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VOL. LXIV NO. 46	10sangeles,California	WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1971
Court asks GPA check
By GUNTHER MERLI Staff Writer
A request that the grade point averages of members of the ASSC Executive Council be checked to determine whether they are above or below the 2.5 cutoff point was made by the Student Court yesterday.
If the request is acted upon by the director of student activities, Paul Moore, the information may be given to the
court at its meeting this afternoon at 3 p.m. in Student Union 307.
The court's action came as a result of a case filed by Bob Glushon. ASSC freshman representative. and several plaintiffs, which asked that the qualifications of certain members of the council be checked.
The case named as defenders Joel Rosenzweig. vice president for programs. Lee
ASSC convention asked to get down to business
Delegates to the ASSC constitutional convention were warned Tuesday by their chairman that they had better get down to business.
“Let's stop the bickering, the squabbling, the political game-plaving." Dave Howe, the chairman, said.
His remarks came after George Millburn challenged Howe's eligibility as chairman. Millburn said Howe had appointed two delegates when president of the Men s Halls Association. Howe said the appointments were made by his successor. Brad Taft.
“I can see no way that I can vote for any constitution that the convention comes up with." Millburn said afterwards. "It's too closed."
Blackman, vice president for academic affairs; Ron Palmieri, senior class president: Ben DeMayo, senior representative: Karen Howze, Associated Women Students' president: Steve Wiley, junior representative: Jim Lacy, sophomore representative: Roger Hobbs: Interfraternity Council president: Laura Kotairis. Women's Halls Association president: Brad Taft. Men's Halls Association president: and Julie Lynch. Panhellenic president.
Glushon said his “objective is to enforce the constitution," and since he could not get information on the GPA's on his own. he asked the court to do so.
The ASSC constitution specifies that elected officers and representatives must have a cumulative grade average of no less than 2.5 and be full-time students. The case also requests that the status of each defendant as a full-time student be checked.
By TIM NOVOSELSKI
The implementation of a pass no pass option and the retainment of the foreign language requirement were the major recommendations of the General Education Committee. J. Wesley Robb, chairmen. announced yesterday.
These and other recommendations by the 11-member committee were presented to John Cantelon. dean of the College of Letters. Arts and Sciences, who will in turn present them to the various department chairmen and the University Curriculum Committee.
The department chairmen will provide feedback, said Cantelon. but the Curriculum Committee will have the final decision as to whether the recommendations will become USC policy.
The recommendation to keep the foreign language requirement is accompanied with the provision that a student may elect, if he so desires, to take one course outside his major each semester on a pass/no pass basis. Thus, all three semesters of a foreign language could be taken this way. as could science or other courses.
“As it now stands, a student cannot take a general education course or a course in his major on a pass no pass basis." said Robb. "Under the recommendation the only exclusion would be courses in the student's own major field. "
This means that it would be possible, if approved by the Curriculum Committee within the next few weeks, to take a total of eight courses on a pass/no pass concept out of the average 32 courses a student takes in four years.
Under this system, a student would be required to earn at least a “C” grade to pass.
These recommendations follow along the lines of the March. 1971 ASSC Curriculum Proposal inasmuch as both did not eliminate the foreign language requirement altogether.
The ASSC proposal differed, however, in proposing that a student take courses in seven of 10 areas of knowledge, of which one was foreign language. This way a student could avoid foreign language if he wished. This can't be done under the General Education Committee's recommendations.
Women's status at USC to be examined
By SHARON HASS Assistant SoCal Editor
The degree to which women are discriminated against here is currently under investigation by the Commission to Study the Status of Women at USC. Chaired by Barbara Shell, director of the equal employment opportunity office, the commission's first actions will be in the area of research.
A questionnaire, or series of questionnaires if time permits, will be sent to student, faculty and administration sources sometime early next year. Each group will be asked to supply information that will aid the commission in making recommendations on the problem.
The commission's interests are broad in scope, particularly in matters concerning female students, faculty and administrators. The commission will be seeking data and opinions from students on such things as career counseling, the ratio of applications/acceptances to graduate schools by sex. the ratio of application, grants for financial aid by sex. hiring practices for new Ph.D.'s by sex and extracurricular activities and opportunities for women at USC.
The commission will be investigating such things as faculty hiring practices, comparative starting salaries by sex, tenure practices by sex. the number of women on selec-
tion and promotion committees and availability of women for teaching positions.
USC's administration will also be questioned regarding the role of women in policymaking positions. In addition, the commission will be examining what it terms ancillary matters such as the feasibility of day care centers and early-childhood education and the problems involved for mothers who wish to continue with their own education. All of this research is being done to insure the commission's familiarity with the area before issuing recommendations.
The commission itself recognizes the enormity of their as-signement and after their first
meeting, Ms. Shell sent a letter to her fellow commissioners reminding them of that problem.
In that letter she also outlined the commission's objectives by saying." Our responsibility is to study and report on the condition of USC women at all levels—student, faculty, staff administrative. Out of this study, we will present a report to the university administration which will support recommended changes in areas where women presently lack equal opportunity."
To this definition she added. “Our effectiveness will depend upon our ability to remain objective while dealing with a very emotional subject." The
question remains to whom the subject ellicits the most emotional response from?
All across the country, universities are being forced by the government and women's groups to take a look at the extent to which women are discriminated against in the academic environment. The commission is hoping to learn from the mistakes and proposals of other universities and by this process recommend changes that would see USC surpass other universities in non-dis-criminatory practices.
Presently, it would appear that we have a long way to go. Of the 1.136 faculty-administrative positions. Ill of them (Continued on page 2)
Sign-carrying evangelists preach to crowd
DOES JESUS SAVE?—The forces of Jesus in the person of Marshall Foster (upper right), a member of Campus Crusade for Christ, and Bobby Bible (lower right), a sign-carrying evangelist, argued the merits of God and Christianity with Rex Beaber, a skeptical student, for two hours yesterday afternoon in the middle of a crowd on University Avenue. DT photos by Bruce Bolinger.
All the ingredients of socio-drama gathered in the center of University Avenue yesterday with a classic confrontation between traditional Christianity and the humanist-nihilist philosophy.
It began with the appearance on campus of two evangelical preachers, who called themselves Bobby Bible and Harvey Saved.
The duo was dwarfed by a pair of large signs they bore—multicolored proclamations of the glory of Christ. Bible, the spokesman, was in the midst of his preachment when he was approached by a student, Rex Beaber, whose views, it became apparent, were opposed to the Christian philosophy.
A third party entered the fray: Marshall Foster of the Campus Crusade for Christ. Prior to Foster’s appearance, the argument was one pitting Beaber’s logic against Bible’s faith. Foster countered with arguments of his own.
After nearly two hours of discussion, the sign-bearers departed and the crowd dispersed.