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Volume LXXII, Number 3
Wrigley estate names university as heir to Catalina Island stock
rhe university, ys one of 15 heirs to the Phillip K Wrigley estate, has received stock in a company which owns land on Santa Catalina Island.
Future use of the island by the university could remain undecided for as long as 50 years because of a board of directors. or a conservancy, which was set up in 1974 to maintain an open-space easement on the island, said Colin MacLeod, vice-president of finance.
The university currently has a 13-acre Marine Science Center located on the island, "but what the conservancy will do is maintain an open space for a 50-year period." MacLeod said.
He emphasized that the university did not receive a gin of the land. "The conservancy was set up-as a separate, legal organization to guarantee that the land remain open. Whether there are any plans for the future. I don't know."
A petition was filed April 18 at the Cook County Probate
Court in Chicago that shows Wrigley included his widow, two daughters. 10 grandchildren and his son. William, also named executor of the will, as his heirs. The university was the only organization named.
Wrigley had shown an interest in the university for more than 10 years.
In 1964. William Peri era and Associates, (a Los Angeles based architecture firm) recommended to Wrigley. then chief stock holder in the Santa Catalina Island Co.. that a marine science center should be established on the island
Wrigley donated five and one-half acres ofthe isthmus at Bin Fisherman's Cove to the university which, with a grant from thy National Science Foundation, built a laboratory and research facilities.
In 1970. Wrigley later donated more land so that dormitories and food facilities could be built for students. Wrigley also gave the university an unspecified amount of stock in the Santa Catalina Island Co.
CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES — The view from Parking Structure C shows the widening project at the 35th Street entrance off Figueroa Street in front of the Women's Complex. DT photo by Renee Cottrell.
Students criticize ‘Course Guide’
By Carla SchalmSn
Slaff Writer Students interviewed by the Daily Trojan Tuesday expressed discontent with The Neic USC Course Guide for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
The guide, published by the Student Senate, is available in the bookstore for 25 cents.
The goal of the guide is to give students an objective view of the courses, said Tom Ver-
degem, editor. The guide is a compilation of syllabi of different classes. It includes book lists, assignments and professors’ comments about the major emphases of the courses.
Many students expected the guide to contain student evaluations of classes and professors and were disappointed.
‘•It told me nothing new.” Quentin Leef, a sophomore in business administration, said.
‘‘It didn't evaluate the professors at all. It just restated the syllabus."
Devra Lieb. a sophomore in journalism, had similar feelings.
;*It’s nice to know where the professors went to school, but that’s not helpful. I would have paid another quarter to have Joyce Haber go out and find out about the professors. She would have discovered the truth.”
Previous course guides have provided student opinions of classes and instructors. Many faculty members felt that the 1974 and 1975 guides contained unprofessional and brutal critiques. Verdegem said.
Another goal of this year’s guide was to show the faculty and administration that students can approach the question of teaching evaluations professionally.
"After the last two course guides (1974 and 1975) we had to start over from ground zero to regain the trust of the administration," Verdegem said.
The long range goal of the guide is student evaluation of the courses. First, however, the evaluation process in the Col-(continued on page 2)
University ad campaign promotes Century II drive
Many small advertisements promoting the university appeared in three major newspapers this summer, all part ofthe Toward Century II fund-raising program.
The National Committee for Century II placed 27 ads in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and the Wall Street Journal. The ads were varied, most featuring quotes from trustees and administrators promoting the university's educational programs.
“The purpose ofthe ads was to make people throughout the country aware that the university is still in existence and is seeking assistance,” said Leonard Wines, executive director of university relations.
Wines said the committee plans to continue the ads from time to time, "to keep up people's interest in USC."
The ads, costing approximately $29,000. were paid for through a special committee fund budgeted for the university’s promotional effo rts
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University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday,
September 21, 1977
A STUDY IN CONTEMPLATION —
Reentering the rigors of the academic world step by step, this student is engrossed in the first of numerous reading assignments over the semester. But by the time January rolls around, he may have acquired a singular sense of accomplishment — as well as a dog-eared, well-marked volume. DT photo by Mark Kariya.
Progress is being made in Nixon library negotiations, Hubbard says
After negotiations over the summer with government officials, President John R. Hubbard is confident that the university will eventually receive most of the Richard Nixon presidential and prepresidential archives.
In a speech delivered at the annual faculty-administration breakfast Saturday, Hubbard said that not one congressman he talked to was un-supportive of the university becoming the repository of the documents and tapes.
Hubbard and Roy L. Kidman, the university librarian, had sought congressional support for the project during the past few months.
In April 1975 Nixon announced his intention to donate his presidential and prepresidential papers to the university. The materials in question are 42 million presidential documents and 800 reels of tape.
In June of this year, the Supreme Court ruled that the materials belonged to the government. A bill, presented by Congressman John Brademas of Iowa, would allow the tapes to be made available and put into such a proposed repository.
The university must then negotiate with gov-
ernment officials to acquire the materials. There would be competition with other universities in hopes of setting up similar repositories.
A library was proposed at a conference of the Board of Trustees in April 1975. It would serve as both a museum and repository for the documents and tapes of Nixon’s presidential years, should the university be granted the materials.
Hubbard said negotiations went well because the university had shown interest in the materials before they had become controversial.
Many obstacles still must be overcome before such a library could be constructed. It is up to the National Archives to consider each item in question and decide which records the government does possess. The completion of the library itself will require planning in land, construction, and finances.
Under the Presidential Libraries Act of 1955, funds for a presidential library must be donated by the public. The library must then be maintained by the federal government. Until legislation is passed to make the materials available, they will remain in the government’s possession.