ZUMBERGE OUTLINES PLANS
Board of Trustees discusses school budget, calendar
By Carole Long
News Editor
The university budget for 1979-80 closed in the black with more than $42 million in gifts, a 15 percent increase over last year. It was the first time in the university's historv that gifts exceeded S40 million.
President James H. Zumberge reported Wednesday on the university's finances and other issues discussed at the first fall meeting of the Board of Trustees.
Zumberge said the university obtained a one-vear SlO-million
loan under the California Educational Facilities Act to complete construction, purchase equipment and finance other projects.
Jack Horton, chairman of the board for the Southern California Edison Company, told the board the university needs better computer systems to handle accounting, record-keeping and student enrollment.
Zumberge said a new accounting system will be in place soon, after the new vice-president for finance is appointed.
"The accounting system here is antiquated," Zumberge said. " 'SC's computer systems are lagging behind other institutions in their level of sophistication. We know it and we will correct it, but it will take time and money."
Other areas of concern Zumberge presented to the board were the handling of the athletic problem and the new academic calendar.
Zumberge said he will issue a report next w'eek compiling the findings of three ad hoc committees appointed last year
5 schools seek positions vacant
The search is on — or rather the searches are on — for new deans and directors of five university schools and institutes.
Since last semester academic administrators in the schools of journalism, communications, architecture, fine arts, and safetv and systems management have resigned, and the schools are being headed by interim administrators.
Search committees for the schools are in various stages of formation and progress. Of the five, the committee looking for a School of Journalism director reports it is closest to completing its w’ork and submitting a recommendation to President James H. Zumberge.
Starting with a list of approximately 50 applicants, the committee reduced the list to 15, and then to four.
"We plan to make a recommendation by mid-November," said Wesley Robb, chairman of the journalism search committee.
The committee is considering applicants from both inside and outside the university, Robb said, but declined to name any of those under consideration.
Meeting since May, the committee includes professors from communications disciplines as well as undergraduate and graduate students.
The search for a dean for the Annenberg School of Communications has not progressed as far, but the committee has not been looking as long as the School of Journalism.
"It's fair to say the committee has done a great deal of preliminary work in the process
to fill executive since last spring
of identifying a series of people who have excellent credentials," said Dr. Charles Oxnard, dean of the graduate school and chair of the communications search committee.
Committee members had "a verv good meeting" Wednesday, Oxnard said, and the search process is moving very quickly.
Oxnard would not predict how long the search will take, however.
"It's no good guessing that, we just don't know what's dow'n the road," he said.
The School of Architecture has had a search committee looking for a new dean for that school for sometime, but has made less progress toward finding a replacement than either journalism or the Annenberg school.
In fact, Paul Hadlev, vice-president of Academic Affairs, suggested last w’eek that a new search committee may have to be formed because the current committee is having difficulties.
Emmit Wampole, the chairman of the architecture committee, is on leave for the semester and could not be reached for comment.
Fine Arts is also looking for a new dean, but it is still in the process of forming a committee, according to Hadley.
Safety and Systems Management lost its director last week when Harold Sherman resigned after 12 years in the institute.
Nomination procedures for potential systems management search committee members has not yet begun.
to study the problem of athletes in the academic system.
Regarding the academic calendar, Zumberge said he found some snarls in the new' plan which need to be unravelled.
He would like to trim the planned final exam period from 10 to 8 davs and make the two semesters of equal length.
"To comply with Western Association of Schools and Colleges regulations we need a 14-to 15-week semester, which means about 70 to 75 classroom hours. This semester, the fall is 80 days and the spring is 72 days," Zumberge said. "This imbalance will cut the length of the summer session to only 11 weeks and would have a definite impact on students coming here for credit in the summer.
"To correct this imbalance we may have to take some extraordinary' action, w'hich may mean adjustment in the final exam schedule this year," Zumberge said.
In other board action, Horton, formerly chairman of the audit committee, was elected vice-chairman of the board and chairman of the finance committee, replacing Forrest Shum-way. Shumway, president of The Signal Companies, Inc., resigned his position due to business commitments.
Kenneth Leventhal was elected chairman of the audit committee.
The board’s planning committee was phased out and its duties transferred to the executive committee.
"The planning committee had been involved in affairs that a trustee committee normally wouldn't be involved in. A planning committee should be concerned with the long-range planning of the university — the ultimate size of the student body, how much new land to acquire, if any, and academic policy.
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Student senators elect vice-chair, undergrad rep.
By Darren Leon
Staff Writer
Andrew' Littlefair was elected vice-chairman of the Student Senate and Tim Dickens became the senate's undergraduate representative Wednesday night.
After the resignation of Rick Wacula as senate chairman earlier this year, a domino effect was created in the senate. Colette Benton took over Wacula's job, Littlefair gained her position and Dickens took Littlefair's job.
The senate usallv begins the year with the selection of committee heads, but the first three meetings this semester have centered on filling vacancies. Now that the elections have ended, senators plan on banding together to accomplish their goals.
Discussion on the vice-chairmanship underlined the importance of the senate's communication with the student bodv.
"People here are apathetic. We have to find out what's going on and get them to be interested in the senate," said Bill Baber, who ran against Littlefair for the position.
"I would like to see the senators come out with newsletters for their different constituencies, or some other type of communication idea, publicize it, and distribute it in their area," Littlefair said.
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Staff photo by Kenneth •
WATCH YOUR STEP — Students walking along University Ave. have to watch out for traffic caused by Founders Hall additions. Construction, which began last summer, wilt continue through the semester.
Volume LXXXIX, Number 13
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Thursday, October 2, 1980	University of Southern California