Assembly to be governance key—Hubbard
By PETER WONG News Editor
An assembly of more than 100 members will be the key to a revised university decision-making system that should be in operation by February 1973. President John Hubbard said Monday.
While discussing the long-awaited governance plan. Hubbard said. “The concept of an assembly deserves merit as an attempt to bring together all constituencies in one forum so that matters of common concern can be discussed.
“I hope we can reach a consensus on the governance plan so that by spring semester, 1973. we can start the assembly, at least on a trial basis.”
The president expects that questions will be raised, however, particularly about the size of the assembly—60 students; 60 faculty members; 11 from the academic and service staffs; 7 from alumni, support groups, and the neighborhood; plus, as ex-officio members. the president, vice-presidents, and members of the Council of Deans.
“The immediate reaction of those who have read the document is that the assembly is overly large. But size doesn’t par-
ticularly worry me,” Hubbard said.
“As long as it can transact business, the assembly need not be judged solely by its size.”
The assembly will have the same powers as the once-proposed 15-member university council—to supervise the university committee system; to recommend policy to the president and the trustees, to decide matters presented by the president, vice-presidents, constituencies, or committees; to protect the rights of members of the university community; to speak for the university.
Policy recommendations of the assembly may be vetoed by the president within
30	days after he gets them, but he must state his reasons.
The plan for a revised governance system. which was developed by a committee under Henry Reining, dean of the Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs, has actually been more than three years in the making.
After the University Senate and the Council of Deans had separately completed governance plans in 1969, President Norman Topping appointed a committee to develop a unified governance
plan. The committee was headed by Paul Hadley, dean of University College and Summer Session.
Hadley's committee issued its first draft in October, 1970, proposing a 15-member university council, with equal representation of students, faculty and deans, as the key decision-making mechanism. After extended debate by students, and suggestions from the faculty and deans, the report of Hadley’s committee was sent to President Hubbard.
In a memo dated July, 1971, Hubbard warned of possible divisiveness in the university council approach, and in October, he appointed a committee to develop alternative governance models, although much of the work of Hadley’s committee was incorporated into the second plan.
Reining’s committee met 11 times between Oct. 28 and Jan. 31, when the final details were worked out in an all-day session at the Gamble House, Pasadena. The committee submitted its report Feb. 23, and after reading it, Hubbard sent the document to Carl Franklin, vice-president for financial and legal affairs,
for examination by the university’s lawyers.
Reining explained parts of the plan at a University Senate meetinp April 19. but said at that time the university’s lawyers were still studying the plan.
The lawyers had some questions on the document, Hubbard said, but none apparently was of major consequence. “In the meantime, I don’t see why we can’t proceed with the consideration of the plan,” the president said.
Copies of the report have been sent to the president’s staff (administration), the executive committees of the Board of Trustees and the University Senate, and the members of the Council of Deans. Hubbard said copies will be given to the two ASSC vice-presidents, Joel Rosen-weig (programs) and Lee Blackman (academic affairs).
Both vice-presidents’ terms ended May 1, but because of the ASSC election situation. Daniel Nowak, acting vice-president for student affairs, asked both Rosenweig and Blackman to stay on temporarily as ASSC spokesmen. The ASSC vice-
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University of Southern California	Closing of old
DAILY ©TROJAN halls lamented
VOL. LXIV NO. 125 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1972
RESERVED student seats
Football ticket plan set
By WILLIAM BLACKTON
Students will be able to reserve seats in advance for football games next year, said Brian Heimerl, assistant director of the Student Activities Office.
Heimerl announced Tuesday the decisions of an ad hoc committee on ticket policy composed of 25 students and the student affairs staff. Robert Mannes, dean for student life, was chairman of the committee.
The committee was formed because students complained that seats were saved unfairly last year, usually by fraternities.
“Students would line up outside for three hours, and when they got in, they would find that all the seats were saved,” Heimerl said.
“A group of 10 pledges would save seats for 40 fraternity members, and sometimes they used physical intimidation. There was a lot of antagonism between the fraternity members and the other students.”
The new policy was also designed to prevent formation of huge lines outside the Coliseum before games which sometimes resulted in bodily injury, said Heimerl.
Under the new ticket plan, the
10.000	student seats in the Coliseum will be divided into three sections (see diagram).
The sections between aisles 21 and 23. (“General Admission—no saving seats”), comprising about 4,000 seats between the 50-yard and goal lines, will remain general admission on a first-come, first-served basis. In this section, no seat-saving will be allowed.
“The rationale for making the best seats general admission is that those who are willing to wait should get the best seats,” Heimerl said.
The section between aisles 23 and 24, which has about 2,000 seats, will be reserved on a trial basis for the 1972 football season. Seats in this section will be distributed from row 54 (the top row) down in consecutive manner so that the entire section is filled.
1972 Student Seating Plan
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NEW SEATING PLAN—The 10,OCX) student seats in the Coliseum for football games will be divided into three sections. The areas between aisles 21 and 23, and aisles 24 and 26, are general admission. The reserved-seat section is between aisles 23 and 24.
By MIKE RUNZLER
Three men’s dorms—House of Stonier, Touton Hall and Town and Gown—will close their doors to residents for the last time June
6.
Many of the present residents of those dorms are sad to see their homes closing, and some said they would live there next year, given the opportunity.
Joe Collins, a freshman in business, would like to see his hall, Town and Gown, stay open.
“It’s a shame,” he said. “This is considered the best dorm on campus.”
Because there are only 98 residents in the dorm, he said Town and Gown was more personalized and everyone knows each other, unlike the Men’s Complex, where students find it hard to meet those who live on the floor beneath or above them.
Ken Wozniak, a junior in mechanical engineering, has lived in Town and Gown for three years.
“I don’t like it,” he said when asked about that dorm closing.
He likes the dorm because of its location and because its rooms are larger than those in the Men’s Complex.
Betty Eby, head resident of Town and Gown for the last six years, hates to see it go, but she feels that converting it for use by the Registrar’s Office will be a benefit for the students.
Chris Bitterlin, a freshman, summed up the advantages of Town and Gown: “It has big rooms, the best facilities, and it has sinks in the rooms. I wish it was still open, because I’d come back if it were.”
Russell Limprecht, a junior in business, has lived in the House of Stonier for five of his six semesters here.
At one point he moved from Stonier to an apartment, but found that he liked living on campus.
He, too, would return to Stonier if it were to be used as a dorm next year, but instead, he will live in a suite in the new dorms.
Jon Shapiro is now in his second year as head resident of Stonier. He is a graduate student doing doctoral studies in counseling.
“Most guys are pretty sad about it (Stonier) closing. It’s a unique experience here. There is a close feeling of community in the dorm,” Shapiro said.
Because it is an outlying dorm and not a part of the Men’s Complex, Stonier and its residents share common problems, he said.
Two years ago Stonier residents unofficially renamed their dorm
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The rest ofthe student section, aisles 24 to 26, (about 4,000 seats) will also be general admission, where saving seats will be allowed.
Reserved seat ticket books will be sold only by the Ticket Office, Student Union 200, at the start of fall registration, Sept. 13, on a first-come, first-served basis. Reserved seats will be the same for all games, except the USC-UCLA game.
General admission student ticket books will be sold as usual in the registration area.
All reserved-seat ticket holders will enter through the student gates and a student ID card will be required for admission.
The new ticket policy will be reviewed after the football season next year, Heimerl said.
The ad hoc committee was formed at an open meeting, which was held in the Student Activities Center. The committee met twice before arriving at a consensus.
Last performance made in dorm by Buster and the Penetrators
By JOHN UMBREIT
It was billed as the farewell performance of Buster and the Penetrators, the group who came seemingly out of nowhere and walked off with the 1971 Songfest Sweepstakes trophy.
The place was Birnkrant Dining Room, where Buster and his group would recreate the music of the 1950s one last time.
The reason for the group’s break-up is that two of the members, including Buster himself, (Terry Tabor), will be a part of USC’s International Relations program in London next year.
Despite the fact that there had been very little publicity, there were several hundred people packed into Birnkrant at 6 p.m. Monday.
There were some new songs, such as Chris Sampson’s version of“Blue Velvet,” which received
good response, but it was the old favorites—“Chantilly Lace,” “Little Darlin’,” and “Teenager In Love”—that really made the crowd come alive.
The show lasted only a short hour and then suddenly, it was all over. Buster and the Penetrators, like the era they represented, had passed away ...
It all started on a dark and dreary Friday night last year after a basketball game. A bunch of guyS were sitting around the lobby of Stonier Hall when someone started singing “Silhouettes.”
By 1 a.m. there were five guys standing out in front of Tommy Trojan, stopping people as they went by and making them listen to their version of the song. This was the fateful first performance of the soon-to-be Buster and the Penetrators.
Before long they progressed to singing outside the women’s dorms on Friday and Saturday nights, hoping to get invited inside so they wouldn’t have to stand out in the cold.
Then came the bright idea. No independent group had ever won Songfest. The all -out effort began.
Ron Silver, a member of the group since its humble beginnings, said, “We didn’t want to beat the frats so much as win it for the dorms. Independents were kept out of Songfest so long that we really had the feeling we were representing someone.”
Although the group had 15 different members at one time or another, the heart of the group remained intact. The original members who performed on Monday night were Terry Tabor, (Continued on page 6)