search process stage
By Susan Pederson
Staff Writer
David Gardner, after meeting with the presidential search committee and members of the Board of Trustees, has moved into the final stage of the presidential search process.
As part of this stage of the process, Gardner, president of the University of Utah, is expected to visit campus some time within the next two weeks to meet with various university constituencies. However, these meetings probably will be less expansive than those of the final stage that the previous candidates participated in. It is likely that Gardner will meet with fewer constituencies, university sources have said.
Despite the fact that J. Robert Fluor, chairman of the search committee and Board of Trustees, has said that there is another list of candidates the committee may go to in order to widen the search, university sources said that at this time none of them have been contacted. This means that Gardner is currently the only candidate under consideration.
Robert Benedict, university liaison to Fluor, refused to comment on w hether other candidates were under active consideration.
It is not known exactly when the board will make its final decision on the new president, but it could be as soon as the meetings with Gardner are completed.
Should the board decide Gardner is a good candidate for the university, and should Gardner decide he is still interested in the presidency, it is possible that there will be no other candidates and Gardner will be the next university president.
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Volume LXXXVII, Number 63 University of Southern California Tuesday, January 8, 1980
STUDENTS HELP STUDENTS
Admissions aid given to youths
By Bob Conti
Assistant Articles Editor
Students and guidance counselors in some of Los Angeles' inner-city high schools are receiving help from university students.
Thirteen of them are acting as peer counselors at eight of the schools located near to the university. Their duties include some recruitment for the university and, perhaps more importantly, counseling high school students on different universities and what has to be done in getting admitted.
Peter Brown, co-director of the peer counselor program, stresses the later activity. "The peer counselors are not exclusively recruiting for the university. They are there to help the students in filling out their financial aid and admissions forms, plus assist in determining whether it would be best for them to attend a two-year college or larger school."
The idea for the program was recommended by the university's neighborhood relations committee. In addition, the idea was at least alluded to in the 24 recommendations concerning minority admissions.
Brown said the program started last year, but did not do well. The reason for its ineffectiveness was its lack of central organization.
When the university announced that there would be a peer counseling program again this year, some of the high school counselors were skeptical.
They said the students that were in the previous program did not show up, leaving just the high school counselors to handle over 600 high school seniors.
This year's program, Brown said, is more stable because there are administrators working out of the office of admissions that have charge of the (Continued on page 6)
Prof group to bid for faculty representation
By Brandon Bailey
Assistant Qty Editor
The university chapter of the American Association of University Professors will make a bid this spring to become the collective bargaining agent for the university's faculty members.
The chapter first has to showr that a minimum percentage of the faculty desire that some group be recognized as a bargaining agent under the guidelines of the National Labor Relations Board. Efforts to gather faculty signatures will begin sometime after the next semester begins, said the co-chairmen of the university chapter of the Association, Martin Siegel, a professor of engineering, and
Edward Borgers, a professor of journalism.
If the NLRB accepts the faculty petition, it will supervise a vote by all faculty to select a group as the official bargaining agent.
Other national organizations, such as the National Education Assn. and the American Federation of Teachers, may offer their services by placing their names on the ballot. If the election is held, the faculty may also vote not to accept anv group as their agent.
If the faculty elects the AAUP as its agent, the chapter would seek to represent the faculty's concerns on a number of policy issues, including tenure, sala-(Continued on page 6)
Gardner enters final
YEILDING FOR YOUNNSTERS — This cycling student receives questioning looks from passersby as she waits to leave campus on the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street. There has been a lot of congestion in this area due to the recent construction of a pedestrian mall close by.
KUSC tower remains as token
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FORGOTTEN TOWER — The radio tower above the Hancock building, once a part of KUSC radio station, serves little purpose these days beyond warning low-flying planes with its red flashing lights.
High atop the Alan Hancock Foundation building stands a 150-foot tall, red-and-white radio tower without a transmitter.
Once used by KUSC, originally a student-run station, the tower supports only blinking red lights to ward off low-flyng planes and a small radio antenna used by broadcasting classes.
"The only reason it's there is because they've determined it would be more expensive to take it down than it cost to put up," said Chuck Hester, director of advertising and promotions at the current student station, KSCR.
A physical plant estimate placed the cost of removing the tower at $20,000.
The old transmitter didn't work very well anyway, said Hugh Paul, director of engineering at KUSC.
"I spent many a night on that roof trying to get that thing legal," Paul said.
The roof literally fell in on the station during a storm in 1973. A galvanized shed at the tower's base came apart, let water in on the transmitter, and sparks flew.
"Guys at the station were taking bets that we wouldn't be
able to use it again," Paul said.
KUSC moved in Dec. 1976 to the Research Annex Building at 3717 South Grand Ave. after receiving a $750,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The station built a new stereo transmitter on Lookout Mountain in the Hollywood hills,
someone to hear him, Paul said.
When KUSC moved to its new location, it did not need the old transmitter because the new station already had a backup system.
KSCR operates over phone line currents, but people sometimes think it uses the tower,
Hancock built a radio statio on campus because he played in a string quartet and wanted someone to hear him.
over 900 feet above sea level, and its radio waves stretch out to most of Los Angeles.
Broadcasts from the old transmitter were monoral (singlewave) and only reached radios within a 10-mile radius.
Alan Hancock, a donor, brought the tower to the university in the early 1950s, Paul said.
"The tower originally was owned by a major oil company and they used it as a big advertising sign up the coast of California somewhere," he said.
Hancock built a radio station on campus because he played in a string quartet and wanted
Hester said.
"We don't have an FCC license (to operate from the tower) because it costs too much and we don't have anyone to back us," he said.
"The only things working right now on the tower are the obstruction lights," said Harry Kyne, director of new construction at the physical plant.
"We use it for a two-way radio system in broadcasting classes," said Richard Zielinski, broadcast projects coordinator in the School of Journalism. "If you look closely about two-thirds of the way up, you'll see a 6-foot-tall white antenna."