Attorney denies sex charges against prof
By Carole Long
Staff Writer
The attorney for Adrian Ruiz, a university professor in keyboard studies, denied charges that his client had made sexual advances to Carol Stewart, a department colleague.
Stewart, also a professor of keyboard studies, filed a suit against the university Wednesday claiming she was refused tenure because she would not submit to Ruiz's advances.
Samuel Paz, Ruiz's attorney, said he had not heard of the suit but was familiar with the charges because Ruiz had filed a suit for defamation against Stewart two years ago.
"In 1976, after Stewart had been denied tenure, she apparently told some people in the music department that Ruiz had made sexual advances,” Paz said.
"It was then that Ruiz filed a suit against her.'
The suit is pending in the Los Angeles Superior
Court.
A spokesman for the music department declined to comment on the suit, saying the office of 1 university legal affairs was handling the case.
Paz said Stewart appeared Tuesday before a certified court reporter to testify as the defendant in Ruiz's suit.
"Under oath Stewart said that Ruiz had not made the decision that she should not receive tenure," Paz said.
"When Stewart went up for tenure Ruiz gave his recommendation like any other faculty member. His recommendation was that she should be kept."
In a Daily Trojan article (Nov. 17), Stewart reportedly said Ruiz told her she would not be (continued on page 6)
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Volume LXXV, Number 42	University of Southern California Tuesday, November 21, 1978
Presidential
Board views alternatives
search begins
Senate urges student input
By Marsha Johnston
Assistant Citv Editor
To determine how the next university president will be selected, a presentation of other universities' presidential searches will be made to the Board of Trustees' universitv’ planning commits todav.
According to Item 4.11 of the bvlaws of the university's constitution, the university planning committee is charged to:"consider major short- and long-range problems as presented by the president or executive vice-president." -
President John R. Hubbard announced at a trustees' breakfast earlier this year that he foresees retiring in I981I. Extenuating circumstances, however, could force a change in those plans.
Traditionally, the members of the presidential search committee are announced simultaneously with the president's official resignation.
The information presented at the meeting today is expected to be forwarded to the Board of Trustees' executive committee.
"We would like to assess how others do it (select a president) so we do the right thing ourselves," said Zohrab A. Kaprielian, executive vice-president.
The Board of Trustees must decide on the structure of the presidential search committee.
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By Shari Cookson
Staff Writer
The Student Senate is taking steps to involve students in the search for the next university president.
The senate sent letters today to President John R. Hubbard, the Board of Trustees and the heads of all university constituencies recommending administrators, faculty, staff and students be involved in the selection of the next president.
Suzanne Nora, senate chairman, said students should be given a voice in choosing their next president.
The senate will also act concerning ticket allocation, student programming, the Middle East Center and Otis Art Center.
Because 3,000 students were denied tickets to the USC-UCLA football game, a senate task force has been formed to look into ticket allocation and the fairness of the lottery system.
Nora said trustee officials have promised to put ticket allocation on the agenda of their next meeting.
About 100 of the ticket-denied students led a televised demonstration Saturday before the game. The peaceful chanting evoked altruistic sentiments of some alumni, who handed their tickets to protesting students.
The senate also approved the establishment of an endowment fund for student programming.
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DT photo by Doug Gray
STARSTRUCK — One of the stars of Les Ballet Trockadero is caught in a reflective mood during Monday’s rehearsal in the Physical Education Building. More photos page 9.
Visiting drama prof personifies television image
By Robin Oto
Assistant Citv Editor
In real life, John Houseman, 76, is tough on the outside but a softie on the inside.
Houseman personifies his Academy Award-winning role of Professor Kingsfield, in the television series (and movie) Paper Chase.	'
"I have a lot of fun playing him (Kingsfield). I’m not crabby, I’m severe. 1 seem to scare people but I don't intend to," Houseman said.
"I scream and veil but I don't have a bad temper," he said.
Houseman will leave the universitv at the end of the vear following a two-year appointment as visiting professor and adviser to the chairman of the drama department.
Recent problems with the TV series (Houseman took over as executive producer for a time) and a busy shooting schedule have kept him away from campus.
As producer of drama at the university', Houseman has directed one production, Caucasian Chalk Cirr’ - since he came to the universi But Houseman's
name is still listed at the top of each production's credits.
"If it sells tickets, I don't care. Anything that sells tickets is good," Houseman said.
But Houseman has still had time to reorganize the department based on the drama division of New York's Julliard School, of which he served as director.
less of a general- smattering — much closer to a controversy," Houseman said.
Houseman gives specific advice to students during lectures but said he has no general wisdom when it comes to selecting majors.
"It depends on what you want to be. Things get fashionable. But if you want to be an actor, you'd damn well better take acting," he said.
ter and motion picture business and became a successful playwright, producer and director.
Houseman cofounded the Mercury Theater with former partner Orson Welles and was associate producer and editor of the famous 1938 radio broadcast War of the Worlds, which convinced many Americans of a Martian invasion.
Although Houseman said he ^was^surj3nsedtowjnanOscarfor
Television's all mixed up. Ratings bore me. They don't make sense, they've got nothing to do with what I'm doing/
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"The school's record has been very good over the years but the actual curriculum needed revising. 1 used some of the experience at Julliard, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
"It's now more professional,
But Houseman himself has always done pretty much whatever he's wanted to do at the time, with or without advance preparation.
While attending school in England, Houseman, then i8, decided he wanted to learn Spanish and went off to become a cowboy in Argentina during a school vacation.
Houseman was a grain broker in the United States until the stock market crash in 1929, when he then decided to enter the thea-
his first acting job, he seems to have taken the honor in stride.
“It's (Oscar) at home sitting somewhere among books and things. What are you going to do with it, put it in a shrine?" he said.
Houseman said he is not nervous about acting and enjoys the television series. Although the show was originally built around Kingsfield's character, the latest promotional campaigns have publicized younger actors in the cast.
"We re trying to sell a show — you're unlikely to build a show with an old poop," Houseman said.
Houseman said he gets fan mail mostly from students identifying with the Kingsfield character.
Houseman said the current ratings for the series is low, about 18%, but he doesn't think the show will be cancelled.
"Television's all mixed up. Ratings bore me. They don't make sense, they've got nothing to do with what I'm doing," Houseman said.
Houseman said the quality of current television programs is generally poor except for certain documentaries, dramas and Public Broadcasting System (PBS) shows.
Houseman now leads a quiet life in comparison to his early years in the theater and movie industries.
He lives in Malibu Beach and although he's known and worked with most famous stars,
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