Daily
ojan
vol. Ixv
no. 31
University of Southern California
los angeles, California
thursday, november 2, 1972
Ingle may accept national dentistry post
By Andrew Erskine
associate editor
John Ingle, dean ofthe School of Dentistry. will take a position in Washington D.C. as the head of the division of dentistry of the National Academy of Sciences, informed sources in the school said yesterday.
Ingle has recently been under fire from members of the Century Club, one of the school's support groups.
This information was partially confirmed by Bernard Levin, chairman ofthe Department of Removable Prosthodon-tics, who said that he knew that Ingle had been offered the job. Levin said that he
By Bernard Beck
managing editor That little green card students have been getting in the mail over the past week will have a profound effect on the future of student-administration relations.
The card is a ballot by which students may express theiropin-ions on what steps the administration should take to correct the flaws in the present student governance structure that led to the problems in last spring’s ASSC elections.
2 alternatives Students can choose whether or not the university continues to recognize the present ASSC structure as representative of the student body.
Ifthe students vote to continue the current ASSC structure, the recommendations of a special board that reviewed last spring’s elections would be put into effect. A second review board would be constituted to supervise the runoffs of last spring’s primary and call for new elections as may be necessary.
If students agree to abandon the present ASSC structure, an interim student programming board would be constituted by the vice-president for student affairs. It would have the sole responsibility of administering
did not know whether Ingle had accepted it, however.
Ingle, out of town until later today for a dentists' convention, was unavailable for comment.
It is not known whether Ingle has already tendered his resignation to President John Hubbard, or whether he plans to do so at a later date.
It is also not known whether allegations by the Century Club members had anything to do with his reported acceptance of the new job.
Ingle under fire Earlier this year Ingle came under attack from more conservative elements
of the dental support group, who asked Hubbard to fire him.
Ingle’s opponents charged that during his tenure the school’s academic program has softened, and that the school is in danger of becoming a second- or third-rate institution. They also charged that there had been alarming increases in failures of the State Board Examinations by USC graduates over the past 4 years.
The Century Club members also took issue with Ingle’s philosophy that dentistry should be primarily socially-oriented.
After a complete list of charges was compiled, Hubbard requested that the Special Dental Advisory Committee.
student fees for campus programs.
This board would function until May, 1973. when a new student governance structure would go into effect.
A second group would be formed by the vice-president for student affairs to reconstitute student governance.
Poll to determine course The opinion poll will apparently be binding upon the university. In a letter to students enclosed with the ballots, Daniel Nowak, acting vice-president for student affairs, said, “The return ofyour marked ballot will determinethe university’s immediate course of action regarding student participation at USC.”
However, while the students are determining the general action to be taken by the univer-
sity, specific actions will be the prerogative of the vice-president for student affairs.
It might be construed that the students are yielding control of student programming and reconstitution of student governance to the hopefully benevolent rule of the Student Affairs Division.
Over the summer, Nowak polled 1,000 students, asking them the same questions that appear on the ballot. Of the 300 or so who responded, 80% favored the establishment of an interim programming board.
If this is a valid sample of student opinion, it may indicate that the option of programming board will be favored in the vote.
The whole affair began the evening of April 13, the last day of the ASSC primary elections. Ballots were tallied but the
ASSC Student Court, acting upon 3 cases, ruled that 1,242 write-in votes would be thrown out and that the votes for one candidate for the office of ASSC vice-president for programs would not be counted.
Acting upon appeals from stu dents, the administration convened an election review board composed of the dean for student life and 2 faculty members, who heard testimony from students and made several recom mendations to the administration.
Should students endorse the continuance of the ASSC, these recommendations would be car ried out. The board ruled that write-in ballots and ballots for all candidates in the ASSC vice-president for programs race be counted. Runoffs, where necessary, would be conducted. The
made up of outside professionals, evaluate the charges.
The findings of this committee were released to Hubbard last Thursday.
Hubbard appointed an administration committee to evaluate the findings of the outside committee. Originally the committee was to have consisted of 5 administrators and Les Wilbur, chairman of the University Senate. Wilbur, however, refused to serve on the committee, apparently because of faculty dissatisfaction with Hubbard's handling ofthe case.
The National Academy of Science is a Washington. D.C.-based organization of scientists.
ASSC Elections Code would be clarified.
The Student Affairs Division has interpreted these recommendations further and has said that the ASSC Elections Code would be made temporary university policy for the purpose of conducting elections. An elections review board of faculty and staff would be formed to conduct the elections. Appeals from this board would be made to the University Judicial Council. Support for alternative In the meantime a group of students petitioned for the university to suspend the ASSC and to establish both a programming board and a group of students to develop a new organizational model for student government. This petition was signed by 1.200 students.
The ASSC Executive Council met April 18 and endorsed this petition. The council met again on April 27 and again endorsed the petition, emphasizing ‘the primacy of programs and of a visible and flexible process for rewriting of the ASSC.”
It was at this meeting that the council approved the proposed 1972-73 budget for the ASSC. It is this budget that is being used to conduct current ASSC programs.
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SENATE REJECTS PLAN
Governance issue is in limbo
In the good old days
The administration has recently sent out the ballots that hopefully will settle the ASSC question once and for all.
Perhaps this relief on the
side of the Student Union building is an indication of how such matters were settled in the early days of the university. DT photo by Craig Bolotin.
By Rich Wiseman
editor
The University Senate’s rejection of the governance plan favored by President John Hubbard has left the issue in limbo, Hubbard said Wednesday.
The plan, developed by a commission Hubbard appointed in September, 1971, was not accepted by the senate at an allday meeting Saturday. The plan would have established an assembly of more than 100 members as the key decision-making mechanism.
“W’hat’s next—another commission?” Hubbard said. “No concrete alternatives have been presented.
“On one side you’ve got the Council of Deans saying yes (the council approved the plan Sept. 21); on the other you have the senate saying no. There’s an impasse. It can be solved by reasonable people.”
Hubbard will meet with the 10-member executive committee of the senate Monday. “I want to understand their rationale,” Hubbard said.
Regardless of what direction
he eventually decides to take in establishing a governance plan, the student body will have its say on the matter before a final decision is reached, Hubbard said. Some senate members were critical ofthe lack of student input thus far.
“It is certainly my plan that students will be consulted,” Hubbard said. “The problem is how to test it. We wanted to present it to the ASSC.”
Hubbard stressed that the
commission plan was not his plan.
“I personally thought the Reining approach was worth trying (Henry Reining, Jr.. dean of Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs, headed the governance commission),” he said. I thought it would bring a measure Of unity with representation through the schools.
“But I’m not wedded to any particular concept.”
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Parking in structure limited for commuters
Beginning Monday, cars with student parking permits will not be allowed in the parking structure between midnight and 5 p.m., announced John Lechner, director of security and parking operations.
However, this does not affect students with dorm permits.
Lechner said the change in policy is necessary because of a lack of faculty and staff parking in that area. He urged students to park in Lot 1, instead. It contains 1.062 paved, lit and guarded spaces.
Lot 1 is adjacent to Men’s Residence West and the Apartment Towers.