University of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO. 28
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1970
ASSC committee to study University Council plan
By PETER WONG
The merit of the proposal for a University Council was questioned at yesterday’s ASSC Executive Council meeting.
Council members asked for definition of some terms in the proposal for a 15-member council of students, faculty, and deans which would recommend policy on university activities.
ASSC President Sam Hurst named William Hesse, graduate representative, as chairman of a committee which will review the document in detail and report to the full council within two weeks.
Hurst said that the full council would not be able to examine the document thoroughly at its meetings because of its length.
Also on Hesse's committee are Stan DiOrio, graduate representative: Steve Goldfish-er. sophomore representative: Jim Lacy, freshman represen-
tative; and Tom Levyn, ASSC vice president for programs.
Hesse said the committee will ask for clarification of such terms as privileged communications and constituent bodies.
Some council members wondered if constituent bodies referred to the masses of the three groups — students, faculty, and deans — or their representatives on the ASSC Executive Council, the University Senate and the Council of Deans.
The definition would make a difference in the groups which would be allowed to elect the members of the University Council.
The purpose of the new council was also criticized.
“It (the University Council) is nothing but another consulting body, without any ultimate power of decision, it becomes another cog in the bureaucracy,” said Jack Me-
HURST vs. FRANK
AGONY OR ECSTASY?
The antics of photoplay also play on our image of VKC.
Photo by Bruce Bolinger
Alquist attacks Reagan’s campaign, administration
State Senator Alfred Alquist, Democratic candidate for Lt. Governor, charged that the re-election of Ronald Reagan would be a disaster for the state and would take 50 years in recovering.
Alquist made the statement in a speech yesterday afternoon in Founders Hall.
“One reason that this year's election is so important is that the party that controls the legislature is the one that draws the lots for the new district formed under reapportionment. We get five new seats in the Senate next year."
Alquist then listed some of the failures of the Reagan administration. He said that since Reagan was elected, welfare costs have risen by 50 per cent, unemployment is at the highest level in 18 years and inflation is at the highest rate in 30 years.
Alquist also attacked Reagan's use of image politics.
“You are being bombarded almost nightly by smoothly produced studio packages. What you are seeing is the most massive computerized, televised, billboard and newspaper advertised campaign in the his-(Continued on page 2)
Policies debated
By ART CAMPOS Co-news editor
ASSC President Sam Hurst defended his stand against the Board of Trustee's Policy Relating to Political Activity yesterday in a debate with Steve Frank, former national chairman of Voices in Vital America (VIVA).
The debate drew about 80 students in Hancock Auditorium and was moderated by Dennis Winston, captain of the debate team.
Both Hurst and Frank gave brief speeches, cross-examined each other and answered questions from the audience.
Hurst opened the debate by defending a resolution which opposed the trustees' policy. “USC by its very nature is a political institution,” he said. “There doesn't seem to be any such thing as individual rights, though. I think anytime man comes together it is political.
“I think it's about time USC made a statement on where it stands on the Vietnam War. racism or pollution. I suggest that the nature of USC is rooted in its conservatism.”
Frank then asked Hurst whether he considered any activities nonpolitical.
”No,” Hurst said. “If one walks into a cocktail party, he sizes up those in the room. He notices what kind of men are there and what kind of women are there. That's being political."
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Namara, independent representative.
“We should not endorse anything in principle, for if we do, we’ll be out-voted and outtalked on the committee on university government when it works out the details.”
Some council members feared the faculty and deans would line up against student interests on the new council.
On the other hand, members pointed out that the University Council would serve as a more effective communications medium between the administration and Board of Trustees and students, faculty and deans.
“The administration and trustees face a problem in trying to communicate with the three groups,” Hesse said. “The proposal for a University Council is a funnel for administrators so they can talk to groups at once.
“That's fine, but what students are saying to the administration is ‘Give us a voice in what you're doing.’ This proposal does not do that.”
Hurst said that what the document does is examine the structural problems of the university. not the distribution of power.
The proposal was drafted by a committee headed by Paul Hadley, dean of University College and the Summer Session. Hadley's group will review the recommendations of the ASSC. University Senate and the Council of Deans in about two weeks.
In other business, Bill James, former student body president at UC Santa Barbara and representative of the Association of Student Governments, explained the organizations program to the council.
The council deferred any decision on membership, however.
Lacy and John McGuinness. the new AMS President, were also introduced to the council.
Doheny Library problems persist despite aid
By WILLIE WOODS Assistant Focus Editor
For several years there have been many complaints from students, faculty and other concerned persons about important improvements needed for USC’s library. The question most frequently heard from users of the library is ‘What is being done to dispose of the problem of our inadequate library?"
Mrs. Hazel Rea. Doheny librarian, reports that there has been much concern
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from responsible administrators regarding ways and means of bettering the school library. President Hubbard has shown genuine interest in the library and is doing all he can to keep improving it. she said.
Last year s ASSC complained about the inadequacy of the library and made successful attempts to provide more funding for the library s improvements. Because of the many demands the ASSC made last year, the library has gotten a
$300,000 increase for its annual operations budget. Mrs. Rea said.
Support from other sources also illustrate the recognition of necessary library improvements. Mrs. Rea said that friends of the library have donated up to $5,000. There have also been contributions of $15,000 from the Trojan League of Orange County and $11,000 from the Trojan League of Los Angeles County.
Although these contributions provide promises of adding to the library. Mark Savit, last year's vice-president of Academic Affairs and member of the committee for improving the library, said that he has been very disappointed in the allocations for library improvements from the trustees. Savit explained that the library was placed as the number one priority at this summer's Academic Plan for the 1970 s in Palm Springs.
James McBath. professor of speech, said that the Board of Trustees approved this plan and that this means two things — that the board agrees that the library should be the number one priority and that everything will be done to see that necessary improvements are made. He said that the plan pointed out development was particularly needed in the social science and
the humanities sections of the library.
Savit said that the $300,000 allocation fee from the trustees is far from providing enough funding for the library. He said while working with these plans last summer “President Hubbard assured me that I would see the plans for the allocations from the Trustees. I never did see the plans." Savit said that if he had been allowed to see the plans he would have informed the president of how inadequate they were.
Last year Savit made a motion that the council recognize that the library book budget has, for too long, remained inadequate, both to the needs of the general student body and to maintaining standards of excellence in education. He said the university had shown its recognition of this fact in raising the new book budget for the 1969-70 academic year.
In response, the Executive Council of the ASSC requested that the university administration take steps to correct the inadequacy in the library collection in the following manner.
-	- That the university hire three bibliographers, each with a masters degree in library science and at least one other advanced degree, to be paid $30,000 per year.
-	- That those bibliographers be assigned to work in the areas of English, history and social sciences, and that each one be allotted $100,000 per year to buy books.
-	- That this committment continue until such time as each bibliographer reports on his particular area and it is the consensus of the head-bibliographer and his staff that his job is completed
Savit feels that Hubbard's refusal to let him see the plans for allocations from the trustees is an example of the numerous processes the administrators will go through to see that a student who knows too much about the conditions of the university is vividly suppressed.
“Expert opinions reveal that our library could never be an adequate research library." Savit said. "There is. however, a good chance that we could have a good undergraduate library if we act soon."
He added that the Western Colleges Association Accreditation report on libraries points out that USC's library is 400.000 books short of having, what he termed, a liminal adequate library. Health. Education and Welfare (HEW) found the library to be 600.000 volumes
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