Delts evicted from house; keep charter
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By Betty Wong
The Delta Tau Delta fraternity, notorious for their spirited partying, was evicted Monday from its house by the university for various probation violations, but the Delts still have their charter.
The decision to close the house, which is located at 909 West Adams Blvd., was made bv a student affairs committee headed by James Appleton, vice president of student affairs, at the end of last semester.
The decision was handed down because the Delts continued to violate university and interfraternity council regulations w'hile they w'ere still on probation.
The Delts have been on probation since last spring for, among other things, hazing and damaging property.
While on probation, Delt pledges became involved with a theft in a local hotel. Other members were discovered to have participated in intramural activities, which is a violation of a probation condition.
Even though their national chapter supports the eviction, the Delts w ill still be allowed to hold chapter meetings and participate in rush.
Since the Delt house is in disrepair and the members have been unable to meet certain financial obligations of the house, "the university had no choice," Appleton said, "but to take the action that it did."
Under the conditions of their probation, the Delts could have been suspended. But the university wanted to give the Delts a semester to "get their act together," Appleton said. "There will be some restrictive conditions on their behavior."
The Delts must begin making repairs on their house, keep themselves out of mischief and make payments still outstanding in order to regain their house.
Since the house will be closed to the Delts for the next seven months, the university has ar-
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EMPTY — The Delta Tau Delta fraternity will be empty this semester after members were evicted Monday by the university for various probation violations.
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Volume LXXVI, Number 4	University of Southern California
Friday, February 9, 1979
Honorary degree selection criteria started in 1977
‘Times’ calls procedure long-standing tradition
By Carole Long
Assistant City Editor
The "long-standing tradition," as described in the Eos Angeles Times (Feb. 7), for the selection of honorary degree recipients at the university was established two years ago.
"When I became chairman of the honorary degree committee in 1975, one of the first items we tackled was to establish specific criteria for honorary degree nominees," said Frances Feldman.
"The committee felt that since the degree is the highest honor the university has to offer the degrees should be given to distinguished scholars or to someone distinguished in public service."
Giving a donation to the university would not qualify one to receive a degree, Feldman said
Feldman also mentioned that the university conferred an honorary degree on the shah of Iran and also his wife.
Three years ago the shah ’s wife
was presented an honorary degree at a special convocation for her contributions at the International Women's Year Congress in Mexico in 1975.
When the honorary degree committee presented its list of criteria to President John R. Hubbard it was accepted with enthusiasm, Feldman said.
"Subsequently, the Board of Trustees approved the criteria and we have followed these rules ever since."
"The suggestion to have definite criteria had never been suggested to the board before. They were very cooperative in the matter," Feldman said.
The committee's criteria established that no more than five persons could be honored at commencement, the majority of whom must be scholars, and established the committee as the sole source presenting nominees for the degrees.
Previously, any facult\ member or trustee could nominate someone without going
through the committee.
The names received bv the committee as nominees are researched to determine if the person deserves the degree.
"If a faculty member is nominated we ask the department head and faculty in the department if the person should be awarded the degree. If they say no, we don’t submit it to the trustees," Feldman said.
Some committee members have expressed disapproval of the awarding of honorary degrees because of the time and expense involved in the process.
It is difficult to invite people to come to California and pa\ their wav, to receive an award We have to be prepared to pay their wav to California,' Feldman said
Zohrab Kaprielian, executive vice president, described the great amount of manpower time involved in the process.
"The committee has to review the merits of the nominees, read their biographical sketches and
ask faculty for their evaluation of the nominees. It involves a lot of research.’
Kaprielian would like to see the degrees done away with.
"In my mind, with the university in transition, we should be
engaged in conferring real degrees."
Feldman said that at some time in the future the university may discontinue awarding the honorary degrees.
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Senate votes to form student corporate bodv
EX-OFFICIAL SEES CEREMONY
The Student Senate voted Thursday to incorporate the ‘u-dent bodv into a corpora >n separate from the university The university would ha\ no jurisdiction over the revet es raised by the corporation. S il Students, Inc., would havt e legal right to sue the uni\e The Student Senate must i charter with the state of C« nia to be recognized as a cor tion. The SKXt fee will be p. bv the senate.
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'Times'articles one-sided says oil executive
By Sean Dunnahoo
Staff Writer
A former university official who was present at the honorary degree ceremony for the shah of Iran and an Iranian oil company president described the recent Los Angeles Times articles concerning those ceremonies as one-sided.
Henrv Reining, was in lehran duringthe conferral ceremony for the shah and later v\a> present in President |ohn R. Hubbard's office when Hubbard awarded a degree to Manoutchehr Eghbal.
He said that it seemed Don Speich, Time< education writer who has writtei. articles concerning the university's involvements with Iran, "has it out for the university
Reining read the citation at the shah s Conferral cereuiom and placed the cassock over the shah’s head.
Reining said that there are discrepancies in Speich's stor..
I he Times article made it seem like Eghbal had only been involved in a large oil company, and ignored ins other accomplishments Reining said
Reining explained that Egnbal was
deeply involved in academia, having served as chancellor of the University of lehran and as Iranian prime minister.
"Anyone who says that there was nothing there to recognize simply did not understand the situation," Reining said.
The university's long-standing relations with Iran, which began in 1953, were first handled in part bv Reining.
He handled the Iranian relations for the universih helping establish their first educational pact with the university in 1953.
The program called for some of the university's professors to th to Iran and help develop a better business and public administration division within Iran ^ higher education system
While professors ot the universiH were in Iran, doctoral candidates from Iran, who were studying public administration, were brought to the university tor the completion of their educations.
Once the candidates had received their degrees, the\ returned to Iran to take over the )obs begun bv the American professors.
In Oct. 1974, the Board ot Trustees appointed Reining as the university's perma-
nent representative. Once a second map educational pact finalized between the university and Iran, he took up residence in Iran.
The second educational pact, intended as an extension of the original 1953 agreement, called tor the development b\ the university of an institution in Iran
The Iranian government asked the university to establish the institution, which would be called USUI, the Universm o! Southern California in Iran
As government representative of the university, Reining attempted to establish a contract between the university and the Iranian Ministrv of Higher Education.
The contract was never concluded and Reining returned to the university about a month later
1 le returned to Iran in Kebruan 1975. and served as a consultant with the David Lil-iianthal Corp., which had at least six contracts with the Iranian government.
He served as a consultant, working to generate improvements within public ministration of the Iranian uovernnn ni
poration is to provide low-cost services to students that include a food cooperative, a typing service, a dry-cleaning service and a used-record exchange.
The corporation will be nonprofit to enable students to purchase goods and services cheaper than market prices, said Mike kulwiec chairman of the senate's environmental and external affairs committee.
If the university discriminates against a student or bre.iks a housing contract, the senate can now threaten to sue the university. Kulwiec said. The student bod\ would be able to enli>t legal representation against the uni-versit\ This sort of action was previously not possible because the senate as part of the university could not sue the university.
The senate must investigate, however, whether the corporation will be able to use on-campus facilities The Student Activities Center is one possibility because students already pay the mortgage with their student fees, said Dennis Alfieri, vice-chairman of the senate.
The idea for the corporation was sparked bv the association of student services at Georgetown University, which started as a food cooperative located in a closet
The Georgetown corporation has increased the number of its services grossing about SI million last vear with a net profit of SI 5,00(1.
The only time an association was formed at the university was in the mid-K)s. The Associated Students of Southern California was dissolved in 1972 because of d corruption within its (cortHnuni on vaye 2 >
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