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Weeds hide old bronze statue
Sculpture’s past presents mystery
! By Alex Calvillo
A six-foot, two-and-a-half | ton bronze statue stands I surrounded by weeds, bush-| es and other forgotten relics | from the past behind a building in Physical Plant.
The history of the statue is [ unclear, unknown or hardly remembered, but for the past 13 years it has stood at i its current location, said j Arnold Shafer, executive director of University Facilites.
Shafer, who has been at the university for more than 25 years, recalls that the sta-I tue was removed from Doh-| eny Library patio in 1967, j prior to some construction on the building. At the time : the work was finished, how-i ever, someone had asked for j the removal of the statue on the grounds that it was obscene, Shafer said.
The statue depicts a scene from Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's tragedy of Faust. Mephistopheles, the devil's messenger, stands by a pillar, ecstatic with his temporary victory over the good Marguerite. She kneels at his feet with her head bowed in a state of anguish, her spirit totally shattered.
Shafer said Lewis Steig, dean of library science in 1967, may have been responsible for the removal of the statue. However, Steig, who is now retired and living in Illinois, says he does not remember the statue or having ever asked for its removal.
"If I did ask for its removal, I would have done it as a service to someone else. I didn't personally feel that it should be removed and I would not have said it was obscene," Steig said.
Paul Christopher, the university archivist, said he would not refer to the statue as obscene but that it was not exactly "morally uplifting" either.
"The statue sort of silently disappeared," said Robert Knutson, head of special collections at Doheny. "There might have been a sort of discreet outcry, but not a public one. I never heard it (the statue) was degrading."
The statue was certainly not popular with the library staff, but people just learned to live with it and never asked that it be removed, said Helen Azderian, an
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Staff photo by St*v* Hyman
STAFF FORUM — “Alternative Work Schedules" were discussed by (from left to right) John Schneider, Judith Williams, Robert Lionel, and Paul Hadley yesterday for the Staff Club.
FLEXITIME’ DISCUSSED
By David Rompf
Staff Write-
In Switzerland, between one-third and one-half of the working population participates in flexible work schedules.
At Occidental Life Insurance, the second-largest employer in central Los Angeles, employees are permitted to work
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half-days on Fridays between May and October.
But the university, which is the largest employer in the downtown Los Angeles area, has an official policy that discourages alternative work schedules for its staff, said John Schneider, director of Personnel.
Alternative work schedules were discussed Thursday at the second university Staff Forum, sponsored by the Staff Club. Panelists focused on "Flexitime," otherwise known as the four-day work week.
Schneider said there are legal implications related to the installment of an alternative work schedule. If endorsed by the university in the future, a change in present work schedules would require specific issues to be addressed.
"We have to ask what forms - and which variations of an alternative work schedule could be used: Should we go to a 40-hour, four-day work week?
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Staff considers 4-day week
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University of Southern California Volume LXXXVII Number 44	Friday, November 16, 1979
Outside committee assesses problems in school of IR
By Teresa Watanabe
Assistant Gty Editor
A three-member outside review committee, brought in to assess problems in the School of International Relations and make recommendations on its future direction, spoke with several students and faculty members last week.
Dean McHenry, a chancellor emeritus at University of California, Santa Cruz, Richard Merritt, a professor of communications and international relations at the University of Illinois along with a retired international relations professor from the University of Minnesota whose name could not be verified, asked students and faculty members for their views on topics including the school's academic curriculum and directorship, sources said.
To his knowledge, the faculty was neither consulted in the committee selection or informed of the selection process or committee purpose, said Charles McClelland, a professor of international relations.
"The deans told us someone would be coming in to talk with us but we received no further briefings," he said.
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emeritus librarian, who has been affiliated with the university for 46 years.
Francis Spreitzer, head ot micrographics at Doheny, proposed a different reason why the statue might have been removed. Spreitzer said the statue was placed directly behind a water fountain in the middle of the patio. Every time it rained, the fountain would overflow and leak down into the library stacks built below ground level, much to everyone's annoyance. Since the statue was associated with the "scandalous little fountain," Spreitzer said, everybody was glad when both were done away with.
Though many had opinions to offer on why the statue was removed, no one could remember when or by whom it was donated. Any university records of the donation have been either destroyed or misplaced.
The sculpture could have been donated to the university by its sculptor, Clarence Addison Shaler, a philanthropist during the 1930s | (Continued on page 6)
who may need some of their papers, but I don't expect we will have too many students out of status, if any."
She said two officials will be on campus until all of the approximately 900 Iranian students here are interviewed and their documents reviewed. Officials plan to conduct 60 interviews per day.
John Callahan, executive director of International Students and Scholars, said officials will review a student's passport, visa and special form which indicates the amount of time the student may remain in the country.
He said officials will also probably ask the number of units the student is registered for and what classes are being taken.
"Our main role is to be responsible to our students and to facilitate the review (Continued on page 9)
Staff photo by Mark Sttcht
DISCARDED STATUE — This bronze work depicting a scene the tragedy, Faust, was banished to Physical Plant some 13) ago.	___
Immigration and Naturalization Service officials and university administrators have resolved legal issues surrounding the review of Iranian student visas on campus. INS officials will begin reviewing the visas and passports of Iranian students on campus today, said Bea Von Allmen, director of International Student Services.
President Carter ordered the reviews to identify Iranian students living in the United States in violation of the terms of their visas. Those in violation will be deported.
Von Allmen said many Iranian students have voluntarily reported to the International Student Service office to make appointments with the officials.
"We have two weeks booked solid for interviews, until Nov. 30," Von Allmen said. "There might be a few students