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Volume XCVI, Number 3
University of Southern California
Wednesday, June 6, 1984
DAN CANALES DAILY TROJAN
This is just one of the many new fences that will be popping up all over campus as the university prepares for the arrival of the Olympic athletes on July 14.
Ernie Bullard plans team improvement
By Carol Ann Coates
Staff Writer
Ernie Bullard, the newly appointed head coach of the men's track team, said his first priority is to implement what he calls his three-vear plan for improving the track program.
"The first part of this plan is the expansion of the booster club to help with finances, and the second part is the recruitment of more scholarship-type athletes/' said Bullard who will replace Vern Wolfe who decided to retire after 22 years as the team's head coach.
While the new coach is in the process of selecting his staff, Ken Matsuda, assistant track coach at the university' for 18 years, will not be working with Bullard when the new season begins.
"Matsuda will not be returning as assistant coach next year," said Tim Tessalone, director of sports information.
Matsuda, one of the candidates for the head coaching position, said he was not officially' notified of the decision.
"I learned from someone off the street that I didn't have a job" Matsuda said.
Ken Smith, professor of journalism and chairman of the search committee, said a telegram was sent to Matsuda at the NCAA Championship meet in Eugene, Ore. explaining that he did not get the job. Matsuda, however, said that no such attempt was made.
"Coach Matsuda has been very cooperative with the transition, " Bullard said, but added, "Coach Matsuda was not concerned with returning. He has a lot of other options."
About his plans for next year Matsuda said, "It is not mine to decide. How could I resign if I don't have a job? I have an obligation to the (Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee) to supervise the Olympic training site and I will fulfill that obligation.
As is often the case with new coaches, Bullard has brought in his own staff, Tessalone said.
Bullard said that his only definite staff member at this time is Larry Knuth of Saddleback College who will be in charge of distance running and recruiting.
Bullard, who was the head track coach at San Jose State before
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Spring grades mailed earlier than expected
Computers, staff promote efficiency
By Joann Galardy
Editor
Cornelius Pings, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, credits an improved computer system and hard work by the faculty and staff for the early mailing of spring semester grades.
Grades were mailed out on May 25 — a full two weeks ahead of last year's schedule, Pings said in a memo sent to the vice presidents, deans, and directors.
"The early mailing date is due to our improved system for analysing data and the tremendous response from the faculty','' Pings said. ,
According to the memo, 529 grade sheets affecting 13,882 students were outstanding as of the Mav 11 deadline. However, one week later, as of Mav 18, the number of outstanding grade reports had been significantly reduced to 11 with only 40 students affected.
Howard Saperston, director of registration and records, said the substantial decrease in the number of outstanding grades can be attributed to the hard work of his staff who worked extra hours contacting those professors who had not turned in grade sheets.
Saperston said that gathering the grade sheets is the most time consuming part of the process. He said that once all the grades are received, it takes his staff only three day's to process the grade reports and record them
on transcripts.
He said after grade sheets are received, they' undergo a scanning process, are entered into the enrollment system, and lastly are transferred to student transcripts. Before the computerization, this process was done manually and took months.
The May 25 mailing date is the earliest spring semester grades have been mailed in recent years. Last year, the spring semester grades were mailed on June 7 while grades from the spring of 1982 were mailed on June 14.
Pings said that the eagerness of faculty members to finish their w'ork before the full impact of the Olympics hits the campus may have been an added stimulus.
Saperston denied this, however, saying that the main reason for the promptness is the realization that so many students are dependent on the timely processing of their grades.
Both Saperston and Pings emphasised the advantages students have when grades are mailed out promptly. Students can now receive up-to-date transcripts, challenge questionable grades, and plan appropriately for the fall semester.
Pings advised the department administrators that this semester's efficiency' should be used as the standard for each semester.
Saperston said he expects the expediency to continue but said, "We can't cut the process much shorter than we have this semester when you're talking about the grades of approximately 24,000 students.''
Fisher Gallery hosts Olympic art of prominent California sculptors
By Della Rosales
Staff Writer
Sky' Gate III, by DeWain Valentine, is an inviting bronze and glass sculpture that links the sky with seven outdoor sculptures and five others located within the doors of the university's Fisher Gallery.
It is so inviting that dusty footprints repeatedly mark the three-tiered platform on this one of the 12 sculptures now’ on public display through August 12. But, in the context of Saturday's opening reception of the California Sculpture Show, the imprints of dirty shoes were less a symbol of disrespect and defacement and more a sign of tribute to this and the other works of art. A tribute because they established a theme of openness, approachabilitv, freedom, and participation.
Another sculpture on display is the Balance-d/Unbalanced Wheels, a 30-foot configuration of colorfully painted steel geometric shapes which had a play'ful look and feel, said one spectator.
All sculptures were created especially for this Olympic Arts Festival by Northern and Southern California artists selected by Henry Hopkins, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Selma Holo, director of the university’s art galleries, said the 12 works exhibit an international sensibility now characteristic of the California art scene.
Because these sculptures will tour Europe after their showing at Fisher Galierv, Hopkins needed to choose artists whose works could withstand the rigors of travel.
"They had to be a sturdy configuration," he said.
Also, in making his selection, Hopkins looked to a generation of artists who "came to a degree of local and regional prominence," he said.
However, because women sculptors did not come to prominence until a decade later, there are no works from women at this exhibit.
"I didn't attempt to fill any quotas," he said. "I just wanted to get the best people for this project."
He chose artists that "emerged out of the same philosophical attitude" formed during the
'60's and '70's, and sculptures that are "good, mature and independent statements."
Some of those independent statements include the controversial Ground Zero sculpture by Northern California artist Robert Ameson. The two-foot skull on a cross is subtitled Nuclear Warhead and graphically exhibits the effect of nuclear warfare.
"It's very provocative and it definitely has a place at this exhibit because it-is dealing with the real world," said Alonzo Davis, who is a muralist for the Olympic Arts Festival. "It's the
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These spectators, overshadowed here by this towering piece of modern art are just two of many expected to attend the exhibit at Fisher GaPery.