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University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, No. 58
Los Angeles, California
Friday, December 13, 1974
Caucus votes to end Programming Board Dec. 31
BV MARJIE LAMBERT
Assistant Editor
The Student Caucus voted Thursday to dissolve the Student Programming Board effective Dec. 31. In response to a motion. Connie Seinfeld, caucus chairman, directed the Committee on Committees to begin formulating a means for appointing a new board.
Under the motion, the directors ofthe divisions ofthe board and the Student Caucus liaison will remain in an advisory capacity.
If President John H. Hubbard accepts the recommendations of the caucus regarding a voluntary fee. the board, to be appointed before the start of the spring semester, will allocate the first fees to be collected on a voluntary basis.
However, it was not determined at the meeting what structure the board would have or what policies it would follow. Those questions will be answered in work sessions during the Christmas holidays at which time bylaws for the caucus will be drafted.
David Blackmar. a member ofthe Committee on Committees and of the programming board, said he thought the board would probably assume a structure similar to the current one.
The current board has nine members—although two graduated last June and were not replaced—with four divisional directors. Those divisions are community action, social-cultural, academic-educational and student services. A member of the Student Caucus serves as a liaison.
The meeting was the first since 12 caucus members were elected on a permanent basis this week. Eleven ofthe new members showed up. Hunt Braly. the newly elected representative from the residence halls, and David Gomez, who tied for sixth place for the commuters, were not present. Only five of 21 representatives of graduate and professional schools attended.
Gomez tied with Mitzi Hamaguchi, the incumbent. It has not yet been determined which ofthe two students will be seated, but the caucus voted to keep Hamaguchi as interim representative until the situation is settled.
The members of the caucus are holding office hours. The list of all members has not been compiled yet, but some caucus members are now holding hours in Student Union 309.
The caucus is also seeking funding for a biweekly newsletter to inform students of what the caucus is doing. If the caucus receives funding, the first issue is planned for the first or second week of January.
HISTORIAN SPEAKS
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Commercial filmed on campus
Alumni Park was the scene of the filming of a television commercial Thursday. The commerical, for the Monterey Bank, is to be aired for about six months starting in mid-February.
The scene filmed on campus shows a large bank vault that opens up to show college students being awarded their degrees. The ad tells how a student
can obtain a college education and receive a diploma with the help of a bank loan.
The Wakeford Orloff Film Production Company. Inc. of Hollywood is the producer.
It will be shown on sports programs during the weekends on network television.
70% of recommendations in 1972 student life report implemented
BV MIKE MEYER
Staff Writer
Approximately 70% of the recommendations made in a 1972 report by the Commission on Student Life have been implemented, to some extent, by the administration.
The commission began meeting in September, 1971, after President John R. Hubbard asked Alvin S. Rudisill, university chaplin and associate professor of religion, to head a spe-
Future said to rely on schools
BV PETER BOYER
Our nation is entering a radical transition period in which the salvation of our civilization will increasingly depend upon our universities. Henry Steele Commager. historian, said to a sparse audience in Bovard Auditorium.
Commager called this era the “Watershed ofthe 70s,” a period which he said compared in importance to the American Revolution.
Commager, considered the nation’s most eminent historian. has taught at New York University, Columbia University, and now holds a professorship at Amherst He has published books dealing with a variety of subjects, but his specialty is the intellectual history ofthe United States.
Commager said that the course of history is marked by watershed periods, eras that are remarkable not so much forthe creation of new ideas, but for their “absorption and applica tion and institutionalization.” Commager said that in the past, America has possessed the ability to adapt to and institutionalize ph llosoph ical problems The revolutionary generation. Commager said without a rulin.'
class, political, religious, or academic unanimity, was able to “invent the Constitution, contrive a federal system which has spread around the globe.
“They were able to deal with the British and the Indians, invent the political party and establish the first workable democracy.”
But Commager pointed out that ihere has been no major political institution formed since 1800 and periods of creativity have markedly decreased in this century.
HENRY STEELE COMMAGER
Commager told his audience that in an atmosphere without idea creativity we have allowed ourselves to develop a national mentality which has, in the last 25 years, accepted the Cold War, our "senseless and immoral” involvement in Southeast Asia, and, by giving Richard M. Nixon two election victories, the consequential “breakdown of our political and constitutional machinery.”
Commager said that a scarcity of individual leadership exists, but added that the problem is “even more, a matter of feebleness of ideas, principles, and innovative institutions.”
Our obsession with the Cold War, Commager said, produced a nationalism out of place in a time of possible international catastrophe. Problems of population, starvation, energy shortages. and nuclear arms buildups cannot be dealt with in isolation.
Commager offered the often-heard tact that our nation, with 6(r of the world’s population, consumes 40-r of the world's production, but he added urgency to the statement when he asked. “If we can’t feed the globe's four billion people in 1974, how can we expect to be (continued on page 9)
cial study of the Student Affairs Division and make an overall evaluation of student life at the university.
The commission held more than 40 meetings totaling 120 hours, and obtained research input from about 4.000 people involved with the university. It made almost 500 recommendations.
The basic affirmation of the report, which was printed in September, 1972, is that “students must be the university’s highest and most vital priority.”
Rudisill said that during the two years since the report was completed, he has been exceptionally pleased with the amount of work that has been done to improve the quality of student services here.
Those recommendations that haven’t been acted on are either being considered now or have been rejected after reasonable discussion and serious consideration, Rudisill said.
“Some of them were just too costly, and in some cases there just has not been time to do anything yet. Many of them are long-term procedures that are now in the process of being implemented,” he said.
He said the most drastic improvements have come in the areas of student counseling, health services, and the environment of the residence halls.
The vast majority of the recommendations were intended to be considered almost exclusively by the Student Affairs Division, of which James R. Appleton is vice-president.
Appleton said. “I think those
are areas which we have given a great deal of attention to, but also the areas of financial aid and admissions have seen significant improvement since the report.”
Rudisill said there are still some critical problems which remain unsolved, but there are limitations to how fast any problem can be solved.
“Registration and advisement are two problems that are just as real today as they were in 1972,” he said.
Rudisill said there is much to be done with regard to student life, but one factor that has limited progress is the fact that things have changed so much since 1972, not only at USC, but throughout the world.
Robert L. Mannes, dean for student life, said many ofthe recommendations asked for the continuation of existing conditions, and almost all of these have been continued.
“A lot of them have been carried out w ithout any fanfare, and many of them are being practically done even though there is no formal action being taken on them.”
Mannes said each division and department had to decide which parts of the report were applicable, and some parts were rejected simply because of bad timing or budget restrictions.
Appleton, who came here at the same time the commission’s report came out, responded to it earlier this semester when he was asked by the Committee on University and Community Life whether any action had been
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Bowl tickets will be ready on Monday
Rose Bowl tickets may be' picked up Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The receipts issued when the tickets were purchased must be presented to pick up the tickets.
All tickets will be picked up at the Ticket Office, Student Union 200.
The Ticket Office will be open from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 o.m.