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Executive secretary fired by president’s council chairman
CINEMA STUDENT'S NIGHTMARE—Filmstrip sculpture, formidable to any editing cinema student, adorns the foyer of the newly dedicated Eileen Norris Cinema Theater. Related story on page 6. DT photo by John Sapone.
Academic calendar revision considered dormant question
BY DIANE SLEZA a
Assistant City Editor
Barbara Lasswell, executive secretary to the President’s Advisory Council, was fired Monday by the chairman of the council, Jay Savage.
Savage would not comment on the reasons behind her termination, saying only that he had to make a personnel decision and that he felt it would be unfair to Lasswell to comment on the matter.
The case may come up before a grievance committee in the near future and Savage said he did not want to prejudice any possible hearing.
Lasswell was reluctant to say anything other than she felt she “could not go back to the office.”
Glenn Sonnenberg, chairman of the Student Senate, was upset about Lasswell’s release.
“Barbara represented a voice that the students could use and did use,” he said. “She’s been constantly available to us. I doubt the void that has been created by
BY PETER FLETCHER
Assistant City Editor
The funding of social activities with student programming funds is becoming a source of controversy between the Campus Activities Allocation Board and the Student Senate.
In an action Friday, the board allocated $600 to the School of Dentistry for refreshments for school socials.
The school’s allocation was broken up into $100 for office supplies, $100 for postage and telephone expenses, $1,500 for speakers, $1,500 for a newsletter, $150 for meetings and $600 for the refreshments.
Hunt Braly, chairman of the allocation board, said, “It was brought out that dental students go to class from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and are therefore unable to benefit from many of the programs we* fund. Their proposal will benefit the student programming within the dental school.”
The central point in the controversy is a clause in the allocation board’s by-laws, which was written by the senate, that pro-hibitS'the funding of such events.
Braly has instituted a policy of sometimes funding social events in certain
her departure can be filled right away.”
Dennis Mulhaupt, chairman ofthe Elections and Credentials Commission of the Student Senate, agreed with Sonnenberg. “It will be very difficult to find someone with her expertise,” he said.
Sonnenberg was especially upset that no student was consulted in the decision to fire Lasswell. “I think that when such a serious staffing change occurs, a student should be consulted. The standing committees in the President’s Advisory Council and the four caucuses (student, faculty, dean and staff) depended heavily on her.”
Lasswell attended a student leadership retreat at the Idyllwild campus last weekend. “The students on the retreat were so impressed with her. Students feel a kinship with the PAC in having an executive secretary who’s so readily available,” Sonnenberg said.
“We truly want to be a part of the PAC. But we hope Savage will be more receptive to student needs and concerns in the future.”
graduate schools. He said he wants the senate to clarify the by-laws concerning private events.
The Hoopla Clause, as it has been named, was drawn up to prohibit the expenditure of funds to finance private social affairs or parties restricted solely to persons who are members of a particular club or organization. It also prohibits the use of funds to finance any social event that has no other purpose than the amusement of those in attendance, the senate by-laws state.
Glenn Sonnenberg, chairman ofthe senate, said the purpose of the Hoopla Clause is to discourage entertainment for specific groups. He said it was the hope of the senate to provide university-wide programming.
On Sept. 15 the board passed a policy regarding allocations to graduate schools that said, “The graduate schools located on the University Park campus will be given priority in our investigations and funding due to their special circumstances.”
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BY MARC GROSSMAN
Staff Writer
As it stands now, no action will be taken in the near future regarding a proposed revision of the academic calendar that was turned down last spring by the Board of Trustees.
Under the proposed calendar, the fall semester would have ended before Christmas vacation.
Jay Savage, chairman ofthe President's Advisory Council (PAC), said. “As far as I know, there is no group reviewing the situation. That would seem to make it a dead issue, at least for the time being.”
President John R. Hubbard had been quoted as saying the issue was “by no means dead” (Daily Trojan, April 21).
Savage added. “I do know that both Hubbard and vice-president Zohrab Kaprielian wanted to see the new calendar approved. They put in a tremendous pitch in favor of it. I think it was the first time in five years that the board rejected a recommendation from the president.”
The board turned down a recommendation by the President's Advisory Council that the calendar be revised to what is commonly referred to as an early-semester one.
That was the culmination of an investigation that had begun in October, 1974.
On Oct. 23 of that year, the Calendar Re- -form Commission urged the PAC to “give careful consideration to the proposal specifically in light ofthe potential financial risks involved.”
The commission listed the advantages of a new calendar as:
•	Continuity during the fall semester—‘no ’lame duck' period after Christmas
•Christmas vacation would be a true vacation; spring semester begins new and fresh.
•	Students would get out in mid-May. which might give them better opportunities for summer jobs.
The disadvantages seen by the commission included:
•A possible loss of transfer students due to beginning the second semester during the final exam periods of community colleges
•	Possible attrition due to a long break after Christmas.
•Conflict with conferences held in early September
The PAC thought the benefits outweighed the risks, and on Nov. 6, 1974. recommended the new calendar to Hubbard.
The proposal, however, was not rejected until March. 1976.
The reason for the 15-month wait for the decision was that "enrollment data for the following year had to be checked," said John J. Griffith, executive assistant to the chairman of PAC..
The Finance and Budget Committee of the Board of Trustees saw the greatest disadvantage in a new calendar as the possible loss of transfer students.
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Senate, allocation board argue social event funding
Idyllwild has first profitable year
University of Southern California Vol. LXX, No. 17	Los Angeles, Calif.	Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1976
BUTTERFLY WINGS—C an still be enjoyed close-up by children using the university's mountain campus at Idyllwild now that the facility is beginning to show a profit. Photo courtesy of Virginia Garner, Idyllwild.
BY PATTI WOLF
Staff Writer
The university’s Idyllwild campus, which has lost $1 million over the past 12 years, will return a profit of $15,000 at the end of October, said Allen E. Koenig, director of the school.
He said a proposal to turn the campus into a liberal arts college has been shelved. The curriculum focuses on music and art.
Philip James, the former Idyllwild director who initiated the proposal, failed to gather sufficient financial support for the move Koenig said. In April, the university decided to abandon James’ effort.
Koenig said the campus will finish in the black because a residence and 10 acres of land valued at $250,000 were donated to the campus.
Additionally, it received a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Approximately $18,000 was contributed by the Idyllwild Associates, a group of residents and business persons in the Idyllwild and Los Angeles areas who raise funds for the campus.
Koenig said the campus, will at least break even from now on.
The budget for fiscal 1977, which runs from Nov. 1, 1976 to Oct. 31, 1977, is $530,000, an increase of over $100,000 from 1976.
The school itself will receive $400,000 and the
George and Kyra Wayne Conference Center will be given $130,000.
The school and the conference center comprise the Idyllwild campus.
Any surplus money received by the campus over the next five years will be used for building renovation, Koenig said.
The director said it will take $250,000 to renovate and repair buildings on the campus. “Our buildings are safe, but there are woodpecker holes and we want to winterize the dormitories,” he said. In addition, the dining facility will be converted to classroom and seminar areas. Rush Hall will be remodeled and converted into a dining area.
In 1977, the campus hopes to raise $50,000 to $75,000 for the renovations from donations by the Idyllwild Arts Foundation, a campus financial-support group. Koenig said one member of the foundation’s board of trustees has pledged $20,000 and has given the campus $7,000 in cash.
The campus will sell the donated house and land, Koenig said.
The school also hopes to improve its academic environment and finances by relocating the Institute for Advanced Musical Studies from Switzerland to Idyllwild. Koenig said the negotia-
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