Daily Ip Trojan
Volume LXVIII, No. 113
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, April 21, 1976
By Alix Riley
Managing Editor
Students who were hoping for an extended Christmas vacation free from the pressures of writing term papers and studying for final exams might as well forget it—at least for a year or two.
The Board of Trustees voted April 14 to reject any change in the academic calendar. Its vote was consistent with a recommendation by the board’s Finance and Budget Committee. That committee had reported in March that a change in the calendar couid result in a loss of revenue for the university.
The calendar that had been proposed would have had the fall semester begin in early September and end before Christmas.
Economic reasons
President John R. Hubbard said Tuesday that the board’s decision was made because of
economic reasons, rather than an aversion to change.
“It’s a simple matter of economics,” he said. “The principle of change is not an issue.”
“The board members don’t care what the calendar is as long as there’s no fiscal loss to the university.”
Hubbard said that a change in the calendar could result in a loss of transfer students.
“We have to stay in sync with the schools that feed us students,” he said.
The academic calendar has been an issue for several years, and Hubbard said it will continue to be discussed.
“It’s by no means a dead issue,” he said.
$17 million budget
In other action, the board approved a balanced budget of $17 million for fiscal year 1976-77 and elected two new trustees.
The board also heard reports from the Finance and Budget Committee, the Executive Committee and the Student Affairs Committee.
The board approved the Student Affairs Committee report endorsing the concept of the university center. Action was postponed on a proposal that would allow freshmen to live in coed residence halls if there
were still vacancies after the spaces allocated for returning students had been filled.
Betty Murray, executive secretary to the board, said she could not release the reports by the other two committees.
2	new trustees
The new trustees are Walter F. Probst and John Elmore. This brings the number of trustees to 40, two short of the maximum number as specified in the board’s bylaws.
Probst is the retired chairman ofthe board and chief executive officer of Essex International. He serves on the boards of directors for Lincoln National Bank and Trust Co. of Fort Wayne, Indiana; the American Fletcher Corp. of Indianapolis and the United Technologies Corp., where he is also on the executive committee. Probst is also a trustee of the Eisenhower Medical Center.
Elmore lists his occupation as “agri-business owner.” His fam ily owns farming interests in the Imperial Valley and owns and operates an 80-acre horse breeding and training ranch south of San Clemente State Park. He also has farming interests in Northern California.
Elmore is also a member ofthe USC Associates and Cardinal and Gold.
Fonda to speak
Jane Fonda will speak today at 12:30 p.m. in behalf of Tom Hayden’s campaign for the United States Senate. Her talk will take place on the Student Activities Center patio.
TAKING IT EASY—Kenny Rankin, a mellow songster, played to a large audience on the Student Activities Center patio on Tuesday. The crowd took advantage of the concert and nice weather to linger awhile before moving on to afternoon classes.
Permanent grievance panel set up for staff
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By Dorothy Reinhold
Assistant City Editor
The Affirmative Action and Personnel Policies Committee has unanimously passed a recommendation to set up a system that would provide for a permanent staff grievance appeal panel to replace the ad-hoc panels that have been used until now.
The recommendation states that the four member panel for any particular grievance will be chosen from a pool of 15 members that will be selected by the staff caucus.
The pool, which will consist of three representatives from each of the five conferences of the university, will be selected on a yearly basis, and its membership will be staggered so that not all members are replaced in anyone year.
The five conferences are the
central administration, health science campus and other staff, academic administrators, staff in central units and other staff in schools and colleges.
The panel, when chosen to consider a grievance, will include a person who is experienced in arbitration and a representative from the council of deans, as well as two other members.
Representatives from the personnel office and the Affirma tive Action office will act as exofficio members if the case under consideration would benefit from their input. The person with a grievance will also have the opportunity to challenge two of the panel appointments. if he thinks they could not judge him fairly.
In other action, the committee discussed plans to investigate
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Board of Trustees rejects academic calendar change
Chavez to discuss farm labor bill
Cesar Chavez, president of the United Farm Workers of America, will speak today at 1:30 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
He will discuss the farm workers initiative which, if passed, would guarantee free elections to all farm workers in California.
A representative from the farm workers group said, “This bill would insure the workers’ right to secret-ballot elections in regard to which union they want to represent them, or even if they want union representation.”
The campaign to get the initiative on the November ballot was started April 1, and since then
430,000	signatures have been accumulated state-wide.
At least 540,000 signatures are needed to get the measure on the ballot.
Although his main topic will be the farm workers initiative, Chavez will also speak on where the United Farm Workers stand today, and the recruitment of doctors, nurses, accountants and lawyers to work for the farm workers.
CESAR CHAVEZ
‘CRAZY MONTH’
April: for some a rebirth, for some an ending
By Marie Denunzio
Staff Writer
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lulocs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers.
T.S. Eliot The Wasteland
April—it is a month associated with the rebirth of life, and yet it is the time when many choose to end their own existence.
April is 'crazy montn.' when for most USC students, emotional stress reaches a peak and an individual must either overcome or submit to the pressure. The later
inevitably results in severe depression and possibly suicidal tendencies.
Every year, usually in the spring, one or two university students are unable to conquer these feelings and so take the only escape from their present existence they feel open to them—they take their own lives.
Why do students become depressed and why are these emotions intensified duringa given period oftime? Anita B. Siegman. directorof counseling services, said the main reason students come tothe CounselingCenter is because they are lonely.
She said these students are simply seeking companionship from friends and parents and most have a desperate need for male/female relationships. However a relationship is not necessarily a cure for loneliness. Either or both partners may feel they are alone because their sexual and emotional needs are not being met.
Another problem that plagues students is the search for their sexual identity. Siegman said the second-largest
number of cases at the Counseling Center deals with students askingthemselves "Am I normal?" She said several young college men and women who are still virgins worry they are “sexually abnormal.” They feel this might mean they are homosexual Often these assumptions are erroneous.
As for why April is the time when all these pressures come to a zenith. Siegman. who coined the phrase "crazy month.” had several theories. She said that in her eight years of working at the university, April is the busiest month for the Counseling Center. This differs from other expert opinions that people often become suicidal around holidays.
During these times (especially Christmas) the family reunion theme is strong. For those who have none, the void is filled with loneliness and despair Often these individuals review their lives in Dickens-like retrospect and realize that the security and friendship experienced in their youth is gone.
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