University of Southern California
Volume LXXI, Number 32	.	Los	Angeles, Californio	Friday,	March	25,	1977
TREE LINE—Nature always reflects the changing ofthe seasons and these trees outside the new Norris Cinema Theater are no exception. Their perfect line reflects the
arrival of spring and the not-so-perfect lines students will stand in to pick up H cards during fall preregistration. DT photo by Douglas Gray.
Career Resource Center to relocate
Better facilities and a chance to expand were reasons given by Carl Herringer. director of the Career Resource Center, for the move ofthe center during spring break.
The center, now located at Bruce Hall, will move to the second floor of University Village.
Located in the same office as the Career Resource Center is the Work Study Program, which appropriates federally funded grants to students who need money while attending school. Presently, there are 1.800 students involved in this program, and by June, the total is expected to rise to about
2.000.	The Career Resource Center sees about 200 people daily and the total keeps rising. Herringer said.
“The reason for the move to the University Village is for better facilities, and due to the fact that since the Work-Study Program is involved in the same ofTice as the Career Resource Center, we are presently unable to give the service as we have in the past, and the larger ofTice will enable us to give
the best service ever.” Herringer said.
The main problem ofthe Bruce Hall location is that it was originally designed for student housing. The Career Resource Center is now scattered all over the first floor and by moving to the university mall, they can establish a more business-like atmosphere, he said.
This new ofTice will have seven interview rooms, one conference room and a room set aside for each counselor. The work-study off ice will have its own rooms inside the same office.
The new location will attract more people to the Career Resource Center, since it will be located in the university mall and will be situated in the middle of the residential life and those living on campus. Herringer said
The Career Resource Center gives students an opportunity to help them get started in the field of their choice. It is open from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Mondays and 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays.
Daily
Trojan
Ford will return here
as visiting professor
Former President Gerald R. Ford will be making a return appearance this spring — not as a campaigner, but as a visiting professor, university President John R. Hubbard announced Thursday.
From May 10-13, Ford will meet with students from various departments here to discuss contemporary issues.
Houston Flournoy, dean of Public Affairs and coordinator of the visit, said he hopes the former President's visit will be the first of several to the university.
GERALD R. FORD
“I think the neat part is that students in a variety of disciplines will be able to ask questions of him in an off-the-record, give-and-take situation, and do that with a man who’s held what some people have called the most awesome office in the world,” said Leonard Wines, executive director of university relations.
WTines, one ofthe organizers of the Oct. 7 appearance by Ford, said he didn’t think this visit would be quite like the last one, mainly because Ford is no longer President, or running for ofTice. Even so. Secret Service men will be involved, he said.
Ford’s May visit to the university is the second in a continuing series of campus visits he will make under the auspices ofthe American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
“We are pleased to have President Ford return to this campus to share his knowledge and experience with our students. His visits will provide our students with an extraordinary opportunity to learn about the issues of our times,Hubbard said.
The visit is being planned so that the former President can meet with students from a variety of disciplines, Flournoy said.
Flournoy is working out the details with deans and department heads.
Former President Ford, the distinguished fellow of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, will make about ten visits to university campuses in the next year under the institute’s continuing program of outreach.
The institute, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, educational and research institution with activities in fields such as economic policy, foreign and defense studies, government regulation, social and political process and health policy.
Nearly 17,500 people turned out the last time President Ford was on campus in the final days of a narrowing presidential contest. Some had waited as long as three hours to catch a glimpse of their President and hear him joke about his football playing days as he donned a Trojan varsity jacket.
COURSE GUIDE WOULD BE ONE ALTERNATIVE
Incompetent instructors: how to identify and avoid them
By David Rosenbaum
Staff Writer
Every student here probably has experienced at least one incompetent instructor. Some say USC’s academic prestige is solely derived frojn the faculty’s accomplishments outside the classroom.
“USC’s reputation is greater than its programs, said*. Dennis Mulhaupt, codirector of the Academic Affairs Unit of the Student Senate.
Such candor may surprise Trojan die-hards. What with tuition on the increase, however, students here not only deserve — but should demand — excellence from their teachers, said Josef Kertes, assistant dean of student affairs in the Division of Social Sciences in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences (LAS).
The fact is, he said, “People who have established themselves in a field may not be good teachers.
When the university applies for a grant, it boasts that we have established people in such and such a field — not that we have 35 (for example) excellent teachers.”
The university is currently trying to raise money through its Century II campaign — not to attain academic excellence, but so it can attract renown scholars, even if they can t teach, so the university can obtain more federal
monies, said Thomas Verdegem, director of the Academic Affairs Unit in the Student Senate.
If this is true, it can be a little solace to students who have enrolled in boring classes here. Mulhaupt jokingly compared the quality of undergraduate instruction here to that of Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach "Comparing USC to Cal State Fullerton or Long Beach may have been true 10 or 15 years ago. but it s not true now,” said John Marburger, LAS dean.
“In my opinion, the average quality of courses in LAS (the largest college here) has gone up incredibly in the last five years.”
Marburger admitted that an unusually large number of students here receive much of their first year's instruction from teaching assistants. TAs are used exclusively here in skills courses, such as English composition and foreign language laboratory classes, he said.
Many students aspire to the health professions, so there is a greater fraction of students taking skills courses, such as freshman biology and chemistry, he said.
Nonetheless, he said, “It’s possible for even a premed to get an excellent education here. There is a tremendous amount of activity.” He cited musical performances and lectures as examples. “Every year there are one or two
Nobel laureates who speak here. If only we could get undergraduates more interested in these activities," he said.
Marburger conceded there are bound to be a few "duds” among the 450 LAS faculty members. "I can t deny there are going to be courses here that are going to upset students. Students should be wary of the product and make the right choices.”
Josef Kertes offered some specific suggestions for students desiring high quality instruction:
•	Students registering now forthe fall semester should contact LAS advisement or their departmental advisers for information about classes they are going to take.
•	Students should also start shopping around for fall classes by meeting with teachers they might be taking classes from.
•	Students who enroll in poor-quality courses should petition the university for a tuition refund for those classes. This has successfully been done before. Kertes said.
•	Teacher evaluations, which currently are completed by students enrolled in classes in the Division of Social Sciences and some other departments, should have their results made public.
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