SECURITY PROBLEMS
Board seeks to settle disputes
A special hearing board that includes members of the neighboring community has been formed to handle complaints that arise from campus security operations. It is the first university board of its kind to involve participation by ofT-campus members of the community.
The primary purpose of the University/Community Hearing Board Panel will be to see that any security question is fully, quickly and fairly examined, said John R. Hubbard, President of the University.
He said that the board was formed as the result of concerns expressed by the community about campus security operations. A University-Neighborhood Relations Commission was established under the chairmanship of Robert Biller, dean of the School of Public Administration.
"Representatives of our faculty and staff joined with community representatives to seek ways of strengthening relations between the university and the neighborhood,” Hubbard said. “Their first proposal was that we establish a review procedure to handle matters that might arise out of security operations. We hope that his new procedure will create a stronger bond between the campus and its neighbors.”
The University/Community Hearing Board Panel has been established in the Office ofthe President. Copies of the rules and regulations governing the board can be obtained by writing or telephoning the President’s Advisory Council. The number for information or complaints is 741-2000.
“USC has made a number of efforts to be a good neighbor and participate in the affairs of our community,” Hubbard said. "We have supported an urban development program that is revitalizing the community. There is our Joint Educational Project in which USC students work in nearby public schools, and there is a summer sports program that brings hundreds of lc?al youths to our campus. We have many other projects and programs that are designed to build the bonds between the campus and the community.”
The hearing board will become part of the university’s grievance structure. If a problem arises, names will be drawn from a panel of faculty, staff and community representatives. Those selected will examine the facts ofthe case and make a recommendation to the president.
Hubbard said that the new procedure is designed to make sure that the university makes constructive contributions to the community. He said that the University-Nighborhood Relations Commission will continue to actively seek ways of reaching out into the community.
The commission will consider university employment opportunities for neighborhood residents at its September meeting. Biller said.
Community members of the commission include: Ed Cano, Beverly Hawkins, Kenneth Orduna, Edward “Abie” Robinson and Marnesba Tackett. University members include: Sadye Blaylock, Eugene Brooks, David Lopez-Lee. Leon Love, Stephen Ward and Biller.
University of Southern California
Volume LXXII, Number 74	Los	Angeles, California	Wednesday,	August	3,	1977
Contract awarded to study traffic injuries
A $207,138 contract has been awarded to the USC Traffic Safety Center by the State Department of Education as part of a program to reduce the number of traffic injuries and fatalities among school age children.
With funding from the California Office of Traffic Safety, the Department of Education is preparing an integrated curriculum focusing upon motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian and passenger safety.
The curriculum will include films, workbooks and other educational approaches that will alow for controlled testing of students to establish the effectiveness of such programs.
Researchers at USC will evaluate the program. They will assess the effects of the educational program by means of written tests, performance tests and unobtrusive observations, according to Dr. G.A. Fleischer
of Los Alamitos, Director of USC’s Traffic Safety Center, the organization charged with the evaluation phase.
Dr. Fleischer will be the principal investigator for the project and Dr. Margaret Hubbard Jones, professor of human factors at USC, will be the coprincipal investigator. Their field staff will include graduate students from USC’s Department of Psychology, School of Engineering and School of Education, as well as from the Master of Science in Safety program.
Tests will be made in schools in which the special curriculum is in use as well as in schools where it is not. Some students will be examined both before and after exposure to the safety curriculum, and a certain number of students will be examined six to 12 months later to determine the residual effects ofthe treatment.
Broadcast journalists discuss responsibility
Elihu Katz, director of the Communications Institute of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will lead a two day symposium on social research and broadcasting at the Annen-berg School of Communication Thursday and Friday.
The meeting will center on a report called “Social Research on Broadcasting: Proposals for Further Development” which Katz prepared for the British Broadcasting Corp.
The study w’as commissioned to identify projects which would be relevant and valuable to society and to broadcasters. It stemmed from the conviction that broadcasters have a responsibility for the potential effects on society of their programs and that they should play a significant part in developing
research about them.
Also taking part in the symposium will be Percy Tannen-baum, professor of communications and psychology at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley; Jay G. Blummer, research director, Centre for Television Research, The University of Leeds, England, and Kenneth Lamb, director of public affairs for the BBC in London.
Other participants will include national and international communications researchers and scholars, representatives of other disciplines, broadcasting personnel, representatives of community groups concerned with social issues and students majoring in communications.
Summer
Trojan
Sports club coming in on home stretch; ends Aug. 11
TWO-FOUR-SIX-EIGHT—Nadine Felix (at top), head of the USC Sports Club, leads some of the 400 members of the group in the club yell to start the day's campus activities. The boys and girls, ages 10 to 17, spend 80 per cent of their time learning and playing 12 different sports and 20 per cent discussing
community and social problems. There has been an approximately 60 per cent return of youngsters from one summer to the next, Felix said, and most of the boys and girls live near the university. AI Erkel, (at right) is a coach, referee and counselor for the program. He is also a student here.