LAS advisers help students decide life’s values, goals
Student apprehension preceding H-card availability has arrived.
The halls and stairways of the Letters. Arts and Sciences advisement building are filled with undergraduates seeking answers to questions about scheduling, registration and graduation requirements. The common name for all this activity is advisement.
However. Juanita Mantovani. assistant dean for student affairs in the division of Humanities, believes advisement entails more than knowing what course to take to fulfill a general education requirement.
"Course planning and class scheduling are the two least important elements of advising." Mantovani said. "We concern ourselves with these the most because they are the-easiest to deal with."
Mantovani said the most important part of the advisement process is helping students to
make decisions about life values and goals. Students need to learn to integrate the goals of their academic major with the goals they have in their life and career development.
She said LAS advisers would like to take time with each student to ask him the important questions that would help the student to clarify his values.
To do this, the adviser needs to talk with and question each student about his reasons for selecting his major, outside activities and prospective career, she said.
Mantovani said that this was impossible to do during the rush before H-cards are issued and that students come for advisement expecting to plan their entire education in just a few minutes.
“Advisement isn’t used wisely. Students spend five minutes making decisions that affect their entire lives,” she said.
Mantovani said advisement should be an educational planning process in which the ad-
viser gives the student information that can't be found in the catalog.
Students that plan their schedules without advisement should be aware that they will be responsible for their own mistakes, Mantovani said.
She said many transfer students overlook the foreign language requirement. Some students transfer to the university having only partially fulfilled the language requirement.
Mantovani said these students are sometimes so excited about taking their major classes that they neglect to finish their
foreign language classes before losing their level of proficiency.
This results in the students having to take a lower level course in a foreign language than would have original'y been necessary, thus slowing down their entire educational process.
Prerequisites are another problem many students must deal with when choosing classes. Mantovani said prerequisites are listed only in the catalog — not in the class schedule.
The catalog also describes how general educational re-
quirements must be distributed among the various departments of LAS.
Mantovani said students could avoid these problems by reading all the information they are provided. She urged students to read the catalog and the registration announcements in the course schedule.
Student advisement is available throughout the entire year including vacations. The LAS advisement center is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Evening advisement is available in the Student Activities Center from 5 p.m to 9 p.m.
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University of Southern California
Volume LXXIII, Number 55	Los	Angeles, California	Friday,	May	5,	1978
Students
discover
original
‘Mickey
Mouse ’ course as Disneyland employees
By Gail Asayama
Stair Writer
A family from Nebraska went up to the ride operator of the Jungle Cruise at Disneyland and asked how long the ride took. The good-natured operator jokingly replied, “Two days.” The family went back to their hotel room, packed their bags and returned for the cruise, much to the amazement of the operator.
Although this certainly isn’t typical, it is one of the experiences that Glenn Raines tells new Disneyland employees at their orientation. Raines, a senior in public relations, works at Disneyland.
He began at Disneyland as a dancer, later moving on to Disney character portrayals and now introduces new workers to the park.
Like a number of students who work at the park, Raines finds that Disneyland fits in well with his student schedule. Disneyland’s busiest seasons are during school vacations.
Rick Barnett, a graduate student in international relations, said the Disney Corp. is so large a number of students work there for career opportunities. For example, he said, there are a lot of cinema students working there hoping to develop connections within the Walt Disney Productions organization.
Barnett started working at the park because “It’s a little ecological. You feel you have to give back something that you got from it,” he said.
“Everybody as a kid has gone to Disneyland and that first time is incredible,” he said. “It has a lasting impression in anyone’s mind.”
Barnett said above all, he learns how to deal with people in his job.
Barnett worked as both a Disney character and security guard. More than other workers at the park, guards are instructed to be cautious in dealing with the public. He said guards are hired on the basis of their ability to promote a positive park image rather than on the basis of their physical strength.
Barnett recalled the time one of the employees became drunk and lost control of himself. A number of security guards sur-
rounded him, but this only drew the curiosity of nearby guests.
Barnett said the officers were so concerned with reassuring the crowd that the employee slipped off.
The guards later caught up with him, but the same thing happened again.
“It's a continuous source of amusement,” Barnett said. Raines was not the Jungle Cruise operator he likes to tell about, but he has had his share of memorable experiences.
It was during his work in the character department that Raines worked around the park as one of the Three Little Pigs.
He said a rather heavy woman claimed he followed her around as the pig saying, “Mommy, mommy” and the lady sued the park for $80,000 for defamation of character. The case was settled out of court.
Raines laughed and said, “Nothing was ever proven. I was the only pig that made the newspapers.”
George Kistler, a senior in business administration, also works as a Disney character.
“You can do anything you want because nobody knows who you are,” Kistler said.
“If you’re up here at college all week, the tension can get pretty tight, and it’s a good mental escape to hop in a costume and act like a nut,” he said.
But the refuge the disguise provides the employees with inside, is also a vulnerable target for customers on the outside.
“It’s hard to understand why people do it, but people are constantly pushing, kicking or hitting the characters. I think they just don’t realize that there’s a person inside,” Kistler said.
He said teenagers do much of the hitting, but surprisingly, many adults do it also.
Raines, while working as a Disney character, established himself as one of the more adventurous employees. Often while portraying a character he would stand on his head, although the department never requested that he do so.
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University to cooperate with Olympics project
The university will cooperate with the Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the 1984 Olympic Games. The university will neither lose nor gain financially, said a committee under the President’s Advisory Council Thursday.
The Environmental and External Affairs Committee formed the policy statement to determine what the university’s role should be in the proposed Los Angeles Olympic games.
David Mars, chairman of the committee, said he sees the university as a catalyst as it will offer its resources to the city’s organizing committee and the two groups can then work out further details later.
Wars said that President John R. Hubbard communicated to Mayor Tom Bradley and C. Irwin Piper, the city administrator for Los Angeles, that the university would like to offer its cooperation with the games.
The resources of the university involve its physical facilities including dormitories and athletic facilities, its services and its human resources.
The committee acted in prep-
aration for the probable decision by the International Olympics Committee (IOC) to declare Los Angeles as the host for the 1984 Olympics.
The IOC is scheduled to vote on the location of the games May 18 at a meeting in Athens, Greece. Los Angeles is currently the only candidate for the games.
The proposal states that the university will cooperate "to the fullest extent possible consistent with the educational mission and operations of the-University.”
The statement contains a few specifications on the financial aspect. It stated, “The breakeven point should include; (1) the costs of restoring the campus grounds and facilities to their condition prior to the Games, and any modifications of the existing facilities in anticipation of the Games. (2) the costs of insuring that the University is maintained in a "hold harmless" position with respect to any damages which may result from the university’s involvement in the Games, and (3) (continued on page 2)
Residential life director to leave office July 1
Hans Reichl, director of residential life, has resigned. He will leave the university July 1, when an advisory committee will decide on a replacement.
Reichl refused to comment on the reasons for his resignation. James Appleton, vice-president of student affairs, said his decision indicates he has other opportunities to pursue. The committee will include students and administrators in its selection process.
Reichl has been working for the university since 1968, working with the Interfraternity Council before becoming director of residential life.
Robert Mannes, dean of student life, said Reichl has been instrumental in the changes in the university’s residential community since about 1970.
“The whole matter of visitation, the matter of coed housing and the development of the Residence Halls Coordinating Committee have been working out since Hans has been here,” Mannes said.
Reichl has been director of residential life since the university’s expansion of residential facilities to apartment complexes, including Cardinal Gardens and Troy Hall.
‘‘In my first year as dean Trojan Hall had grey, concrete-colored walls, no hall rugs and all the doors were the same drab color. It was a very depressing place.
“Hans has been working constantly, and, with the help of many other people, they’re attractive places to live,” Mannes said.
Reichl is in charge of budgeting and operating all of the programs in the residence halls, sororities, fraternities and married student housing, as well as being in charge of the Residential Assignment Office. He will be replaced by an applicant selected from nationwide advertisement of the opening, Appleton said.