Student Senate, David Mars, chairman of the President's Advisory Council and Dorothy Davidson and Susan Brown, both representing the Staff Caucus.
The two representatives from the Staff Caucus will serve until a new chairman is elected to replace Jeanne Rathbun in July, Griffith said.
LeBlanc had written to Mars asking for the meetings of the constituency leaders. Mars organized the meeting and the group first met May 30.
The group proposed a preliminary draft which consisted of four points.
First, it was stated that the Faculty Senate is not making an attempt to abolish the President's Advisory Council.
The Committee also stated that there will be no attempt to modify the names, duties or structures of the university committees.
It was advised that faculty members be nominated to university committees either from the corresponding Faculty Senate committee or from those faculty members volunteering for committee service, should there be no parallel senate committee.
The final point, which LeBlanc said was the point that the constituency leaders are now focusing on, states that the constituency leaders understand that the other points will provide only a temporary solution, and they will look at long-term governance structures which would be most desirable for the university.
The four points went to the executive board of the Faculty Senate, the faculty caucus of the President's Advisory Council and to the executive committee of the council.
All bodies approved the points, LeBlanc said.
Both LeBlanc and Griffith said that the models for new governance structures should be done by September so that the Presidential Search Committee can use them during the interviews with potential presidential candidates.
There is a hope that the search committee will complete its work by October and forward the names of three or four candidates to the Board of Trustees, LeBlanc said.
The models will be useful during the scanning procedure of the search committee because it will give the university a chance to see how each candidate feels about changes for the university, Griffith said.
LeBlanc said that there are twro points of view held by people at the university — those who feel that nothing should be done until there is a new president in 1980, and those who feel that the new president will be busy the first couple of years and it would be helpful to have some of the work out of the way.
The group of constituency leaders holds the latter point of view, LeBlanc said.
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Volume LXXVM, Number 1 University of Southern California Friday, June 15, 1979
Trustee named to county board
Middle East Center guidelines approved
By Sean Dunnahoo
Assistant Editor
The Board of Trustees approved the draft of recommendations submitted by the Special Committee on the Middle East Center on June 6.
The Committee had been appointed by President John R. Hubbard to look into the controversy surrounding the center and develop guidelines for him to follow when establishing the center.
Carl Q. Christol, professor of political science, chaired the committee since it began meeting in October 1978.
The only changes proposed for the draft by the board were that
the university return all donations made to the Middle East Center Foundation and start collecting donations on its own.
The Middle East Center Foundation was formed to raise funds for the proposed center.
The foundation had been under attack because it had collected funds from American companies doing business in Saudi Arabia.
The committee's draft had only called for the breaking of all ties between the university and the foundation.
The board's changes were proposed so that the university could start plans for the center
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by Alan Friedenthal
Staff writer
University trustee and former congresswoman Yvonne Braith-waite Burke was appointed to the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors Thursday bv Governor Jerry Brown.
Brown, who officially signed the appointment documents at a 9:30 a.m. press conference at the State Building in downtown Los Angeles, cited Burke as his choice for her "diversity of background'' and "because her stature in the city and state is almost without peer."
Burke, who will fill the seat on the board left vacant when Supervisor James Hayes resigned two weeks ago, will be sworn in on Tuesday. The term expires in 1980.
When she is sworn in, Burke, who is 46, will become the first black and the first woman to serve on the Board Her new constituency, District 4,which includes Long Beach, the South Bay and the West Side is predo-
minantly Democratic but traditionally votes conservative.
Burke, who is a liberal Democrat, feels she'll have no problem retaining the seat.
"The political strategists I spoke with said I should be able to be re-elected (sic) if I do the job. I intend to do the job," said Burke.
To avoid a conflict in time schedules Burke said that today she will resign her post on the University of California Board of Regents. It has been postulated that this was a move on the part of Brown, so that the Governor would have another political appointment to make.
Burke will retain her position on a local 1984 Olympics steering committee.
After graduating from UCLA, Burke attended the USC School of Law, where she received her law degree in 1956.
In 1966 she was elected to the California State Assembly representing Los Angeles' 63rd District.
In 1972 Burke successfully ran for a seat in the House of Representatives, becoming the first black woman ever elected to the House from California.
She became a member of the University's Board of Trustees in June, 1975.
Last year Burke left Congress to run for State Attorney General. After defeating City Attorney Burt Pines (another University alumnus) in the primary, she was defeated by the State Sen. George Deukmejian.
Burke has been in private law practice for the past five months.
A fellow member of the Board of Trustees expressed mixed emotions over the Burke appointment. It was felt that while the appointment was "great for the country, it was sad for the university." The trustee stated that due to the many contracts the university has with the county, Burke might have to resign the Board of Trustees to avoid a conflict of interests.
HERE COMES THE SUN — Dr. Gilbert Yanow of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory demonstrates solar-powered devices near the Anna Bing Arnold fountain. Story on page 6.	ST photo by Sharon Wong
Yvonne Braithwaite Burke