Daily tp Trojan
Volume LXX, Number 13
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday October 6, 1976
Thousands expected as campus prepares for Ford
A GRAND HERITAGE—The new Annenberg School of Communications is seen over the shoulder of a torch-holding trophy in Heritage Hall. The construction is evidence of the growth of the university through the years. The school is being furnished and inhabitation will begin soon. DT photo by Rick -Stem.
New policy will limit repeating of courses
A new policy of grading and computing grade-point averages in repeated courses, effective the spring semester of 1977, has been adopted by the Academic Standards Commission.
The policy states that a student may not repeat a course in which he earned an A or B, for grade points. In addition, a student may not repeat a course for points in which he earned a C without advance approval of the commission.
Nelson T. Horn, associate dean of The Graduate School, said a student may repeat a course without permission in which he got a D. Horn is chairman ofthe subcommittee that reviews incompletes and grading in repeated courses.
He stressed that “all grades assigned at the university will be included in the computation of the GPA. An A in a repeated course does not erase a D previously earned.”
Horn added that a student would not receive additional unit credit for the repeated course. “The student would, in effect, be receiving only four units for two classes,” he said.
The policy also states that no course completed at the university may be repeated for grade-point credit at another institution.
The commission received a memo regarding the illegal posting of students’ grades as stated in the Family Educational Rights of Privacy Act of 1974, commonly known as the Buckley Amendment.
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BY TOM ROSA
Managing Editor
No one will make any estimates on how many people will be here Thursday at President Gerald R. Ford’s speech, but considering the amount of VIPs and press coming, the number could be well into the thousands.
A conservative estimate by the Student News Bureau puts the number of press at around 250, including representatives from all three major networks.
Jack Lecovey, White House advance press officer, said the national press corps will include at least 100 to 120 reporters who will follow the Ford motorcade in three press buses.
Local radio and television stations plus representatives from newspapers and magazines are also expected to send a large contingent of journalists.
The list of invited university guests and other VIPs continues to grow.
The Board of Trustees, deans, administrators and other VIPs will sit either on the stage with Ford or be seated around him. The stage will be in front of Doheny Library.
The library will be closed until 2 p.m.
The press will be situated on a 40-foot by eight-foot two-tier stage to the left of the President’s platform.
The Trojan Marching Band and student leaders will be seated between the hedges leading away from the steps of Doheny to the fountain.
The Physical Plant has had requests from the Secret Service for between 550 to 600 seats. The actual seating arrangement has not been announced because of security precautions.
A detailed itinerary and guest list will be published in Thursday’s Daily Trojan.
Barricades will be placed throughout Alumni Park by the Secret Service to keep extensive con-
trol on the expected crowds. Students and the rest of the campus community will be allowed to stand in areas designated by the Secret Service.
The President’s motorcade will park in front of Von KleinSmid Center along with most ofthe press.
Because ofthe expected crowds, students should arrive as early as possible said Marcy Selby, senior department secretary for the Student News Bureau.
Ford is expected to make his speech at noon. It will be directed to a convocation of first-time voters.
Since the general public has been invited to hear the speech, Selby said the Student News Bureau hasn't even attempted to estimate the size of the crowd.
Much of today’s preparation on campus is being conducted by the Secret Service.
Selby said officers in the Secret Service were trying to act inconspicuous, but in their attempts to blend in they stuck out with their suits, walkie talkies and new mod haircuts.
On the first floor of Doheny Library, the College Reading Room is being turned into a press file room equipped with coin phones, typewriters, tables, paper and other supplies to meet the needs of the press, Selby said.
Security procedures are being closely guarded by the Secret Service. Reporters, VIPs and others who will be close to the President must be screened and credentialed.
A number tof students from the Student News Bureau are assisting the White House Advance Press Team at the University Hilton with securing proper credentials and making arrangements to help the press corps when it arrives.
Members of the Daily Trojan, El Rodeo, KSCR, Student News Bureau and other university publications will accompany Ford on his Southern California trip as part of the press corps.
Men assigned to women’s dorm
Men have been assigned to a previously all-female residence hall because of a lack of women applicants.
Hans Reichl, director of residential life, said Tuesday, “The assignments in College-University are not setting any
Naming director to be final step in student services reorganization
Elizabeth Von KleinSmid Memorial Hall, he said.
The hall is separated from the upstairs women’s levels, making the transition a fairly easy one, he said.
“There are still spaces for women applicants in Marks Tower, College-University Hall, Regal Trojan, Twin Palms and Jewel Manor apartments,” Reichl said. “WTe are ready and willing to assign applicants.”
Applications for housing are available in the Office of Resi-cess to the 24-hour lounge'in dential Life, Student Union 202.
precedent. The housing priorities are to be reassessed at the semester break.”
The first floor, known to residents as the freeway hall, is being utilized for the overflow of male applicants for on-campus housing. Nineteen men are being housed there.
The lock on the hall has been changed to maintain security and the men are following the same visitation hours as the women in the complex, Reichl said.
“They also have complete ac-
Hiring a permanent director is the major task left in the reorganization of Student Administrative Services.
January, 1977 was the target date set by a financial aid task force last April for hiring the new director. James L. Jones has served as acting director in the interim.
The search committee for the new director is well on its way to hiring someone and will not have any problems in meeting the deadline, said Terry Ann Hillis, a student senator member of the search committee and special task force on financial aid.
The task force was appointed last spring by the President’s Advisory Council to investigate problems within Student Administrative Services and to suggest and implement changes.
One ofthe major changes in the reorganization was to establish an Office of Operations. This office contains a central file for all students. Other departments within Student Administrative Services can then make copies of the files each department needs, Hillis said.
Prior to the reorganization, flies were kept in various offices, which resulted in considerable confusion, she said.
Another change made was to merge the offices of admissions and financial aid. This came about because students requesting admissions information would invariably request financial aid information at the same time, Hillis said.
The organizational changes mean a different approach will be taken by students seeking the assistance of Student Administrative Services. Hillis said the front desk on the first floor has been staffed with people trained to answer financial aid questions and to distribute and collect financial aid forms.
“That’s step number one,” Hillis said. “If a student then feels he has not been given enough aid or if something else is bothering him about his aid, he can make an appointment with a counselor. The counselor will discuss the reasons behind how much aid was awarded to the student.”
If for some reason the student is still not satisfied with the decision, his case is referred to an appeals panel, Hillis said.
“Before, students were referred from office to office and maybe their case would get to an appeals board,” Hillis said. “Now there is a step-by-step approach to the situation.”
				
IN THE SWING—This young Trojan fan took to the air via the flagpole at Cromwell Field last weekend during a USC soccer match. His own game was apparently more fun than watching the Trojans easily beat Cal State Los Angeles, 5-1. DT photo by Bob LaBayne