MAY 1 CUTOFF DATE SET FOR 1980
University approves firm admissions deadline
By Colleen Pang
"The women's movement was a necessary movement in human evolution," Betty Friedan said to a group of about 50 people in Bovard Auditorium Tuesday. Friedan is the founder of the National Organization for Women established in 1966 and the author of The Feminine Mystique. Friedan defines feminine mystique as the myth that a woman's anatomy is her destiny.
"The reason women had to move beyond the obsolete image of femininity is that women had to confront their own personhood in society. They could no longer live their lives primarily as mothers.
"The life expectancy of American women today is 82 years. The childbearing and rearing years are so few, there is no way that motherhood can give a woman 1 ife-long status or identity in society," Friedan said.
The first step of the revolution was a new consciousness and assertion of women in a society "that is structured to keep us from moving as persons The minute we began to have a consciousness to change, wre began to realize we were not alone," she said. "We shared a general cultural, political, economic condition with other women."
The basic ideologies of the women's movement are the values of American democracy: equality, human freedom and human dignity, Friedan said.
Friedan said the real enemies of the Equal Rights Amendment are right-w'ing, reactionary forces that fight every move-(continued on page 14)
DT photo by Doug Hocw
THE WAY IT IS — Students meandered their way through registration lines once more this semester but a system known as Dial-a-Ciass was to have provided phone-in registration 12 years ago. Needless to say the plan was never implemented although the university expects a computerized process by 1980
Phones could have helped but Dial-a-Class idea disconnected
BETTY FRIEDAN
By Bob Conti
Staff Writer
"Registration without lines?" "Telephoning for your classes?"
"Rather than the lines and delays now facing class-seekers, registration would be turned into a three-minute operation per
Free press at stake in Malibu
By John Frith
Staff Wnter
Pepperdine University is in many ways similar to USC. Both are private universities, both were founded as church-related schools and both have good athletic departments.
But there are some differences as well. Pepperdine fled what is euphemistically called the inner city for the wind-swept hills of Malibu. USC chose to remain.
But the most recent difference involves freedom of the press. The administration at Pepperdine recently fired five student editors of the Pepper-> dine student newspaper, the Graphic, and of the student magazine. Oasis.
The reason given by the Graphic's adviser, Steve Ames, was that the students were insubordinate. He said he was "unable to work with them. 1 feel there should be some equality, a team thing."
But Scott Grant, former managing editor of Oasis, said that wasn't the real issue.
"The only issue was Ames' competence, or lack thereof. That's what led to the firing," Grant said.
"The students found Ames didn't know things he
should," said Wayne Overbeck, associate professor of communications at Pepperdine. Among Ames' shortcomings were lack of knowledge of punctuation, spelling and grammar, Overbeck said.
Overbeck said when the previous faculty adviser resigned over pressure from the administration about a story on gay rights, the university placed advertisements all over the country for a replacement.
"Then they went with a guy who might work out, but who wouldn't submit a five-page, single-spaced letter of resignation after a month on the job (as did the previous adviser)," Overbeck said.
"They didn't even look at the results."
Grant charged that Ames received his doctorate from Nova University,a mail-order "diploma mill."
Grant said problems arose with the first issue last semester. He said Norvall Young, chancellor, was being reinstated two years after he had been convicted of manslaughter and drunk driving.
"The university didn't want us to run anything about it," Grant recalled. "We did, but in a watered-down version."
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student. And students could enroll from many miles away."
Before getting excited about the prospect of an end to long lines for registration, the reader should know the above is a clip from a 1966 Daily Trojan.
The article said the university would adopt a method in use at Indiana Universitv, where students did all their preregistration by telephone.
The program, called Dial-a-Class, was expected to be installed at USC in 1967, but if the lines at registration are one indication, the change was never made.
The 1966 article described how' the system would work. Students would call the registrar's office at an appointed time and give the person at the office a list of desired classes. The registrar's office would then inform the caller of class availability.
The student's schedule would be entered into a computer, and registration would be completed.
The expected time — less than five minutes.
GROAN!!
The Daily Trojan contacted Indiana University, 13 years later to see how the system was working out.
"Why we have no problems, really," said Ainia Bishey, Indiana University registration and schedule supervisor.
Bishey explained Indiana's system. The student, after receiving a course schedule similar to USC's, calls the computer center at a designated time, enters the courses, and then goes to the various departments and picks up the necessary computer cards.
The student hands the card to the computer operator for a final check, receives the fee and pays it.
Simple? Neat? SHORT?
We described to Bishey the scene at USC registration. "Oh." she said, "we really don't take all that long here."
How long does it take?
"Oh, about five minutes to go through the phone procedure, then just to pick up the cards and hand them in."
The lines at the final check point aren't that long either.
"All they have to do (at the final check point) is drop off the cards, and pay their fee, ” Bishey said — another five minutes.
The 1966 article quoted Mark Frazin, USC's assistant registrar, as saying, "We've been working on this new plan for more than six months. When we're finished, the university will have a registration system similar to, but more refined than, Indiana's."
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By Shari Cookson
Assistant City Editor
A firm admissions deadline of May 1 w ill go into effect for the incoming freshman class of 1980.
This will change the rolling admissions policy. Students are presently admitted even after classes begin.
Zohrab Kaprielian, executive vice-president, asked Tuesday that the necessary steps be taken to implement the deadline.
The deadline had been urged by many constituencies on campus.
Lack of such a deadline in the past has caused problems in financial aid, registration and housing, said Jeff Gates, senate chairman of student affairs.
With the deadline, students should know their housing and financial aid status much sooner than they do now, said Joe Mayer, an assistant to Kaprielian.
Housing should run more smoothly with the deadline because assignments will be completed earlier, said Sharon Ket-
tler, residential assignment coordinator.
"The deadline should help us tie up lose ends more quickly," said James Jones, executive director of student administrative services.
Students requesting financial aid are now admitted as late as registration week. This delays the financial aid process, Jones said.
Administrators did not approve the admissions deadline earlier because they feared they might not receive enough qualified applicants by May 1, Jones said.
The deadline probably won't affect enrollment, Jones said.
The applicant pool has doubled in the last six years. Last year about 10,000 freshmen applied, of which approximately 2,500 were admitted.
Reports show that 85% of the freshmen admitted in 1978 applied before May 1.
The deadline should improve the university's reputation as a school that doesn't just take anyone, said John Marburger, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Kaprielian, how'ever, suggested that the
firm cutoff date should be flexible enough to allow some students admittance after the deadline, said Bill Hromadka, assistant to Kaprielian.
One of these "exceptional occasions" might occur when an applicant with a 4.0 grade point average and a 1,600 score on the scholastic aptitude test score is denied admittance to Flarvard but wants to get in to USC, Hromadka said.
"This is the kind of student the university wants," he said.
High caliber students might not wait until the last minute when there is deadline pressure. Gates said.
Most major universities have a firm admissions deadline. At UCLA, the deadline is in November.
The university should eventually try to enforce a March 1 deadline, Gates said.
"The deadline is an important but conservative step," Gates said.
The university should have enforced such a deadline a long time ago, Marburger said.
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University of Southern California Volume LXXVI, Number 10	Wednesday, February 21, 1979
Feminist says women
need personhood first