Cantelon named to post of vice provost
By ANDY MILLER Editor
Dr. John E. Cantelon, director of the School of Religion, has been appointed to the newly-created position of vice provost.
Cantelon’s appointment was announced yesterday, although the position was created in Wednesday’s Board of Trustees meeting and Cantelon accepted the position that afternoon.
As vice provost, Cantelon will have university-wide academic responsibilities, concentrating primarily on the programs of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School.
Cantelon was appointed by the man who will be his new boss, Dr. John Hubbard, vice president and provost. Hubbard said yesterday that Cantelon’s appointment was “a clear indication of the seriousness of our statements that we are going to concentrate on the academics.”
The creation of the vice provost position is a direct outgrowth of concerns
Hubbard voiced in September in an address before the Faculty Breakfast.
“You may have already gathered that I am devoted to the liberal arts and the humanizing role they ought to play in the development of an individual’s philosophy ... It naturally follows then that I believe we can never be a really distinguished university without a really distinguished LAS college and graduate school to go along with the fine professional schools with which we are blessed,” Hubbard said.
In the position, Cantelon will be concerned with the development of the honors programs, academic advisement, and the coordination and enlargement of USC’s international programs. He will also chair the Curriculum Committee, trying to implement long-standing recommendations for more effective long-range curriculum planning.
“Dr. Cantelon has been held in the highest esteem by both faculty and stu-
dents,” Hubbard said Thursday. “This is due to John’s long service on this campus and his willingness to take on this very difficult assignment.”
Cantelon said he will step down from his present position as director of the School of Religion as soon as is conveniently possible. He added that he doesn’t want to become isolated from students and hopes to continue teaching.
Cantelon received his B.A. from Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, and earned the doctor of pholosophy degree from Oxford University in 1951. From 1953-57 Cantelon served on the staff of the Christian Association of the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1957 he was appointed associate secretary in the Division of Higher Education of the Presbyterian Church. He served in that position until 1960, when he was appointed chaplain and professor of religion at USC. In 1967 he became ’ the director of the School of Religion.
DR JOHN CANTELON
University of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXI, NO. 69
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, FEB. 6,1970
USC described as pioneer in ethnic studies program
MARINE CORPS OFFICERS LISTEN PATIENTLY
Campus recruiters hold court on variety of subjects.
Marine recuiters confronted— students explain war views
By RODGER KEE
Two Marine officers and a non-commissioned officer who set up a recruitment display table near the Student Union Thursday found themselves moderating a forum for student opinions.
The Marines, Capt. D. H. Hering, Lieut. John Walker and Staff Sgt. Frederick Jura were from the Officer Candidate Procurement Office at 1031 So. Broadway. They have been making a tour of college and university campuses in Southern California as part of their regular recruiting program.
Larry Kelusza, campus leader
BSU INVITIES SOCIALIST
Herman Fagg, S o c i a 1 i st Workers Party candidate for governor, will speak on “Socialist Strategy for Black Liberation” today at noon in the Student Activities Center Patio.
Fagg's talk will be sponsored by the Black Student Union (BSU). He participated in the San Francisco civil rights movement and the free speech movement in 1964 at the University of California, Berkeley. Also at Berkeley, he founded the Afro-American Student Union.
Prior to his graduation from Eastern Michigan University he helped found the Young Socialist Alliance on that campus.*
of Student for Democratic So-city, was foremost among those who let the three servicemen know how they stood on a variety of subjects including Vietnam, the military establishment and U. S. intervention in world affairs.
“We expect these sort of confrontations to take place,” explained Jura. “We come on campus with an attitude of indifference we’ve picked up from past experience. After a few times, you just don’t get involved any more.”
Jura said Hering was a veteran of several years of campus recruiting. Jura himself has been traveling with a recruiting team since October, 1969.
Walker, a fighter-bomber copilot with combat experience in Vietnam (each of the men wore ribbons denoting extensive combat time) stood quietly for a time, but soon was motivated to speak with the volatile Kelusza.
Jura said, “Lieut. Walker is pretty new at this. I can remember how I wanted to argue with these people a few months ago, but after a while you realize it’s just the same thing over and over and that it just isn’t worth the trouble.”
When asked if he thought the students were seeking the approval and agreement of a representative of the establishment, Jura said he did.
“They want you to see their side badly, or they wouldn’t
take the time to argue,” Jura said.
Jura said he could see some differences between the USC campus reaction to the recruiters and the reactions of students on other campuses.
“The kids seem to have more time tc spend with us here,” he said. “The scheduling of classes must be different here, because some of these people have been at the table quite awhile. Students on junior college and state college campuses are usually able to stop just for a few minutes because they have to get to a class.”
SECURITY AID
By RICH WISEMAN
Assistant city editor
An undergraduate major in ethnic studies is being offered for the spring semester at USC, one of the pioneers of the field nationwide, despite the fact that most students aren’t aware of it.
“Students are very curious,” Boniface Obichere, codirector of the Ethnic Studies Program, said in an interview yesterday. “They want to know what we’re doing in Ethnic Studies. I tell them, ‘Come in and see’.”
If students follow the suggestions, they will discover that there are 28 core courses, offered by a number of participating LAS departments towards obtaining a bachelor of arts with emphasis on either the Afro-American, Mexican-Ameri-can, or the Asian-American. In addition, the Ethnic Studies Program has arranged seven related courses and plans to add more with the cooperation of other departments.
“The program is one of the first of its kind,” Obichere said. “This is what’s so beautiful about it. And no BSU has taken over Dr. Topping’s office to achieve it. This shows a lot of foresight on USC’s part.”
Evidence of the quality of
USC’s program is the notice it is receiving from all around the country.
“We’ve received over 200 inquiries from colleges and universities who are interested in studying the structure of the major,” Obichere said. “At times I begin to wonder what’s happening.”
One of the most-prized courses in the program, Obichere said, is Afro-American Studies 305: “The Black Experience” a class he teaches.
“There is no other course in the world on the black experience being taught except at the Sorbonne in Paris,” Obichere said. The interdisciplinary course covers the total blaqk community, the development of black people in Africa, the United States, South America, and the Carribean, and the many facets of their lives.
Obichere added that interested students may sit in on the class, which is taught Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in VKC 202 at 1 p.m.
Obichere said he was pleased with the enrollment for the fall
semester, which exceeded 700, and the students’ enthusiasm.
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Student files to be microfilmed
By BONNIE ROWE
Microflim and computer cards have been initiated into the Registrar’s Office for filing student records.
William Hall, registrar, explained the switch from the 8 by 13 and 4 by 6 inch cards to the new system was due to security, retrieval and space considerations.
Prior to October, if fire had engulfed the Registrar’s Office, the entire university could have come to a halt, Hall said. Today the original microfilm is stored in an off-campus location especially designed for safety, ensuring a permanent record system.
Hall said he thought of the present system three years ago. Following investigation of various systems employed at other schools, technical advice from Francis Spreitzer, head of photoduplication in Doheny Library, and consultation with
firms involved with photocoyping, it was put into effect.
All records are now individually processed on microfilm. The film is then attached to a computer card on which identifying information has been keypunched. The cards are housed in a single unitized alphabetical file.
When a transcript request is received, the card is easily found and can then be enlarged and duplicated on paper, Hall said.
He stressed the efficiency of the handling of the records and the fewer number of employees needed for th job.
Hall began microfilming records in June, 1968 for security purposes. Last May, the trustees appropriated sufficient funds to complete the photocopying of all students not presently registered. Students presently registered are still filed on 8 by 13 inch cards in fire-proof containers.