(Focus is a series designed to examine issues of student concern in greater depth. Today's article, the first of a three-part series, looks at what effects the abolition of the mandatory programming fee will have on student programs.)
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Assistant Editor
With the majority of students voting against continuation of a mandatory fee in a referendum last spring, it is likely that this semester will be the last that students will be required to pay the $4.50 programming fee.
The Student Caucus of the President's Advisory Council, whose responsibility it is to appoint any kind of programming board, will probably set up a commission to allocate funds paid on a voluntary basis.
However, the manner of collection of voluntary fees could determine the future of many student programs. The caucus is looking at two alternative means of collection: mandatory collection with refund upon request, and voluntary collection at registration.
“If they do it on a refund basis, as there is every indication to believe they will, then most students will probably end up
Fee question puts programs in doubt
paying the fee and not getting the refund,” said David Blackmar, a member of the Student Programming Board and of the Student Caucus.
A refund ofthe fee would involve extensive time and paperwork, and many students might not consider $4.50 worth the effort.
On the other hand, the university could elect, upon recommendation of the Student Caucus, to collect the fee only from
those students who wanted to pay it. This would probably result in less students paying the fee and less money to be allocated for programs.
Increased fee not considered
Although the caucus, with the approval of the Board of Trustees, could raise the programming fee, this is an alternative which has not been discussed at length.
Currently there are differing opinions as to what programs should be funded under a severely cut budget.
Highly visible programming, including the Campus Speakers Committee and entertainment such as noon concerts, would probably receive high priority in funding.
But speakers and concerts might not be free under a voluntary system as they are now. Joe Flanagan, a member ofthe Programming Board and the Student Caucus, said that free noon concerts on the Student Activities Center Patio or by Tommy Trojan would no longer be feasible.
“If we had them, we’d have to have them indoors somewhere where we could charge admission.” he said.
Students who had paid the voluntary
fee could get free or reduced admission, he said, and added that the same policy would probably have to go into effect for speakers.
“I don’t see how you could get around it with the price that speakers cost,” Flanagan said.
Future of programs unclear However, no one was willing to predict specifically what the future of certain programs would be.
“It’s hard to say hypothetically,” said Flanagan. “It would depend on the type of voluntary fee, the kind of programming board, and the general situation—mostly how much money there would be, and nobody knows that.”
Graduate organizations usually receive a percentage of fees paid by their constituency under the present system. For example. students on the medical campus usually receive 1009r rebates of the fees they pay as they do not benefit from main campus programming.
Other graduate organizations usually receive up to 50*7c rebates, depending on the programs they plan.
Under a voluntary system, graduate organizations would probably receive a similar percentage based on the number of students who paid the fee.
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Daily if Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVII, No. 3
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, September 18, 1974
EFFECTIVE OCT. 1
Medical dean to resign
BACK-TO-SCHOOL RUSH—As classes began this week so did the long lines in the University Bookstore. Special bookstore hours during the first two weeks of classes are 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and
10	a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. DT photo by Bob Chavez.
Senior photos to be offered at lower prices
Students can pay less for graduation pictures this year because of a contract agreement reached last summer by the university and Garfield Studios.
A $24 economy color package and lower sitting fees are provided for in the contract, which gives the studio exclusive rights to photograph seniors for the El Rodeo. Two higher priced color packages are still offered by the studio.
An informal committee of students and administrators was brought together last semester by Clarence Anderson, university editor and director of student publications, to investigate complaints that Garfield’s prices were too high.
“The final agreement with the studio represented a composite package which gave the students a range of costs that the student members of the committee agreed was reasonable,” Anderson said.
The economy pictures are similar in quality to the higher-priced, hand-finished pictures, said S. Garfield Gandrud, owner ofthe studio located at 834 W. Jefferson Blvd. The difference is that the economy prints are machine finished and lack some skin tone corrections, he said.
An 8-by-10-inch economy color picture costs $15.95, compared with $24.50 and $39 for hand finished pictures.
Sitting fees.at the studio have been reduced and the number of poses increased. Six poses, the minimum, costs $3.95, and prices range up to $12.95 for about 20 different poses.
The economy pictures resemble high school graduation pictures, Gandrud said.
BY LINDA CIRIGLIANO
Assistant City Editor
Dr. Franz K. Bauer will resign as dean of the School of Medicine, effective Oct. 1. Dr. Allen W. Mathies, Jr., who is presently the school’s associate dean, will become interim dean.
A search committee is being formed to present recommendations for Dr. Bauer’s successor.
During an interview Tuesday. Dr. Bauer said he will continue on the medical school's faculty as a professor of medicine. He will also assume a new position as Chief of Medical Serv ices at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Los Angeles.
Dr. Bauer, who became part of the School of Medicine’s faculty in 1965, has been dean since 1969. He said that when he was appointed five years ago, “I agreed to serve not less than two years and not more than five.
“I'd set myself a goal and a time limit. 1 think deans should not serve more than five years. They tend to become stale, to lose touch.”
Dr. Bauer, who specializes in internal and nuclear medicine, said that an additional reason for his resignation stems from his desire to devote more time to patient care and research.
“I’ve never ceased seeing patients,” he said. “No one on the faculty at the medical school has ceased professional work.”
Dr. Bauer said he feels that a medical school’s faculty should continue professional practice while teaching. “It has great advantages. You can’t deal with new problems unless you are experiencing them yourself. Continuing contact with patients keeps you in touch with what’s going on.”
Dr. Mathies, who will become interim dean on Oct. 1, has been a professor of pediatrics at the school since 1964. In 1970. he was appointed associate dean.
In addition to his position at the school. Dr. Mathies is head physician of the Communicable Disease Service and senior at-
tending physician in Pediatrics at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center.
Dr. Mathies does not foresee making any major changes during his interim deanship. “I will spend much of my time imple-mentingthe advances that began under Dr. Bauer,” he said.
Dr. Bauer instituted a number ofadvances during the five years he was dean.
“I am most proud of strengthening our relationship with Rancho Los Amigos Hospital,” Bauer said. "It’s a tremendous resource and has the poten-
DR. FRANZ K. BAUER
tial to be a first-rate teaching facility.”
The medical school’s affiliation with Rancho Los Amigos began in 1970. Bauer said that the school must use the facilities of hospitals throughout Los Angels County for teaching students, because the university has no hospital of its own.
As part of his interest in expanding the school's facilities for in-hospital teaching, Dr. Bauer developed a close relationship with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the official body in charge of all the county’s hospitals.
Dr. Mathies said he will continue to keep in close contact with county officials and Dr. Bauer said he will assist him
whenever possible.
Dr. Mathies will also continue with plans now in progress for a $12 million cancer hospital and research institute, to be completed in three or fouryears.
In June, 1973. the school's cancer research facility was designated an official cancer center. “There were only eight in the United States at that time,” Dr. Bauer said.
With the designation came funding for the proposed cancer hospital and research center, which will be constructed across the street from the medical campus.
Several of the changes Dr. Bauer instituted while he was dean caused some controversy.
He changed the school’s curriculum, putting students in contact with hospital patients during their first year.
“There was some criticism.” Dr. Bauer said. “When I came to the school, the curriculum was very’ traditional.
"But the new curriculum became very popular with students. It helped them feel more comfortable with patients and also helped them learn the social aspects of patient care.”
Dr. Bauer also made sweeping changes in the medical faculty, appointing 12 new department chairmen.
“I am very proud ofthe people I was able to recruit to the school's faculty.” he added. “Doctors today can earn much more money in private practice than they can in teaching, and yet we were able to attract top people to our faculty.”
Bucher to talk
Lloyd M. Bucher, former commander of the USS Pueblo. will speak in Bovard Auditorium today at noon.
The Pueblo was seized illegally in 1968 in waters off the coast of North Korea. Bucher was charged with treason and desertion but was later acquitted of all charges.	.