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Daily f Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXXI, Number 25
Los Angeles, California Wednesday, March 16, 1977
Student report says advisory group bureaucratic, needs consolidation
A BIG WELCOME — A
plucky pachyderm saunters up to provide an introduction for a photo essay on page 5. DT photo by Scott Footlik.
Aid office stops acceptance of student loan applications
National Direct Student Loan applications are no longer being accepted for this year by the financial aid office, but college work-study grants are still being appropriated.
Linda Berkshire, director of resource development and student aid programs, said the $2 million in loans allocated to the university has been expended.
The total national loan budget forthe 1976-77 year was $332 million. Money actually allocated to the university was $2 million, but an additional $1 million is generated through repayment of previous loans. Students who receive the loans repay the university, not the government, Berkshire said.
The loans are allocated on a long-term basis. Students must begin to repay the loans starting nine months after graduation and may take up to 10 years to repay them.
New loan funds will not be allocated until the 1977-78 aid budget is set after July 1. Supplementary applications for aid through the loans were being accepted but have been discontinued because the funds have been depleted, she said.
But applications for the College Work-Study program are being accepted for students who want to obtain work-study eligibility. Money for work-study jobs for this year may be used through June 30.
Unused work-study money from student allocations is returned to the government at the end of the year, and is not included in the students financial aid package forthe following year, Berkshire said.
A total of 491 people have been placed in work-study jobs since Jan.
10, said Ray D. Penalber, coordinator of the work-study program.
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By Gary Maloney
Staff Writer
The President’s Advisory Council needs to consolidate and pare down its bureaucracy and membership for greater effectiveness, said a report submitted Tuesday by Glenn Sonnenberg, Student Senate chairman, to President John R. Hubbard.
While reaffirming that the process of the advisory council is “a healthy exercise in cooperation for the benefit of the university with. . .significant potential for meaningful contributions,” the student report criticized numerous facets ofthe system, includingthe functioningof the Budget Commission, the Academic Affairs Committee, and the rule requiring the council to consist of at least 50% faculty membership.
“I favor immediate abolition of the Budget Commission,” Sonnenberg said in an interview Tuesday. “It is a totally extraneous level of bureaucratic entanglement. The report favors a single-tiered budget process ' wherein the Resource Management and Planning Committee would employ a broader timetable for more detailed work. This would also take into account the
aspects of long-range fiscal planning.”
Sonnenberg also suggested the superfluity of the Academic Affairs Committee, while praising the work of the committee's subgroups, for example, the Academic Standards Commission, which he termed “closer to the heartbeat of the campus and what is going on in the classrooms.”
The report recommended that the Advisory Committee on Academic Planningto be made a committee under the advisory council. This group, which the report called “the most meaningful working group dealing with academics here,” works under the guidance of Zohrab Kaprielian, executive vice-president. It was suggested that the group, which has only one student member, would expand its student representation and retain either Kaprielian or the new provost as chairman.
The student report gave considerable emphasis to the goal of making the President's Advisory Council a smaller, more manageable body:
“To a large degree, the size problem can be alleviated by abandoning the concept that each constituency must be rep-
resented through the presence of each academic unit (e.g., department),” the report said. “This concept alone dictates that the PAC’s size be so unreasonable. . .There can be a delegation from among these people to serve as members of the PAC.
“Going hand-in-hand with this is the abolition ofthe 50% faculty rule. With a strong Faculty Senate. There is no reason to overcompensate for faculty sensitivities through ths rule. Part of Council of Deans’ apprehensions toward the PAC seems rooted in the faculty majority’s ability to limit, control and close PAC debate.”
Six hypothetical structures were listed, each ranging from 27-60 members rather than the present PAC membership of 125 or more.
The proliferation of the council’s committees, commissions and task forces is also taken to task in the student report. “It seems that whenever there isn’t a clear solution, we organize a committee. The proliferation is incredible. We recommend that formation of all commissions and/or task forces be approved by the PAC Execu-(continued on page 2)
God or evolution: the debate goes on
By Pat McKean
Staff Writer
Since Charles Darwin first presented his views of evolution in 1858, man has debated that theory against the creation theory.
The university’s Campus Crusade for Christ continued the debate Tuesday in Bovard Auditorium, but was only able to get a representative for one side.
Thus, the crusade called the presentation “The Great Half Debate” with the lone speaker being Richard Bliss, a professor of Science Education at the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego.
He presented both sides of the issue, stating reasons why neither of the two theories can be proven. Jeff Wakefield, a spokesman for the Crusade said the purpose of the debate was to show
students both sides ofthe issues, and let them think further for themselves.
Wakefield said his group contacted about 20 professors from the university that could have presented the evolution theory, but all declined for various reasons.
“Some said it was a dead issue, others said they did not have time and others said that most intellectual people would not believe the creation theory,” Wakefield said.
“In nearly all ofthe classes, the students are told just what the professor believes, and that’s usually evolution. The students take it for a fact and see just one side of the issue. We are at the mercy of what the professors know.” he said. The crusade is
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Baseball fan hits high pitch without swinging a bat
By Marsha Johnston
She doesn’t field, pitch or coach, and her batting average won’t compute, but several times in the summers of 1975 and 1976Kathy Krems was an essential part of the game plan of the San Francisco Giants baseball team.
During those two baseball seasons, Krems, a freshman voice major, sang Tht Star Spangled Banner and gave the players their cue to “play ball” on about seven different occasions.
The San Francisco Giants ball club asked Krems to sing after her father, Louis Krems, business manager for professional baseball’s National League, played them a tape of her voice.
When the Los Angeles Dodger ball club got an jarful of Krems’ talent, they asked her to sing for them on the Fourth of July, 1975. That particular Dodger game was televised in the Bay Area and was Krems’ first television exposure. Krems said her performance wasn’t as good as it could have been because she knew all herfriends, and her boyfriend’s mother, were
watching, which made her nervous. But she recovered well enough from that experience to sing the national anthem, the “best I (she) ever did it” on national television at a later Giant game, Krems said.
If the Philadelphia Phillies had been in the World Series, Krems possibly would have sung at one of the games. This opportunity almost came when the Phillies asked Kfems to sing at the professional All-Star game in Philadelphia. But the United States Navy, who was sponsoring the filming of the game for later release, also wanted their cantors to sing, and in the end, they got the job.
Krems said the Phillies manager felt so bad about her not getting the job that he said if the Phillies got to the World Series, “she sings.” So, even though Krems is from Cincinnati, she cheered for the Phillies before they were ousted from World Series competition.
The exposure her singing talent has had in San Francisco has provided
Krems with doors to the show business industry which she hasn’t yet opened.
“If I decided to get into the business,” said Krems, “I know the people you have to know to get in, but I’m not ready.
“I have to be able to keep a separate, personal life,” Krems said. “In show business, that is really hard to do. I think that is the only thing that would keep me from going into the business.”
It is not only her doubts about the merits of a show business life, but her desire to keep on studying which keeps Krems from becoming professional now.
“I want to keep on studying.. .learning classical music takes years,” Krems said. If she entered the industry now, Krems would only be qualified to perform in the fields of pop, folk or jazz. “But I .think even for jazz I need more training. I love jazz,” Krems said. She thinks she would make “just a good” pop or folk singer, but she wants to strive to be exceptionally good in (continued on page 2)
KATHY KREMS