Daily H Trojan
Volume LXVIII, Number 67
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, February 4, 1976
Entertainment group has disbanded; big concert cancelled
By Cathy Taylor
Assistant City Editor
The Student Committee on Popular Entertainment has disbanded and will not prepare the big-name concert scheduled for March or April, Glenn Dassoff, cochairman of the five-member committee, said in an interview on Tuesday.
The noon concerts planned for this spring, however, will still be performed.
Dassoff announced the dissolvement in a press release that explained “it was the understanding of the members of the committee that a commitment had been made by the Campus Activities Allocations Board for funding in-the spring semester based on our success in managing the initial (partial) funding of $15,000.”
Special account
Dassoff said the committee’s major complaint right now is that the board reneged on a commitment.
In November, the allocations board * allotted	the
entertainment committee $15,000—$5,000 for noon concerts and $10,000 for a special account to be put toward the major concert—with the implication that if the noon concerts were successful, then the committee could have an additional $25,000 to supplement the $15,000, Dassoff said.
He said he felt the committee proved themselves, and cited examples of attendance at the four noon concerts of fall semester: Bobbidazzler, 800; Fanny, 1,200; Flash Cadillac, 3.500-4.000; and Weirs. 1,300.
Committee policy
Then, in a meeting Dassoff did not attend in January, one ofthe members of the board said that
with only five members on the entertainment committee, all of whom are seniors, no one will be prepared to take over the committee in the fall, Dassoff said.
Mike Peterson, chairman of the board, told Dassoff of the policy before semester break, and that consequently the committee would not receive the additional funds.
Dassoff said the committee was designed to have 15 members, but that he, his cochairman, Ed Morgan, and committee members Clayton Shima, Wayne Neal and Lori Cohen had handled all the noon concerts with the help of their faculty adviser, Trevor Paulson, assistant director of programming and student activities.
The cochairmen had accepted applications from 30 students who wanted to be on the committee, Dassoff said, but they hadn’t interviewed the applicants before semester break because they were studying for finals.
Just an excuse
He said that not having set up a committee to carry on next year was just an excuse for the board to deny them the funds.
Dassoff said the $10,000 in the special account will automatically go back to the allocations board.
Peterson said that although it was not included in the minutes of Nov. 18, when the board received its $15,000 allocation, it was understood that more money would be allocated provided the minor concerts went well and that preparation for a major concert for early in the spring semester would begin.
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HAPPY DAYS ARE GONE AGAIN—Some 4,000 students saw Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids last semester during an open-air concert put on by
SCOPE, the Student Committee on Popular Entertainment. The committee has disbanded after a dispute with the Campus Activities Allocations Board.
SHORT $180 MILLION
BEOG aid cut unforeseen
By Don LaPlante
Associate Editor
Despite a shortage of more than $180 million in funding for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grants, the chance of a cut in student awards is extremely slim, said Peter K. Voight, the program director.
Voight said the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has asked Congress for the additional funds to keep the program going without cutbacks through the end of the fiscal year.
The program was originally budgeted for approximately $800 million, but a considerably higher demand than expected has caused it to run more than $180 million over budget.
Voight said he expects that Congress will provide the
additional funding shortly, and that he has heard no talk of cutting back the awards to students.
“Not only would the logistics of cutting back the awards be a tremendous problem, students are depending on these funds to finance their education. It would cause a great hardship for
many students,” Voight said.
He said that at the moment the program is *about $65 million over budget, but by the end of June the deficit will have risen to $180 million. He cited increased demand as the major cause of the problem.
“The demand has been
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Limited space expected on charters to Europe
Rosenau, new director hopes to make school
James N. Rosenau, new director of the School of International Relations, said the most important goal for his administration is “making the school ever more relevant to the world, nation, and community.”
Rosenau was appointed to the post after long-time director Ross N. Berkes resigned to assume duties within the department as director of special programs.
Rosenau has brought several new ideas to the department, such as a new master’s program and a new recruitment program for faculty members.
Rosenau indicated his strong belief that the university’s School of International Relations has an important role in the educational life of Southern California and the nation.
“The world is getting smaller and nations are becoming
JAMES N. ROSENAU
increasingly interdependent,” he said. “Thus training young people for service in the international field, as well as carrying out research programs that provide important
of IR, relevant
knowledge to the community, is a vital activity today.”
Rosenau said that the university’s International Relations Department is one of the few independent departments in the nation that offer both undergraduate and graduate programs in international relations as well as a number of impressive research projects.
Donald J. Lewis, dean of the Division of Social Sciences and Communications, described Rosenau as a brilliant scholar who has published 14 books on international relations and American politics.
Rosenau came to the university in 1973 as director of the Institute for Transnational Studies and will continue to maintain that post as well as instructing classes in international relations and political science.
By Julie Fosgate
Feature Editor
For most students the first week of classes is a time of organization—arranging a new schedule, devising ingenious ways to buy books without waiting for hours, moving into a new room, and adjusting to the after-semester-break blahs.
But for others, it is already time to start planning for the summer vacation. And the danger is that many students are not even aware of the urgency to plan ahead now.
Kathleen Kelly and Dan lives, codirectors of the Student Travel Service, said there could be problems for students traveling to Europe this summer. While there are more flights than ever before, fewer than 109c are for travelers staying for seven weeks or longer.
Commercial fares double
That could affect most of the students the office serves, including students going home for vacation, students participating in international programs for the summer or those vacationing in Europe for two months or longer.
Travel group charters are the cheapest way to travel, lives said. Commercial fares are more than $1,000, compared to charters available for less than $500.
In the last year the charter packages have become increasingly popular. “There is an incredible demand and a
limited supply,” lives said. Presently only 100 of the flights for extended stays that originate from Los Angeles have spaces available.
Kelly said that part of the problem can be traced to the university’s post-Christmas finals schedule. The chaos of beginning a new semester makes it hard for students to begin thinking of summer vacation plans. Statistics show that they tend to book at the last minute.
Free-for-all market By contrast, students at UCLA have been attending classes since the second week of January. “Their service is operating full speed ahead by now. They really have an advantage over us," Kelly said.
Several companies hold spaces for the university by “a kind of gentlemen's agreement” but Kelly said those openings will not last forever. Some ofthe flights have already sold out and the situation is getting tighter every day.
“It's a free-for-all on the market,” lives said. “And that’s not a scare tactic, it’s just fact.” Travel group charters are open to everyone, as opposed to affinity charters where travelers must be members of a club or organization. However, there are restrictions on the offers.
Students must fill out applications for the charters at the travel service office in Student Union 303. A deposit of
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