DISCO BOOKSTORE? — Judging from the crowds this week, one may have thought that the bookstore had been turned into a disco or nightclub. However, it was just the usual start-of-semester crush, with thousands of students eagerly pouring in to buy books and supplies.
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University of Southern California	Tuesday, February 6, 1979
Survey only ranks music school in national rating of departments
Volume LXXVI, Number 1
Only one of the university's departments made national ranking in a survey published in the Jan. 15 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
In the survey, more than 4,000 faculty members from the nation's four-vear colleges and universities were asked to name the top five departments in each of the faculty members' disciplines.
The music school at the university was rated seventh in a list of nine music departments, but the university was not rated in any of the other 18 fields represented in the survey.
The survey, conducted by Everett C. Ladd, Jr. and Seymour Martin Lipset, covered 19 of the major fields, including business and engineering, two disciplines in which the university is usually highlv-rated.
Jack LeBlanc, chairman of the Faculty Senate, said the findings of the survey will be reviewed by the executive board of the Faculty Senate Wednesday, but rapid action will probably not be taken, since the review is not the only item on the agenda.
LeBlanc said the board will consider three points when studying the survey:
—	Should the Faculty Senate be concerned about the report.
—	What process was used by the surveyors in compiling the survey results.
—	If the survey can be considered accurate, what could be done to improve the departments at the university.
Veronica Tincher, associate director of the Office of Institutional Studies, said the Ladd and Lipset surveys have been conducted over the years and have always been done in a sophisticated and scientific manner.
The two surveyors have used computers and large cross sections of faculty members in the surveys, giving a more accurate result than other surveys conducted in the past.
Noted in the article which appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education were the results of two other surveys, the Cartter survey, taken in 1%4, and the Roose-Anderson survey of 1969.
The questionnaire in the two surveys was answered by a panel of well-known scholars, rather than a large number of faculty members and, although the results of the two surveys were very similar, they differed greatly from the Ladd and Lipset survey results.
Tincher noted the difference in results and also pointed out that last summer, the university's School of Business Administration was ranked in the top 10 in an article in Business Week, but failed to make the list in the recent survey.
Official accused of embezzlement
An anonymous source has charged that the assistant director of parking operations embezzled $450 in university funds by paying a former employee for hours he did not work.
The accusation was made in a letter sent to the Daily Trojan, President John R. Hubbard and several other university officials.
The source said photocopied documents sent with the letter show that Patricia Gordon, assistant director of parking operations, allegedly authorized compensation to be paid a file clerk over an eight-week period for hours that were not recorded on the employee's time card.
However, Gordon said there was no merit to the accusation that employee Tom Donald was paid for work he didn't do.
Donald was acting in a temporary administrative position in September and October, Gordon said, and he was writing policy statements on his own time because her office had more work than could be handled in regular business hours.
Carl Levredge, director of Security and Parking Operations, said he knew Donald was doing the additional work on his own time.
"The work was authorized and supervised. There's no merit to this (charge of embezzlement) whatsoever," Levredge said.
Donald, a full-time undergraduate, said he was shocked by the accusation. He became an assistant manager of the university-owned Century Apartments in December and no longer works for Parking Operations.
Sources speculated that the person who made the anonymous accusation might be another former Parking Operations employee who was fired for poor work performance last fall.
Levredge also said he thought this was likely, since that employee was a payroll clerk who had access to Donald's pay records.
The charge against Gordon is being investigated by the Office for Internal Affairs. Carolyn LaLiberte, senior staff auditor, said a report would be submitted to Anthony Lazzaro, vice-president for business affairs.
Security and Parking Operations are Lazzaro's responsibility, but a spokesman for his office would not comment on the accusation or its investigation.
Carl Franklin, vice-president for legal affairs, also would not comment on what actions might be taken on the matter.
FREEZE LEVIED
Iran in debt to school
son said he is "hopeful” the Iranian government will pay its debt and the freeze will be lifted.
Currently, the university has nine contracts with Iran, four of which have been completed. These programs include seven with the School of Education, one with the College of Continuing Education and one with the School of Public Administration.
The program trains Iranian students for such areas as staff administration, operations of Iranian elementary schools and education through the national Iran television network, etc.
The School of Education is training some 40 Iranian students for school administration positions in Iran. A program that offers training in the medical education field is also under way at the College of Continuing Education.
The university still has a $600,000 debt to collect from the government of Iran for special programs to train Iranian students, and administrators are only "hoping'' that they can recover those costs.
Vance Peterson, director of Academic Relations, said that contracts with Iran have delivered $4 million in revenue to the university.
However, due to the political unrest in that country, payments for these contracts have not been completed. As a result, the Office of Contracts and Grants is "freezing" its contracts with that government.
Peterson said the freeze was a precautionary measure, instituted because of the possibility that payments may not be forthcoming. How long the freeze will last is not known, but Peter-
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Three persons decide budget
Group keeps major corporation fiscally solvent
By Michael Schroeder
Managing Editor
Early in September of each year, three people at the university begin one of the most arduous tasks at the 25,000-student institution.
This story is part one of a series investigating the university's financial structure.
These men are not students, nor are they members of the faculty. They are key members of another elite group — the administration. Their job is to create a balanced budget and keep a major cor-poation fiscally solvent for another year.
The names and titles may change from time to time, but the responsiblities of their positions remain the same. Under the direction of the executive vice-president of the university, a post held since its creation by Zohrab Kaprielian, two budget officers and a direct assistant to the vice-president pool bits and pieces of information and help decide who gets added financial backing or who gets cut back.
Bv name, these key administrators are David Shawaker, budget officer; Jay Schoenau, senior budget analyst; and John Curry, recently named director of management planning after several years under the general title of assistant to the executive vice-president. These men are The Administration when it comes to budget discussions, meetings and planning. They are the ones that answer the questions from the students, deans and faculty when changes in departmental budgets, tuition charges or wages and salaries are called into question. Their voice is the voice of Kaprielian, who is backed nearly without question by both President John Hubbard and the Board of Trustees and its finance committee.
When the trio get down to business, they do not come together empty-handed. Available to them are university records from past years, projections for the future and every shred of information concerning the state of the institu-(continued on page 26)