University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO. 95	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA	WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1971
Drama students granted space
By PETER WONG Assistant Editorial Director
Drama students will get additional space for their rehearsals, a university official said yesterday after a two-week campaign in support of their requests.
The students will use the Kemper Campbell Jr. Lounge on the second floor of the old Law School Building, which will provide 1,400 square feet for drama needs until the end of the semester, said Anthony Lazzaro, associate vice-president for business affairs.
“Now we can really get to work.” said Alex Segal, chairman of the Drama Department, when he received the news from Milton Kloetzel, vice-president for academic affairs.
Kloetzel and Zohrab Kaprielian, vice-president for academic planning and research, determine the priorities for academic space in the university.
“This is a victory for everyone, but there's still much more to be done,” remarked Joel Rosenzweig, chairman of the Drama Students Steering Committee.
In this campaign, the university administration was finally made aware of the problems of the drama students, and action was taken, he said.
“But the more conservative students also won, for we worked through proper channels, which if recognized, will come through.”
Rosenzweig credited letters from nondrama majors to Grant Beglarian, dean of the School of Performing Arts, and letters to the Daily Trojan with bringing about awareness of drama's space problems.
He also cited Beglarian’s efforts to work out a satisfactory solution to the space problem.
“In the past we have not been able to impress the administration with this problem, and therefore we were not able to perform at our best,” Segal said. “Now we have a chance to prove that we can do so.”
The solution announced by Lazzaro concluded for the time being a two-week campaign on behalf of the needs of drama, although the department had first asked for 3,500 square feet for its exclusive use.
Last Friday some 30 drama students attended a meeting in support of the request, at which Beglarian told them, “What you have done in two weeks should have been done 20 years ago.”
He was referring to the continued use of Stop Gap Theatre, a temporary facility given to the Drama Department in 1947.
Lazzaro said he had offered two vacant rooms in Science Building C (a barracks), with space totaling 360 square feet. The rooms would have been available until the demolition of the building this summer, but the Drama Department had declined the offer as not useful.
The old Law School Building will be remodeled for the School of oocial Work. Construction will start within the next few weeks, but the work will be scheduled around the lounge.
“Drama is understandably suffering from a severe space need, which cannot be satisfactorily corrected until the new performing arts complex is constructed,” Lazzaro said.
ROCK ON BOVARPS STEPS	Pho,° by Bruce Boli"9er
Mark-Almond, an up-and-coming rock group, performed before an audience of more than 500 people.
EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE
Class killed by chaos
At least one Experimental College course has failed because of confusion and lack of organization.
Fil Cayetan. scheduled to present an exhibit on historical and cultural works of ancient Greece, said he will make no further attempt to teach his class here.
His course was listed in the college syllabus but he was not notified by the ASSC of the time and location of the class. Dick Grayson, a freshman who was not connected with the Experimental College, finally obtained a place and time for Cayetans exhibit.
“Chuck Jones. ASSC vice-president of academic affairs, assured me that the ASSC had reserved a room in the Student Activities Center for Cayetans presentation,” Grayson said. “Since Cayetan s name was on the college syllabus, I assumed students had registered for his class, and I told him he should expect some trouble.”
Monday night, Cayetan brought his exhibit to the Student Activities Center. At the information desk, he was told that no arrangements had
been made for him.
“The Experimental College is very disorganized,” Cayetan said. “No students showed up for my class. Either USC is totally apathetic and disinterested in a a free education program or the academic affairs council is in a state of confusion.”
Jones blames the failure of Cayetan’s class and four other experimental courses on lack of publicity and student apathy. He said that 10 courses have been successful, however.
Sanford Millar, chairman of the Experimental College, has not been seen in the academic affairs office in weeks.
“Millar works during the day and attends classes at night; therefore, I don't see how he can be contacted,” said an ASSC academic affairs worker.
“I’ve tried to contact Millar for two weeks, but the phantom of USC is impossible to find.” said Grayson.
“The ASSC will have to organize the Experimental College or it will join the list of ASSC failures.” Cayetan said.
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Trustees respondto questions
By BERNARD BECK Editorial Director
The trustees’ answers to questions submitted by students at last October's trustee-student forum were made public today.
The answers were prepared by Justin Dart, chairman of the Board of Trustees. Dart also provided funds for a special supplement of today’s Daily Trojan in which the questions and answers are printed in full.
At the University Forum Oct. 21, 14 trustees engaged in discussion with a panel of five students, selected by ASSC President Sam Hurst.
During the open question-and-answer period that followed, so many questions were submitted to the trustees that there was not enough time for all of them to be answered.
The questions and answers concern broad areas of the university, including the role of the board, the membership of the board and their activities, student membership on the board and the university's relationship to the surrounding community.
Commenting on the meeting of the trustees with the students, Dart said, in answer to one of the questions, “The trustee-student forum was very worthwhile. Perhaps there were no dramatic shifts in positions on issues. But we met courteously, spoke frankly ^and received first-hand reaffirmation of
our mutual concern for the University of Southern California.”
The most significant issue to many students concerned student representation on the board.
Dart had been quoted in the Daily Trojan as opposing student membership on the board, citing a lack of experience and the influence by special interests on the part of the students.
“The students, I thought, came to USC to learn, not to remodel the university,” Dart had said.
Trustee Leonard Firestone had said he would accept a student member, if he were representative of the student body.
In answer to another question, Dart defined the role of the trustees. “The role of the trustees is to establish the overall financial policy . . .to provide and secure funds, to carry out responsibilities required by law, to hire the president and to act on such matters as the president may bring to our attention and to leave all the rest in the hands of the professionals in education—the faculty and the administrators.”
The activities of the members of the board were the topics of several questions. Trustee Kenneth T. Norris was questioned about the production of weapons by Norris Industries.
Trustee John McCone, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was questioned about the relationship of his former position to his present one as a
trustee. Dart and other trustees were questioned about their political activities.
Norris defended his company's production of weapons. “I join you in being against the war, and hope the time will come when it will no longer be the method of settling disputes between nations.
“Until that time arrives, our armed forces must be provided with such high quality defense material as our elected representatives determine to be necessary, and at the lowest possible cost to all as taxpayers.”
McCone said his experience as director of the CIA did not directly help him to be a trustee.
Dart, commenting on the relationship of the trustees to politics, said, “Party affiliation has nothing to do with the fact that someone is invited to be on the board.
“The Board of Trustees does not involve the university or its facilities in partisan political activity. We conduct our politics as private citizens, away from the university.”
Trustee Robert Hornby also clarified his viewpoint on the relationship between businessmen and politics.
A student charged the university was a white island, practicing a policy of isolation and alienation rather than integration with the surrounding community.
Dart denied this charge and cited in answer several programs and services in the community sponsored by USC and the education offered to minorities.
“USC serves the community to the best of its ability,” Dart said. “Our principal responsibility is not to preform social services for which other agencies are better equipped, but to conduct programs of teaching, learning and research for the benefit of all civilization, now and in the future.”
Chancellor Norman Topping answered a question concerning the Hoover Redevelopment Project. He denied that the university and its students would be separated from the permanent residents of the community.
Topping, cited the University-Community Center and the plans to provide permanent housing in the area for students and faculty.
He also outlined the features of a low-cost housing project currently under construction near campus, in which priority would be given to residents of the Hoover Project.
Other questions and answers concerned the promulgation of the controversial Policy Relating to Political Activity, the racial and professional composition of the board, undercover agents on campus, the improvement of Do-heny Library, campus construction, research grants and curriculum improvements.