Faculty senate president awarded honorary degree
By Sean Dunnahoo
Assistant Editor
The chancellor and president of Pepperdine University in Malibu will present an honorary degree to John C. LeBlanc, president of the Faculty Senate on Monday.
M. Norvel Young, chancellor at Pepperdine, and Howard A. White, president of Pepperdine University will present LeBlanc the diploma at White's residence at a noon luncheon.
The degree comes after LeBlanc's name was recommended by his peers and then approved by a special committee on academic honors at Pepperdine University.
Young wrote to LeBlanc last month and said he would present LeBlanc with Pepperdine University's Distinguished Diploma of Honor in recognition of his "achievements in academic leadership” in his chosen field, as well as in leading the faculty as president of the Faculty Senate at the university.
Besides being president of the senate, LeBlanc is an associate professor in the School of Safety and Systems Management.
When 1 learned of it, I was flabbergasted," LeBlanc said. "I was honored that I would receive an honorary degree, but I was doubly honored because it comes from a sister institution.”
Pepperdine and the university have worked closely together in the past. LeBlanc said.
The two universities have collaborated on several educational programs and foreign student projects in the past, and for that reason, the university is considered Pepperdine s big sister, he said.
"I'll never make Phi Beta Kappa" — one of the many gargoyles and carvings on the Student Union building depicts what could be
wails by university students as they read their grades. The university began mailing grade reports last week.
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Volume LXXVI I, Number 7 University of Southern California July 6, 1979
Professor discusses Tecent deregulation of airlines
Crime in suburbs rising, prof claims
By Joan Vincent
Staff Writer
When President Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act of
1978	last year, it was one of the few times in recent memory that a governmental bill benefitted the consumer rather than big business.
For, reduced to essentials, what deregulation actually means is that it is now possible for customers to tell airlines what services they want and at what price, rather than having the government tell companies where to fly and how much to charge, according to Michael E. Levine, a university law professor.
The effects of this deregulation, Levine said, have been far reaching. Virtually every airline fare is now lower — inflation rates
considered — than it was a year or so ago.
Air travelers saved more than $2.5 billion last year as a result of deregulation of airlines.
The airlines were once adamantly opposed to deregulation. "Uncertainty is a bane in the life of a businessman," Levine explained. "Airline executives had lived with government regulation of routes and fares for decades, and the system seemed to work.
"Government regulation tended to maintain a high level of certainty for the industry. If your competitor wanted to charge a new, lower fare, he had to tell you about it and you had a chance to protest to the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). And CAB frequently turned down fare proposals, when they might 'hurt the competition.' "
If an airline wanted to fly a certain route, it took one to two years to get permission. In some cases, it took as long as eleven years, Levine said. More often than not the new route was never realized.
Despite industry protests and lobbying efforts, deregulation was supported by both liberals and conservatives in Congress. "Bipartisan support created an unbeatable coalition/' said Levine.
Under deregulation, flights have increased 5 to 10%. The number of passengers has increased even more — because more people can now afford to fly. Also, flights are operating at increased capacity levels. Even before the gas shortage boosted airline passenger levels, these (continued on page 8)
By Bill Cizek
The level of crime in the suburbs is nowhere near the crime rate of the inner city, but it is increasing at a faster pace, said Leo
A.	Schuerman of the university's social science research institute.
Criminals are more mobile now, Schuerman said. Suburbs with easy access, open areas, shops, condominiums, boutiques and theaters are attractive to burglars even though they don't live in the suburbs.
"More criminals are committing crimes in more rural areas than before," Schuerman said. "They • commit property crimes where the property looks good to take."
Schuerman and his coprincipal investigator, Solomon Kobrin, a professor at the institute, have been working on various projects for the Los Angeles criminal planning board for the past three years. Their research is funded by the United States justice department law enforcement assistance administration.
Some of these projects include
studies to determine the effects of changes in neighborhood and crime patterns over the last 28 years, pinpointing neighborhoods with unique crime patterns; predicting crime trends, the dynamics of crime, and juvenile delinquency in general.
Using census tracts, Schuerman found that crime problems are unique to specific neighborhoods.
"Some areas are impossible to grow up in without becoming a delinquent,'' he said. "You are the exception, not the rule, if you do not commit criminal acts."
Schuerman attributed these conditions to peer pressure and :he fact that studies show crime and methods of illicit activity are passed down from generation to generation in particular neighborhoods.
He also pointed out that the only areas of significant decreasing crime rates are in the inner city. These decreases are because the Los Angeles police department is doing a good job, and crime rates can get only so high, he said.
Student recalls semester at sea
On February 15, under the traditional confetti and streamers, I sailed out of the port of Los Angeles aboard the S. S. Universe. The ship serves as the home of the Semester at Sea Program, sponsored jointly by the Institute for Shipboard Educa-tion and the University of Colorado.
The campus afloat is a complete community comprised of students, faculty, staff and non-student adults. All age groups are represented from the infants of faculty to some folks in their 80's.
The cruise ship has been adapted to provide a proper physical campus complete with classrooms, bookstore, student union, dining hall and library — and even a movie theatre, basketball court and swimming pool.
Approximately half of the 100-day voyage is spent at sea and half in the ports of call. Every day at sea, except Sunday, school is in session with classes from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. In addition to classes for credit, seminars on a variety of subjects from acupuncture to calligraphy are available.
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By Nancy Nelson
As newsletter editor for the Semester-ut-Sea program on board the S.S. Universe, Nancy Nelson, a graduate student in journalism, recorded the students' adventures on the around the world cruise.
Many people dread Monday morning. The passengers of the S.S. Universe were prepared to literally dismiss it! As a normal international dateline procedure, Monday, February 26, had been wiped from the calendar.
Or had it?
Just 14 minutes short of the dateline our port-side boiler choked and stopped, leaving the 564-foot ship floating somehwere in between Sunday and T uesday.
Odd events like this became commonplace in my new environment. Since man is basically a land animal, I knew spending nearly four months aboard a ship would prove to be a challenging experience. However, the opportunity to see the world and go to school at the same time far outweighed any skepticism I might have had.