University of Southern California
Volume LXXI, Number 6_J	tos	Angeles, California
Thursday, May ?9, 7977
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NOW AND THEN — At left is a view of the Coliseum, which currently has a seating capacity of
BILLED AS MORE INTIMATE
91,038. At right is the proposed plan, which would reduce seating to 71,432.
Fans to lose seating at Coliseum
By David Rosenbaum
Staff Writer
It is being billed as a more intimate stadium with east and west end seating much closer to the playing field, but administrators here are refusing to disclose several proposals regarding new Coliseum fall seating arrangements.
“It is a very sensitive issue,” said Jay Savage, chairman of the President’s Advisory Council’s executive committee.
Students, faculty and staff, administrators and donors to the university all stand to lose seats numerically and preferentially when the Coliseum’s seating capacity is reduced from 91,038to 71,432 he said.
The university, Los Angeles Rams, UCLA and the Coliseum have chosen to close in the east end of the stadium. A new section 53 rows high, containing 9,324 theater-type seats with backs and armrests, will be
47% of faculty surveyed want collective bargaining
By Gary Maloney
StaffWriter
Forty-seven per cent of the faculty would approve efforts by the Faculty Senate to establish collective bargaining according to a survey released Wednesday.
The survey, based on a questionnaire distributed to 41% of the faculty in April, showed that 37% of the sample disapproved of collective bargaining efforts while 10% were neutral or undecided.
“Since the mission of the senate is to represent the entire faculty...it would seem rather inappropriate for the senate to take a partisan position on an
Power failure does damage
An estimated $l,500-$2,000 damage to terminals in the University Computing Center was caused late Wednesday by a power blackout that swept much of South Central Los Angeles.
Damage to the computers, however, could have gone as high as $10,000, according to Kim Secor, supervisor on duty when the two-minute blackout struck at 9:53 p.m.
Campus Security officers and Physical Plant employees said a preliminary survey of the university revealed no other dam age
The problem was apparently centered near the corner of Clovis Avenue and Century Boulevard in three Los Angeles Department of Water and Power distributing stations.
issue over which the faculty is still so clearly divided,” said the senate report interpreting the results.
Some faculty members commented on the reasons for supporting collective bargaining.
“This is a response to the feeling that the ord inary budget and salary request processes this year did not work,” said one senator, who asked not to be identified. “USC is more and (continued on page 2)
constructed in the east end zone.
The problem that will be created is simple. By closing the east end and moving the field 20 yards west, those who have previously sat on the 50-yard line must be moved too. But the university — if it chooses not to make use of the new section — will have nearly
29,000	fewer seats available to it.
When the section is removed for the USC-UCLA and USC-Notre Dame games, however, full use of the stadium will be available. The estimated $50,000 cost of removing the section will be shared by the Coliseum and its three tenants.
This past fall, students, faculty and staff sat in aisles 22 thru 26. Administrators and university donors sat in stairway 17 thru aisle 21, and stairway 4 thru aisle 11, with fans of the opposing teams seated in the first few rows of aisles 8 thru 11. Ticket holders of the Trojan Special sat in stairways 16 thru 17. All other seating was open to the general public.
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JOSEPH VAN DER MEULEN
Provost search ends; university to revamp academic leadership
By Shelley Hoose
Staff Writer
After two years of intensive search, the administration has abandoned the search for a provost and will instead reorganize the university’s academic leadership.
Provost is the chief academicofficerof the university, a post President John R. Hubbard left vacant when he became president in 1970.
“We will have a three-prong leadership,” said Zohrab Kaprielian, executive vice-president. The three leaders will be the vice-president for Health Affairs; the academic vice-president, who heads the professional schools, excepting the Health Sciences; and the dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Science.
Joseph Van der Meulen, present professor and chairman of neurology, will become the vice-president of Health Affairs when present vice-president Edmund Ackell retires this year.
Paul E. Hadley will lose the word “interim” in front of his title to become the academic vice-president and John Marburger, interim dean of LAS will also lose his temporary title to become the permanent dean.
“The idea is to confirm them (Marburger and Hadley) in the jobs,” Kaprielian said.
The Provost Search Committee found six people during its two-year search who were well-qualified in one or two of the areas of excellence needed in a provost, but no one who could meet the provost’s projected image of an academic and intellectual leader, Kaprielian said.
“The search was not only a process to fulfill those qualifications but also to fit the specific needs of this campus,” said Paul Knoll, head of the search committee. He said none of the candidates generated the support needed from this campus.
The cost of the search campaign, conducted on a nationwide level, was estimated by a senior official of the President’s Advisory Counci 1 as from $40,000 to $60,000.
The candidates were exposed to all segments of the university community. Each one met with the President’s Advisory Council the Student Senate, all the university’s deans and vice-presidents and the members of the search committee. “We could not get a consensus on anyone,” Kaprielian said.
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Student government favored in partial referendum results
Partial results of the referendum question on the recent Student Senate election overwhelmingly indicate that the student body favors recognition of the senate as the official student government.
A total of 2,245 persons voted yes, 114 no and 19 undecided to the question, “Shall the students direct the President of the university to seek from the Board ofTrustees official recognition of the Student Senate as the representative student government, for inclusion in the bylaws of the corporation?”
The results reflect the votes of all undergraduate students and some graduate students, said Jerel Yamamoto, chairman of the joint election committee.
The referendum is expected to be presented to the Board ofTrustees in June. ‘There is no reason to believe it will not be passed by them,” said Glenn Sonnenberg, chairman of the Student Senate.
He said his reaction to the vote is one of total exhiliration. “This is the best payment for the students who have worked so hard for the last few years to establish a working student government.”
If passed by the trustees, the referendum will reinstate the Stu-
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Pepsi edges Coke in battle of the colas
. By Gary Linehan
StaffWriter
Eating in the Birnkrant dining hall always poses a challenge to students. But another kind of test was conducted there Wednesday — the Pepsi Challenge.
Students were invited to sample both Pepsi Cola and Coca Cola in unlabeled cups to determine which brand of soft drink they preferred. A total of 94 students participated in the demonstration. Out of the number, 55 chose Pepsi and 39 chose Coke.
The reactions of the participants varied widely, and many were surprised to find they d id not know their favorite drink as well as they had thought.
Peri Muretta, a freshman in public administration, chose the challenger. “I don’t know why I picked Pepsi. I’ve always hated it,” she said.
Some students arrived at their conclusions scientifically. “I deduced that Coke’s smaller bubbles activated
my taste buds to a greater extent, causing it to have better taste,” said Tom Chiara, a sophomore in chemical engineering.
Others were more practical. “I think Pepsi has more caffeine, which makes it better for finals. It’s better than the real thing,” said Fred Chris-tophiaes, a sophomore in electrical engineering.
In addition to simply taking the challenge, several students were photographed for possible use in promotional pictures. Maybe it was the pressure, but several of those chose Coke in front of the camera.
Of those students photographed, Leslie Jacobs, a freshman in biology/premedicine, said she did not like the Pepsi sample because it was too sweet.
Raythel Polk, a sophomore in psychology, chose Pepsi because he felt Coke was too acidic. Despite the outcome of the test, he said he will sti 11 stay with Sprite.
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ACCEPTING THE CHALLENGE — Peri Muretta, a freshman in public administration, sips a coke (or is it Pepsi?). DT photo by Doug Gray.