Daily ■ Trojan
Volume LXXI, Number 43
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, April 20, 1977
Donor to be eulogized
BENEFACTOR — The late David X. Marks and the bte Ray Myers (seated).
Memorial services for David X. Marks, a university philanthropist, will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday in Heritage Hall.
Mr. Marks will be eulogized by President John R. Hubbard; Chancellor Norman Topping; Richard Perry, athletic director; John McKay, former USC football coach; George Toley, head tennis coach; and Justice Robert Kingsley of the Civic Light Opera Assn.
The invocation and benediction will be given by Alvin Rudisill, university chaplain. Mr. Marks died April 10 at the age of 86.
Mr. Marks' donations to the university provided for two men’s residence halls, Marks
Tower and Marks Residence Hall. He also funded the David X. Marks Tennis Stadium.
He was awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree and the Asa V. Call Achievement Award by the university.
The David X. Marks Foundation has provided a graduate student dormitory at Caltech; buildings at Claremont Men’s and Harvey Mudd Colleges; a nuclear physics building at Hebrew University -in Jerusalem; and an auditorium at Loyola High School.
Mr. Marks, a retired insurance executive, helped found the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Assn. in 1938.
Student Senate seeks recognition in bylaws as official government
RECRUITMENT STEPPED UP
USC’s salesmen hit the road
By Mike Simpson
Staff Writer
A lot more goes into the admissions process of this university than reading applications. There is a recruitment procedure that involves seven traveling representatives who visited 11,000 high schools and community colleges in 30 states last year, supplying information aboutthe university to students.
Present students, faculty and staff members get in on the recruiting act too, speaking at meetings and receptions sponsored by enthusiastic alumni groups for interested students and their parents from Trenton, N.J. to Phoenix, Ariz. to Honolulu, Ha.
Under James L. Jones, the executive director of Student Administrative Services, these people have been involved in a stepped-up recruiting program that has proved so successful that the seven operators assigned to answer questions about the university and the application process have been receiving 3.500 calls a week.
The success of these recruiting efforts will affect the quality, not the quantity of entering students, Jones said. Presently, the rate of applications received for the fall freshman class is exceeding last year's rate by 1.000 applications, and the transfer student application rate by 350. Nevertheless, the number of students admitted will not be Jarger than last year. Jones said.
The seven representatives, who work under Jay V. Berger, associate dean of admissions, were all hired last year, trained in September, hit the road in October and have been traveling off and on ever since.
Ted Meyer, one of the assistants, describes his job as more than a publicity man forthe university. “I serve as contact for students interested in USC. I answer questions and supply information sources for those with questions I can’t answer,” he said.
Meyer holds informational meetings at high schools and community colleges, showing slides of the campus, talking about advantages and disadvantages of the university, and supplying brochures and applications.
“I’m really like a traveling salesman for USC, except, since we already have more than enough applicants to fill several freshmen classes, there is no pressure to hustle,” he said.
“I dislike making lists of colleges in orderoftheir quality, so I never offer a rating of the school.” he said. “If I want to talk about advantages of education at USC, I talk about demonstrative things, like the accounting department having more students pass the Certified Public Accountant Exam than any other school in the nation, or the class projects in the cinema department that win Academy Awards,” he said. “And if another school is better
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By Pat Me vean
Staff Writer
In addition to choosing senators in next week’s Student Senate elections, voters will decide whether to establish the senate as the official student government on campus.
An official student government has not existed here since
1972	when the Associated Students of Southern Ca lifomia was abolished. Since then, the Student Senate has been formed and has, in effect, been the voice of the students in dealing with the administration. But the senate is not written in to the official bylaws of USC, and thus does not officially represent the students.
Official recognition desired
“Currently, the administration deals with us because it wants to, and not because it has to. We want to make sure we are the officially recognized voice of the students,” said Glenn Sonnenberg, Student Senate chairman.
If at least 10% of the eligible students (about 2,000) vote April 27 and 28, a simple majority is needed to make the referendum a part of the bylaws. If fewer than 10% vote, the referendum will not pass. Sonnenberg expects about 20% of the student community to vote,and he is confident the referendum will pass.
James Appleton, vice-president for student affairs, also supports the referendum, but he believes it is important that the decision be left to the students.
Called a representative body
“My personal point of view is that the Student Senate is an excellent vehicle as a representative body in the university governance procedures, especially in light of the fact that there was nothing just fouryears ago,” Ap-
pleton said. “Overall they do a very good job, but, of course, there is work needed on a few of the details.”
Officially, the referendum reads: “Should the students direct the President of the university to seek from the Board of Trustees official recognition of the Student Senate as the official representative student government, for inclusion in the bylaws of the corporation (USC)?”
Chairman expects its passage A yes vote indicates support of university recognition of the senate, while a no vote opposes it, maintaining the present status ofthe senate as a representative body without legal recognition.
Sonnenberg listed two major reasons why he thinks the referendum will become a bylaw. He said the senate is a much different organization from the previous Associated Students of Southern California that became involved in full-scale expensive campaigning for offices. Currently, the senate chairman is chosen from among the senators, who represent the various living and school groups.
Accomplishments cited “The senate has grown from the programming board and the student caucus on the President’s Advisory Council, and I feel we are now well enough established as the student voice to make our status official,” Sonnenberg said.
There have been twice as many applications for the President’s Advisory Council and senate committees as in past years and Sonnenberg said that the usual 20% student turnout for elections is higher than that at other campuses in the United States. He said many other universities get only a 5% or 10% turnout.
Students demand return of parking over-payment
By Shelley Hoose
Staff Writer
A petition demanding return of parking over payments to students instead of recycling them into the 1977-78 budget was delivered to Guy Hubbard, executive director of Auxiliary' Services. Tuesday by the Student Community Council.
The residents of Troy Hall and Cardinal Gardens pay$37.50.the regular student parking fee, to park in their apartment parking lots. They are denied access to campus before 5 p.m.
The members of the council feel that $37.50 is far in excess of the amount it takes to maintain each parking lot, and the residents of the apartment complexes should not be made to pay the regular parking fee for off-campus parking.
The petition, signed by 70% (700) of the residents, demands that each student who paid be reimbursed the excess money.
“It’s no benefit to us by saying you can come on campus after 5
—	why would we want to?” said Armond Dinverno, chairman of the council. The two apartments are located less than a block from campus.
Hubbard agrees that the students have been overcharged and has decided the extra revenue received will be cycled back into the complexes and wi 11 be reflected by lower rates in rent next year.
The proposed rent increase for fall 1977 was$10 — from $140 for a one-bedroom, two-person apartment to $150, but has now decreased $2 to $148 per month; for a two-bedroom, four-person room, the scheduled increase was from $125 to $135 at Troy Hall, but has now been cut to $133. This will save each student $18 per year.
The money the university will lose by these rent decreases comes to $16,587, according to Hubbard’s office. It will be paid for out of the excess revenue generated by the parking fees.
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FRIENDS AND INVITED GUESTS—Lawn lunches were a popular noontime activity Tuesday as everyone and their pigeon enjoyed balmy Southern California
spring weather. Nancy Dirk (left) and Basia Lasunowizc shared leftovers with a couple of curious, if not hungry, Columbidae. DT photo by Denis Wolcott.