B\ R01 CHAPMAN	sions, said Willis Edwards, a
The California Student Hear-	USC member ofthe committee,
ings on Financial Aid were held	“These hearings cire designed
May 9 and 10 in Los Angeles and	to identify the problems that
San Francisco to gather first-	students are experiencing in
hand evidence about the prob-	learning about, applying for. and
lems facing students seeking fi-	obtaining financial aid. ” he said,
nancial aid.	Edwards said the hearings are
The College Scholarship Ser-	intended to focus on these prob-
vice Student Advisory Commit-	lems. expose them to the public,
tee and the National Student	present them in a coherent pat-
Educational Fund cosponsored	tern and investigate the width
the hearings, which were held at	and the depth of other problems
UCLA and at California State	in student financial aid.
University at San Francisco.	The hearings are being con-
The hearings will be held in	ducted in the format of a Con-
four more states before the	gressional hearing. Witnesses
committee reaches any conclu-	are asked to present written tes-
Tower of Power will ^ play here Thursday
Tower of Power, the rhythm-and-blues rock group, will perform on the Student Activities Center patio Thursday at noon. The concert is being promoted by the Student Programming Council and is produced by Rob Heller Enterprises.
Due to the limited number of students who paid the voluntary programming fee, this is the first attempt by the Programming ^Council to have a well-known band play on campus. j
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University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, Number 128 Los Angeles, California Wednesday, May 14, 1975
Plan for 24-hour visitation in coed dorms being studied
THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ANT—Spring is here and finals are approaching. While studying helps for tests, the warm weather makes it hard to stay inside. This student has arrived at a compromise, catdiing up on his work and his rays in Fagg Park. DT photo by Shuji Ito.
BY DOROTHY REINHOLD
A proposed policy that would allow 24-hour visitation next year in Birnkrant Hall and Marks Tower, the coed residence halls, is being considered by James R. Appleton, vice-president for student affairs.
Ifthe policy is approved, 24-hour visitation would be implemented next fall, with the details of administration—sign-in procedures and security measures—to be determined by the residence halls staff.
Appleton said he is sympathetic to the proposal, but has not made a personal decision about it yet. After he decides, the proposal will be given to the Student Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees. Appleton said the Board will then either decide to accept or reject the proposal, or will delegate that responsibility back to him.
“At any rate, we should know by June 4—the date of the last Board of Trustees meeting,” Appleton said.“If they are going to consider the proposal, it will be done by then.”
Appleton said if the policy was accepted, he did not anticipate any problems from upset parents. “As long as there is a variety of options in life styles, parents and students can choose which one suits their needs,” he said.
Hans G. Reichl, director of Residential Life, a-greed with him. “We’re not trying to force 24-hour
providing alternatives,” he said.
The policy was originally submitted to Reichl by the 24-Hour Visitation Task Force, composed of students from Birnkrant and Marks Tower.
Reichl said he thought the equality issue was more important to students than the issue of 24-hour visitation itself. “We are dealing with the equality between men and women, not so much an issue of rules,” he said.
Reichl said he did not know if another policy was being formulated for 24-hour visitation in the women’s halls, but both he and Appleton agreed that even if one was being planned, it would be too late to consider for implementation for the next school year.
“With the women’s dorms you have a whole new-set of problems. We need to provide alternate visitation policies, nonvisitation floors, and the security problem—keeping people out of the wrong areas—becomes complicated,” Reichl said.
Reichl said since the university had already made contracts with the women’s hall residents for next year, the soonest those halls could possibly be included under a 24-hour visitation policy would be the 1976-77 school year. “All those parents and students are expecting the policy to remain the same,” Reichl said. “We can’t change it and then expect them to okay it.”
Chairman of Student Senate elected
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Campus Editor The light streamed into the room where the curtains had been closed for most of the past semester. The desk was clear of papers for the first time since January.
David Blackmar smiled awkwardly. The new chairman ofthe Student Senate, unaccustomed to his office, which is plush compared to his Programming Council office, and unaccustomed to his sudden popularity, expressed surprise over how busy he’s been since his 19-3 election a week ago.
Blackmar, a junior in philosophy who was elected from the commuter constituency of the College of Letters. Arts and Sciences, defeated Brian Holman, a junior in business, in the election.
Blackmar is the only undergraduate incumbent to be elected. He received the most votes of any candidate in LAS. He is
the second consecutive chairman of the commuter organization to be elected senate chairman.
Blackmar said he intends to work with the base laid by his predecessor. Joe Flanagan, to achieve more student unity and a greater voice on the issues.
He said he intends to implement suggestions Flanagan made in his annual report, such as the formation of a cabinet of key student leaders, a council ofthe officers of student organizations and study groups which will work with students on university committees and commissions.
He said he hopes that through the student groups the senate will be able to unify the students and gradually move towards forming the associated students of the university, a student government group that would be strongly tied to the senate.
But for the present, Blackmar’s primary
goal is to unify the members ofthe senate into an aggressive voice on student issues.
“I’d like to instill a new attitude in the Student Senate that is more assertive, more aggressive,” he said. “We’re not going to take things as they come; we’re going to take the initiative and bring up the issues we want to raise.
“Next year we’re going to stay on the offensive and raise the issues the students want raised instead of just being an opinion board and addressing the issues someone asks our opinion on.
“We’re going to be very critical without being trivial.”
Blackmar said the senate would continue in the manner that it had at the last President’s Advisory Council meeting, where students had decided before the meeting that they were opposed to the increased parking fee without further investigation and to making recommen-
dations on the administrative structure without further discussion.
Both subjects were tabled until the fall because ofthe student opposition, which was led by Blackmar.
Other major issues will be financial, said Blackmar. “We’re going to try to give the university some helpful suggestions on how to manage its budgetary affairs more efficiently, if we may be so bold, especially as they directly affect the students,” he said.
“Specifically, we will be extremely critical of and look very closely at any suggested raise in tuition or fees of any kind.”
Another major issue, said Blackmar, will be student input on tneure decisions. “We want representation,” he said.
Programming has been a controversial
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State hearings on financial aid study problems facing students
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timony and make oral statements before the California Hearings Panel.
The panel members include national representatives from the committee, student representatives from all segments of higher education in California and policy-makers from within the state.
The testimonies will be transcribed and printed along with written statements submitted to the California Student Hearings Committee on Financial Aid.
Analysis of the hearings will be sent to all participants and to all state student aid policymakers including legislators, state scholarship and loan officials, institutional financial aid officers and others, said Edwards.
A summary of the California hearings will become a part of a national report incorporating segments from the other state hearings. Recommendations for legislative and administrative solutions to the identified student problems will be issued.
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being presented by the Drama Division through Saturday at the Stop Gap Theatre at 8 p.m. Above are two characters from one of the plays, portrayed by Stephanie Taylor (left) and Ernestine Andrews. DT photo by Ed Moy.