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Volume LXXVII, Number 6 University of Southern California Tuesday, July 3, 1979
Student Senate, Registrar disagree on proposed site of registration relocation
By Sean Dunnahoo
Assistant Editor
As the Student Senate continues its attempt to secure a better place for fall registration, the senate cabinet expressed dissatisfaction Sunday with plans submitted by the registrar's office to move the registration process to the Student Activities Center.
The first floor of the center would have housed the computers recently acquired to speed up the registration process.
After voting the plan unacceptable, the cabinet resolved to maintain attempts to procure the Davidson Conference Center for registration next semester and for subsequent semesters until different facilities could be found.
Plans for using the Davidson Center, presently the home of the College of Continuing Education, have been delayed due to contractual limitations on the conference center's use between the university and Charlotte and Davre Davidson, the donors of the facility.
Davidson, a trustee for the university, stipulated in the contract that the conference center be used only for continuing education.
The senate has been trying since last semester to use the conference center for registration purposes. The senate tried to show the Davidsons that the facilities are needed and the use of the conference center would be in the students' best interest, Gates said.
Members of the senate feel recreational space, such as in the Student Activities Center, should not be taken away since the university has such poor facilities already, he said.
"I am hoping that Mr. Davidson will see that the activities center is in dire need since we have such pitiful recreational facilities compared to other campuses," Gates said.
He will meet with President John R. Hubbard next week to discuss the problem and to determine whether the facility will be used for registration.
The registrar's office must be notified no later than July by the senate as to which center will be used so that plans can be made to set up the computer system.
In other senate action, the cabinet expressed disapproval of a plan by auxiliary services to move part of the housing operations office to the Marks Hall dormitory lounge.
The cabinet endorsed a six-page letter from Steve Smith, representing the dormitories, to David Lee, director of housing.
The prime objection outlined in the letter was that the relocation of the housing office would limit students' lounge space, especially at a time when lounge space for students is desperately needed, he said.
Another objection outlined in the letter was that students have a strong identity with the residence halls.
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Professor blames current energy crisis on population explosion
"The population plague is the culprit behind the long lines at gas stations and the high cost of groceries," said Kingsley Davis, a professor of sociology.
The population plague refers to the alarming growth rate of the world population. Much of the growth is occurring in the underdeveloped nations of Latin America, Africa and Asia. These areas will provide about 92% of the next generation, Davis said.
Rather than having too little gas, you might say we have too many people driving too many vehicles, Davis said.
"More than a fourth of the
world's energy consumption in 1975 was due to increase in population over the previous 15 years." By controlling the population, we can, in effect, conserve energy, he said.
The actual offset of the population explosion was the Industrial Revolution, Davis said. As modem factories produced better food, clothing, and shelter, people became more resistant to disease.
During the Twentieth Century, scientific medicine has conquered such killers as smallpox and malaria. People live longer and longer, so the population
exploded. In 1750, there were only about 791 million of us. By the year 2,000, the number will be over 6 billion, unless catastrophe intervenes, Davis said.
Davis said, most families in the underdeveloped world want several children. In agrarian countries children are an economic and political asset.
"Families can be ruthless employers, and the cheapest labor is children," Davis explained. "The children can work day and night, and they don't require a cash wage. Even in the dty, kids are an advantage.
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BETTER THAN FIREWORKS ... instead of watching fireworks in the sky, see them on the screen in Gone With the Wind in the Bing Theatre today and Wednesday at 8 p.m. For information on other campus happenings. see page 3.
University Hispanic enrollment increases
by Alan Friedenthal
Staff Writer
University enrollment of Hispanic students and total university enrollment increased in 1978 -1979, bucking a national trend of decline.
Nationwide total enrollment dropped 3.5% from 11.5 million in the fall of 1977 to 11.1 million in the fall of 1978 according to the United States Census Bureau.
For the same period, overall university enrollment increased 1.3% from 24,965 to 25,299 according to the university's Office of Institutional Studies.
While Hispanic enrollment in colleges dropped 9.8%, enrollment for the same group at the university increased 1.5% — an increase which represents an additional 24 Hispanic students.
The Census Bureau first estimated the number of students of Hispanic origin in 1972 at 242,000
Their estimated enrollment reached a peak of 427,000 in 1976.
Enrollment of black students decreased 7.5% nationally. Previously black enrollment had been growing steadily from an estimated 434,000 in 1968 to 1,020,000 in 1978, with increases each year except for a dip in 1973.
University enrollment of black students dropped 2.8% from 1,525 in 1977 to 1,482 in 1978.
In other ethnic groupings at the university, Asian enrollment dropped from 2,608 in 1977 to 2,588 in 1978, Indian enrollment dropped 24% from 172 to 130, and enrollment of foreign students, who are classified as nonresident aliens, increased 21% from 2952 to 3573.
The Census Bureau report notes that the 1978 decline in college enrollment came "at a time when the number of persons of traditional college age (18 to 21 years old) did not decrease."
Idyllwild arts school prepares for thirtieth season
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By Therese Wells
Editor
As it nears its thirtieth year, the University of Southern California's Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts is offering this summer the widest variety of classes in its history, according to Dr. Miriam Anstey, director of the school.
As part of the annual ten week summer session (which began Sunday, June 17 and will run through August 25) class offerings vary from Japanese and Indian pottery, sculpture and creative writing to intimate workshops in theatre, music, painting and dance. These courses, designed on the primise of learning by doing, each run a minimum of one week and involve more than
25	different subjects divided into six broad categories: the visual arts, communication, theatre, dance, music and the Children's Art Center.
The ideal of Idyllwild school is "art for man's sake," and is reinforced by a careful selection of an outstanding faculty, Anstey said.
The campus has attracted many nationally and internationally renowned artists who have taught and shared their talents with the thousands who have been drawn to the school, she said.
Anstey added that such professionals as Ansel Adams, Martin Bemheimer, Norwin Corwin, Carl Dolmetsch, Francoise Gilot, Will Geer, Irving Kirschner, Daniel Lewis, Bella Lewitzky, Marni Nixon, Pete Seeger, Harry Sternberg and Meridith Willson have all taught at the school, helping to bolster its reputation.
However, since its inception in 1950 and its affiliation with the university since 1964, the campus has been pledged to the arts, she said. Additionally, in the tradition of co-founders Max and Bee Krone, the school also attempts to offer a family experience. At Idyllwild, the arts are shared among students, faculty and the nearby community, without regard to age, she said.
In fact, the Children's Art
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