volume Ixv, number 120
friday, may 4, 1973
Daily fi© Trojan
university of southern California los angeles, California
LATIN RHYTHM—Johnny Martinez and his band added to the weeklong activities of MECHA's Cinco de Mayo celebration. A number of students gathered
to hear the brass and bongo concert presented at noon Thursday on the patio of the Student Activities Center. DT photo by Bob Chavez.
USC affirmative action report called deficient by government
By Alan Freisleben
associate editor
The university’s office of Equal Employment Opportunity has hit a snag in winning federal government approval for its affirmative action plans.
In a letter sent to President John Hubbard in April, Floyd L. Pierce, Regional Civil Rights Director for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) labeled the university’s plan submitted last summer “deficient” in at least three areas.
Institutions holding government contracts are required to annually submit goals and timetables as well as detailed breakdowns of their employment structure to the government to show compliance with nondiscrimination and equal opportunity clauses in civil rights laws.
Pierce said the flaws in the most recent
report consisted of its not compiling data, in an organized manner, from which the possible under-utilization of minorities and women can be determined, and also its lack of any projections for employee turnover for the year.
The university was also chided for not including “goals and timetables whereby steps are planned to overcome the under utilization of minorities and women.”
Pierce requested that the university provide him with an update on last summer's plan by the middle of June as well as to include all the corrections requested by him in its next full affirmative action plan for the year 1973-74.
Barbara Shell, director of Equal Employment Opportunity for the university and in charge of preparing the yearly proposals, at
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University future in community to be examined by task force
By Al Flores
associate editor
What kind of university will USC be in 10 years? Or 20 years? What will its goals be? What role will it play in the community?
To find answers to such questions is the mission of a three-month task force examining USC’s future as an urban university.
Chaired by Kim Nelson, dean ofthe School of Public Administration, and set up by President Hubbard and Zohrab Kaprielian, vice-president for academic planning and research, the task force is currently in the midst of study.
The main goal, according to the Annual Report of the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning, is to recommend programs that would make USC “an outstanding urban university, one after which others will model themselves.”
“Right now we’re reviewing a variety of written material and listening to people who have ideas about the future of this campus,”
said Nelson, of the 15-member faculty committee. "It's strictly a broad review' to decide how the university should mobilize its resources and what some of the more unique aspects of the university are that should be accentuated.”
Nelson said that the task force will not be a highly operational committee, just one to develop a statement of goals, but he added that if the administration takes a liking to them, the goals will be incorporated into the academic master plan forthe future.
There are three basic assignments for the committee to work on:
•	To recommend, in definitive terms, descriptions of models which would be feasible for USC.
•	To devise mechanisms for achieving each alternative model, including a timetable, an estimation of funding requirements, and institutional barriers which should be anticipated.
•	To recommend, for the guidance of the university's
decision-makers, the criteria by which plans and proposals in the following areas might be judged in relation to the models: faculty and administrative appointments, student recruitment, curriculum development, faculty planning, budgetary planning, organizational structure, and relations with various other urban constituencies (such as governmental agencies and other universities).
The committee will also examine the role of USC as a cultural center, specifically the relationship of the university to its environment.
“The ghetto doesn't have to be a horrible place,” said Grant Beglarian. dean ofthe school of performing arts and a member of the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning. “WTe want to make the community an asset to the university, not a liability.”
Beglarian said that the committee should work on
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Voluntary plan wins plurality
in student vote
CHRISTIAN GUITARISTS—Alan and Jerry, two members of the Campus Crusade for Christ staff at the California State University, Northridge, preceded speaker David Hocking as part of the program sponsored by Awakening '73—USC. The two folk singers performed at noon Thursday in front of Tommy Trojan. DT photo by Bob Chavez.
By Don La Plante
assistant city editor
The Voluntary Student Association received a substantial numberofvotes, easily defeating its competition in the student government referendum held Tuesday and Wednesday.
The association received 463 out of 1039 first place votes and 2679 total points, nearly double that of the runner-up, the SC Coalition (Berkeley Plan).
As the name of the plan implies, the student government w ould be voluntary and only those wishing to join the association would do so.
Stu Mollrich, a member of the committee who worked for the voluntary plan, said that he was pleased by the victory and believed the plan won because the group had talked to more people and gave students a real chance to decide what type of government they wanted.
Preceding the election, the issue w'as raised concerning the status of the student programming fee.
James Appleton, vice president for student affairs, said that the programming fee was a university-imposed fee and any change in the mandatory status would have to be made by the Board of Tur-stees.
Mollrich saw no reason w hy the Board of Trustees would not go along with the decision of the students.
“At other universities, trustees and regents have gone along wdth decisions for voluntary governments and I see no reason why the trustees here would not go along with the decision ofthe students,” Mollrich said.
The Election Commission has called a meeting of all interested students for Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Student Activities Center. The assembly will review the results of the referendum and make plans for drafting a constitution that will be submitted to the student body for ratification in the fall.
Mollrich said he plans to be at the meeting Saturday “to make damn sure that the intent of the proposal is not tampered with by the assembly.”
“There is a mandate with the election to keep anyone from tampering with the form. The assembly will have to keep the structure since the students voted for it,” said Mollrich.
The structure approved provides for a voluntary $4.50 programming fee, the same amount as the present fee; a 15 member steering committee, elected at large by the membership; and a set of six standing committees to handle programs with any member eligible to serve on a committee of his choice.
Randy Zomar, assistant
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