Daily ISS Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI, No. 12
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, October 2, 1973
Travel Bureau Faces Crisis; Loan Delayed
BY KEVIN McKENNA
Assistant City Editor
Unresolved legal questions and bureaucratic red tape have raised a cloud of doubt over funding for the student travel bureau, its director said Monday.
Although the services offered by the bureau are in greater demand than ever, questions of the bureau's affect on the university's nonprofit status and its legal liabilities have stalled a request by the bureau for a university loan, said Abraham van Kempen. director of student travel.
Without the $7,000 loan, van Kempen said, it will be necessary to release three graduate students that work for the bureau under the federal work-study program. "Without these three.” he said, “there will be no travel bureau.”
EXISTING bureau funds for the work-study program will be depleted within a week, van Kempen said.
But the bureau will apparently be unable to get the loan funds for at least a month while the university's lawyers are reviewing some newly-raised legal questions regarding the bureau.
The first of these deals with a new travei bureau program that would include sponsorship of its own charter flights. The legal questions involve Federal Aviation Administration and Civil Aeronautics Board regulations, and the university's liability in the event of a lawsuit, equipment failure, inflight injury or airline bankruptcy.
Another aspect of the legal situation deals with the bureau's financial operation and whether it endangers the university's status as a Ronprofit institution.
Randy Zomar. assistant director of the Student Activities Office said Monday he didn't foresee any problems in the case, but that it could not be immediately resolved.
ZOMAR IS helping to prepare a report that will be presented to James Appleton, vice-president for student affairs, that w ill define the legal questions involved in the case.
The report will then be passed on to Musick. Peeler, and Garrett, the law firm retained by the university, for review’.
The report contends that the university’s nonprofit status would not be damaged as
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Admission Center To Recruit, Advise
THE MAD DASH—Students began lining,up outside the Coliseum long befttfe kickoff Saturday for good seats at the game. When the gates opened at 5:45 p.m., it was a footrace to the 50-yard line. DT photos by Michael Sedano.
AWAITING CONSTITUTION
VSA Remains in Limbo
BY BOB EVANS
Staff Writer
The Voluntary Student Association (VSA) plan, passed by the students in last April's referendum, may not be implemented because the students assigned to draft its constitution aren't doing it.
Keith Keener and Pat Nolan, elections commissioners, say they haven't begun work on the document and they don't intend to.
“We won't do anything until James Appleton. vice president for student affairs, gives us some assurance that VSA will be recognized as a viable student interest group.” Keener said in an interview.
APPLETON SAID that if a VSA constitution is approved by the students in an election this fall, he will recommend to President John R. Hubbard that VSA be recognized not as a student government representing all students, but as an association representing only its members.
Keener, however, isn't satisfied.
“I want to know what powers are going to be given to the Student Caucus of the University Council, and what powers, if any, will be left for the VSA,” he said.
“I won't waste one ounce of my energy writing a VSA constitution if VSA will be only a paper organization or just another campus club or fraternity.”
THE STUDENT CAUCUS has been given two powers that were functions of student government when it existed—representing students in university governance, and recommending students for membership on university committees.
Keener contends that students rejected the shifting of any student government functions to the Student Caucus when they voted for the VSA proposal in the governance referendum.
Disagreement between Keener and Appleton, as well as between Appleton and VSA proponents, stem from their differing interpretations of what the referendum results determined.
THE STUDENT ASSEMBLY that initiated the referendum ruled that the winning proposal would be required to have a formal constitution ratified by the students before the plan could be implemented.
A document detailing the VSA plan had been written by its proponents last spring.
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BY PETER WONG
Managing Editor
A comprehensive student admissions center has been established at the university, but in an unexpected way.
A student talent search and counseling center was one of the five fund-raising goals of A Priority for the 70s, the plan for academic improvements in this decade adopted by the Board of Trustees in April, 1970.
THE CENTER, which would have operated on
S200.000	annually, was menat to fulfill one of the plan's general	goals—“develop-
ment of systematic programs for the recruitment, advisement and retention of a well-balanced undergraduate student body.”
It was to have continued the university's pledge under the Master Plan ofthe 1960s to seek the best students from a wide range of
Nixon "Enemy' To Speak
economic, geographical and racial backgrounds.
The recruitment of students and the centralization of admissions functions were not new concepts.
IN MARCH. 1967. a panel of the University Planning Commission, the group appointed in 1958 by President Norman Topping to develop the Master Plan, issued a report. Student Life and Student Services. 1966-80.
Of student recruitment, the report said. “The recruiter not only sells the university to qualified prospective students but also performs a guidance function . . .
“By interpreting the university in a realistic and practical manner he contributes to the student's initial orientation to the institution and helps to form his attitudes and expectations.
•	OVERSELLING will pro duce unrealistic expectations and disillusionment
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Edwin O. Guthman, Pulitzer Prize winner and national editor of the Los Angeles Times, will speak Wednesday at noon in Bovard Auditorium. His appearance is sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
Guthman will discuss such topics as Watergate and press-government relationships. He was one of some 50 journalists on the White House enemies list.