University of Southern California
Volume LXXI, Number 59	Los	Angeles, California	Friday,	May	13,	1977
PAC committee plans communication tactics
By Pat Me Kean
Staff Writer
In an effort to better the communication system here, the Environmental and External Affairs Committee made several suggestions Thursday that would help centralize, organize and publicize campus events.
The committee, a subcommittee of the President’s Advisory Council ftinneled the suggestions to specific groups or offices that could better implement the suggestions.
The report to the committee, made by Nancee Cortes, director of the Community Schools of Performing Arts, and Scott Bernard, a student, offered several short-term solutions to the problem.
The report first stated that the new campus directory', due in June, should have accurate listings for information offices. It also said beneath the Campus Calendar listing in the Daily Trojan a line should be placed to give a specific phone number for more information. The phone numbers of the main information offices should also be included in the Trojan Family and The Chronicle, the report suggested.
Another suggestion stated the Information Center, currently moving to the Student Activities Center, has the numbers of scheduling offices available for proper referral. It should also maintain information provided by the different schools on their activities.
As long-term solutions to the problems, the committee suggested that the Dean of Student Affairs and the Communication Commission (a sub group of the main committee) look into the matter of having all public events posted on a computerized message board at a central location. It also suggested all major events be published on a separate sheet that would be available at key communication points.
‘There is definitely a problem of communication,” Cortes told the committee. ‘The suggestions we have made can be used as a take-off point for bettering the system.”
In a related matter, Cortes and Barnard’s report said that because of a poor communication system and the run-around that people often get when trying to find out the time and place of an event, many students, especially those in the residence halls, become isolated.
“I’ve had many people, most of them male, who have come up to me and complained of loneliness,” Cortes said. “It usually happens when a person changes from small college or university in the country to a big one in the city like USC.” The committee suggested that thi s problem be referred to the Dean of Student Li fe and the Dean of Women.
The committee again brought up a report it received earlier that was concerned with the establishment of a committee to provide a university-wide voice in early stages of planning buildings and in
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Coed suffers wrist cut; details remain unclear
Details surrounding an incident in College-University Residence Hall Thursday morning remain unclear as one of its residents suffered a diagonal wrist cut and finger cuts.
The victim, a 19-year-old woman who was not identified, was treated and released from California Hospital at about 10:30 Thursday morning, hours after Campus Security had been notified at 7:40 a.m. and the Los Angeles Police Department responded.
‘There are a lot of loose ends on what happened,” said Carl Levredge, assistant director of Campus Security.
According to a Campus Security report, the victim said she didn’t remember the incident too clearly. The report, as told by the victim, said she was lying on her bed listening to records between 2 and 3 a.m. when a man entered her room. The door was unlocked.
The man was a former friend ofthe victim who she had met in New York City last summer and hadn’t heard from since then, the report said.
An argument started and the man threatened the girl with a knife. The victim grabbed at the knife as he came at her and she (continued on page 6)
OFF TO SCHOOL — Secret Service agents escort	keep his first appointment of the day at Von KleinSmid
former President Gerald R. Ford from the University	Center. DT photo by Denis Wolcott.
Hilton to campus via the Figueroa Street crossing to
SENATE VOTES 6-2
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KSCR must repay $4,000 loan
By David Rosembaum
Staff Writer
Matters of precedence and procedure outweighed the issue of charity Wednesday evening when the Student Senate refused the request of KSCR, the student-run radio station here, to default on half of its $4,000 loan from the student government.
A senate vote of 6-5 denied KSCR’s request. At issue was the possibility the senate would set an improper precedent if half the loan were converted to a grant, which would be an allocation of money.
KSCR was granted $5,000 by the Campus Activities Allocation Board (CAAB) in March 1975, and was loaned an additional $4,000. First payment on the loan was due January 1977, but was never made.
“It’s the business of CAAB to allocate, not senate,” said Bill Dauster, a newly elected senator.
But despite upholding procedural methods, the senate — and the student body — may have signaled its lack of support for KSCR, which currently serves Birnkrant Dining Hall, McDonald’s on Figueroa, Trojan Hall, the bookstore and the music lounge in the Student Activities Center.
A senate motion requiring KSCR to begin repayment of its entire loan in January 1978, with
final payment to be made in May 1979, was approved 6-2.
Apparently, the senate believes advertising revenues will provide the station with money sufficient to repay its loan. The station has been without advertising sponsors since it resumed service in February 1977.
Guidelines to set advertising policy are being drawn and, if approved by President John Hubbard, may permit KSCR to start advertising.this month.
Nelson argued before the senate that the allocations board has granted numerous campus organizations monies in addition to initial grants. She requested that half the KSCR loan be considered an instance of additional financial support from from student government.
But some senators felt KSCR should apply to the allocations board for an additional $2,000 grant — and not to the senate for a $2,000 defaultment. Nelson objected to the red tape involved.
She then appealed simply for charity. “We have survived a lot of difficulties this year...KSCR is a resource you are not tapping...we have the manpower and interest to be a possible solution to your communication problem,” she said.
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Ford visits Theta sorority to meet girlfriend of son Steven
By Rhea Peterson
“Will it get me in good with Mel?” asked Jerry of son Steven. No one knows for sure, but President Gerald R. Ford’s visit Wednesday evening to the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house certainly could not have hurt the relationship between his son and Theta, Melanie Salata.
Former President Gerald R. Ford concludes his three-day visit to the university today. Among the final items on his itinerary is a meeting with international relations students.
Salata, a senior majoring in physical education, has been dating Steve for several months. In recent phone conversations between former President Ford and Steve, the President remarked that he wanted to see where Melanie lived, and so followed the suggestion that he pay a visit during his three-day lecture series at the university this week.
“Wednesday morning Major Barrett called to say that the President would be coming by later that day. We kept it really quiet because the security didn’t want to worry about crowd control. The Row was considered a high risk area, so only a few Thetas knew he would be here,” Salata said.
A squad of agents arrived Wednesday afternoon to check out the entire house for bombs, and to examine it for exits. When Theta housemother Janet Alexander offered punch as refreshments for Ford during his visit, she was asked, “Where is the punch coming from?” Salata was instructed to be responsible for bring Ford a bottle of Tab which was to be opened in front of the security to prove it was safe.
Accompanied by two cars full of security and aides on either side of his 1 imousine. Ford arrived in front of the Theta house in the midst of Greek Week activities.
Down the street, the “World’s Largest Sundae” was being constructed and consumed, stereos were blaring from outside speakers, and members of the Kappa Alpha fraternity were announcing their annual Dixie Ball by shooting off a cannon in front of each sorority and handing out invitations to the party.
Needless to say, the sounding cannon triggered slightly nervous reactions from Ford’s ten bodyguards...(The Ford children are no longer protected by Secret Service, but Ford and wife Betty normally have 20 full-time security aides in attendance.)
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MELANIE SALATA AND STEVEN FORD