University of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 61
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Tuesday, January 11, 1972
TIME FOR ALL SEASONS—Mudd Hall Tower
peeks over Harris Hall, the architecture and fine
arts building, located on Exposition Boulevard. DT photo by Steve Me Morrow.
Dorm parking structure construction will begin
It appears definite that during semester break. January 29— February 6, Lot D. the parking area ‘between the men's and women's dorms will be closed.
The closing of the lot is. due to construction of a four-level parking structure on the site. It will be funded by student parking fees. The structure will hold approximately 960 cars.
“The construction will be completed by the beginning of the fall semester," said Anthony Lazzaro, associate vice president of business affairs.
“The reason we are doing the construction now. instead of waiting until the summer, is the construction takes about
seven to eight months, and if we started in summer we would run over into the fall semester. Then new students would have to come in during the construction. This way, after the break, people who have already lived here for a semester will just park in a different place."
Commuters who normally park in Lot B will be forced out of their spaces during the building period. Lots 31, 33, S and T on McClintock Avenue will be opened to commuters.
“There will be adequate space.” assured John Lechner, director of Campus Security and Parking Operations. “The only problem is with people ad-
justing to the new arrangements.
“Security for the cars should be greater inside the new parking structure than the present lot. Cars won t be so accessible to burglary as they are now."
It had been discussed that a recreation area might be built on the top level of the structure for the use of dorm residents. “When we considered the use,“ said Lazzaro, “the fact that it was a walk up to the fourth floor, the expense, such as lighting, fencing, the courts, and taking away part of the parking area, we decided that it would be far more logical to wait.”
APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE
Trustee liaison proposed
A group will be formed soon under the ASSC to promote communication between students and the Board of Trustees.
Students are invited to apply for the three positions in the group, and applications will be accepted until Jan. 21 in the ASSC office, Student Union 309.
ASSC Executive Council members will vote in February, and the three applicants with the highest number of votes will be named to the student-trustee group.
At the council meeting Thursday, it was decided that the best means of making the student group most representative of the student body wfas to let those interested apply for the positions.
The proposal was drafted by Michael Trope, president of the Student Senate, a campus organization, and was sponsored by Lee Blackman, vice-president for academic affairs. It was passed Thursday, 11-1, with Stuart Bloom, graduate representative, voting no.
The primary thrust of the group will be toward getting regular student representation on the 33-member Board of Trustees through negotiations with the five trustees in the group. This is aimed at implementing the resolution sponsored by Jim Lacy, sophomore representative, and passed by the council Nov. 18.
In Lacy's plan, the council will select a student to be a liaison to the board. If accepted by the board, the liaison will be able to sit at board meetings, express student opinions to the board and report to the council on the board's actions.
However, the student will not have a vote on the board.
But negotiations for regular student representation on the board is only one function of the new group, which is scheduled to meet monthly. The student members of the group will discuss student life and problems with the five trustees and report to the council about the meetings.
It was not certain which, if any, of the trustees will be members of the student-trustee group.
In other ASSC business, the selection process began Monday for the three ASSC advocates, who will help students in business before the ASSC Student Court. The selection panel is headed by ASSC President Kent Clemence: the other members are Karen Howze, president of the Associated Women Students, and Steve Knowles, ASSC chief justice.
The solicitor, who will represent the ASSC Executive Council in its judicial business, will be appointed from the list of applicants for the three advocates. However, a special six-member panel will select the solicitor.
Clemence is also chairman of this panel: its members are Roger Hobbs, Interfraternity Council president: Joel Jacobs, president of the Associated Men Students: Jim Korsen, independent representative; John Moore, graduate representative: Steve Wiley, junior representative.
The appointment of a solicitor is expected to be made in February. The selection process for the advocates was to have started Dec. 13.
Convention will hear proposals
By PETER WONG Staff Writer
The ASSC constitutional convention will meet today at 3 p.m. in the Student Activities Center to hear the final report of its committee on the executive and legislative branches of student government.
Convention delegates may vote today on the recommendations that the committee will present in the report, or they may vote at their next session at 4 p.m. Thursday, depending upon the length of the debate.
Dave Howe, convention chairman, said Monday that once the convention approves the structure of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of student government in a new student body constitution, then the rest of the constitution will fall into place without difficulty.
The convention has until Feb. 8 to submit a complete document to the ASSC Executive Council, which will call a special constitutional election within four weeks after the council receives the document.
However, the debate over the structure of the executive and legislative branches of student government in a new student body constitution is expected to take some time.
The committee on the executive and legislative branches, of which Dan Smith is chairman, has come up with a plan that will incorporate parts of all three plans for student government offered at two open hearings of the committee, one in December and one in January.
Kent Clemence. ASSC president, outlined in December a plan for sweeping reform of student government, which he called "a plan that puts emphasis on expertise and not on politics.”
Clemence s plan would provide for a five-member panel—president, vice-president, executive secretary, treasurer.and solicitor— that would be elected by the student body as a team, not individually. These officials would be part of a ten-member executive council that wTould be responsible for student programs.
The directors of the current Academic Affairs Council. Community Action Coordinating Council and Programs Council would be appointed directly from their respective councils and would serve on this proposed executive council, along with the director of the new Executive Affairs Council for administration and a nonvoting full-time director of student activities under student jurisdiction.
The policy-making aspect of student government would be eliminated under this plan, which is dependent upon the establishment of a plan for university governance in which students are integrated into the decision-making process of the university.
A special committee appointed in September by President John Hubbard and headed by Henry Reining, dean of Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs, is working of a governance plan. The committee's report to Hubbard may be finished by the end of the semester.
If a governance plan is adopted soon, student government will be left with the management of student programs, since the student role in university policy-making will probably to to an all-university council or a large constituent assembly, although the exact mechanism has not been decided yet.
John McGuinness, former president of the Associated Men Students and a convention delegate, presented in December a different plan for student government. There would be distinct executive and legislative branches under McGuinness* plan, which would require the election of more officials—a president, vice-president, two representatives from each undergraduate class and three graduate representatives.
The class and graduate representatives would serve in a house of representatives to be presided over by the vice-president, and they would act as a watchdog on the executive cabinet.
The cabinet would be largely appointed by the president—a secretary. treasurer, director of programs, director of academic affairs— to manage student programs. The director of the Community Action Coordinating Council would be appointed from the council, making him independent of the president.
While each of these plans emphasizes student programs over
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Group applications for Songfest now available
Group applications for the Songfest presentation, to be held at the Greek Theater May 6, 1972, are now available in the Songfest office. Deadline for filing applications is Feb. 18.
Songfest is a musical show produced and performed each spring by students who have survived competitive elimination rounds.
Songfest was formed in 1954 by two sophomores, Bob Jani and Robbie Carroll, who saw a need for a unifying campus activity during the spring semester. The original concept was to create a social activity that would draw as many factions of the university community together as possible.
Competition for a place on the Songfest program is open to all students. Dancing and singing groups are the most common entries. The performance itself is open to the public, with all proceeds going to the university’s general fund.