Shortage of UCLA seats draws protest
Prof says refusal of sex led to denial of tenure, files suit
By Marsha Johnston
Assistant City Editor
A university music professor filed a million dollar suit Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court against the university claiming she was refused tenure because she would not submit to the sexual advances of her superior.
Carol Stewart, a professor of keyboard studies, said Adrian Ruiz, also a professor of keyboard studies, told her in 1976 that she would not be granted tenure if she did not submit to his advances.
Stewart said she was denied tenure the following year.
Following the denial, Stewart immediately filed a grievance with the Rights and Responsibilities Committee of the Faculty Senate.
The committee tries to mediate faculty grievances without going to the court or the university's judicial process.
The committee's decision is confidential and was therefore not released.
Stewart appealed the committee's decision to the President's Panel on Faculty Tenure, Privileges and
Appeals in July of this year.
Hearings by that panel constitute the judicial process of the university.
The panel then made a recommendation to President John R. Hubbard, who subsequently responded to Stewart's complaint.
Stewart filed suit sometime after Hubbard's response.
Stewart is teaching at the university this year and sources indicate Hubbard's recommendation was that she continue working at the university for another year.
According to the American Assn. of University Professors' guidelines, a professor must be reviewed for tenure within four to seven years after becoming an assistant professor.
This is Stewart's seventh, or final year.
She joined the university staff in 1968 as a lecturer and was upgraded to an assistant professorship.
Stewart said she was offered a job for 1978-79 school year only if she agreed to work without tenure.
U.S. OWNS PAPERS
Nixon library plans considered
By John Frith
Staff Writer
While construction on the Gerald R. Ford Library at the Universitv of Michigan will soon be underway, the state of Richard Nixon's library at the university remains in a state of limbo.
Roy L. Kidman, university librarian, said there probably won't be a final decision on the Nixon library for at least three to five years.
"Certain things have to happen — especially a change in legislation so the presidential papers can leave Washington," Kidman said. "When and how that can be done is the biggest issue."
Construction of the library has been delayed because the federal government changed the law concerning presidential libraries. Prior to Nixon, a former president had full control over his personal papers until he donated them to the government for the establishment of a library.
But Nixon left office with members of his administration under indictment as a result of the Watergate scandal.
A month after leaving office, Nixon wrote a letter to Arthur Sampson, head of the General Services Administration. (The administration is the parent organization to the National Archives, which is storing and processing Nixon's papers.)
In the letter, Nixon said previous chief executives had the right to withdraw from their libraries papers they had wanted.
Nixon claimed the same right and added he had the right to destroy the tapes. Sampson agreed.
The Ford Administration intervened and halted shipments of Nixon's papers to the Federal Records Center in Laguna Niguel, Calif. In December of 1974, Ford signed a bill that permitted the government to seize and retain ownership of Nixon's presidential papers. The
papers have been stored in Washington since that time.
The Supreme Court has upheld the government's authority to do so.
"People are concerned about whether the papers should belong to the public or to the President," Kidman noted.
The university and Nixon announced April 20, 1975 that they had agreed to the establishment of a Nixon Library on the university campus.
"The delay should not be interpreted as a lack of desire of the university in having the library," Kidman said.
"I haven't heard anything indicating any change in the original announcement."
The university itself will not run the library’, if and when it is built, Kidman said.
"The university would furnish only the land and the building. Ownership (of the papers) would be retained by the federal government, w’hich would have (continued from page 2)
By Gail Harris
St.itt Writer
Three thousand students were angrv and disgusted because they did not get tickets for the USC-UCLA football game, yet four times as manv alumni, faculty and administrators did.
Some students said thev would do anything in order to attend the game and this included rioting.
Several disappointed students called the lottery' system unfair and questioned the integrity of the ticket office's personnel.
Patricia Tyner, the director of the ticket office, said only people with season booklets can go to the UCLA game.
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ANTICIPATION—Students line the walls of the Student Union Building hoping that they have been issued football tickets. About 3.000 students did not receive tickets for the annual USC-UCLA game
OT photo by Doug Gray
MEET THE PRESS — President John R. Hubbard Middle East Center controversy. A KNBC television ponders a question during a press conference crew walked out of the meeting in apparent disgust. Thursday. Hubbard reiterated past events in the
Mideast proposals go undebated by Hubbard
By Robin Oto
Assistant City Editor
Recommendations by the President's Advisory Council's committee on the Middle East Center will not be challenged by President John R. Hubbard or the Board of Trustees, Hubbard said Thursday.
The Board of Trustees, however, has final veto power, Hubbard said in a press conference.
No new information was given at the conference.
During the question-and-answer period a KNBC television crew left early in apparent disgust.
Hubbard was asked about previous developments in the controversy including timetables for financing the center, corporate funding, Jewish opposition to the center, the King Faisal Chair appointment, potential loss of general university funding and rumors of his resignation because of the center.
A reporter asked Hubbard whether the university would cancel plans for the center if the necessary amount of funds is not raised within 24 months.
Hubbard said he had never heard of the plan and asked the reporter where her information came from.
The reporter said she received the information two weeks ago from Vance Peterson, director of academic relations.
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California, Los Angeles, California	Friday, November 17, 1978
Volume LXXV, Number 40_University of Southern