Daily ® Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVII, No. 22	Los Angeles, California	Tuesday, October 15, 1974
BY NANCY SHINABARGAR
Staff Writer
A number of students in the Graduate School of Library Science say they are dissatisfied with the wav the school is being run. They cited seemingly arbitrary regulations, the threatened firing of a faculty member, an easing-up on admissions policy and the curriculum as the major problems.
One student, who asked not to be identified, complained that when she tried to organize a meeting ofthe library students during the first week of school. Martha T. Boaz. dean of the school, ripped down signs announcing the time and place of the meeting.
"1 come from a school, Immaculate Heart, which is run by students for students.” the student said. “I was shocked that there was no existing student organization so I decided to start
one. on the advice of George Sin-kankas. an assistant professor.”
Boaz admitted she took the signs down.
“I didn't think we needed two student organizations,” she said.
"We've had a student association since 1955. We feel it's a
“This is supposed to be the students’ building. The student bulletin board is in here, back away behind closed doors where people can’t see it. We can’t put pictures on the wall. We don’t have any couches in here. We can’t do jack shit in here,” the student said.
The student said most of her fellow students were afraid to talk with the dean about their grievances.
"There’s just a great feeling of fear. People are afraid to buck the dean because she can make life miserable for them,” the student said.
Boaz said that the man in charge of buildings asked her not to allow eating in the new building.
President John R. Hubbard’s office was unaware that any directives had been sent to Boaz restricting students from smoking, eating and drinking in the buildingorthe student lounge. A secretary at the Physical Plant was positive no regulations or
requests to restrict student use of the school building had been issued, as was the office of Anthony Lazzaro, vice-president for business affairs.
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Loss of funds, tuition hikes hurt dental enrollment
BV MIKE MEYER
StafT Writer
The continuing rise of tuition and the recent elimination of a major source of federal grant and scholarship money are causing the Dental School to lose many high-quality students to other colleges and universities.
John C. Vinton, director of dental admissions, said. “What I'm concerned about is that people from minority backgrounds or people without large financial resources cannot avail themselves of our educational program.
"We’re losing students now to UCLA and other state schools simply because they can t afford to come here.”
Vinton said that last year the
Police still searching for rapist
Police were continuing their investigation Monday into the rape and robbery last Friday of an 18-year old coed in her West 30th Street apartment two blocks from the Row.
The victim told officers she returned to her apartment building about 2 p.m. when a man. about 18 or 19. forced his way into the apartment
She said he threatened her with a knife and forced her into a bedroom where he stuffed a towel into her mouth and raped her.
She told officers the man robbed her of more than $57
Police said no arrests have been made yet.
Dental School lost approximately 30 students to UCLA for financial reasons.
“And these were top students—students whom we felt would make excellent dentists. We re losing them not because we don’t have the best program, but because it just costs too much.” he said.
Despite the rising costs, there are more students applying to the Dental School now than ever before. But Vinton said manj students who are accepted eventually end up deciding not to attend after considering the cost carefully.
“A lot of people say we’ve got so many students applying that the ones we lose don’t matter. But that's not true. To lose a student for financial reasons is very unfortunate, particularly when the student has high credentials.”
The federal government has phased out what was once the major grant program for the university’s dental students, the Health Professions Grant Program. For the first time, freshmen are not receiving aid this year from the program.
“There was a change under the Nixon administration to move toward a loan-type system rather than a scholarship or grant system." Vinton said.
"Most of the money our students now receive comes from the Federally Insured Student Loan program. Last year, for the four classes, we had $2,247,000 worth of loan and scholarship money dispensed. Roughly $1,030,000 was Federally Insured Student Loans, so it's the guts of our program.” he said.
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A CRYING SHAME—This coed, who declined to give her name, was crying after a police motorcycle officer stopped her for failing to stop and yield to traffic at an intersection on 28th Street. The officer issued her a
ticket and warned her that she was nearly killed by a car whose driver had to slam on his brakes to avoid a collision. DT photo by Alan Zanger.
New VP says need for school of health sciences being studied
BY DON LaPLANTE
C ampus Editor
The university is considering the need for a new School of Allied Health Sciences that w'ould include the Departments of Physical and Occupational Therapy and a graduate program in nursing, Edmund F. Ackell. vice-president for health affairs, said.
The Departments of Physical and Occupational Therapy, which are presently under the direction of the College of Letters. Arts and Sciences but do not fall within the divisional framework, will come under Ackell’s direction on July 1, 1975.
Discussions about the program are now in the early stages and decisions about the nursing program will be made in about a year, he said in an interview.
The Departments of Physical and Occupational Therapy will be brought under a single director who will work from the department’s headquarters at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Downey.
Ackell, who assumed his duties on July 1 after holding a similar position at the University of Florida, said he hopes that in the future more coordination can be worked out with with the basic
undergraduate science departments.
“We hope to develop a correlation and a continuum in basic sciences in the undergraduate school into the medical, pharmacy and dental programs. We hope to develop a health sciences undergraduate program that all interested can benefit from.” Ackell said.
He said he is working to develop a set of standards and guidelines for promotion, appointment and tenure for the departments that is different from the guidelines in the rest of the university because of the education and service component of the departments.
‘‘The education and service component of health sciences is seldom realized by those not in health sciences.” Ackell said.
“I do not mean to downgrade scholarly activity and research, but service is a part of our educational program and we need skilled clinicians.
“We need to keep good clinicians and need a method of keeping them and granting tenure. We want to recognize responsible teaching, research and service."
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Graduate library students criticize school’s policies
after Sinkankas talked with
Boaz.
The student said Boaz threatened Sinkankas with his job. Sinkankas just began teaching here this year.
“There’s no basis at all for that,” Sinkankas said. “I might have made a remark to the student that ‘if this is pursued I could lose my job.' But in fact the dean told me just the opposite. She told me not to worry about it, that it was a small thing. I did the dean a disservice.”
The student said Sinkankas asked her to back down and cancel the meeting, which she did.
“I know7 she (Boaz) is a leader in the forefront of stopping the burning of books, and censorship in books themselves,” the student said. “But when it comes to her own school she’s afraid of new' thoughts and new people.”
Students also criticized unwritten regulations regarding
eating, drinking and smoking in the new library building.
One student, who asked not to be identified, said the dean’s refusal to allow refreshments being served in the building was the reason the meeting was canceled.
“The dean saw the sign for the meeting and when she saw that refreshments were going to be served she tracked down the meeting.Then she found out what the meeting was about and that’s another story. But the main thing was that they were going to serve cookies in her building,” the student said.
"She acts like the school -is her private home. It’s like her private fortress. No eating over here, no drinks over there.”
The students eat lunch on the steps outside the building because they aren’t allowed to eat in the student lounge, the student said.
framework for them to have an official organization. They have a constitution and bylaws which were handed down by their
MARTHA T. BOAZ
peers.” Boaz said.
The meeting was canceled