University of Southern California
Volume LXXII, Number 48	Los	Angeles, California	Thursday,	December	1,	1977
Student Senate cuts 3 members
By Wendy Zimmerman
Staff Writer
The Student Senate ousted three members Tuesday night. In addition, it approved a bylaw revision that will prohibit senators from transferring constituencies while in office.
The senate voted. 12-0-4, to remove Leslie Bernstein and Donna Blass, graduate senators representing the School of Gerontology and School of Social Work, respectively. Included in the motion were instructions to have the Joint Elections and Credentials Committee supervise elections to replace them.
Teres McLean, a commuter senator, also lost her seat. Dale Head, undergraduate vice-chairmen, said he had talked to her and discovered she is not a student here this semester. The elections committee will decide on the method to be used to fill her seat. The vote was 12-2-2.
' At its Dec. 6 meeting, the senate will consider removing Dean Wilson and Vicki Vogelsang, both graduate senators. This is in accordance with the bylaw that requires discussion of the removal of any senator who has missed three consecutive meetings.
Both Vogelsang and Wilson fall into this category.
The senate unanimously passed the bylaw amendments — proposed by the parliamentary committee — dealing with membership requirements for senators and changing the name and expanding the duties of the Joint Elections Committee.
The amendments regarding living constituencies takes effect when the seat is next filled after ratification.
Article II of the bylaws now reads: The senate will consist of all students elected to the senate by the appropriate constituency. In order to represent his appropriate constituency, a senator may not move or transfer during his term of office.
The name of the Joint Elections Committee is now the Joint Elections and Credentials Committee.
Its function will be to investigate all disputes and irregularities pertaining to the election and credentials of candidates or senators.
The Joint Elections and Credentials Committee will have the power to investigate, warn and disqualify any candidate or senator against whom a complaint has been registered.
After discussing and voting down a motion to table the election of two undergraduate senators to replace Lisa Boyd and Fay Van Blake on the President’s Advisory’ Council, the senate elected Anita Knutson and Craig Settles to replace the women.
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Suspected con artist arrested on Row
By Lisa Abbott
An alleged con artist was apprehended Tuesday night on the Row. Edwin Ingram, the suspect, was turned over to the Los Angeles Police Department where he is currently being held on charges of fraud.
Ingram is wanted in San Mateo County on two counts of grand theft and on one count of impersonating a doctor.
Campus Security had wanted Ingram for questioning since Saturday, when Ingram fled from California Hospital and Medical Center after being treated for minor injuries Friday night after the UCLA game. Ingram told officers that he had been robbed in the south alley, behind the Row.
AN ORIGINAL COUPLE — Arthur Stern and Ellen Hicks portrayed the title roles in The Diary of Adam and Eve, a musical presented Wednesday on the Stu-
dent Activities Center patio. The entertainment was provided by the Lunchbox Theatre. DT photo by Doug Gray.
Ford returns to campus today, will present series of lectures
By Gail Asayama
Staff Writer
Former President Gerald R. Ford will begin a two-day lecture stop as a visiting professor when he arrives on campus at 7:30 this morning.
Ford is to arrive by motorcade at Jefferson Boulevard and University Avenue and walk down University Avenue to the Administration Building
On Sunday, Ingram was allowed to stay at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house after a partner called, claiming to be an alumni member from another chapter, and requested that Ingram be picked up from an airport hotel and given assistance.
Ingram claimed that his parents had been killed in an automobile accident in Boston, Mass. and because of his distraught mental condition, airline officials would not permit him to fly.
Howard Farber. president of Alpha Tau Omega, said Ingram took several members of the fraternity to a mortuary, to sign fictitious releases for his parent’s bodies, and to County-USC Medical Center, where he allegedly impersonated a doctor.
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for breakfast with President John R. Hubbard.
The first of eight lectures will begin at 8:30 a.m. today. Ford will lecture to three classes this morning.
At 1:30 p.m. he will attend a meeting with the press at the University Hilton Hotel where he will be staying.
Students who are not registered in the classes will not be allowed to attend the lectures. The sessions will include history, public affairs, international relations and political science classes.
Ford will cover such topics as presidential politics, political opinion and behavior, the theory and practice of American democracy and international relations.
The agenda for the rest of the day includes a lecture at 2:30 p.m. He will attend the Air Force ROTC Annual Dining-Out Dinner and speak on ’The State of National Defense — Where We Are Now and Where We Are Going.”
Last night, Ford was guest at the “USO Salutes Gerald R. Ford” dinner, where he was given the Distinguished American Award. The dinner was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Friday, Ford will lecture to an international relations class at 8:30 p.m. This lecture will be open to the press but media representatives must register with the USC News Bureau.
Ford's final lecture will conclude at 4 p.m. Friday. At that time the former president will leave the university.
The visit is sponsored by both the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D C. and the university. The Center for Public Affairs coordinated the visit under its dean, Houston Flournoy.
Individuals will be able to talk with Ford as he moves about campus, said Nancy Chew, who is doing much of the coordinating for his visit.
Troian
Magazine rates future outlook of professions
By Marc Corman
Staff Writer
Students planning for careers in medicine, dentistry and engineering have a bright future, but students hoping for careers as schoolteachers, college professors, newspaper reporters and lawyers may have to change their plans.
Those are the predictions of MONEY magazine.
In its November issue, the magazine ranked the major professions it predicts will be the best and worst from now to 1985.
The predictions are based on Bureau of Labor Statistics concerning growth estimates for the professions, supply and demand probabilities and salaries.
The magazine ranked doctors, veterinarians, dentists and pharmacists in the 10 best categories, saying that these fields enjoy “the unique advantage of a strong, assured growth combined with a limited supply of new blood.”
The magazine said physicians have
the highest median income of any profession $58,000 a year.
For the 517 students who enrolled at the university’s Law Center this fall, MONEY didn’t predict quite as rosy a future.
The magazine said that in law, it’s the top graduates of the best schools who get hired by the big firms and make the most money.
"The outputs of the law schools has tripled in the past decade, while the need for lawyers has grown moderately,” the magazine said.
Lawrence Raful, dean of students at the Law Center, said students who want to be attorneys should not be dissuaded by these predictions.
He said it’s true that the top graduates from the university get top jobs in Los Angeles, but he said other law students can still get jobs “if they hustle, work hard and do something to distinguish themselves and search the job market.”
He said there are certain specializations at certain times that can be wide open.
MONEY also said that the "gloomy predictions about college graduates should not dissuade anyone from pursuing a particular profession.”
The magazine said, however, that these types of forecasts are becoming "increasingly reliable: the trends, if not the precise numbers, are usually right.”
Veronica Tincher of the university’s Office of Institutional Studies said people do get discouraged about certain fields when they read such forecasts.
Tincher cited greatly decreased interest in the field of education because jobs are few.
MONEY also ranked systems analysts, geologists, actuaries, personnel administrators and city managers as professions with good futures.
Other professions that present the worst career opportunities for newcomers are librarians, Protestant clergymen, foresters, hotel managers military officers and biologists.