New Plan Offered For Council Seating
Vol. LXVI, No. 38
University of Southern California
____________Los Angeles, California______________
BY KEVIN McKENNA
Assistant City Editor
The Student Caucus of the University Council will recommend to the council's executive committee a new plan for undergraduate representation on the council based on student living groups.
The plan provides for three representatives from the residence halls, three from the Row and seven independent members.
These 13 undergraduates, together with 13 graduate students and seven professional school students, would be the 33 student members of the 124-seat council.
THE RECOMMENDATION comes from a proposal submitted to the Student Caucus by Paul Moore, director of
the Student Activities Office.
In Moore's original draft of the proposal, he said the guiding principles of the undergraduate representation plan should be as democratically and administratively straightforward as possible, and should accommodate the natural undergraduate groupings.
Student-interest groups could cluster around one or more categories, particularly in the independent category. Moore said.
THE CAUCUS recommendation will be submitted to the executive committee as soon as the question of representation for part-time students is resolved, said one student who has been working with the caucus.
That should be resolved at
Recruiting Brings More Applicants
BY BOB EVANS
Staff Writer
Applications for admission have been pouring in ever since the university expanded its admissions recruiting program.
It was only this year that recruiting efforts—and the recruiting budget—were doubled so USC could better compete with other schools for next year’s enrollees and their tuition dollars.
From the number of applications coming in, it looks as if the expanded recruiting efforts are paying off already.
By Friday, the Admissions Office had received 1.315 applications for admission next fall. 31 % more than it had received by the same time last year.
THE NUMBER of fresh man applicants was up 38%. for transfers it was up 25%. and for the Graduate School it was up 14%.
While the recruiting efforts for next fall are still gathering momentum, the efforts for spring are more
easily assessed. And there the results are staggering.
The number of applicants for entrance in January, 1.746. has almost tripled compared to this time last year, for an increase of 177%.
If recruiting has as much impact on the applications for fall, USC will have its largest applicant pool ever by next September.
BUT IS IT really the recruiting program that is responsible for the higher applications rate? The evidence isn't conclusive, but it does point to recruiting.
‘The number of high school graduates in California will be the largest in history in 1974.'’ according to a university study, but the increase will be only 2.7% over last year.
The number of public and private scholarships available will also increase next year, the study said, but those increases don't account for the large increase in the applications rate.
Almost all of the applications were sent in response to visits to high schools and junior colleges by USC
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W aldie To Speak On Ford
Rep. Jerome R. Waldie (I)-Calif ), a candidate for governor, will discuss the hearings on the nomination of Gerald R. Ford for Vice-President and presidential impeachment at
10	a.m. today in Founders Hall 133.
a meeting Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in School of Social Work 215.
The election of undergraduates on the basis of residence is in contrast to graduate-student representation, which will be determined by academic units.
“Graduates tend to identify with their academic unit, while undergraduates identify with living or interest groups,” said one student.
THE ADDITIONAL seven students—one each from the Schools of Public Administration. Engineering. Business Administration, Performing Arts, Social Work. Architecture and Fine Arts, and the Center for Urban Affairs—may be either undergraduate or graduate students.
The potential problem of multiple student representation would be avoided because each student will be allowed to vote only once. Thus a student in one of the professional schools who also lives on the Row or in a residence hall will have to choose the constituency under which he will cast his one vote.
Under the proposal, each undergraduate student will be required to declare his residence at spring registration, a decision which would be binding for one academic year.
The elections will be open, governed by rules established by the council, Moore said.
IS THAT YOU, TOMMY?—Tommy Trojan was put under protective cover Friday following last weekend's attack by UCLA pranksters who dumped green, yellow and blue paint all over him.
RESULT OF PAY INEQUITIES
Job Publicity Called Poor
BY SARAH HECK
Staff Writer
Opportunities for campus employment and promotion are not made widely known to potential applicants within the university because of the lack of uniform pay scales in nonacademic positions, Shirley Lorenz, director of employment, said in an interview.
Because this is so. apparently the groups hardest hit are women and ethnic minorities, thus hampering to some degree USC's Affirmative Action Program for equal employment opportunity.
Although President John R. Hubbard has said that the equalization of salaries and the alteration of job descriptions were in progress in the Office of Employment, "nothing is being done right now,” Lorenz said.
Hubbard made his comments as part of his response to the report of the Commission to Study the Status of Women at USC.
APPLICANTS within the university are not allowed to see the notebooks that contain employment listings. They must go through an advisor, who uses the applicant's qualifications to arrange interviews with departments that are seeking personnel.
University employees who may want a promotion or a different job must first apply lor a transfer with their supervisor before they are given an interview with a counselor.
Liz Koochoo. a survey analyst in the Office of Institutional Studies, said this procedure “discourages the seeking of promotions because it puts you in an awkward position with your supervisor.”
“This procedure is not in the employees’ best interests.” she commented.
LORENZ SAID that although she has gotten numerous complaints, it has been her experience that only a small number of supervisors react negatively or try to make things difficult for the employee who applies for a transfer.
“Most supervisors, although unhappy to be losing a good employee, will respond favorably and be very helpful.” she said.
“Departments are not allowed to fire an employee who puts in for a transfer. And although they are not theoretically allowed to make matters difficult, there are things we can’t control.”
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Monday, November 12, 1973