Summer
Trojan
Vol. LXVII, No. 7
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Friday, July 12, 1974
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OVERALL VIEW—Map of t'ie Hoover Redevelopment urban renewal of the university community.
Project parcels (note circled letters) which includes
VSA submits tentative plan for fall activity programs
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Staff Writer
A tentative schedule submitted to the Student Caucus by a proponent of the Voluntary Student Association calls for student programming to continue uninterrupted even though it also requests that the $4.50 fee to be collected at registration be refunded on a voluntary basis.
John Nakaoka, who submitted the proposal at the request of Connie Seinfeld, chairman of the caucus, said he felt that it would be feasible for the fees to be refunded after the October meeting of the Board of Trustees, at which the trustees will have to decide on whether the mandatory fees should be abolished.
The decision to be made by the trustees is a result of a referendum held at the end ofthe spring semester, in which students voted a 54% to 46% preference for the abolition of mandatory fees.
The mandatory fees will re-
main in effect, however, until the trustees vote to abolish them. The fees would be collected at fall registration, but the trustees could decide to refund them to students who requested it, thereby implementing a voluntary association in the fall, which would function, at least initially, as a club.
The voluntary association, however, could not be considered a valid form of student government unless the students voted in a referendum to give it that authority.
Nakaoka’s proposal is premised on a refund of the fees, with the students not asking for a refund becoming members of the Voluntary Student Association.
Steering committee
He asks that an election of a steering committee be held in October, and that the election be supervised by the Commission on Elections and Credentials of the President’s Advisory Council.
All subsequent elections would be run by the association.
The tentative schedule sets November as the time when the association would begin programming, but in an interview, Nakoaka said that he didn’t want to see programming discontinued from the beginning of the semester until November.
“It is not going to be to the benefit of the university or the students to make the campus devoid of all activities,” he said.
How such programming would be implemented, however, has not been resolved.
The Student Programming Board voted late last month to freeze all funds it had allocated for 1974-75, based on mandatory collection of fees, and to write a new budget, based only on fall semester collection, by Aug. 1.
In his proposal, Nakaoka sketched his idea of a steering committee, which would include
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Personnel director plans job classification system
John Schneider, the new personnel director, says his job will be an all-encompassing directorship, with a primary goal of establishing a full personnel program. The way the program stands now, Schneider said, it provides only for employment purposes.
Schneider assumed the university’s newly-formed position on July 1.
His first order of priority in achieving his goal, is to develop a job and salary classification system for university staff employees. After the system is created, which will rank jobs in order of hierarchy and list salary perimeters, it will be administered. “The university needs an all-encompassing salary system and we’re going to have one soon.” he said. The uni-
versity administration is insisting it be implemented, he said.
Schneider also wants to see a communications process which will allow for an extensive personnel information system. Long range projects might include a training and development program for employees.
Schneider was selected by President John R. Hubbard from a list of four candidates selected by a search committee which considered more than 400 applications nationwide.
He was previously employed at Boston University, as the manager of compensation and benefits and was involved in the development of a personnel data-based system which also included a job classification and compensation program.
Update presented on Hoover area Redevelopment
BY SYLVIA DI SANTI
Editor
An update on the progess of the Hoover Redevlopment Project was presented Thursday during an informal meeting of the Hoover Urban Renewal Advisory Committee.
Specifically three project items were discussed—two of which concern public improvements within the project by the City of Los Angeles.
Work has begun which will include widening and resurfacing of Hoover Street south of Adams Boulevard and into the Hoover Project as far as 32nd Street. The work will also include widening 30th St., also within the project to the east and west of Hoover Street.
Another public improvement
construction under contract, which will be completed during August, is the university mall area bounded by 30th Street, Royal Avenue, 32nd Street, Hoover Street south of 32nd. Work on the mall entered the final stage on June 25 with the successful testing of the decorative fountain which highlight the south end of the mall at the intersection of Hoover Street and Jefferson Boulevard.
The committee also said that a contract with the Magnolia Land Company over exclusive negotiations for the development of Parcel D-2 had been confirmed. The 6.1 acre parcel, which is located near the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, is earmarked for the development of a 240-unit multi-family housing complex, (see map)
The Hoover Redevelopment
Project is part of a federally-executed program of urban renewal by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles. It incorporates approximately 165.2 acres, including the university and its immediate surroundings. The gross project is estimated at $45 million.
Other project items already completed or planned are (see map):
Parcel A—1.5 acre shopping center already completed, west of Jefferson at 36th Street. Parcel B—1.8 acre Dockweiler Branch ofthe United States Post Office completed in 1972, located between 36th and 35th Streets, west of Vermont Avenue.
Parcel C—5.7 acre University Gardens low and moderate cost housing complex completed in 1971. The 113 rental units are located between Jefferson Boulevard and 35ht Street, west of Vermont Avenue.
Parcel D-l—3.1 acre site at the corner of Jefferson Boulevard, east of Vermont Avenue, which will contain a 235-unit housing complex for senior citizens. The land is ready for development but is awaiting HUD financing. Parcel E—A proposed 215-unit rental complex for middle income families to be located on the parcel north of Jefferson Boulevard, between Orchard and McClintock Avenues.
Parcel H— Hoover mall shopping center, a 15.2 acre parcel located between McClintock and Hoover, north of Jefferson Boulevard. Bank of America at
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Medical school given $10,000 tutorial grant
A summer tutorial program at the School of Medicine will be funded by a $10,000 grant from the Lattman Foundation of Burlingame, California.
JOHN SCHNEIDER
Photo by Mike Sedano
The program, scheduled for the month of August, will be directed by Dr, Grace Marshall, assistant dean for admissions and associate professor of medicine and anatomy.
The 20 students who will participate in the four-week program are incoming freshman with the potential to become physicians, but who lack adequate academic preparation, said Marshall.
“Some are entering medical school whose undergraduate majors did not emphasize the sciences,” said Marshall. “Others have had to work, as undergraduates, from 20-40 hours a week and simply have not had the time to build the strong science foundation necessary to meet the demands of the medical school curriculum.”
The tutorials were begun in 1970, under Marshall’s direction. “Since the program has been introduced, only one medical student has been lost because of unsatisfactory academic performance,” she said.