By Vicky Hendley and Elizabeth Helm
USC, as well as universities all across the country, are being faced with a definite decline in the enrollment of "regular" 18- to 22-year-old students, so colleges are now putting more emphasis on the adult student according to Sherry May, director of the university's summer session.
An example of this new emphasis, May says, is the Summer Session Development Fund, which will help create more adult-oriented classes.
New services, as well as new classes, are being offered to the ever-more-valu-able adult student. The Adult Advisement and Services Center, created only a year ago, offers a variety of administrative, counseling, and advisement services.
The center helps people with registration and financial aid, and it also goes
as far as buying parking permits and doing other things that an adult student could not ordinarily do if he doesn't get to campus until after 5 p.m. The center also works as a referral service.
Alan Yamahama, assistant director of the center, explained: "We would be deluding ourselves if we thought that 4 to 5 years down the line we would maintain the same amount of 'regular' students."
He also stated the universities now have to "seek a different market," — the adult student.
And seek the university does, through recruiting. Yamahata made reference to what he termed a "gold mine" of more than $10 million in educational aid offered by businesses and industries to their employees.
The university has researched the employment tuition benefits of many companies and has then sent career counse-
lors to these companies to recruit for all parts of the university.
But even with the recruiting it seems the "gold mine" is untapped because only a few adult students, 231 in the spring semester acording to Yamahta, took advantage of the employee educa-
tional aid, by using it to attend USC.
Many of the adult students, said Yamahata, received poor grades while in college, so they quit and went to work for 5 to 10 years. But then they decided to go back to college.
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Volume LXXXIX, Number 6 University of Southern California
Tuesday, July 1, 1980
Parking attendants OK union
One vote decides representation vote
SUMMER SESSION OFFERS MORE SERVICES
A new emphasis on older adult students
New York prof named to head School of Music
By a one-vote margin, parking attendants at the university have voted tor union representation.
In a vote sanctioned by the National Labor Relations Board and held June 6, exactly half of those attendants voting were in favor of being represented by California Teamsters Public, Professional and Medical Employees Union Local 911 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. Twenty’ voted in favor of union representation, while 19 rejected the idea. One bal’ot was challenged on the basis of the voter's eligibility.
Lee Kincaid, a parking attendant involved in the unionization effort, said the vote
probably will have no imme-	University Security and Parking
diate effect at the university	Operations department at both
due to continuedlegal actions	the University Park and Health
over the action.	Sciences campus. The vote in-
Eventually, the vote will ef-	eluded workers at both canrt-
fect up to 45 employees of the	puses.
Students may pay added interest on bank loans
By Matthew Kane
Staff Writer
Students may have to pay more for Guaranteed Student Loans if the House of Representatives decides to go along with the Senate.
The Senate has p>assed an amendment to an aid-to-education bill which would require students obtaining Guaranteed Student Loans after September 1981 to pay back the government for the interest it pays on the loans while the student is in school. The House version of the bill does not contain that amendment Which bill goes to the White House to be signed into law will be decided by a Senate-
By Linda Ford
Staff Writer
Dr. William Thomson, chairman of the music department at the State University of New York, Buffalo, has been named to succeed the late Howard R. Rarig as director of USC's School of Music. He will assume his duties early this month.
Thomson has had a long and accomplished career as an administrator, educator, composer and music theorist. Since 1975 he has been the chairman of the music department at SUNY, Buffalo, where he also held the position as Ziegele Professor of Music He also directed the university's Center for the Creative and Performing Arts and the University Opera Theater.
Besides his academic involvements Thomson has served in many areas of the musical field. He is actively involved with the National Endowment of the Arts and he currently serves as an evaluator and consultant to the New York State Arts Council. He is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Research in Music Education. In addition, he has contributed various articles to scholastic journals, as well as having published several books on music theory. His published compositions include works for choral and orchestra groups.
A native of Texas, Thomson was educated at North Texas State University and at Indiana University where he received a doctorate in music theory in 1962.
He has taught at Sul Ross State University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Arizona. He has been the resident scholar of music at the University of Hawaii and a master teacher at Yale University's Master of Arts in Teaching program. While at the University of Arizona and Case Western Reserve he was named the Outstanding Educator of the Year.
A CENTENNIAL SALUTE — County supervisors Yvonne Brathwaite Burke and Kenneth Hahn present President John R. Hubbard with a resolution of commendation on the university’s 100 years as an institution of higher learningat a recent meeting of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors.
Photo by I
A VIEW FROM THE GARDEN — The bell tower of Bovard rises high above the fountain and gardens of Exposition Park.