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Volume LXXXVIII, Number 66 University of Southern California	Thursday. May 15, 1980
Improved area relations sought
Commission asks formation of town council
Senate finds difficulties getting drivers into gear
By Craig Gima
Staff Writer
The university and the community have been considered strange bedfellows. But it looks like thev have decided to share the covers and neither is trying to pull the wool over the other's eyes.
A proposal to create a university-community forum, the University Park Town Council, will be sent to President John Hubbard unless objections are raised by absent members of the Universitv-Neighborhood Relations Commission.
The commission met Wednesday and unanimously voted to send a draft of the proposal to Hubbard for consideration.
Interaction between the university and the community is minimal. Vet the two groups exist side bv side. The town council would serve both the
Student turns down honor society offer
By Tim Lynch
Staff Writer
Members of Skull and Dagger, a men's honor society on campus since 1913, pride themselves on tradition and exclusivity. Only a tiny percentage of eligible seniors are nominated to the alumni group and they are carefully screened for admission.
It was the tradition and exclusivity, however, that moved Jeff Gates, chairman of the Student Senate, to withdraw' his name from consideration after receiving an invitation to join the society.
"I would never join any organization if I couldn't figure out how it selected its members," Gates said. "I didn't join (Skull and Dagger) primarily because its selection procedures were never clear to me and (because) they have a policy against admitting women."
Skull and Daggef initiated'20 members this year, including five from student government, but Gates said one person on the Student Senate was inexplicably excluded. "His efforts and accomplishments matched ours, yet he was not admitted."
Tom Tompkins, assistant to the director of athletics and a member of Skull and Dagger, said the group seeks nominations from university officials at all levels, and each nominee is carefully screened.
"Often, those doing the nominating are members themselves. They know what to look for," Tompkins said.
Skull and Dagger has never admitted women to the organization, mainly because the organization's bylaws stipulate male-only membership, Tompkins said	(Continued on page 2)
university and the community in areas of joint concern, Biller said.
Few objections to the proposal were raised during the meeting but Robert Biller, the commission chairman, said that if objections were raised by absent members of the commission the draft would not be sent and the question would be raised again at the next meeting of the commission in mid-June.
Commission members pointed out during the discussion that similar efforts to form a town council were being discussed independently in community groups.
"A council could increasingly act as the advocate for the many security, amenities, recreational and land use plans, as well as other municipal responsibilities," the draft says.
Commission members are concerned with the funding for the council. They discussed seeking aid from Councilman Robert Farrell or from the university.
Biller said he doubted the university would support the council with money and if the university did the council should reject the money to avoid undue university influence.
However, support from the university could come in the form of providing office and meeting space for the council, Biller said.
According to the draft, the council would meet monthly and take the form of an independent, legally chartered, nonprofit organization composed of the participating organizations and institutions, but not owned bv any of them.
In other business, Edgar Goff, senior project coordinator for the City Economic Development Office, spoke on the Vermont-Slauson project.
Before talking about Vermont, Goff gave examples of other university-community councils for the commission to get ideas from.
"Most of these schools are in the East. This would be the first such council in Los Angeles," Goff said.
The commission has been examining other university-community councils as examples to help determine the final form of the proposed council. They will be meeting with a member of a council in the area of the University of Pittsburgh.
The committee raised the idea of a council three months ago, and revised the plan for the third time at a meeting April 21.
Biller has said that implementation of the proposal for the council could happen overnight if all the interest groups involved like it, however it will most likely move slowly and the council might not form until next fall.
TOWING FOR DOLLARS — One unhappy traffic violator will return to find his car gone and a parking fine, plus lowing expenses, awaiting him instead. Cars parked illegally on campus are often towed away at the owners expense.
By Margaret Bernstein
Stall Writer
Student senators who do their homework can ablv represent the needs of students from the dormitory, the Row and student community constituencies — all of which are conveniently located close to the school — but how does one reach some 16,000 commuter students?
"You can't very well go to their houses," said Irma Castro, a student senator from the commuter constituency.
Rick Wacula, chairman of the Student Senate, has given his blessing to efforts toward construction of a new commuter student organization that will act as a representative of commuter views.
Coir>muter senators plan to resurrect a commuter union, an extension of 3 similar-student organization presentlv suffering from lack of members, which will act as a communication link rather than a governmental institution, Wacula said.
Susan Brown, director of commuter affairs, will work with commuter senators during the summer to lav the groundwork for the commuter organization that will provide representation for the university's largest constituency.
The present commuter group, which is recognized in the student handbook as a social organization, has no provision for a link-up between students and student government, Brown said.
"It (the present commuter student organization) has been a place where students have come to get questions answered," Brown said,
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Faculty Senate forwards report on professor’s firing
By David Romero
Staff Writer
A report with recommendations concerning the dismissal process against Kenyon De Greene, assistant professor in Safety and Systems Management, was approved by the Faculty Senate's executive board on Wednesday and forwarded to the administration for response.
The report addresses complaints of lack of due process accorded De Greene before he was suspended from teaching duties and given a set date for dismissal — June 30.
John LeBlanc, president of the senate, would not comment on the substance of the recommendations. However, if the administration accepts the recommendations, senate pressure will likely be taken off to censure the university administration, LeBlanc said.
A motion to censure President John Hubbard and Paul Hadley, vice president of academic affairs, for not correcting the lack of due process was tabled at the senate's last meeting in April.
LeBlanc hopes for a response to the report from the administration no later than Tuesday so it can be discussed at the senate's last meeting of the vear next Wednesday. The report calls for a response bv Monday.	(Continued on page 6)
BRASS IN POCKET — An earnest cadet undergoes a careful review at the hands of a drill sergeant during the rigorous inspection competition between the university and UCLA held Thursday at Cromwell Field.