Daily C# Troian
Volume LXXI, Number 24
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, March 15, 1977
Council approves recommendations on organization of faculty, Emeriti Center
LIFE AT THE TOP — Workers hang high over head as MGM films a movie here. More photos on page 7. DT photo by Douglas Gray.
By Elizabeth Thompson
Staff Writer
Recommendations for improving the effectiveness of the Faculty Senate and the Faculty Caucus were approved Friday by the President’s Advisory Council.
In other action, the council approved a recommendation forthe establishment of an Emeriti Center for retired university faculty and staff members.
The recommendations for improvement of the Faculty Senate and Caucus were presented by a special joint task force composed of faculty members who had served on one or both executive bodies.
The task force was established by the council in spring, 1976 to study the operations ofthe two faculty groups and to recommend any steps that could be taken to improve their effectiveness.
Five specific recommendations are listed in the task force’s report, including a recommendation that the two organizations formulate a letter of understanding, which would list the responsibilities of the chairmen and vice-chairmen of both groups.
Also included is a recommendation that the mechanisms linking the caucus and the senate be refined.
The Faculty Caucus is composed of faculty members who are elected to the PAC. The Faculty Senate is an independent group composed of elected faculty members
that deals with anything of concern to faculty — such as faculty rights and responsibilities — and tenure.
Provision already exists for the president of the senate to participate in the PAC’s Commission on Committee Personnel and the Executive Committee and for faculty members active in the PAC to participate in the senate’s Nominating Committee, the report said.
The report added, however, that an investigation should be made to determine which university committees might benefit by specific percentages of faculty membership; how the nominating process might be made more effective; where there should be overlapping membership on PAC and senate committees; and how to solve the problems caused by the disparity between the two-year term of PAC members and the annual naming of senate members.
In addition, the report recommends that the two groups prepare an annual report listing what organizational elements worked well in the past year; that a single election be conducted for the PAC and senate members in all academic units; and that the senate president should serve as the convener of the caucus, which would elect a chairman pro tem (other than the president ofthe senate) at the beginning of each meeting to serve forthat meeting only.
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Entertainment committee uses show profits for convention trip
By Mike Schroeder
Utilizing$1,000 in profits from their sponsorship of two campus concerts, four students were sent by the Student Committee on Popular Entertainment to a national convention in San Antonio, Tex. in February.
The student entertainment convention, held by the National Entertainment and Campus Activities Assn. Feb. 16-20, was the first attended by USC representatives. said Judi Rivkin. chairman of the committee and one of the students in attendance.
The local group joined nearly 3,000 other representatives from 600 schools across the nation. This number represents two-thirds of the national membership in the association, Rivkin said.
Rivkin was quick to note that the expenses forthe convention
FUNDING SOUGHT
did not come directly from the students through programming fees.
The committee is funded by the Campus Activities Allocation Board, which directs the spending of most of the $4.50 programming fee paid by students each semester.
“The trip was not funded through student programming fees, but benefits derived through our attendance will benefit the entire student population,” Rivkin said. She said profits from the concerts featuring Kalapana and A1 Stewart paid for the entire trip — airfare, room board and registration ex-v penses. One senior in the group, Evie Moxon, paid her own expenses except her registration, which was paid by the committee.
Neither of the two concerts
from which the profits were used had been funded by the Campus Activities Allocation Board, said Hunt Braly, chairman. Therefore, the board has no oversight over the use ofthe profits since the students put their own time and effort into organizing the events, he said.
The convention consisted of a series of meetings and workshops designed to aid students in improving their campuses’ entertainment programs. Displays by record representatives, booking agents and private performing groups advertised what was available to the schools, and some groups auditioned before the representatives.
Although the auditions were flawed with technical difficulties, Rivkin said they were one of the most important parts of the (continued on page 6)
The milkman cometh: student stars in TV ad
By iMatt Cohn
USC has another television star in its midst. Alex Cappello, last season’s head football yell leader, is a spokesman for milk in a new California Milk Advisory Board Commercial.
“If you are really budget conscious, like most college students today, you’re going to buy milk,” says Cappello in the commercial, which will appear on West Coast TV through the spring months.
A year ago, Cappello was contacted by an advertising firm that needed a college student for a radio commercial. He was interviewed and photographed and his voice was recorded.
Several weeks later Cappello was told by the firm that its budget had been expanded to include TV ads.
He was selected to do the commercial from a group of several students who auditioned by videotape. The firm said they liked his camera presence and thought he represented the student segment of the population well.
The commercial was filmed in January at a home in Brentwood. Thirty minutes of film was shot of Cappello talking with the direc-
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‘Godspell’ may encore in Bovard
By popular demand. Godspell may make its second coming this month in Bovard Auditorium.
The play was received with such enthusiasm earlier this semester that another performance is planned to reach a larger audience and raise funds to support another play next year, said Larry Germain, Godspell producer and director.
The cast, crew and band are ready to begin rehearsals, but funds must be approved before production officially begins, Germain said.
He said the show will cost between $900 and $1,000 for one night. The previous performances were partially funded by the OfTice of Residential Life and Germain hopes the office will allocate funds again.
Expenses include technical materials, publicity, hall rental and royalties. As of Monday, it was not determined out of which source, if any, the funds would come.
Germain, a junior in business, said both the cast and performance will be the same as the earlier production. The entire cast and crew are volunteers from the residence halls.
More than 650 tickets would have to be sold for the production to break even. Bovard Auditorium has a capacity for 1,600 people.
There will be only one performance, March 27, if funds are allocated. Tickets will be $1.50 each.
Hans Reichl, director of residential life, said he hopes the show is produced. “It’s a super performance and this will give them a chance to make a few bucks to support another show next year.” Godspell played to three consecutive full houses in Hancock Auditorium during early February. At that time, it received critical acclaim as a demonstration that high quality shows could be produced without help from the Department of Drama.
Germain said he is confident the show will be financially successful if it is presented. “I’ve spent a lot of time talking to people, getting their opinions, and only a few voted against it.”
Those who were not enthusiastic about the idea believed the residence hall production already has a good reputation and that its reputation would be put on the line if the play were to be shown again, Germain said.
Germain said he has received offers to produce the play professionally. “We could play at one of any number of small theaters in Los Angeles, but I’ve never had the opporunity to follow through with it,” he said. Because of union and school conflicts, the group will probably remain on campus.