Daily § Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume (.XX/, Number 64	Los Angeles, California	Friday, May 20, 1977
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Ford will return as visiting professor
will allow the former President to go into greater detail in his discussions, Hubbard said.
In his first visit, Ford met with students from almost every discipline grouping. That led to complaints saying the sessions were superficial.
Ford's first visit was arranged through the American Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based in Washington, D C. Hubbard said it is likely future visits will be arranged through the same group.
The former President’s agreement with the organization calls for him to visit approximately 10 universities per year. In this, his first year. Ford has visited Yale, iMichigan (his alma mater) and USC.
Hubbard discounted the possibility that other schools’ requests might prevent Ford from returning here. “If we can count on him each semester — which I think we can — whatever arrangements he makes with others, he would insist that USC be one ofthe institutions involved,” Hubbard said.
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Ties with University Village sought
By Steven Hawkins
Executive News Editor
Former President Gerald R. Ford will return to the university as a visiting professor next year. His appearance is tentatively set for the fall semester, and he may return every semester after that for similar visits.
“It is our hope that he will appear each semester,” said University President John R. Hubbard.
During Fork’s 3-day vi sit last week, he met with approximately 19 groups— mostly classes — to interact with students in an academicatmosphere.
Some people were critical ofthe way Ford’s schedule was arranged, arguing he was rushed from class to class and not permitted to meet informally with students.
Hubbard said Ford’s future visits wi 11 be similar to his first, but that more time wi 11 be set aside to insure Ford has a less demanding itinerary.
Also, Ford’s future visits will be limited to specific areas of study and groups of students. This
Blackouts halt computers; no money lor4
The power blackout which affected the university and surrounding community for two minutes Wednesday night did not cause any monetary damage to equipment in the Computer Center, as was reported yesterday, said John Wi Ison, director of systems and operations of the center.
The two-minute power fai lu re d id c reate a great inconvenience for those using the terminals at the time of the blackout, however, said Wilson. The two-minutes without electricity caused nearly a two-hour halt in the operation of the computer, he said.
“Computers aren’t built to have their power supply suddenly flipped off,” he said. “When a power stoppage does occur, we have to send for an IBM technician to put the computer back in operating condition,” he said.
The big inconvenience occurs when the computer is in the middle of processing someone’s program at the time ofthe power shut-out. The terminal operator doesn’t have any way of knowing how much of the process is complete at the time of the
DON'T KICK THE BUCKET—Although students below Woite-Phillips Hall of Education may have felt some moisturefallingfrom above, it was only this window washer performing his duty while balanced on the suspended pulley. DT photo by Paul Rodriguez.
New chairman begins plans for Songfest ’78
By Mike Simpson
Staff Writer
The newly elected chairman of Songfest 1978, Mark Rios, a -junior in architecture, believes this year’s production will be a hard act to follow.
The 1978 Songfest will mark the 25th anniversary of the institution, which Rios terms “a spring semester part of life at USC.” Along with cochairman Stacey Thomas, a junior in public relations, Rios reportshe has already started planning a show he is very excited about.
Inflated union costs from the Greek Theatre crew and a full-house thisyear have forced the two to consider movingthe show to a different theater next year, where higherseatingcapacity or less expensive costs might enable the show to raise more money for charity than in the past.
Rios and Thomas will spend their summer vacations plan-
ning Songfest. but details of the actual production won’t be finalized until their supporting body, the Songfest Committee, is formed next fall. Rios said committee applications will be made available in October or November.
“I liked the show a lot this year,” Rios said, ‘Ihe opening, the slide presentations inbet-ween numbers, the Bandini Brothers, and having Dr. Pipkin, a faculty-member as the guest host. He said the show ran too long, but he liked the continuity this year’s show offered, and having some kind of entertainment in between the numbers is something he hopesto continue.
An idea being considered by Rios to make Songfest 1978 a little more special is the creation of a Songfest Book for the 25th Anniversary. The book would trace Songfest’s history through photographs from its begin-(continued on page 2)
By Pat Mc.vean
Staff Writer
Improving	University
Village’s services is a goal of the Environmental and External Affairs Committee. It recommended Thursday that the President’s Advisory Council appoint a university vice-president whose responsibility would be to achieve that goal.
An Environmental and External Affairs Committee task force, headed by Leon Love, a graduate student in social psychology’, studied the problems University Vi llage is facing and made a list of recommendations to the President’s Advisory Council.
A similar recommendation by the committee was made in February, but the executive committee ofthe president's council rejected the proposa 1 becau se the essential supporting arguments were not sufficient. The subcommittee is hoping that the new recommendation will be a little more specific and carry a more active voice that the executive committee wi 11 answer to.
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tual construction, said Mike Bocchicchio, university architect.
William Perkins, chairman of the committee and a professorof speech communication, suggested the university’s OfTice of Institutional Studies conduct a study into the community life and find out the realities of life in the surrounding neighborhood. In this way, the views that people get of the university’s neighboring areas are the real ones, and not the popular false images.
Asofnow, businesses hesitate before coming to University Vi 1-lage because of the neighbor-(continued on page 2)
shut-out, so he often has to investigate through complicated processes or guess, he said. With a power disruption, he said, you sometimes lose the data that you started with on the computer.
Wi Lson said that there are systems for computers that provide uninterruptable power supplies, but these systems a re prohibitively expensive. “Unfortunately we have to rely on university power,” he said.
Thepowershortagesoccuron the average ofonce a month and put much strain on theoperation oi'the computer center. The center is open 24 hours a day to students and others authorized to use the computers, but when finals are^pproachingthere is an excess demand for time on the computers.
“Students, like everyone else, tend to wait until the last opportunity to do something,” he said. “So with the computer center operating at capacity around exam time, the time lost during a power shortage and resultant stalled computer operation is time taken from students who need to use the computers.”
HEADDRESS—A member of the belly dancing troupe Sirocco entertains with a friend along for the ride. The friend is amused. DT photo by Paul Rodriguez.
“USC should be actively involved in decisions which affect the social and economic life of the students, faculty and staff of the university,’’ Love said in his report to the committee. “The active involvement would require commitment of university resources, both human and financial, where necessary, within the constraints of existing policy.”
The university can take a leadership role in helping the village become a success, Love said. The possibility also exists for the university to provide help to the village in the form of architectural advice, or work, and the physical plant doing ac-