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Vol. LXVI, No. 109
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California _
Friday, April 19, 1974
Telecom chairman quits; department may merge
BY BEVERLY BOYCE
James A. Brown, interim chairman for the Department of Telecommunications. announced his resignation Thursday and said the university will not replace him.
“Like Mr. Nixon. I have made a choice. I have submitted my resignation to the dean and he has accepted it.” Brown said at a meeting of telecommunications majors.
“The university made the decision not to replace me.”
Brown and Donald J. Lewis, dean of social sciences and communications, said there is a strong possibility that the Department of Telecommunications would merge with the School of Journalism.
Lewis said Joe Saltzman, a senior lecturer in journalism and CBS documentary producer, would be the coordinator in the telecommunications sequence.
Lewis said Saltzman was recommended by the School of Journalism and is an excellent man.
Lewis also said these plans are not official until the administration accepts the proposal.
Brown said he is resigning for personal and professional reasons. He added that he would like to get back into media work and continue part-time teaching. Brown, who is a Jesuit priest, said he would also like to do some pastoral work.
Brown said telecommunications would be a sequence within the School of Journalism, similar to the public relations sequence.
The merging of the department with the School of Journalism would strengthen the department to make an academic area similar to performing arts and cinema, he said.
Brown said he will probably return to teaching Telecommunications 200 next fall.
He said that although he has received offers to teach and administrate telecommunications from other major universities, he has not made any definite plans yet.
Many students who had Brown for a professor are unhappy with his resignation.
Galbraith to speak on rational change
The noted economist. John Kenneth Galbraith, who was described by President John F. Kennedy as his best ambassador, will speak on “The Economics of Rational Change” Monday at noon in Bovard Auditorium.
Galbraith. professor of economics at Harvard University. has served as adviser to the governments of India, Pakistan and Ceylon.
He is a former editor of Fortune, and has written 17 books which cover agricultural economics, price policy.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
economic organization and fiscal policy.
Galbraith was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Truman.
He was chairman of the Economic Advisory Committee
of the Democratic Advisory Council from 1956 to 1960, and was a member of President Kennedy's convention staff.
He was also chairman of Americans for Democratic Action and Ambassador ofthe United States to India from spring of 1961 until mid-1963.
“He is an able and brilliant man and we are all grateful for the help he has given India during these days.” said the late Prime Minister Nehru of India.
Other future campus speakers will include Frederich J. Hacker, who is an adviser to the Hearst family in dealing with the kidnap case of Patricia Hearst. He will talk at noon on April 24 in Room 205 in the Student Activities Center on “The Political Uses of Terrorism.”
Hacker is an expert on political terrorism and teaches here. He was asked by the German government to negotiate with the terrorists who held hostages during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
Hacker has been president of the Sigmund Freud Society in Vienna for the past five years. He is a member of the panel of court appointed psychiatrists for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County and the Federal Court.
Mort Sahl. a comedian, will speak on some contemporary social issues at noon on April 30.
Sahl is now in Las Vegas performing at the Hilton Hotel.
The lectures are sponsored by the USC Campus Speakers Committee. Admission is free and open to the public.
One senior said, “I'm very sorry he's leaving. The department is losing a valuable asset, but I'm glad he's going into the things he wants to do.”
Another student studying telecommunications said Brown is a very knowledgeable person. “He has the ability to relate to students." he said. "It's not often you find a teacher like that.”
Stan Kelton. a student studying journalism, said Brown is the only professor that kept the Telecommunications Department going.
“It's unfortunate for USC that he's resigning." he said. “The Department of Telecommunications is losing its best full-time professor.”
Lewis saidthathe regrets seeing Brown go.
DIRECTOR RESIGNS—James A. Brown, assistant professor and interim chairman for the Department of Telecommunications, announced his resignation yesterday. Brown said he resigned for personal and professional reasons. His position will not be filled. DT photo by Audrey Chan.
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Notice of student aid to be sent
Students who have applied for financial aid for the 1974-75 academic year should receive notification of their awards by Wednesday even though the university has not yet been informed of its federal aid allocation.
Pamela H. Walbom. director of the Student Aid Office, said that it is unlikely that the university will know the specific amount of money it will receive before June.
The award letters will state that a certain amount of money will go to the student, provided the university receives the necessary federal funding. Regional panels of the Department of Health. Education and Welfare are in the process of al-
locating more than $1 billion in federal funds to the nation's colleges.
In the past, the university has received roughly between 39 and 42^r of the funds it has requested. Walbom said she expected the amount of federal money going to the university to be at least as much as that for the 1973-74 academic year.
This year USC administered $4.6 million in federal funds, not including $4 million in insured loans which are determined by banks and other lending institutions.
Students will generally receive the same amount of federal aid as they did this year, but because of the §210 tuition in-
Caucus will select liaison to programming board Monday
The Student Caucus will elect a member to replace George Bolanos as liaison to the Student Programming Board at its meeting Monday in the Student Activities Center at 7 p.m.
Bolanos was voted off the board at its April 4 meeting because board members said they lacked trust in him. At the same meeting, the board voted to recommend to the caucus that it select a new liaison.
The caucus will form a subcommittee to work on a constitution for the programming board at the meeting. The board is currently not governed by a constitution. although last year’s charter is utilized as a guideline.
Also on the agenda is a discussion ofthe election procedures for the referendum tentatively scheduled for May. on which students would vote for either a voluntary student association or a mandatory fee allocations board.
The referendum was originally scheduled to include a constitution for each plan, but delays in presenting the constitution for the mandatory plan led to a decision by the entire President’s Advisory Council to make the ballot a simple choice of one of the two plans, w ithout accompanying constitutions.
The recommendation was sent to President John R. Hubbard, who is expected to make a decision on it next week.
The caucus will also nominate students from the caucus and from the student body at-large to university committees.
The final item on the agenda is the determination of future meeting times.
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crease, more students will be eligible for funds.
Walbom said the Student Aid Office has requested a lr\ increase in its 1974-75 budget to compensate for the tuition increase. The office is making an effort to see that aid to students is increased proportionately on an individual basis.
More students are expected to apply this year for the Basic Opportunity Grants Program, a program that provides funding for students who have not attended college before April. 1973. $500 million will be available for the program.
Money from the program is channeled directly to the student. Other programs, such as direct loans and supplemental grants are administered through the colleges.
USC students received only $45,000 of the $122.1 million that was available nationally this year. This may have been a result of the late funding of the program.
A total of $500 million will be available forthe program forthe
1974-75 year.
Walbom said that students who have not yet applied for financial aid for next year are encouraged to do so immediately.
Final day for fall envelopes, dropping class
Today is the last day for a student to drop a class and receive a mark of W (withdraw) for those who do not have a passing grade. They must do so in the Registrar's Office.
Today is also the last day to sign up for early registration for the fall '74 semester. Registration envelopes may be picked up at the Registrar’s Office and must be returned by 5 p.m