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HIDE-AND-GO-SEEK — A young child almost succeeds in camouflaging himself amidst the leaves and branches of campus shrubbery.
Deadline for housing extended
Freshman allowed more time to apply
The Housing Policy Advisory Committee voted to change the housing application deadline for incoming freshmen.
The committee recommended to two vice-presidents the deadline to be set at July 1. It previously recommended to Anthony Lazzaro, vice-president of business affairs and James Appleton, vice-president of studentaffairs, a May 15deadline.
Ron McEIhaney, president of the student community council, said he believed one of the reasons the administrators wanted to change the May deadline to June was to present to the vice presidents a date they would accept.
Jeremy Stringer, director of the Office of Residential Life said the vice presidents knew about the May 15 deadline and had already approved it.
The university could lose incoming students if it stayed with the May 15 deadline, he said.
The committee reviewed various reports Thursday that said approximately 800 freshmen would apply for housing on or before the May 1 deadline. Stringer said. A motion was also made by students not to reserve housing for incoming freshmen past the May 15 deadline.
In a unanimous decision, the committee voted to guarantee housing to returning students who are currently in housing.
Currently, there are about 1,400 freshmen living in university housing, Stringer said.
Part of the problem w'ith a May 15 deadline, McEIhaney said, is that certain university departments delay admitting students until late in the academic year. This is done, McEIhaney said, so they ca n be more selecti ve in who they admit to their department.
McEIhaney said students on the committee felt if admissions acceptance letters were mailed earlier, the May deadline could work.
Legal problems may also be involved with the date changes, McEIhaney said, because the dates had been published. However, the new edition of Gimme Shelter, which describes the various housing units and lists the deadlines, is being revised.
James Appleton, vice president of student affairs, said he supported the May deadline, but due to practicality it would have to be July.
Students had problems with financial aid and admissions, and could not meet the May 15 deadline, because they didn't know if they could come to the university, Appleton said.
When admissions and financial aid can show improvement in meeting deadlines, it would be much easier for housing to go with the earlier deadline, Appleton said.
Stringer said the committee has set up suggestions tor parities. It is now a matter of determining which group gets what deadline.
The present system, which is subject to change, has the first priority going to students currently in university housing, who will be going through the application process next month.
Next, incoming freshmen who live outside a 20-mile radius, then new undergraduate transfer students and continuing students who live 20 miles away from campus.
Freshmen and new transfer students who live within the 20-mile radius are on the end of the list.
Students on the lower part of the priority list will probably be placed in what is termed "marginal housing," McEIhaney said.
These are units along Adams Boulevard such as Troyland and Portland Heights, he said.
The reason they are marginal, McEIhaney explained, was because they were older, had more maintenance problems, and faced a greater risk of criminal activity.
Extension campus for Orange County urged
By Brandon Bailey
Staff Writer
A preliminary proposal for an Orange County extension of the university was presented Mondav to the resource management and plan-ning committee of the President's Advisory Council.
Paul Gray, a professor in quantitative business analysis and a member of the Faculty Senate who drew up the proposals, told the committee that the proposal only called for the committee to look at the possibility of establishing a "satellite" campus. Gray stressed that he was not proposing that the university abandon its location in central Los Angeles.
He said it would provide a way to organize a number of programs currently managed independently by various schooLs of the university.
Gray cited programs offered by the schooLs of law, social work and business.
The idea would also be a way for the university to better serve the population of Orange County, which, demographicallv, is "USCcountry," Gray said.
The university draws a number of students from Orange Countv and there is a large population of university alumni in the area, Gray said.
Gray said the university was reaching the physical limit of its Los Angeles campus. He said his proposal would allow the university to further expand while meeting a few specialized needs.
Kenneth Servis, an associate professor in organic chemistrv and a member of the Faculty Senate, expressed a fear that an Orange County extension campus would lead to the "junior college syndrome," because the university would not be able to provide the student services or the quality of classroom education available on the Los Angeles campus.
Gray said he recognized the "important academic consideration that this not be an extension — that this be USC."
Gray said he thought academic quality could be maintained at a satellite campus, while providing greater opportunities for faculty who are more interested in teaching than conducting research.
A satellite campus in Orange County would serve students who wanted a university degree, but did not want to attend classes in Los Angeles, Gray said.
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Prof decides to leave due to faculty disputes
By P. Kellie Citron
Patrick J. McGowan, associate professor of international relations, has decided to accept the chairmanship of the department of political science at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz.
His decision to take the position at ASU resulted from personal and academic disputes among members of the international relations faculty here.
McGowan resigned last Oct. 6 in the midst of conflicts within the School of International Relations.
James Rosenau, former director of the school, took a leave of
absence last semester until conflicts between him and the faculty could be resolved
Rosenau and other facultv members differed over the direction of and future changes in the school.
The senior faculty, junior associate and assistant facultv members also split as a result of the conflicts.
Some faculty members feel the school should emphasize the professional aspects of international relations and other members feel scholarly research and teaching should be emphasized,
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Labor, food costs force price hike
By Alice Ragenovich
Staff Writer
Food prices in the Commons, Grill and Deli have been increased due to labor, food and paper product price increases.
"Inflationary pressure has been greater in the past year than ever before. Either we recognize and cope with the problems or we ignore them and fail to meet our financial responsibility to the university," said Milton DeGraw, manager of Commons food services.
"We have two obligations to the university. One is to break even — not to make money, the other is to our customers," he said.
“It's a vicious circle. As of Jan. 1, 1979, the minimum wage went from $2.65 to $2.90. Approximately 135 employees received raises in an attempt to keep even with the cost of living.
"If inflation only affected one area, such as labor, food services could have absorbed the increase, but when many areas are affected we're caught between a rock and a hard place.
"I think in the past some of our prices have been too low and now they're getting to be where they need to be," DeGraw said.
Residence hall prices will not be raised because they are on contract, said Paul Copeland, director of food services.
The price hikes were gradual. Prices were first raised in the Commons last Monday and this week the prices in the Grill were raised. There has been an overall price increase of 7% DeGraw said.
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INFLATION HITS HARD — Chicken prices, raised 10%, exemplify the many price hikes on food initiated due to increasing costs.