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VOL. LXII NO. 101 THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1971 LOS ANGELES, CALIF
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FUTURE UNDECIDED
Telecom reappraisal set
By LAURINDA KEYS Assistant City Editor
The Telecommunication Department has an uncertain future at USC, but it does have a future, said John Cantelon, interim dean of the College of Letters. Arts and Sciences, yesterday.
“It is one of a number of departments in the process ot agonizing reappraisal and review for new directions," he said.
Answering charges made by Mel Keintz, a telecom student, in a March 19 Daily Trojan article, Cantelon said the integration of telecommunications into some other department is a possibility, but telecommunications will not be cut out altogether.
“Telecommunication is not at the center of the liberal arts curriculum, but it has an emphasis within the college because of the geographical location of the university,” he said. “It would not be wise to cease this emphasis.”
“Relatively new areas of academic interest tend to take lower priorities than old, established departments.” he said. “Telecommunication is not regarded as
essential for the bachelor’s degree. If you have a telecommunication department, well, that's nice. If you don’t, that's all right. But if you drop the chemistry or English department, you cease to be accredited as a university.”
Cantelon said the struggle within the department has involved personal pride
and hurt feelings as well as nice differences in hypothese and theories.
He said that under the last department chairman. Kenneth Harwood, who resigned three years ago. the department had achieved a fair degree of effectiveness. Harwood had good relations with the industry and community as well as an academic focus.
After he left, however, disagreement arose as to whether the department should focus on technical skill, analysis and theory or writing and content.
“The big question is what can a university do that a trade school is not doing,” Cantelon said.
The department has been without a chairman since Harwood left. Prof. Edward Borgers was named chairman, but some people were unhappy with him, Cantelon said. Finally Don Smith agreed to be acting chairman.
“A search committee for a new chairman exists, but it has not been able to move.” Cantelon said. “How can vou
choose a head for a department when you’re not sure what form that department is going to take?”
The recent decision to suspend acceptance of applications to the graduate school was an attempt to guarantee the students there is some quality when they get into the program, Cantelon said. This action is usually taken when a particular department is found lacking. New students are restricted until it comes up to par.
The Telecommunication Department is lacking in faculty members. It had only three for two years. Then last month. Michael Sommer resigned.
“I discovered that he was spending very little of his time on campus,” Cantelon said. “He was employed mainly in industry. I gave him a choice, whether he wanted to be a fulltime professor or go with industry. He chose the industry.”
He said there has been a crack-down on
all faculty members who are employed outside the university. They schedule
their classes so they are on campus only
one day a week and they don’t have time for student conferences, university committees and graduate committees.
“If he comes on campus one day, teaches his class, then goes off to work on his fulltime, $20,000 a year job. we are paying for a fulltime faculty member and are not getting one.”
Sommer, a general manager at KABC radio, is teaching one class as a lecturer. A new fulitime faculty member will replace him next January. Until then, no new graduate students will be accepted. The fact that a new faculty member has been hired should prove that the university is not trying to cut the arms off the Telecommunication Department, he said.
The withdrawal last summer of KUSC
from under the Telecommunication Department supervision was desired by both parties.
With the intradepartmental unhappiness,
KUSC gravitated toward student
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Seven file as slate
for ASSC elections
Six students, calling themselves the Students for Representative Government, have announced they will run for ASSC
offices with presidential candidate Craig Caldwell.
The slate will be: Gilbert Lopez for vice-president of programs. Michael Trope for vice-president of academic affairs, Colin Kurata for Associated Men Students president, Karen Howze for Associated Women Students president, Dennis Winston for Senior Class president and Vic Torres for senior representative. Junior and sophomore representative candidates will be announced later.
“We are running on an intellectual platform to accommodate certain academic goals of the university,” Trope said.
“Craig, myself and Dennis, plus the others who will fill up a slate for all offices, will represent a true synthesis of representation of this university.
Trope said the main platform of their campaign is intellectual progressivism. “Although we may disagree amongst ourselves about certain political issues, we all agree on the development of intellec-
tualization at this university.
“We believe through soliciting funds
from the alumni, we can develop a speakers program with a budget of $50,000 to $80,-
000	for next year.
“The problem of student government as far as financing is concerned is that they have never bothered to solicit from the alumni before the actual administration occurs.
“I see USC right now. with regards to
speakers on campus, as in an intellectual quagmire. The way things are being run. we can only afford to have two or possibly three big speakers throughout the year.
“With a reapportioning of ASSC funds and with capital from the alumni groups, who will be contacted during summer, we can develop a speakers program with top names speakers coming on to the campus once every week to 10 days.”
Winston said. “Briefly, the reason I am running for Senior Class president is because I feel USC needs more elected officials who are concerned with USC.
“I feel that the policy of confrontation works clearly and adequately.”