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Volume LXXV, Number 11
University of Southern California
Tuesday, October 3, 1978
Senate holds grievance hearing on administrative services’ policies
By Marsha Johnston
Assistant Citv bditor
A month-long Student Senate investigation of inefficiencies in Student Administrative Services begins todav with grievance hearings to document specific student complaints against parking, housing, registration and financial aid policies.
A report on the investigation, dubbed "It's Our Century', Too," will be forwarded to the administration Oct. 30 and will include the documented evidence, detailing the problems and recommendations for solutions.
Todav's hearing will concern parking and housing and on Wednesday, registration and fi-
nancial aid will be discussed. The hearings will be held in the Von KleinSmid Center lounge from noon to 2 p.m.
More than 70 student organizations have expressed their support of the Student Senate and are expected to write letters of concern to President John R. Hubbard, Zohrab A. Kaprielian, executive vice-president, and James Jones, executive director of student administrative services.
Alumni groups have expressed their support of the investigation and the Student Senate is soliciting the support of the faculty.
"Students have never gotten •together on this wide a scale to
support something," said Suzanne Nora, Student Senate chairman. "These problems hit every student where they live no matter what discipline they're from.
"We have to prove that this is an issue across the board (throughout the university) and that it will grow, not lessen, in magnitude," Nora said.
University parking problems have been dealt with, to a certain extent, in a Student Senate report to Carl Levredge, director of parking operations.
"Parking and housing are just problems we will have to deal with further but the problem with registration and financial aid is that it stems from a decentralization and lack of technological advancement (computer system) in student administrative service,'' Nora said.
"We have to bring pressure on the university for this to be a priority or it won't be," she said.
By Carole Long
Staff Writer
President John R. Hubbard's announcement Saturday of his possible resignation in 1980 did not come as a surprise to most members of the university administration.
Hubbard had discussed the topic with the Council of Deans and had made a report to the Board of Trustees last spring, a number of sources said.
"I doubt that any of the deans at the faculty breakfast were surprised at Hubbard's announcement, and many of the other things he said were mentioned at the Associates Meeting a week before," said John Marburger, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
"To anyone tuned in to the situation, the announcement would not have been a surprise," said Suzanne Nora, chairman of the Student Senate.
Many administrators who attended the faculty breakfast felt the announcement came as a response to the KNXT news report
Friday night.
The report said Hubbard would announce his resignation at the faculty breakfast and it named Houston 1. Flournoy as the most likely person to succeed Hubbard.
Administrators criticized KNXT for failing to contact Hubbard before releasing the report.
"They had no foundation for their report. They certainly should be the most embarrassed television station," said Zohrab A. Kaprielian, executive vice-president.
"The definitiveness with which KNXT announced the report was what surprised me," said John Le Blanc, chairman of the Faculty Senate. "When I saw the report on television I said, 'my God has the Board of Trustees acted?'"
A decision to resign must be approved by the Board of Trustees before it can become official.
KNXT did not contact Hubbard until after the news report. This action represented a simple case of irresponsible journalism to most administrators.
% "The report showed a tremendous lack of understanding on the part of KNXT concerning the institutional requirements for selecting a candidate for the presidency," said John Griffith, executive assistant to the chairman of the President's Advisory Council.
Marburger agreed and said, "The university has a lot of national visibility and cannot be casual about how it selects its candidates.
"The whole process is verv well organized and the selection of a candidate is the responsibil-(continiu-d on page 3J
Three injured when hundreds hurl cards at Michigan game
SCHOENBERG INSTITUTE
By Niki Cervantes
Staff Writer
At least three people were seriously injured Friday night when hundreds of university students at the USC-Michigan State football game began hurling stunt cards in the Coliseum stands, said Jim Dennis, the director of campus life and recreation.
One woman received facial cuts that may require plastic surgery, and another reportedly sustained eye injuries (university officials are not sure how severe the injuries may be). A child reportedly received a welt on her face, Dennis said. None of the injured were university' students, staff or faculty.
As a result of last Friday's game, night games may be curtailed in the future because "the use of alcohol seems to be more widespread then," Dennis said.
"I am disappointed by the number of students who displayed general disregard for the rights of others. There could have been many severe injuries. We are just thankful that there weren't more people hurt," Dennis said.
The students involved in the incident were seated in the section reserved for card stunts. The section holds 3,400 students and Dennis estimated that the majority of them threw cards, although the ixact number of those involved is unknown.
Richard Perry, director of athletics, said, "I was sitting in the press box when I saw a couple of cards
being thrown. A few seconds later, cards were sailing all over the place," he said.
Some students not involved crouched in their seats to avoid being hit bv the cards. Others held cards over their heads as protection.
University officials are unsure of what triggered the incident.
One student involved said, "I was just in a mindless state. I didn't think that I might hit somebody. 1 just wanted to see the cards fly. And the further thev flew, the happier I was."
Jim Bailev, the president of the Tro|an Knights, the organization that coordinates card stunts, said the heat wave and dry rush were partially to blame.
"Tw o weeks of dry rush |ust ended so this was the first chance that a lot of students had to go out and party. Also, the hot weather, people were drinking more than usual. Traditionally, night games are also more rowdy anyway. People have the dav to drink. By the time the game comes, they're pretty drunk."
A series of fights broke out during the game.
A member of the Trojan Knights had his nose broken trying to stop one fight.
In the past, students involved in throwing stunt cards have been brought before the Student J udicial. Too many students were involved this time.
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Buildings on campus give harmonious look to university
By Brad Avery
Staff Writer
On the cover of last year's El Rodeo was a picture of Mudd Hall. Bovard Auditorium adorns the front of a university information brochure. Other buildings that are instantly associated with the university are stately Doheny Library and, more recently, the Von KleinSmid tower.
These buildings are easily recognized by thousands of people — even if seen for only a split second on television or in a movie.
Many of the buildings on campus have become symbols and have reminded people of the university primarily because of a "common palate of building materials," according to Michael Bocchicchio, a university architect.
"Typically, these materials have been brick and concrete," Bocchicchio said. "And what we're trying to do is create a
certain harmony and unity through these materials.
"If there is a certain harmony, a certain unity when people see the Von KleinSmid Center or Mudd Hall, then they can relate that to USC," he said.
Certain buildings, like the Schoenberg Institute, depart from the norm and sometimes tell something about the persons whose donations made the building possible.
"The Schoenberg building is a three dimensional expression of the functional needs of the institute," Bocchicchio said. And the design reflects in architecture some of the same principals that Schoenberg had in his music."
Commenting on the fact that the Schoenberg building is almost hidden behind Bing Theater and overshadowed by imposing Heritage Hall, Bocchicchio said, "Schoenberg is kind of a little jewel. In the master plan it was assumed that there
would be certain little jewels around the campus." Fitting into the little jewel category also is the Auxilary Services Building.
Many people on campus feel that buildings such as the Annenberg School of Communications and the Schoenberg Institute are big departures from the more traditional look of the university, but Bocchicchio doesn't see it that way.
"Those buildings are consistent with the rest of the university — even though Schoenberg used mostly concrete and glass, brick was used on the base of the building and the walks around it. And, even though Annenberg has no brick, it does pick up the hues from other buildings around it, such as the Physical Education Building. You have to remember that different architects using the same palate will come up with different expressions with those materials," he added.
Despite the move away from heavy use of the palate materials in the Annenberg
and Schoenberg buildings. Bocchicchio said that brick and concrete will be very evident in new construction on campus. Students will first notice this when loads of brick are brought in to complete the new three-story Letters, Arts and Sciences building, Grace Ford Salvatori Hall, currently under construction across from the Physical Education Building.
"We always try to come up with things that are consistent with the rest of the campus and, generally, we expect the future buildings to be brick and concrete," Bocchicchio said.
Although there is a considerable amount of construction occurring on campus now, the busiest period for the university was between 1962 and 1970 in what Bocchicchio called the "master plan years."
Constructed during this period were the business, law, and dental schools, Herit-(continued on page 2)