Low interest-rate loan to finance construction
By Gina Becchetti
Staff Writer
A $14,500,000 loan to the university at half the going rate of interest will be used to finance the construction of two apartment buildings and three additional levels on Parking Structure
C,	which is located near McClintock Avenue and 36th Street.
The loan, at 7.49375% interest, was made possible from the sale of Series 1979 Revenue Bonds issued on behalf of the university by the California Educational Facilities Authority (CEFA).
The bonds, underwritten by the Bank of America, are the third series issued by CEFA on behalf of the university and can be issued at a low interest rate because they are exempt from state and federal income tax.
CEFA was formed by state legislation in the early 1970s to help private colleges and universities obtain access to bond' funds, for use in facilities construction and finance.
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Symposium investigates terms of political office
By Carole Long
Articles Editor
Since 1787 when state delegates met in Philadelphia to draw up the U.S. Constitution, the limitation of the terms of the President and members of Congress has been a hotly debated issue.
Though the delegates to the Constitution Convention managed to agree on a four-year term for the President and two-and six-year terms for representatives and senators, to date some 140 bills have been presented in Congress to amend those decisions.
Political scientists and individuals who have been involved in the political arena presented their views on the limitation of terms at a symposium held on campus Tuesday.
Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America and a special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1963-66, spoke in support of one six-year term for the President. Herbert Alexander, a politial science professor at the university and founder-
director of the Citizer Re search Foundation, supported retention of the existing four-year term with the opportunity for re-election.
While Valenti contended the issue of re-election diverts the President's attention from dealing with pressing national issues, Alexander claimed that with the question of re-election the President is forced to take action on issues in the public interest so as to gain their support.
"No sooner does the President enter the White House than he begins to worry about his re-election," Valenti said. "I would wager to say that not one decision is made in the White House without measuring how it will be received by the public and how it will effect the president's re-election."
Byron Caveney, who served for four-and-a-half years in the White House under the Nixon and Ford administrations, said the staffs appointed by those Presidents spent the majority of their time trying to figure out (Continued on page 16)
Berger given Hubbard’s support
PAC also endorses official statement
By Teresa Watanabe
Assistant Gty Editor
In his first official statement of support President John R. Hubbard expressed confidence in the ability and judgement 'of Jay Berger, director of admissions, and his desire that Berger continue "his effective service to the university."
The statement, issued Tuesday, was endorsed unanimouslv by the Executive Committee of the President's Advisory Council
Hubbard said that charges of racial discrimination against Berger were found unjustified by a special task force on minority admissions last spring. He concluded that those results, along with results from a personal investigation, showed the university admissions process was sensitive to the needs of minorities.
"Against this conclusion, the continuing strident vilification of Dr. Jay Berger, director of admissions, is saddening," Hubbard stated. "It is indeed regrettable that some of Dr. Berger's detractors appear so willing to cast aside the processes and values of inquiry and evidence which higher education claims to strengthen in our society.
"I believe that the time has come for everyone concerned with this issue to restore those values and replace slogans and demonstrations with reasoned discourse," he stated.
The committee unanimously agreed to endorse the statement on the principles that university employees are to be considered innocent until proven guilty and that no charges or evidence supporting allegations against Berger had been presented to them.
Hubbard's statement was apparently seen by some as long overdue.
A source who wished to remain anonymous said she and several staff members had been wondering when Hubbard would issue a statement. "He's the one that should come out and officially support him, but he hadn't," the source said.
Vance Peterson, director of Academic Relations, believed the statement came at an appropriate time because Hubbard first wanted to check allegations and hear all concerns.
Members of the Associated Black Students of Southern California-Black Student Union objected
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CITES PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Journalist sees no salvation for country
By David Rompf
Staff Writer
His opinion of the political outlook for the United States reads like a horoscope for the next decade: "There is no white knight on the stage of this country. Right now there is no salvation in sight."
His name is Charles Bartlett, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist whose syndicated column appears in more than 190 newspapers across the nation.
Bartlett spoke Tuesday in E.F. Hutton Park as part of a "Symposium of Limitation of Terms for President and Congress" sponsored by the university's Institute of Politics and the College of Continuing Education.
The nation is on the verge of another election year and Bar-lett's view of political leaders is frank: "Every four years we look at the same political faces that aren't very exciting. We don't chum up our best — this
is a great deficiency for our democracy.
"The preoccupation (of an incumbent) with re-election tends to obscure immediate issues facing the country. Nothing else in a president's first term takes more effort than getting into the second term," Bartlett said.
Lately there has been much speculation as to who will be on each party ticket and on who will end up in the White House. Bartlett said President Carter is not an instinctively good political performer and he does not expect Carter to be the next president.
"The Republicans will make it. I can't say which one exactly. It will probably be a Bush-Baker situation in the primaries. There seems to be a strong temptation to find a younger guy," he said.
Carter has been reaching for public confidence, but says things that do not always
"jive," Bartlett said.
"He's suffered from reaching for a political base. The South has been fading (in its loyalty to Carter). His search for a base has led him to the environmentalists — a hopeful base for the president.
"Jimmy Carter's weakness is foreign policy which has not been calculable. We don't know what he's going to do next. Our allies complain about this. They don't know when we'll (U.S.) be tough or when we'll be soft," he said.
Bartlett said the Democratic party is "50-50 right now," with Carter and Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass) in an unofficial race for the presidency.
"It takes a lot of courage for Kennedy to go out and run (for president). The Secret Service is terrified. There's a platoon of Secret Service men now at Ken-(Continued on page 15)
Staff photo by Stav* Hyman
KEEPING THE BEAT — The audience enjoyed a warm, breezy lunch break out on the Student Activities Center patio as The Beat played some good, foot-stomping rock and roll on Tuesday. Buttons saying "It’s the Beat” were distributed.
DEBATE — Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. and Herbert Alexander, a professor of political science at the university and founder and director of the Citizens Research Foundation discuss the pros and cons of limitation of terms for the president and congress. The symposium, held yesterday in Hancock Auditorium, was sponsored by the university’s Institute of Politics and the College of Continuing education.
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Volume LXXXVII, Number 33 University of Southern California Wednesday, October 31, 1979