Volume LXXXIX, Number 63
Report urges energy reform
Class times may change
Staff photo by Jennifer Boiler
DROPLETS—A waterfountain, located in the courtyard in Mudd Hall, sprouts droplets of water in the midst of the afternoon.
Seven students protest registration at post office
By Jodi Baskerville
Six university students dad in army fatigues and wearing helmets slowly marched up University Avenue Thursday carrying a coffin and a sign that read "Register For The Draft."
The silent protesters, all members of USC Students Against the Draft, made their 'vay to the Dock Wiler Post office on Vermont Avenue, where they ceremoniously burned draft registration cards.
"One of the most important messages of today's protest was to • make students on campus more aware of draft registration," said Bili Brown, a senior in political science.
''We are protesting the registration of anyone for the draft because we feel it will lead to a draft," said Randy Ziskin. president of USC Students Against the Draft.
Everv member of the organization had personal reasons behind their objection to draft registration.
"I'm opposed to it because I'm opposed to war," Ziskin said. "I don't think it's nght to draft people unless it's a state ot emergency."
Paul Krekonan, a senior in political science, is the only conscientious objector in the group, which means he opposes war for moral reasons.
"I came to the conclusion that it would be easy for me to get my own conscientious objector status (if 1 registered), but then what I'm doing is saving mvself at the expense of all mv brethren," Krekonan said
Krekorian was supposed to register the first week of last Julv. He refused. He believes the proper strategy is to oppose openly the system that could lead to a draft, starting possibly with the next war.
"I'm 20 and I was supposed to register in the summer and I didn't," said Robert Ratto, a junior in business administration and president of Students for a Libertarian Society.
Ratto also advocates public opposition to draft registration as the most appropriate strategy' of ending the whole system.
He is willing to take whatever penalties his actions mav incur.
During the draft for the Vietnam War, one out of every 1,000
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By Chiara Switzer
A report studying the use of rooms on campus recommends that classes be rescheduled to cut down on the university's energv costs and to enable more classes to meet during popular hours.
The rescheduling, which would let the university use its building space more efficiently, would have classes begin on the hour, instead of on the half hour as they often do now.
The report, which was prepared at the request of President James H. Zumberg' is slated to go in front of the executive committee of the President's Advisory Council Jan. 13. After reviewing it and possibly making recommendations, PAC will foward the report to Zumberge.
Anthony Lazzaro, vice president of Business Affairs, submitted the report.
James Massey, director of Facilities Planning, said recommended changes are for the overall benefit of students and faculty and is intended to iron out scheduling problems.
The report proposes classes be scheduled from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. instead of the present 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., enabling an extra hour of classes to be scheduled.
Other major changes include the scheduling of three- and four-hour block classes one day a week to end before 10 a.m. or to begin after 3 p.m. This would make it easier for students to schedule their other classes and would free the rooms for classes during peak times.
Schools and departments would be responsible for filling time blocks throughout the week, on
Mondav, Wednesday and Friday, or Tuesday and Thursday. They would not be permitted to schedule classes on a portion of those davs without filling the others with classes from their own department or arranging to have it filled with a class from another department.
Schools have priority for classrooms in the buildings which house their offices. At present certain schools, especially the Law and Business Schools, have exclusive right to 81 classrooms. The report recommends that while these schools will retain their priority over the classrooms, the rooms be available for other courses when not in use bv the school with priority.
All the changes would result in greater efficiency, meaning an extra 20? classes could be scheduled daily, based on the number of classrooms that would be empty. More classes would also be scheduled on Friday, but the Business School's schedule without Friday classes would probably remain unchanged.
Evening classes would be rescheduled so that they fill Mondav through Thursday evenings, leaving Friday evenings free. The university could be virtually shut down Fridav to save on energy costs. Now most evening classes are all held on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Most of the day classes will be scheduled between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., when the majority of students and faculty prefer to have classes. Favorite class times now are 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. The new schedule would try to create a greater number of popular class times.
TAKES TOO LONG
Credit check system criticized
By Terri Murphy
A common student complaint is that credit evaluations take too long, even several months if a problem develops. University administrators explained that an understaffed department and the intricacies of credit evaluation combine to make the evaluation a tedious process for both student and evaluator.
An evaluation is "a very complicated process," explained Martha Salem, associate director of admissions and evaluations for enrollment services. "Only experienced staff can handle it. It takes new staffers several months of training to learn the process."
However, in an effort to alleviate some time-consuming
checking, the university has begun making agreements with other universities in which certain courses will be automatically accepted as transferrable.
For example, if a community college has a course called history of Russia and the university had a similar course, it would automatically be considered transferrable, Salem explained.
But even with those agreements, the waiting problem still remains due to lack of staffing.
"Staffing is inadequate," Salem said. "I only have only one part-time staffer whose sole responsibility is to work on credit evaluations. I have three full-time counselors, six fulltime evaluators, who do other types of evaluations as well as ones for credit."
"Credit evaluation is one service that should be beefed up,” said Norman Fertig, dean of LAS Advisement and Honors. "It's a critical service to the students which needs more funds and more trained people."
It can take anywhere from 15 minutes to four hours to do a credit evaluation, but could take several weeks to compile the information, such as transcripts, Salem explained. The process involves researching the courses listed on the student's transcript to see if they meet the university's requirements.
Students who get credit evaluations fall into three categories, said Salem.
aluation bv his enrollment date, Salem said. The evaluation can be picked up in the evaluation office or, if the evaluation is finished a couple of weeks before enrollment, it will be mailed to the student.
The second type is the currently enrolled student who is either taking summer courses at another college or is dual registered.
"That^ student must fill out a form for credit evaluation," Salem said. "If he doesn't, there is no way for us to know that the evaluation needs to be done.” In this case, an evaluation takes about six weeks.
"Many times the evaluation is held up because the other university is slow in sending an official transcript."
The final category- is the student petitioning to have the university accept courses it had originally rejected. After the petition is acted upon,the evaluation takes one to two weeks.
"Some students mav get frustrated with the evaluation procedure," Salem said, "but it does take a long time and some of the problems mav be created by the student who does not complete all of the steps."
Salem said her office is always open to students bv appointment or on a drop-in basis. And she savs she is available to help students with special problems.
"We do solve problems — honest," she said.
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Staff photo by Kenneth Lewis
DEATH TO THE DRAFT — Robert Ratto holds a burnt draft registration card in front of the post office.
The first is the entering student from another college or university. If the student paid the $50 certification of registration fee, it guarantees the student should have an official ev-
"We have improved the evaluation process, but it still is not the type of quality service we would like to offer," Salem said.
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