Committee will study proposed changes in LAS requirements
By Carla Schalman
Staff Writer
Proposed changes in the general education requirements for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences will be further studied by a committee to be formed this fall by John Marburger, dean of the college.
The revisions were detailed in a report compiled last spring by the President’s Advisory Council (PAC) subcommittee on general education requirements.
The report was submitted to Marburger will appoint a new group to make hearings at that time to determine the faculty view on the proposals. Their suggestions will be incorporated into the final report, which Marburger hopes to have completed this semester.
The committee that compiled the first report has completed its work, so Marburger will appoint a new group to make further revisions.
The goal in changing the requirements, according to Marburger, is to bring a more focused approach toward which general education requirements can be fulfilled.
“It’s not obvious to me that all courses offered in these areas fulfill the general education requirements,” Marburger said. “It would be more appropriate if the list (of course choices) was shorter.”
Another reason behind the proposed changes was to address the general education courses to someone not planning to specialize in a given area, but who is taking the classes to increase his knowledge, said Peter Lambropoulos, chairman of the subcommittee.
He said the courses must also give the student broad knowledge of the subjects.
The proposed changes restrict the number of courses fulfilling the general education requirements. Narrowing
down the choices allows for a more focused approach to completing the requirements, Marburger said.
New categories encompassing the general education requirements were proposed in the report. These categories are the physical world, the context of political action in the United States, foundations of western culture, other cultures, literature, the arts, social scientific approaches, and formative approaches (philosophy, religion).
These divisions will be reexamined and additional ones may be created when the new committee studies the proposals, Lambropoulos said.
The proposals will probably not affect the amount of courses taken to fulfill the requirements, he said, but the greatest impact would be on the content of the courses themselves.
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Daily fp Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXXII, Number 8 Los Angeles, California Wednesday, September 28, 1977
HEW establishes grants program to train financial aid administrators
By Gigi Golden
Staff Writer
Under a new federal regulation of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), grants are available for the training of financial aid administrators.
The Office of Education, under HEW, is providing states with opportunities for grants to design and develop personnel training programs that increase the proficiency of institutional and state financial aid administration in all aspects of student financial aid.
The rule, listed in the Sept. 14 edition of Federal Regulations,
was approved Sept. 2 and will effective in mid-October.
Under the regulation, any state that applies for one of these grants must have an agency to identify needs within financial aid programs existing in the state, assess strengths and weaknesses of those programs, to develop a training program to meet needs and overcome weaknesses, provide proper training to financial aid administrators and evaluate the program at the end of the grant term.
While HEW did not set forth any specific training program requirements, the department
Recent state ticket law has no effect
A new state law that denies reregistration of automobiles to car owners with outstanding traffic tickets will not affect students and faculty who have not paid campus parking tickets. said Carl Levredge, director of Parking Operations and Campus Security.
“Since we are a private university with our own security force, we hand out our own parking tickets. Our tickets and municipal parking tickets are not interchangeable,” said Levredge.
The new California law, which went into effect Sept. 1, calls for the Department of Motor Vehicles to hold registration requests from car owners with unpaid parking tickets until the tickets are paid.
As the enforcement of parking tickets is within the university itself, the school’s only methods of making people pay for their mistakes is through denial of registration, withholding of transcripts, and other administrative methods.
“Most state schools have dually authorized police forces on their campuses. They can write tickets that are as good as those written by local police,” said Ben Butceri, attorney for the state agency.
Many private schools also have dually authorized security forces, and they follow a procedure of reporting citations to the local police, who treat the tickets as if they had been writ-
on campus
ten'by a policeman.
Persons who don’t pay their parking tickets at schools such as UCLA face denial of their reregistration until the tickets are paid. The tickets are forwarded by local police to traffic court for final disposition, Butceri said.
did suggest guidelines. According to these guidelines, each program should give administrators exposure to:
—	principles upon which financial aid is based;
—theories and methodology for evaluating student need;
—	laws and statutes governing financial aid programs; —strategies for packaging federal, state, private and institutional programs;
—requirements for maintaining school records;
—rights and responsibilities of students;
—	management practices and procedures to eliminate student fraud and abuse in operation of financial aid;
—and, any specific subjects pertaining to the state’s program.
Linda Berkshire, director of resource development and student aid programs, said that a state program could help financial aid at the university, “But, each institution must be responsible for training its own employees according to its own policies.”
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ANTIQUE MO-PED — Armando Sanchez admires one of the many antique bikes on display Tuesday in Alumni Park. DT photo by Sue Adams.
PREVENTION MEASURES CITED
Security statistics find campus crime down
Crime is down, according to security statistics for 1976. There has been a general decrease of crimes at the university because of prevention measures, said James Bowie, chief of Campus Security.
“Making students aware of what could happen is the best way to cut down on crimes.” The university’s security hopes to increase prevention with informative programs and greater visibility of security itself, he said.
The categories that decreased in 1976 from the previous year were auto thefts, grand thefts, assaults with deadly weapons, robberies and disturbances. Crimes that increased included malicious mischief, bomb threats, petty thefts and auto burglaries.
In 1974, 529 burglaries, other than auto, were reported as compared with 146 in 1975 and 214 in 1976. In 1974 there were 228 bicycle thefts, 99 in 1975 and 176 in 1976.
Crimes such as petty theft can be attributed to the carelessness of students. Last Monday was a particularly unusual day, Bowie said. Twenty-one reports were made, 12 of which were theft. Among these was the theft of an $859 trumpet that a student had left in a hall while making a phone call.
Campus Security has been conducting numerous programs, advising students on what precautionary steps they can take to avoid being a crime victim. Security, in conjunction with the Los Angeles Police Department, will conduct programs for students in residence halls, fraternities and sororities, as well as for commuters. The programs on rape prevention and crime prevention-wili be further
publicized and various student groups may contact them to schedule sessions.
Gary Rust, a sergeant for Campus Security, hopes to reach as many students as possible. He sees a problem in contacting commuters, who are still vulnerable to crimes. Rust hopes to reach them through pamphlets and possibly during noontime information sessions.
No major problems have occurred in the last few years. The last major incident took place four years ago when two students were killed late at night on the Row. Last year two off-campus rapes were reported.
At the moment, security is adequately staffed, but, as Bowie puts it, "What force couldn’t use more men?” Officers patrol the campus continuously with their conspicuous vehicles, in hopes of discouraging possible criminals. To prevent further crimes, security watches suspicious characters who come on campus. Although the university is a private institution, the public is allowed to walk through campus. As a rough estimate, Bowie said 999r of the crimes are committed by nonstudents.
Campus Security, under the direction of Carl Levredge, is located in the parking structure on McClintock Avenue at 36th Street. It operates seven days a week, 24 hours a day and can be reached at 741-6000.
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