Daily
rojan
University of Southern California
vol. Ixv
no. 34
los angeles, California
tuesday, november 7, 1972
Minorities seek official’s ouster
By Al Freisleben
staff writer '
A remark made during an interview appearing in Thursday’s Los Angeles Times by Barbara Shell, the university’s equal opportunity employment officer, has apparently triggered calls for her removal by members of campus minority groups.
Shell, who also heads the Commission to Study the Status of Women, was questioned about the chances of advancement for women when she said that unlike some minority members, faculty women already have the necessary skills and training for more responsible positions.
This statement convinced some members of the Commission on Minority Affairs and others active in promoting the status of minorities on campus that further dealings with Shell would be fruitless. A list of 7 accusations was drawn up and presented to President John Hubbard on Thursday afternoon.
The accusations, which were accompanied with a petition containing 19 signatures, claimed a lack of qualifications, a lack of concern in dealing with minority groups, failure to communicate her activities with the Commission on Minority Affairs, and a conflict between her positions as chairman of the Women’s Commission and equal employment officer, as reasons for her removal.
Nondiscrimination
Under guidelines issued by the federal government, institutions or companies signing gov-
Soul-rock group to sing at noon
The Rangers, a 4-piece rock group, will perform at noon today at the Student Activities Center patio. All members ofthe group sing, and their music is soul-oriented rock. --------------------------------
ernment contracts involving $10,000 or more must set procedures for nondiscrimination and affirmative action in hiring policies. Nondiscrimination is defined as making sure that hiring policies do not operate to the detriment of persons on grounds of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Affirmative action is described in federal literature as efforts by the employer to recruit, employ and promote qualified members of groups that have at one time or another been excluded.
As equal opportunity employment officer for the university Shell has a long list of duties defined by the government that consist of such things as finding problem areas, serving as liaison between the university and minority organizations, and reviewing programs to insure that policies are being followed.
Dennis Fukumoto, chairman of the Commission on Minority Affairs and one of the signers of the petition asking for Shell’s removal, said Friday that “the affirmative action program has not done a substantial job,” adding that he felt the affirmative action program should be a main force in bringing about changes for women and minorities.
“Furthermore,” Fukumoto said, “she really is insensitive to the needs and problems of minorities on campus,” and pointed totheTimes interview as proof
Fukumoto also said that some of the minority commission's efforts to obtain guidelines and proposals for the university's affirmative action program had ended in frustration. He explained that Shell had said she sent copies of proposals to people on the commission but the intended recipients had never received the material.
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USC stars with Barbra
A cameraman is shown checking Barbra Streisand with a light meter during shooting of a film on campus Friday. The film, entitled The Way We Were, also stars Robert Redford and is set in the Joe McCarthy era (1947).
Production of the film began Sept. 19 and will finish December 1. The crew will be filming at Columbia Studios this week. The movie will be released in mid-1973. DT photo by Danny Alaimo.
Hubbard names associate dean as acting head of dental school
By Loren Ledin
staff writer
Dr. William Crawford, current associate dean for academic affairs, was appointed interim dean of the School of Dentistry Monday by President John Hubbard.
The 35-year-old Crawford, director of advanced dental education and associate professor of pathology at the School of Dentistry, replaces John Ingle who resigned Thursday.
The selection of Crawford was endorsed by the executive faculty committee of the School of Dentistry.
Walter Unger, director of den-
tal planning and special projects, said, “The selection gets the School of Dentistry back into the business of teaching dentistry.”
Wants primary role
The faculty of the School of Dentistry had asked Hubbard for the primary role in the selection of the interim dean.
In a letter sent to Hubbard following Ingle’s resignation, the committee asked that Hubbard accept the consultation of the dental faculty executive committee.
Crawford, a resident of Palos Verdes Estates, has been on the faculty since 1966. He received
END OF BATTLE
Campaigners at ease before the big day
By Kris Tow
The McGovernites were almost as relaxed as the Nixonites as they manned their respective tables Monday in front of Tommy Trojan.
It was the last day of campaigning before Election Day, but there w asn't the pitch of excitement that one might expect at the end of a long campaign.
Both Matt St. George, a graduate student working for McGovern, and Diane McQuay, a Nixon supporter, said they were happy that the campaign was coming to a close. But, they had none of the great sighs of relief that many voters must have—that political commercials will no longer interrupt prime-time shows and that the latest scandal will not be the inevitable topic of conversation. At last the unending stream of predictions and polls will be a matter of history.
The campaigners' anticipation of the election were less than fervent. It was as if the election is the natural end to a campaign, and all that if left to do is wait and see how effective each side was. Indeed, this may be what Election Day is, but for a campaign that has had such heated moments, the days of decision comes as somewhat of an anticlimax.
“I’ll be glad for things to return to normal,’’ said Kit Spaulding. McGovern co-chairman on campus. Her campaign began over a year ago. in Sept., 1971.
“We’ve come a long way,” she said. "I'm hopeful about the election: George McGovern has. historically, a way of coming from behind.”
A bit more cautious, yet perhaps with more reason to be confident, was McQuay, who said, “I’m interested to see what will happen.”
She spoke of the polls with a good politician’s reserve, commenting that she's seen polls that say that McGovern is gaining popularity as well as ones that see Nixon as the winner by a landslide.
If these Democrats and Republicans have one thing in common it is that they are all curious to see what the American public will actually do once they are inside the polling booth.
“People are either for McGovern or they are apathetic,” said St. George. He has been working for McGovern, so he hopes that the apathy will work for the Democrats at the polls.
“McGovern will take California,” he said. “For Nixon to win here, he will have to get 25°7c of the Democratic vote.”
Both the McGovern and the Nixon workers will be on the job tomorrow urging voters to get to the polls. Telephone reminders and volunteer drivers are a part of that final day’s labor. Once the rhetoric is over, it is the votes that count.
Watching those votes being counted will be the hundreds of people who will attend both victory rallies. That final optimism within both camps is shown by each calling its party a rally for the winner.
One gathering, inevitably, will not be as joyous as the other. But after working hard for the candidate of their choice, everyone will probably agree at heart with Spaulding's statement. "It's been a good experience.”
his D.D.S. from the School of Dentistry in 1962 and an M.S. degree in pathology from the School of Medicine in 1964.
The outgoing dean, Ingle, said his resignation will be effective the last day of the year.
Misquoted says Ingle In an interview Friday, Ingle said the Daily Trojan, in announcing his resignation Friday, had misquoted him.
He was quoted in an article as saying President Hubbard asked him to withhold announcement of his resignation until after a report by the Special Dental Advisory Committee was received.
Actually, Hubbard did not know of Ingle’s plan until last week.
Ingle had said in his prepared text Thursday, “I am embarrassed aboutthe factthatthe letter was dated Oct. 6, because that’s when I made the decision, but I held in abeyance submitting the resignation because the president felt so strongly about the report of the special advisory committee.”
Ingle changes mind Ingle said in the interview that he originally intended to submit his resignation Oct. 13. but changed his mind.
“I felt the Special Dental Advisory Committee should complete its deliberation with out outside influences,” he said.
“I wanted the best possible report for the School of Dentistry.”
Was Ingle bitter about the controversy involving him and alumni support groups?
“This experience has left me bitter against unprincipled alumni,” he said, “but certainly not against the faculty and students of USC.”
There have been indications
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