Campus radiation violations found
Faculty member admits writing anonymous memo
A faculty member has come forward as the source of an anonymous memo circulated to faculty members last month regarding the university presidential candidates.
Ward Edwards, director of the Social Science Research Institute, decided to reveal his identity as a result of a Los Angeles Times article Wednesday, which linked the memo to Zohrab Kaprielian. executive vice president.
“No administrator suggested or. so far as I know, saw the memo or summaries,” Edwards said, in an open letter sent to the Times Wednesday.
Looking back upon his actions. Edwards admitted that he made an error in not signing the memo in the beginning.
Originally, Edwards said his intent in sending the memo was to provide more information on the candidates to various members of the faculty. He also felt that
there were many faculty members who thought this kind of information w as needed.
At that time, the identity of only two candidates were known: Thornton Bradshaw, president of the Atlantic Richfield Co., and Richard Atkinson, director of the National Science Foundation. The third candidate. David Gardner, president of the University of Utah, has since been identified and included in the Times letter.
Edw ards said he has preference for one of the candidates, but believes that he “worked hard to make it (the memo) fair.”
Edwards said he was also concerned that there be enough known about the candidates since one will soon affect the lives of faculty at the university.
"There was a lot of feeling after Bradshaw and Atkinson were identified that we need to know more than we did. There was a lot of frustration,” he said.
Some faculty who received the memo felt
that it was stacked in favor of Atkinson because it was anonymous, because it included only abbreviated biographies of the candidates and because of considerations the cover letter suggested for evaluation of the candidates.
See page 13 for the text of Ward Edwards' letter to the Los Angeles Times.
Some of the considerations were seen as being slanted against Bradshaw. These included age. academic experience and the possibly negative public relations impact of the choice.
Overall, however, Edwards saw the memo as a positive form of communication.
“I have been told by a number of faculty that they intended to write a letter (to Fluor),” he said.
It was Edwards’ hope that after seeing the memo, faculty would send their views and
candidate preferences to the Board of Trustees.
Originally, Edwards gave the memo to 10 or 20 faculty members, but copies were made and circulated by other faculty members.
Sources of the Times' article said that “middle level administrators" distributed copies of the memo to faculty members. But Edwards said this was not his intent and. to his knowledge, had not occurred.
Edwards said he tried to give it to people he knew, respected and would benefit by the information. He also said he tried to distribute it among a variety of the schools on campus.
However, he admitted that he had no systematic plan for who should receive the memo.
Edwards stressed that he thought that all three of the candidates were well-qualified (Continued on page 13)
Women exploited on Row, fraternity men concede
ducted by the radiological health section of the County of Los Angeles Department of Health Services.
“No hazards were located. No one was in jeopardy, not anything like that,” said Robert Barden, radiation safety officer for the University Park campus. "We find these things. That's what I'm here for. It’s the essential part of my job. This is the first time we’ve been called down.”
There are 45 professors who use radioactive materials in chemistry, biology and, to a lesser extent, physics laboratories. Out of the 45. four of the heaviest users were inspected, said Samuel Allerton, a professor in the School of Dentistry and chairman of the safety committee.
The university is required to respond to the notice within 30 days, but Barden said this will not occur until January, after applications to use radioactive material are reviewed.
“We're going to stress this notice. They (users of radiation) are going to have to show me that they are complying with regulations — and with the radiation safety program," he said.
The violations were probably an
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This article is the second in a three-part series on the status of women at the university and attitudes about feminism.
By Pat Franklin
Assistant Articles hditor
"The role of women in the Row is to add spice to fraternity life, socialize and get married, and to experience four years of college life," said Brian Shea, former president of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity.
The opinion expressed by Shea coincides with typical views of many on the Row.
“Too many guys believe that a woman’s place is in the home,” said Victor Vandergriff. Inter-Fraternity Council president. "They think that women should be seen and not heard.”
Residents on the Row "are a part of a fantasy land." Vandergriff >aid. "Basically a lot of people here have grown up in Southern California households where it’s ‘I am man, you are woman.' It's all in the family upbringing."
Fraternity rush calendars, and Row events like Derby Days that have offended women only magnify the fantasyland disregard for equality on the Row, Vandergriff said.
The TEP fraternity's spring rush calendar last year featured drawings of naked women and announcements of parties where there would be “big breasted American foxes and birth control devices."
Shea said the house "wanted to put something out to catch people’s eye."
Derby Days, a traditional fundraising event sponsored by Sigma Chi fraternity chapters across the nation, occurs every other year on the Row at USC.
Sorority houses pay entry fees and compete against one another, earning points in a system based on attention given to individual members of the Sigma Chi fraternity.-The last Derby Days at the university took place last year.
In the cases of both the calendar and Derby Days, women at the university did not remain silent.
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By David Rompf
Staff Writer
Certain procedures in handling radiation materials at the university are in violation of California Radiation Control Regulations, according to the State Department of Health.
Radiation safety officials at the university said the violations were technical problems and not safety hazards.
PROVIDED INFORMATION ON PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH
JULIE LYNCH
SPORT DISPLAY — Members of the USC Water Ski Team were busy recruiting new members on University Avenue from a booth that blended with
Staff photo by Mark Sticht
the many others set up for the three-day Crafts Faire. Besides the water skis and photographs of the team, one could examine a ski boat.
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Volume LXXXVII, Number 54	University of Southern California	Thursday, December 6, 1979
A notice, dated Nov. I, states the following violations:
—	Unauthorized possession and use of radioactive materials. Campus users were ordering kinds and quantities of isotopes, a radioactive form of atom, and using them without prior review and approval by the radiation safety officer or the radiation safety committee.
—	Failure to perform and record radiation surveys. Most of the users inspected were not making radiation surveys in a routine and comprehensive manner and no records were made by the users.
—	Records of disposal were not properly maintained and individual users were not keeping records of disposal of radioactive material.
The findings were the results of inspections Oct. 11, 16 and 17 con-