Astaire:
By Marc Nowadnick
feature editor
Do it big, do it right and give it class. This was MGM's formula for success during the heyday of the movie musical.
Fred Astaire and director Stanley Donen worked the formula into cinematic legends. On Sunday night the men were honored for their contributions to film art by Delta Kappa Alpha, an honorary cinema fraternity, at a banquet in Town and Gown.
Astaire was greeted with a standing ovation from more than 600 people as he mounted the stage to receive his award from a former dancing partner, Cyd Charisse.
Near the top step, he impishly snapped his back into place. “I didn’t have to do that really,” he said, smiling shyly.
Astaire’s acceptance speech was short because “I really had nothing planned to say.
“Everybody's so young,” he said. “But
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PERFORMING ARTS GRANT
Hubbard says new academic calendar planned for fall 1977
President John R. Hubbard said last week that a new academic calendar will be in effect for the 1977-78 year.
The new calendar has been approved by the Academic Committee ofthe Board ofTrustees. It has not yet passed the finance committee of the board or passed the full board.
A study on the implementation of the new calendar and its impact is being conducted for the board by Richard Dolen, acting director of student administrative services.
The new academic calendar would have the finals completed by the Christmas vacation. The spring semester would start on the day when most ofthe surrounding junior colleges start finals, usually about Jan. 20.
Dolen said that he will meet next week with Robert Coffey, president of the Faculty Senate to discuss what information will be needed to establish the impact of the calendar change.
William G. Wagner, dean of the division of natural sciences and mathematics, said that the earliest time when the new calendarcould be implemented would be the 1977-78 school year.
Dolen said changing the academic calendar is a difficult and complex matter because of problems involving the lengths of the semesters and the effects of the change on students and the univer sity.
The trustees are concerned that the change in the calendar may cause enrollment to decline. Dolen said in an interview earlier this year.
Dolen said he did not know when the study would be completed because of other aspects that had to be worked out by his office.
Betty Murray, executive secretary ofthe Board ofTrustees, said that the findingof Dolen’s study would be reviewed by the finance committee ofthe board, which would then make a recommendation to the full board as to whether the new academic calendar should be adopted.
Hubbard said that this would not cause the university’s budget to go into the red.
SNEAK ATTACK—Visiting UCLA decorators added their own touch to the campus scenery Friday, consistent with the Bruins' style of attacking by land, rather than by air. DT photo by Mike Ito.
Berlin mayor pledges $100,000
By Diane Slezak
In honor of the United States’ bicentennial celebration, West Berlin’s governing mayor Klaus Schuetz pledged $100,000 from his city to the Arnold Schoenberg Institute of Performing Arts in a public presentation yesterday in Hancock Auditorium.
“We should like you to regard our contribution.. .as an expression of our city’s and our country’s gratitude to the American nation,” Schuetz said.
Schuetz expressed his gratitude to the university for “looking after the heritage of Arnold Schoenberg’s (a famous composer of modern music) work and thus ensuring its continuation.”
The Berlin gift will help defray the cost of furnishing and equipping the institute, w hich is being built for the study and performance of Schoenberg’s compositions. Schoenberg’s archives were donated to the university by his children following his death. Construction of the facility is expected to begin within the next few weeks, according to Eve Eshelman, coordinator of the Schoenberg Institute.
The main text of Schuetz’s speech, attended by a capacity crowd, concerned the development of politics in Berlin since 1945, and the close relationship between Berlin and the United States.
“Berlin is a prominent participant in the policy w’hich attempts to achieve more detente and more understanding in spite of fundamentally different views on social systems,” Schuetz said. “This city has helped to find approaches.. .to overcome the walls and trenches which divide.. .the city as well as our country and the continent of Europe. Our primary interest is, and continues to be, peace.”
Schuetz mentioned that improvements had been made in the area of detente, but that “we are not allowed to conclude.. .that East-West relations have calmed down to such an extent that there is no cause for concern any longer.
“Much of the Cold War provenance still looms in the present, and we are still, as before, surrounded by a Communist order of society,” he said.
Schuetz said that the Quadripartite Agreement, an agreement between the four powers governing Berlin, has “considerably stabilized the East-West balance.”
The agreement, in effect since 1971, confirmed the right of presence for the three Western powers (United States. Great Britain and France), recognized West Berlin’s ties to West Germany and improved traffic lines between West Berlin and West Germany.
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Volume L VIII, No. 43	Los Angeles, California Tuesday, November 18, 1975
Deadline extended for resource committee report on tuition hike
By Wayne Walley
associate city editor
The Resource Management and Planning Committee will not have to make a final recommendation concerning tuition and salary increases until Friday because of a delay granted by the President’s Advisory Council last week.
“Our earlier concern had been the rapidity with which we had to make a decision, but the PAC graciously rescheduled a later meeting to give us more time,” said J. Jerry Wiley, chairman of the committee.
In a meeting last Friday, the members of the planning committee questioned the recommendations of the Budget Commission and the position papers submitted by the faculty, staff and students.
The meeting was for informational purposes and questions, not for debate.
Wiley said that thanks to the delay, the committee would have the time to read and digest the
massive amount ot materials compiled by the Budget Commission and other interest groups.
“Now we have the time to better understand our options and to consider the minority positions before making our final decision,” he said.
The PAC will consider the recommendation of the planning committee in a special meeting Dec. 5, and then make a final recommendation to the Finance Committee ofthe Board ofTrustees.
The Budget Commission essentially forwarded five recommendations to the planning committee, including a proposal to increase tuition 5.5% to 6.5% over last year, and to increase the faculty and staff salary pool to 8%.
The commission also recommended that “inescapable commitments,” including a 2% increase in fringe benefits as additional compensation, be budgeted at $2.5 million. It also
asked that no specific pool of dollars be set up for emergency funds in the 1976-77 budget.
As a fifth proposal, the commission asked that no money be budgeted for program development. However, there should be the provision that a surplus that was realized from increased enrollment this year over the budget estimate, in the sum of about $12 million be utilized for new programs.
Also, since the programs developed would presumably be ongoing, the commission asked that the Long-Range Fiscal Planning Commission recommend $2 million in efficiencies be deleted from the 1977-78 budget, possibly from programs which have not met their promises.
After familiarizing the committee with the recommendations, Wiley asked the Employment and Remuneration Committee of the Faculty Senate to
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