Daily ip Trojan
Volume LXVI, Number 78
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, February 26, 1974
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Funding approved for Festival of the Arts
WHODUNIT?—A five-gallon gas can occupies a precarious position of the fifth floor ledge of the Apartment Tower. No one seems able to explain what the container is doing there, as there are no windows within an arm's reach of the can. DT photo by Frank O'Donnell.
BY STEVE HESS
Assistant City Editor
The newly appointed Student Programming Board has approved the funding for this year’s Festival of the Arts.
Planners of the event told the board at its Thursday evening meeting that overspending would not occur. Board members expressed hesitation about approving the funds because last year’s organizers overspent their budget.
This year the organizers had requested $7,800 for the event, now planned for March 12-15.
Allan Casebier, festival director, said that at the outset the festival was in danger of being cancelled due to a planning delay during the fall semester.
“Fall is the time when planning for the festival should begin,” Casebier said.
But because there was no programming board during the fall, a festival director was never
Women’s Caucus to research plan for USC day care center
BY LINDA CIRIGLIANO
Staff Writer
A campus day care center for the children of faculty, staff and students may be established in the near future, depending upon the response to a university-wide questionnaire soon to be distributed by the Women’s Caucus.
Virginia M. Zoitl, head of the caucus and coordinator of personnel and communications for student administrative services, said Monday that the establishment of a campus day care center has long been a caucus goal.
“Everybody seemed to agree that day care is needed,” she said, “The problem is to establish some perimeters—to find out who has the greatest need for what services.”
Zoitl said she discussed the problem of getting information about what type of day care facilities are needed with Zohrab A. Kaprielian, vice-president of academic administration and research.
Kaprielian made the resources of the Office of Institutional Studies, which handles statistical information for the campus, available to the Women’s Caucus.
Robert H. Linnell, director of the office, met with Kaprielian and Zoitl in January. They decided that distributing a questionnaire on campus would be the best way to determine what day care needs exist at the university.
“We (the Day Care Action Group of the Women’s Caucus) met with Linnell again on Feb. 12,” Zoitl said. “Linnell proposed that we handle the processing of the questionnaire in the same way the car pool questionnaire was distributed.”
The Day Care Action Group is now beginning to plan how it will distribute the questionnaire, and what questions it will ask, Zoitl said.
“We have several problems to consider. First of all, we have to try to reach all the people who may be interested in day care,” she said.
Another problem the caucus faces is composing questions which will give the administration all the information it needs.
“We have to find out how many people in the university community have children in the age group for a day care center,” Zoitl said.
“And there are other questions, such as how many people would be interested in taking their children out of whatever arrangements they’ve presently made for care to put them into a campus center,” she added.
Information from the questionnaire will also have to tell the caucus and the administration how many hours per day theday care center will have to be open.
The caucus will then have to decide, from the questionnaire results, what type of day care facility is needed.
When will the questionnaire be distributed?
“TheDay care Action Group will have a meeting on March 6, at which we hope to prepare the questions,” Zoitl said.
She added that anyone interested in making suggestions concerning the questionnaire may attend the March 6 meeting, to be held at noon in the YWCA’s Women’s Resource Center.
“Once we’ve decided on what questions to ask, it’ll take about two weeks to print the questionnaires,” Zoitl said. “Then, we’ll distribute them.”
After information has been compiled from the questionnaires, the Women’s Caucus will present the results to the administration.
The administration will then be able to decide on what type of day care center will be established and when it will begin operating, Zoitl said.
Editor to confer in Washington on student aid
WASHINGTON—Peter Wong, editor of the Daily Trojan. will meet with five California congressmen here today and Wednesday to discuss federal aid to higher education.
Wong will meet with Rep. George E. Danielson (D.-Los Angeles), Rep. Charles E. Wiggins (R-El Monte),Rep. Jerry L. Petti (R-Loma Linda), Rep. Carlos Moorhead (R-Glendale), and Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-San Francisco).
Wong will testify Wednesday on the administration of federal student aid programs, with special reference to USC, before the House special education subcommittee chaired by Rep. James G. O’Hara (D-Mich.)
The subcommittee is presently studying the renewal of the Education Amendments of 1972, which authorized the current programs.
While in Washington, Wong will also participate in the third annual conference of the National Student Lobby.
National funding of student aid programs is one of the major issues to be discussed at the conference.
appointed, and no plans were made,” he said.
An emergency meeting of the board scheduled for last Tuesday failed to draw the needed quorum to conduct business.
“Because of the short notice we received, several members couldn’t schedule it in,” explained Arturo Abarca. graduate student in public administration, who was elected interim chairman ofthe board at Thursday’s meeting.
Much of the early meeting was taken up with an introductory explanation of the board’s duties by Randy Zomar, assistant director of the Student Activities Office.
Members of the festival organizing committee, which included several students, then went before the board to seek approval of the funds.
Several board members sought guarantees that the committee would include undergraduates in the planning of the program and that an evaluation would be made and returned to the board for funding consideration for the next year’s festival.
Funding for the entire year’s activities are usually approved the preceding year. Because a student programming board was not functioning last spring, funding for the festival was delayed.
Casebier, an assistant professor of philosophy, gave the board his guarantee that all expenditures for the festival would have to be approved by him.
“We will not go beyond the amount budgeted for us,” Casebier said.
Ward Ching, a board member and sophomore in international relations, questioned whether the festival would be of sufficient interest to students to warrant the allocation.
Trina Ripley, a graduate student in drama and member of the organizing committee, said that she felt that the interaction between the performers and the students was a gratifying experience.
“I really think there is quite a bit of need for a continuing, expanding program. This is a pretty cold, lonely school and participating in this type of program with other students really gives me a feeling of the community,” she said.
Bob Shiota, board member and director of the Community Action Coordinating Council, wanted the festival organizers to turn in an evaluation of this year’s festival so that when questions arise about funding for next year, the board will already have the answers. Shiota said.
Juanita Mantovani, another member of the organizing group and assistant dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences said she thought that plans for next year’s festival should start now.
“If we can get some interested people motivated now, next year’s Festival of the Arts can be the best ever,” Mantovani said.
Among the events planned for the festival are the Los Angeles Electronic Quartet, which will perform at the Student Activities Center patio on Wednesday, March 13 at 1 p.m.
Following the performance, the quartet will conduct a symposium on the “Direction of Moog Synthesizer Performance.”
At noon on Thursday, March
14, Susan Sonntag will talk about the “Implications and Consequences of the Changing Aesthetics of the Performing Arts” in Bovard Auditorium. Her film, Duet for Cannibals, will be shown at 2 p.m. in Edison Auditorium.
MOVING IN—The housing office moved Monday from its old quarters in the Information Center to a more spacious, centrally located spot in Student Union 202. Tom Marx (left) and Richard Garcia, maintenance men, helped office personnel make the move. DT photo by Michael Sedano.