By Susan Pedersen
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David Gardner, president of the University of Utah; has cancelled his campus visit, originally scheduled for today and tomorrow as part of the last stage in the university's presidential search process.
In a phone call Monday to J. Robert Fluor, chairman of the Presidential Search Committee and the Board of Trustees. Gardner said that it would be “untimely and very difficult to appear (as scheduled) as a candidate for the presidency because of the publicity associated with the search to date."
Gardner's cancellation, the previously scheduled meetings of the committee on Dec. 13 and the Board of Trustees meeting on Dec. 14. remained unchanged Monday.
Gardner emphasized his can-
cellation does not mean he is withdrawing as a candidate.
But some disagree.
One trustee said that Gardner may be considered as having left the race.
Should Gardner actually withdraw, there would be only one remaining candidate, Richard Atkinson, president of the National Science Foundation.
Thornton Bradshaw, president of the Atlantic Richfield Co., has withdrawn as a candidate, as reported by the Los Angeles Times (Friday, Dec. 7).
With Atkmson as the only candidate, there would be few options open to the board in handling the situation.
One possibility would be to select Atkinson, however, some sources feel that this would be detrimental to Atkinson because it (Continued on page 10)
DEBATE — Speaking is Sen. Max Baucus (D-Montana) in a debate on politics in the ’80s. Seated is the other speaker, Sen. William Cohen (R-Maine), Larry Berg, a professor in political science and Julie Green, president of the Trojan
Democrats. The debate was held yesterday in Hancock Auditorium and was sponsored by the College of Continuing Education, the Young Republicans and the Trojan Democrats.
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Volume LXXXVII Number 57	University of Southern California	Tuesday, December 11, 1979
Arming of officers challenged
Commission questions security policy
By R. Jane Zachary
Staff W riter
The policy of arming University Security officers was challenged >esterday by members of the University-Neighborhood Relations Commission, a President's Advisory Council subcommittee.
“A firearm has been discharged by a University Securin officer onl\ once since 1974 That incident occurred last February during a robbery attempt at Cardinal Gardens Apartments when members of the Los Angeles Police Department were present and could have handled the incident.
”1 feel that this indicates that the security officers do not need to earn guns."' said John Murrav. an assistant to Councilman Robert Farrell and a member of the commission.
"Guns are dangerous, especially on a densely populated campus. The possibility of errant projectiles wounding inrrocent students must be considered.'' Murray said.
However. Steve Ward, chief of University Security, believes that guns are vital to the successful protection of university students.
“Because of its private status this university is denied the protection given to other universities by government agencies. We handle an average of 200 crimes every 30 days and unarm two to three people per week.
“The threat of a drawn gun or even one still in its holster is extremely important to the handling of many of these crimes,” Ward said.
University Security now has a new policy on the use of firearms.
“Our policy is to use only the amount of force necessary to control the incident. A firearm is only to be used in protection of a life. Our policy does not allow for shooting at escaping criminals.” Ward said.
The new policy also includes the hiring of nonarmed personnel to handle routine calls including doors or recharging car batteries.
Four of the 52 current officers are not armed.
“The force is still obviously weighted for firearms, and there is no justification for this,” Murray said.
“For every four unarmed officers we hire we have to give up three armed officers. We live in and have the crime problem of any modern urban community. The university has a legal responsibility to protect the students.” Ward said.
But Murray said that University Security seems to be trying to take over some of the responsibilities of the LAPD.
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Senators call for change in federal economic policy
By Roger Wedberg
Staff Writer
Two U.S. senators charged that the federal government has been unresponsive to the nation's economic needs, in a debate Monday in Hancock Auditorium.
Max Baucus (D-Montana) and William Cohen (R-Maine) concentrated on domestic economic issues in a two-hour debate sponsored by the College of Continuing Education and the Trojan Democrats and Young Republicans.
Both senators said Americans have been promised more than the government can deliver.
“Never before have people been so disconcerted or disillusioned with, or alienated from, Che various institutions which are designed to serve them than they are now,” Cohen said.
Americans are taking matters into their own hands, not necessarily a healthy reaction to governmental unresponsiveness, Baucus said.
“One thing we have to keep in mind here is that government, particularly Congress, does not lead, but follows.
“The public pushed Congress for action but Congress has not responded. So the public has started to take matters into its own hands, much like vigilantes,” Baucus said.
Both senators criticized special interest groups.
“The trouble we find ourselves in today is it's as if someone had taken a sledgehammer and cracked this tabletop of politics into shards of narrow special interests,” Cohen said.
Single-issue groups and a campaign for a balanced budget were examples of vigilante tactics, Baucus said.
“The worst thing about singleissue politics is that it's politics based on fear and greed, and it's very debilitating and devisive." he said.
"But pretty quickly — in a year or two — people are going to realize that we're going to have to live and work together as a country. Single-issue groups are going to decline.
" That's going to happen because it has to happen. We have fewer and fewer choices in these times because of economic influences and scarce resources. We have to stop inflation and that means we're just going to have to work together more closely," Baucus said.
The government has overpromised and underperformed. Cohen said.
“My own judgment is if you have promise after promise broken. then they tend to sort of heap upon each other and calcify almost into a cynicism that will afflict us for generations to come,” he said.
The promise of the Humphrey-Hawkins bill to decrease unem-(Continued on page 12)
Women in management form university coalition
Candidate cancels visit to university
WHAT FOR THIS TIME? — Waiting in line is a minute to pick up registration materials there was familiar ritual but could have been avoided. For plenty of company, these students who chose to wait until the last
By Diane Kessler
Women in administrative, supervisory, management and faculty positions have formed a university coalition to inform women in managerial positions about the status of other women in management.
The goals of th£ organization Women in Management, are to contribute to the administrative procedures at the university and to increase opportunities for women in management by informing them of available positions, said Barbara Gardner, director of the Joint Educational project and WIM chairman.
Other goals are to improve the image of women, including women administrators. to improve communication between women managers concerning their professional growth and to assist in the advancement of their careers.
The organization is the first of its kind for women in managerial positions, said Juanita Mantovani. assistant dean of Student Affairs and humanities. Letters, Arts and Sciences and co-chairman of WIM.
The group was established after a meeting of women in management in September.
At that meeting Gardner provided data she had compiled from personnel office information which showed that since 1971, the number of men in managerial positions at the university had grown from 26 to 60 in comparison to the number of women in these same positions which had grown from two to four.
In December of 1971, President Hubbard introduced one of the first af-
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