Departments ask $2-million grant for public service jobs
By Lynn Sprenger Almost $2-million worth of proposals for public service-oriented projects have been submitted by various university departments to the Office of Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action since a request for proposals was sent out by that ofTice in February.
Angelo V. Basco, technical assistant to Barbara M. Pearson, director ofthe office, will meet with a monitor from the city of Los Angeles today to consider each proposal. The monitor will help Basco determine whether the individual proposals meet the public serv ice objectives of the Comprehensive Employment Training Act legislation. This legislation will allocate funds to the projects, which are meant to create as many jobs as possible for one year or less that are public service-oriented.
Basco will then have until April 1 to revise the proposals and put them together into one grant proposal which the university will submit to the city. He figures the final proposal will amount to about $800,000.
The university is actually a subcontractor to the city of Los Angeles and has been
using the employment training funds since August, 1974. Appropriations come from the federal government, which contracts with prime sponsors — cities and county governments.
This particular funding comes under Title VI of the training act and will be used to hire long-term unemployed Los Angeles residents — people who have been unemployed for 15 weeks or more.
The Office of Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action originally set March 18 as the deadline for university departments to submit project proposals, but the date was extended to March 25 to give more departments the opportunity to hand in proposals and clarify some that had already been submitted. Proposals, however, were still being accepted Monday.
The public service project proposals that have been submitted to Basco won’t be considered by the city for funding until after April 1. Jobs under the accepted projects will begin June 1.
One example ofa project proposal came from Virginia Boyack, project director of the Andrus Gerontology Center. Research conducted under the center’s Pre-Retirement Education Program indicates 30% of peoples’ lives are spent in retirement since the average life expectancy is increasing. “Therefore, people ought to plan for that part of their life earlier,” Basco said.
The proposal suggests that 31 people be hired to “develop and implement life planning programs (personal resources and economic planning) for high school
students, middle-aged adults and retired persons in the community.”
The Office of Personnel proposed the creation of a day care center for faculty, staff and students at the university. It suggested that jobs go to the long-term unemployed or poverty-level senior citizens and youths of the surrounding community.
Another was a job creation project for indigent adults in the community who would perform general custodial, maintenance and rehabilitative work on university property. This was submitted by the Department of Auxiliary Services.
The projects do not limit people to entry-level jobs, but represent a cross-section of all job classifications and categories in the university.
“(The employment training act) is job-creation legislation,” Basco said, “and the by-product should be a public service.” The projects can’t expand present programs.
Legislation for continued funding of Title VI is still in Congress, but it almost a foregone conclusion that it will pass, Basco said.
Friends of the USC Libraries pays tribute to late actress
By Mich Avant
Entertainment Editor
Even though a light drizzle fell from the clouds outside, it was a star-studded evening inside Town and Gown Friday night. The occasion was the Friends of the USC Libraries 13th tribute to men and women who have achieved distinctive levels of greatness within their particular professional fields.
Earlier recipients of this special tribute have included Aldous Huxley, Somerset Maugham, Cole Porter, Vivien Leigh, Helen Keller, Moss Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, Louis Armstrong. Larry Hart, W.H. Auden, David
O.	Selznick and The Algonquin Round Table.
But Friday night’s fund-raiser was reserved to pay tribute to one lady who many at the banquet described as a woman whose effervescent and unpredictable personality made her one ofthe most-talked-about individuals during the first half of this century — Tallulah Bankhead.
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LOOKING BACK (ABOVE) —
George Cukor, Estelle Winwood and Collier Young participate in a panel discussion in which they reminisce about Tallulah Bankhead. DT photo by Denis Wolcott.
GET-TOGETHER (AT LEFT) —
Estelle Winwood, Stephanie Powers and Roddy McDowall enjoy a moment of conversation at the Friends of the USC Libraries dinner. DT photo by Denis Wolcott.
Daily tp Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXX!, Number 34	Los Angeles, Californio	Tuesday, March 29, 1977
Art classes boycotted over prof tenure denial
proval at university-wide levels of administration, through the President’s Advisory Committee on Appointments and Promotions and requiring ultimately the approval of the university president.
Bissinger said in the cases of both the original tenure vote and DeFrance's appeal, the committees and administrators within the School of Architecture and Fine Arts approved the recommendation that DeFrance receive tenure. She said it was at the level of the President's Advisory’ Committee on Appointments and Promotions that the request was denied both times.
DeFrance was given a one-year terminal contract with the university at the time his tenure was denied, meaningthat he had one year to find a job elsewhere. Bissinger said.
His contract will expire this semester, she said, at which time has status as a faculty member will end.
Reasons for the denial tenure are not publicly released, Bissinger said, because the reasons are often personal matters. "We have to protect the privacy of faculty members, especially in a matter that tends to be as touchy as tenure.” he said.
DeFrance said earlier he did not know the reasons for the denial of tenure status to him.
Student Senate considers allocations bylaw changes
Revisions aimed at streamlining the bylaws of the Campus Activities Allocations Board will be considered at Wednesday’s Student Senate meeting.
The senate’s plans for the reorganization of the President's Advisory Council (PAC) will also be discussed.
A total of22 articles in the allocation board’s bylaws were submitted for discussion as the Student Senate cabinet met Friday.
One change in the bylaws would require the senate’s executive committee to prepare an administrative budget at the beginning of every academic year. This budget would have to be approved by the senate and not exceed 2% of the program monies collected.
Presently, no budget is required. The senate may use 2% of programming fees for administrative costs after all other possible avenues of funding have been exhausted.
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By Mike Simpson
Staff Writer
Students boycotted their art classes Monday and further action is planned in support of James DeFrance, an art professor denied tenure forthe second time March 16.
Classes went on as usual Monday, with no apparent loss in student attendance, acording to Virginia Bissinger, assistant dean for administration in the School of Architecture and Fine Arts.
But one teaching assistant said absences were substantial in her classes. She said a midterm was cancelled in one class because only half ofthe students showed up, and in a ceramics class only 10 of 40 students attended.
The boycott was planned for Monday classes only, and today a meeting for art students who support the boycott is scheduled at 10:30 a.m. in Lindhurst Gallery, Watt Hall. Ruth Weisberg, acting associate dean in the School of Architecture and Fine Arts will speak at the meeting about the tenure decision.
DeFrance, who has served as an assistant professor of fine arts, was denied tenure last year and again this year when he appealed the decision. The process of receiving tenure includes recommendations required of several levels of departmental administration leading to ap-