SAY FACULTY SHOWED NEGLECT
Deans concerned over distribution of survey
By Brandon Bailey
Staff Writer
Deans have expressed a serious concern that the Faculty Senate neglected to consult with them before distributing a survey to evaluate 18 deans and directors cJf university schools.
Members of the Faculty Senate maintain they have a right to survey the faculty and conduct an evaluation independently of university administrators.
Robert Biller, chairman of the Council of Deans, said he was "surprised and hurt" by the survey for two reasons.
Biller and John Marburger, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, objected to the survey because it does not provide an adequate analysis of administrators. Additionally, Biller said he was upset that the senate did not inform the deans they would evaluated.
Biller said the lack of consultation with deans on the evaluation process and the use of its results was the fault of John LeBIanc, president of the Faculty Senate, and the Faculty Senate executive committee.
The deans support the right guaranteed the faculty in their senate bylaws (which were approved by the Board of Trustees) to evaluate the university administration, Biller said.
He blamed the Faculty Senate leadership, however, for backing this action without seeking input from the deans.
"It's not the Faculty Senate but the actions of some of its leadership that concern me," Biller said.
Biller was referring to the present issue and also to the recent incident in which LeBIanc and Solomon Golomb, vice-chairman of the presidential search committee and an active faculty member, met with members of the Board of Trustees to discuss the future role of executive vice-president Zohrab Kaprielian in the selection of a successor to President John R. Hubbard.
LeBIanc, however, expressed puzzlement as to why there should be a question about the executive committee of the Faculty Senate supporting the group administering the evaluation.
LeBIanc said the Faculty Senate had voted to carry out the survey. "I am saddened that an act of the senate is perceived as a hostile act," he said.
LeBIanc stated the surveys would allow the collection of data to identify outstanding deans. The surveys are expected to be completed by 454 members of the faculty by Friday.
"We attempted to wprk closelynvith the deans on this," LeBIanc said.
Marburger said he had received no indication that the faculty intended to conduct the survey. Marburger and Charles Oxnard, dean of the Graduate School, had been working to recommend improvements on the surveys, which have been
individually compiled by the office of Paul Hadley, vice-president of academic affairs.
Marburger and Oxnard had been reporting on their recommendations to the Faculty Senate committee on university administration. Marburger said he and Oxnard had never been told by the committee that the faculty was planning to conduct the survey, with or without incorporating the deans' recommendations.
The recommendations of the deans had been heard by the senate committee and were well received, but the senate did not want to wait to make changes before conducting this evaluation, LeBIanc said.
"The committee (on university administration) advised me that since they have been used already, one more time won't hurt," LeBIanc said.
The faculty does want to continue working with deans to improve the evaluation process, but they did not
want to hold all action until they had achieved the "perfect instrument," said McCormick Templeton, chairman of the subcommittee administering the surveys. LeBIanc agreed.
"So many of us in the senate have thought about it (conducting the evaluation) for so long that we certainly didn't expect it to be such a great surprise," Templeton said.
Biller said he learned in March that a subcommittee to the university administration committee had been established in the Faculty Senate, but that he did not know the subcommittee was going to begin administering the survey.
A meeting between Biller, LeBIanc and two members of the subcommittee was arranged for April 11. That meeting was subsequently postponed because of events that arose after publicity of the meeting between members of the Faculty Senate (continued on page 9)
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University of Southern California Volume LXXVI, Number 4ft 5
Tuesday, April 24, 1979
Four cars damaged in weekend crime spree
CAST YOUR VOTE—Pat Flynn (left), Jim Anastassiou, Todd Hoizer, and Cheryl Gordon cast their votes in the Student Senate election; Senate voting booths are located at Tommy Trojan and the election will continue through Friday. See story on page 2.
LAPD’s night moves often not flashing lights, screaming sirens
By Bob Conti
Staff Writer
Friday night may have been one of the quietest nights in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department.
When one pictures a "ride-along" with a police officer one conjures up the image of racing down Jefferson Boulevard in a squad car with sirens wailing and tires screeching.
It didn't turn out that way.
However, it did allow the opportunity to ask an officer questions about how he feels about his job and the effect it has on his life.
"Usually, the contact we have with students is when they are the victim," said Ron Perron, a sergeant with the department.
Campus Security is usually the official enforcement agency to come in contact with students, he said.
Sometimes, when fraternity parties start getting too noisy or a bit rough, the LAPD will come by and check the situation.
What kind of approach works best when dealing with the public, particularly students?
"A hard-nosed approach will lead to disaster," Perron said. "The low-key approach is much better. You have to remember we're dealing with human nature."
Problems exist being a white officer in a^redomi-nately black and Latin area, Perron said. "It hurts when they call you a 'white-honky pig/ " he said.
Most people in the community, however, respond well to the officers. "Crime, really, is colorless," he said, and area residents expect response from the police.
Some officers. Perron said, cannot handle the pressures that come with-the job. All officers are initially placed on a probation period.
"Many who don't make it go into related fields, such as security. . .some become lawyers and take the opposite side.''
The university area is considered by the department to be the second-most crime ridden area on the Southwest division beat. One of the problems police face are gangs that live in the area, particularly around the Adams Boulevard and Figueroa Street vicinity.
Much of the graffiti that adorns the walls around campus and the area north of the university is communiques.
There are three gangs who live in the area, Perron said. Two are Latin and one black.
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By Ralph Sanchez
Staff Writer
The windshields of four cars were smashed and another car's sunroof was destroyed Friday at Residence West dormitory.
Campus Security said the incident is under investigation but two students who had their cars victimized said evidence does exist that would finger some suspects.
"People know who did it," said Cindy Dole, a resident of Residence West. Her Datsun 1200 had its windshield smashed.
Betsy McGee, another resident whose 3-week-old BMW suffered similar damage, agreed that circumstantial evidence shows that three males, one of whom was carrying a baseball bat, are likely suspects. Both said they were aware someone had confessed to the crime.
Sgt. Richard Zdon, watch commander at Campus Security, said the incident was "under investigation'' and they had no suspects in mind.
Dole said on the morning of the incident, around 3 a.m., three intoxicated males were seen roaming the halls. Her resident adviser tried to stop them from causing a disturbance. The next morning holes had been smashed in the roof, as if by baseball bats. Dole said.
The time the men were seen with the bat was around the time that the cars were reportedly smashed.
Both Dole and McGee said at least one of the suspects was associated in some way with the football team. Indeed, both thought that football players had done it, but said they did not want to specifically blame it on a member of the team.
"This is the final straw," Dole said. "Football players get away with a lot here and we want to see it stopped." Dole's charge was that football players living at Residence West had been involved in incidents of destruction in the past.
The head resident of Residence West did not want to make any statements that would blame
anybody Until all the facts were in. He said he would be willing to discuss the matter in a day or so, when things would be clearer. He said there were no eyewitnesses to the crime, but there were some suspects based on circumstantial evidence.
McGee said she had called Campus Security on Monday but that tfiey did not want to tell her much. She had wanted to confirm what a Campus Security officer told her the morning of the crime — that he suspected specific persons of the crime.
Campus Security told her over the phone Monday that information concerning the suspects could not be released and that it was "kind of personal."
In addition to the windshield damage to her BMW, McGee said that the paint had been scratched slightly.
A spokesman for the athletic department said they were not aware that any members of the football team were involved in such an incident, nor had they been contacted by Campus Security.
The incident at Residence West was the most glaring and the most controversial of a series of weekend crimes. Campus Security reported that there were two grand thefts and a burglary at the university over the weekend.
Friday, $329 worth of materials and equipment were stolen from the library science building. An apartment at Cardinal Gardens was burglarized Saturday and $450 worth of stereo equipment was taken. On Sunday, the Delta Gamma sorority reported that their sorority crest and several paintings were stolen. The estimated value of the stolen items was $400.
Zdon said the chances of recovering stolen items is "slim to none." He said all reports are turned over to the Los Angeles Police Department, who run them through their computers. By the time the items hit the streets they are sold for much less than they are actually worth and have a tendency to disappear.