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Carter nominates law school dean for federal court appointment
by Joan Vincent
Staff Writer
Dorothy Nelson, dean of the Law Center, has been nominated by President Carter for a newly created vacancy on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Dean Nelson will resign from her position as dean in June of 1980.
The nomination must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, a process which takes approximately two months. Nelson's name was one of six selected by the Carter Administration for \ acancies on the federal bench. She is the only woman nominated.
According to the Los Angeles Times the Administration is expected to appoint the following to the expanded appellate bench: Los Angeles federal court judges Warren G. Ferguson and Harry Preger-son; San Francisco federal court judge Cecil Poole, California District Court of Appeal Judge Arthur Alarcon; Los Angeles Police Commission President Stephen R. Reinhardt and Dean Nelson.
The nominees reflect a mixture of political activists and political unknowns.
A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) said the state's senior senator has seen the list and believes it to be "extremely impressive."
The list sent to the Justice Department in alphabet-ical order includes Arthur Alarcon, California District Court of Appeals; Arthur Baldonado, Los Angeles Superior Court; Winslow Christian, California Court of Appeals; John Cleary, San Diego's federal public degender; Warren J. Ferguson, a federal judge in Los Angeles; Jo Anne Garvey, a San Francisco attorney, and Earl Johnson, a USC law professor.
Also, Stuart Kadison, a Los Angeles Attorney; Loren Miller, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, Dorothy Nelson, dean of the USC law school; William Norris, a Los Angeles attorney; Cecil Poole, a federal judge in San Francisco, Murray Schwartz, a former dean of the UCLA law school, and Robert Thompson, a judge on the California District Court of Appeals.
Once accepted by the U.S. Senate the nominees will then go through an FBI investigation. Also the American Bar Association will give each of the nominees a scale rating.
The nominees were sent questionnaires which stated to return them only if they were interested in taking the position on the 9th circuit court of Appeals. Nelson returned hers.
Nelson currently serves on President Carter's Commission on Pension Pol: y and on the Committee of the Judicial Standards for Admission to Practice in the Federal Courts. She sits on the board of directors of Farmers Insurance Group, the Southern California Edison Co. and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
The Dean has been active in numerous professional organizations. She is currently vice president of the American Judicature Society and chairs a Committee of the Association of American Law Schools.
Nelson has played an important role in the Law Center's fund-raising efforts. During her tenure the center's endowment was increased from $500,000 in 1967 to $5.5 million today. Annual giving rose from $197,000 to $850,000 during the same period. One university official described Nelson as "one of the most effective fund-raising deans the University has had in the past 20 years."
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University of Southern California
Volume LXXVII, Number 4
Tuesday, June 26, 1979
Secretary receives false bomb threat
by Cindy Naley
News Editor
A secretary in the Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Building received a false bomb threat Friday, according to Sergeant Gary Rus of Campus Security.
A man with a foreign accent telephoned the secretary at 2:08 p.m. and told her that there was a bomb in the building and that it would blow up at 3:30 p.m. that day, Rus said.
Following University policy, Campus Security officers did not order the evacuation of the build-
ing, but instead went to each office and classroom notifying the occupants of the bomb threat and advising them that they could leave the building by their own choice.
Campus Security officers also posted signs on the building's entrances warning of the bomb threat.
The Los Angeles Police Department has taken the report but there are currently no suspects in the case, Rus added.
After a thorough search, no bomb was found.
Trial beginsinmurder of university librarian
A 20-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to being an accessory to the murder of Janet Cobb, university librarian. The murder trial began this week in Los Angeles.
Gail Veronica Fields of South Los Angeles said she first saw Cobb on the night of Sept. 27 as her brother Steve Lamar Fields was walking the woman up to his bedroom. She said the next morning her brother called her into the bedroom and told her he was going to force Cobb to write a check.
The elder Fields, 22, then forced the librarian to make out a check for $222. He sent his sister out to cash the check. He gave her $22 for cashing the check, she said.
At this point, Fields claims her brother said he was "going to bump her (Cobb) off." She then
drove the car with Cobb in the front seat and Fields in the back. This is when he shot Cobb, she claims.
Deputy District Attorney Ron Coen promised to recommend that Gail Fields be released for time served next month in return for her testimony.
Fields faces the death penalty if convicted in the Cobb murder. He also is charged with 13 other counts that include kidnapping, robbery, assault, rape and forced oral copulation, stemming from alleged attacks on an 18-year-old coed, a prostitute and her girlfriend last Oct. 5.
Another codefendant in the case, 17-year-old William David Blackwell, also has admitted kidnapping the three women.. Blackwell has agreed to turn state's evidence and is expected to testify in the next few days.
Nadine Felix keeps
Recreation	by Elizabeth Waggoner
f I I KJ KJ f KJ	While most of the campus experiences a
I t*' ll III I y	summer slow down, the Campus Ac-
tivities and Recreation Department cruises at full speed ahead.
And standing firmly at the helm of the Recreation Department is director Nadine Felix.
One could understand why USC has such a successful Recreation Department after one experiences this fountain of energy. Attributing her success in part, to Dick Perry, director of athletics, and Don Ludwig, director of intramural sports, Felix considers herself very fortunate to be able to work with the kind of people who are associated with athletics here at the university.
Felix's career interests developed in high school where she worked part-time for the city's recreation department. However, she always wanted to teach, and as her strengths were both mathematics and physical education, she was torn between the two for a while.
She finally decided that physical education would be more of a challenge. Felix went on to graduate from Occidental College and worked towards her master's at USC as a teaching assistant.
Her qualifications enabled her to find work at Cal Poly Pamona as a physical education teacher and co-ed badminton coach.
While at Cal Poly, Felix became more active in the men's programs. She kept score for the men's varsity basketball team as well as helping with the volleyball club.
She became volleyball coach and after two years, Jim Dennis, the USC recreation program director, offered her a job. Felix came on as program director for special interest clubs. That was five years ago when the only active club was la crosse.
She spent two years as program coordinator. After the merging of the recreation department, the student center and the student activities department, she became the assistant director of the recreation department. At this time, rugby became a club sport and then the hockey club was formed. There are now five club sports sponsored by the recreation department.
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