Dailyi TlTrojan
Vol. LXVI, No. 35
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, November 7, 19/3
90% Accepted for Kecord Frosh (.lass
BY BOB EVANS
Stan Writer
The university enrolled the largest freshman class in its history this year by accepting almost all those who applied, admissions reports show.
And surprisingly, in view of an almost 100rr acceptance rate, admissions officers were able to enroll the class, estimated at 2.200. without lowering entrance requirements.
THF] LATEST reports show that although the number of freshman applicants declined 3'~r in the past two years, the percentage of applicants accepted rose from 777r to 90rr.
That doesn't include acceptances under the Experimental Admissions Program, which admits students who do not meet regular admissions standards, but show promise of succeeding here.
Acceptances under the experimental program boost the overall acceptance rate to almost 100f \. In fact, fewer than 50 freshman applicants were turned down for both regular admission and the experimental program, a re-
port ofthe Office of Institutional Studies said.
Yet if so few applicants were turned down, how was selectivity ma intained?
WILLIAM C. Himstreet. who as executive director of student administrative services is responsible for admissions. registration and student aid. explained the apparent paradox.
“That really is a function of a more highly qualified pool of applicants." Himstreet said, pointing out that average grade-point averages of entering freshmen has increased from 3.23 to 3.29.
“If we were being less selective, then the average GPA would be expected to go down, but it hasn't—it's gone up.”
THERE ARE other indications that the new freshman class is highly qualified. About one-third of them are state scholarship recipients, the Office of Institutional Studies report indicated.
“USC has more state scholars than any other private institution — 12rr of the total." the report said.
And Himstreet said about 475 ol' the freshman applicants who were accepted
Flyers Not Part Of Daily Trojan
Several thousand flyers bearing the Daily Trojan nameplate and ridictilingthe university and its educational system w ere deposited in newspaper distribution stands Tuesday.
The Daily Trojan had no association with this leaflet, and knew nothing of its existence until Tuesday morning.
The single-page. 8'2-by-14-inch sheet, contained photographs, some of which were copied from past issues ofthe Daily Trojan, caricatures and brief, cutting comments on university life.
The only identification as to who might have produced the flyer was a name and address appearing at the lower hack corner ol the page: Upshot. P.O. Box 26135. L A. 90026.
The Daily Trojan is referring the matter to Carl M. Franklin, vice-president for legal affairs.
i was appalled by the flyer.” said Michele Drake. Daily Trojan editor. "A number of students and professors called our offices yesterday believing the Daily Troian was responsible for the flyer when we had nothing to do with it. Something like this hurts the image ofthe paper, and furthermore, it's against the law to use our nameplate, pictures and headlines w ithout permission."
In addition to being distributed at the Daily Trojan kiosks, a number ofthe flyers were posted on bulletin boards across campus.
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(about 20'<) and said they would enroll received honors at entrance for maintaining a 3.75 or higher grade average in high school.
Even in the experimental program, as a result of a large influx of freshmen this semester. the average Scholastic Ac h ieve m e n t Tests score has gone up 75 points.
WITH MOST of the indicators ofthe quality of new freshman showing an increase. the question is: how did USC get better quality applicants when the number of applicants was declining?
Himstreet described the phenomenon as a result of a student self-selection process and successful recruiting efforts.
"Twenty years ago. when I first came here, the university took almost anyone who graduated from high school, but in the late 1950s and through the 1960s the university had more applicants than it could handle." he said.
“WHEN WE got 6.000 or 7.000 applicants, we used to admit about 2.400 to get a freshman class of 1.400.”
Himstreet said that a large number of applicants pushed the entrance standards up.
"We did turn down people then who probably would have been admitted now. but that was simply because we had far more applicants than we could handle.” he said.
But things changed in the last two years. In June there were 36.000 fewer high school graduates in California than the previous year.
"We recognized right away that we weren't going to have an increase in the pool of applicants. With higher
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WOMEN S CAUCUS—Members of the Women s Caucus met yesterday to name their goals. They are. from left, Mary Mankowski. administrative assistant at the YWCA: Betty Murray, secretary to the Board of Trustees: in the rear. Bar-
bara Gardner, research associate of the Center for Urban Affairs: and Jane Wheatley, executive director of the YWCA. and acting chairwoman of the Women's Caucus. DT photo by Bob Chavez.
Women Plan to Monitor USC’s Hirijig Practices
BY SARAH HECK
Staff W l iter
The Women's Caucus met Tuesday to formulate tentative plans for a committee to follow up and monitor what affirmative action goals have been established by the university.
Affirmative action is an e q u a 1 - o p p o r t u n i t y hiring program which, if in effect, brings federal aid to the employer.
Approximately 35 women representing most groups of university women were present at the meeting.
The structure, suggested by J a n e W h e a 11 ey. acting chairwoman of the caucus, and Linda Worobow. director olthe women's noncredit daytime programs, is patterned after Committee \V of the American Association of I’niversity Professors.
THE WOMEN'S Caucus, made up ol' members of ad-ministrative. faculty, staff, uraduate and undergraduate women, will serve as the
:iain pool of resources.
From the caucus, steering-committee members will be chosen to coordinate their separate programs.
In the suggested plan, a chairwoman will be elected to plan the agenda and supervise the organization.
THE PLAN was received enthusiastically, although because ofthe limited time, no decisions were made and no names were suggested for the committees.
Another meeting has been scheduled for Nov. 13 at noon in the University Y.
The suggested topics ofthe
steering committees are. in many cases, areas of irritation to women at L'SC.
Several personal instances of discrimination in job recruitment were aired at the meeting in an attempt to seek some action on the problem.
Instances where jobs have been filled before a vacancy has been announced, or job opportunities posted after they were filled, were cited by several women at the meeting who didn't get into specifics for fear of their jobs.
C~Moscone to Talk Today^
State Sen. George Moscone will be among the speakers today at a program on the resignation or impeachment of President Nixon.
The program, sponsored by the Student Bar Assn.. will begin at 12:30 p.m. and continue until 3:30 p.m. in the Campbell Lounge ofthe Law Center.
Moscone. an announced candidate for governor, will speak at 2 p.m.
Other speakers will include Hon Ridenour of the Vr-en-can Civil Liberties Union: Scott Bice and Walter Delhnuer [ofthe Law Center, and Barry Li11 ofthe National l.aw\t
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