volume Ixv, number 90
Wednesday, march 14, 1973
Daily «© Trojan
university of southern California los angeles, California
Great Issues Forum coordinator wants better program organization
By Steve Linn
“If they’re worried about getting box-office attractions, maybe the term Great Issues Forum should be abolished, because the issues certainly aren’t involved then,” said Robert Costello, coordinator of the Great Issues Forum speaker program at USC.
Costello is disturbed over the charges made in Tuesday’s Daily Trojan by Cliff Ishii, a Programming Board member, that the forum committee was autonomous and unresponsive and that faculty members pushed through their private preferences for speakers.
Referring to Ishii, Costello said, “I don’t even know who he is, but I agree there
should be some reform or reorganization of the speakers program.”
Costello said he objected to the inference that the Great Issues Forum was a closed corporation. “We’re always looking for people with suggestions for possible speakers.
“If anyone ever wants to talk with me, they can. Ishii has never contacted me.” Ishii is apparently disturbed about the small turnout and high costs of recent forum presentations.
“If you want to get speakers that will draw a crowd, you have to spend a lot of money,” said Costello.
“Cost is always uppermost in our minds. Someone brings up a name and we vote
on whether to check it out.
“We have meetings often, with students and faculty usually attending in equal numbers —but I’ve never seen some of the students on the committee, even though they are always sent notices.
“No one ever pushes for his preference.
“I’m for getting together with students and administration to formulate policy on the speaker’s program.” Costello suggested that a small committee is most effective. The present one has 10 faculty members and 10 students.
The makeup of the committee and the aims and goals ofthe program seem to be the prime considerations at this point.
Annual Festival of Arts will feature underwater concert, films, fire-eaters
There is only one word that adequately describes this year’s Festival ofthe Arts—different.
How7 else could you analyze a spectacle that features Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, the Mystic Knights ofthe Oingo Boingo and Max Neuhaus’ water whistle?
Yes, these performers and others are scheduled for the fifth annual festival, which attempts to bring to campus extraordinary personalities from the world of art. The festi-
Student government to be discussed Saturday
The direction of any future student government will be among the major topics of discussion in an all-day meeting Saturday in the Town and Gown Foyer.
Coffee will be served at 9 a.m., and the conference will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Attention will also be focused on the relationship between the University Council, an advisory body being formed by President Hubbard, and the proposed student government.
Since it is necessary to arrange lunches for those attending, interested students may contact the Student Activities Office. Student Union 303 by 4 p.m. today.
Additional information can be obtained by calling the Student Activities Office at 746-2791.
val is entitled “The Last Week of March” this year and will, appropriately, take place during that week (March 26-31).
“We hope many people will enjoy it,” said Richard Taylor, chairman of the Festival of the Arts Committee. “We’ve designed the festival so that a lot of interesting experiences will be convenient for everyone on campus.” He said many of this year’s performers are artists who have played important roles in the development of contemporary art.
“Each is an important, avant-garde artist in his own field,” explained Taylor. “A common thread running through their work is their interests in designing and creating art that provides a structure for people to look at their own confusion, and maybe even laugh at it. They want to take art out of the museums and make it a part of daily life.”
Captain Beefheart is a rising rock music personality who has established himself as an underground legend through his atonal, alienating music. His style has been described by his Reprise Records publicist as using “words, music, and art to bring his humanistic madness to an all too serious world.” Other band members include Orejon. Zoot Horn Rollo, Rockette Morton, and Ed Marimba.
Captain Beefheart will be joined in concert by the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, a group that originated in a Paris circus. A newsletter sent out by the festival committee described the group as follows:
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Committee members unite in Organization of Student Caucuses
By Bob Evans
staff writer
For the first time, students on university committees are organizing to give themselves more muscle in the university committee system.
They’re forming the Organization of Student Caucuses, which will have an organizational meeting today at noon in Student Activities Center 201.
“The organization isn’t fully established yet,” said Cliff Ishii, the Programming Board’s director of academic-educational programs and the one who drafted plans for tne organization.
“We’re in the process of forming a student caucus for each committee, and soon we hope to begin coordinating the activities of the caucuses through the central organization.”
If the organization is successful, it could enable students to play a stronger role in the university. The committee system is considered one of the most potent inputs in university affairs available to students.
The 24 university committees, composed of faculty, staff and students in varying proportions, formulate and serve as consultant bodies on university policy. More than 100 students are now serving on one or more committees.
Through the committee system, students can have an effect on policy. For example, the student membership of the Curriculum Committee was largely responsible for the change of the foreign language requirement to a pass-fail option in 1971.
Since the suspension of the ASSC, the role of students in
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University housing rates may be increased next semester, but a formal announcement has not yet been made.
Administration sources indicate a presidential group has discussed the matter and left the decision to Anthony Lazzaro, vice-president for business affairs.
The increase would be necessitated by increasing costs. A report prepared by Lazzaro’s office projects that under current rates, residence halls would lose money next year.
One source placed the cost of the increase at “substantially less than $100.” But Guy Hubbard, administrative assistant, said “That report is unsubstantiated.” He declined to comment further.
Hubbard said an announcement would be made in the next
few days.
Students first learned of the proposed increases in a memo distributed to residence hall occupants that said, “A study of residence hall rates is in process at this time ... as soon as the rates are determined, application contracts, price lists, and brochures will be sent to present residents.”
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