Professor arranges music to sound of wind, beat of drum
By Cayce Malone
William A Schaefer has more irons in the fire than a schoolgirl has beaus. And. amazingly enough, one of his "irons" happens to be the best.
Schaefer, chairman of the Wind and Percussion Department of the School of Music, not only directs the USC Wind Orchestra, but also has arranged over half of all the music it performs.
When he was invited to come to the university 26 years ago from Carnegie Tech to build up the department, there was one such major; now there are 180.
Schaefer considers USC to have "the best school of music west of the Rockies with the finest wind department in the world.”
Schaefer is a man who goes for broke. He describes himself as being "the most active arranger of anyone in the world today.
"I walked into a music store back East that had 30 arrangements on display and 28 of them were mine And they didn't even know I was coming.”
He is an enthusiastic, determined man who strives for a perfection that is apparent in everything he does. It is for this reason, perhaps, that he has been a recipient of an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers award for 21 consecutive years. Also, he is the only American who holds an appointment as a Fellow of Wolfson College. Cambridge University.
Schaefer is a special kind of man. Although willing to talk about his personal achievements, he is ardent in his desire to make the university community aware of the music school’s achievements.
"These kids are marvelous. . .they are
extremely fine performers.’’ he said about the musicians in the Wind Orchestra.
Schaefer's sabbaticals take him to Cambridge University in England, where he lectures and is involved in extensive research. "In my research, I have discovered material which otherwise would be considered more or less lost.” Many of the pieces, which date back as far as the 16th century, contain music for instruments that are no longer in existence. Schaefer then takes this music and rewrites it entirely for wind instruments, or winds and strings.
These original scores are then sold to interested parties throughout the world. The price for an arrangement depends on its length. The longest are sold for about $65. the shortest about 520.
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Daily §9 Troian
Volume LXXII, Number 36
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, Californio
Wednesday, November 9, 1977
PAC examines use of facilities, student workers, Olympics
COURTING MOTHER NATURE — Student finds quiet	to the creative atmosphere of the'Performing Arts Complex,
place to practice guitar near Norris Theater. His .music adds	DT photo by Doug Gray.
Students organize to correct problems found in physical therapy department
By Lynn Sprenger
Staff Writer
A second-year student from the Department of Physical Therapy has organized a group of students to correct deficiencies preventing the department from gaining full accreditation.
"Our primary concern is one of correcting the deficiencies noted by the joint American Physical Therapy Assn./American Medical Assn. accreditation committee last spring,” Sherry Shelton said.
The committee visited the department’s facilities at Rancho Los Amigos County Hospital in Downey on Nov. 17. 1976 and placed the department on a probationary accreditation status until Nov. 1. 1978. the deadline for improvement in areas noted by the committee.
According to Shelton, these deficiencies include:
—	An inadequate number of faculty. Shelton said there was one professor for 44 students in a lab class.
—	Inadequate funding in some areas, resulting in a lack of adequate teaching equipment, furnishings for a student lounge and air conditioners for classrooms and labs.
—	Inaccessible and. therefore, inadequate student health and counseling services. Although physical therapy students pay the $37 health fee to use the facilities on the main campus, Shelton said most can only use the limited services available after 5 p.m., since it is about a 30-minute drive from the hospital and most have classes ending at 5 p.m.
"We want to bring the situation to the attention of the USC academic community so it knows what’s going on with one of their professional programs, especially one known for its excellence,” Shelton said.
According to Shelton, the university is one of only 10 schools in the nation offering a basic master’s program and the only one with a doctorate level program in physical therapy. She said the faculty is nationally respected and the rehabilitation facility at Rancho Los Amigos is internationally known.
The 85 students enrolled in the two-year program have been meeting every two or three weeks this fall to
discuss grievances and find ways to resolve them, Shelton said.
Students had been working on problems with the department even before the accreditation committee visited the facilities last fall, Shelton said. Prior to that visit, the students sent a petition to James R. Appleton, vice-president for student affairs, listing 10 to 15 grievances.
"He wrote us back a nice letter, said he was in sympathy and that change would come, but it's been mighty slow in coming,” Shelton said. "We’ve only seen two of the items on that petition acted upon.”
She said many of the items listed on the petition are things the accreditation committee later noted when it visited the facilties.
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By Jim Saenz
Staff Writer
Academic image and career interests are the main reasons that high school seniors have chosen to attend ,the university in recent years according to a report made by the Office of Institutional Studies.
In the report, completed in 1976. freshmen entering the university in the fall of 1975 said academic reputation was rated as the most important reason they chose to attend USC.
The next most common reason given was that a degree from the university will help the student get a better job, the survey said.
The survey shows that many current recruitment practices have been successful, the report said.
"It is apparent that all students seek information about the academic characteristics of the university,” the report said.
"They wish to attend a school which will provide them with a solid academic foundation and a degree which has value for further education or the job market.”
By Lois Fitter
Staff Writer
Student employee rights, the utilization of university facilities and how the 1984 Summer Olympics will affect students were the topics addressed at a recent meeting of the President's Advisory Council’s Student Affairs Committee.
Glenn Sonnenberg. committee chairman, said a task force will be set up to deal with the rights of student employees. "For some work-study employees there's no incentive and little opportunity for advancement." he said.
The intercommittee task force, which is now being established, will study issues dealing with wage increases, on-the-job training for student employees, benefits for student workers, wage equality with regular hourly employees, legal issues regarding part-time workers and salary inequities between work-study and nonwork-study students.
The committee will be comprised of three representatives each from students, faculty and staff.
Regarding student use of university facilities. Sonnenberg said that a complete report on that issue will be filed this semester.
"Bing and Norris Theaters are controlled by the School of Performing Arts but those people still have use of other facilities." he said. "Bing and Norris (theaters) have total control and they have also restricted or blacked-out days on their schedule." he said.
"The Bing Theater is really nice and I really appreciate it but these places should be made available to students. The Autumn Arts Festival was incredible, but would student organizations have gotten use of the theater if they had a similar program?” he asked.
"Campus organizations want to have something and yet some places sit empty regularly. Some facilities are the most used yet in the worst state of disrepair. Do we want to encourage student creativity?” he said.
He said the administrators in the School of Performing Arts are cooperative and receptive and, after the next meeting, there should be enough information to make a serious recommendation to the administration about changing some of these policies.
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Beyond these needs, many students were affected in different ways depending on their particular backgrounds and interests.
One example is that advice or influence from teachers, friends, relatives or others were relatively less important factors in choosing the university as compared to those reasons directly related to students' perceptions, the report said.
On the other hand, students or alumni had more influence upon students from more educated families than those from less educated backgrounds.
Those students were most influenced by high school teachers and counselors and college representatives, the report said.
The results of higher education mark a significant influence on later life situations such as marriage, divorce, sex roles, family planning and child rearing, wrote Howard R. Bowen, professor of economics at Claremont Graduate School, in an article in the Chmnicle of Hk/her Education.
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Study shows academics aid recruitment