Daily w Trojan
Volume LXVII, No. 39
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, November 12, 1974
MOTHER NATURE HELPS OUT—Greg Koenker, a junior in music, practices his baritone, using a tree as his music stand. Many music students have resorted to
practicing outside Booth Hall because of the lack of music practice rooms. DT photo by Bob Chavez.
BOARD ALLOCATES $30,000
Budget requests decided
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Assistant Editor The Student Programming Board allocated slightly more than $30,000 in a 10-hour meeting Thursday, as well as cut funds from existing budgets.
Final accounting figures from last year showed the board had a surplus of $30,000 to allocate. New budget requests and appeals on old budgets totaling more than $110,000 were submitted.
Members of the Voluntary Student Association requested $5,000 to begin a membership drive, but the request was turned down. The VSA is an organization planned to begin next spring when the mandatory fee is expected to be discontinued. The Graduate Student Organi-
Piatigorsky, Heifetz to be honored
Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky. professors of music and two of the most renowned musicians in the world, will have Chairs in Music established in their names. The ceremony will be held today at 11 a.m. in the Booth Hall rehearsal room.
A total of $2 million has been allocated by the Board ofTrustees to establish the chairs.
Heifetz, one ofthe most distinguished violinists of this century. has been a professor here since 1962. Born in Vilna, Russia, in 1901. Heifetz played in public before he was five years old and graduated from the Vilna Music School at eight. He left Russia during the Russian Revolution and came to the United States where, at the age of 16. he made his debut at Carnegie Hall.
Piatigorsky has also been teaching here since 1962. He is recognized as one ofthe greatest cellists of this century. He was born in Ekaterinoslav. Russia in 1903 and made his first concert tour of Russia at the age of nine. After studying at the Moscow Conservatory when he was 14, he was appointed principal cellist to the Imperial Theatre in Moscow.
zation. which had requested close to $6,000, was granted $4,000. most of which will pay for newsletters. The entire budget of the organization had been tabled duringthe summer because the board wanted to check into whether the organization as a group had opposed continuing the programming fee in last spring’s referendum.
Student lobby
The board allocated $2,300 of a $3,000 request to fund a USC annex of the Independent California College and University Student Association. The annex of the student lobby will research bills, obtain information on legislators, publicize important bills and coordinate letter-writing campaigns in conjunction with the statewide organization.
Stonecloud magazine, which had its entire budget cut during the summer, had its total request for $2,700 approved.
Funds for a Programming Board newsletter were also allocated. The $1,500 will pay for biweekly newsletters with calendars of events and articles on various programs.
Community Action
The Community Action Coordinating Council, which is composed of several community-oriented projects, was hardest hit in budget cuts.
The total in cuts was $5,230. This money came from the budgets ofthe CACC administration. which was $1,800 but is now $945; Project Partners and Teenscope. which had individual budgets of $360 each, but are now combined to $400; the United Minority Recruiting Corps, cut from $1,575 to $300; and Troy Camp, which was decreased from $1,575 to $500.
Black Pride, which received $100 more than last year, totaling $1,000, and the Asian-American Tutorial, which got a raise from $1350 to $3,350. were the only programs to receive raises in budget allocations.
The only old budgets not under CACC which were cut were the Chicano Film Festival, cut from $1,350 to $1,000, and Cinco de Mayo, which had $2,000
of its $8,550 budget cut.
The Commuter Student Organization had $273 cut from its $4,050 budget.
Following is a list of other funds allocated:
The Finals Center sponsored by the Men’s Hall Association last year was funded $556 for expenses incurred last year butnot billed to the board until now.
Mortarboard, a women’s honor group, was granted $2,500 of a $15,814 request for a series of distinguished women speakers.
The Campus Speakers Committee requested an additional $6,000. It was given $3,700, bringing the total allocation from the board to $7,000 in funds.
A request for $5,400 from Minorities for Action Now in Medicine was denied. The group is currently budgeted at $846.
International Students
The International Student Organization received $2,500 of a $3,737 request, bringing that organization’s budget to $6,550. The board stipulated that any revenues generated by the International Food Fair would be given to the organization.
A request for $4,000 to fund a possible performance by George Carlin was denied. The Campus Speakers Committee and the Social/Cultural Council of the board had been looking into bringing a big-name performer or band to campus. Admission would be charged.
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Music students asking for better practice facilities
BY PETER BOYER
The Student Affairs Committee of the School of Music may advise music students to openly demonstrate ifthe school’s need for additional practice rooms is not met by the university’s administration. said Morten J. Lauridsen. a member of the committee and an instructor of music theory.
Lauridsen said that the students in the School ofMusic may resort to “drastic actions ” to dramatize the school’s need for space.
The ratio of students to practice rooms is much higher here than at most other institutions across the nation.
According to the National Association of Schools of Music, the mean student-practice-room ratio at private schools with more than 200 music majors is 14.1 students to a practice room. At USC, the ratio is 40 to 1.
Approximately 600 music students currently use 14 cubicles in the basement of Clark House as practice rooms. They did have 15 rooms, but the roof collapsed on one of them last week.
The school will be without those rooms after June,1975 because Clark House will be torn down.
Lauridsen said that students have had to improvise and practice wherever they could find space.
“Instrumentalists, such as brass and horn players, have literally staked out territories behind Booth Hall as practice areas,” Lauridsen said.
“I mean they’re using bushes to practice behind. It’s insane. If you want a good analogy, it’s like the physics department or the chemistry department bringing students to USCandthen not giving them a lab.
“From my own point of view, and from that of many of the faculty it borders on fraud to ask a student to come here and be a performance major.
“It’s not moral with the kind of tuition they have to pay at this university, to bring students here and not even give them a place to work.”
Brandon Mehrle, assistant dean ofthe School of Performing Arts, said that 60 practice rooms
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were originally to be included in the Faculty Memorial Building, now under construction. Revised plans caused by lack of funds have reduced the number of practice rooms to six.
“We are committing institutional suicide by recruiting students who come to USC only to find such abominable working conditions,” Mehrle said.
The university has offered a temporary solution to the problem, suggesting that Barracks N be remodeled, creating 24 practice rooms. However. Barracks N will not be vacant until February, 1975, and the building is expected to last only two years from that date. The structure is one of two barracks located on Downey Way across from Olin Hall ofEngineering.
Lauridsen said he is dissatisfied with the temporary solution offered by the university.
“We were going to get 60 practice rooms, now we have six.” he said. “And the best they can do at this time is a temporary solution in some barracks some place on campus.”
Howard R. Rarig, director of the School of Music, estimated that the organ students collectively have to travel 90,000 miles each semester to schools such as Pasadena City College, California State University at Northridge and UCLA, which provide additional facilities for USC students to accommodate their practice needs. Because of this inconvenience, the school is losing students.
In a memorandum to Grant Belgarian, dean of the School of Performing Arts. Rarig said that only this September the school has lost one of its best graduate students.
“Her brilliant talents had won for her the coveted positions as principal cellist in the USC Symphony Orchestra and as a cellist in the Trojan Quartet.” he said.
“She returned 3.000 miles to New York, and has entered the Eastman School of Music. She could find no way at USC to accommodate her need to practice five or six hours daily.”
Rarig. who has allowed his office to be used as a practice room, said, “The failure of the institution to provide adequate practice facilities is an academic travesty that can no longer be glossed over by national prestige.”
Lauridsen said that the students and faculty ofthe School of Music were not dissatisfied with the administration ofthe School of Music.
“The director, Rarig, Dean Belgarian and Dean Muhrle. too. have done essentially everything they can to bring this to the attention of the university administration.” Lauridsen said. “The students and faculty here have no bitch at all with the School of Music's administration ”
Lauricben said that the problem is due to the fact that the
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