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DAMAGES SOUGHT
Retired prof sues university
By Sean Dunnahoo
Staff Wnter
A retired professor from the School of Medicine has filed a complaint for fraud, breach of contract and damages against the university, asking for $10 million in damages, plus other damages to be determined in court.
Irving Rehman, who retired in 1977 after serving 33 years with the department of anatomy in the School of Medicine filed the complaint. He has alleged that three university officials at the time: Fred Fagg, president; Gordon R. Goodhart, dean of the School of Medicine and Paul R Patek, chairman of the department of anatomy, acted together to freeze Rehman's wages between 1952 and 1966. He received only one raise during that time period.
Rehman received a salary of $5,400 until 1957, when he was given a raise to $6,500. His salary was frozen at that amount until 1966, Rehman said.
Rehman was first hired by the university in 1944 and was appointed assistant professor of anatomy Three years later he was promoted to associate professor and was granted tenure.
In 1951, Rehman and Patek had a disagreement, which Rehman alleges was the cause of his wage freeze. The disagreement occurred when Rehman was notified that he would not be promoted again, and that Rehman should seek employment elsewhere.
Rehman asked for help from the American Assn. of University Professors. George Pope Shannon, national associate secretary- of the association, wrote a letter to the dean of the School of Medicine informing him that the termination of Rehman's employment was in violation of national tenure standards
Under national tenure standards and academic due process, which the termination was reportedly in violation of, a tenured professor can be dismissed only if he is guilty of incompetence, and if a hearing is held to determine if the charges are valid.
After Shannon's letter, Rehman was reappointed, at the same rank and salary.
In 1974, Rehman wras promoted to professor and
had his salary increased, first to $7,700 and later to a
peak of $23,000. He asked Franz Baver, the dean of
the School of Medicine, to allow him to work an
additional five	.
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Southern California Thursday, February 15, 1979
Volume LXXV1, Number 8 University of
Iranian engineering prof receives death threats
By Alice Ragenovich
Staff Writer
"I want to know why, why after all I've done for Iranian students is mv life being threatened," said George V. Chilingar, professor of petroleum engineering.
Chilmgar, the first Iranian to attend the university, has received around 15 death threats over the last few years.
Most of the threats are bv phone. "I've had to change my phone number four times. A year ago I was attacked when I went out to my car. Three people tried to beat me up and cats and rats with their throats cut have been left at mv doorstep at home," Chilingar said.
The threats Chilingar has received say he will be discredited or killed
After the first threat, Chilingar's phone was tapped and several of the people responsible were identified, but Chilingar chose not to prosecute. "I didn't want to hurt anyone," he said.
Dead animals left at doorstep
Chilingar was largely instrumental in bringing Iranian money and students to the campus and setting up the one-million-dollar chair in the petroleum engineering department in 1975.
"All my misfortunes began after the chair was brought to the university', but I’m not a bit sorry because it was for the good of the Iranian people," he said The chair w’as intended in part as money for research work that was related to oil production in Iran.
Chilingar and the shah worked out an agreement that Chilingar would spend one semester each year in Abadan, a small city in southern Iran, so the latest technology could be brought to the country.
The shah agreed to endow the chair after
Cartoons cause conflict
A group of Iranian students protested the contents of three Daily Trojan political cartoons in a meeting with the paper's editor and cartoonist Wednesday.
Farrokh Abrishamkar, president ot the Iranian Students Club, said Bob Staake's political cartoons "displayed racism and bigotry."
The three pieces showed various depictions of Ayatollah Khomaini, Iran's new political leader.
In the Daily Trojan (Feb. 7) Khomaini is shown being transformed into Adolph Hitler. He is shown erecting a sign (Feb 7) that reads "Welcome to Persia." The third (Feb 13) shows him perched on the earth, with the caption ''monkey on earth's back."
Meeting with the Daily Trojan was “to enlighten their (CheDaily Trojan's) point of view,' Abnshamkar said
In addition, Abrishamkar said Staake was "intoxicating" the university public.
Members of the newspaper staff believed the Iranian representatives were going to ask for Staake's resignation, after a story pnnted in Daily Trojan (Feb. 14) stated that the group wanted Staake to withdraw from his job.
Abnshamkar said the paper misquoted him A review of the interview notes for the article revealed that the Iranians did not call for Staake s resignation. Instead, they expressed disdain for the cartoons
He said if the cartoons continued, 4,000 to 5,000 persons would demonstrate against Staake in an effort to remove him from the paper's staff. During the meeting, the Iranians said the cartoons should express the opinion of the majority	(continued on page 8)
Chilingar agreed to teach in Iran. After one year, though, he was replaced as chair holder.
"The university, for unknown reasons, gave it to me for one year and then took it away. They said it would be a one-vear rotating chair, but that was not true. I didn't question their decision, but it upset Iran. Fortunately, an outstanding petroleum engineer took my place.
"I have no hope of getting the chair back," Chilingar said. He said he heard a rumor that a university official said he is a liability' and the university will have to get rid of him.
"I'm very, very sad that after obtaining fellowships from the shah and different companies for Iranian students all these
things are happening," Chilingar said.
Chilmgar returned to teach in Iran on his sabbatical, even though he was no longer in the chair, in order to comply with the promise he made to the shah "I cannot change my color easily because I believe the king had a genuine interest in the students. I believe he donated money to give a good home to the Iranian students. I'm openminded. I'll change my opinion if they can prove that my thinking is wrong," Chilingar said.
"I don't understand it I was penalized for getting the chair. In "I don't understand it.
"I cannot change my color easily because I believe the king had a genuine interest in the students. I believe he donated money to give a good home to the Iranina students. I'm open minded. I'll change my opinion if they can prove that my thinking is wrong," Chilingar said.
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Officials feel narrow view may have affected article
By Carole Long
Assistant City Editor
Univ'ersity officials feel the reporting 'techniques of a Los Angeles Times writer revealed a close-minded approach that may have influenced the focus of a recent story on the honorary degrees conferred by the university on the shah of Iran and an Iranian official.
conducted his research for the honorary degree storv, a number of university officials were interviewed, among them Zohrab Kaprielian, executive vice-president, and Frances Feldman, chairman of the honorary' degree committee.
Both Kaprielian and Feldman said information contained in the Times article did not accurately reflect their views on the topic of honorary' degrees.
"I did not recognize a single word trom my telephone interview with Speich in the article," Feldman said.
"He was really not interested in the present system we have for selecting honorary degree reipients, he was constantly focusing on shah."
In the Times article, which extended over two pages, only one paragraph mentions the present honorary degree selection pro-
Feldman, whose name was never mentioned in the article, said she told Speich the justification for giving the shah a degree and the conferring of the degree in Iran was an uncommon, but not unusual event.
"I told him there had been other occasions when the president had gone to attend commencements at overseas campuses and at the same time delivered a degree.
"I'm sure that President Hubbard did not go to Iran just to give the shah a degree."
A statement from the Board of Trustees, dated April 2, 1975, said Hubbard was invited to the Middle East to discuss plans for educational development in Iran and that arrangement were subsequently made to present the shah with the degree during the visit.
The Times article described the honorary degree ceremony in Iran as an act which "sidestepped a long-standing university tradition." The ceremony was further described as "private and unpublicized."
"That description implies that there was something secret about the whole affair, but there was nothing secret, and I explained to Speich that it was not secret," Feldman said.
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