Daily Ilf Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI, No. 74
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, February 20, 1974
Florida man named to health vice-presidency
BY JOX ALLEN
Staff Writer
Dr. Edmund F. Ackell of Gainesville, Fla., has officially accepted the position of vice-president for health affairs. Zohrab A. Kaprielian. vice-president of academic administration and research, confirmed Tuesday.
Ackell w ill take charge of the new Health Affairs Division, which will have as its core the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy and will include all other health-related programs.
Ackell. 48. has held a similar post at the University of Florida. He will begin his duties here July 1.
The search for someone to fill the vice-presidency has gone on
since June. 1972. w hen the Board of Trustees created the position.
Ackell received his doctor candidates nominated for the position. He originally declined the nomination.
The university search committee started to consider 11 more names, but in the meantime. Ackell got in touch with President John R. Hubbard, showing renewed interest in the position.
Apparently Ackell then unofficially agreed in negotiations with senior administrators to take the vice-presidency. Sources indicated that all that remained was for a contract to be signed.
Then, on Feb. 11. Hubbard told his Advisory Council he had received a letter from Ackell that told of personal problems block-
ing his acceptance of the position.
Those problems have apparently been resolved, however.
Ackell received his doctor of dental medicine degree from Tufts College Dental School and his doctor of medicine degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania medical and dental schools, at Case Western Reserve University and at the University of Florida. He was dean of the College of Dentistry at the University of Florida.
He is a member of the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association, in addition to numerous other professional societies.
Eight representatives appointed to interim Programming Board
James R. Appleton, vice-president of student affairs, has chosen the eight members of the interim Student Programming Board. They are:
Arturo Abarca, a graduate student in public administration; Cindy Allison, a junior in journalism; David Blackmar, a sophomore; Ward Ching, a sophomore; Jack Fields, a sophomore; Joe Flanagan, a junior in political science; Cliff Ishii. a medical student, and Bob Shiota, a graduate student in urban planning.
An emergency meeting of the new board was called Tuesday to consider the budget for the Festival of Arts, planned for March 12-18.
Festival organizers requested $7,800 as part of its budget, with the rest coming from other sources.
Scheduling for the festival needs to be made immediately.
No action was taken on the matter, because not all members attended the meeting.
A meeting will be held Thursday night at 9 in Student Union 311 to act on the measure.
Allocation of the existing $37,000 budget and the making of policies governing the programming for next year are other concerns the board will handle immediately.
The board will serve for the remainder of the semester. Next semester’s form of student government will depend on the outcome of a referendum later this spring.
Art exhibit by Chinese general opens activities of China Week
CHINESE ART—General Yeh Tsui-pai, renowned artist, shows one of his "Celestial Horse" paintings in the opening event of China Week activities Tuesday in the Student Activities Center. DT photo by Mike Sment.
An art exhibition by Gen. Yeh Tsui-pai, an artist known for his “Celestial Horse” paintings, was the opening event Tuesday in the activities of China Week.
The exhibition is on display in the Student Activities Center lobby display room.
China Week activities will continue today at noon with a Chinese food sale and dance on the Student Activities Center patio.
Films will be shown tonight from 7-10 p.m. in Student Activities Center 204. The films are entitled Tahvan Western Dragon. City of Cathay. Visit of Taiwan, and Costume Design. Admission is free.
Yeh, a native of Chekiang, China, has been painting horses since 1943. The general believes the horse is a sacred animal that has certain God like traits.
The general works in the splash-ink technique that he adopted from Liang Kai ofthe Sung Dynasty. He paints on .Hsuan paper imported from China with brushes made from lamb and wolf hair. ^
IT'S ACADEMIC—Engineering students compute the proper equation for victory as they spike, smash, bounce and bump their way through an Engineers' Week volleyball game. DT photo by Danny Alaimo. (See story on page 3.)
SENIOR PORTRAIT CONTROVERSY
Photo price debate may be settled soon
BY KARI GRANVILLE
Assistant News Editor
Are students being overcharged for their senior portraits because of a contract that gives one photo studio exclusive rights to take pictures for the El Rodeo?
Or are the prices at Garfield’s Studio comparable to those of other studios, as S. Garfield Gandrud, Jr., photographer and owner of the studio, claims?
“The prices are outrageous,” said Kathy Davis, a senior in occupational therapy.
Another student said he didn’t buy any pictures from Garfield’s because they are too expensive and added, “It’s a ripoff.” •
However, Chris Cubbon, a senior in public administration, said. “The prices are high, but I think they would be high anywhere I went.”
New contract
One way or another, the controversy that has been developing on campus for the past few years will be ended later this semester, when bids for the contract are opened.
The contract will be awarded to the photographer who best meets specifications set down by a committee of administrators and students yet to be formed.
These specifications will include quality, sitting fees, the price of pictures and the amount of time the photographer is willing to maintain a studio on campus to take the pictures.
The contract will not necessarily go to the lowest bidder.
Clarence N. Anderson, university editor and director of student publications, said his office is currently looking at the services of four studios, including Garfield’s.
But how does Gandrud, who secured the contract in 1962 through open bidding, feel about this?
He said, “I’d kind of like to get this thing thrashed out once and for all. I’m glad this whole thing is getting an airing.”
Last negotiated in 1969 The last time the contract was negotiated was in 1969. at which timeGandrud lowered hissitting fees. Since that time he has not raised the sitting fee or the prices of his portraits.
But recently the studio’s prices have been the objects of attack.
For example, a women wrote the Daily Trojan and said it cost her high school student $39.50 for his graduation portfolio. It consisted of one eight-by-ten inch portraits, six five-by-seven inch portraits and twenty-seven wallet-size photos.
The same order cost her USC graduate $99.50 “for the same quality” at Garfield’s.
She asked, “How about this?” Called monopolistic Larry McLaughlin, a senior in political science, said in a letter printed Feb. 5. ‘Because Garfield's is a monopoly and many people want at least one picture of their graduation, they are able to continue this con game. There is nowhere else for the student to go.”
He said he got a refund from the studio and said. "I recommend everyone else do the same and boycott Garfield’s until they cease their monopolistic exploitation of the students.” Gandrud, however, maintains that his studio's prices are comparable to those of other photographers.
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