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IRRAR SAN r FEB 1 3 !9T8 SAH f RAH foghorn Volume 70 No. 22 February 6, 1976 Dean gives up 'acting' career ASUSF speeches Appointment of Paul L. McKaskle, 41, as dean of the University of San Francisco law focus on three school was announced today by Vice Presi dent of Academic Affairs Dr. Donald J. Maclntyre. McKaskle has been acting dean since Feb. 15, 1975 when C. Delos Putz, Jr. left the post areas of concern to enter private practice. A search committee has been reviewing candidates for replace ment during the past year. ASUSF President Louie Certainly further tuition USFs new dean graduated in business Castoria was the keynote jumps would only drive away administration from the University of Cali speaker at the ASUSF State students who already can fornia, Berkeley in 1956. of the University address held barely meet the $2,200 tui After four years in the Navy, he returned to on Tuesday at 11:15 a.m. in tion rate at USF. The root of Berkeley and received his J.D. from Boalt the University Center Main our problem is not inade Hall law school in 1963. Lounge. quate tuition rates. It is inade McKaskle was a deputy district attorney in Castoria's speech focused quate enrollments. USFs Ventura County from 1964 to 1966. then on the three major problems total undergraduate enroll entered private practice there. of the University as he sees ment has dropped a shocking In 1969. hc was appointed director of liti them: a problem of finances, a 22.6 per cent since 1970! gation for the Western Center of Law and problem of decision-making, We often hear the blame for Poverty in Los Angeles where he worked on and a problem of com enrollment drops placed on reapportionment cases for the L.A. city munity. the Liberal Arts college. As council. The following are some ex the figures clearly show, every He came to USF in 1971 as a law professor. cerpts from Castoria's speech: undergraduate college at USF His teaching here and at Boalt Hall as Paul I . McKaskle There arc as many sup has increased since 1970 ex visiting professor of law for the 1974-75 aca As Chief Counsel to the Special Masters on posed "causes" for our finan cept Liberal Arts and science. demic year, has included environmental, Reapportionment for the Supreme Court. cial problem as there arc other Every major in Liberal Arts housing and administrative law, and civil McKaskle was a key figure in the state people to blame it on. has declined since 1970 ex procedures. reapportionment plan adopted in 1973. Although we are plagued by cept Communication Arts, certain external factors, such and the Registrar's Office in as the national inflation rate, forms me that the number of the high cost of services in San units being taken in the Arts is McKaskle pledges support Francisco, and the end of the dropping even faster than the ally toward a smooth running operation when "baby boom" college genera majors, as students in the Arts By JIM BAKER properly executed. tion, there is no doubt that we seek to supplement their stu Office of Public Information "If our part of the university is solid," he all share the blame for USFs dies with more "practical" Staff Writer says, "the rest ofthe school has that much less troubles, and the responsi disciplines. to worry about." bility to end them. It is easy to For the short term, the USF Paul L. McKaskle might just as well be 30 His simple logic is well supported. A chain be a complainer in a time of administration sent notices of as 41. is only as strong as its weakest link. cutbacks, but mere com termination to 111 faculty and His auburn hair and matching Abe Lincoln The USF School of I^w under Dean Paul plaining does not add a cent to 38 administrators. As the beard are streaked with gray, but his appear L. McKaskle shows no cause for uneasiness. available funds. We need breakdown of these notices ance gives no other sign of "The Crisis in While deans, acting deans and other solutions, not complaints. shows, however, these ter Higher Education" that administrators every administrators analyze admissions data for where spend much time worrying about. As you know, USF was mination notices do not re trends, McKaskle assumes the enviable posi flect the enrollment trends in Sitting in his spacious Kendrick Hall office faced with two kinds of finan tion of having annually more than nine times the various colleges. To en Monday, the new USF law school administra cial woes last December when the number of applicants as openings. sure that vital personnel are tor relaxed in an air of inpenetrable confi Kendrick Hall's reputation as a molder of faculty and administrative dence. cutbacks were announced: a not cut, the Associated Stu top attorneys, judges, and public officials dents have developed a re No cigarette-smoking, no pencil-tapping. helps the cause and allows McKaskle and his short-term problem of not no pen-clicking, no sentences hastily tied having sufficient cash on de view procedure with USF staff some freedom, at least from pressure Academic Vice-President together Like a laborer on break, away from caused by dwindling enrollments. posit to meet monthly ex his machine, Paul McKaskle seems willing to penses, and a long-term crisis Don Maclntyre. Under this Though the record is impressive, the new policy, there will be direct stu discuss about anything. dean realizes its not enough. of accumulated and expected He begins, like any self-respecting, newly- budget deficits. The short- dent participation in the re "We have to keep current, while constantly view process currently under appointed official should, with a prediction. improving and forging ahead when we can," term problem has been par But unlike most, he promises no panacea. tially solved by late-arriving way in the individual col he says. leges, with student advisors "There won't be any major changes made in income, generous donations, Campus critics have often chosen the law channelling their expertise on this school as a result of my appointment," he school as a target for their barbs. They point and by holding off on non- states. payroll and other obligations the department level to the to separatist attitudes and the school's seem Deans. Two main goals will After a year as acting dean, McKaskle feels for at least the next two ing autonomy as divisive to the campus. be pursued through this pro his record speaks for itself. With both the months. After that the future "1 don't think that's true." McKaskle says. cedure: we will support reten quality and quantity of prospective USF law will be far less certain unless "Every attempt to integrate the law school tion of personnel in pro students increasing, he doesn't anticipate a with the rest ofthe university has been made," we act now to avoid un- need for drastic deviations from his policy of forseen crises. grams where enrollments he explains. "And it will continue." justify such action, and we "keeping standards high and maintaining — The long-term prohlem is McKaskle interprets the law school and will support retention of all hopefully, bettering the education offered the one I want to address at main campus relationship as symbiotic. They academic programs in other here." some length today. USF can exist together, for the good of the other. areas, with an eye towards To skeptics, McKasklc's comfortably not continue to run in the red. "Kendrick Hall is definitely part of USF. keeping as many personnel as general "high standards" and "better educa The ominous prospect of a "I've been working hard to correct university- possible. I have already urged tion" might seem to ignore financial problems S3.5 million cumulative wide problems, and will continue in that task the retention of the Compu of the whole university. deficit at the end ol the next as dean. ter Science program, and I be But on the contrary, his words express a school year leaves no room McKaskle gives assurance that his pledge of lieve that the work done by well-thought contribution to efforts already for quibbling — we must support has been reciprocated by university Dean Allen Calvin and his underway to reverse fiscal setbacks of recent either bury our self-made pro administrators. committee on the computer years. blems now or be buried by "As I told Don (Maclntyre, vice President should pave the way for this "As dean," he says, "my mandate is differ them in the future. There is no of academic affairs) when he approached me when their report is ent. My responsibilities, however, are the about the job, I'll continue to do my job as I middle ground. As the well- submitted. same as they've been for the past year." have been doing it." worn dictum states, those who Duties of the position in which McKaskle He concludes, "I'm deeply honored by the are not part ofthe solution are has been acting since February, 1975, and confidence shown in my abilities here. It's a part of the problem. This is a continued to page 2 assumed permanently Monday, work natur very good feeling." call to arms. Page 2 Foghorn February 13, 1976 <M1HE0Ne HAM0... UNlVERsny IJEWS AND Castoria pledges support GSMeRAU IWfcNiWGB continued from page I ing to an increase before any input has met with partial campus community. The I have said that improving decision is made; success.

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