Aid recipients will get award letters beginning May 15
By Valerie Nelson
Financial aid awards will be sent to entering graduate and currently enrolled undergraduate students beginning about May 15, said Richard Dolen, interim director of Student Administrative Services.
He said 2,400 a ward letters have already been mailed to entering undergraduates, and more are being mailed at regular intervals as they are processed.
“The work of sending out award letters will continue until all the academic departments and external scholarship agencies have notified us of all the awards they distribute.” Dolen said in a written reply to the Daily Trojan.
The Financial Aid Office does not have control over the timing ofthese external awards and some arrive after the new semester has begun, he said.
The College Scholarship Service Uniform Methodology is the need-analysis system used by the office. One reason for its use is its approval by both the state and federal agencies that provide most ofthe money for financial aid, Dolen said.
A student’s award is determined by using a combination ofthe individual’s need, as calculated by the service, and the total student body’s needs weighed against the available resources, he said.
In giving out the awards, the office will also follow
policies that have been established by the President’s Advisory Council.
The council recommended that the 1976-77 maximum financial aid budget be set at certain levels for resident, commuter and independent students. Maximum does not mean that every applicant will receive the full amount of financial aid requested, but it indicates an upper limit.
The policies defined a resident as a student who lives away from his parents during the school year. The established need for this category has been set at $6,500.
A commuter student lives with his parents or guardian and travels to campus each day. The commuter need has been set at $5,500.
An independent student has established a permanent household for other than educational purposes and has a budgeted need of $7,400.
The budget for the independent student is calculated on a twelve-month basis, while commuter and resident expenses are determined on a nine-month basis.
The council recommended that the university gift-aid portion of the package be continued at least at the same level as it was this year, as long as there is no reduction in need.
The policy said it recognized the fact that financial aid for students who are not eligible for state aid will be less this year than last year.
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University of Southern California
Volume LXVIII, No. 120
Los Angeles, California
Friday, April 30, 1976
Pickets to appear at Songfest in protest of Gallo contribution
Several campus organizations will picket Songfest on Saturday night in protest of the use of Gallo Winery's ad in the musical's program.
The picketing is a result ofthe controversy surrounding Gallo's recent donation to Songfest.
The organizations that will be picketing are MECHA. Student’s Forum for Hayden, the Arab Student Organization, the Greek Student Organization, the YWCA. the International Stu-
dents Organization, the Black Women's Caucus and the Chicano Caucus.
The picketing was organized by the United Farm Workers" support group on campus.
“We’re not boycotting Songfest. or discouraging people from buying tickets to see it."’ said Victor Manrique. chairman of MECHA. “We re picketing Gallo's exploitation of student activities.”
A statement released by the
Dental School’s future to be outlined in plan
By Marcus Oviatt
Staff Writer
A new master plan for the School of Dentistry will be submitted for approval within the next two weeks, Alice Dimmick, administrative assistant to the school’s dean, said Thursday.
The plan, which Dimmick said is likely to provide a blueprint for the school for the next 20 years, has been in preparation since January.
She said one reason for the plan is the school's new administration. Richard C. Oliver, professor of periodontics, assumed the post of dean on Sept. 1. 1975.
"With a new dean, it was felt it would be advantageous to sit down and plan for the next 20 years instead of going about it in a piecemeal fashion,” Dimmick said..
“It's important because there are so many directions in which to go at the Dental School.”
Dimmick said Oliver organized five committees to determine goals for the school and to draw up plans. Each committee is made up of approximately eight members of the school’s faculty, students and staff.
The committees have been studying the following five areas: administration, physical facilities, education and research. service (to students and the community) and faculty.
The recommendations of the committees will be submitted to the Master Plan Coordinating Committee, which is comprised of the different committee chairmen. Oliver and an outside consultant to the school.
A final draft of the plan must be submitted by the end of June.
Dimmick said she thought some ofthe committees’ recommendations would take effect immediately, but that the bulk of them- would involve long-range goals, such as new buildings. She said curriculum changes would probably take a year to effect.
One change in the plan would be a cut in tuition and equipment costs.
A spokesman for the school’s financial aid office said the average student pays about $22,000 to get through the school and some students pay up to $30,000.
Tuition for one year is $3,930 but a 10% hike is planned for the fall semester, the spokesman said. The hike, when coupled with fees, will raise expenses to about $4,400 a year. Equipment costs $4,600 for the first year and $2,500 for the second. No equipment must be purchased after the first two years.
Equipment costs are particularly steep, since only 35% of the school’s graduates enter the field with a private firm and need to use the equipment. The rest of the graduates find work with clinics or hospitals and don’t need to supply the equipment.
A spokesman for the University ofthe Pacific’s dental school said the average cost of tuition and equipment during the school's three-year program is $10,800.
A spokesman for UCLA’s dental school said total expenses for tuition and equipment during the four-year program there is about $8,200.
United Farm Workers of America commends Songfest for its work and contribution on behalf of the John Tracy Clinic.
The farm workers contend that Gallo has used its donations to “bribe its way into the USC community, providing an outlet for its products and helping the corporation overcome the effects of the United Farm Workers’ boycott.”
“The picketing campus groups don’t want Gallo’s name removed from the list of donors,”
Manrique said. “They want to remove Gallo’s ad in the Songfest program.”
Manrique said the picketers are not protesting the donation of Songfest profits to the John Tracy Clinic.
He also said he doesn’t believe Gallo’s donation to Songfest was for the purpose of helping handicapped children,
Manrique said Gallo made its donation to Songfest only on the condition that its ad appear in
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TASK FORCE REPORT
FIRST OF THE SEMESTER—You've seen him before but this time it's from a different angle. Yes, it is our own Tommy Trojan silhouetted by the late afternoon sun. We couldn't let a semester go by without putting him on the front page (besides, the photo chemicals went bad and nothing else came out). DT photo by Gary Kirkorian.
Disorder in aid office cited
The Special Task Force on Student Financial Aid found that the administration of the Financial Aid Office was in serious disorder, and that there was considerable antipathy between the top administrator and his assistant, and the staff in the office.
The report showed the relationship between William G. Wagner, special assistant to the president for academic record services, and Richard Dolen, interim director of student administrative services and the staff of the aid office.
The task force, which was charged by the President’s Advisory Council, released a report Wednesday that outlined problems, conclusions and recommendations for the office, all of which President John R. Hubbard approved.
The aid office faced a major crisis last summer when a new computer system failed. Even though that problem was corrected, the report says the office encountered many dificulties afterwards that undermined its credibility and effectiveness with students.
The report says Wagner and Dolen saw the office staff as incompetent, unmotivated, inbred and untrustworthy.
The task force found the office staff to be demoralized, and after interviews with members of the staff, found they believed the Wagner-Dolen administration to be arbitrary and vindictive.
The presence of Janet Wagner, Wagner’s wife, in an undefined position in administrative services, compounded these problems.
These problems grew with the emergence of a larger financial aid program, and the report concludes that the university did not give proper guidance in response.
When the administration did act, as in the awards crisis of last summer, the first priority, out of necessity, was the computers.
However, a serious void remains in the absence of a clear university commitment to the total function of the Financial Aid Office, and to providing the supports necessary for staff to carry out the function, the report says.
Consequently, many problems the student had to deal with received insufficient attention.
The report also indicated that the problems had developed throughout administrations since the early 1970s.
Pam Walbom, a former director of the office, headed an administration the task force found lacked the expertise and experience required to manage financial aid programs as they grew in scope and complexity.
The report called the work of Michael J. Scarpelli, who resigned as director on March 1. and his group as “hope unfulfilled.”
Scarpelli did not respond to an invitation of the task force to meet with it to discuss his administration and termination. The invitation was extended before Scarpelli left Los Angeles.
Another problem the task force addressed was Wagner and his responsibilities. His administration from the outset recognized its primary concern as being the development of a functional data base.
The task force also investi-
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