Daily m Trojan
Volume L 'VIII, No. 50
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, December 3, 1975
OH BUOY!-»-ln accordance with the women's athletics opportunity drawing, Leslie Allen, left, and Vernice Vasquez join forces to sell tickets. They are comfortably seated in the prize—a shiny new cardinal-and-gold motorboat. Cost of the tickets is $1. DT photo by Mike Ito.
Student Senate rejects planning committee’s tuition hike proposal
By Carolyn Horn
associate city editor
Tuition may be raised next year by some 5.5% to 9.3%, but it won’t be with the approval of the Student Senate.
In a meeting on Monday, the senate members voted unanimously to reject the Resource Management and Planning Committee’s proposal that tuition be raised between 5.5% and 6.5%, if possible, and no more than 9.3%.
The senate’s decision was based on a question of the voting procedure used in the committee's tuition vote.
“Ex-officio members of the committee voted on the decision, so, according to the new bylaws ofthe President’s Advisory Council, the decision was made illegally,” said Glenn Sonnenberg, the director of the financial affairs unit of the senate.
The bylaws now state that ex-officio members cannot vote in PAC decisions.
Barbara Lasswell, a PAC secretary, said the procedure was not illegal. Because the new bylaws were passed after the ex-officio members were appointed, she said, the ruling does not apply to them.
“As far as the PAC and Robert’s Rules of Order are concerned, the vote was entirely legal,” she said.
The Student Senate approved the Budget Commission’s original recommendation of a hike between 5.5% and 6.5%, but felt that the ceiling of
9.3% was too high for students to bear, Sonnenberg said.
“I feel confident that the ceiling will be the amountofthe tuition raise,” he said. “They’ll go for the highest they can get.
“The situation is outofhand—our rejection ofthe recommendation is a statement of the senate's position.”
Sonnenberg said the senate has no part in the decision-making procedure and that the senate’s rejection of the recommendation would probably not affect the PAC’s decision concerning tuition.
Joe Mayer, the senior fiscal analyst and a member of the Resource Management and Planning Committee, said he felt the ceiling of 9.3% was fair.
“Because of inflation, $3,540 next year would be about the same as $3,240 this year,” Mayer said.
“Next year, families will be taking home about 9.3% more in pay, so the tuition raise would really be no extra burden. Anything up to that is not unreasonable.”
The senate considered other money matters at its meeting, and recommended that a committee be established in the PAC to study the university’s expenditures.
“The committee is now in the office of Zohrab A. Kaprielian (executive vice-president), but we feel a PAC committee would be less biased,” Sonnenberg said.
KSCR resumes broadcasting despite problems
By Justin Fox
staff writer
KSCR. the university’s student-run radio station, appears to have won a long fight against bureaucracy.
The station went on the air Monday night for the first time since August, broadcasting to the Birnkrant Dining Hall.
Though the dinner show only lasted for a couple of hours and broadcasts were sporadic on Tuesday, it was in a sense the station's grand opening for the semester.
"It marked an end to a long and frustrating battle with university red tape.” said Bob Moore, a graduate student in public relations and general manager ofthe station.
KSCR first went on the air last April, broadcasting to the Grill, and continued to run until August. Moore admitted there were problems with the Grill broadcasts. The station was cut off anytime someone played the juke box.
Since the inception ofthe station last spring, Moore and his staff have pushed a plan to have
KSCR serve the Birkrant Dining Hall, Webb Tower and Men’s Residence West.
Moore said their insistence ran them head-on into some administrators who were not as enthusiastic.
Most of the negotiations involved the Office of Special Services, which had to approve each move before the staff did anything. Moore said, and all the checking and approving took a lot of time and effort.
KSCR is carried over lines installed by PacificTelephone Co., and the special service staff deals with the phone company for the university.
“We could not just approve anything that the KSCR staff told us to do," said Deborah Pietraszko. associate director of special services.
She said the KSCR staff'had called the phone company and asked that a line be installed to Birnkrant. The company then contacted Special Services and asked if the plan was approved. Pietraszko said no.
KSCR had not yet received approval from Residence Halls of-
Committees to report to Board of Trustees
The Board ofTrustees will meet today at 9:30 a.m. on the Health Sciences Campus. Betty Murray, executive secretary for the board, said the board's standing committees will present reports at the meeting.
The standing committees include the Executive Committee. Academic Affairs Committee. Finance and Budget Committee, University Development Committee. Alumni Affairs Committee, Campus Planning Committee. Board Personnel Committee. Honorary Degrees Committee and Student Affairs Committee.
Proposals about a tuition increase for next year have not been submitted to the trustee committees yet and thus cannot be considered until the board meets in February.
ficials to set up a line into Birnkrant when they made the request, she said.
Pietraszko said she couldn’t authorize the installation until she received the approval, in writing, of the residence hall, KSCR and Student Administrative Services.
All the approvals were secured two weeks ago,-and the phone company laid the line over Thanksgiving vacation. But the hassles for the KSCR staff don’t seem to be over.
So far, KSCR is only broadcast into Birnkrant, and no one seems to know when service will be extended to Webb Tower and Men’s Residence West according to plan.
Moore said that the engineer of KUSC, the university’s classical radio station, is in Sacramento arranging the purchase - of equipment that would send a radio beam to Webb Tower and Men’s Residence West.
Also, School of Journalism officials told KSCR that it must vacate its present studio, since it will be used for broadcasting classes next semester, Moore said.
He said the KSCR staff has asked the Campus Activities Allocation Board for $8,975 to set up a new studio.
“It sounds like a lot of money, but it is a one-time expense, and KSCR will offer the students
something for many years to come,” he said.
Moore said the meeting with the board has been postponed, and he has no idea how it will turn out. However, the staff is circulating a petition stating that KSCR deserves the financial support of the allocation board. The staff plans to present the petition at the board’s next meeting.
Finally, Monday night, all problems were temporarily cast aside and KSCR went on the air in Birnkrant. Only minutes later, the staff was told by Herb Ellis, manager of the residence dining halls, that the music was too loud.
THE KEY TO MUSIC—Daily' Trojan photographer Robert Labayne catches the organist for the Bobbidaz-zler Band with a happy expression, obviously pleased with his musical performance. The band played on the
Student Activities Center patio Tuesday in a noon concert sponsored by the Student Committee on Popular Entertainment.