Associate prof trades life of music for law
Senate takes stand to protect student services
PANEL TO MAKE CHANGES
University Press study begins
By Ernest Arboles
StafT Writer
A recently formed committee will review and change the “administration style and educational philosophy of the (university) press.” said Preston Dent, associate dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Dent, who will coordinate the committee, said the university currently has a university press which has been established for many years.
However, there is a widespread feeling that management and the editorial policy of that press needs to be closely studied and perhaps drastically changed. Dent said.
A university press should be used as a scholarly arm of the university and for use by outstanding scholars throughout the nation and around the world, Dent said.
“It hasn't been the case with the present press. Some publications are thought to be inappropriate,” he said.
But he said there have been some publications by the press which have* been “masterpieces of scholarship.”
Dent said that the quality control of the press has broken down and “we haven’t been consistent as a result.”
Dent said that a distinguished press could be important to the standard and reputation of the university.
Dent said that every major university, college, or other institution has an established university press.
Dent said the new committee has met once and has “put together a strong planning com-
mittee that will consult with the appropriate constituencies of the university and make its report to the president.
“The plan will be for a recommendation for a sound process for critical review of scholarship (papers) under consideration.”
Dent said there is presently no sound, orderly, systemized process which includes faculty participation in the selection of publishable works.
He said that it was done ad hoc. Sometimes an author just paid for the publishing cost and had his work published, he said.
Dent said publishing a book is a sophisticated process which involves contractual arrangements, dissemination arrangements, public relations and binding and printing arrangements.
Staff photo by Stavt Hyman
WAITING PATIENTLY — These familiar means of tain scholarly thoughts. The more popular spots for transportation for university students can be found bike parking include the east side of Founders Hall mingling throughout campus while its riders enter- and in front of the Student Union.
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Volume LXXXVII, Number 14 University of Southern California	Thursday, October 4, 1979
Board of Trustees approve amended academic calendar
By Brandon Bailey
Assistant City Editor
The Student Senate passed four resolutions yesterday stating in effect that student services and staff salaries should not be sacrificed to provide faculty salary increases.
The resolutions came in the wake of a Faculty Senate resolution passed last week which asked the administration and university constituencies to' cooperate in assigning highest priority next year to keeping faculty salaries in line with inflation.
The process of planning next year’s budget will not begin for several weeks. The senate discussed the importance of making at least a preliminary statement for the university administration.
“Faculty and staff salaries are perhaps the biggest issues involved in the operating budget,” said George Hughes, chairman of the senate’s financial affairs unit. There can be a direct conflict between the desire to avoid tuition increases and the desire to increase salaries, Hughes said.
Student tuition will contribute about 80% of this year’s operating budget. Faculty and staff salaries together will draw over 50% of the budget expenditures.
The Student Senate resolution states faculty salaries should be in-
creased enough to maintain the same standing now held by the university in the lA classification provided by the Amerian Association of University Professors — with the provision that the faculty meet its responsibilities to students.
The provision was added to the original resolution after a debate which covered certain guidelines under consideration by the Faculty Senate. The guidelines include office hours and syllabi content.
Hughes said the faculty is not asking for actual salary increases, only enough additional money to offset inflation. “They don’t want more; they are asking to lose less” to inflation, he said.
The Senate passed a second resolution after Hughes reported that staff salaries at the university are below the market level. The resolution states that the senate is philosophically in favor of a program to increase staff salaries to the market level over a period of years, provided that student services improve as a result.
Senate dissatisfaction with the services currently provided for students led to a later resolution which stated that improved student services and a university center are vital to maintaining current enrollment at the university.
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By Miriam Kmet
Staff Writer
The Board of Trustees unanimously approved a new academic calendar yesterday, said Vance Peterson, director of academic relations.
The new calendar will be effective fall 1981.
The fall semester will include a registration period, 14 weeks of class and one week to eight days for filial examinations, ending no later than Dec. 23.
The spring semester, beginning two to three weeks after the end of fall semester, will include registration. 14 class weeks, one week for spring recess and one week for final examinations.
The President’s Commission on the Academic Calendar, assisted by the Office of Institutional Studies, reviewed the fiscal and academic consequences of the calendar and resolved the following:
About 160 undergraduate transfer students from community colleges may have to overlap their last days of fall semester with the first few days of spring semester at the university.
Of the 160 transfer students studied, about half had completed their courses in the spring.
Eighty percent of the students surveyed who attended junior colleges in the fall said the new calendar would not affect their decision to transfer to the university. Twenty percent (less than 20) students said they would wait a semester and enroll at the university the following fall.
The Commission's conclusion according to the resolution, was that “because it is a more attractive calendar from the students’ point of view, it may enhance the attractiveness of USC to students and therefore increase enrollments.”
According to the resolution presented to the Board of Trustees, “It is relatively easy for most community college students to mesh their schedules during the overlapping month to accomplish completion of their work at the community college and the beginning of work at USC.”
“I agree with the new calendar because we will be able to enjoy Christmas vacation and also finish the school year in May,” said Michael Kelly, a freshman.
Shelli Kramer, a sophomore, said, “The schedule will enable us more time for Christmas vacation so we can enjoy the spirit of the holidays instead of cracking the books for finals.”
“I have mixed emotions about the calendar because students will start the school year earlier, but they’ll also finish earlier,” said Poul Thomsen, a junior.
“But they should have scheduled Christmas vacation with six weeks, like California State University at Northridge. so students can enjoy themselves more and maybe have a mini-semester,” he added.
“The new calendar is a very good idea because now I’ll be able to be with all my friends who attend other colleges and I’ll be able to go skiing.” said Allison Denara, a sophomore.
By David Page
Now that the legal profession has opened its doors to advertising, would-be clients are in the market for a lawyer who can offer them a little something extra — like being able to play the flute.
Margaret Radin, new associate law professor at the university, is not a practicing lawyer, but she can play the flute.
In fact, Radin came within a half note of receiving her doctorate in music history at the University of California at Berkeley in the late 60s.
After receiving a Master of Fine Arts in music history at Brandeis University, while studying the flute. Radin felt it was necessary to make a change in her life.
“I wanted to do something with more social and political significance. I just didn’t want to teach music,” she said.
Radin said the transition from the artistic study of music to the practical study of law was more of a compromise.
“Law is wholly verbal. It is all words, constructs and politics, and I love it, but music is entirely different — it’s very peaceful. I’ll always have music as a hobby.”
Commenting on the right of lawyers to advertise their product, Radin feels it is important for the consumer to know just what he is getting, and how to get it at a fair price.
“I think it’s all right to advertise as long as it isn’t false or misleading.”
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