Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXV1, No. 10________Los Angeles, California_	Friday,	September	28,	1973
Panel to Study
Tuition, Fees
By KEVIN McKENNA
Assistant City Editor
A commission to report to the University Council on tuition and fees has been appointed by President John R. Hubbard, the Daily Trojan learned Thursday.
The commission of ten faculty and staff members and nine students will be asked to present a preliminary report to the council by Oct. 15 on tuition rates for the next three to four years.
A FINAL REPORT will be prepared by Nov. 19 so the council can adopt its final recommendations on the matter to Hubbard.
No date has been set for the first meeting of the commission. since not all of its members have been notified of their appointments yet. However, it is expected to meet within two weeks.
Alan Rowe, associate dean of the School of Business Administration, was appointed chairman of the committee. Mel Henry, a graduate student in gerontology and a member of the University Council's student caucus, has been asked to serve as vice-chairman.
THE APPOINTMENTS were made on the recommendations of the executive committee of the University Council.
Faculty members appointed to the commission include Ross Eckert, economics; Mary Mahl, English; John Orr, religion; Edward Quilligan. medicine; Rowe, and Dallas Willard, philosophy.
University staff members on the board will include Ted Brannen. dean of the School of Business Administration; Shirley Lorenz, director of employment; Colin MacLeod, director of financial affairs; and Taylor Meloan, associate vice-president for academic administration and research
STUDENT members are Jerri Banks, Panhellenic Council president; Henry; Jim Ishii, Interfraternity Council president; Mike Dotson. Men's Halls Association president; Michele Drake, Daily Trojan editor, Gregory Fong, pharmacy; Lynn Novak, Graduate Women’s Caucus; Debbie Plotkin, Women's Halls Association president; and Peter Scolney, chairman of the student caucus of the University Council.
Last year, when tuition was raised by $240 two university committees were involved in the recommendation.
One was the Financial Affairs Committee.
Biology Mix-up Proves Chaotic
BY ELLEN NORMAN
W7hat started out as a normal course offering in the Schedule of Classes, turned into a disaster as the class time for Embryology. Biology 405, changed two times within a short period oftime.
Originally scheduled for 1:15 p.m., the class was mysteriously switched to 11 a.m., and back again to 1:15 p.m., to the dismay and scorn of many angry students.
Bernard Abbott, chairman of the biology department, said, “I don't know much about the situation. It’s impossible for me to keep an eye on every class. W7e have 46 of them this year.”
Susan Volkovich, secretary for the department, knew more about the situation. "The class never appeared on the permanent schedule at any other time than its original 1:15 p.m. meeting time."
She added, “We really don’t have a clear recollection of what happened. The
11 a.m. change somehow got on the department dittoed schedule, but appeared at 1:15 p.m. on the actual Schedule of Classes.
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BAND PRACTICE—Members of USC’s marching band, led by Ken Dye, band manager, rehearse for Saturday’s football game. Raffle proceeds will help the
band pay for their trip to the USC-Notre Dame game. See story on page 3. DT Photo by Robert Chavez.
5 Decline Health Posts; 1 1 Prospects Reviewed
BY PETER WONG
Managing Editor
Because five candidates have declined the vicepresidency for health affairs in the past year, a university search committee has decided to consider 11 more names from its original list.
The committee will meet Oct. 10 to select from among the names the best prospective candidates, who will then be brought to campus for interviews.
“FOR A VARIETY of reasons associated with the interests of the candidates, the nature of the job, and in some instances health, the position was not filled,” James E. Birren, chairman of the 12-member search committee, said in a statement Thursday.
Birren, director of the Gerontology Center, and the committee members have sought to recommend a person for the top-level vacancy since the committee was formed in August 1972.
Though Birren did not mention it in his statement, the decision of the five candidates not to accept the vice-presidency were unexpected to committee members.
PRESIDENT John R. Hubbard, to whom the nomination must be sent, met with the committee for 45 minutes Monday.
“During this discussion, both the president and the committee reiterated the importance ofthe position of the vice-president for health affairs and the neces-
That’s the Brakes
Robert Clover, a technician in the Department of Geological Sciences, fixes the emergency brake cable
of one of the department’s carryalls on University Avenue in front of the Student Union. Clover said it was
“one of many things that go wrong with the vehicles-—from blown engines to bashed in roofs.”
sity of filling it with a distinguished person,” Birren said.
“Also, the need to fill the position as soon as possible was stressed,” he said.
The eighth university vice-presidency was established by the Board of Trustees in June 1972. This official would supervise the Schools of Dentistry, Medicine and Pharmacy, and coordinate all health-related programs.
Powell Hall to be
Dedicated
Dedication of the Charles Lee Powell Hall for Information Sciences and Systems Engineering, will take place at 2:30 p.m. today.
Powell Hall is the sixth major structure in USC’s engineering complex. It was made possible by a gift from the Charles Lee Powell Foundation.
POWELL ACHIEVED a distinguished reputation in Mexico as an engineer, and participated in numerous Los Angeles projects.
Located at 37th Place and Hoover Street, the new hall is six-stories high.
The first floor of Powell Hall will contain the engineering computer, image processing, computer graphics and communication systems laboratories.
The remaining five floors contain conference rooms and office facilities.