Daily
Trojan
University of Southern California
vol. Ixv no. 46
los angeles, California
Wednesday, november 29, 1972
El Centro Chicano to open
Raul Vargas, coordinator for Mexican-American Affairs at USC assists with moving in procedures in his new position as Interim Director of the El Centro Chicano. The office, which will hopefully be open by Monday, will be the site of El Centro Chicano, a meeting place for Mexican American students at USC. DT photo by Danny Alaimo.
Trustees to consider governance structure
By Peter Wong
associate editor
The Board of Trustees will consider a revised university decision-making structure Dec. 6.
Though the proposed system, a combination of plans of the past four years, is one that President John Hubbard has reportedly decided upon, it will not be established until the trustees approve it.
Plan not approved At a breakfast Tuesday with Daily Trojan staff members, Hubbard said his presentation ofthe proposed system to the Council of Deans and the executive committee of the University Senate, the representative body of the faculty, within the past week should not be interpreted as formal approval.
However. Hubbard said he developed the system himself because he wanted to resolve the current impasse over governance proposals of the deans and the senate.
Although the trustees have legal responsibility for the man-
agement of the university in practice they delegate academic decision-making to students, faculty and the administration.
The proposal would establish a university council of about 90 members that would discuss matters of general concer n and supervise all committees.
The council’s members would be selected from the schools of the university and the three divisons of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
For matters of concern to a single constituency, however, students, faculty and deans may establish separate governing councils.
Compromise plan
Hubbard said that the new proposal was a compromise, although he generally adopted the framework suggested Oct. 28 by the University Senate— separate representation for each constituency concerning its own matters, and a small university council.
“The faculty’s stake in the uni-
revision of next week
versity is one that is different. Students are a transient group, and so are administrators—they have no tenure in office. But for the faculty, at least in the higher ranks, the university is their life,” Hubbard said.
However, the plan approved Sept. 21 by the Council of Deans, which would have established a large representative assembly, also was adopted in part because the original university council has been enlarged.
COURSE CREATED
Programs board selections start
By Andrew Erskine
associate editor
The bureaucratic machinery that will choose much of the board that will administer the ASSC’s $100.000-plus programming budget for the next year has swung into action.
The deadline for applications for the nine positions on the programming board was reached Tuesday at noon, with 45 forms having been received.
The nine positions to be filled include the directors of the four major programs divisions: the academic-educational, social-cultural, student services, and the Community Action Coordinating Council. In addition, five at-large representatives will be chosen—two graduate and three undergraduate.
The applications will be reviewed by a selection committee, which is charged with recommending two—and, in especially close cases, three—candidates for each of the nine positions to Daniel Nowak, acting vice-president for student affairs.
Selection procedure
Beyond this point, the procedure for selecting the members of the programming board is somewhat indefinite. The members of the present selection committee implied that Nowak would set up another selection committee to choose a single nomination from the two or three nominated by the present committee.
Nowak, however, declined to comment on further selection procedures.
Jim Korsen, a member of the selection board, commented: “Whoever makes the final decision should reinterview, so the applicants will be more that just names on paper.”
The present selection board is headed by Bob Jones, director of the Testing Bureau, and also consists of two representatives—one staff member and one student—from each of five offices in the Student Affairs Division: Anita Siegman. director, and Gayle Uratahi from the Counseling Center; George Lillich. counselor, and Derick Glymim from the Office of International Students and Scholars.
Patty Dembowski, head resident of College-University Hall, and Nancy Cohen from the Office of Residential Life; Randy Zomar. ASSC business manager, and Korsen from the Office of Student Activities; Gloria Myklebust, director. and Bill Wong from the Student Services Center will also serve.
Representatives from these offices were chosen because it was felt that they have the closest contact with students. They were appointed by Nowak, with considerable input from the Student Affairs Division, Jones said.
Applicant screening
He said that the committee would not rely on specific criteria for selecting its nominations. Jones said that the committee’s choices will be based on “an unstructured rating based on an interview. ”
“If a freshman comes here with no exposure to the university and no experience, and applies for the directorship of the Community Action Coordinating Council, he is clearly disqualified,” Jones said.
When asked if, as some rumors have indicated, large numbers of applications had been submitted by special-interest groups. Jones replied, “I assume there are friends who would apply together, but I don’t know this for a fact.”
Myklebust said that the relatively small number of applications returned seemed to be evidence against these rumors.
Prof to search for Atlantis
Noon rally to honor slain students at Southern U.
A rally at noon Thursday at Tommy Trojan will be held as a memorial for the two Southern University students shot earlier this month when an assembly at Southern University’s administration building was dispersed by police.
The rally is presented in cooperation with MECHA, (the Chicano student organization), the Black Students Union, Asian Student Alliance, Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Caucus and the Commission on Minority Affairs. The theme will be “Memorial to the Struggle.”
The platform of speakers will relate the Southern University students’ struggle to the struggle of USC minority students have with an insensitive university administration, said Herbert Wills, BSU chairman.
By Sarah Heck
Did Atlantis, the lost city of mythology, really exist as Plato says or is it an impossible dream that men have been fancying for centuries?
Maxine Asher, author, professor and director of the Society to Uncover Buried Atlantis, thinks that the legend of the lost city is very true. In fact, she has created a course, “Problems of Atlantis,” to expound the legend and is heading an expedition to research the possibilities of its existence.
Speaking to about 20 interested but skeptical students Tuesday in the Student Activities Center, Asher explained the Atlantis theories. She said that Plato believed Atlantis was located outside the Strait of Gibraltar and sunk about 11,000 B.C. This is attributed to a sudden pull exerted by the moon on the earth. The resulting earthquakes jarred Atlantis so badly that it sunk in one day.
Asher has spent many years looking for proof of Atlantis, not under the water but in the surrounding European countries where migrating Atlanteans would have set up survival cities after the great catastrophe.
“We’re pulling together as many proofs as we can,” Asher said. Besides Plato’s references, Asher points to the relic bones of giant men found in Europe. The tall archways and the fantastic abilities of men such as the early Olympians also point to the existence of a super race of men, she said.
Inscriptions throughout Europe
Another string of evidence that seems to substantiate the migration theory in Asher's mind is the fact that “the same inscriptions have been found all over Europe.” From Dublin, Ireland to the Canary Islands and all through Greece and Italy small spiral designs have been found in caves, on earthen pots and in buildings.
These, Asher hypothesizes.
may be the scattered race’s attempt to keep alive the memory of the two cities of Atlantis.
The expedition to Cadiz, Spain will be a six-week course from July 9 to Aug. 17, 1973.
Both the course and the expedition are sponsored by Pep-perdine University’s School of Continuing Education.
The tuition for the six week research expedition is $2,850. This includes transportation to such Spanish cities as Gibraltar and Cadiz, Seville and the Costa del Sol. room accommodations, three meals daily, all books and course material, multimedia aids, complete insurance coverage, and scuba-diving lessons and equipment.
No experience in archeology, undersea diving or photography is needed. Any interested students should contact Maxine Asher, Ancient Mediterranean Research Organization, 16661 Ventura Blvd., Suite424, Encino, Calif., 91316.