volume Ixv, number 129
thursday, may 17, 1973
Daily #§ Trojan
university of southern California los angeles, California
five members ofthe council’s executive committee should be chosen.
Zohrab A. Kaprielian, vice-president for academic administration	and
research, explained that members of the new Faculty Senate met Monday on the matter and were concerned that they could not properly select members for the executive committee without more time.
Sources among the faculty differed somewhat with Kap-rielian’s version, claiming that Kaprielian told those present Monday that there was no need to rush the
selection of executive committee members because the University Council meeting had already been cancelled.
The sources also claimed that the vice-president had usurped faculty prerogatives in the selection process by circulating a ballot to faculty delegates to the University Council, which solicited nominations for membership on the executive committee.
A second meeting is being held Friday to determine what procedures will be used and to possibly select committee members.
Historian to speak tonight
Ariel Durant, historian and author, will speak tonight at 7:30 in the north auditorium of Heritage Hall. The speech is sponsored by the Great Issues Forum and the Phi Alpha Theta history fraternity.
Durant and her husband, William James Dur-ant, have coauthored many books including The Story of Civilization.
Appleton says government
ended by student election
By Loren Ledin
associate editor
James Appleton, vice-president of student affairs, examined the status of student government Wednesday and said, “There is no doubt in my mind that student government has been abolished by the students.
“Their rejection of the ASSC for the Programming Board last semester and the vote the Voluntary Student Association received, convinces me that students have decided to disband government.”
Appleton was seeking to explain the condition of student government as it stands in the last few weeks of the semester.
His comments on student rejection of government came as he was analyzing the results of the recent student government referendum, which was won very easily by the Voluntary Student Association.
Appleton indicated that while recent trends show students are disinterested in government, work was being continued that would eventually put the future of student government before the students again.
A committee has been formed that will draft a student constitution this summer. The constitution for a student government will be put to a student vote, hopefully next fall.
It is possible that the Voluntary Student Association, which won a clear victory in the recent referendum could be rejected by students next fall.
“I don’t believe that the recent vote is a strong mandate but it is a student opinion which should be respected,” Appleton said. “But the vote was not the end product.
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Council meeting postponed due to delay of faculty appointments
Dorms to sponsor
games and dance on Wild West Day
A stagecoach pulled by Shetland ponies, a miniature tra-in, a calliope and a soda wagon will transform Alumni Park today into the wild west.
Wild West Day will start this morning at 11 and continue through 4 p.m. A dance will be held tonight at 8 on the roof of the parking structure near the women's complex. The music, drinks and contests will all be free.
Sponsored by the men’s and women’s residence halls and financed by the Interim Programming Board, the day was originally planned as a picnic, but as ideas kept coming in, it was expanded to include games, contests and entertainment.
The dorms are sponsoring Wild West Day not to earn money, said Mike Dotson, president of Men’s Residence West, but to make friends.
The contests include a frisbee throw, a pie-eating contest, a water-bucket balance contest, tug-of-wars between the sexes and a water balloon contest, similar to an egg-throwing contest.
Entertainment will be provided by the Rough Riders, a medicine show troupe featuring a Conestoga wagon and two girls riding horses.
The miniature stagecoach will be a shuttle from Founders Hall to Alumni Park.
The soda wagon will have free drinks of sarsaparilla, orange, strawberry and coke.
SCULPTURE AFTERMATH—When Gary Lloyd, de-	that the	project, which	was part of the Semester	of
signer, constructed his 7,500 pound sculpture of con-	the Arts	program, has	been removed, the holes	are
crete discs and foot thick legs on the lawn near Founders	being refilled. DT photo by Michael Sedano.
Hall, he dug several large holes in the grass. Now
LAS report considers ways to prepare ciass of 1984 for future
By Jerry Trowbridge
In 1984, students might graduate from new programs suggested by the Division of Humanities to alter higher education.
The programs have been suggested in a report circulated by the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences entitled Target 1980.
Many administrators think the prospects for breaking with traditional humanitarian education and creating a new curriculum are exciting. Others describe the prospects as chilling.
Target 1980 proposes as an additional university motto the phrase “Urbis et Orbis,” which is translated as “to the city and to the world.” (An incorrect translation, as the Latin phrase actually means “Of the city and of the world.”
David Malone, dean of humanities and a contributor to the report, said, “Students who graduate in 1984 will reach their peak at the year 2005. We must provide an education that will enable the student to adapt to the rapid changes that will be taking place then.” Faculty and staff members who fear their objections could jeopardize the standing of their department or themselves have been afraid to voice their viewpoints outside of private discussions. Many administrators, deans and other contributors are cognizant of this, and fear the movement toward the futuristic goals will be hindered by a lack of comprehensive debate.
In the introduction, Target 1980 calls itself only a “point within a process.” “We have to
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POETRY READING—Charlotte Lee, authority on the oral interpretation of literature,, poetess and author, gave a poetry reading Wednesday in the Student Activities Center. She read from the works of many noted authors, including e.e. cummings and Robert Frost, interspersed with her own humorous comments.
Chances that the fledgling University Council will hold a second meeting, scheduled for a week from today, before the end of the semester are becoming very slim.
This is apparently because of differences between the faculty and the administration over how the faculty’s