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Volume C, Number 45
University of Southern California
Monday, March 17, 1986
TOM WOODALL DAILY TROJAN
Could this student be one of almost 400 residents who didn’t get an assignment through Priority Period for housing next year?
Alumna is elected trustee
Former homecoming queen joins board
By Daisy Ridgway
Staff Writer
A former university homecoming queen has been elected to the university's Board of Trustees, according to an announcement made Friday by President James Zumberge.
Alumna Kathleen McCarthy will be the 38th member of the board, which is authorized to have up to 42 members.
McCarthy, who has lived in the Los Angeles area for most of her life, has numerous affiliations with the university, including membership of the Board of Governors of the General Alumni Association, the Women of Troy and in the USC Associates.
McCarthy was chosen homecoming queen in 1954 and graduated in 1957 with degrees in education and english.
Her activities outside the university include serving on the Board of Trustees of
Marlborough School — a girls preparatory school in Los Angeles — and serving on the Board of Trustees of Loyola Marymount University.
She is a member of the Junior League of Los Angeles, the Social Service Auxiliary and Las Madrinas, a support group for Children's Hospital.
McCarthy's husband, Thomas, also attended the university and received a degree in graduate studies from the Law Center in 1956.
A partner in the law firm Bodkin, McCarthy, Sargent & Smith, Thomas McCarthy serves on the Board of Counselors at the Law Center. He is also a member of Cardinal and Gold and the Scholarship Club.
"I bleed cardinal and gold," he said.
The McCarthys, who live in Westwood, have two sons, two daugh-(Continued on page 13)
Harris, Touton closings result in 376 students left without spaces
By Gordon Gary
Staff Writer
Almost 400 students who went through priority period for housing for next year received letters this week from the housing office that said they did not have contracts reserved for them.
"There were over 3,800 people who went through priority period, and these 376 people were just the ones who ended up on the bottom of the list," said David Blackmar, assistant director of Housing Services.
The letters said that currently, students will be put on a waiting list, but will not be guaranteed a space.
"We will guarantee them housing and we w'ill work them in over the next few months, but we don't have a specific place to offer them right now," said Blackmar.
Blackmar said the measure had to be taken because of the closing of Harris Plaza and Touton Hall and an increase in freshman enrollment this vear.
Next year's freshmen are at the top of the priority list for housing.
"Current freshman are at the very bottom of the (list)," Blackmar noted.
Harris and Touton residents were given notice two weeks ago that their buildings would not be available next year because thev did not meet earthquake standards.
Some students who received the letter said they are not happy with the measure because they have no idea what type of housing they will be getting next year.
"It kind of defeats the whole purpose of the housing priority period," said Joseph Roth, a freshman from College-Uni-versity Residence Hall who received one of the letters.
"I could get stuck anywhere around campus," he said. "Normally, we're supposed to be assured we'll get our old rooms back."
Roth said that all he can do is wait at this point and hope that housing can come up with a space for him.
"I could find out a few davs before
school starts," he said, adding that housing told him "there's really no limit on (how long it will be) before I find out."
"At least, that's what we always understood," he said.
Blackmar said that when housing determined there would not be enough spaces for everyone who participated in priority period, he was faced with two options.
"One option would have been to offer them a contract that we weren't sure we could honor, and we thought that would be very dishonest," Blackmar said.
"The onlv other option was just to tell them the truth, that there is obviously a shortage of space at this point, and that we will work them in as fast as possible in the next few months."
Blackmar said cancellations by students who get contracts will provide some of the space needed to accomodate the displaced students.
More space will be provided after the relocation of current Student Family Housing residents to off-campus buildings, he added.
"That'll provide about 200 spaces on campus," he noted.
Blackmar said his office also plans to add "a couple of buildings over the course of the summer."
Blackmar said that although students might not be satisfied with the measure, there are advantages to their situation.
"One advantage is that they don't have to make the reservation pavment like everyone else has to (this week) until they get their assignments. So, in that sense, they're better off than everybody else because they don't have to put any money down (yet)," he said.
Another advantage is that the students might be placed in the Family Housing Complex on campus, rather than in an off-campus building.
Students who wish to cancel their applications will be refunded the S50 thev paid during priority period, Blackmar said.
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New cinema dean named
Co-chairman of Columbia film school chosen
By Tania Soussan
Staff Writer
Frank Daniel, co-chairman of the film division at Columbia University, has been chosen as the new dean of the School of Cinema-Television and has agreed to accept the position, according to a colleague of Daniel's at Columbia.
Daniel, who is also the program director of the Sundance Film Institute and a former dean of the American Film Institute, will assume his new duties on May 15.
Russell McGregor, an associate professor of cinema, has been serving as interim dean until a permanent dean could be found.
McGregor was chairman of the division of cinema-television in the School of Fine Arts before the cinema-television division became a school in September of
1984.
Daniel was selected from among 50 other candidates after a nationwide search.
Robert Harris, chairman of the search committee and dean of the School of Architecture,
said the list was reduced to four finalists before Daniel was finally selected.
The list included Daniel; Brian Winston, chairman of the department of Cinema Studies at New York University; Perrv Laf-ferty, a producer / director for NBC Productions; and Theodore Connant, adjunct professor at New York University and president of Technical Consultants
There was some controversy within the school about McGregor not being chosen or considered among the four finalists.
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The search committee included professors Beverly Houston, Melvin Sloan and Morton Zar-coff; associate professors Trevor Greenwood and David Johnson; assistant professor Mark Harris; and Michael Lehmann, a cinema student who recently graduated.
Members of the search com-
mittee were selected by Cornelius Pings, university provost, after nomination by associates of the School of Cinema and Television.
"We advertised and we solicited nominations from facultv-. . .from individuals in the industry (and) from an industry advisory board," Harris said.
From those nominated, the committee selected candidates to come to the university for an informal interview. The final four candidates were asked back for formal interviews.
There was some controversy within the school about McGregor not being chosen or considered among the four finalists.
"When Russ was left off of the four finalists, I was shocked, everyone was shocked, but we're in the business of surprises. Controversy is part of the unwritten course of film school," said Don Leonard, president of the Alumni Association of the Cinema School.
"The w'hole (controversy) wras very upsetting, this whole business of people supporting Russ feeling that he was slighted," Lehmann said.
"I was not aware of any interdepartmental political factors affecting the decision of the committee. The level of the dis-(Continued on page 13)
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