Student-trustee liaison passed by ASSC
By PETER WONG Staff Writer
A plan for students on the Board of Trustees was approved Thursday night by the ASSC Executive Council.
The council also passed a bylaw to establish a solicitor and three advocates. who would help students in judicial business.
Under the student-trustee plan, which was sponsored by Jim Lacy, sophomore representative, the council will select a student to be liaison to the board.
The student liaison, if accepted by the trustees, will be able to sit at board meetings, express student opinions, and report to the council on the board's ac-
tions. However, the student will not have a vote.
Immediately after the plan was passed. 11-4, ASSC President Kent Clemence named a committee to determine several ways by which the student liaison may be chosen.
“I don't care how the liaison is picked, but I want to see a lot of student input for the plan." Lacy said after the meeting.	»
“I want to protect student rights, but I think this plan is in the best inerest of students. I don't want to be belligerent about the issue.
"Despite the desire of some students to demand board representation, you're not going to push these people (trustees)
around. You've got to be polite about it— that's the way we re going to get anything done. After all. this is a private university."
Mark Spitzer. who sat as substitute in the absence of Ben deMayo, proposed two amendments to Lacy's plan, which both failed.
The first would have provided that the liaison be elected directly from the student body.
“The council was remiss in the fact that any representation of students, especially to such a policy-making board as the trustees, should be elected by the students." he said afterwards.
The second amendment would have strengthened the wording of Lacy's re-
solution. essentially saying that the student body had a right to representation on the board, and therefore, the council should not ask for it.
Lacy also sponsored the ASSC bylaw establishing the solicitor, who will represent the council in judicial matters, and the advocates, who will help students with Student Court business.
Applications for the three positions of advocate will be available in Student Union 309 today and Monday. Appli-. cants will be interviewed, and then the panel of Clemence. ASSC Chief Justice Steve Knowles and a council member will appoint the advocates.
University of Southern California
VOL. LXIV NO. 42
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1971
Senior crowned 'Helen'
Diane Chatman, a senior majoring in speech pathology, was crowned Helen of Troy 1971 last night in Bovard Auditorium. The four princesses for this year are Danielle Dietrich. Linda Funk, Hilary Hilton and Deborah Terrell.
Helen of Troy is judged on the basis of appearance, intelligence, personality and poise. During the entire program Ms. Chatman was the picture of calnmess. After she was crowned she explained her secret for keeping cool. "I just couldn't get nervous. The dress I'm wearing has to go back to the store tomorrow. My mother said she'd kill me if I perspired on it."
As ‘ Helen", Ms. Chatman will serve as a liaison between students and alumni. She serves as a model of women at USC. "Well, if I'm going to be a sex object at least I'm tall and thin." she said with a charming
smile. “Now if we can just win the game Saturday everything will be perfect."
Prior to the pageant members of the USC Women's Concious-ness Group passed out leaflets protesting the contest because of its sexually exploitive nature.
A bonfire rally and the USC vs. UCLA football game highlight Troy Week events scheduled for today and tomorrow.
The rally, scheduled to start at 5 tonight at the corner of University Ave. and Childs Way, will feature speeches by Coach John McKay and Assist* ant Coach Marv Goux. Co-cap-tains Jimmy Jones and John Vella will also speak.
The Trojan Marching Band, along with the Yell Squad and Song Girls, will provide music and yells at the rally. Senior members of the football team will light the bonfire.
Also scheduled for todav is
the USC vs. UCLA frosh football game. The game will begin at 2 p.m. in the Coliseum and admission will be free with a student activity book.
The USC vs. UCLA football game will begin tomorrow at 12:50 p.m. instead of 1:30 p.m. The Coliseum gates will open at 11:00 a.m.
The card section of the rooter section (Tunnels 21-23. rows 10-56) will not allow seat saving. Seats in the remainder of the rooter section (Tunnels 23-25) may be saved. Students who wish to sit in the card section must wear white shirts, blouses or sweaters.
Judging of the fraternity and sorority floats will be tonight on the row. Awards will be announced at tomorrow’s game.
The Associated Men and Women Students will hold their first annual bagel sale tomorrow morning before the game.
Ratings rule—newscaster
By ANGELACURCURU
Campus Editor
Because news programs are fighting for time on television like other programs, they have to be sold to the advertisers and their producers have to worry about ratings, said Tom Snyder, anchorman for KNBC Newservice.
Snyder, who spoke yesterday in the Student Activities Center, was sponsored by the campus chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, a national journalistic society. He spoke informally with a large gathering on the problems of the television news media and his involvement with it.
“Maybe news ought not to be sold on television," he said. “This way each station wouldn't have to worry about making its news more sensational than the other stations'.
“Many times, the editorial judgement depends upon putting something on that people will watch. This gives better ratings and more money for another camera crew that's needed to cover something we've been ignoring for a while."
Snyder said that another problem facing the newsman today is the misunderstanding of the media by the public.
“It used to be that reporters were considered to be fairly nice ladies and gentlemen," he said. “But something strange has happened—suddenly we've become responsible for all wars, riots and famines.
“They say that we re the transmitters of all this violence, and that we spread the riots throughout the campuses. If we re able to spread all this violence, we should also be able to fill the churches on Sundays. God gets more free time on television than anything else, and so violence isn't the only thing we should be able to sell."
Snyder said that television news has not invented the riots or disasters—they ve been around for some time. It's just that because news is able to cover these events instantly, people are be-
coming aware of them and reacting instantly.
Another reason that people misinterpret the news is that many simply don't listen, Snyder
said.
“I'm really sick and tired of people calling me and telling me what a bunch of kooks we are, or asking me why I wear some silly tie or where Ross Porter (a sportscaster) buys his suits," he said. “All this does is tell me that the people are more concerned with what I wear than what I say.”
Many times a reporter will give his job too much importance. Snyder said. “They have the tendency to treat news as the sacred grail.” he said. "It's not the millennium arriving when we get on the air and say good evening,’ and we re not bringing information down from the burning bush."
Snyder defended the media's manipulation of news events by saying that although the cameramen use special angles to make color and other technical improvements, they do not change the context. Snyder, as anchorman for the 6 p.m. news program, works mostly with news gathered by other reporters.
“It's sort of a process of give-and-take until a quarter of six." Snyder said. “When 6 o'clock comes around. I sort of become the president and decide what goes in and what comes out. Of course, by seven I might have lost my job."
Snyder said that investigative reporting is at a minimum in television news, but added that it is very difficult to do this type of reporting.
“It's harder than hell to find out what executive decisions are really being made. It's difficult to strip through the peripheral lackeys and get to anybody in government."
Snyder commented on the TV news media's trend towards “happv journalism." or ending the news show with some sort of humorous note. “I've done it. and it seems to be successful." he said. “Besides, I've given Ross Porter a new job. He used to be a lackluster sports reporter, and now he's a hit commedian.
Author to speak today
Leslie Fiedler, author, lecturer and professor of literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo, will speak today at noon in Bovard Auditorium on “The Cultural Revolution.”
His speech is sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
Fiedler has written many works of fiction and nonfiction. His latest book is “Getting Busted.”
An associate editor of Ramparts magazine, Fiedler has been a contributor to Saturday Review, Commentary, New Republic, Playboy and Poetry.
Methods to ease deficit outlined
By NANCY MYERS SMITH Contributing Editor
Athough the university is face-to-face with a $1.2 million deficit for the current year, the budget must be balanced, according to President John Hubbard and Carl Franklin, vice-president for financial and legal affairs.
"We've simply got to do it," said Franklin, referring to balancing the budget. “We've done it before.
Dr. Hubbard, who announced the possibility of the deficit in his convocation last week, said the university has simply overshot its mark in estimating income for this year.
He noted that the drop in enrollment for this year, which was released by the registrar's office Tuesday, was the major cause of the decrease in anticipated income.
Dr. Hubbard outlined three approaches to balancing the budget:
—increasing internal economies by limiting expenditures;
—increasing fund raising efforts:
—increase the student recruitment effort in hopes of raising enrollment for the second semester. This includes plans to ask professors to help in recruitment.
Franklin said he expects to arrive at an equitable amount for each department to trim from its budget for the remainder of the year. Each department will then decide where the cuts can be made.
Dr. Hubbard noted that ail university jobs that have not been filled yet this year have been frozen.
Savings can be made in several areas, said Franklin, noting that salaries are just one category. Wages, money paid to part-time employees, can also be cut. But he noted that the university is reluctant to encourage it because many parttime posts are held by students.
Travel budgets, equipment and materials and supplies are other areas where departments can economize, said Franklin.
The recruitment effort has been increased by Conrad Wedberg. dean of admissions, who has moved his usual spring junior college tour up to the fall. He is also making plans to include professors in recruiting.
Wedberg said one professor had suggested a good-will exchange between USC and junior colleges that would involve a lecture exchange. A history professor at USC might exchange lectures with a junior college teacher.
Dr. Hubbard suggested the professors might make speaking tours to junior colleges.
Increasing the enrollment appears to be a crucial part of attempting to balance this year's budget. In planning for this year's budget, the university anticipated about a 2,200-unit increase in fall registration. Instead, there was a 4.617-unit drop from last year.
Last year, 19,725 students registered for 205.946 units. This year 19.129 students, a decrease of 596. registered for only 201.329 units.
This lead to about a 6,600-unit difference between the anticipated income and the actual income. This accounts for about $926,000 in revenue. It is also 75 percent of the total $1.2 million difference between the projected and actual budget.
An increase in enrollment would also have to combat a three to five percent drop-off that is typical in the spring semester. Franklin explained that there are normally fewer units taken in the spring than the fall.
DT editorship opened
Applications for the job of editor of the Daily Trojan for the spring semester will be available in the School of Journalism office, Student Union 404, starting Tuesday.
Any senior or graduate student who is a full-time student may apply for the post.
The deadline for applications is Nov. 30.
Applicants will appear before the Journalism Council, a group of Daily Trojan staff members and journalism faculty, which will nominate the editor. The appointment will be made by President Hubbard.