Daily
Troian
Volume LXX, Number 2
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, Californio
Tuesday, September 21, 7 976
Tuition, enrollment won’t balance budgets—Hubbard
BY MARC NOWADNICK
Editor
Steady state, an expected effect of the 1980s in which the absolute number of college-age students will decline, will make it impossible for the university to continue balancing its budget by increasing enrollment and adjusting tuition, President John R. Hubbard predicted Saturday.
Practicing stricter resource management and becoming' more academically competitive will be necessary for the university to avoid deficit funding, Hubbard told nearly 500 faculty and administrators in his annual address at Town and Gown.
Although inflation may be temporarily quelled, it’s still a major question, he explained.
And Century II, the university's, drive to boost its endowment by $265 million, is not an absolute answer.
“Century II won t save us,” Hubbard said. “Suppose we had $265 million now and invested two-thirds of it at 6% interest. In a year, that income would be less than $12 million out of the $175 million currently needed to run the university for a year.”
Tightening the university’s belt and improving resource management are what’s required, the president said—not abandoningold courses and programs. It is necessary to trim the old to accommodate the new.
“The eternal danger is that tenured faculty will fight for the status quo and resist, important and necessary change,” he said.
Security accused of harassing minorities
BY PETER FLETCHER
Assistant City Editor
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference has been conducting an investigation of the university’s Campus Security force following charges of harassment by Security Officers against minority members ofthe on-campus and off-campus community.
Bob Lyons of the conference began conducting the investigation in June following reports by a former Campus Security officer, Mike Bland, of the reported abuses.
Lyons has met with John Lechner, director of Campus Security and Parking Operations, in the past to try to deal with the problems. Lyons said, “We are conducting a full-scale investigation of Campus Security. We want to know what they are going to do with the two officers who are the worst offenders.” Two officers have been suspended for two weeks with pay, he said.
Lechner said the suspension of the two officers is standard procedure in police departments while investigations are going on.
Lechner requested that the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity conduct an investigation into the charges since he says he is too Close to the situation to accurately judge it.
He said the officers sometimes must use reasonable force in dealing with certain situations. The officers involved are guilty of nothing but doing their job. If anything, the officers were too officious, Lechner said.
Lyons and Lechner and other concerned parties are going to meet later in the week to discuss the situation, Lyons said.
Lyons said his objective would be served if better treatment of minority members of the community resulted from the talks and if there are any future incidents of harassment, the officer’s jobs would be terminated.
“I’m going to see if I can’t get the harrassment stopped,” Lyons said.
Lechner said that he is concerned with the charges that have been made. “Racism is a definite concern in the operation of my department.”
Concerning the charges by the leadership conference he said. “They feel that they have great cases showing that we are doing something wrong. I don’t think we are. I think they are talking about only five or six incidents.
“The issue of how overt we are takes on the appearance of making more out of the situation than exists.”
Lechner added that the issues of racism and harassment are very sensitive and are not about to go away, but he said he feels his force does the job asked of it and, because of the nature of the job, his force will always be under the scrutiny of groups like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
“Adjustments of allegiance will require brave and sometimes scary decisions and be made easier by the existence of the President’s Advisory Council.” Hubbard said his was an argument against departmental autonomy. As times get harder and stricter budgets become necessary, he said he hoped a previously laissez-faire attitude wouldn't be replaced by one of suspicion and countersuspicion.
The educational boom period from the 1950s through the 1970s may have been deleterious, the president said, and he dragged out its ghost to exorcise the remnants for good.
“The boom of the 60s is over,” he.asserted. “Steady state is not a hiatus before the good times of the 50s through the 70s return. That may never be realized.” Hubbard explained that when the Soviets launched Sputnik, the world’s first man-made satellite, the United States immediately responded with the National Defense Education
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Education became the nation’s first line of defense, he sard, and the second-largest growth industry, with faculty hired in greater numbers than ever before and more fellowships for research granted. Schooling also became a convenient way for young men to avoid a ticket to Vietnam.
“All this advanced the myth that one could grab a Ph.D., achieve tenure, teach a few classes and arrive at his destination,” Hubbard said.
“It was a true assessment for some, but others were ill-suited and their heady expectations were never realized. That’s bound to happen anytime you try to turn a fifth of the nation’s youth affected by boomitis into intellectuals.”
Adjustments to steady state can’t be arbitrary, Hubbard said. If the university is to become a house of intellect', planning must begin soon. Quoting Aristotle, he said, “The future is now.”
In a more optimistic vein, Hubbard announced that although the student-applicant pool was 17% higher this year the university’s target enrollment is the same as before. Higher grade-point averages and Scholastic Achievement Test scores characterized these incoming students, Hubbard said, demonstrating that the university is holding the line on quantity while improving quality.
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ANYBODY HOME?—Delnora Clelland, a junior in accounting, seeks human companionship through Ma Bell. She is flanked by posters, papers and pens in the newly opened En Charrette, a discount fine arts supply store with a sideline in cookies and candy. DT photo by Mike Ito.
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Century II campaign collects $83 million
BY FRANK SAENZ
SoCal F.ditor
The university’s Toward Century Il’fund-raising campaign has collected $83 million in cash and firm pledges of its$265.3-million goal.
Robert L. Jenkins, manager of gift accounting, said the total includes a record-setting $26,060,251 given to the university during the 1975-76 fiscal year.
The record-setting receipt represents a 27% increase of the amount collected during the previous fiscal year when more than $19.2 million was received.
The university officially launched the massive drive in April to increase the endowment funds of its schools and to prepare USC for its second century in 1980. Solicitation of the funds actually began more than two years ago.
Donors may specify which school or area they want their contribution applied to. Jenkins would not comment on which school was closest to achieving its goal.
So far approximately 31% of the Century II goal has been met. The deadline has been earmarked for 1980, the year marking the university’s 100th birthday.
Roger F. Olsen, executive director of development for University Affairs, acknowledged the campaign still needs about $182.3 million to reach its dollar objective, but emphasized the present rate of acquiring funds was on schedule.
“In the construction of this type of campaign, several basic assumptions have to be made when you decide to go ahead with the project. You have to assume there will be no economic recession, war or even a change in the laws affecting philanthropic ideals,” Olsen said.
“So far we have not made—to my knowiedge—any blowup or mismanagement of any type. The assumption is, of course, we won’t have to meet with it.”
In order for the university to achieve its goal, the drive will have to average approximately $46.7 million during each of the next fiscal years, a figure that would nearly double the record-setting total of the 1975-76 fiscal year.
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DROP AND ADD—The lines form behind the windows as drop and odd continues through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Physical Education 200.
On Saturday, students will be able to change their program
between 9 a.m. and noon.
No change of program is allowed without a paid original fee bill.
If a student is adding an "H" class, he must obtain the card
from the department or a note from the instructor.
At station four in the Physical Education Building, the student will be given a green card for each class added and a red card for each class dropped. DT photo by Shuji Ito.