Summer fjgjh Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVIV, Number 5	Los	Angeles, California	Tuesday,	June	29,	1976
Schutz says social sciences deanship like being a midwife
By Don La Plante
Editor
As the new dean for the division of social sciences and communication, John Schutz sees his role as something of a midwife between the faculty and the administration.
“The dean is really a super department chairman. He tries to coordinate the policies of the social sciences. He tries to keep the departments harmonious and he tries to keep them in line with university policy,” Schutz said.
Schutz, who has been chairman of the department of history, will assume his new post in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences on Thursday. He was appointed by President John R. Hubbard after being nominated by the faculty of the division.
He sees his major goal as try-, ingto improve every department in the division, either by encouraging and working with the present faculty and when necessary bringing in new faculty members for departments.
“We have to encourage sponsored research and publication for current faculty. We have to encourage departments to find additional staff to enrich department offerings and bring eminence, to become even more superior,” he said.
The man Schutz is replacing. Donald J. Lewis, who is returning to his position as a professor in psychology, resigned in the spring protesting what he felt was a lack of commitment by the administration to the needs of the college and the division.
Schutz did not believe he would find funding a major problem. He said he knew there vtfould not be an unlimited supply of money, but when he needed additional funds he would be able to get as much as was available.
“When we need funds we will ask the university authorities. I don’t look at it in terms of money, but as objectives as part of the university,” he said.
Schutz said he sees the division as being one of the best in the university and that some substantial talent has been attracted to the university in recent years. He said that next year three prominent economists will join the economics department adding lusterto that department. He said it will make it one of the best on the coast.
While Schutz often stresses the need to get good scholars and increase the amount of research and publishing by the faculty, he said that this works hand-in-hand with the process of teaching.
“A scholar is a professor who writes and a professor who teaches and is equally good in both areas. If you get a sample of 100, some will be a bit better at scholarship and some better at teaching, but you will strike a balance,” he said.
"We serve the students and try to excite student minds. A professor can’t be exciting if he doesn’t know what research is about. The excitment has to be infused into the classroom.”
A DIFFERENT VIEW—A look through the trees at Tommy Trojan and the Von KleinSmid Center at night provide a view seldom thought of by most students. Summer Trojan photo by Bob Chavez.
Last week brought one of the hottest spells in a while to the area, with most days of the week either breaking or being very near the hottest temperature on record for that date.
Attending classes and studying with such heat conditions can be unbearable without air conditioning. The trip from that (hopefully) air-conditioned car to the air-conditioned classroom can be unbearable for some people.
Fortunately for most students at the university this summer, buildings at the university are for the most part air conditioned. Only a few of the older buildings are still without air conditioning.
Very few classes are scheduled in the buildings without air conditioning to avoid students passing out and to avoid inevitable complaints.
The classes for the American Language Institute, which were scheduled for Olin Hall of Engineering but have si nee been moved, and a few cinema courses, scheduled for Founders Hall, are about the only ones in the nonair-conditioned buildings.
However, since the Division of Cinema requested the rooms in Founders Hall for their classes, they knew what they were getting into.
Employees are not that for-
Applications available for Fulbright program
Competition is open for the awarding of Fulbright-Hays grants for the 1977-78 academic year.
The grants provide grants for graduate study or research abroad in the academic fields and for professional training in the creative and performing arts.
In the past, university students have had a high rate of success in competition for the available grants.
The deadline for application for the approximately 550 grants to over 50 countries is Oct. 1.
The purpose of the grants is to increase mutual understanding between the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills.
The selection of the winners is based on the academic and professional record of the applicants, the validity and feasibility of the proposed plan of study, language preparation and personal qualifications. Preference is given to applicants who have not had the opportunity for extended study of residence in a foreign country, study of residence in a foreign country.
Applicants for the program must be United States citizens and hold a bachelor’s degree, or its equivalent, before the beginning of the date of the grant. In most, cases, the applicant must be proficient in the language of the host country.
Except for specific awards, applicants may not hold the Ph.D. degree at the time of application. In addition, applicants are ineligible fora grant to a country7 if they will be doing graduate work or conducting research in that country during the 1976-77 academic year.
Applicants in the creative and performing arts do not need a bachelor’s degree, but must have four years professional studv o; equivalent experience. Social work applicants must have two years experience alter the Master of Social Work degree and applicants in medicine must have the M.D. degree.
Information and application forms may be obtained from Nelson Horn, program adviser and associate dean of the Graduate School, in Administration 302.
He said that he hoped to improve the quality of teaching in the division by running workshops or setting up a teaching institute to improve teaching.
“We’re going to have to try to improve uninspired teaching.
Some professors are so involved in the topic that they aren’t as up to date as they think they are. It’s not the age of a person, but their vitality,” Schutz said.
Schutz said one problem is that the university, while it has excellence, is striving for greatness. The problem being the difficulty to attain greatness. He viewed the dean as being a midwife to greatness, aiding and abetting the process.
He said the advantage of being private was not being at the whim of state government or the dictates of politicians.
“We are the only great private university in Southern California. We have an almost unlimited audience in the people of Southern California. We have to bring the dynamic process to bear on the scholars and the stu-	A GOOD THROW—Although the days were hot, one student still found
dents to make it a great univer-	some time for a little physical activity. Even during the summer, frisbee
sity.”
players can be found in Alumni Park during the day.
Heat wave strikes; temperature soars to 95 in Founders Hall
During most of the year, Los Angeles is known for its generally mild climate and beautiful weather conditions. Well, usually that is.
Sometimes summer doesn’t quite fit the bill for beautiful weather unless you are the type that enjoys hiking in the Sahara desert.
tunate. While classes are not held in the old buildings, the offices are still there and employees, especially the staff, who cannot leave for the summer as the professors can, are feeling the effects of the heat.
It has been reported that at least two secretaries in Founders Hall went home sick from the
heat in their offices and most likely employees in other buildings have also.
The humanities division closed their offices in Founders Hall at 1 p.m. on Friday for the benefit of the employees.
Temperatures in the building ranged from a low of 88 degrees
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