San Francisco Foghorn

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Volume 71 No. 4
foghoan
May 7, 1976
When other schools are laying off teachers, cutting back programs, reducing services and
generally retreating from the post-war prosperity boom USF continues to BUILD, BUILD
BUILD!!!
Crime Down
On Campus
PASU Vouchers Called 'Mistake'
By Byrne Conley
What started out as a
"scandal" has ended as a
"breakdown in
communicatons", which has cost
ASUSF $449.49 so far. The
"Scandal" started some three
weeks ago. PASU, which was
going through the process of
rev, riling this year's budget,
asked the Senate for
authorization to pay the
bookstore $300.00 to cover book
vouchers they had issued. The
Senate voted not to pay, and to
look into the matter.
As it turns out, the bookstore
had already billed ASUSF, and
the money was gone—it had
been taken out of PASU
honorariums, office supplies,
and special programs accounts.
The bills had come in two
lump  sums—$259 in January,
and $ 159 in April. Also, there are
some bills outstanding (due to be
charged this month) to the tune
of thirty more dollars.
The Senate was surprised by
the idea of vouchers being used
from student activity fees. PASU
had, however, given out
vouchers for each of the two
previous years. In those years,
the money had been specifically
line-itemed, and had been
approved by the Vice-Presidents
for Student Development (John
Marshall the first year. Dr. Ann
Dolan the next).
This year, the money was not
line-itemed. The President of
PASU submitted a budget, and
the vouchers were cut from it. i
Castoria called the bookstore
and told them not to accept any
vouchers.
The bookstore said that they
had never received the call.
Kelvin Blankenship. who was
president of PASU (until his
term expired this week), went to
Jack Sheehan (then the ASUSF
treasurer) at the beginning of this
school year, and asked if the
vouchers could be given out this
year. Jack told them to go ahead.
When asked if he didn't think
it improper to use student
activity funds for book vouchers,
Kelvin answered that there were
many students who needed
financial help, and he didn't
think it improper. Jack Sheehan
had no comment.
On further investigation, it
turns up that no student received
more than twenty dollars in
vouchers. One person's name,
however, did appear on a
voucher, and is not registered as
a student at USF. Further
investigation is pending on that
matter.
Being in tune to what students
want and keeping crime down,
are two of Jeff Levin's main goals
as USF Public Safety Director.
Levin, who was a fulltime
patrolman for 14 months before
he became Director in December, 1975, claims that they have
cut the automobile burglaries,
which were down in March 509?
from the same month last year.
"That was a big problem when
1 took over," he said.
"What we started doing was
spotting cars," Levin added.
"Wc arrested about five or six
auto boosters in February, and
we caught a couple the other
night", he said, "two kids with
wrenches."
The USF graduate also stated
that petty thefts have gone down,
with the one big thing that Public Safety is watching the "hot
prowel", which Levin explains is
when a burglar comes into the
dorm when a person is sleeping .
at night.
"Our students don't commit
the crimes," Levin said.
"This is al! off-campus stuff,"
he added.
Since the rape committed last
semester in Campion, there have
been no reported rapes, he feels,
because of the constant patrols
off and on campus.
"First of all, a lot of these rapists are opportunists," stated
Levin.
They take advantage if the
area is not patrolled well," he
said.
"But if it wasn't for us at night,
you couldn't walk here," he
added.
Part of the daily routine for
the nine-person squad, is opening and locking up campus buildings, patrolling the campus area,
transporting people in emergencies, as well as women going off-
campus on school business within five blocks, and administering
jumper cables.
"We lend jumper cables, but
we don't jump cars," he said.
A task force which examined the
present Public Safety setup, recommended that it would run
more efficiently if they had an increase in funding.
"Public Safety gets a little over
$100,000 a year", he said.
"The Administration has been
very cooperative", he added.
Levin wants to improve the in-
service training, as well as Public
Safety's relationship with the
students.
"If the students just tell us
what the problem is", he said, referring to students who do not
state the emergencies quickly
enough on the red phones, "it
makes it easier for us "
A new addition next year will
be University Service Officers
where "students will do work for
us."
Asked if these were undercover people, he said, "We don't
have anybody undercover."
Qualifications for USF Public
Safety Officers, whose salaries
start at $687 a month, are prior
police experience, at least an Associate of Arts degree, qualifying with a gun, passing a psychological testing and an oral
interview.
Father Burns offers letter of resignation
The University of California at
Los Angeles has invited me to
succeed to the chair or position
long distinguished by Professor
Lynn White Jr., as a senior professor of Medieval History in the
Graduate School and as a member of both the Medieval Renaissance Center and the Near
Eastern Center. Though I have
hitherto steadily refused attractive offers to leave my favorite university and city, I am accepting the U.C.L.A. invitation.
1 do not gladly relinquish
U.S.F.'s classrom-oriented and
institutionally Catholic
apostolate; but for a Jesuit there
are equally pressing priorities to
consider. Deliberation and varied consultation persuade me
that 1 should not refuse the challenges and opportunities of that
kind of post in a research institution of such importance in my
field.
To make the transition easier
for our History Department, I
shall stay on through the coming Fall Semester, teaching in
both the undergraduate and
Honors Programs. My home address thereafter will be the Jesuit
Community at Loyola University in Los Angeles, some fifteen
minutes down the freeway from
UCLA. Some have asked if
current disputes here between
faculty and administration affected my decision. The answer is
no. The U.C.L.A. negotiations
antedate all that, and in any case,
one must expect recurrent
brouhaha on any lively campus
anywhere.
1 leave U.S.F. with fond
memories. My teaching and research career began here thirty
years ago. (It seems implausible
now, but that first year involved
crowd-scene teaching of fifteen
hours weekly in three depart
ments, living with and perfecting two barracks-full of athletes,
supervising as moderator a number of student organizations, and
publishing several articles in
technical journals of history).
When Heave in early 1977,1 shall 1
have put in a total of twenty
years' teaching here. For all its
nobility and rewarding moments, as every teacher knows, this
represents a considerable investment of energy, affection, and
prosaic drudgery, with results as
a rule not immediately visible! It
has also been a work with deep
human, intellectual, and spiritual satisfactions.
1 shall remember with affection my many friends among the
faculty and staff over those
twenty years, my generations of
students past and present, and
our splendid (when fog-free)
green-and-gold campus.
Robert 1 . Burns, SJ.