Hubbard, Touton Hall residents talk money
By Jane Hall
Money, money, money was primarily what the residents of Touton Hall wanted to know about when President John R Hubbard spoke there on Monday night informally.
Rising tuition costs and financial aid were the first concerns of many ofthe 30 to 40 students that participated in the question-and-ans\vcr session.
Hubbard was invited to Touton Hall as part of an ongoing speakers program.
Hubbard called I SC's tuition a bargain in relation to the tuition of other major universities. He said The S YOOO level has cracked a^ far as tuition at East Coast schools go There is no school in our area with tuition lower than ours. I don't see any way our tuition won't go up."
Hubbard said he would tell students how’ to stop tuition increases if they could tell him how to stop inflation.
He said that 400 of the university's annual budget of $1*5 million comes from tuition The iemaining 600 ofthe. rn<* of a rsr oflu' Mtion Hub-hard called a •>< ln*lai .-*lup
•Toward ( enlury II. * he $2* 5 million campaign to in-
crease the university’s endowment. was offered as one way of aiding the dilemma of rising tuition and cutting down on reliance on outside annual giving.
Hubbard said that the university has the smallest endowment of any university of this size and complexity. He cited Stanford's endowment of $300 million and Harvard's endowment of $1.2 billion as examples.
Hubbard said that a task force has been created to review and repair the financial aid system that has come under much criticism. He said the system's prob lems surfaced when the university shifted from a human judgment system to a computer system.
The proposal to change the university's calendar also came down to finances. The proposal involves changes in scheduling that would put finals before Christmas.
Hubbard said that USC's calendar is geared to the colleges in the area that feed into this university. He said that if the second semester started earlier. there would be no chance of getting second-semester transfers Transfers mean tuition re-fcontinued on page 6)
New Orleans mayor visits center
Los Angeles City Councilman Robert Farrell (left) hosted a reception for Mayor Moon Land-reau (center) of New7 Orleans, La. at the university’s Community Service Center on Monday evening.
More than 100 community residents, city officials and university staff members turned out to greet the mayor.
Landreau will be at the university until Thursday teaching an eight-day course in the
master’s in public administration program’s intensive semester called “Management of Local Government.”
‘‘I feel like I'm back home. There’s so many people from Louisiana here,” said Landreau as he shook hands and posed for pictures.
‘This is the first time I have been in the downtown area of Los Angeles,” he said. “I think its wonderful how the university is including the community in its activities.”
Daily Igp Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVIII, No. 118	Los Angeles, California	Wednesday, April 28, 1976
Nixon library likely to be built regardless of high court ruling
CASTING BALLOTS—Student Senate elections for the corner of 28th Street and University Avenue and near
College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the School of Education and the School of Performing Arts are being held today from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Polling places will be located near Tommy Trojan, in Hoover Park, at the
Founders Hall. The Elections Commission will notify winners by 8 p.m. on Wednesday. DT photo by Paula
Daniels.
Graduates’ job prospects getting better, career center staffer says
By Marcus Oviatt
Staff Writ«*r
Amidst the widespread predictions of a dismal job market for this year's college graduates, there is at least one optimistic voice in the wilderness.
Carl Herringer. placement director at the Career Resource Center, has been saying that prospects for this year's graduates aren't that bad.
"We're seeing companies here (to recruit) that we've never seen before." Herringer said.
Time magazine created a lot of media interest when it reported in its March 29 issue that the job
market for college seniors graduating in June might be the worst ever.
Herringer became actively involved in the ensuing discussion and appeared on news telecasts of the three major networks, w'hich were doing follow-ups on the Time article.
When asked if he thought Time's article made valid points. Herringer replied, ‘‘Not at all. By the time the article appeared things were getting better. Time just came out with it a little too early.”
He said he is afraid the article will discourage some students.
“I think the article is bound to have some kind of negative effect on some people who haven’t looked for jobs and who hear this and say ‘Why bother?” he said. “I don’t think some people want to look for jobs. That’s really why the article scares me—borderline people will get scared off.”
The article in question did in fact contain some pretty chilling news. An example: “Employers are expected to make 5% fewer offers to recipients of all kinds of degrees than they did even a
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By Patti Wolf
The university will probably receive former President Richard M. Nixon’s presidential papers even if the Supreme Court rules that the federal government retain ownership of them, said Richard Lewis, university publisher and assistant vice-president for special projects, on Tuesday.
Lewis was referring to President John R. Hubbard’s statement at the Board of Trustees’ conference on April 24. Hubbard said then that the National Archives will suggest that the papers be given to USC even if the Supreme Court rules against Nixon’s appeal of a lower court de'cision.
Lewis said there is no agreement in existence with the federal government on the issue. But he added, “There is a reasonable belief that after the hue and cry (over the Watergate affair), say in five to 10 years, the federal authorities might be open to our advances.”
The case will go before the Supreme Court before the summer of 1977, Lewis said. There is no indication of what the court will decide.
Congress passed a law giving the federal government ownership of Nixon’s papers after he resigned from office on Aug. 9, 1974. This action regarding presidential papers had never been taken before.
“There was no real reason why, but it was probably connected with the public mood at the time,” Lewis said.
The dispute over Nixon’s papers prohibits any discussion concerning the Richard M.
Nixon Library that the university plans to build.
“We’ll take everything or nothing.” Lewis said.
Nixon announced—during the April, 1975 conference of the Board ofTrystees—his intention to donate his presidential and prepresidential papers to the university so that the library could be constructed.
The prepresidential papers are not involved in the dispute.
The papers are historically important because they “reflect a political era in this country,” Lewis said. For that reason, he said he believes they should be placed in a public library.
Lewis discounts the belief that Nixon would destroy the documents if he were to regain possession of them.
No plans for construction of the library have been drawn, Lewis said, and no money for building purposes has been collected. Under the Presidential Libraries Act of 1955, funds for such construction must be donated by the public.
Lewis speculated that the library would be built between the main campus and Adams Boulevard. After completion, the library will be deeded to the federal government. This has been the case with previous presidential libraries.
Lewis said it would an enormous advantage for USC to be the site ofthe library. He said Nixon probably chose USC rather than Whittier College, his alma mater, because small colleges are experiencing financial difficulties and that, if anything, “Whittier would close down before USC would.”