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Vol. LXVII, No. 2
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, September 17, 1974
Fall freshman class will be largest ever
SPEAK YOUR MIND—Stan Chambers, a reporter for KTLA News, was on campus Monday afternoon to interview students on President Ford's conditional amnesty program.Most of the students interviewed said a
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total blanket amnesty should have been given. One comment that met with crowd approval was, "If Ford can pardon Nixon then he should pardon all the political prisoners in the United States."
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING AIDED
School gets $1-million gift
A $l-million gift was presented to the university in the name of the Shah of Iran for the establishment of an Endowred Chair (professorship) in Petroleum Engineering.
The chair, presented by H.I.M. Shahanshah Aryamehr Pahlavi, will strengthen the university’s areas of reservoir engineering and secondary oil recovery, said Zohrab A. Kaprielian. vice-president for academic administration and research and dean of the School of Engineering.
“Over the past decade, the USC School of Engineering has vigorously pursued the development of excellence in programs capable of solving urgent problems facing modern society. One ofthe most vital problem areas is energy. This support will contribute significantly to strengthening our program in petroleum engineering,” said Kaprielian.
Two other programs between the university and Iran have been established. The first, an Agreement in Principles, will further interaction between the university and Iranian universities. Developments in medicine, dentistry, library science, teacher education and other professions will be exchanged.
Secondly, four fellowships for Iranian students interested in engineering and business administration have been established. More than 180 Iranian nationals attend school here.
According to President Hubbard. the gift will enable the university to attract authorities in the field of petroleum engineering who will be recruited and approved by university faculty as the result of an international search.
“These individuals will be designated as holders ofthe Shah’s Chair in Petroleum Engineering and will occupy the Chair on a rotating basis,” Hubbard said.
The university has offered
studies in petroleum engineering since 1925. The first bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering was granted in 1927
and a year later the Department of Petroleum Engineering was formed. It eventually became the School of Engineering.
Drop and Add will run through Saturday
Drop and add for the fall semester will continue through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Saturday from8:30a.m. until noon in Physical Education Building 200.
Students must bringtheir paid fee bills and all supplemental fee bills plus the completed Request for Change of Program card with them. Drop and add cards were included in the registration packets, but may also be obtained at station 1 in the registration area.
Class cards for restricted (R) classes may be picked up at station 4. Class cards for H classes must be secured in the department ofthe class concerned and then brought to station 4.
If a class is closed, a note from the instructor giving the students permission to be enrolled in the class must be brought to station 4.
After securing all class cards, students take them to station 6 where the classes are verified and checked before a supplemental fee bill is run.
Students pick up the new fee bill at station 7 and then peoceed to station 8 where the fee bili is assessed by receipts audit. If a student must pay more, he then proceeds to station 14. Refunds are processed in approximately two weeks and are then mailed to the student.
Drop and add will move to the Registrar’s Office after Sept. 21 and will begin again on Sept. 24, but a late change of program fee of $10 will be charged for any additions.
After the first week, the instructor’s signature is required on the drop and add card in order to add a class.
No courses can be added after Sept. 28. A student can withdraw from a course without academic penalty, though, during the first nine weeks of the semester. After the ninth week a class can only be dropped if work is of a passing grade. No course may be dropped after the end of the twelfth week.
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Assistant Editor
This fall’s freshman class is expected to be the largest in the history of USC.
More than 6,000 students applied, of which 4,560 were accepted. This is an increase of almost 1,400 applications over last year.
University officials estimate that 90% of the 2.842 students who returned intents to register will actually enroll, resulting in a class of approximately 2,600 as compared to about 2,000 last year.
The number of students accepted by USC has risen from 2.696 in 1968.
In addition, approximately 300 transfer students were admitted with less than 30 unit credits on freshman status, and 243 freshmen were admitted under the Experimental Admissions Program.
Including students admitted under the Experimental Admissions Program, about 80% of the applicants were accepted, as compared to well over 90% last fall.
Transfer students
More transfer students will also be here this year, with an increase in applications from about 2.400 to almost 2,800 this year, including those given freshman status.
Almost 1,000 more students applied to graduate schools at USC this year than last (excluding law, medicine, dentistry- and business). About 60% were accepted. Approximately 2.200 of those returned intents to register, as compared to 2,053 last year. (Graduate students do not have to send $50 with their intent to register.)
The greater number of applicants in all areas is due to improved recruiting efforts, said William Himstreet, associate vice-president for student affairs.
Cancelled contract halts student phone directory
There will be no student telephone directory this year because of a contract cancellation by the publisher.
The C.F. Boone Publishers, Inc. of Lubbock. Texas, signed a two-year contract for the directory in mid-July, but they cancelled the contract a week later.
“They said the reason they cancelled was because they couldn't get the necessary paper supplies,” said Paul L. Moore, director of student activities.
The directories were to contain the name, campus address, campus phone number, home address and home phone number of each full-time day student. Ten thousand directories were to be published free of charge to the university. The pu blisher would benefit from the advertising.
Moore believed that the failure to secure an advertising base caused the publisher to back off. He added that it was too late to find another publisher this year.
“Next year I would prefer to publish the directory ourselves,” he said. “We’ll have a good advertising base with the new shopping center coming in.”
The first student telephone directory came out in 1969-70. A directory came out the following two years but publishers were reluctant to make a long-term contract.
Out-of-state recruiting was restricted and more emphasis was placed on Northern California when it was discovered that most USC students come from within a 500-mile radius of the university.
Himstreet also attributed the large number of applications to alumni efforts and improved recruiting publications.
In the last two years, applications for admission have increased 25%, while the number of students accepted has climbed 26%. The number of intents to register received has increased 38%.
“What we’re really getting is a more serious applicant,” said Himstreet.
Quality of education
With the increased enrollment and high percentage of acceptances, many people have expressed concern with the quality of education at USC and with availability of facilities.
Himstreet said that the grade point average has remained around 3.25 over a number of years, and that the average student had an SAT score of 1,100. The national average for high school students taking the SAT is 880, he said.
The Housing Office reported that the waiting list for oncampus housing has over 1,000 names on it, as compared to 282 last year. Over 400 of the students on the waiting list are freshmen.
Biology laboratory facilities for Biology 106 were increased from three labs to four over the summer, and Bernard Abbott, chairman of the Biology Department, said that he expects the facilities to be able to handle all incoming freshmen.
A large percentage of undergraduate students are premed biology majors, for which Biology 106 is a requirement.
The added space was made available when the School of Pharmacy moved to the medical campus and the Human Anatomy and Ecology and Environment labs were moved into space previously held by the School of Pharmacy.
The Biology Department was also able to come up with additional funds for microscopes and other equipment for the labs.
Enrollment in most other biology classes is up, said Abbott. Extra lab sections and teaching assistants were added to accommodate the students. Abbott said indications that enrollment would be way up this fall came early, and that the administration had been working during the spring to make sure enough laboratory facilities were available.
With the increase in enrollment has come an increase in financial aid. University contributions have increased from $3.4 million in 1972-73 to $5.4 million in 1974-75.
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