Daily Op Trojan
Volume LXVII, Number 99
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, April 3, 1975
Board approves 50% student aid increase
ON THE AIR—Disc jockey Mike Foster eyes a record he is playing on KSCR, a new student-run radio station. Foster, a sophomore in telecommunications, joined a staff of
over 100 students who inaugurated the station Wednesday. KSCR can be heard daily in the Grill and service to the dorms and Row is expected in May. DT photo by Bob Selan.
Details neglected in police version of riot, students say
BY STEVEN HAWKINS
Staff Writer
Some students have criticized a police version of the midnight melee that occurred three weeks ago when residents of the Row scuffled with 60 police officers.
Several who were present during the confrontation said the police version was correct for the most part, but criticized it for neglecting many details. Some students said the language was misleading, to the police department’s advantage.
The police version was made available by Lt. Matthew Hunt ofthe Southwest Division after a March 18Daily Trojan article which said no official version ofthe incident was available.
Hunt responded to the article by calling the Daily Trojan, and offering such a version.
Except for minor facts, both Mike John and Gary Cervantes of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity said the version was accurate. But John, a junior in public relations and president of the fraternity, said the language was misleading, making “things sound worse than they were.”
Another Row resident, Allan Dowsett, a freshman in business, said the account left out many details, including the fact that one officer had chased students and struck them with the butt of his billy club.
Robert L. Mannes, dean for student life, said what he saw occur that evening was accurately reflected in the police version.
Members of Sigma Chi fraternity refused to discuss the police account ofthe incident, and explained that they did not
want to say anything that would affect the upcoming trials of several students.
This is the police version of the March 13 incident as provided in an interview with Hunt:
Southwest Division police officers encountered problems on the Row twice before the major confrontation that occurred at 11:30 p.m. Officers encountered students involved in a fistfight at 7:30 p.m. and three hours later found 30 people consuming alcohol in public. Both times, students dispersed without incident.
Another patrol car encountered a crowd of students consuming beer in public at 11:30 p.m. When police officers asked the crowd to disperse, they met a hostile response.
During this time, a car sped down the Row in a reckless manner, almost hitting one officer and some students.
The car stopped in a driveway and the officers went to investigate, believing the car’s driver to be under the influence of alcohol. Hunt said.
As the officers approached the car, the driver and his passenger ran off. The officers pursued them in an effort to identify the two.
Five students ran down the street also and tried to stop the officers from interrogating the two students, Hunt said.
Cervantes disagreed with this portion of the account, saying the five students weren’t necessarily menacing or threatening to the officers. Cervantes also
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BY WAYNE WALLEY
Staff Writer
A 50% increase in the total amount of money available for student aid and a 12% package increase for faculty and staff compensation during the next school year was approved Wednesday by the Board of Trustees.
The aid and compensation increases are part ofa $152 million budget approved by the trustees.
The budget, a 9% total increase over last year’s budget, was the smallest total increase in recent years.
A modified plan for the construction of two four-story parking structures rather than the originally proposed single eight-story structure was also approved.
The board also agreed to participate in a second mortgage to help a private developer finance a 210-unit apartment complex in the Hoover Redevelopment Project north of Jefferson Boulevard and west of McClintock Avenue.
Tight budget
President John R. Hubbard labeled the adopted budget as tight.
“It is a very tight budget and we have committed any new funds for the faculty and staff compensation and for the increase in student aid,” Hubbard said Wednesday.
Zohrab A. Kaprielian, vice-president of academic administration and research, reiterated what Hubbard said.
“It is a bare-bone budget. Essentially we will operate with the same amount of money as last year except for the increases in salary and student aid,” Hubbard said.
Under the budget, monies available for student aid increased more than $2 million over last year to a total of $6,517,229.
The Financial Aid Office will determine how to distribute the money.
Faculty pay
The 12% increase for faculty and staff compensation includes a 10% raise in salary and a 2% raise in fringe benefits.
The approval of the modified plan for two parking structures was in response to an adverse community reaction to the taller structure, Anthony D. Lazzaro, vice-president of business affairs, said.
“The advantages of two smaller structures was recognized by the board and the modified plan was approved,” Lazzaro said.
“The only disadvantage is that we will be using more campus acreage, but w hen you consider everything, this is the best way,” he said.
Both structures will have 920 parking spaces and the structure to be located north of the Gerontology Center and west
of McClintock Avenue will also house Campus Security.
The other structure is proposed to be located adjacent to Men s Residence West and Webb Tower.
Lazzaro said the board has yet to decide how to finance the construction of the structures which is hoped to begin in July.
In March, the Resource Management and Planning Committee proposed an increase in the parking fee to finance the construction of the two structures.
However, the board has yet to act on the committee’s proposal.
Parking fee increases
If approved by the board, the fee will be raised from $5 a month to $7.50 a month for students. $8.50 for faculty and staff and $18 for reserved parking. A $6.50 rate for less desirable parking will also be available.
It is hoped that the structures, which will cost a total of $5.8 million, will be completed in September, 1976.
Lazzaro said the advantage of two separate structures is to lessen the concentration of parking space and ease any possible traffic problem on campus.
The developer of the proposed apartment complex in the Hoover Redevelopment Project completed plans but had difficulty in completing the financing of the project, Lazzaro said.
Second mortgage
“In the interest of housing and to avoid further delays the university assumed a second mortgage to finance the project,” Lazzaro said.
“Now we want to establish the start of construction. The delays have had serious consequences and we are most anxious that this development proceed.” he said.
Hubbard was pleased with the approval of the second mortgage.
“It is really good that this has happened. Hopefully this will act as a catalyst for further construction,” Hubbard said.
He said that the university is gaining no land, but just helping a private developer with the financing of the structure.
Lazzaro clarified this point. ‘The complex is privately-owned. Participation in finance gives us no control, but in the event the developer cannot meet his financial commitments, we will have first priority to become owners.
“This housing is intended to be available to anyone who wished to live there. The community, faculty, staff, administrators, or students,” Lazzaro said.
He said the university will receive a 9.5% return from financing the mortgage, which, in effect, is the same rate or return as a regular investment.
Focus
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Buildings: soon to be renovated?
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series on the older buildings on campus. Today a look at the Arts Group buildings, financial services relocation and the Campus Security and Parking Operations offices.
BY MIKE MEYER and STEVE HESS
The removal of the old buildings on campus that have served marginally as classrooms and offices since 1946 has been a lengthy, difficult process. It has yet to be completed.
The university has had problems planning and financing replacements for them, and the unexpected enrollment increase afler World War II forced the university to begin using temporary buildings.
Army barracks were acquired and moved to the campus to add needed space, and more and more land with old houses was purchased to fill the demand for classrooms.
Now the university has removed and replaced nearly 90% ofthe temporary facilities with permanent buildings.
But those thSt still remain may be here for a while.
Barracks S and N of the Arts Group (adjacent to the faculty parking lot) will be vacated this summer. The barracks will be remodeled for continued use. Parts of the university’s financial operations, located in Owens Annex, will relocate when a new financial services building is completed.
And there are plans being discussed for the relocation ofthe central receiving warehouse to an off-campus location.
But all of these buildings, classified as temporary 30 years ago, will probably remain for another lOto 15years.
Barracks S and N are occupied by the Department of Fine Arts, but, during the summer, the department will move to Harris Hall.
However, the barracks will then be remodeled and converted to practice rooms for students in the School of Performing Arts.
The need for these practice rooms, which will not be provided in the new Performing Arts Complex, resulted
from the university’s sale of Clark House, located on Adams Boulevard.
Orlene Barger, a secretary in the School of Music, said that the school was pleased to have the new practice rooms located on campus.
“We had not been able to function efficiently for the past several years because our departments had been scattered on and off campus,” she said.
Anthony D. Lazzaro, vice-president of business affairs, said, “The plans for fine arts accommodations in Harris Hall either have been completed or are about to be completed. The remodeling is probably about to be done, so if I were to pick a timetable, I’d say it’s all going to take place within a matter of months—within the foreseeable, immediate future.”
Lazzaro said he had discussed the conversion of the barracks into practice rooms with Grant Beglarian. dean ofthe School of Performing Arts, and that Beglarian was satisfied with the move now that the remodeling is planned.
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