University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1969, VOL. LX, NO. 63
Conflict on campus is talk topic
Student arrested after scuffle
Photo by Jamie Baldwin.
A historic confrontation between representatives of the students, faculty, administration and the Board of Trustees will be held today at 4 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
“Conflict in the University” will be the topic of the panel discussion between Bill Mauk, ASSC president: Dr. Norman Topping, president of the university; Justin Dart, chairman of the Board of Trustees; and Dr. Robert Braskenburg, chairman of the faculty senate.
The responsibility for conflict in the university community will be each speaker’s topic.
Speeches for the discussion, which is co-sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness *and the Sociology Department, will last ten minutes.
A half-hour cross questioning period is scheduled.
V.P. wants to organize
A USC student has been booked by the Los Angeles Police Department after he allegedly kicked one campus policeman in the groin, and bit another on the hand following an altercation on campus.
Ervin Campbell, Jr., who listed his occupation as a student at USC, was booked for the felony of assault with a deadly weapon.
The deadly weapons in this instance would be the suspect’s teeth, fists, and feet.
Campus policeman reporting injuries were Archie Silva and
Firestone gives hall
$250,000
Leonard K. Firestone, president of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., has presented a gift of $250,000 toward the construction of Heritage Hall.
Firestone, a member and past chairman of the USC Board of Trustees, joined a list of industrial notables who have donated to the construction of Heritage Hall, which will house the university’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.
Heritage Hall, costing $2.5 million to construction, will become the hub of athletics at the university. Besides providing offices for coaches of all major sports, the buiiding will include dressing rooms, training rooms, equipment rooms, rtiedical facilities and rooms in which all the trophies won by Trojan athletes will be displayed.
Receiving an honorary Doctor of Law degree from USC in 1965, the 61-year-old Firestone has been actively engaged in and has gained wide recognition for his civic, community and philanthropic achievements.
Vernon Delozia. Silva reported to the LAPD that he answered a radio call at 3:15 on Childs Way near the center of the campus.
Silva said he attempted to quiet Campbell, but after he went back to his car, the suspect reached through the window and hit Silva on the nose.
As Silva was attempting to handcuff the suspect, he was kicked in the groin. Then, Delozia arrived to help Silva.
National Conference Of Christians and Jews National Award as Man Of the Year in his community, and the Salvation Army “Sally” Award for outstanding contributions to human betterment through Delozia reported that his thumb was bitten.
The LAPD then arrived on campus, taking Campbell to the University division, and booking him for the felony charge.
Jim Blackstock, newly appointed vice-president of programs, has assumed his duties with a desire to increase the organizational efficiency of the Program Council.
Blackstock was appointed by the ASSC Executive Council Jan. 14. Greg Williams, a senior in business, was the other contender for the office.
“I want to bring to the office organization, first of all,” Blackstock said. “The organization has got to come first.”
Blackstock is a senior in English, who is president of Sigma Nu fraternity, a midshipman officer for the Naval ROTC and a member of Blue Key.
Blackstock was reluctant to discuss actions of the ASSC Council last semester, since he is now a member of the council.
“I think the council has done a very good job,” he said. “They
have done a better job than any council has since I’ve been here.
“Over the past four years, student government at USC has been continually improving, and it improved last semester, too. There is no reason the council should not progress more this semester.”
The vice-president of programs, as opposed to the vice-president of academic affairs, heads the Program Council, which includes entertainment, Grill programs, cultural affairs, social and recreational, forum and house committee heads.
Blackstock will also be in charge of Troy Camp and the Community Action Coordinating Council.
“As far as the programs go, I want to insure that the programs already planned get implemented well.”
Blackstock replaces Matt Pasternak, who left the office to head the Committee against
Institutionalized Racism.
Programs for the spring semester will include one major concert, free entertainment on the campus, more Grill programs, a film series co-sponsored by Delta Kappa Alpha and an attempt to make better use of the Student Activities Center.
Blackstock also inherited an office that is being affected by the ASSC rebudgeting.
“I think a lot of the time that being in a university and in student government allows the student the opportunity to explore and to expand his horizons.
“There is no reason you can’t be an active citizen while you are in college. I think college students have the idealism to make many things work.”
Blackstock said that the main function of student government is to allow students an opportunity to run as many of their affairs as possible.
Writer attacks teacher load
An anonymous letter attacking an administrative memo regarding faculty work load was received by the Daily Trojan during semester break.
The memo defined full-time service and said that no precise formula has been established to equate the relationship between courses or units to a proposition of full-time service.
But the paragraph most objected to by the anonymous writer concerns the number of hours which constitutes a full load.
“No arbitrary number of hours per week should be regarded as representing a full faculty load,” the memo says, “For some faculty, full-time will mean 50 or 60 hours. For others, it may mean more or less. “Most faculty will realize that the conventional 40 hour week used in industry does not
apply to the academic world. Every faculty member’s full-time load will equal 100 percent, even though individual cases may not be comparable.”
The anonymous writer attacked this statement, asking, “Why shouldn’t the normal work week apply to university faculty? If anyone needs time for recreation, study and contemplation, certainly it is the scholar and teacher who has such great responsibility in education the next generation.
“One of the causes contributing to student unrest may well be the fact that overworked and underpaid faculty members cannot do their jobs as effectively as they would wish.’’ A univ ersi ty administration which blandly accepts and expects a work week of 50 or 60 hours is not doing its job. This is the 20th century.
not the middle ages.
‘‘One factor which contributes to the excessive work week of many professors is the administration’s failure to budget even minimal secretarial and clerical services for the professional staff. “Many a professor must type his own course outlines and examinations, letters of recommendation and manuscripts for publication, and rarely does the university even provide him a typewriter that works. The budget for stationery is so low in some departments that envelopes and letterheads, ditto masters and the like are sometimes not available.”
The administrative memo, issued by Dr. Milton Kloetzel, vice-president of research and graduate affairs, and Dr. Carl Franklin, vice-president of financial affairs, stated that the
information required to be filled out on the faculty load sheet, will enable the university to record faculty time allocated to administrative matters for purposes of increasing ’ our allowable federal government overhead rate.”
The memo defined full-time service as consisting of teaching duties, counseling with students, assisting in registration and commencement, maintaining regular office hours, serving on university committees.
Professional development and the enhancement of the public good and the prestige of the university through research, scholarly publication and interest in professional groups and societies, and a reasonable participation in community activities and public service, both academic and general.