Admissions panel search ends
Hubbard gets four Student Senate nominees
By Teresa Watanabe
Assistant City Editor
The Student Senate selected four black students as its nominees to the University Admissions Committee at an emergency meeting Monday, ending a month-long selection process that was laced with unusual procedures and some disputes.
The senate will forward the names of the nominees to President John R. Hubbard, who is expected to make his final selection sometime next week.
The nominees were chosen from among eight final applicants — four blacks, two Chicanos, one Asian-American and one caucasian. The Associated Black Students of Southern Cal-ifornia-Black Student Union
and MEChA coalition, a group of black and Chicano students that has taken an active, outspoken role in the selection process, endorsed four candidates, three of whom were chosen as nominees: Margaret Bernstein, a sophomore in journalism; William Billingsley III, a senior in political science; and John Morris Jr., a junior in political science.
The fourth nominee, Pamela Steward, a freshman in business administration, was a nonendorsed candidate.
One senator called the process "the most controversial, as far as I can remember." Because of the admission committee's nature and history, extreme care was taken to encourage as manv students as
possible to apply, he said.
In an unusual procedure warranted by the intense interest in the committee selection, all final candidates were interviewed before the senate, said Jeff Gates, senate chairman.
In her interview. Steward said the needs of minority students were no different from those of nonminorities. "It's wrong to believe minorities are handicapped and should receive special privileges. I feel there's lots of qualified minorities."
Bernstein, a transfer student from Pitzer College, believed a major goal of the committee was to insure that minority enrollment did not dwindle. "It should work to increase enroll-(Continued on page 3)
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Volume LXXXVII, Number 32 University of Southern California Tuesday, October 30, 1979
Statistics show university 14th highest for ’79 tuition, fees
By Roger Wedberg
Staff Writer
University tuition and fees, $4,728 for the 1979-80 school year, now rank 14th out of the 24 members of the American Association of Universities, said John Curry, director of Management Planning.
Rising operating costs were blamed for the $428 increase in tuition, although Curry did not know why the university's position had changed relative to other private schools' positions.
Two years ago the university ranked 16th in tuition costs, moving to 15th last year.
"We're not going to move to the top — not for some time," Curry said.
The Ivy League schools, headed by Yale at $5,630 and Brown University at $5,615 in tuition and fees this year, are generally the most expensive universities.
Stanford University ranked third at $5,595 in tuition and fees.
Library purchases, energy outlays, fringe benefit and salary expenses are increasing with inflation while university endowments are not relieving the push of these costs on inflation, Curry said.
Curry will present preliminary budget projections for the next five years to the President's Advisory Council at the end of November.
About 70% of the budget will be directed toward salaries for faculty and staff.
This year's tuition hike moved the university ranking between George Washington University and the California Institute of Technology.
"You have to look at the role that tuition plays in the operating budget of the university. That is possibly one of the reasons that tuition moved just a little ahead of Caltech," Curry said.
Caltech's endowment is higher although its student body numbers less than 2,000.
"Our endowment for students is very small, so this puts more pressure on tuition to play a more important role in the budget," he said.
The Toward Century II campaign's influence on tuition costs will be "very modest at best," Curry said.
"A lot of gifts for Toward Century II represent what we call current funds — foundations of programs and funds for research projects," he said.
The campaign will improve the quality of the education but not directly influence the tuition price, he said.
Other factors influencing the differences in tuition of universities are regional energy demand, quality of the faculty and housing costs.
Staff photo by Wayne Levina
TIMBER — Gusty winds hit the Los Angeles area Sunday night, knocking out power lines, temporarily closing LAX to air traffic and increasing fire danger in the area. This tree on campus did not withstand the force of the high winds.
Salesman robbed last week in Doheny Library
Two youths robbed a salesman at gunpoint in Doheny Library last week, taking the man's watch.
The youths, using one small revolver, confronted the salesman in a library restroom at approximately 3:55 p.m., demanding the man's wallet.
The salesman, whose name was not released, told the youths he did not have any money, according to Sgt. Gary Rus of University Security. The youths then emptied the man's pockets,and finding nothing, took his watch and fled.
The salesman was not injured.
Rus described both suspects as males about 19 or 20 years old wearing dark baggy clothing. One of the youths wore a white hat.
Rus said the description was
similar to that of two suspects who robbed two students at 10:50 p.m. that night.
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Vandals damage baseball stadium
Baseball equipment at Dedeaux Field received over $2,000 worth of damage over the weekend. Several items were also stolen.
According to Sgt. Gary Rus of University Security, the theft and vandalism occurred between 12:15 p.m. Saturday and 6:25 a.m. Sunday, near the baseball diamond. Netting on (Continued on page 8)
Staff photo by Peter C. Wtullch
FOOL FOR THE CITY? — The university's Fisher Galery is currently presenting the national art exhibit, "Reality of Illusion," which explores the recent trend in contemporary visual art called a magical fiction. The object of the illusionistic works is to fool the senses of sight or touch through the simulation of reality. The exhibit will remain here through Nov 25 and is open Tuesdays through Sundays, noon to 5 p.m. and on Wednesdays from 7 to 10 p.m. Admission is $1, and 50 cents for students with identification
Fisher Gallery hosts illusionistic art exhibit
Life-size three dimensional sculptures, ceramic bags that look like leather, painted shadows and paintings that appear to be collages deceive observers of the national art exhibit, "Reality of Illusion."
The exhibit, on display in the university's Fisher Gallery, presents illusionistic works in three basic styles by 83 American international artists.
Donald Brewer, director of the University Galleries and curator of the exhibition, described these styles as the historic illusionist tradition called contemporary trompe I'oeil (fool the eye) style, the art between trompe I'oeil imagery and abstract imagery, where high realistic imagery appears abstract and, purely abstract illusionism, including both expressionistic and hard-edged geometric imagery.
Brewer said the painting or object must be visually deceptive and must either fool the eye in its simulation of reality or establish an almost tactile illusion of special depth and projection.
"This exhibition is an exploration of a recent trend in contemporary visual art — a magical fiction," Brewer said. "For example, when viewers enter the gallery and see two figures seated at a table, they are momentarily stunned. The mind sees the figures as real, but realizes that it's an illusion," he said.
The exhibition is supported by grants from the National Endow-
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