Daily ip Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVI, No. 23
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, October 18, 1973
Faculty Senate Votes To Examine Finance
BY KEVIN McKENNA
Assistant City Editor
The Faculty Senate voted Wednesday to have its Committee on Faculty Employment and Remuneration examine the university budget and make a recommendation to the university Commission on Tuition and Fees regarding future increases.
The resolution, passed unanimously at the senate's monthly meeting, was proposed by James H. McBath, professor of speech communication.
McBath said there is “a need for qualitative information" regarding the university’s financial status to be provided to the commission. and was skeptical about the adequacy of information provided by the Office of Financial Services.
“I THINK the faculty would feel reassured if they knew the sources from w hich the financial information came,” McBath said.
The decisions of the commission will be of major concern to the faculty since it
Flight Agency Found In Code Violation
BY ELLEN NORMAN
An off-campus charter-flight agency, the Academy of International Studies, has been using USC’s name in filing its charter-flight contracts without authorization.
The disclosure was made recently w hen Abraham van Kempen. director of the University Travel Bureau (ASSC), received a phone call from the academy, requesting to speak w ith someone in the Student Publications Office concerning advertising in the Daily Trojan.
Van Kempen said that he informed the charter service of Civil Aeronautics Board regulations barring such organizations from advertising in school publications, unless they were recognized as part of the university.
“IT (THE CHARTER service) told me it was filed under the names of USC and
UCLA,” Van Kempen said. “But to my knowledge, it had no authorization from the university or the Student Affairs Division.”
Mary Buron. employee in the Office of Student Publications. said an official from the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington reported that anyone could organize a charter service, but must have the university sign a statement of supporting information.
The official w ho signs this statement must also ensure that everyone on the flight is a member of the university.
Buron said that the academy's president. James Mindling, claims to have a faculty member who signed the statement. She also quoted Carl M. Franklin.
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may have a great effect on faculty salary increases.
McBath said he thought most of the information provided to the commission would be in the form of pie charts and other statistics provided by the Office of Financial Services.
Mary Mahl, associate professor of English and a member of the commission, told McBath that, so far, the commission has only received verbal reports.
“That's even worse than I thought,” replied McBath.
THE SENATE committee will make its report on the matter to the full senate at its next meeting, Nov. 14.
But since the commission must make its final report Nov. 19 to the University Council it was suggested that the data gathered by the senate committee be made available to the commission before then.
Two other resolutions were also introduced by McBath. The senate unanimously passed the first, which affirmed the senate’s contention that the University Council be composed of at least 50% faculty members.
The other resolution recommended that the procedures for selection of faculty representatives to the University Council be determined and supervised by the senate.
The council's election procedures have been one ofthe greatest sources of controversy in the discussion of proposed bylaws.
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OUTDOOR MUSIC—Bobby Hutcherson on the vibraphone and his jazz quartet played the second noon concert yesterday at the Student Activities Center patio. The group entranced themselves in the warm weather and soothed the audience in a 25-minute song called Mtume. DT Photo by Michael Martinez.
Waldie Expects Rejection of Ford
BY PETER WONG
Managing Editor
When the nation takes a good look at the nomination of Gerald R. Ford as Vice-President, the people will demand that it be rejected by Congress, Rep. Jerome R. Waldie (D-Calif.) said Wednesday.
Waldie is a member of the House Judiciary Committee, which plans hearings on the nomination.
Funding Halts Watt Hall Dedication
BY KARI GRANVILLE
Assistant City Editor
A lack of funds forced contractors to stall construction of Watt Hall, and it was also the reason for delay of its dedication, a group of architecture students said Wednesday.
The proper amount of funds was not allocated to the building of the hall that houses the School of Architecture and Fine Arts at the time the project was initiated. they said during an interview.
Then as construction slowed down and the project became more expensive, the university ran into budgeting problems, explained the group.
“IT IS a $2-million building that cost $6 million,” said Rex Berkshire, a senior in architecture.
Full occupancy of Watt Hall was originally scheduled for February, and it was to be dedicated in March. But slow construction delayed use ofthe building until fall and the dedication w as set for Oct. 12.
Earlier this w'eek, the school’s administration said the second dedication was postponed for three reasons—the new7 furniture had not arrived, the landscaping had not been started, and it was recommended that the building should be in full use before its official presentation.
But the eight students summed up the situation more concisely—the building was just not completed.
“THERE IS a lot of showcase involved in this building, so the administration wants it to look good,” said
f- k REX BERKSHIRE
Ron Rose.
But the showcase aspect was the main criticism of the building expressed by the students.
“At any university it seems
like a lot of money goes into building expensive-looking buildings, rather than going into the educational aspects,” said Rose.
The students pointed out that the drawing desks in the new building cost $500 each and are hard to work on, although they look good.
THEY ALSO said that the chairs in the conference rooms and one of the lecture halls cost $300 each.
Tom Jakway. another of the students, pointed out that the building is locked up at night, because of the expensive furniture, limiting the amount of time students may use the work areas.
Another problem the students stressed was the lack of planning in making some of the laboratories functional to the student’s needs.
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“IF A VOTE were taken in the House and Senate today, Gerald Ford wrould win confirmation easily,” W'aldie said in a telephone interview from his Washington office.
“But had a vote been taken on (Clement F.) Haynsworth and (G. Harrold) Carswell in the Senate at this point during their nominations, they w ould have been confirmed, too.”
Waldie referred to President Nixon's nominations of two conservatives for the Supreme Court in 1969 and 1970, both of whom were rejected by the Senate.
He has declared he will not vote for Ford, who is to replace Spiro T. Agnew, who resigned Oct. 10. Waldie believes Ford. U.S. representative from Michigan since 1949 and House Republican leader since 1965. is not qualified to assume the Presidency.
“PRESIDENT Nixon looks at Ford as a person he feels comfortable with, as a caretaker, and as someone who will not run for President in 1976,” Waldie said.
“But this is hardly the way to select Vice-Presidents.”
The Washington Star-News has reported allegations of secret, though legal, procedures in the handling of Ford's 1972 campaign funds.
“I’m not going to comment on such allegations,” Waldie said.
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