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vol. Ixv no. 13
University of Southern California
los angeles, California
Wednesday, october 4, 1972
A picnic in Alumni Park
Students use Alumni Park for a variety of activities, but at noontime, it is transformed into a giant picnic area. While the girls seem to be enjoying the
weather and looking over class notes, Rover is more interested in the half-eaten hamburger, hoping that a tiny morsel will fall his way. DT photo by Ken Ng.
NEW COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY
Annenberg School gets dean
By Peter Wong
associate editor
Frederick Williams, who earned two degrees in communication from USC in the 1960s, will be the first dean of the new Annenberg School of Communications.
Williams, who is a professor in the School of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin and director of its Center for Communications Research, will be here full-time after July 1, 1973.
However, he will visit USC several times before then so that he can help organize the school, recruit students and faculty members and plan construction of the school’s $3-million facility.
The $3 million is part of an $8-million gift to the university by Walter H. Annenberg, U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. The other money will be spent over the next 10 years to support the school’s academic program, in addition to its income from student tuition.
Annenberg, who is also owner of Triangle Publications, Inc., in Philadelphia, has also established the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. Five officers of that school, five USC trsutees, and Annenberg himself were involved in the selection ofWilliams as the new dean.
Williams earned his B.A. from the University of Idaho in 1955, his M.A. in communication here
in 1960 and his Ph.D. here in 1962.
7 years at Wisconsin
For the next seven years, Williams was at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (not with the University of Michigan, as President John Hubbard announced Saturday).
From 1963 to 1966, he was director of the university’s Speech Experimental Laboratory. He was named to the senior research staff ofthe university’s Institute for Research on Poverty in 1966, and was an associate professor of speech and communicative disorders.
During his last two years at Wisconsin, Williams was on leave from the campus to be a
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Dental backers refuse comment
By Al Freisleben
staff writer
Officers of two School of Dentistry support groups declined comment Tuesday on the split that presently exists between the school’s administration and the support groups’ leadership.
Dr. Ross Huntley, president of the Century Club, (a group of dentists who contribute financial support to the school) said, “We do not wish to become involved in the issues put out by Dr. (Bernard) Levin.”
Dr. Levin, a faculty member at the dental school, was quoted in Friday’s Daily Trojan regarding allegations made at Thursday’s rally.
Dr. Robert Morrell, presidentelect of the Century Club, also refused to be quoted in connection with the controversy. Echoing Morrell and Huntley was Dr. Joseph Reynolds, a member of the Century Club’s board of directors.
Reynolds explained that if he were to be quoted, a conflict could arise as he is also a member of the State Board of Dental Examiners, the body which examines and certifies dentists for practice in California.
However, in an Aug. 16 letter to members, the Century Club’s board said it had been conducting an investigation of complaints submitted by the membership ‘concerning the educational philosophies of Dean John Ingle.”
Areas of concern
It listed areas of concern as:
•	Basic changes in dental health delivery.
•	Alarming increases over the past four years in the failures of State Board Examinations by USC graduates.
•	The questioning of the need for State Board Examinations for California graduates.
•	Discipline within the dental school.
•	A continued loss of fine faculty.
•	Unilateral approach by Dr. Ingle in pursuing the political
avenue to dental practice without the proper and adequate consultation of the total profession.
•	Fear of loss of prestige to the dental school on a local and national level.
The letter went on to say “it is the opinion of the board of directors that the dean is out of step with the philosophy and ideals of the dental profession and the Century Club” and that the board had been withholding financial and moral support since April and would continue to do so “until this matter is resolved.”
Hubbard. Fluor get letters
Also receiving the letter were John Hubbard, president, and J. Robert Fluor, chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Dr. Nickolas Chester, president of the Dental Alumni Association, refused comment Tuesday but last month sent a letter to President Hubbard that said that the “board of directors of the USC Century Club and the USC Dental Alumni Association, in response to an overwhelming mandate after polling the members. recommend the immediate dismissal of Dr. John Ingle as dean of the USC School of Dentistry.”
Dr. Robert West, presidentelect of the Alumni Association, was unavailable for comment but had previously sent a letter addressed to the dentists of California in his capacity as (Continued on page 3)
Trustee meeting with Hubbard set
The Board of Trustees will hold its first campus meeting of the year with President John Hubbard today at 9:30 a.m. in Hubbard’s conference room. The meeting is scheduled to last until noon.
Betty Murray, secretary for the board, declined to state what topics would be discussed.
The board meets every other month with Hubbard.
Slim university budget halts plan for minority newspaper
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By Al Flores
staff" writer
The university’s financial situation has foiled the bid of a black student group seeking a university-funded minority newspaper.
The summer-long endeavor ended, at least temporarily, when the group of 16 was told during the first week of school that their requested $25,000 budget was too much for the university to handle.
Daniel Nowak, acting vice-president for student affairs, confirmed the situation.
“I met with the representatives ofthe student group that generated the proposal for the black newspaper and we discussed the nature and the question of the funding for the paper, but due to the fact that we already have the Daily Trojan and in recognition of the current fiscal restraints of the university, we discussed alternatives such as media space in the Daily
Trojan which they rejected. I indicated that separate fund-ing of a newspaper was unrealistic given the fiscal restraints of the university.” Small budget surplus Just how tight is the university’s budget?
“To give you an example,” answered Nowak, “two years ago the university started the year with a $94 million budget and we finished with $12,000. Last year we had a $104 million budget and we finished with $79,000. For a $104 million budget it’s embarrassingly close to realize only $79,000 in the black.”
It would seem that a $79,000 surplus would be enough to
fund a $25,000 request, but Nowak explained that you can’t always expect such a surplus.
“You don’t know at the start of the year what expenses are going to be realized during a fiscal year,” he said. “There are always hidden costs. We even made internal adjustments last year to insure that we balanced.”
Showcase the minorities The black group sought the newspaper for purposes of showcasing the minority point of view.
“This is a campus made up of many different and varying ethnic groups.” said Diedre Gomez, the self-pronounced
editor ofthe unfunded paper. “The orientation and the perspective of the Daily Trojan has been lacking in including these groups.
The Daily Trojan does not include the nonwhite point of view. The paper we proposed would give the other ethnic groups a chance to voice themselves. We would be highlighting the perspectives of minorities. We would present the other side.”
The proposed $25,000 budget for the school year was to have included office equipment. supplies, salaries for the staff of 16 and printing costs for 30 issues at 8 to 10 pages an issue.
By comparison, the Daily Trojan has a yearly budget of about $50,000—including approximately 125 more issues and salaries for a staff of 35.
Basically black
Gomez said that the paper, which initially was dubbed Black Notes, was to have been “basically a black newspaper, but open to all minorities.” However, when asked about the part the other minorities would play she replied, “I don’t care to make any further comments on that.”
The group had obtained endorsements from the Black Caucus (a group of black faculty), the minority commission. Roy Copperud (Daily Trojan advisor) and Ted Krug-lak. the director of the School of Journalism in pursuit of their objective.
Kruglak had even consented to a proposal that if
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