toward film center
By Suzette Hein
Staff Writer
Directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have donated considerable sums of money to the university’s Cinema and TV Division as part of their strategy to provide the film industry with new talent.
Lucas, a graduate of the university, presented the school with $4.7 million to build a post-production complex last year. Spielberg, who attended Cal State Long Beach, recently contributed $500,000 to construct a music scoring stage.
Jock Nicholson, Robert Wise, Helen Reddy and others have also contributed to the funding of the proposed cinema complex, raising the total revenues generated to almost $7 million, constituting only half of the total funds necessary to complete the project. Consequently, Lucas and Spielberg have proceeded to contact others in the film industry in an effort to close the monetary gap.
The two directors feel the film industry' needs to replenish itself with able film makers in order to produce quality work. To become an effective director one must be well trained, so Lucas and Spielberg pay close attention to the works of university graduates.
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agreement with a major studio which would give them the right to select a handful of film school graduates from this university and other schools around the country. The students would be assured a script-development package and the chance to direct the project.
Understandably, the cinema department is enthusiastically anticipating the replacement of the parking lot at the corner of 34th Street and Hoover by the new complex. The targeted completion date is the 1984 Olympics, and prospects of meeting that date are favorable.
The university Board of Trustees has already approved the plan, site and other details of the new complex. News of the revamping has stirred an increased interest in students planning to enroll in the cinema curriculum. “Things are going great guns.” stated executive assistant to Floyd Lawrence, the cinema co-chairman.
“Our job is to let others know' that our program is all-encom-passing and does not limit it-
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By Jaime Garcia
Staff Writer
In an attempt to upgrade the academic integrity of the university, the Academic Affairs Research Action Unit is forming a committee that will be able to make recommendations on what are commonly called mick courses, in addition to handling student complaints concerning the curriculum.
The Permanent Curriculum Committee will be composed of representatives from all the undergraduate associations and from academic assemblies, such as Mortar Board and Blue Key.
“Basically, these are a group of very talented students who are obviously interested in school, but they have not real-
ly had a chance to affect curriculum like they should. We want to try and use their resources to better the academics of this school,” said Monica Fisher, chairperson of the action unit. “The Permanent Curriculum Committee would be an entity within the structure of the Academics Affairs Re-
ducted last year. The report confirmed the existence of a number of mick courses within the university’s curriculum.
“The conclusion derived from the study was that we needed to take action this year to affect curriculum,” the chairperson said.
‘We’re trying to demonstrate to everybody that there are a lot of interested students at this school. Sometimes I don’t think the faculty realizes that’
search Action Unit, hopefully for years to come.”
The committee is, in part, a direct result of a Student Senate report on mick courses con-
ORDERS MA Y RISE
Phones available to rent, buy
By Ron Gralnik
"Staff Writer
When a cliche still successfully illustrates a point, there should be no reason to discontinue its use.
With school into its second w'eek, therefore, the Pacific Telephone Phone Center in University Village might suggest to procrastinating student customers that it is better late than never to buy or lease a phone.
University Housing complexes increased this year w'ith the addition of Troy Hall East, the Embassy Apartments and the soon-to-be-completed Terrace Apartments, prompting Pacific Telephone, which deals with university housing tenants, to designate prefix 745 solely for dorms and campus apartments.
But phone orders from these residences have decreased and are less in demand than last year, said E. Gelineau, store manager at the phone center.
Gelineau is uncertain why orders have diminished, but Barbara Mahan, assistant phone center manager, said the Pacific Telephone outlet is preparing for a heavy increase in telephone demands in upcoming weeks, partic-
ularly after Fraternity Rush Week, which begins Sept. 17.
The phone center continues to offer students numerous options to buy or lease a phone, but pointed out that purchasing a phone can be more advantageous and is slightly less expensive than renting.
Mahan said the phone sets most commonly leased to students include reconditioned push button and standard phones and new Princess and Trim Line phones.
Each package carries a monthly charge that includes a standard equipment fee, possibly a $7 cost for a private line allowing unlimited phone use for local calls and a $1.20 touch-tone line fee if the student’s phone is push button.
With the private line — not including nonlocal phone calls — used push button and dial phones could cost $9.75 and $8 each month, or $86.75 and $72, respectively, for a nine-month school year.
(Custom call features such as Call Waiting are also excluded in these and the following figures but are available to customers for all phone packages at addititional costs.)
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Fisher hopes the Permanent Curriculum Committee will show the faculty that students want to have a good curriculum, want to get rid of easy classes and w'ant to have academic excellence. “We’re trying to demonstrate to everybody that there are a lot of interested students at this school. Sometimes I don't think the faculty realizes that,” Fisher added.
Also concerned with improving the academic integrity of the university is the Academic Standards Committee. Consisting of students, faculty, and staff, the committee's job is to investigate student complaints concerning a particular course or professor.
“If a student is having a problem with a course W'e w'ould encourage him to go to his professor first, the chairman of the department second, and then to us through the Office of Student Life,” said Guilford Babcock, president of the Academic Standards Committee.
The committee has been very helpful in attempting to deal with student grievances. Last year, a faculty member was asked to leave the school as a result of a committee investigation, Babcock said.
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Staff photos by Rich Levine
THERE THERE - The first two weeks of classes are a painful reawakening after a shortened summer vacation. Unfortunately, not all of us are able to have our mothers alongside us to offer a bottle and a few comforting words
Volume XCI Number 7	Thursday, September 10, 1981
$7 million donated
Unit seeks input on easy classes
Forms committee to take complaints