BURNING HOUSE—Firemen put out a fire Monday on the roof of a house located at 29th Street and Orchard Avenue. The fire was well underway when firemen arrived on the scene. Damages were estimated at over $1,000. DT photo by Paul Rodriguez.
Expulsion urged for three guilty in record card case
An administrative judicial hearing panel found three international students guilty of having their permanent record cards illegally altered and recommended they be expelled.
The panel’s decision, made last week, was announced Tuesday by Robert L. Mannes, dean for student life, after the students were officially informed of the verdict. The students have 10 days after receiving the decision to file an appeal.
If they do not appeal, the students will be dismissed without chance for readmission to the university.
Mannes released a digest of the hearing that stated the decision “was based on findings that all of the records were altered so as to improve the students’ apparent performance.”
The summary further stated “that the students’ pattern of action regarding their academic programs revealed a prior knowledge of the charge,” and that “there was no motivation for anyone to improve grades without the students’ knowledge.”
The students were asked how the changes occurred, but “no facts about the process came out in the hearing,” Mannes said. He refused to elaborate, and said “student testimony is confidential.” No employees have been charged and Mannes said “we still don’t know how the alterations were made.”
The hearing was closed to the Daily Trojan, to protect the privacy of the students involved, Man-
nes said.
If the students do not appeal the decision after 10 days they will be automatically expelled. If an appeal is requested, the Student Behavior Appeals Panel must rule within a week on the merits of reviewing the case. Two faculty members and one student would hear the case if a review is ordered. “It could be a fairly slow process,” Mannes said.
The records of two other students were also changed illegally, and charges were filed by the registrar's office against one of the students. No information was provided on why the fifth student was not charged.
Mannes said the cases are pending because “the other two are no longer at the university." One of the students left the United States; the location of the other is unknown. A hold was put on the students’ records.
The dean said a hearing could be held in absentia for the other students but no sanction could be taken unless they come back to the university.
In a related development, administrators said a report Monday by Bob Navarro, a newsman with KNBC-TV, was misleading, because it indicated that four, rather than three students were expelled They also felt interviews appearing on the broadcast with Khaled Take, editor of Bulletino, the international students' newspaper and Stephen Sass, editor of the Daily Trojan, reflected negatively on the university.
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University of Southern California
Volume LXXIII, Number 48	Los Angeles, California Wednesday, April 26, 1973
Officials offer few comments on reorganized administrative positions
By Devra Lieb
Staff Writer
University officials have offered few comments concerning an extensive reorganization of top administrative positions.
However, sources on both the academic and fund raising staffs who requested anonymity have speculated the reshuffling was an administrative power play and an indication that the Toward Century II endowment program is faltering.
The changes, which deal largely with the Toward Century
II,	were outlined in a joint statement issued last month by President John R. Hubbard and J. Robert Fluor, chairman of the Board of Trustees.
The statement said Hubbard would direct the fund raising unit, which is already operated through its .Office of University Affairs, to intensify the search for university endowments.
Hubbard’s increased involvement in Toward Century II
is expected to mean more of a role for deans of academic departments.
Previously, Thomas Nickell, vice-president of university affairs, and Roger F. Olson, associate vice-president and executive director of university affairs, were solely responsible for fund raising. Their efforts included development of support groups to give money to the university, donations from the private sector and Toward Century
II	funds and endowments.
When contacted for comment on the reorganization, Nickell’s office referred the matter to Leonard Wines, associate vice-president of university affairs, who refused to comment.
Some staff members feel university affairs was left with little to do after the reshuffling.
In addition to the restructuring of fund raising, Wines no longer oversees the University News Bureau. The bureau is now supervised by Vance T. Peter-
son, director of academic relations. Peterson reports to Zohrab Kaprielian, executive vice-president
Peterson said the emphasis is being placed more on endowments than on a reordering of priorities in the Toward Century
II	program.
“It brings in fresh troops, to add to those that have already been working long and hard on the project,” Peterson said.
Peterson’s new assignment as overseer of the University News Bureau will help to tie together academics and endowments, he said.
Charles Weisenberg, director of the University News Bureau, said he feels the reorganization will not greatly affect his office.
“The news bureau has been transferred to a new university office,” he said. “I don’t think it will have any material effect. We do what we’ve always done and I think we do it pretty well.”
Suit filed against diploma service
By David Watson
Staff Writer
Complaints to the state attorney general’s office from officials at USC and other state colleges and universities have resulted in a consumer fraud suit against the Diploma Service Co.
The company provides copies of diplomas from over 200 hundred major colleges and universities across the country to its customers.
However, the company allegedly doesn't check to verify if the customer has actually earned the degree he requests to be copied.
The suit was filed last Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The petition claims the company causes prospective employers to believe the persons holding the reproduced diplomas have earned them.
An investigation undertaken by William Hall, university registrar, was partially responsible for the action taken by the attorney general’s office.
Hall said his office had received complaints from employers and former students about the fraudulent copies of diplomas.
One company called to verify that one of its employees, who was being considered for a promotion, had actually received his master’s degree from USC. Hall said he had no record of this student.
The company sent Hall a copy of the diploma and Hall determined it to be fraudulent. The university then sent a letter to the man holding the false diploma telling him to stop referring to himself as a university graduate. The man never received the promotion.
Hall said he had seen two of the diplomas produced by the company and both of them had the wrong dean’s signature.
Hall said he called the Diploma Service Co. and, without identifying himself, said he wanted a degree for his wife as a present for her birthday. He told the company that his wife hadn’t quite earned her sociology degree from the university.
The company told Hall that the basic degree costs $10 and printing the school name, the individual’s name and type of degree would cost extra.
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Shoes, civic activities keep local cobbler busy
By Pamela Samuels Staff Writer
You’d probably never think to enter the small, inconspicuous shoe shop on Jefferson Boulevard. If you did, you would find a typical shoe shop with piles and piles of shoes waiting to be repaired.
But if you look a little deeper, perhaps at the citations, plaques and awards sprawled across the wall, you will find something more than just shoes.
William C. Washington, owner of the National Shoe Rebuilders company at 1207 W. Jefferson Blvd., is very active in political and community affairs and has witnessed many changes in the community since he purchased the shop 20 years ago.
“Twenty years ago it was predominantly white around here,” he recalled. “There weren’t any black businesses. In fact, I’m the first black business that came into the neighborhood right in this particular area,” he said.
“At the time when I came here, this was like a little shopping center,” he continued. “The gas company was just across the street,” he said pointing toward the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Vermont Avenue where a parking lot is now located.
“And there was a Rexall Drug store. In fact you could come in this particular ► neighborhood and get anything you wanted,” he said.
Washington admitted that setting up a business in a white community was a big endeavor 20 years a'go, but said, “Overall I was treated nice. . .1 ran into lots of prejudice but you just have to work with it. I found out that I’m kind of like Martin Luther
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King. I believe in peaceful demonstrations instead of throwing rocks and bricks.”
He says he has watched the university expand throughout the years, but really isn’t too worried about it affecting his shop.
“So far they haven’t come west of Vermont. But they usually provide you with a place to move. Some of the people in the neighborhood are worried about it, some of them aren’t,” he said candidly.
He feels that university expansion has been good in some ways.
“Some of the programs that were set up were very nice, like those apartments across the street. About the best thing that came out of this thing is the senior citizen building,” he continued. “In the Village up there, no small businesses can stay in there ’cause the rent is too high and they can’t afford the long leases they want on it.”
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