Lag in endowments causes reorganization
By Devra Lieb
SUIT Writer
A lag in raising endowment funds for the Toward Century II program was the reason some top administrative fund-raisers were reshuffled, said Zohrab Kaprelian. executive vice-president of the university.
The Toward Century II program calls for a $265-million fund-raising target to be raised by a combination of private contributions and endowments in observance of the university’s centennial in 1980. The en-downment portion of that program has a $111-mill ion target to be used for endowments of chairs, scholarships, faculty support and building maintenance.
So far, the university has only $23 million of the $lll-million proposed for endowments.
"This is a struggle for our survival,” Kaprelian said. "My job is to say we want $111-million and we need $80 million more."
During the course of the administrative reorganization, university sources, who said they refused to be identified for fear of reprisals, accused Kaprelian of initiating the reshuffling in an attempted power play.
“If people got hurt (during the reshuffling), that is unfortunate," Kaprelian said. “But it is not a power play.”
The reorganization was announced officially in a joint memo issued early last month by President John R. Hubbard and J. Robert Fluor, chairman of the Board of Trustees. In the memo, Hubbard announced he (continued on page 9)
HAPPY WANDERER—This shirtless youngster was seen wandering around Alumni Park Tuesday as the Spring Crafts Faire was in full gear. While examining the work in one of the booths, he apparently became
so fascinated that he lost control of his balloon, which sailed over the rooftop of Doheny Library. DT photo by Marsha Traeger.
Daily § Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXXIII, Number 57	Los Angeles, California Wednesday, May 10, 1978
Administrators call evaluation forms important in determining promotions
Student evaluations of faculty members are widely used to improve the quality of teaching at the university. In some departments, evaluations are used to determine raises and promotions.
Evaluation forms are distributed in all classes at the end of the semester and read by the departments and the instructors after final examinations.
Both Jack Steele, dean of business, and David Malone, dean of humanities, recognize that a widespread belief exists among students that the evaluations are worthless.
“I’ve talked with students and I think we’re making headway in proving to them that the evaluations are used," Steele said.
"They (student evaluations) are very important to the evaluation of teaching more so than students think,” said John Marburger, dean of letters, arts and sciences (LAS).
Marburger cited several reasons for student's opinions of the evaluations. “They don’t have an overwhelming role in decision making, but the results are placed in the instructor’s dossier and are seen when they come up for a raise or a
promotion,” Marburger said.
He added, “There are other factors, such as research performance, service to the department, the university, and the community, and accessa-bility to the students which are also looked at. Most students don’t see this process.”
Marburger said there is no uniform evaluation form in LAS. Each department devises its own form. “We are moving to a standard form. We had planned to do it this year, but it was too expensive,” Marburger said.
The form for the School of Religion is the result of three years of evaluations. John Orr, director of the school said, “I’d be kidding myself if I thought the forms weren’t important to promotion.”
The psychology department places particular emphasis on two questions on its form, said Norman Cliff, director of psychology. "We ask, ‘How good is the course compared with other courses you have taken?’ and, ‘How good is the instructor compared with other instructors you have had?’ These questions, along with any comments by the student, are important in our recommending raises for faculty members,” Cliff said.
Students seek role in activity fee spending
By David Watson
SUff Writer
Residents of Cardinal Gardens Apartments are attempting to gain total control of their share of student activity fee, said Dean Suhr, a Cardinal Gardens representative to the Student Community Council.
Suhr is leading a group of residents who are circulating a petition asking for Cardinal Gardens student activity fees to be spent only by Cardinal Gardens residents.
The Student Community Council represents residents of off-campus, university-owned housing. The council was organized two years ago to use the student activity fees to coordinate social and political events for the student community.
It is now university policy to take $2 from every student’s $10 activity fee and turn it over to the council. The remaining $8 from residents of Cardinal Gardens is presently given to the complex. Suhr believes the entire activity fee should be under the control of Cardinal Gardens.
Suhr said many residents feel the funds allocated to the Student Community Council have not been used to their full potential. He said Cardinal Gardens residents would know how to use the money to best meet their needs.
Suhr said the 600 residents of the complex are organized and function very well by themselves. He said the Student Community Council is becoming too large to function efficiently.
Suhr said Cardinal Gardens residents would like to make their own budget for social events. He said this would include cosponsoring events with the council.
He said the residents would also like to donate money to general student body events.
Suhr said his group does not feel the Student Community Council has done a poor job in handling the activity funds. If Cardinal Gardens had full control of all its residents’ fees, the money could be used for Cardinal Gardens social functions as well as student community events, he said.
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RIDING WITH SOUTHWEST DIVISION
LAPD’s night moves: holding the line against crime
By John Mange
It’s difficult to subjecti'jely encapsulate the practices of police and the crime problem around the university. It’s pretty clear that the area surrounding campus isn’t the safest and when night arrives, so does fear. But limng in fear isn’t something only students face.
Most people living in the area realize the problems, yet few understand them, nor do they clearly see the role of the police.
1 rode along in a patrol car of the Southwest Division of the LAPD all night several Saturdays ago. I thought a first-hand glimpse of life in the streets might be valuable. 1 feel what has come out of this experience is a portrait of a single night of what some might consider a war and others a job.
6	p.m. — I arrive at the Southwest station, located on Santa Barbara Avenue, surrounded by several 24-hour bail bonds shops and a
Taco Bell. The station reception area is dimly lit.
A tour of the station revealed a highly organized system that makes LAPD one of the finest police forces. The assembly room, the team room, the watch commander’s room and the exercise area are all bustling with activity. It’s a Saturday night, the busiest flight of the week for crime.
A room aj^tl devoted e^ire4y/t#/gf problems iirtro area. A lage of snapshots J^am the wall for rfetajae^£u^ pects to see. IrdfepictsTffooc and gore: stab wounds, gunshot holes, broken foreheads and a youth that was actually skinned alive,,
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each side there were prisoners behind bars. We observed a man being fiftfH»r-printed and searched. He had been brought in for driving while under the influ-
ence of drugs. But there were fresh needle tracks on his arms.
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south from the Santa Monicc Freeway, east from Western Avenue and north from Slauson Avenue. The division is further broken down into 11
areas known as representative districts, which are based on census tracts. The university is Tie of these districts, although it as closely patrolled as the hers.
Djffarent teams at the th/vest Division are the ics division, rice squad igang unit. A special prob-unit handles high percentage crimes.
n Los Angeles, the South-•st is about as dangerous a ion as you will find. It has thie highest crime rate in the cfty. There is at least one micide every four days and a knifing or shooting every night.
More than half of the South-st crime is committed by refore there is }rd theft and the South-6st often use years ago the greatest problem in the area was gangs. But they have, for the most part, faded into the background.
The main problem now is
PCP (Angel Dust). Use and / manufacture of the drug are looked on as a serious crime threat.
Recently a PCP factory was discovered on 22nd Street.
As we entered the station two injured officers came in. One had a broken wrist and separated ribs from trying to subdue a suspect on PCP. The drug increases strength and immunity to pain. These effects make suspects unpredictable.
7:30 p.m. — We hit the streets.
7:35 p.m. — A routine call reporting vandalism led us to a one story dwelling on 66th Street. The front windows were boarded up.
As we entered, the officers were already examining the rooms. Two small children huddled together watching television as officers began photographing.
In the bathroom, waste overflowed from the rim of the toilet. The bathtub was (continued on page 8)