Minority group formed to aid student affairs
By Wayne Walley
associate city editor
An in-house committee designed to help improve the student services provided within the Student Affairs Division has been formed by James R. Appleton, vice-president for student affairs.
Appleton said the quality and range of service delivery for students needed improvement. This was his reason for forming the division’s Minority Student Affairs Group.
It was his hope that the group could provide ideas and criticisms concerning student services.
“This is an opportunity for people with a variety of preferences to say how well we are meeting demands in service delivery,” Appleton said at the initial meeting of the group Tuesday.
The group includes representatives from all student services, the line officers and student representatives from the Associated Black Students, Asian Students and MECHA, a Chicano organization.
“Black, Chicano and Asian students have particular needs that have not been paid attention to. Our services should be accessible to all students and in this division we should pay attention to the values and needs by having this group,” Appleton said.
He emphasized that the group is not a policy-making committee tied in to the President’s Advisory Council, but an in-house committee that can be influential within the Student Affairs Division.
At the initial meeting, the make-up of the group and its purpose was of major concern to the representatives.
Robert Robinson, chairman of the Associated Black Students, asked for more student representation and felt the line officers should not be included within the group.
Appleton agreed with his request for more student representation, but wanted to keep the line officers as exofficio members “because they end up implementing the decisions we make and they ought to have a say in those decisions.”
Anita Siegman, director of the Counseling Center, agreed with Appleton.
“We are open to ideas and we can use the commission as a forum to help the service delivery improve,” she said.
Addie Klotz, associate vice-president for campus life and director of student health, also backed Appleton.
“By working together we can see the situation as it is. Programs will be different because of student ideas and the student ideas give the staff ideas, but this all takes time," she said.
As an in-house group, Appleton is allowing the group to make its own decisions, but will act as chairman to remain in touch with the ideas and organization of the group.
“I want this group to be a working group, not a group to pontificate on our problems. Some decisions will be taken as decisions. Others will be taken as advice,” Appleton said.
Daily fm Trojan
Volume LXVIII, No. 34
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, November 5, 1975
Petition to oppose j tuition rise started
Members and volunteers of the financial affairs unit of the Student Senate are soliciting signatures this week for a student petition expressing opposition to any tuition increase that would subsidize an increase in faculty compensation.
“We need names and numbers to show student unity concerning the tuition issue,” said Glenn Sonnenberg, cochairman of the unit.
“It is not that we are against an increase in faculty compensation, but that we believe other methods besides an increase in tuition can pay for the raise.”
Last month, a Faculty Senate committee on employment and remuneration recommended a 15% faculty compensation increase for next year to the budget commission.
By using charts completed by the budget commission, such a 15% increase would mean a tuition increase of about 20%, but the financial affairs unit feels other sources of income can be used.
The unit is compiling a report of alternative methods to pay for a compensation increase to submit to the budget commission.
“The petition is a way for students who cannot help work on the report to show their support. We have to show the administration that students feel tuition is important,” Sonnenberg said.
Chris Winfrey, a junior in prelaw, who heads the petition drive, said he hopes for a strong student response.
“We have got to show the board that students are concerned and willing to show disapproval if tuition increases,” Winfrey said.
“A lot of people are not aware of what is happening and the petitions can make them aware.”
Petitions will be circulated this week in the residence halls, on the Row and in front of Tommy Trojan.
“It has become a coordinated effort and everyone’s been cooperative,” Sonnenberg said.
The unit must complete a preliminary report by Friday and a final report by next Wednesday.
“So far we have gotten information from the budget commission, the President’s Advisory Council and many other sources,” Sonnenberg said.
The unit will meet today and Friday. Its office is located in Student Union 308.
Envelopes to request pre-registration materials for the spring semester are now available at the Information Center, Student Activities Center, Student Information Booth and the Registrar’s Office.
Envelopes to request the packets may be turned in until Nov. 21. In December, registration materials will be sent to the students who have requested them.
Students who do not request the materials by mail will be able to pick them up at the Registrar’s Office beginning Dec. 16.
Completed packets will be accepted by the registrar beginning Dec. 17. A lottery system will be used to fill students’ requests for “R” cards.
TUITION STABILIZATION—Tanya Deyo, a sophomore prelaw student, watches as Sal Romano, a junior in business administration, signs a petition to oppose a tuition increase to subsidize an increase in faculty compensation. The financial affairs unit of the Student
Senate is soliciting the signatures and is compiling a report of alternatives to a tuition hike. The unit will meet today and Friday in its office in Student Union 308. DT photo by Mike Ito.
CAL GAME WEEKEND
Troians do $500 damage to hotel
Preregistration envelopes are now available
By Dorothy Reinhold
staff writer
Enthusiastic football fans did only a minimum of damage to the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco during their stay there for the USC-Berkeley game last weekend, a spokesman for the hotel said.
An estimated $500 worth of damages was done to the hotel, said Alfred Boreni, director of security for the St. Francis.
The hotel was the official headquarters for the Cal weekend activities.
“A fire extinguisher was emptied into a room, and all the walls had to be cleaned. A couple more extinguishers were ripped off the walls, some glass was broken and a restroom door was pulled off,” Boreni said.
Good-sized crowd
“We had a pretty good-sized crowd here, and I think the amount of damage done was very minimal,” he said.
Michael Niotta, director of alumni affairs, said when he talked to guards and security people at the hotel, they seemed pleased with the actions of the guests at the hotel.
“They definitely want us to return there next year,” Niotta said.
For the past nine years the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco had been the official headquarters for the alumni party and university activities for the
annual game weekends, but Niotta said this year the Hilton did not want to accept the party.
Damage at the Hilton
“For three years in a row the Hilton had been damaged extensively over the weekend, and the damages there last year amounted to about $10,000,” he said.
“I tried to explain to them that the university could not be responsible for what its students did while they were off campus, but I guess they felt the damages were affiliated enough with the university to reflect on the alumni party. The Hilton just didn’t think they could take it for another year,” Niotta said.
Damages to the Hilton last year included broken mirrors, stolen furniture, torn-out appliances and flooded rooms.
No student discounts
Two years ago some $15,000 in damage was done to the Hilton, and the hotel decided not to offer student discounts any longer. In fact, they asked the students to stay elsewhere for the game weekend in the future.
But last year many students returned to the Hilton and many rooms housed four or five people when it was registered to a “Mr. and Mrs.” hotel officials said. They said ordinarily they would not say anything about the situation, but they felt that it was a factor in much of the damage that was done.