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Selection committee sparks mixed views
By Susan Pedersen
Assistant City Editor
The Board of Trustees' decision to create a new selection committee for the presidential search process has been met by mixed opinions from officials within the university.
James Appleton, vice president of student affairs, seemed to echo the feelings of many around the university when he said that he was surprised to hear of the committee's creation, but nevertheless felt that some kind of action was needed by the board.
"I do think that changes had to be made to bring the search process into a dosed environment. The best candidates (interested in the presidency) probably don't want to be brought out in the open."
While most agreed that changes to help the process were necessary, some search committee members were deeply concerned that the search committee would not be utilized to the fullest extent possible.
"If the original role of the search committee remains the same, then everything's OK. But if not, then I want to know why," said Chip Hughes, a student member on the search committee.
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When the government of the People's Republic of China introduced the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Ralph K. Wang was one of many university professors who went out in the fields and worked side-by-side with the peasants.
After spending 1969-70 doing physical labor with the fanners in Kirin province and teaching them their Chinese characters, Wang, a professor of the English language, was sent back to Kirin University to continue his translation work.
"The time in the countryside was good for my health," he said. "But intellectuals living in the countryside for too long is a waste of time."
Wang is at the university for six weeks, giving lecture^ on the educational system in China and teaching English as a second language.
He is also doing research on contemporary American writers.
Wang, who received his masters degree in economics from the university in 1947, spoke of the purpose of his trip and painted a picture of the changes his country and this country have experienced since he returned to China in 1949.
"I'm mainly here as a lecturer," he said. "My research is secondary. But I think I can get more books at your library here and talk more easily with your professors here."
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Unpaid rents bring legal action
University files detainers against students
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Tuition remission to stay despite big budget deficit
By Tim Lynch
Staff Writer
Based on current estimates, the university faces a possible budget deficit next year of more than a million dollars, and administrators have been screening all areas of funding and operations to determine where expenses could be cut.
However, tuition remission, a program that last spring provided almost SI. 1 million in educational benefits to university employees and their families appears safe from any reductions, said Jay Schoenau, assistant budget officer.
Tuition remission has been a benefit in higher education for so long, "it has become part of the landscape," Schoenau said. "If we decided to abolish it, we would look very odd.1"
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front of their exhibit Thursday at Tommy Trojan. CARP was protesting “Communist Imperialism.'’
"In the field of education, there are still some similarities (between China and the United States)," he said. "China is looking at America."
final step taken before eviction.
The Los Angeles Municipal Court index shows that the university filed three separate complaints for Unlawful Detainers on Jan. 23 against university students who failed to pay their rent for the months of November and December.
Lee said that two of the students finally did pay their rents. "The third student has virtually thumbed his nose at USC, and has refused to pay any rent for either November, December, January or February," he said.
"If USC doesn't aggressively go after rental payments when they are due, the school will have to absorb that loss by increasing student's rents," he said. "We don't want to do that."
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By Steve Stem
Students living in university housing who do not pay their rent on time may have legal action taken against them, including eviction, according to David C. Lee, director of Housing and Residence Halls.
Lee said the "aggressive policy" was implemented for the first time last September, after
Auxiliary Services and Legal Affairs reached an agreement on how best to avoid revenue loss because of nonpayment of rent.
Michael McCarthy, assistant director of Auxiliary Services, said that although rent is due on the first of the month for those students who pay on a monthly basis, and at the beginning of each semester for those who pay on a semester basis, anywhere between 5% and 15% of those students fail to pay their rent before the 10-day deadline.
Both Guy D. Hubbard, executive director of Auxiliary Services, and McCarthy, said the university has filed complaints for Unlawful Detainers in the past, but that during this academic year, more complaints than ever before are being filed.
The filing of an Unlawful Detainer against a student is the