Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI, No. 4	Los	Angeles,	California	Thursday,	September	20,	1973
Chem Classes
Overflow Labs
TENNIS. ANYONE?—Joe Flanagan (at table) signs up Valerie Wong, a freshman in predentistry, for the sports program planned by the campus com-
muters organization to promote commuter involvement in university life. See story. Page 6. DT photo by Michael Sedano.
New Governing Council Includes Student Members
By BOB EVANS
Staff Writer
The University Council has been established as the key element in a new system of university decision-making.
It marks the first time that faculty, administrative staff, and students have been brought together in a single, central instrument of governance for the university.
As the chief advisory body to President John R. Hubbard, the 87-member council—44 faculty, 24 staff (including deans), and 19 students—is responsible for recommending university policies and for establishing and supervising a new university committee system.
UNDER THE previous governance system, the University Senate, composed of 144 faculty and 52 ex-officio members, supervised the committee system.
Two other organizations—the Council of Deans and the ASSC Executive Council (the now-defunct student government)—w ere also advisers to the president.
Under the previous system, the president could get three separate recommendations on any issue that concerned all three constituencies.
In contrast, the new system is designed to provide a forum with a greater possibility of arriving at a consensus of the university community.
HUBBARD ENDED four years of debate about proposals for a new governance structure when he designed the present system as a compromise combining elements of two leading proposals.
The proposals began in December. 1968. when a faculty committee recommended institution of an all-faculty body to replace the University Senate, with its 52 ex-officio members.
That plan also called for a 17-member university council—six administrators, seven faculty, and four students—that would be responsible for recommending policies to the president.
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BY BRIAN ROBINETTE
Staff Writer
Everyday, hundreds of chemistry students shuffle into the laboratory, mix, measure and otherw ise perform their experiments while totally oblivious to the clockwork schedule the department operates to supply them with clean beakers, balances and test tube^.
The Chemistry Department is resigned to wrage war against the clock because of the load of new students who every year flood the available lab spaces.
IF THE TREND of new students continues, it would appear that the department is fighting a losing battle.
For Arthur Adamson, chairman of the Chemistry Department, this swell of new- students constitutes a tremendous logistics operation. Since there are not enough lockers for everyone to store their lab materials after a lab session, the students must simply abandon their work on the table, with no hope of finishing.
It is then, after the students leave, that phase one of the department’s timetable swings into effect.
A CLEANUP MAN is re-
sponsble for collecting all the glassware and transporting it to a washer, while at the same time, new materials are placed out on the lab work areas for the next group of students.
The entire operation must function on a virtually airtight schedule, since lab sessions run through mornings, afternoons, evenings, and have even spilled over into special Saturday lab groups.
Adamson estimates that
5.000	to 6.000 pieces of glassware are carted off. washed and replaced every week.
‘ Physically, we can handle the new increase, with morning, noon and night classes,” said Adamson. “But we don’t give them all the facilities they really need.”
THE CHARTS denoting class enrollment best illustrate the lack of space.
In 1968, the freshman chemistry enrollment was only 400; just five years later, it is 1,050, an increase of more than 250%. Likewise, the sophomore organic classes listed 125 students in 1968, but now contain 450, a growth rate of over 350%.
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Faculty Senate Votes Charter
By KEVIN McKENNA
Assistant City Editor
The Faculty Senate, an outgrowth of the recent reorganization of university governance, approved its constitution and bylaws Wednesday at its first general meeting.
The new organization replaces the University Senate, which included both
faculty representatives and
OFF1C1AI. EXPECTS TUITION HIKE
Budget Balance Termed Priority
ex-officio members of the university administration.
FRANCES FELDMAN, senate president, said in an interview that the new group will concentrate on matters directly affecting the faculty, and will direct matters beyond their concern to the University Council.
The constitution presented to the senate for its approval Wednesday reflects the narrowed focus.
Although the senate ratified the constitution in virtually the same form in which it was presented, there was dissatisfaction
BY KARI GRANVILLE
Assistant City Editor
USC, like all other private universities, is having its share of financial difficulties as the cost of living continues to skyrocket.
But unlike most universities. USC operates in the black —and will continue to do so, said Colin MacLeod, the new director of financial affairs.
“The only way private education can continue is to maintain financial health. I don’t want the university to run in an out-of-balance state for even a year.” MacLeod said.
“IF WE ARE smart, we will learn by others’ mistakes. It is too hard to get back into balance financially once you are out.”
MacLeod assumed the new position July 1, after working as an assistant to Zohrab A. Kaprielian, vice-president for academic administration and research, for more than two years. He was coordinator of management planning.
Besides being responsible for financial affairs, MacLeod, w ho reports directly to President John R. Hubbard, was put in charge of the accounting, budgeting and internal auditing departments.
UNTIL JULY 1, all the university’s finances were supervised by Carl M. Franklin, then vice-president for financial and legal affairs. He is now vice-president for legal affairs.
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over several details.
One was an article that concerned senate monitoring of the Faculty Handbook, an annual university publication that includes faculty guidelines and rules beyond those included in faculty contracts.
AFTER AN initial motion to delete one sentence from the article failed, a second motion to refer the entire article back to committee for redrafting was passed unanimously.
However, with the meeting drawing to a close and the need emphasized by Feldman to establish a working document so that the senate could proceed with its other business, the motion was reconsidered.
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COLIN MacLEOD