Daily O Troian
Volume /.XX/, Number 45
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Friday, April 22, 1977
THE CAMPUS NOBODY KNOWS—Most students usually see Dedeaux Field as the scene of an afternoon or early evening baseball game. This picture of
the field at 2 a.m. as a fog bank moves in over it is a sight few students ever see. DT photo by Denis Wolcott.
DRAMATIC INCREASE
Female graduate enrollment rises
By Shelley Hoose
Staff Writer
Female enrollment has dramatically increased in the graduate and professional schools at the university in the last decade, while male enrollment in the same schools has decreased or just slightly increased in proportion to entire enrollment.
Total enrollment for the fall semester 1976 was 24.478. up 32.2% from the 16.499 enrollment in 1966.
In 1966. female enrollment in the graduate schools was 22T< of all graduate students enrolled, while in 1976. the number had increased to 35.8^.
Female enrollment in the professional schools increased 97.97c from 1971 to 1975, to equal 24% of total professional enrollment in 1976. up from 7% in 1966
During the same period, male enrollment in graduate programs dropped 1.3%, but increased 18.5% in the professional schools, and increased
21% in the undergraduate programs. *
In spite of increased women enrollment over the last decade in the graduate and professional schools, 60.5% of all females enrolled at the university in 1975 were in the undergraduate program, up 1.0% from 1971, while 33.Br/r were enrolled in graduate school and 5.77c in professional schools.
During the last decade, the undergraduate and professional schools' enrollment increased proportionally — 30 and 30.2% respectively, but the graduate program’s enrollment increased only 7%.
In the undergraduate schools enrollment for fall 1976 was 14,064, 39% women and 61% men. In the graduate school, enrollment was 18.580, 34% women, 66% men; the professional schools enrolled 2,248, 24% women. 76% men.
Although enrollment has increased on the whole during the last decade, there was a slight drop in 1971 from 20,593
in 1970 to 18,884 in 1971.
In the professional schools in fall, 1976, 100%. of the students were enrolled full time; in the graduate school, 33% were fulltime students; and in the undergraduate schools, 82% were enrolled full time.
Total enrollment for 1975 shows undergraduates were represented at the university by 52.5%; graduates by 33.6%; and professionals by 8.8%.
The figures for 1976 are based on a report from the Office of Institutional Studies, by Jean-nine Raymond. The past figures are also from that office.
Court determining fate of Nixon tapes, library
By Pat Me vean
Staff Writer
The United States Supreme Court is now trying to decide whether former President Richard M. Nixon’s taped conversations and documents will be retained by the federal government or returned to Nixon, in which case they will be donated to the university.
The 42 million presidential documents and 800 reels of tapes in question make up a major portion of materials to be included in the proposed Richard M. Nixon Library. No decisions or plans for the library will be made until after the court’s ruling.
The Supreme Court decision could take up to two months, said Richard Lewis, university publisher and vice-president for special projects, but he said he didn’t think it would take that long.
At the Board of Trustees meeting last spring, President John R. Hubbard said the National Archives would suggest that the material be given to the university even if the Supreme Court rules that the tapes and documents are government property.
No university funding Lewis has said he doubts the trustees would want to build the library without the tapes and documents included.
The library ’s beginning came at the April, 1975 conference of the Board of Trustees when Nixon announced his intention to donate his presidential and prepresidential papers to the university.
Under the Presidential Libraries Act of 1955, funds for the construction of such a library have to be donated by the public. After completion, the library will then be deeded to, funded and maintained by the federal government. No university money will be used for the library, Lewis stressed.
Lewis has said it would be an enormous advantage for the university to be the site of the library, but all the major plans are not completed, pending the decision by the Supreme Court.
Violation of privacy The court is trying to decide whether to uphold a decision that a federal appelate court made last fall which stated it is “a common law right to inspect and copy public records.”
Nixon’s lawyer, Herbert J. Miller, said the congressional act that ordered the removal of the documents and tapes in question is “a wholesale violation of the right to privacy.”
Arguing for the government, Solicitor General Wade H. McCree said the appelate court decision should be upheld. He said a congressional act of 1974 made adequate provisions to protect the personal tapes and documents. The act, called the Presidential Materials and Recordings Preservation Act, was passed after Nixon's resignation Aug. 9, 1974 and grants custody of the material to the General Services Administration.
The act also directed the services administration to prepare regulations permitting public access to material found by government archivists to be historically important. Nixon’s attorneys say that up to 100 people could be involved in the sifting ofthe documents and tapes and that anything personal might not remain a secret.
Dental school names new dean as financial difficulties snowball
Bookstore shown to be bargain by comparison
By John Hughes
Staff Writer
There is an exception to the rule that the cost of attending the university must go up every year by as much or more than the cost of living.
That exception can be found in the stationery section ofthe bookstore.
Stephen K. Crossland, director of stores, released the findings of a sample price comparison between 1975 and current prices and between the Trojan Bookstore and Tams in the University Village.
The findings of Crossland's ofTice, along with a random check by the Daily Trojan, indicate that prices have gone up by only 3.2% on some products and have decreased as much as 12% on others.
Comparing the same items with current prices at Tams shows that students can save between 16 and 33% by shopping for their stationery at the university, depending on the group of items.
Crossland said the bookstore has been able to beat inflation through a bulk buying program instituted in 1975.
“Instead of buying one case because someone needs something, we buy 100 cases.” Crossland said.
Part ofthe new program includes the university’s membership in the Western College Bookstore Assn., a buying cooperative run by 63 ofthe largest college stores in the western United States.
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By Mike Simpson
Staff Writer
William H. Crawford has been appointed dean of the School of Dentistry, which faces snowballing financial difficulties.
Some of the school's problems include a forthcoming 20% increase in tuition, decreasing federal support, expiring grants and an approximate budget deficit of $100,000.
Beginning in 1972. Crawford served as the school’s interim dean until Richard C. Oliver’s appointment in 1975. He was then appointed the school’s associate dean for academic affairs. Among the goals sought for the dental school, Crawford envisions achieving curriculum reforms, better teaching and making improvements that do not cost large sums of money, but he said that his first priority is to “get the budget figured out.”
With federal support, which supplied $1.2 million at one point, dwindling to approximately $600,000, Crawford said that “private dental schools are in real trouble. State-supported schools can handle the problem by substituting state funds for the withdrawn federal funds,” he said. “Unless the State Constitution is amended, however, it is impossible for private schools to receive state funding.”
Regarding the budget, Crawford said the dental school, with federal support and income from its clinics, would ordinarily break even. Under present circumstances, however, the proposed budget for 1977-78 puts the school in a deficit with the university, despite the 20% tuition increase.
Crawford’s immediate goal is to familiarize himself with the budget, and have it balanced by July 1. Although he will not officially become
dean until that day, Crawford’s transitory status will become effective May 15 through agreement with Oliver, who is leaving to head the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry.
The annual increase of tuition at the school is not an adequate solution to budget problems, he said. “Administrators are looking hard at clinic income, and together with alumni, we are actively engaged in raising money,’’ he added.
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WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD