Drop, add lines form
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LXI, NO. 67
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4, 1970
Telecom will move to Performing Arts School
Photo by Steve Bolinger
Drop and add will continue today through Saturday in the Physical Education Building. Hours are from 8:30 to 7:30 through Friday; and from 8:30 to noon Saturday.
Program changes will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. Any changes must be made by Satuday to pre* vent penalty.
An overhead projector will be used in the gym to maintain a current list of closed classes, said Mark Frazin, assistant registrar.
ASSC Council supports
The Department of Telecommunications will be transferred from the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences to the School of Performing Arts next fall, ending a period of dispute within the department regarding a move.
The decision was reached at a meeting between Edward Borgers, head of the Telecom Department and Robert Linnel, LAS dean; Charles Mayo, Grad School dean; and Theodore Kruglak, director of the School of Journalism.
“Dean Beglarian assured the department that the social science and liberal arts aspects of telecommunication, in which we feel so deep a stake, will not suffer a diminution in the School of Performing Arts, and that the integrity of the department will be preserved,” Borgers said.
Borgers will remain as department head for the time being, but because of a forthcoming expansion in the department, he will be replaced, Beglarian said yesterday. He added that applications for the post will be considered once the School of Performing Arts’ budget is approved.
Borgers had issued his resignation from the post Dec. 8 following a disagreement with Don Smith and Michael Sommers, professors, over the affiliation of the Telecom Department.
Smith and Sommer wanted to merge with
CONFRONTATION '70
the School of Journalism while Borgers preferred a triple affiliation with the School of Performing Arts, the School of Journalism, and the School of Education. He withdrew his resignation following the meeting.
“Our state of affairs was substantially remedied by the meeting,” Borgers said. “Dr. Linnell and Dr. Beglarian asked me to resume my duties as did the department.
“I have substantial hopes of making forward steps. I will continue as long as it appears I will be useful in the position. When they find someone better for the job, I will cheerfully resign,” Borgers said.
Borgers stated the merger will allow the department to get the equipment, curriculum, and the faculty that are necessary “to do a professional quality job.”
But the most important feature of the move, Borgers added, was the assurance that students involved would be consulted about the direction of the department.
Students have organized into three groups, undergraduates, grads, and alumni, to synthesize their plans for the department. Borgers said that once the groups come up with written plans they will be discussed with the faculty and administration.
Western Center's goals A r-i r- r	, i
By ANDY MILLER	ASDCH Him (-0016^06 TO 06010
By ANDY MILLER Editor
The ASSC Executive Council expressed its desire Thursday for the university to maintain a close association with the Western Center on Law and Poverty.
A three-part resolution introduced by Stan Diorio, graduate representative and second year law student, read:
“Be it resolved that the ASSC supports the goals of the Western Center and the maintenance of its present relationship with the University of Southern California.
“The Administration of USC gives its total support to the Western Center and resists all pressures to change its present relationship with the center.
“USC continues to maintain its present association with the Western Center as long as the center so desires.”
Diorio said that the resolution was purposely neutral, so that the council would not be indicating support for the center’s class action law suit against the Los Angeles Police Department for “systematic harrassment” of blacks in the city.
The resolution grows out of a controversy where Stanley Levy, a former acting director of the center, charged that Edward Davis, chief of the LAPD, had tried to intimidate the university into dropping the lawsuit. Levy indicated in a Jan.
14	press conference in Washington, D.C. that Davis threatened to curtail police protection of the university. Levy later retracted some of his remarks.
Diorio held during the council meeting that the center provides invaluable practical experience for the law students, and hoped that political repercussions would not effect the relationship between the center and USC.
He added that the center was probably the most effective device for communication between the university and the surrounding community.
By GINGER LANDAU
Confrontation ’70 is the theme of the Aspen Film Conference to be held on the USC campus for the first time tomorrow through Sunday. Students and faculty may attend.
Guest participants, including film critics and actors, will confront young talents as the conference emphasizes the relationship of old to new, examining the rapid changes in techniques and content of current films. *
Registration for the conference will begin tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium. At 8:15 p.m. a film, “Loving,” will be shown followed by an introduction by Irvin Kershner, director.
Three panel discussions will take place on Friday in Hoffman Hall on the subject of film content. A panel consisting of established industry figures such as Richard Brooks, director, writer and producer, will lead the first discussion at 10 a.m.
Young talents including Paul Mazursky of “Bob and Carol, Ted and Alice” and Seymore Cassek of “Faces” will compose the second panel continuing the discussion at 1:30 p.m.
The third panel discussion will be at 3:30 p.m. made up of outstanding students from various film schools.
“M*A*S*H*,” a film by Robert Altman, will be shown that evening at 8:15.
The discussion for Saturday is entitled “Production, Exhibition, and Distribution” and will take place at 11:30 a.m. in Hancock Auditorium. Following a lunch break, the discussion will continue at 2 p.m.
Federico Fellini’s film, “Sat-yricon,” will be shown at 8:15 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
Social aspects will be discussed Sunday at 1 p.m. The conference will conclude with student films to be shown in Bovard Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
The cost of attending the
conference is $5 for students, $15 for faculty and $25 for all others.
This will be the fourth meeting of the Aspen Film Conference, hailed as the most constructive conference devoted to film in this country.
NEW HOURS FOR DOHENY
Doheny Library has announced new hours now in effect. Hours in all branch libraries will remain the same.
The new hours for Doheny are as follows: Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to midnight; Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (College Library will remain open until 10 p.m.); Saturday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m. to 12 midnight.
Cosb/s chauffeur is a willing audience
By RICH WISEMAN Assistant city editor
Bill Cosby gets his drive in more ways than one from his chauffeur, Charles Harris.
Harris spoke about the employer he knows so well as he sat in Cosby’s Mercedes Bcr.z limousine, waiting for Cosby to return from a telecommunication course he taught yesterday at USC.
Harris explained that besides taking the famous comedian from place to place he also is a willing audience to Cosby’s humor and conversation.
‘‘Every once in a while he’ll come out with one of his jokes.” Harris smiled. “I’ll laugh and he’ll say, ‘Maybe I’ll use that.’
“Other times I get a cue from him when he wants to talk. He’ll ask some-
thing like, ‘What do you think about that, Charles?’
For a picture story of Prof. Bill Cosby’s expressionless classroom performance, turn to page 3. Cosby will be teaching Broadcast Persuasion 440, in the Department of Telecommunication this fall. His Mercedes Benz limousine is not a faculty benefit.
“But mainly I’m a listener!”
Harris, who is on call 24 hours a day to cart Cosby and his family around from the performer’s Beverly Hills home, had only nice things to say about Cosby, and not because he’s employed by him, he stressed.
“Mr. Cosby is an everyday man,” he said. “He likes people, all kinds of people. When he says something it’s always constructive.
“He has that warm kind of speech. He doesn’t let anything worry 'him. I think that kind of man won’t ever get gray.”
Harris said that in addition to the limousine Cosby also has two other Mercedeses and a Buick. He added that on occasion Cosby likes to do his own driving.
Harris has been driving the highways for Cosby for two years now. He laughed when he was asked how he managed to securc the job.
“Let’s just say you have to know somebody to know somebody,” he chuckled.
CHARLES HARRIS
Photo by Steve Bolinger