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

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uate studies (John Cantelon) and aca- demics (Paul Hadley on an interim basis) and specifically excluded those positions from its diagram of the proposed administrative restructuring. Hubbard was less explicit than the task force in his appraisal of the search for a provost. While making it clear that he was seeking a person of un- questioned intellectual quality and accomplishment and so recognized throughout the scholarly community, the president evaded the inevitable question: what about those vice-presi- dents ' ? I cannot at this time delineate a chart of function and organization (en- compassing the new provost), Hub- bard said. It would be presumptuous of me to do so, for if we find the per- son we are seeking, he will most surely demand that his input in this regard be considered. So the implications of the adminis- trative revamping were yet to become fully apparent. There were other changes in the aca- demic administration of the university in 1975-76 not related to the Cope Re- port and its implementation. New deans and directors were named in several academic units and four new trustees were appointed. Edward Bassett, former dean of the William Allen White School of Jour- nalism at the University of Kansas, came to USC as director of the School of Journalism after a prolonged search. Kenneth Owler Smith, who had served as interim director for the previous year, was named associate director of the school. Houston Flournoy, having com- pleted his tasks in advising President Hubbard on the administrative reor- ganization, was named dean of the newly instituted Center for Public Affairs. He was named to the posi- tion shortly after announcing he would not be a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate this year. Paul Hadley, who had been asso- ciate vice-president for academic ad- ministration and CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 I EFT Zohrab A. Kapnelian; BELOW Ed- ward Bassetl.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19 days of my presidency, Zohrab Kap- rielian has shared with me the trials, the anxieties and the tribulations of con- temporary educational leadership. But there was no indication who was to share the trials, anxieties and tribu- lations of the several vice-presidents whose positions were jeopardized by Hubbard ' s other announcement: the establishment of a committee to begin a search for an individual to fill the new position of provost. The Cope Report had made it clear that the provost position would embody the responsibilities of several existing vice-presidents those for student affairs (James Appleton), undergrad- fori coup y ofiK uoi gnu mi S« (i«c oiJOji

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21 research, was named interim academic vice-president to fill the position vacat- ed by the retirement of Milton Kloet- zel. A. Quincy Jones, a prominent Southern California architect, was appointed dean of the School of Architecture and Fine Arts. Allen Mathies Jr., who was serving as interim dean of theSchoolof Medicine,assumed the job on a permanent basis. In other professional schools, Richard Oliver was named dean of the