Daily
Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, No. 62
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, January 7, 1975
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Appleton’s responsibility cut; politics cited
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Assistant Editor
A move that has been classified as having political implications has taken away over half the responsibilities of James R. Appleton, vice-president for student affairs.
Student Administrative Services—the financial aid. registration and admissions offices—will no longer be under Appleton's jurisdiction and will
report on an interim basis directly to President John R. Hubbard through a special assistant.
Although several sources denied that the unit was put under the jurisdiction of Zohrab A. Kaprielian, vice-president for academic administration and research, others said the move gave Kaprielian de facto control.
The general consensus seemed to be that the change was the result of massive problems of a computer processing
WILL IT OPEN ON TIME?—University Village, the shopping center located just across Jefferson Boulevard, is nearing completion. The mall, which was originally scheduled to open in September, is now expected to open in late March. It will house approximately 100 shops, including sandal makers, craftsmen and international foods. DT photo by Mike Ito.
Security plan faces acceptance by Greeks
BY QUENTIN SCHAFFER
Staff Writer
A new security system proposed for the Row could cause a showdown with the university in the future if the Row doesn't accept it.
“Theoretically, it’s possible (to pull the charter of the fraternities and sororities if they vote against the new system) but it’s not our intent to talk in that language at all.” James Appleton, vice-president of student affairs, said.
Appleton said that pulling a fraternity’s charter is a drastic action taken for violations such as hazing. If this action were taken it would still require a review of the justification of such an action.
Fraternities and sororities would be virtually helpless if
their charters were pulled by the university. They would no longer be permitted to use university facilities or receive lists of new students.
The new security system, initially proposed by John Lechner. director of Campus Security and parking operations, depends upon the Row's cooperation and agreement.
“Our main condition for implementing this plan is total agreement of the houses (on the Row),” said Appleton.
Lechner said that the theory is a group plan and needs the Row’s total support.
“You can get more of the same for less if enough people are in on something.” he said.
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Parking fee increase proposal is expected
BY MIKE MEYER
Staff Writer
A proposal for a parking fee increase will be made this month by Anthony D. Lazzaro, vice-president of business affairs, at the President’s Advisory Council meeting.
Lazzaro said Monday that he will draw up a recommendation asking for an average $15-per-semester increase to help pay for the $5.8 million parking structure that will be built on the west side of campus.
The structure, which will be located on Vermont Avenue between 36th Place and 36th Street, will have eight levels and will hold 1.700 vehicles.
It will be built where Parking Lot S is located, and will take between 12 and 15 months for completion. Lazzaro said work on the structure might begin in late summer, but delays might occur in the acquisition of contractor bids.
As a result of parking fee income accummulated during prior years, the university will have $1.1 million available July 1 for the construction of the structure.
According to projections made by the Office of Business Affairs, $654,000 will have to be generated each year for the next 10 years to amortise the structure.
Lazzaro said that only $354,000 can be produced each year with the present $5 per month fee.
The matter of a fee increase was introduced at a meeting of the Resource Management and Planning Committee Dec. 17, but no official recommendation for a specific increase figure was made and no action was taken.
Lazzaro will make a presentation at the next meeting, tentatively scheduled for Jan. 23, and will point out the factors that he feels have made the building of the new structure a necessity.
Lazzaro said that because so many parking spaces have been lost by the widening of surrounding streets and the construction of new buildings on campus, the accommodation of student needs by surface parking is becoming impossible.
Another 142 spaces will be lost when the Continuing Education Conference Center is built at Figueroa Street and Jefferson Boulevard.
If the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences building is built where lot K is located (a faculty parking lot), 460 more spaces would be lost. Lazzaro said the planned construction of the LAS building makes it uncertain whether the new parking structure will be used by students
only.
He said he expects students to use it exclusively—at least until the
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system, but some sources said the switch was a political move on Kaprielian’s part.
One administrative source termed the move a slap in Appleton's face, and several sources said Appleton and Kaprielian did not get along.
However, several people said that some of the problems the division encountered existed before Appleton came to the university in 1972. Reports on the Financial Aid Office show that some such problems did exist prior to Appleton’s arrival.
Appleton has been an advocate of using the computer program to store information, one source said, but he began reporting problems with the system this semester.
The source said that Conrad Wedberg. dean of admissions, said he had not been informed by the company working on the computer system of the tremendous workload the implementation would require, and that the staff of the division had been overloaded with work.
The university has been attempting to put the functions of the Student Administrative Services Division on a computer program in an effort to facilitate record keeping and information retrieval.
However, according to sources, problems have resulted, particularly in the area of admissions. Much ofthe problems were caused by trying to implement the program too rapidly, they said.
No one contacted was willing to be any more specific aboutthe computer problem.
There have been numerous student and administrative complaints about the way the division was fun.tioning. The division is said to oe understaffed and underpaid.
The division was headed until now by William Himstreet, associate vice-president of student affairs. Himstreet has resigned due to ill health.
He will be replaced by William Wagner, dean of the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
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New law will grant access to most files
BY NANCY SHINABARGAR
Staff Writer
Students have access to their confidential educational records at the university under a new federal law.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, sponsored by Sen. James L. Buckley (R-N.Y.), allows current and former students Hum kindergarten through college to inspect all official files, records and other data directly relating to them.
The access-to-files law applies to both public and private educational institutions. Letters of recommendation written before Jan. 1 are excluded from student scrutiny.
Confusion about the vague wording ofthe law and lack of implementation guidelines from the Department of Health. Education and Welfare prompted USC to set up a task force to interpret the amendment forthe university.
An amendment to clarify the original access-to-files law is pending before ihe senate.
Provisions listed
The access-to-files law and the proposed clarifications, as interpreted by the USC committee directed by James R. Appleton.
vice-president of student affairs, would
•Include grade reports, achievement test scores and biographical data in the records of “official" nature that students are allowed to see. This represents no change in current university policy.
•	Require the signed permission of a student for release of a student’s record to a third party outside the university, such as the
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