New curriculum to be proposed
By CATHEJEAN McGILLIN
When the university Curriculum Committee meets tomorrow at 2:15. Chuck Jones. ASSC vice-president for academic affairs, hopes to present an alternative curriculum plan to the current one.
Although the matter of business is not on the agenda. Jones said he hopes the committee will allow the proposal to be presented
“We are trying to get away from everyone taking courses that are irrelevant." Jones said. "We feel that education should be shaped to meet the needs of students rather than shaping the students to meet the needs of university requirements.'
Jones said the Academic Affairs Committee, of which he is chairman. hears complaints from students about curriculum and then tries to relate these comments to university officials. He added that a major area of concern was the foreign language requirement.
The proposal calls for the retention of the basic English and government requirements—one semester of each.
Under a second heading, interdisciplinary knowledge, students would select courses from seven to 10 areas of knowledge. No more than two courses would be taken from the same area as the student's major and none of the courses taken in the same area as the major could be counted.
The 10 areas and included subjects are:
•	“Man and the Arts" (cinema, drama, fine arts and music. >
•	“Man and a Second Language-’ (Asian studies, classics. French. Italian. German. Spanish and Russian.)
•	“Man and His Literature and Exposition" (English. Classics, comparative literature, linguistics. Asian studies. French. German. Iralian. Spanish. Slavic literature.)
“Literature courses taught within the foreign language departments must be taught in English as Literature in Translation, the proposal stated.
•	“Man and His Ideas" <philosphy and religion)
•	"Man and His Laboratory Sciences" (astronomy, biological sciences, chemistry and geological sciences >
•	"Man and His Theoretical Sciences" (mathematics and physics i
•	"Man and His Communications" (journalism, speech and telecommunication >
•	“Man and His History and Politics" (history, international relations and political science >
•	“Man and His Environment" (geography and economics)
•	“Man and His Behavior and Social Interaction" (anthropology. psychology and sociology I
The third heading requires that students take four semesters of physical education in two different semesters, and either Physical Education 170 health or Physical Education 171. first aid.
Course requirements of the proposal equal: “a total of 32 units in addition to physical education activities. Each course is designed to be one-fourth of the student s academic load each semester. Two courses of general education. 15 courses of interdisciplinary knowledge and 15 courses of major minor and electives.”
He said, “the language requirement, which has been eliminated at Stanford. UCLA, and all the California State Colleges, as well as on campuses of AAU members, is the area of study with which most people are concerned.
'By eliminating the foreign language requirement we are not coping out." he said. “The entire purpose of the language requirement is to teach students the background and culture of another people.
"There is no way that a person can gain in three semesters proficency in a language: and. since a person cannot master a language in three semesters, the purpose behind the requirement is defeated.
University of Southern California
DAILY % TROJA
VOL. LXil
NO. 79
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1971
$1.7 MILLION DEFICIT
Budget woes
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By TIM TAYLOR Managing Editor
USC will face a $1.7 million budget deficit next year unless sufficient cuts in services or programs are made this spring.
Budget requests for fiscal 1971-72 are actually $2.8 million higher than the projected income. A $1.1 million reserve fund is the difference. The total operating budget is expected to reach $90 million. This year's budget is $86 million.
The announcement of the budget problem was made by President Hubbard at a University Senate meeting recently. but details of the situation were not available until yesterday.
Over $1 million is irrevocable. Government-forced increases is the cause of much of the problem.
Unemployment and disability insurance has been extended to colleges and universities for the first time, beginning Jan. 1. 1972. At $155 per year per employee, mandatory payments by the university are estimated at $400,000 for this coming fiscal year and $800,000 per year in following years.
Elton D. Phillips, vice-president for business affairs, said in the past, universities have been completely exempt. Now they must pay.
Social Security has also gone up. and like the unemployment insurance, the university has no choice but to pay the increase. The rate increase, from 4.8 percent to 5.2 percent, will cost USC $492,000 per year.
USCs fire-insurance premium will be raised this year by $150,000 from $50,000 to $200,000.
Another increase will be brought about by the introduction of the food services union at USC. The negotiations with the union are still in progress.
but Phillips said that the increased costs due to the union will exceed $100,000.
Included in the projected expenditures are salary increases amounting to $1.6 million.
Carl Franklin, vice-president for legal and financial affairs, said the proposed salary increases merit raises—as opposed to an across-the-board increase—and will be equivalent to five percent of the present base of faculty and staff salaries.
What this means, said Franklin. is that deserving faculty and staff would receive raises, perhaps as much as eight percent. Others might not receive any raise at all. The average of all salaries, taken as a whole, will work out to be five percent greater than the corresponding average this year.
Franklin said no salary increases are planned at many
universities next year. “That's how the bulk of the problems could have been solved here, but we are not going to solve it that way.” he said. “The first order of priority is always salary increases on a merit basis.”
Franklin also said the university may be able to offer only $1.3 million in raises, but it is not going to solve the problem the easy way by eliminating salary increases.
A $1.1 million reserve fund for faculty salary increases was budgeted this year and will be applied toward the salary increases lor the coming year.
USCs income is made up principally of tuition and fees, government grants and gifts. Endowment from investment accounts for only three percent of the total income.
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ASSC to vote
on constitution
By BERNARD BECK Editorial Director
The new Associated Students of the University of Southern California (ASITSC) constitution is expected to be voted upon by the ASSC Executive Council when it meets at 4 p.m. today in the Student Activities Center.
The Executive Council will discuss the proposed document and make changes in it as is felt necessary. The council would then approve the constitution, placing it before a vote of the student body, or reject it.
Shei Id the council approve it for a student vote, a date will be set for a special election. If the students approve the constitution in that election, the elections for Executive Council offices would probably be pushed back at least a week to allow for refiling of candidates. This would be necessary because the new constitution makes several changes in the structure of the council.
(At today's meeting the Executive Council is expected to fill the vacant positions of two graduate representatives, international representative and treasurer. >
The new constitution is designed to strengthen the student
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Caldwell, Millburn enter race
Craig Caldwell and George Millburn filed their petitions for the ASSC presidency yesterday. joining John McGuin-ness and Marsha Naify. both of whom announced last week.
Caldwell, a junior in urban studies, has been a member of the Dean s Advisory Council in the Business School and has served as president of the University Senate.
Millburn is a junior majoring in accounting He has been interum president of the Associated Men Students, finance manager of Songfest. president of Young Democrats, and has served on the President s Joint Academic Advisory Board, the Academic Affairs Council and the University Affairs Council CALDWELL Caldwell dedicated his candidacy to intellectual progres-sivism. a step-by-step progress toward an ideal.
"We define ourselves as progressives as opposed to extremists. who are counterproductive. he said. “Extremists of the USC community have
little or no hope of effecting progressive change. The counterproductive wants to align with the national political organizations to attempt to deal with USC problems.
"We are progressive as opposed to the moderate, who stands for himself and his own special-interest group and fails to accomplish anything."
The urban studies major sees changes in educational requirements as the central issue in the first priority of the ASSC.
Caldwell specifically recommends that the university do away with the foreign-lang-uage requirement. He hopes to be able to substitute courses which study the culture rather than the ianguage of foreign countries. "W'hat possible use can a foreign language be to a student in economics or political science?" he asked.
Another educational issue that the candidate emphasized in his platform is the training of teacher assistant. Caldwell said the assistants should be required to take at least one
seminar that teaches them how to teach.
Caldwell also proposed a fund-raising drive for library books and a study of better ways to organize the library.
He also mentioned student draft counselling and student loan-grants as other important issues in the campaign.
Caldwell called for an election convocation patterned after the trustee's convocation that was held last October.
“I would like to see all the presidential candidates and two of their representatives sitting up on the stage and answering questions from the audience." he said.
“This would be much more productive than a debate because students will have the opportunity to discuss the issues with the candidates and see who the people are that are backing them."
MILLBURN
George Millburn, said he is "a candidate that will vocalize the issues and. perhaps, win the election.
The accounting major emphasized the issue of Board of Trustees representation in his platform.
“I believe there should be a minimum of two students on the board and that they should be elected by the students." he said. “I would like to see the board have no role in the policy - making. They should be fund-raisers. Policy should be determined by a committee made up, in equal numbers, of students and faculty."
After Chuck Jones. ASSC vice president of academic affairs, decided not to run. a group of concerned students met and realized that there was no other candidate dedicated to re-from and strong student administration.
The group is now supporting Millburn as the candidate to vocalize the issues.
As well as the Board of Trustees reform, Millburn hopes to speed the building of parking structures near campus and he is in favor of open dorms on campus. Millburn would also
like to see curriculum reform coming out of the reform committee of the university. Like Caldwell, he feels the foreign language requirement should be removed.
Millburn commented on some of the other candidates.
“John McGuinness. now AMS president, has done nothing and left the job for me to do." he said. “It would be frightening to have the ASSC council meet as often as the AMS council, which never met."
Of Caldwell, and his year as Student Senate president, he commented. “Caldwell has held no elections in the senate since the original elections. Under Craigs direction, the senate has done nothing at all."
Millburn summed up his position in me race. "If the students want to listen to the issues, the issues will be voiced. he said. "If they do not wish to listen then they can throw away the $9 a year they pav the student government ___/