University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Dean of Women DEAN JOAN SCHAEFER has been Dean of Women for twelve years, but has found the university to change enough to be exhilarating. When the Association of American Universities honor- ed use last year by admitting it as a member, she called this recognition an indication of our growth in depth, as well as in the height of our buildings. It should be a source of true pride and raise student expectations of the campus. She was pleased to be a part of use ' s development, to which students contributed by challenging university offi- cials. she believed, however, that USC women have a greater struggle against past ideologies than those in Eastern colleges. 21

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Dean of Men DEAN DANIEL NOWAK Daniel Nowak, the Interim Dean of Stu- dents, is in his third year here at USC, after having previous experience at Stanford and UCLA. Daniel Nov ak is also the Dean of Men, and the dual post is at times rather trying. He likes to spend time with the students, and he represents them whenever it ' s pos- sible. Dean Nowak tries to make a student ' s stay at USC challenging and as rewarding as possible. 20

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ASSC President FREDMINNES Fred had been involved in student government since his freshman year. His whole career had been dedi- cated, he said, to increasing the role of students in governing the university. Students at the university had been notably apathet- ic mainly because of their lov - opinion of the student body government. The ASSC had been a sandbox for Greeks, but once it could stop worrying about sex, liquor and lockout, it could concentrate on im- proving the general quality of student life and academ- ics. Fred did succeed in galvanizing part of the students when he reappeared after the summer with a Fu- Manchu mustache and, according to the died-in- the-wool YAF and TYR fanatics, new, sell-out liberal leanings. However, they misinterpreted his intention to radicalize the student body and thereby create a climate of opinion and force them to take a stand. This did not mean bombing Bovard or molotov- cocktailing VKC, but merely meant that students should be provoked over certain issues such as USC ' s lack of academic prestige, and student participation in major university decisionmaking. But tangible results of suggested improvements are difficult to measure. The university now has stu- dents sitting on committees, it has reevaluated stu- dent rights, it has considered the relative importance of student, faculty and alumni influence, but Fred will never really know whether he played a part in bring- ing about these changes, will he? 22