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USC provost Arthur Smith
Smith steps in
From staff and wire reports
USC's provost and executive vice presiden
academic affairs was named interim president fc
university by the Board of Trustees June 6.
Arthur Smith, 52, will take over for James He
man on July 1. Holderman resigned his post as
president May 30.
"From July 1, I will do my very best to sustai
momentum and the direction that have been e
lished for the university system," Smith said.
"The Univeristy of South Carolina has achiei
system status that is truly extraordinary," he said,
have an outstanding faculty, and able staff of adi
strators and excellent students on all our campuse
Smith joined USC in 1988 after serving as
president for administration at the State Universi
New York.
Smith will take over and hold the position ui
committee elected by the board finds a replace
for Holderman, who served almost 13 years as f
dent of USC.
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By The Associated Press
University of Utah President Chase N. Peters
cheerleader for the phantom phenomenon of tat
fusion, is retiring under fire for a hidden, $50
transfer of money toward its development.
Peterson, 60, said Monday he would retire nexl
but had no intention of resigning under pressure.
In a resolution last week, the faculty's Acac
Senate had questioned Peterson's ability to ru:
23,500-student university,in light of the furor ov<
money transfer. Peterson has held the post since ]
The president acknowledged that the "perk
time I can effectively provide leadership is nearii
end."
reierson nau come unuer snarp cnucism iwic
fore in the past 15 months, first for the school'
nouncement of a breakthrough in the quest for f
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?~ Smith said he wants to continue Holderman
1 ?r rams at the university.
"I think the scope and quality of the progn
the system has brought to the people of Soi
olina represent a remarkable achievemeni
achievement that has moved forward with grea
under the leadership of Jim Holderman, and
n tve Holderman, as well," he said,
stabSmith,
as USC's academic officer, has been
fed a sible for all academic affairs on the Columbia
"We and for the coordination of academic matter;
mini- nine-campus USC system,
s."
vice As a Latin American specialist, Smith also
ty of nured professor in USC's department of gov
and international studies,
ntil a While Harry Lightsey is still mentioned as
ment vored candidate for the position, the board h<
>resi- motion a national search for a permanent repl
for Holderman.
Utah's pre side i
and then for his handling of a $15 million <
on, a that later was returned.
?letop Last month, controversy erupted when it
3,000 known that a $500,000 donation to the school
research center that had been characterized by
t year versity as an "anonymous," outside gift actu;
the result of a Peterson-authorized transfer o
lemic from the school's Research Foundation,
n the Peterson on June 1 said hiding the origin ol
natinn was a mistake. He said he had hoDed
1983. jealousy within other departments, but had '
)d of credibility of the institute."
ng an Chemist B. Stanley Pons of the university i
ish colleague Martin Fleischmann annou
e be- March 1989 that they had achieved a susta
s an- clear fusion reaction in a tabletop experiment,
usion nouncement held out the prospect of a cheap,
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By The Associated Press
The resignation last month of USC Presi
B. Holderman may foil the school's effort
former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, <
official said Tuesday.
Koop was attracted to the school, where
fcred to chair a maternal and child hcah
because Holderman was turning USC into ;
acclaimed institution, said Dr. Michael
chairman of USC's Department c
Administration.
"That's the kind of thing that would all
one of Dr. Koop's caliber. I don't think a
that he would be interested, at least until w
the new leadership would be," Samuels
new president came in that might conccntra
undergraduate education rather than rescar
hard to attract someone like Koop."
Koop, who served as U.S. surgeon gcnci
1981 and 1989, was traveling Tuesday
Angeles to New York and could not be i
samecock comment, said his assistant, Mary Lee Gcoj
She said Koop was aware of Holdcrmar
t Two group
restart of cl
ims that By .The Associated Press Site,
ith Car- ^wo envjronmentai groups start
' ,an said today they had filed a fed?s
\es eral lawsuit in South Carolina "cxl
ar0 to try to block the restart of a ?
federal nuclear weapons plant
respon- closed more 111311 tw0 aS? iqcc
camnus for safetyreasons- y,
5 of the sult ^ tlie Natural ^e" CL
sources Defense Council and at)0U
the Energy Research Founda- n
is a le- tion was filed Monday in U.S. or<
ernment District Court in Columbia, said sP^n
Daniel W. Reicher, an attorney 3 1
?h^ fa. for NRDC Er
is set in The Energy Department, Watl
acement which owns the Savannah River for r
nt resigns over
donation virtually inexhaustible source of energy.
Despite extreme scientific skepticism th;
became today, the Legislature appropriated $5 mill
's fusion to establish the National Cold Fusion Ins
the uni- school and to protect the state's patent righ
ally was The center has tried to raise money frc
f money ernment and corporations but has had limi
A Department of Energy panel recommer
f the do- funding, and the only confirmed contri
to avoid $50,000 from Utah Power & Light Co. in 1
'hurt the In June, Salt Lake medical equipment n
James Sorenson donated $15 million in p
ind Brit- cal stock to the university with the under*
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ined nu- honor.
The an- Peterson was forced to return the mone;
safe and tests from doctors, faculty and students.
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forts to hir
lion. "I don't believe he
dent James USC, at least for the pre
s to recruit " She said Koop was t
t university country filming health
too many other projects
he was of- Ms. Geoghegan said, a<
h program, whether Holderman's
i nationally willingness to take a job
! Samuels, Samuels said he las
if Health months ago about the jol
Public Health. He said K
tract some- quaintance of Holderma
t this point position at the time,
'e see what "When we were in n
said. "If a was that he (Holderman;
itc more on versity here," Samuels i
ch, it'll be contact Koop this week
joining USC.
al between
from Los USC's Board of Tru
cached for provost, Arthur K. Smith
^hcgan. ident when Holderman i
i's resigna- a permanent president co
s will try 1
osed SRS i
has said it intends to re- tive, I
the first of Savannah tors b;
r's three active reactors by vital t<
January. The plant pro- Trit
s tritium gas for nuclear 5.5 pe
cads. tities
le reactors were closed in plenisl
after an accident at one fa- its stc
' raised troubling questions ning 1
t safety standards and the about
of mechanical failures. classil
5 than $1 billion is being
t to upgrade the reactors A
retrain workers. Depai
lergy Secretary James D. fice !
cins has said the timetable ately
estarting the plant is tenta- the la
transfer q,
Pons said he was grat*
at continues "He made a strong ef
ion last fall gret that it is an issue in
titute at the said. "We still know tha
ts. that soon he will be abl
>m the gov- the positive accomplisl
~A TTtah "
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ided against Critics lauded Peters
bution was end of the 1990-91 acad
Vlarch. "I think that his tim
lanufacturer and his statement is ap]
harmaceuti- Sandra Taylor, a history
itanding the the Academic Senate res
amed in his Peterson was the sch<
sciences when surgeons
y after pro- heart implant in 1982 or
112 days on the device.
"he idea of having a system of Ame
ic education is to encourage as credi
y people as possible to go to T1
ge," said Jonathan Darnell of on I
Student Empowerment Train- dive
5roject. busii
n other countries, like Great econ
lin, students actually receive a Sout
nd to attend," he said. "Stu- O
s in this country have to de- stud<
affordable education~if they from
t to keep it." York
sues involving minority stu- ? tc
s and racism on colleges cam- A1
s have been prominent in the with
s over the past few years, and activ
snts have been involved since ary,
beginning with fighting for ra- step
equality. dives
rhen South Africa legalized the Al
can National Congress and Calil
i its leader, Nelson Mandela, activ
' 27 years in prison on Feb. 11, meet
rhe three most
a l/SC student sho
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e Koop
is considering any offer with
sent."
oo busy traveling around the
programs for NBC. "He has
going on at the present time,"
dding that she did not know
resignation affected Koop's
with USC.
t spoke with Koop several
3 in the university's School of
^oop, whom he said was a acn,
was very interested in the
egotialion, the real attraction
> was building a national unisaid,
adding he would try to
to determine his interest in
stees appointed the school's
i, to take over as interim pres^signs
July 1. The search for
mid take up to six months.
;o block
eactors
)ut that putting the reacack
in production soon is
3 the nation's security,
ium decays at a rate of
rcent a year, so the quanin
warheads must be rehed.
The government says
>ckpile of tritium is runow,
although information
tritium inventories is
ied.
secretary in the Energy
rtment's public affairs of;aid
no one was immediavailable
to comment on
wsuit.
ffunds
sful for Peterson's support.
Tort to see it through. We re
his retirement decision," Pons
t we are right, and we are sure
e to list cold fusion as one of
iiments by the University of
on's decision to retire at the
emic year.
etable is entirely appropriate
ireciated by the faculty," said
professor who had introduced
lolution.
aol's vice president for health
; completed the first artificial
1 Barney Clark, who died after
rican students took part of the
it for the victory,
iroughout the 1980s, students
J.S. campuses led the fight for
stment of companies doing
less in South Africa and for
tomic sanctions against the
h African government
/er the course of the decade,
snts pressured 60 schools ?
Columbia University in New
: to the University of Hawaii
> divest.
Ithough observers thought that
Mandela's release, campus
ism would dwindle, in Februstudents
on many campuses
ped up the pressure for
>tmenL
: the University of Southern
fornia, for example, student
ists rallied outside a Feb. 7
ing of the Board of Directors
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