Daily ® Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVIII, No. 41	Los Angeles, California	Friday, November 14, 1975
Shorthanded funding board allotting $89,000
By Larry Tuck
staff writer
Shorthanded and eight weeks later, the interim Campus Activities Allocation Board has begun the process of deciding exactly where this semester’s student programming funds will be spent.
About $89,000 is available for programs this semester, said Mike Peterson, chairman of the allocations board.
The largest allocation so far has been to the Student Committee on Popular Entertainment. It will get more than $15,000, which will pay for a free concert, probably in December, and provide operating funds for a major-artist concert in Feb ruary.
The board should get most of its money
back from the sale of tickets to the February concert, said Glenn Dassoff of the entertainment committee. He said the name of the group cannot be released yet because of contractual restrictions, but that tickets for its concerts would normally sell for $8 to $10.
The committee hopes to sell at least
4,000	tickets at $3 each.
The allocations board was created to take the place of the old Programming Board, which controlled money from the mandatory programming fee. That fee was reinstated this semester after a short-lived experiment with a voluntary fee.
Because of controversies involving the
makeup of the board and the selection process, the board wasn’t able to hold its first meeting until three weeks ago.
Board members were appointed by a committee selected by the Student Senate. Because organizations of minority and graduate students protested that they were not fairly represented, only five members have been appointed so far. Four more posts remain to be filled.
Applications for those positions are due today.
Other allocations so far include $800 to Prufrock, a new literary magazine, and $775 to the Troy Week committee.
Peterson explained that the funding to Prufrock was considered “seed money” to get the magazine started. After this
semester, the publication should be self-supporting.
The Troy Week money will pay for a dance and a pep rally. Peterson said that because this year’s Troy Week committee included representatives from all campus living groups, those activities should help bring together people from the different groups, which is one of the board’s objectives.
Hearings will continue next week on requests from other groups.
Peterson said he was surprised that there had been so few proposals.
“I don’t see anyone storming the gates,” he said. Only 17 proposals have been submitted in proper form so far.
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STUDENTS MEET PRESIDENT
Hubbard chews fat in Birnkrant
Recommended salary, tuition
raises to be considered today
On the issue of faculty compensation, Hubbard said the university’s salaries and wages are competitive—about even with those of Stanford University.
“Tuition has only kept abreast of inflation,” he said.
Students punched out questions continuously and received answers between sips of soup and bites of burrito. Hubbard said he couldn’t understand why Birnkrant diners weren’t all fat, with all this good food. One listener agreed, saying, “Yes, there is a lot of it.”
Hubbard explained that “finances are my primary responsibility. We don’t try to make a fresh start academically or physically until we have the money in hand.” He assured fellow diners that the university is in the black.
He compared this university to Harvard in terms of endowment funds: Harvard has a $l-billion endowment for 12,000 students, while USC has only a$70-million endowment for 22,000 students.
“Tuition revenue brings in only about 40% of the operating cost,” Hubbard said. “Therefore, any student who pays full tuition actually has a 60% scholarship.
Laughing, Hubbard readily admitted. “If there’s any consistency in my administration, it’s the fact that tuition has gone up every year.”
Tuition talk led directly to questions about possible effects of the tuition petitions circulating among students that will soon be sent to the Resource Management Commission. Hubbard shook his head and pointed out that no petition is going to have an effect on the inflation spiral.
This observation quashed any more tuition questions for the time being.
Then Hubbard touched on the subject of athletics. He stated one underlying personal characteristic common to all the
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By Wayne Walley
associate city editor
The Resource Management and Planning Committee will consider the budget commission’s recommendations for faculty and staff salary and tuition increases today, but will not make a final decision until next Friday.
“Today’s meeting will be for information only to bring the committee up to date on what the commission has recommended. There will be be no debate today, just questions,” J. Jerry Wiley, chairman of the committee, said.
The commission has recommended a 5.5% to 6.5% tuition hike and a 10% raise in faculty and staff compensation including a 2% increase in fringe benefits.
Because of the massive amount of information, Wiley said he wanted committee members to have the time to read everything and ask questions before making a final recommendation.
“There are essentially five recommendations, plus evidence representative of the faculty, staff and student positions that we want members to be aware of,” Wiley said.
The committee will meet again Wednesday and make a final decision to send to the President’s Advisory Council next Friday.
The PAC will meet Dec. 5 to make the final recommendation to be forwarded to the Board of Trustees. The trustees will make a final decision in late January.
The 19-member planning committee has three options regarding the budget commission proposal: accept it in full and forward it to the PAC, accept it in part, or reject the proposal.
If any part of the proposal is rejected, the committee then has the option to prepare their own recommendation or ask the budget commission for a new proposal.
Joseph P. Mayer, senior financial analyst, said it is hard to predict if this year’s proposal would be changed by the committee or by the trustees.
“If it goes through resource management, and is a well thought out proposal and a good recommendation, then it has a good chance of approval by the PAC and the trustees,” Mayer said.
John Griffith, executive secretary for the PAC, could not make a prediction concerning the approval of the proposal.
“The process has changed. Last year the tuition commission was only concerned with tuition and had to change their recommendation after learning ofthe planning committee’s decision on faculty and staff compensation,” he said. “This year the commission decided on both.”
But he also added that the final recommendation of the planning committee last year was eventually accepted in full by the trustees.
TROJAN CAUSE—Tommy Trojan modeled a T-shirt for a "campus cause" today while Gerry Ferri, pledge class president of Phi \appa Tau fraternity, sold the shirts. The blue and yellow "FUCLA" shirts are being sold for $4.50 each as a fraternity fund-raising project.
MM, MM, GOOD—The soup may not be Campbell's and the spinach may not be the kind found in Popeye's magic can, but President John R. Hubbard gave the food in Birnkrant Dining Hall hearty compliments during his meal there Wednesday evening. DT photo by Judy Francesconi.
By Cathy Taylor
associate news editor
Guess who’s coming to dinner? President John R. Hubbard, that’s who.
Hubbard strolled into Birnkrant Dining Hall Wednesday evening. He entered to muted voices singing Hail to the Chief and rumored plots of a food fight for a little impromptu enter--tainment.
For his dinner, Hubbard chose a beef burrito heavily garnished with chili sauce, passing up the specialty of the evening, sliced roast beef. After selecting a cup of carefully ladled onion soup (hezs the president) and a dish of spinach, he completed his dinner with a full glass of milk.
The president’s visit to the dining hall was an effort to circulate among students and answer their questions.
The students came prepared. The number-one question was about tuition and the number-one response was inflation. “If you control inflation,” Hubbard said, “I’ll control tuition.”