13 professors honored by Dart Awards
Eight Dart Awards for academic innovation were shared by 13 professors and a graduate student at the 12th annual dinner of the USC Associates at the Century Plaza last night.
Three faculty members received $2,000 each for their ideas; four awards were divided by pairs of professors, and a final award was given to a group of three teachers.
The Dart Awards were established in 1969 by Justin Dart when he was chairmen of the Board of Trustees, of which he is still a member. The Darts conceived the awards to stimulate the development of innovation in teaching.
Each professor wras also given a “Janie.” an 18-inch golden statuette reproducing artistically significant carved figure dating to the 3rd millen-ium B.C. and the Aegean Cyclades Islands, an area considered to be the cradle of Western civilization. The statuette was named for Dart's wife.
The recipients:
Marilyn Cremer, assistant professor of fine arts, for development of a model community art studies center.
James Hanshumaker, professor and chairman of music education, for re-
vitalizing and restructuring the music history and literature course. “Introduction to Concert Music.”
Grace Marshall, associate professor of medicine, for an innovative tutoring program for minority students in the School of Medicine.
Jay Abarbanel. assistant professor; Sally Moore, professor, and Barbara Myerhoff, associate professor, all of the Department of Anthropology, for team teaching of an undergraduate seminar.
Gary Bellow, professor, and Earl Johnson, Jr.. associate professor, both of the Law Center, for developing the Clinical Semester, believed to be the first fulltime internship in law offered by an American law school.
Peter Clothier, assistant professor of comparative literature, and James Bel-son. graduate student, for establishing the Semester of the Arts.
Jane Cody, assistant professor, and Raymond Prier, assistant professor, both of the Department of Classics, for establishing a curriculum leading to the bachelor of arts degree in classical civilization.
Edwin Perkins, assistant professor of biological sciences, and Richard Mullins, former visiting professor of biology, for development of the Biology Semester for nonbiology majors.
Prof. Cremer envisions a model Community Art Studies Center that will benefit the community, the university and its students.
Knowing the importance of art expression in developing attitudes of participation and self-confidence, she prepared plans for a permanent, continuous art experience involving youth of poverty communities and art-poor areas in creative projects.
Her program would be directed by a USC faculty member with assistance from five or six graduate students. These professionals would seek not only to teach classes, but to prepare community adults eventually to teach classes themselves. The university influence would gradually decrease, allowing these leaders to continue the program on their own. Problems and questions could always be referred back to the original university instructors.
Prof. Hanshumaker's course. “Introduction to Concert Music,” basically
for nonmusic majors, has been restructured to offer one two-hour illustrated lecture a week and a two-hour weekly listening-discussion session related to the major lecture. Hanshumaker also includes performances by artist-musi-cians. takes his class to rehearsals of symphony orchestras and provides tickets to major concerts in Los Angeles. He uses films, records, and other instructional media in the class.
The course is now designed to offer information which will benefit the student throughout his lifetime in listening to music. Emphasis is placed on developing the ability to listen and not on memorization of facts or other information which could be readily obtained from books when needed or desired. Music of the 20th century receives particular emphasis.
In testing the results of his method of teaching music education, Hanshumaker learned that students responded to the technique and rated the course highly. Enrollment increased from 75 students the first semester it was offered to more than 120 the second semester.
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University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 45
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1971
Trio to ploy
A noon concert featuring the Mitchell Lurie Trio will be given today on the steps of Bovard Auditorium.
The group will present classical music and will play from noon to 1 p.m.
The concert is sponsored by the Inter-Arts Couocil.
Strike will delay new dorm construction
By LAURINDA KEYS
Staff Writer
The Teamsters Union strike may cause a long enough delay in the construction of new dorms so that Town and Gown and Stonier men's dorms will have to be used again next fall. But “it's too early to be pessimistic.” Anthony Lazzaro, associate vice-president for business affairs, said.
The Teamsters Union delivers most materials for large construction jobs, so the strike has
almost shut down construction work on campus because of lack of materials.
Lazzaro said he has until June 15 to decide whether or not the old dorms will be used. An apartment-type dorm, being built by Collins and McPherson, Inc., was scheduled to be finished Aug. 26. But Whit Collins, head of the company, said, “Every day that goes by is hurting the chances of completion by that date.
“This is a very serious delay.
Editor applications due
Applications for the position of editor of the Daily Trojan for the spring semester are due today. They can be turned into the School of Journalism office. Student Union 404.
Any senior or graduate full-time student may apply for the post.
The appointment will be made by President Hubbard after the nominations have been made by the Journalism Council, a group composed of five current Daily Trojan staff members, four members of the faculty of the School of Journalism, the director of student publications and the two ASSC vice-presidents.
If the strike hadn't happened, all our plans said we would have made the completion in time for the fall semester. ”
Work on the new men's dorm, scheduled to be completed by Vanlar Construction Co. on Sept. 28. is expected to continue for a short while because there are enough materials at the site now.
The Teamsters' strike covers all of Southern California but it affects only certain construction jobs. Negotiations are now-being conducted between the union and representatives of the building industry.
The dispute is concerned with the union's attempt to force independent businessmen who operate their own trucks to join the union.
The union wrants them to be put on the contracting company's payroll when they subcontract for a job. This will allow the union to draw more revenue from the payroll and also
to have more complete jurisdiction.
Private truck owners are resisting this attempt to force them into the union and the building companies are resisting the attempt to force them to deal only with union truck drivers.
USC was not affected by the strike until last Wednesday at noon when pickets arrived at the construction sites. Work was stopped early that day at one site. Collins said his operation was first affected today. Everything was in readiness to pour concrete for an upper-level floor of the apartment-type dorm but no concrete arrived. He said work can continue on the bottom floor with the few materials left but it is almost at a standstill until the next floor is completed so workers will have something to stand on.
Jim Myers of Myers Brothers Construction, which is build-
ing the Gerontology Center and the new tennis stadium, said he will be able to continue working for another week before materials run out. These projects are already two to three
weeks behind schedule because in excavating, the crews ran into soil that was not compacted enough to build on. They had to scoop it out and put in new soil.
Myers said, "The strike hasn’t hurt us yet but it’s going
to.” He did not expect a settlement until January. Collins was also pessimistic.
Lazzaro, however, said that he is still optimistic. “A contractor can always make up a
week or two.” he said, “by putting on a second shift or working on a 24-hour schedule.
They often go all out in the last two months to finish the work.”
PICTURE PERFECT- -Elaine Pappas examines pictures by Daily Trojan staff photographers Will Hertzberg, Johnny Lindahl and Tomy Korody that are on display in the Student Activities Cen-
ter through Dec. 10. Fifty-six black-and-white and color prints are featured. DT photo by Tony Korody.
DT staffers'photographs featured in SAC display
A photography exhibition of 56 prints by the Daily Trojan photographers is now on display in the Student Activities Center.
Featured photographers include Will Hertzberg, SoCal photographer; Tony Korody, photo editor; and Johnny Lindahl, staff photographer.
Korody, who has been taking pictures for several years, worked last year as a commercial photographer. His assignments have taken him all over the country. Korody’s photographs are handled by three professional photo agencies, including Black Star in New York.
Hertzberg, a junior transfer from San Fernando Valley State College, traveled to Europe last summer to visit his grandparents in Switzerland and came back with many fine color photographs of the Swiss landscape. Hertzberg has photographed for many local newspapers.
Lindahl, a junior transfer from the University of North Carolina, has taken most of his pictures in his home town of Chapel Hill, N.C. Before he transferred to USC, Lindahl worked for one year as a staff photographer on the University of North Carolina student newspaper.
In addition to the featured photographers, Cathy Meyer, Daily Trojan editor, contributed one picture which has never before been shown publicly.
The exhibit, which was planned and arranged by Lindahl, will be on display each weekday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Dec. 10.