University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 5
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1971
Hubbard denies alleged dismissal of Bloland
By CYNTHIA WOOD
President Hubbard denied that Paul Bloland. vice-president for student affairs, would not be returning to USC after his sabbatical leave, as was stated yesterday in the Free Trojan, a conservative campus newspaper.
"There is no truth in the allegation that Dr. Bloland has been dismissed. He was given leave because he well deserved it." Dr. Hubbard said.
Dr. Hubbard said that Bloland’s name will be submitted to the Board of Trustees on October 6 for reelection as vice-president of student affairs.
Joel Rosenzweig. acting ASSC president, supported Dr. Hubbard. “Yesterday at the Student Life Committee meeting it was announced that Dr. Bloland will be returning."
“We can only believe official sources. We listen to the president and the vice-president of student affairs rather than rumors,” Lee Blackman, vice president of ASSC. said.
Dan Nowak, who is acting vice-president in Bloland's place, said. “I am not prepared to make a statement.” He had heard about the article but had not read it himself. “Through the news bureau we have announced that he is
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going on sabbatical leave and will be returning." he said.
The Free Trojan hasn’t received any reaction from the administration. “But we weren’t really expecting any,” said Randy Goodwin, past editor of the Free Trojan. “At most we expected a denial because they have to stick to their official story."
“It wouldn't do anything constructive to tell who our source was. but it was very reliable. We have talked to some left-wingers and they agree. They also heard that Bloland was leaving,” Goodwin said.
Dr. Bloland was unavailable for comment.
“He had not been on leave since 1946. He wanted to rest, read, reflect, teach and write.” Dr. Hubbard said.
Blackman said that Bloland would be traveling throughout Southern California analyzing the way student affairs are dealt with at other universities.
“When he returns from his sabbatical, he will very conveniently find a better position at another university. Dr. Bloland is the university's bag man and he's only doing the hatchet work for the administration.” Goodwin said.
FRIENDS - A child and a student share the joy of bright balloons and warm sunshine on the first afternoon of autumn. DT photo by Bruce Bolinger.
NYU chancellor calls for tuition payment plan
“We are experiencing one of the most unusual periods in the history of higher education — a period of strange paradoxes,” said Dr. Allen M. Cartter, chancellor and executive vice-president of New York University in a Great Issues Forum speech yesterday.
He said educational quality has never been better, but that dissatisfaction is nearly universal. Students have more choice and more participation than ever before, but still have a vast dissatisfaction with curricula, teaching methods and their participatory roles.
Cartter proposed a solution for greater equality in the amount of money paid for education. He suggested that the financial burden be carried by a quadrapartite arrangement. One fourth of a student's costs would, be financed by the federal government. The second fourth would be covered by the state either through taxes or endowments and the last half would be paid by the students and parents. He feels the present system of federal and state subsidies is inadequate.
The parents would pay according to their ability and the student would have a compulsory tax on his future earnings to be paid with regular income taxes under Cartter s plan. He suggested that one third of one percent of the student's earnings over the span of a lifetime would be the amount charged.
AMS election ordered
By GUNTHER MERLI
Staff Writer
Another election — for the presidency of Associated Men Students — will be added to the list of fall elections, it was decided by the Student Court in an hour-long meeting yesterday.
The court’s new rules of procedure are now on file with the ASSC, as required by the constitution, after having been amended slightly by the court.
The full seven-justice membership of the court unanimously decided to hold a new election for the AMS presidency, as specified in article VI, section 2-E of the ASSC constitution. which says that elected positions vacated since the spring election shall be open to candidates in the fall election. The position has been empty since the resignation of Colin Kurata.
The main issue, said Steve Knowles, chief justice of the court, was whether the ASSC or the AMS constitution would take precedence, since the AMS constitution provides that
the vice president of the AMS should succeed to the presidency. Reasons given for the court’s decision were that the ASSC constitution is the supreme student document and that the AMS president is an ASSC officer and subject to its rules.
The election is to be held in October and the office will remain vacant until then.
Except for one change, the court agreed to the rules of procedure formulated by Knowles at an earlier meeting. The change requires the court to approve persons recommended by the chief justice to be judicial advocates, instead of allowing the chief justice alone to appoint them.
There was also debate among the court members concerning the new judicial advocates, whose duty it would be to investigate cases for the court. Paul Moore, director of student activities and advisor to the court, said the ASSC constitution empowers the court to formulate its rules of procedure, but not to
appoint personnel.
Questions were raised by members of the court on the credibility of the new positions in the eyes of the students, since the constitution forbids the court to originate any action.
Knowles described the move as “extralegal, but not illegal," since any student can file a case with the court and investigate it. The court agreed to check the possibility of a bylaw being enacted by the ASSC Executive Council officially establishing the position of judicial advocate.
Dance in Grill after game
The Grill will remain open until 1:30 a.m. after tomorrow evening’s US€-illinois football contest.
Columbia recording group “Ballin’ jack” will perform. Local group “Freedon” will also be featured. The Grill’s fountain service will also stay open.
Executive council passes election code
By PETER WONG Staff Writer
The ASSC Executive Council finally approved an elections code that will serve as the guidelines for the fall ASSC elections, including the long-de-layed presidential race, after a three-hour marathon meeting yesterday.
The council also approved the dates for the elections — October 13-14 for the primary, and October 20-21 for the runoff. Ballots will be tabulated bv the American Arbitration Assn., an outside firm hired for an estimated $3,000.
Joel Rosenzweig, vice-president for programs and acting ASSC president, announced that applications for the three seats on the new Elections Commission will be available beginning today in SU 309.
The commissioners must decide by Tuesday two items — the filing dates for ASSC candidates and the question of the admissibility of five presidential hopefuls in last spring's elections.
Paul Moore, director of student acti-
vities, said that under the ruling of the Student Behavior Committee ordering new elections last May, all five candidates on the original ballot must be entered in any new election regardless of their wishes.
It is expected that no matter what the new elections commissioners decide, the Student Court will be asked for an advisory opinion.
Some council members suggested that if no commissioners are appointed by Tuesday, Rosenzweig himself may have to serve as chief elections commissioner.
The only major change made in the code before its final passage was a reduction in the spending limits for candidates. Candidates for ASSC president may spend up to $180 (not $300, as was proposed) in the primary, along with candidates for the two ASSC vice-presidencies. Others may spend only $80. Candidates in the runoffs may spend 25% over their initial limit.
Jim Lacy, sophomore representative and coauthor of the proposed code, finally abstained from voting on any part of
the code.
“It is. my own contention that any change in the present code will simply be another example of the ASSC ‘politics' attempting to manipulate our elections,” he said in arguing for a retention of the code in effect during the spring.
The council approved the new code by the vote of 7-1-1.
The council will pay the full cost of outside arbitration for the fall elections, but it asked the administration to supply 50% of the funds because of the Student Behavior Committee's intervention last spring.
During the rest of the meeting, the council considered a secession proposal by the Associated Students of the School of Medicine (ASSM) that was sponsored by Dan Wallace, graduate representative and second-vear medical student.
Wallace and Steve Forman, president of the ASSM. argued that the $4.50 programming fee medical students pay to the ASSC was not beneficial to them. They claimed the 400 in the ASSM. with their own fee ($6) and their own activity
programs, did not need to continue affiliation with the ASSC.
However, it was suggested that the Fee Allocations Board, which handles student funds, could remit the entire $4,000 now collected from medical students, thereby cutting the ASSM fee to $1.50.
Council members generally agreed that medical students, because of their 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily schedule and their great distance from the main campus, should get the benefits of their collected fees.
Wallace withdrew his resolution pending action of the fee board.
The council approved a measure for the fall ballot that would, if passed by the student body, allocate $1 extra in student fees to the Center for Law in the Public Interest. Sponsors of the center, which does work in law affecting environment. education and consumer protection. said the fee would be made voluntary.