Administration objects not being consulted on student corporation
Administrators object to not being consulted on the Student Senate's proposal to create a nonprofit corporation to provide student services.
“I wish the senate would have met with administrators before voting on the proposal,” said James Appleton, vice-president of student affairs.
He was not aware that the senate was in a position to act on the idea of a corporation. Appleton said.
Mike Kulweic, a senator who initiated the corporation proposal, said he wanted to be able to present the administration with something concrete.
A few Student Senators, Kulweic being one of them, spent several months quietly planning and consulting a legal firm before the proposal was made at the senate meeting Thursday.
The meeting was the first time some senators had heard of the corporation. Each senator received copies of the articles of incorporation and bylaws drawn up by the legal firm.
The senate then voted to endorse the creation of a nonprofit corporation which will be under the control of Student Senate.
Mark Kaufman, who voted against the proposal, said he is not against the concept of a corporation but thinks too much time was wasted determining the mechanics of the corporation.
‘‘It would have been better to first determine the need for a service and then to worry about how to market it.” he said.
Kaufman cited several problems the corporation might have. These problems include:
•	Where the corporation will get money to lease a space if the university doesn't allot space?
•	Is the university going to commit itself to stand behind the corporation if it takes a financial loss?
•	Will the corporation be able to handle the inventories that many services might require?
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trojan
Volume LXXVI, Number 7
University of Southern California
Wednesday, February 14, 1979
COMMISSION OK NEEDED
Marine lab plan to be reviewed
The Los Angeles Harbor Commission will review plans today for the university’s proposed SI .5-million laboratory for marine studies to be built at Fish Harbor on Terminal Island.
The new center will replace the Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies at Wilmington. The old structure was condemned because it had slowly broken into two parts. The Los Angeles Harbor
Department had asked the university to leave the site.
Don Walsh, director of the institute, said the university has given $600,000 in funds to the marine institute to build the first part of the facility, which will take nine months to construct.
Additional funding for construction is expected to come from gifts to Toward Century II. the
Unpaid federal loans amount to $65 million
In the Los Angeles-San Diego area there are 70.000 unpaid Federally Insured Student Loans, amounting to $65 million. No other region of the country approaches this mark.
Students who have defaulted on the loans may soon be forced to work out a system of repayment or suffer the consequences.
In the last 60 days, nearly 200 federal employees have been hired by the Department of Health. Education and Welfare’s San Francisco collection office to force loan defaulters to begin repayment by the end of the year.
Since the university does not administer the loans, it has no statistics on the number of its students who have defaulted.
During the fall semester between 4,500 and 5.000 university students applied for FISLs.
"It is inevitable now that they will collect,” said Charles Banks, an HEW public affairs officer. ‘‘There is no way to avoid it. We finally have the proper manpower and the use of a computer and social security numbers.”
After billing and contacting the defaulters. HEW officials and the students involved will work out a system of repayment.
Banks said students who refused to pay would either be turned over to the United States Attorney's Office or taken to small claims court.
Payco American Corp.. a private loan collection agency, was also hired this month by the federal government to assist in collection ot the defaulted student loans.
Under the FISL program a student may borrow from a bank, credit union or savings and loan institution. The federal government guarantees repayment of the loan it a student defaults.
California banks participating in the program generally lend between $500 and $1,500.
university's fundraising campaign.
The center will include a Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Center that will focus on the effects of human-induced changes on marine animals and the development of marine biosys-tems useful in solving human health problems.
Classes will be held at the center for graduate students’ research projects.
The center will also house buildings for marine advisory and transportation research.
It will take up to one year for the institute to secure permits from the city, the coastal commission and the army corps of engineers.
The older Wilmington building has been repaired to accommodate the research facilities until construction is completed at the Fish Harbor site.
Planners for the institute worked closely with the Los Angeles Harbor Department and agreed on the Fish Harbor site. The agreement must go before the city council because the university would receive a 25-year lease for the land.
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HENRY WINKLER
'Fonz' brings happy day to capacity Bovard crowd
By Karen Holloway
Staff Writer
The ”Fonz’’controllcd the stage, sound and lighting with a snap of his fingers, but Henry Winkler proved Tuesday he can capture a , student audience without theatrical gimmicks.
| Winkler answered questions ranging from his opinion of motorcycles to the secrets of success before a capacity audience in Bovard Auditorium. His talk opened the University Speakersx Committee spring program.
Winkler started by saying “You know what I’ve done. Thank I you.” and began to walk off stage.
Winkler said he was not concerned that he doesn’t get top billing on the sixth-season television series Happy Days.
”If as an actor I ever worried about billing. I would open up a dry H cleaning store ,” he said.
Winkler demonstrated the transformation he goes through to ft become “The Fonz” by changing his voice and adopting the gestures of the character. But he said he was not worried about || being typecast in the role.
|| “Typecasting is only if you allow it to happen, ” Winkler said. “I ? am Henry Winkler and I must be the best Henry Winkler I can | be. The Fonz is the The Fonz.”
Many students asked Winkler for his opinion of various actors,
; actresses and singers, including Woody Allen, whom Winkler declared a genius.
Pressed for a definition of genius, he said. "Genius is a consistent | stream of new vision of all that had been before.
"If you will it. it is not a dream. Winkler said about the secrets : of success.
"You can never worry about failure — you have to trust yourself and we are taught in America we are not to trust ourselves.” he said.
In regards to motorcycles. Winkler said he preferred cars. “I like four rubber wheels around me.” he said.
Other questions dealt with 'The Fonz's" home life, but he said it was not a problem to balance Winkler the actor with Winkler the husband and father.
“I take my life with me into the dressing room, but 1 leave my work at the studio.” Winkler said.
"The world can be as crazy as it can be. but you need a place to come home to.” he said.
Winkler confessed to aspirations as a singer, but said. "One must also learn one'sx limitations.”
Aside from starring in Happy Days. Winkler's next television appearance will be as Scrooge in a remake of A Christmas Carol.
: "And then we’ll see if I’m made of shit or not.” Winkler said.
Iranian seeks removal of cartoonist
The president of the Iranian Students Club. Farrokh Abrishankar. has requested Bob Staake. Daily Trojan political cartoonist, to withdraw from his job for what Abrishankar called "a narrow-minded approach” to the Ayatollah Khomaini regime in Iran.
Abrishamkar was upset by recent cartoons that he felt showed a lack of understanding for the Iran revolt and Khomaini's role in Iran. He said the cartoons displayed "bigotry and racism.”
Staake and Michael Schroeder. the managing editor
of the Daily Trojan, received anonymous death threats over the telephone. Campus Security and the Los Angeles Police Department have been notified.
Another death threat was also received by George Chilinger. a professor of petroleum engineering, who has worked closely with Iranian students.
Richard Bozanich. editor of the Daily Trojan, said he would back up Staake. Staake is the best college cartoonist in the country today," Bozanich said.