Trustees find business as usual at yearly conference
By Sherry Stern
Editor
No former president made a guest appearance. No major announcements were made. No big surprises. This year's annual Board of Trustees conference was strictly business as usual.
Most of the 40-member hoard attended the three-day conference at the La Quinta Hotel, outside of Palm Springs, as did top university administratiors and, for the first time, the heads of the Faculty Senate. Student Senate and Staff Caucus.
The trustees heard a series of reports from new administrators and an update on the progress of “Toward Century 11," the university's fund-raising effort.
Speakers at the day sessions were Don Walsh, director of the Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies; Jack Steele, dean of the School of Business Administration; Richard Oliver, dean of the School of Denistry; Stephen Knezvich, dean of the School of Education; Houston I. Flournoy, dean ofthe Center for Public Affairs; A. Quincy Jones, dean of the School of Architecture and Fine
Arts; Roasalind K. Loring, dean of the College of Continuing Education and Allen W. Mathies, dean of the School of Medicine.
Featured at dinner were Richard Perry, director of athletics, and football Coach John Robinson, both of whom have graced so many banquets in the past few months that they had their acts polished to a blinding shine.
For most of the speakers, the gist of the talk was problems they found on their arrival, a report on their respective departments, changes they feel are needed and pleas for space and money.
Walsh came to the university in September. 1975 to head the newly formed Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies.
He said the main problems ofthe institute are that it has no faculty reasearch. a lack of coordination between the various departments, anonymity nationally (although ranking eighth monetarily), no university department or college of marine studies to work with and no campus building.
Steele said that while the strength of the
business school is the number of students, that is also the main problem, creating an over-demand on facilities. He said 3.400 students use facilities built for 2.500.
He said he sees a need for changes in the curricula to emphasize management problem solving, in the number of degrees and their distribution and faculty performance to upgrade work in the classroom as well as research.
Oliver, who assumed his post in September, 1975, said space shortage is a major problem in the School of Dentistry. He said more than 50% of the clinic space is overcrowded. Other problems are a small library, outdated record keeping and a shortage of faculty.
Oliver said the average freshman in the dental school spends about SI2.000 on tuition and equipment during his first year.
Knezvich was one of the few speakers who didn't make a request for space. He said the School of Education has plenty of room in Waite Phillips Hall.
He told the board that 90% of the students
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Daily ip Trojan
Volume LXVIII, No. 117
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, April 27, 1976
Fall applications increase by 700
WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT?—This little	With term paper deadlines nearing and finals
kitten seems to be checking out the passerby	approaching, the only other scenery that
that might become his owner. He and some	some students will be seeing are the stacks in
of his feline friends were on campus Monday,	Doheny Library. DT photo by Bob LaBayne. bringing smiles and sighs to many faces.
Coffeehouse to open in May; will feature food, entertainment
By Peter Fletcher
Staff Writer
The university has received at least 700 more applications for undergraduate admission in the fall semester than the 7.800 it had received at this time last year.
Over 9.000 applications for admission are expected, and the larger number should enable the university to be more selective in its admissions, said Conrad Wedberg, dean of admissions.
Fine reputation
He said just under 7,000 applications, which include freshmen and transfer students, will be accepted and that approximately 50% of that number are expected to actually enroll.
More than 2,700 expected to enroll will be freshmen and 1,500 will be transfer students, Wedberg said.
Many schools and departments have fine reputations that attract large numbers of applicants; music, architecture, business and journalism to name a few,” Wedberg said.
Cinema deluge
Premed, predent and liberal arts programs receive the great bulk of applicants, but Wedberg said the School of Business receives the most applications of all the specialty schools.
Public affairs
The Center for Public Affairs is not another ivory tower atop the wall of the university castle.
A new board has been established to bring the energies of the center against pressing public issues.
The Board of Counselors is to be composed of people who deal with the issues and problems in the public affairs area.
It will be the counselors' duty to give input to the center in order to target research to solve these problems, said Pete Wilkinson.
“We've also been deluged with cinema applications this year." he said.
As of April 15, the graduate school had received 5,600 applicants, compared to 4,200 last year at this time.
Wedberg said the university expects to receive about 6,000 applications by the end of the year of those, 3.000 will probably attend the university.
Wedberg added that the overall quality of applicants is just as good as last year.
Stable economy
He attributed the rise in applications to the improvement of the nation's economy.
“The economic situation is more s'table. More people are applying to private universities because they feel they can afford it,” he said.
Wedberg said it is important for not only this university to admit _ twice as many students as can be enrolled but schools such as Caltech, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and even Stanford must do the same.
“Students apply to many schools and as a result we have to accept approximately double what we plan to enroll,” he said.
director of development for public administration.
The board resembles other such groups already established in the Law School, Gerontology Center, Medical School, Engineering School, Business School and Denistry School, he said.
There are many issues, such as mass public transportation, about which a great deal of inaccurate information is circulated. The failure or success of any transportation proposal considered will be based on the information presented, Wilkinson said.
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The coffeehouse sponsored by the New Activities and Services Agency will open Wednesday, May 12 at 8:30 p.m. in the Commons Cafeteria, said Liz Jimenez, a member of the agency.
The coffeehouse, which was promised to the students of the university for most of the semester, will be one of three presented this year as an experiment.
For the first evening, Sheils and Clark will perform music similar to Seals and Crofts.
There will be seating for about 100 people in the coffeehouse which runs until midnight.
Food will be provided by the university’s food service, Jimenez said that crepes and all types of
coffee, including fresh espresso, should be available.
“This is our trial period for next year. We have to see how it runs and if it is beneficial for everyone involved,” she said.
The coffeehouse is being set up by the services agency because of complaints by students about the lack of on campus activities this year. The agency was set up this year to start activities of this type. They receive 10% of the programming fee.
The coffeehouse is located in the Commons Cafeteria because the members of the agency wanted a central setting to attract more students and one that would also provide a nice atmoshpere.
There will be different entertainment every night, Jimenez said. “I think it will serve the needs of the
people. We are going to try to continue it as a constant function,” she said.
The coffeehouse will operate on Wednesdays and Fridays and the starting time was selected to coincide with the DKA films. The members of the agency hope that the crowds from the films will go to the coffeehouse to help make it successful.
The members of the agency worked with Guy Hubbard, director of Auxilary Services to set up the activity.
Auxilary services will supervise the coffeehouse to make sure that all contractual agreements are kept with the food service workers who will staff the coffeehouse. The students will have control over the selection of food and the entertainment.
board plans to attack pressing issues
By Justin Fox
Staff Writer