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Volume LXXI, Number 61/	Los	Angeles, California	Wednesday, May 18, 1977
PILLAR GRAFFITI—Story on gong occurrences necr university on page 12.
TRAINING session offered
Telephone system to start operation in June
By Fat Mc^vean
Staff Wr iter
The university's new computer-driven telephone system is in the process of being installed and the final switch from the old system will take place the” weekend after finals. June 10, 11 and 12.
“The new system will be a vast improvement for the university community once people learn how to use the new’ flexible system,” said Joan Kelley, telecommunications administrator, who has been organizing the change-over since she came to the university in October.
The new system, called Centrex II, is the first major change in the university’s telephone network since 1965, when the university changed to Centrex I, which allowed direct inward dialing to a specific station, rather than through an operator.
Kelley is trying nowr to educate people on the use of the new system, which wi 11 have three main advantages. There will be a training session, about one hour in length, each day until next Wednesday, May 25.
Today’s session, open to all faculty, staff and students, is the final afternoon session, and it starts at 2 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium. Then every weekday from Thursday through Wednesday, there will be morning sessions, starting at 9 a.m. in Hancock Auditorium.
“So far, not many people have been attending the sessions, and we definitely want people to know how the new system w orks so that a great majority of people know how to use it when the change takes place in June.” Kelley said. “Right now, only a small majority of people have attended the sessions.”
The first main advantage of the new
system is: a person who is being transferred from one station to another will be put on hold while the person doing the transferring dials the new extension and informs the third party of the incoming call. Presently, the person being transferred is able to hear the dialing and the thi rd party answering the phone. A special switchhook located on the receiver cradle will be depressed to put the caller on hold.
Also, with the new system, a person wi 11 be able to talk privately with a thi rd party at another extension while the original party is put on hold. Again, the switchhook will allow this.
The third main feature will allow a three-party call to take place. This will
The California Legislature’s finance expert for the last 28 years is retiring and will become a professor of public administration at the university’s Sacramento campus.
“A. Alan Post is one of the most respected public officials in the United States and the most knowledgable person about California state government," said Robert Biller, dean of the School t)f Public Administration.
Post personally invented the legislative analyst position. In Sacramento he held a non-partisan job, the duties of which are to prepare cost estimates on all proposed bills.
Post’s office has to study and submit a report to the legislature on any legislation involving money before each bill
again be made possible by the use of the switchhook.
There are two other advantages of the system that will not need an educational session. Calls will be able to be made directly to anywhere in the country by simp ly dialing 9.1, the area code and the seven-digit number. Currently, direct calls can only be made to the 213 and 714 area code regions. The computer billing will be made directly to the department.
The second advantage, which has become a necessity, is the institution of a new prefix, 741, to replace the old 746 prefix that is just about at its capacity of available numbers. Kelley said the new prefix will allow virtually a limitless (continued on page 2)
can either be disposed of or become law.
W’hen the national government wanted to create a similar position, Post was invited to Washington, D.C. to help create the Congressional Budget OfTice, which offers advice about the financial consequences of each bill, independent from the government.
“We got hold of him as fast as we could when we heard he was going to retire,” said Alex Kloner, dean of the Sacramento campus. “He had so many other offers. We’re very fortunate to get him.” Post will begin teaching at the university in January 1978, and will teach in the second semester of each year. He will teach a seminar on the formulation and implementation of public policy at (continued on page 2)
Retiring finance expert to become public administration professor
Award-winning
Daniel J. Boorstin, librarian of Congress, historian and winner of awards such as the Bowdoin and Francis Parkman prizes, will address the 1977 graduating class June 9.
About 3.000 students will graduate as the university holds its 94th annual baccalaureate and commencement exercises on June 8 and 9.
Preparations are being made for a crowd of 15,000 for the actual commencement with 3,100 to 3.400 graduates,
1,000	faculty and invited guests, and some 10,000-plus spectators, said J. Tillman Halt chairman of the physical education department and commencement marshal for the university for 22years.
“Attending the complete exercises has become the in' thing in recent years. After the low point of the 1960s, we have had a steadily increasing percentage of the graduates attend. Even so, with over 3,000 grads expected. there will be another 1,500 to 2,000 who will graduate but not show,” Hall said.
Exercises wi 11 begin June 8 with the semi-formal baccalaureate activities in Bovard Auditorium at 8 p.m. Martin E Marty of the University of Chicago, associate editor of Christian Ceiitui'y magazine, will speak. Cap and gown wear is optional.
Following the baccalaureate activities a university reception for graduating students, families, friends and members of the faculty, will be held in the Town and Gown Foyer.
Students are asked to report for commencement lineup by 10:15 a.m. June 9 at one of four designated areas for the. processional, which begins promptly at 10:45 in Alumni Park.
“We want everyone seated by 11 a.m. for the invocation. Last year, we were only three minutes late,” Hall said.
The Trojan Marching Band will play for the processional the Crown Imperial March. by William Walton, and the Star-Spangled Banner. In addition, a university choral group will perform prior to the addresses. After President John R. Hubbard bids welcome. Boorstin will then address the convocation.
Speaking from the graduating class will be Lawrence P. Chong, a student in biological sciences. (The valedictorian is chosen from students in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences by a group of administrators and students through the OfTice of Student Affairs.)
author to speak as 5,000 graduate
The Alumni Park activities are expected to conclude by 12:30 p.m. Hall said, when the band will play the Alma Mater and Ralph Vaughn Williams’ Folk Song Suite, as the graduates recess to the following locations (divided by school) for conferring of degrees:
Air Force ROTC, Heritage Hall: Navy ROTC, patio of Physical Education Building; Architecture and Fine Arts, Watt Court; Business, Dedeaux Field; Dentistry, park north of Administration building; Education, Bovard Auditorium; Engineering, Seaver Hall; Graduate School in the Town and Gown Foyer.
Gerontology, Andrus Gerontology Auditorium; Law, Bovard Aud itorium at 3 p.m.; Letters, Arts and Sciences
(LAS), Humanities, northwest lawn of Marks Hall; LAS, Social Science and Communication, Alumni Park (will remain in seats); LAS, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, southwest lawn of Doheny Library.
Library Science, patio of Doheny Library; Performing Arts, Eileen Norris Theatre; Pharmacy, Los Angeles Hilton, Pacific and Sierra Ballrooms at 2 p.m.; Public Administration, University Hilton (ticket only); Social Work, Crocker Plaza; and Urban Planning, Founders Hall 129.
Tickets are not required for the activities (except where specified above), and spectators are asked to be in their seats by 10:30 a.m.
POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE—About 3,000 graduating baccalaureate and commencement exercises June 8 and 9. students are expected to participate in the university's 94th	‘