Faculty Senate approves calendar change
Passes motion to support profs on search committee
By Sean Dunnahoo
Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate approved Wednesday a proposed academic calendar change that would make the fall and spring semesters end early.
The Council of Deans also approved the calendar change. The proposal will now be sent to the President's Advisory Council and then to the Board of Trustees.
In other senate action, two motions were made relating to the meeting between John C. LeBIanc, president of the faculty senate, Solomon Golomb, vice-chairman of the presidential search committee and members of the Board of Trustees questioning the power of Zohrab Kaprielian, executive vice-president. Concern has been expressed over Kaprielian's influence on the presidential search.
The new recommendations are a synthesis between past recommendations and the questions raised by the financial affairs committee of the Board of Trustees, Elliott said.
A general consensus between the Faculty Senate and the Council of Deans has been found.
The questions raised by the financial affairs committee concerned losses of income to the university by students leaving school during the extended break between the fall and spring semesters. Decreases in the enrollment of incoming students from junior colleges who wouldn't graduate in time for the start of the early spring semes-
ter was also a concern.
If the revised calendar is approved by the council and the board, the calendar would take effect in fall of 1980.
John Elliot, professor of economics, has been instrumental in formulating the calendar reform recommendations.
The only opposition to the new recommendations came from senators concerned that faculty members could suffer financially from a shortened school year.
Presently, faculty members are signed each year on a nine-month contract. The academic calendar reforms call for a somewhat shorter year.
Elliott, however, said that although the dates on the contracts would be different, there would be no decrease in yearly salaries.
A motion was passed expressing the support of the Faculty Senate for LeBIanc, Golomb and other faculty representatives on the presidential search committee.
The motion came as a result of allegations circulating at the university that the faculty does not support the leadership of the Faculty Senate, and allegations that LeBIanc and Golomb engaged in conspiratorial activities against Kaprielian.
The executive board of the Faculty Senate has also expressed support of LeBIanc and Golomb. The board said that if the two of them were to resign from the presidential search committee they should first speak to the executive board.
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NEW MOTION TABLED-
PAC charge lacks support
By Brandon Bailey
Staff Writer
A plan to redesign the structure and function of the President's Advisory Council is not likely to receive support from other university constituencies.
A resolution to reduce the membership of the council and eliminate its authority to approve or reject recommendations to the university administration has been considered for several weeks by a committee of the Faculty Senate.
An initial recommendation was tabled for revision at the senate meeting in March. A new version of the proposal was^gain tabled at Wednesday's senate meeting, after Samuel Allerton, chairman of the dental biochemistry department, recommended that members of the senate needed additional time to consider its provisions.
Prior to Wednesday's meeting, Donald Yett had said the purpose of the resolution was to change the council "as quickly as possible." Both Yett and Allerton are members of the senate's special committee on university governance that drafted the resolution.
Opposition to the resolution was expressed by officials of the council and of the Staff Caucus, who said they were not aware of any desire for change outside of the Faculty Senate. Representatives of the Student Senate and the Council of Deans could not be reached for comment.
The proposed resolution provides that groups representing the four constituencies would make recommendations directly to the administration without consideration by the council. The president would be required by the resolution to respond within 30 days to the group submitting any recommendation.
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CHANGE SOUGHT—John Elliot, professor of economics, addressed the Faculty Senate and urges approval of the proposed change in the academic calendar. Both the Senate and the Council of Deans approved the proposal, which woukt end the fall and spring semesters early.	________
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University of Southern California
Volume LXXVl, Number 42
Thursday, April 19, 1979
Effects of Bakke decision create few problems here
By Teresa Watanabe
Staff Writer
The controversial Bakke decision, which outlawed minority quota systems in schools, created few tremors here. Most graduate programs did not use them before the decision and except for the Law Center, they still do not give minority students special consideration in admissions.
"We attempted to bend backwards for minority students when it was fashionable to do so," said Edward Brady, associate dean of students in the School of Pharmacy. "But it was not a good experience — one tended to not get qualified students.
."Professional schools are not where remedial teaching can be done," he said.
Brady believed accepting unqualified minority students was detrimental to both the school and the student.
"There's great difficulty in taking a highly deficient student, putting him in a professional school and expecting him to succeed," Brady said. "If a person has a deficiency, it should be taken care of before he enters professional school."
But Brady said the school seeks the best qualified minority students by participating in recruitment days at high schools and junior colleges.
The enrollment in the pharmacy program is about 50% noncaucasian, including about 35% Asian and Asian-American, 12% Chicano and 8% black, Bradv said.
He believed it was "time we gave minorities a break" — but only if they were equally qualified.
Evaluators for the graduate programs in the School of Engineering are most concerned with a student's probability of success, said Gary Swanson, director of graduate studies in the School of Engineering.
This is indicated more by numbers, such as a student's grade point average and Graduate Record Exam scores, than by activities, special talents or race, he said.
Swanson said the School of Engineering has no quota system, minority or otherwise.
"We admit as many good students as apply," he said. "If we have a bias, it is on the school a student comes from."
Swanson explained that a student from Caltech might be chosen over a student with a higher grade point average from California State College, Long Beach.
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SPRING SALE—Students gather around a table on the Student Activities Center patio looking for jewelry to suit their tastes.
Center project backers ask for student support
By Chuck Coppola
Staff Writer
Proponents of the university center project are asking students to voice their support to administrators, particularly to Anthony Lazzaro, vice-president of business affairs.
Jeff Gates, senate chairman of student affairs, has sent letters to 90 student groups, asking leaders of the groups to show the administration that a broad base of support for the center exists among students.
Some senators are also asking alumni to write letters to the administration supporting a center for students' recreation and meeting space.
James Appleton, vice-president of student affairs, who supports the idea of expanding the relational facilities on cam-
pus, said he will be meeting with Lazzaro and other administrators to discuss what he considered to be the "major questions" regarding the center.
"We re very much for the proposal, but now we're talking about what the magnitude of the center should be and the cost of it," Appleton said.
Estimates of what the center will cost range from $20 million to $23 million.
Any support the Student Senate could receive from the students would make it easier to propose the idea to the Board of Trustees, Appleton said.
Gates and the Student Senate are proposing that a single building be designed to be the center.
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