Daily §p Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, Number 123
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, May 7, 1975
New administrative structure proposed
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It was the 1950s all over again when Vince Vance and the Valiants performed Tuesday in front of Tommy Trojan. The • band played such hits as “Teen Angel,” Shake. Rattle and Roll.” and “Great Balls of Fire.” DT photo by Bob Chavez and Shuji Ito.
BY LINDA CIRIGLIANO and MARJIE LAMBERT
An extensive reorganization of the university’s administrative structure will be proposed to the President’s Advisory Council this afternoon.
President John R. Hubbard said that whatever recommendations are adopted may begin to be implemented in the fall.
The reorganization, if adopted, will affect all the administrative levels, from deans up to but not including the presidency.
The proposal calls for an Office of the President, composed of the president and a new administrative position, executive vice-president.
The vice-president for health affairs and a new administrative post, the Office of the Provost, would report to the Office of the President.
Sweeping changes are proposed for the vice-presidential level, cutting the number of vice-presidents from eight to three and involving title and job-description changes.
The proposal was put together by a 16-member PAC task force, headed by Jackson I. Cope, Bing professor of English.
The task force was appointed in February and was told by the Executive Committee ofthe PAC to “engage in a thorough study of USC’s academic administration, particularly as it affects the appropriate development of graduate education and to make recommendations as to the structure most appropriate for this university in carrying out its educational mission.”
Hubbard said that the study is an attempt “to look at the whole administrative picture in a formal way.” He said that the evaluation is particularly timely since there are presently nine vacancies at the dean level and since Milton C. Kloetzel, academic vice-president, is resigning in June.
According to the university’s bylaws, the present administrative structure is set up in this way:
Hubbard was appointed by the Board of Trustees as its chief executive officer in charge of all university operations Hubbard reports directly to the board.
Reporting to Hubbard are
eight vice-presidents, the director of financial services, the director of the Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Office and the special assistant for academic record services.
The deans report to the vice-presidents.
The PAC is composed of elected faculty, staff, students and administrators and advises Hubbard on matters affecting the university community.
In early 1974, Hubbard designated Zohrab A. Kaprielian, vice-president for academic administration and research, as the number two man in the administration.
In that capacity. Kaprielian serves as acting president in Hubbard’s absence; is responsible for administering academic, research, financial and business policies; reviews the performance of deans and directors with Hubbard and coordinates, with the president, the functions and operations of all the other vice-presidents.
The recommendation by the task force does not include plans for a reorganization ofthe Board of Trustees or the presidency itself, Cope said.
Cope said the task force has specified in its formal proposal that within the Office of the President, the president and the person in the new position of executive vice-president should
work as a “closely coordinated team to carry out the continuously expanding functions of that office.”
In addition, it is suggested that the president and the executive vice-president “work out of a single office, in the literal, as well as the verbal se:.se,” Cope said.
The proposal will not recommend specific duties for the executive vice-president because “it would be the president's function to delegate authority to and define the duties of the executive vice-president,” Cope said.
Both Hubbard and Cope emphasized that the task force will not submit recommendations on who should fill the proposed positions.
“That was never our charge,” Cope said during an interview Tuesday. “Even in our (the task force’s) private conversations we never talked in terms of names.”
On Monday, Hubbard told the Daily Trojan that after the task force’s recommendation is reviewed by the PAC and its Executive Committee, he will receive what can best be described as a blank chart of the administrative structure.
Suggested administrative positions will be specified, but it would be up to Hubbard to make the final decision on which posi-(continued on page 2)
Voter turnout low for PAC student election
BY BOB RUBENSTEIN
About 14% of the 6,025 eligible undergraduate students voted in the President’s Advisory Council-Student Senate elections which ended Monday at 5 p.m.
Fifty undergraduates ran for a total of 12 seats representing the Row. the dorms and the commuters.
The new Student Senate members representing the commuters, and their respective vote totals, are: David Blackmar (201), Rob Gach (195). Narbik Manukian(151), Ed Morgan(141), Phyllis Asayama (135) and Roger Obregon (131).
The three dorm seats will be
filled by Terry Ann Hillis and Mark DiMaria. who each received 101 votes, and by Glenn Sonnenberg, who received 81
votes.
Steven H. Hayes (86), Yolanda Chavez (64) and Jerry Papazian (61) are the new Student Senate representatives for the Row.
The Student Senate was called the Student Caucus until it approved its first set of bylaws two weeks ago.
The low voter turn-out can probably be attributed to the fact that many students don’t know that the Student Senate is part of the PAC, or they don’t (continued on page 3)
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International Center plans delayed
By MIKE MEYER
Senior Staff Writer
Last year, in what was billed as a great kick-off campaign, the International Center received enthusiastic support from students, alumni and administrators. Now the entire project fund raising, building plans and all—has gone the way of the wind, apparently due to a lack of funds.
Now it is hoped that part of the proposed University Center will house an area for international students. That center, however, may not be built for another 10 or 15 years.
What happened? Apparently it was a lack of funding.
The center would be a recreational activity facility for the entire university community. However, there is no guarantee that the needs of the international students would be met by such a center.
A committee of students, faculty and administrators has been meeting for nearly a year to consider proposals on what ought to be included in the center, but the committee is not even close to making any official recommendations.
“The international students may or may not receive priority, depending on what the entire campus decides to be most beneficial to all,” Paul Moore, director of student activities, said.
Meanwhile, international students will continue to congregate in the Office of International Students and Scholars on the third floor of the Student Union, described as horribly inadequate by one of the office's administrators.
An estimated 500 students visit the office each day, simply because they have no place else to go. An office worker said, “We don't want to ask them to leave, but it creates an atmosphere uncomfortable to
them, and one that is not conducive to efficiency in an office environment."
Jerry Wulk. director of the office, said the amount of space in the office is just not adequate for the amount of work that has to be done.
There are about 2,200 international students from 104 nations at the university this year.
Each student has an average of six official government documents that must be handled by the office and returned to the student’s native country. These include documents such as work permits, visas and statements of the student’s financial status.
The process becomes very complex because the procedures for handling the
documents vary from country to country. A far greater problem, said John Wasson, the office’s program coordinator, is that the limited space and per-
sonnel make it impossible to establish programs, such as orientation sessions that are vital to the international student’s adjustment to the United States.
“International students, when they arrive, are very anxious to get involved in the American way of life, But the resources at this university just don’t provide for a smooth transition,” Wasson said.
“After they get off the plane, there is often no place for them to go. They have a definite need for a meeting place—a place to gather and plan activities.
"The international student has a greater need for a place to just go and talk This is proven by the fact that 80% of the students who use the Student Activities Center are internationaj students.”
Wasson recently went to UCLA and talked to the directors of the international center there.	.	in,
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