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University of Southern California
vol. Ixv
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39
los angeles, California
tuesday, november 14, 1972
Chicano center location still awaited by MECHA
Rah-rah boys cook up hijinks for Troy Week
Trouble’s bruin for UCLA if the rah-rah boys get their way.
Yell King Rocky Springstead (right) forces a typical UCLA student to submit to his wishes. And what are Spring-stead’s desires? “We’re going to have him on a leash the rest of the week,” Springstead explained.
But it’s all good clean fun and publicity for Troy when Trojans like Springstead and fellow yell leader Rick Davey
(left) are out to rouse spirits for the big game.
Harold Smith even donned the Bruin rag to prance about campus with his little Troy Week sign, encouraging students to get all hopped up about the classic cross-town rivalry.
“I’m fraternizing with the enemy,” Smith cracked, “because I don’t want to be a bear rug.”
DT photo by Danny Alaimo.
between Shell and those who have recently made charges against her effectiveness in her position. “I know Barbara,” Hubbard said. “She’s been well-meaning, she’s understaffed, and all in all she’s certainly done a good job with the Affirmative Action Program.”
Employment official’s status to be reviewed
There will be a noon meeting in the YWCA tomorrow for those interested in discussing the status of Barbara Shell, equal employment opportunities officer, in the eyes of the university-at-large.
Members of the Commission on Minority Affairs, the Women’s Commission, and the Women’s Alliance have called the meeting.
Various women faculty members and interest groups have joined the Commission on Minority Affairs in criticizing Shell for failing to correct discriminatory practices regarding women and minorities. The commission is also saying that Shell is withholding information and action necessary to achieve the goals of the Affirmative Action Council, an agency of the U.S.
Department of Health. Education and Welfare.
President John Hubbard is looking forward to a meeting
By Victor Vazquez
The university still hasn’t given MECHA a building to house the Centro Chicano, although it approved the Centro at the beginning of the semester.
After having waited for nearly three months, Chicano representatives from the schools of law, education, social work, public administration, journalism and dentistry decided last week was the time to call a meeting with Phillips Copeland, executive assistant to President John Hubbard, in order to resolve the delay.
In an opening statement for MECHA, the umbrella organization for other Chicano organizations on campus, adviser Arturo Abarca said that the organization has received nothing but “a lot of promises and a lot of empty words.”
He continued his remarks by reminding Copeland of Hubbard’s agreement to give the Centro university-wide cooperation.
Broken agreement
“We trusted the president,” said Abarca. “We trusted his word. President Hubbard committed himself to provide the necessary accommodations by Sept. 1 of this year and if we dien’t find a building, he promised temporary facilities.”
Abarca said that Hubbard had set Sept. 15, as the day the Centro would have a building. However, when that date arrived, the president’s office asked MECHA to wait until Oct. 15, when the university would acquire a lease for a building now occupied by the Hoover Commission for redevelopment, located at the north entrance to the campus.
The building was unavailable on Oct. 15. Members of MECHA released a joint memo on Oct. 25, signed by one of the chairmen of MECHA. Abarca and Lauro Cons, one of the chairmen of MECHA. On behalf ofthe organization, the chairmen explained the Centro situation and expressed a lack of faith in the presi-
dent and the university due to the delay.
Abarca says that part of the problem includes the fact that neither the president nor any of the other administrators to whom a copy of the memo was sent replied to MECHA’s message.
Abarca added that on or around Oct. 30, Daniel Nowak, acting vice-president forstudent affairs, had told MECHA that they could look forward to moving into the building on Nov. 15. However, Abarca said that he has heard enough talk around campus to give Chicanos reason to doubt the validity of that date.
Copeland said that he had
talked to Ernie Bentfield, assistant project manager of the Hoover Redevelopment Commission, who said that the commission was preparing to move and should be out by Nov. 17.
Mike Thompson, vice-president for the development and leasing division of the commission said, “If the phones are out by November 20. then we will be out; if not, we stay.”
In a phone conversation, Bentfield admitted, “We can only move as fast as the phone company and the movers.”
Thompson added that the building to be occupied by the Centro Chicano should be torn
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Hubbard backs DT’s right to refuse insert
President John Hubbard reaffirmed the Daily Trojan's right to refuse to publish a minority news insert in a statement released Friday.
Hubbard cited a passage from the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities that reads: “The Student Press shall be free of censorship and advance approval of copy, and its editors and managers shall be free to develop their own editorial policies and patterns of news coverage.”
“Nonetheless, it is my intent that every group on this campus should have an adequate voice and opportunity for expression of concerns through the campus newspaper,” Hubbard said. “I have every evidence that the staff of the Daily Trojan and the Journalism Council are in agreement with this principle, and that the editor and his staff intend to make every effort to provide for greater minority input and for wider opportunities for minority communication in the Daily Trojan.’'
Hubbard commended the Daily Trojan's decision to augment its beat system in order to strengthen minority coverage. He lauded the suggestion that a minority editor be established.
Hubbard also suggested that the Commission on Minority Affairs, which supports the insert, appoint a committee to conduct a continuing study of Daily Trojan coverage. A similar committee has been appointed by Theodore Kruglak. chairman ofthe Journalism Council and director of the School of Journalism.
“Liaison between two such committees would seem to me to be an appropriate vehicle to continue progress toward the solution of this significant issue,” Hubbard said.
Hubbard’s statement came in response to a letter written by Dennis Fukomoto, chairman of the commission, asking for his advice on the matter.
Fukomoto declined to comment on Hubbard’s statement, pending consultation with others seeking the insert.
SENATE, DEANS CONFLICT
Meeting may resolve governance issue
Prelaw seminar to be held today
Law schools, their admissions processes and their requirements will be among the topics discussed at the Prelaw Conference to be held today from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Student Activities Center. Representatives of 20 law schools will be present to answer questions.
By Peter Wong
associate editor The current impasse over university governance may be resolved Wednesday morning in President John Hubbard’s office.
Hubbard has asked one representative from both the University Senate and the Council of Deans to meet to try to settle differences between the plans each group has advocated.
“I want them to meet so that they can reconcile points of view and come to some agreement about a system of governance we all think is worth trying,” Hubbard said.
“I would like to see some kind of forum in which students, faculty and administrators are convened together.”
The president’s move thus partly confirms what Phillips
Copeland, Hubbard’s executive assistant, said last week about the formation of a small panel to examine various governance proposals.
However, Hubbard wants to settle the issue soon, rather than let debate continue for a fifth year—and settle it with as few people as possible.
Assembly vs. council
The current deadlock was caused when the Council of Deans approved a plan Sept. 21 in which an assembly of more than 100 members would be the key decision-making mechanism.
That plan was developed by a commission appointed by Hubbard in September, 1971, and headed by Henry Reining, Jr., dean of Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs.
However, 60 faculty members of the University Senate, at an all-day meeting Oct. 28, favored a plan in which a senate with solely faculty representation would be established, thereby making separate governing councils for students, faculty and deans.
Under this proposal, a 15-member council of students, faculty and deans would be established to advise the president on matters of general university concern, and to supervise the committee system.
The senate combined elements of plans by the University Senate, approved Oct. 22, 1969, and by a committee appointed by President Norman Topping in February, 1970, and headed by Paul Hadley, dean of University College and Summer Session.
The debate over which plan for the university decision-
making system should be adopted, however, has clearly emerged as a contest between two sharply differing views of the university community.
On one side, the advocates of a large assembly as the key decision-making mechanism say that the major university constituencies—students, faculty and deans—all have a primary interest in most important policy questions.
Therefore, they argue, a university governance system should be based on broad representation of all groups, including for the first time, alumni, support groups, academic and service staffs, and the neighborhood.
However, the advocates of a small council say that most problems of one major constituency
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