Summer
Trojan
Vol. LXVII, No. 12
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, July 30, 1974
A STRANGE CASE—Dr. Addie Klotz, director of the Student Health Center since the summer of 1972, was recently promoted to the position of associate vice-president in the division of student affairs. She has been working actively to try to get students more involved in
the decision-making process of the university and get more input from them. Above, she is working at the health center where she spends her mornings working as the director.
New associate VP wants to get students involved in university
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Staff Writer
Dr. Addie Klotz has held her new title of associate vice-president of student affairs since July 1, and much of what she intends to do in that position is based on her observations of similarities between the medical institution and the educational institution.
Dr. Klotz, who came to USC in the summer of 1972 as director of the Student Health Service, plans to carry on the concept of the Student Health Advisory Committee by utilizing student groups already in existence to advise her on student concerns.
“Individual students must have a voice in whatever happens to them,” said Dr. Klotz. “On an individual basis this can happen, but for institutional change, students have to organize.
“I feel that students should be involved in everything that would have an effect on them.
“If a person feels involved in planning at the outset, he feels part of it, he feels responsibility for the outcome. If he’s on the outside looking in, he feels powerless, frustrated,” said Dr. Klotz.
Two projects that Dr. Klotz wants to implement are some sort of suggestion board or box where students can air their gripes, and a regular open house, perhaps once a week, where students can visit her office and talk with her.
She plans to follow up on any suggestions she receives.
“Anyone who has a positive suggestion has a right to know the suggestion was received, considered, if it was acted upon and what happened, or why nothing was done,” she said.
In an attempt to learn the func-
tions of the areas she heads, Dr. Klotz is visiting many of the offices involved. She is doing receptionist work in the Housing office, the Counselling Center, the Student Health Center, the University Recreation Association, Career Planning and Placement, the Student Activities Center and the Student Services Center.
“I feel that by actually working in the area that I find what the students who come in are really faced with and what the staff who works there is really faced with,” said Dr. Klotz.
“I feel there are some commonalities there—we don’t have enough staff, enough budget, enough support—that’s understood. Where do we go from there? Maybe it’s not just a lack of money, but a lack of support, of an attitude, of a sense of cohesiveness.”
Dr. Klotz believes that communication is very important, and that one basis of communication is common qualities.
“All ages really have a lot in common. We emphasize all kinds of differences in our society—I think this has made us alien to each other, not as comfortable as we might be.
“It is that common basis that we share that gives us an opportunity to communicate. We all want to be unique, but we should all recognize in a positive way the common qualities we have.” she said.
“I think an openess by the students and staff is extremely important. I've seen that by opening up the doors of communication that we don't have anything to be afraid of.”
Dr. Klotz also believes that honesty is a basis of communication.
“I think we should have the
courage to be looked at openly and honestly. It’s really OK to be you because you’re beautiful.”
The Office of Student Affairs is looking at the quality of campus life. We’d like to see that the quality of life for students on this campus is as healthy as possible, as enriched as possible,” she said.
“What responsibility does the institution have once the student gets here to see that the environment is a healthy one, a growing one, in spite of the fact that we are in an urban area, in smogsville?”
This is a question that Dr. Klotz will explore in her new position.
“I really feel there’s a genuine concern on the part of Appleton (James R. Appleton, vice president of student affairs) and Hubbard (John R. Hubbard, president) for the experience of the students—for the student as a total person, for his social, physical, and psychological needs,” she said.
HEW to conduct conference on proposed rules
BY DON LaPLANTE
Acting Editor
A news conference and open public briefing will be conducted on campus on Friday, August 2 (not August 3, as reported in last Friday’s Summer Trojan) by representatives of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare concerning proposed federal regulations banning sex discrimination in education.
The news conference will be held at 10 a.m. in Town and Gown Foyer for the working news media by Peter Holmes, national director of the Office of Civil Rights and Gwen Gregory, an HEW expert who helped draft the anti-sex discrimination regulations.
Following the news conference,at 1:30p.m. there will be an open public briefing in Bovard Auditorium. More than 1,000 persons have been invited to attend the briefing that will explain the new regulations that would ban discrimination in all areas of education.
Holmes and Gregory have been touring the country giving briefings to various groups of educators in eleven cities on the impact and effects the regulations would have if adopted.
At the briefing here in Los Angeles, their twelfth,Holmes and Gregory will for the first time present a summary of the national consensus they have found concerning the proposed regulations.
Prior to the regulations becoming effective, the department will accept public comment and suggestions until Oct. 15. After evaluating public response and suggestions the department will submit a final draft of the regulations to the President for his approval.
It is anticipated by the department that the regulations would become effective around January of 1975.
The proposed regulations would prohibit discrimination in recruitment as well as admissions policies to institutions that are not exempt. Pre-schools, elementary, secondary, private undergraduate and public institutions that have been con-
tinually and traditionally single sex would be exempt.
However, once both sexes have been admitted all students must be treated nondis-criminatorily.
For example, a graduate school may not require a lower grade point average for men than women, but a private undergraduate school may do so.
The regulations provide that although some schools are exempt from admissions requirements, all schools must treat their admitted students without sex discrimination.
For example, access to and particpation in course offerings and extracurricular activities, eligibility and receipt of benefits, services and financial aid and rules concerning housing would have to be on a nondis-criminatory basis.
Men and women could not be segregated in phsycial education classes under the rules and women would have to be provided opportunities in athletics, though not necessarily access to men’s teams if women’s teams are provided for as long as there is no discrimination in equipment or supplies. However, equal aggregate expenditures would not be required.
An educational institution would be prohibited from providing financial assistance to, for example, a single-sex honorary society. However, the society could adhere to its restrictive policies and still operate on the campus if it received no support or housing from the university and did not operate in connection with the universities educational program.
In the equal housing regulations, single-sex housing would be permitted, however, different rules based on sex regarding eligibility for living off-campus curfews, availability of cleaning and janitorial service would be prohibited. This rule, if adopted, would appear to forbid USC’s rule prohibiting men in women’s dorms from 2 to 10 a.m. but no such restrictions on men’s dorms. The university would then be forced to either abolish the rule entirely or apply it to the men’s dorms also.
Summer Trojan to publish on Wednesdays; editor on trip
The Summer Trojan has ended its twice weekly publication period. Beginning this week, the Summer Trojan will be published once a week.
For the next three weeks, the paper will appear on Wednesday. The publication dates for the month are August 7. 14, 21.
The Daily Trojan will resume publication with an orientation issue on Sept. 10 with the first day of regular publication being Sept. 17.
The editor of the Summer Trojan, Sylvia DiSanti, is attending the National En-
vironmental Youth Conference in Oak Ridge, Tenn. beginning today and continuing through Sunday.
DiSanti is among 22 students nationwide selected to attend the conference which is sponsored by the Federation of Americans Supporting Science and Technology in cooperation with the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
The purpose of the conference is to enhance the participation of young people in solving national energy' problems.