ADVISES FACULTY TO COMPROMISE
Panel offers guidance to beleaguered IR school
By Richard Bonin
Staft Writer
An outside review committee brought in to assess problems in the School of International Relations has completed its analysis and made several recommendations on the future direction the school should take
The crisis that grounded academic progress and facultv confidence in the school for the past couple of years arose from conflicts in personality and viewpoints amongst the faculty.
Conflicts existed between the more professionally-oriented faculty, who believe in training students for posts of diplomats a- ’ foreign service, and fac-
ulty members who primarily emphasize a theoretical approach to international relations.
Instead of going in either extreme, the committee recommended that the school should train ' both international relations scholars and professionals engaged in public or private service."
The committee said this proposition does not mean "merely nodding acceptance of the cliches of the past. It requires an intensive consideration by all those involved with (the school) of ways and means to achieve that goal.
"Facultv members must recognize the need for cooperation and compromise," the committee's 24-page report stated.
Spelling out the school's working relationships and procedures in by-laws drafted by faculty members might help unite the faculty in pursuing a common educational goal, the report said. "The full discussion needed for such a formulation could do much to clear the air."
The committee, which interviewed faculty and international relations students November 7 through 9, 1979, was comprised of Dean E. McHenrv, professor emeritus of comparative government and chancellor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Charles H. McLaughlin, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Minnesota; and Richard L. Merritt, professor
and head of the department of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
John Marburger, dean of Letters, Arts and Sciences, said the report has no official status. "It is simply a report," Marburger said. "On the other hand, we (Marburger and John Schutz, dean of Social Sciences) are generally and in most specifics pleased with the report."
Before any aspects of the report are considered for implementation, Marburger and Schutz would like to hear from the faculty members, "the ones who have to live with it."
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‘The Senator’ dies on Portland
Coroner’s examination to determine cause
By Galen Gruman
Staff Writer
A man identified as Charles Leighton, 44, was found dead at about 6:40 a.m. Friday in front of the Theta Chi fraternity house on Portland Street.
Leighton, known to students in the area as "The Senator" and "Crazy Charlie," frequented the Row area for several years.
Paul Estrada, a Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective involved in the case, said that the cause of death appeared to be natural, but could not be determined until the coroner made an examination of the body. Estrada also said there appeared to be no criminal motive in the death.
Sgt. George Farina of University Security’ said there was a "wound on the side of the head," but said it is unknown if this was connected with the cause of death. The time of death was undetermined. It was also unknown if Leighton had died in front of the fraternity house.
He had lived at the Portland Villa, on the corner of Adams Blvd. and Portland St., a year ago. The villa is a home for physically and mentally disabled people under treatment.
Estrada said that Leighton was mentally disabled, but did not know the extent or type of his handicap.
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Marijuana initiative may be on state ballot
By Pat Franklin
Assistant Articles Editor
California voters may have the chance to decide on the 1980 presidential ballot whether or not marijuana should be legalized provided a recent petition is passed before earlv May.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the 1980 California Marijuana Initiative Committee began circulating a petition January 1 of this year in order to qualify the California Marijuana Initiative-1980 (CMI-80) for the ballot. Approximate-
ly 600,000 signatures must be collected statewide bv May 1.
The initiative, if passed, removes criminal penalties for the private possession, cultivation and transportation of marijuana by adults for their personal use. It also establishes a state commision to conduct a one-year study into the potential agricultural, economic and tax benefits of a regulated marijuana market.
Bart Gilbert, NORML's Los Angeles County Coordinator said that according to a recent nonpartisan, unbiased Field
report, 70% of California's population in the 18 to 30 year-old age bracket are marijuana users. "You can't have a law that makes 70 percent of the voting population criminals," added Gilbert.
A spokesman for the California Marijuana Initiative said getting on the 1980 ballot would be "most assuredly the biggest step our organization will have taken." He cited another statewide poll that showed only 36% of the population supported the existing marijuana laws. (Continued on page 2)
LAS building may not meet quake safety laws
By Teresa Watanabe
Assistant City Editor
The Letters; Arts and Sciences Building, a two-storv white structure with an estimated traffic flow of over 75,000 persons per year, is a potential earthquake hazard and could collapse in a major earthquake, citv officials say.
It is on the city's list of 7,876 buildings of unreinforced brick masonry — among the least safe of all building materials — erected before 1933, when earthquake safety standards were first set by the state.
"These buildings were not designed to meet any earthquake standards and, in the past, have suffered the most damage," said Earl Schwartz, a civil engineer who headed the city's two-year inspection project.
Nelson Jones a senior building inspector who supervised the six men conducting the block-bv-block inspection project, explained that because the walls were not reinforced with steel, the floors and roofs were more likely to collapse But he cautioned that he and his team only conducted an outside visual inspection and could be incorrect.
Schwartz and civil engineers at the university agreed it was impossible to determine how potentiallv hazardous the LAS building is without a thorough inspection of the structure. Its design, characteristics and strength of the earthquake are some factors affecting the resistance of the building to a quake.
"Just because it's made of unreinforced masonry doesn't mean it's automatically hazardous," said a professor in civil engineering.
The university has hired an engineering firm, Brandow and Johnston, to conduct a seismic study of pre-1933 buildings on campus to determine how earthquake resistant they are. The study will be completed in about two months.
Until such information is gathered and the City Council takes action on a proposed ordinance which would require all unreinforced masonry buildings to be brought up to specified safety standards, the university will make no decision on whether to upgrade the building, said Michael Bocchicchio, director of Architectural Services.
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Staff photo by Marih* Traagar
FALL LINGERS ON — While the rest of the nation shivers in inclement weather, Southern Californians enjoy a prolonged autumn.
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POSSIBLE QUAKE HAZARD — Although the old Letters Arts and Sciences Building has been determined as a potential earthquake hazard by city officials, the university has hired an engineering firm to conduct its own seismic study of pre-1933 buildings on campus.