Not just the poor get scholarships
By Don La Plante
Associate Editor
To get a scholarship nowadays, you have to come from a poor family, right? Wrong, if figures compiled by the state's Student Aid Commission and published in the governor's proposed budget are correct.
The figures show that for this academic year the median family income for state scholarship recipients is $14,241, while the income for all California
families is about $13,000.
The figures show that 58% of the winners came from families who had incomes above the average, w hile 42% of the families were below the average.
The 1975-76 percentages marked a dramatic shift from the previous year, 1974-75, when 637c of the families of winners were below' the California median income. w ith only 379c above. That marks a shift of 21% in one year.
Scholarship winners who come from very poor families.
$8,000 family income or below, numbered only 14.7ri of the winners—a drop of 7.6% from the previous year.
While there were fewer winners that might be listed as poor, the only ones that might be listed as well-off—family incomes of more than $19,000 per year with three children or less—jumped dramatically from 4.3r/c of the new recipients at 14.1%. this year.
When the figures aren’t broken down by the number of children in the family. 27% ofthe new recipients this year had family incomes of more than $18,000.
Not only are students apparently coming from wealthier families, they are coming in w ith higher grade-point averages. The average new state scholar
this year had a 3.56 high school grade-point average.
The year before, the average was 3.39. which was the lowest during the decade 1965-1975. The figure for this year was the second highest in the period, while the highest was a 3.75 grade-point average for the new state scholars in 1965.
The racial and ethnic composition ofthe new recipients this year is overwhelmingly Caucasian—68.5%. Various minority groups make up the rest with about 6% black, 8% Chicano. 11% Oriental, with the rest divided among other groups.
Those figures have remained relatively unchanged over the past three years.
While the winners of state scholarships are predominated
by Caucasians, the other major state program, the College Opportunity Grants, is heavily weighted toward helping disadvantaged students, which usually includes a larger number of minorities.
For that program, based on a 10% sample. 40% were Chicano, 25% Caucasian, 17% black. 12% Oriental and the rest divided among other groups.
The median income of the winners of those awards was $6,500 the past two years, and $5,500 in 1973. Almost 80% ofthe grant whinners had family incomes of less than $9,000 per year, while only 1% had incomes of more than $12,000 a year.
The high school grade-point -average of those winners averaged about 3.3 for the last three years.
Daily §§ Trojan
Volume LXVIII, No. 70
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Monday, February 9, 1976
KSCR budget request remains on turntable
By Peter Fletcher
Staff Writer
Wait and See is again the number one song at KSCR. the student-run radio station, this week.’The station, which has had its budget request postponed for three months, had it postponed again Thursday by the Campus Activities Allocation Board.
The decision on the request was postponed until a member of the board could check the possibility of a partial loan to the station. The board members were reluctant to grant the station the entire $8,975 it requested because ofthe size ofthe request and the limited resources of the board.
The members discussed several possibilities, including a loan by the board, a loan by the university and the transfer of funds from another area to cover the station's request.
KSCR w?ants the money so it can buy new equipment and expand its broadcasts to the entire campus, said Kevin Keeshan, general manager of the station.
The station first made its request about three months ago. Mike Peterson, chairman of the board, said the decision was postponed because the full board should decide oi\a request as large as KSCR’s.
Thursday was the first meeting of the full voting board. The members of the board decided unanimously to postpone the decision on the station’s request until Tuesday.
In other business, the board voted 5-0 to give the students of the School of Dentistry $2,340 for a student body report and a newsletter, Peterson said. The money was given to the students since they pay the $4 50 programming fee three times a year because the Dental School operates on a trimester system.
The board also decided to delay a decision on a progressive cinema series. The group’s request for $900 to sponsor six feature films w as postponed until several questions of the board members could be answered.
A request for $707 by the USC Cooperative Nursery was defeated by a vote of 4-3. Several members of the board said that they voted “no” because the nursery would not serve very many students.
Project Partners requested $350 for programs to benefit children
who live in the community. The board decided not to fund the project
by a 3-2 vote. Five of the nine members must favor the motion for it to
succeed.	,	,	0.
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Lesbian feminist helps gay says outreach is needed at
“Have you ever seen a television advertisement picturing a lesbian woman drinking at a bar and a telephone number for her to get help?”
Jerri Lou Estes, an active lesbian feminist and an alcoholic, posed thi^ question in her speech “Alcoholism, Lesbianism and Feminism” at the YWCA Thursday.
Estes said 10% of the population is alcoholic, while in the gay community 37% of the people have drinking problems. She attributed this to “gay bars as the only outlet in the counterculture.”
Estes works at the Alcoholism Center for Women. It is run for and by women, with an emphasis on dealing with lesbians. It is now the only program of its kind, and recently received a $1 mil-
JUST A SHORT WADE TO CLASS—Administrators of the School of Performing Arts, Rod Punt (left), Tom Sommerville, Sherry Siembab, James Vail and Bernard
morning as they tried to cross a miniature lake formed by heavy rain near Booth Hall. The water was drained by tunneling under a walkway. DT photo by Paula
Kantor were caught without their wading boots Friday Daniels.
Faculty Senate suggests plan for distribution of salary hike
JERRI LOU ESTES
By Cathy Taylor
Assistant City Editor
The Faculty Senate has passed a recommendation concerning the formula for distribution of the salary increase, the percen-* tage of which has not yet been determined by the Board of Trustees.
The motion was presented by William Harris, chairman ofthe
alcoholics; university
lion federal grant.
Twenty-six women work at the center, and the majority of them are gay, because they work with gays, Estes said. “By our therapy and counseling they are given a choice. They are asked, ‘What do you want to do? Who do you want to be?” she said.
Estes said the center’s slogan is “We’re gay and we care” and the center has an outreach into bars in the local community. There are 350,000 to 700.000 gays in Los Angeles, and Estes said she hopes to reach many of them through the center.
Alcoholism among women is one of the major problems the center is trying to combat, Estes said. The center’s program is feminist-oriented and attributes its 59% recovery rate for al-(continued on page 2)
Committee on Employment and Remuneration, at the Faculty Senate meeting held in late January.
Although the size ofthe salary increase has not yet been decided, the faculty has requested a 19.6% pay raise. The minutes from an earlier Faculty Senate meeting say the request is economically feasible, especially with the 9.26% tuition increase.
“It is expected that the faculty will be told the amount of the increase pool within the next week or so,” said Harris, professor of mathematics.
“Because of the status of the economy, w'e probably won’t be able to achieve it (the 19.6% salary increase) this year,” Harris said.
The resolution of the Dec. 17 meeting required that a memo be sent to President John R. Hubbard explainii g the arguments that reinforce the senate’s position. Also incluc ed were the differences betweei the findings of the senate and those of the President's Advisory Council Budget Commission.
The distribution of the increase will cover two areas, a report from the Committee on Employment and Remuneration says.
One will cover a eost-of-living adjustment, the other a merit adjustment.
The minutes of the Jan. 21 meeting say: “The precise formula suggested by the committee would, for pool increases up to 70% of the average cost-of-living increase for Los Angeles/Long Beach area (estimated currently at 10%; the precise figure will be known shortly), distribute the pool 90% for cost-of-living raises and 10% for merit.
“For increases above 70% of the cost-of-living figure, the distribution will be 50-50 between the two categories.”
The report from the committee said the cost-of-living adjustment should be a fixed percentage across the board. Merit would be awarded according to the principles of academic evaluation stated in the Faculty Handbook.
The handbook outlines evaluation qualifications as “excellence and creativity in teaching (and its associated scholarly preparation, student counseling and advisement at suitably scheduled times, and the direction of research), and/or scholarly research, publication, and/or writing and other scholarly activities, as well as performance. production and design.”