Student programs board tries where ASSC failed
By Bernard Beck
managing editor
The Interim Student Programming Board has the potential to succeed in its brief tenure where the ASSC has failed for years.
But whether that potential can be fulfilled depends upon whether the board can make its philosophy and priorities concrete and reinforce them with action.
Board members also seem to exhibit an ASSC-like tendency to enjoy the benefits of office, though not to the exclusion of dedication and hard work.
At Friday’s three-hour long meeting the board made futile stabs at discussion of philosophy and priorities for the board’s actions and the budgeting of programs, but the only results were the formation of several committees and authorization for personalized business cards for board members.
Directors report
The highlights of the meeting were the presentations of the area directors of the board, discussing the status and general budgetary needs of each program within the four student programming divisions.
Cliff Ishii, academic-educational programs director, reported that he was forming a caucus of student members on
university committees. (In the past, the students’ roles on committees has been for the large part defined by the students themselves, with many seeking out committee positions apparently for value on graduate or law school applications rather than to make inputs into the university’s decision-making process.) Ishii reported that a new director has been appointed for the Course Evaluation Guide, Gordon Dossett. During the past few years, this project has spent thousands of dollars with no result other than cartons of outdated computer print-outs.
Gary Wayland, student services director, said that the ASSC Emergency Loan Fund, a program to supplement the funds of students pressed by tuition increases, was out of money.
Marilyn Smith, social-cultural programs director, reported that the Festival of the Arts, a week-long cultural forum in the spring semester, had already spent most of its $9,000 budget and would need $1,000 more. She said that the entertainment program’s funds were tight, but sufficient.
Bob Shiota, Community Action Coordinating Council director, reported that money was tight in his division.
The board has decided to meet every Friday at 10:30 a.m. in Stu-
dent Union 311. The meetings are open.
The board formed three special committees. One was to investigate the allocation of office space in the Student Union, with an eye to forcing out nonstudent groups. Another group was formed to investigate the status of the report of the Commission on Student Life, which has been referred to the university Committee on Student Life. Bruce Mitchell, board chairman, expressed dissatisfaction with waiting for the administration to implementthe report’s recommendations. A third committee was formed to encourage communication between students and the board.
Some discussion of budgetary philosophies and priorities took place, but no conclusions were reached. The board not only has the responsibility of allocating the remaining ASSC budget, but must budget programs for the next academic year. There is $34,000 remaining from this year’s Student Programming Fee, not all of which will go to the Interim Student Programming Board. Between $90,000 and $120,000 will be available for next year’s programming, depending upon student enrollment and income from programs.
Business cards
The board did get down to making decisions when it approved the expenditure of about $127 for personalized business cards for each member and for programming board stationery costing just under $150 for
1,000	pieces. Such cards and stationery will have a short life as the board is slated to disband at the end of April. Brian Heimerl, assistant director of the Student Activities office, was openly perturbed by the board members’ concern about these materials. The board also
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Press freedom to be topic
Congressman Jerome Waldie, an announced candidate for the ’74 gubernator-ial race, will speak on America’s endangered press freedom today at 10 a.m. in the Daily Trojan city room, Student Union 421. All students and faculty are invited to attend.
Waldie, a Democrat representing the east San Francisco Bay area, is the author of legislation designed to protect newsmen who refuse to name their sources.	.
University of Southern California
vol. Ixv no. 62	los angeles, California	tuesday, january 9, 1973
They’re paving the way
These bricklayers aren’t goldbrickers.
Landscaping is in progress at the Apartment Towers and Men’s Residence West on the west side of campus.
The landscaping will include trees, ground cover, and a series of mounds in the shape of a U, much like those in Fagg Park, located between the men’s and women’s complexes on the east side of campus.
James Massey, director of Facilities Planning, said the grassy slopes were especially designed to provide a place for outdoor gatherings.
Massey also said that, landscaping began in December on the Gerontology Center located on McClintock Avenue.
Landscaping for the center will include ground cover, a single row of trees surrounding the building and a number of green plants in the planter boxes that were a part of the original construction.
There are also plans to extend Fagg Park to the new parking structure within 60
days.
DT photo by Barry Brown.
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Governance plan poses student problems
By Peter Wong
associate editor
The plan for university governance that President John Hubbard announced last week will probably complicate already existing problems regarding student participation in decisionmaking.
The key instrument of this plan is an 87-member university council that will advise the president on matters of general concern and supervise the university committee system.
Students will have 19 council members—one from each major academic unit, including the three divisions of the College of Letters. Arts and Sciences, in which the majority ofthe university's undergraduates are enrolled.
In addition, students may establish their own structure to manage their programs and discuss matters primarily of concern to them.
If an established student government were in offkv today, the adjustment to the new uni-
versity decision-making system would be much easier.
But since the last established student government—the ASSC Executive Council—ended May 1 because of the suspension of the elections for its 1972-73 members. the question of who speaks for the student body in this matter has become a crucial one.
After a referendum this fall by the Division of Student Affairs, a Student Programming Board with nine voting student members was appointed to manage program for which the ASSC Executive Council allocated money (about $100,000) before it left office last spring.
But this does not solve the problem, because the Student Programming Board has no jurisdiction over what structure should replace the old Executive Council—and how it will fit among the components of a new university decision-making system.
These questions are supposed to be answered through the work of a second panel still to be
appointed by officials in the Division of Student Affairs.
Perhaps one solution is through a conference on student governance that may be called by James R. Appleton, vice-president for student affairs, sometime next semester.
However, even if the question
of a replacement for the ASSC is resolved, there remains the problem of how students can be accommodated in the university decision-making system that Hubbard hopes to start in September.
In Volume I of its report, the Commission on Student Life
identified some ofthe problems that will face students as they adjust to a new university decision-making system.
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Students for a Democratic Society may receive university recognition
By Joy Barrett
Students for a Democratic Society may receive university recognition after a long delay in procedural matters.
A letter from Robert Mannes, dean for student life, reportedly mailed yesterday will verify the recognition. The group will then be authorized to operate on campus and use the facilities.
A petition was filed in October with the Student Activities Office for recognition. The reason for the delay was the slow organization of the Student Life Committee which appointed a subcommittee to review the organization. The subcommittee then recommended to Mannes that the group be recognized.
Paul Moore, director of the Student Activities
Office, said that, despite the delay, “they can still operate. They just have to tell me what they are going to do and that's it. I know that delays always happens. It's a paperwork matter of just getting the process to finish itself.”
Daniel Brandt, a teaching assistant for the School of Religion, filed a petition for the SDS. “There is a definite need for the SDS on campus. It is active on other campuses and it’s unfortunate that it is not on the USC campus. Now that nothing is going on, it is an appropriate time to get it organized. Things could get heated up this spring with the way things are in Vietnam,’’ Brandt said.
Brandt thought the Trustees might give them problems with the petition.