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Interim board begins funding allocations
University of Southern California
Volume L 'VIII, No. 32	Los Angeles, California Thursday, October 30, 1975
Women’s significance in society emphasized in strike day rally
By Carolyn Horn
associate city editor
The question for women Wednesday at the national women’s strike rally was not so much what “Alice” doesn’t do but what she should be doing.
On “Alice Doesn’t” Day, which was organized by the National Organization for Women, the nation’s females were asked to strike from their routine jobs and duties to demonstrate the significance and contribution of women in society.
The rally Wednesday on the Student Activities Center patio was not really to encourage striking but to urge women to push for their own progress.
More than 200 people, many of whom were male, turned out to listen to feminist humor, music and talk.
Pam Stewart, coordinator of the Women's Resource Center, read from the book, Sisterhood Is Powerful.
“Being Alice,” Stewart said, “is coming home from work to start in to work—unloading the groceries, doing the laundry, the dishes, etc., etc., etc.”
ALTERNATIVES SOUGHT
Those kinds of statements drew applause from an audience that seemed well aware of the stereotypes.
The speakers—Ann Moody, author of Coming of Age in Mississippi; Barbara McEachern, director of the master of liberal arts program; Judith Steihm, an associate professor of political science; and Carol Foster, from the School of Medicine— advocated women helping themselves.
Moody, whose book deals with her experience as a woman and as a minority, said that her view of the women's liberation movement as a black was different than a white woman’s would be.
“I’ve thought that white men and black women were the most liberated for a long time,” she said.
“By the time I was seven years old, I was working and paying my own way and helping out my brothers and sisters.
“The white woman's feelings of suppression from being a pampered housewife seems odd, consider-
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Committee to fight tuition hike
The Student Senate financial affairs committee has less than three week- to disprove the university’s need for its annual tuition hikes, a member of the committee said.
The group met Wednesday to discuss its proposal. Although the meeting was open to “concerned students,” most of those attending were members of the senate.
The committee members believe the university can find money for faculty pay raises and other expenses without raising tuition, said Glenn Sonnenberg, cochairman of the committee.
In particular, they intend to look into rising administrative costs, he said.
Sonnenberg emphasized that the unit is not opposed to faculty pay increases, but that they do not believe the cost should be passed directly to the students.
The committee also believes that rising tuition will soon reach a point of diminishing returns, if it hasn’t already, he said.
Committee members speculated that higher tuition will lead to fewer students attending the university and those who do attend will take fewer classes, which will decrease the university’s income from tuition.
The quality of students is also dropping, as good students with low incomes are replaced by others with a lower scholastic
ability and more money, they said.
The group has to prove those allegations to the Budget Commission and the Resource Management Committee of the President’s Advisory Council before the council’s Nov. 21 meeting. The council will consider its recommendation to the Board of Trustees at that meeting.
Sonnenberg said the group needs help from interested students to do research work and circulate petitions.
The petitions will be available near Tommy Trojan next week. Students who want to work on the report can contact the group in Student Union 308.
By Sherie Stark
staff writer
The interim Campus Activities Allocation Board will begin reviewing budget requests next week, after a delay because of complaints of minority underrepresentation on the originally proposed board.
The five-member interim board will make allocation decisions until an additional four members can be selected.
Minority students charged that underrepresentation on the selection committee brought about the lack of minority members on the originally proposed board.
The committee was revised to include more minority students and will select the remaining four board members.
Because the selection process will take from two to four weeks, the interim board will begin operating with the same authority originally planned for the board, said Mike Peterson, chairman of the allocation board.
The nine-member board, when completed, will make allocation decisions for next semester. Peterson said thatthe lackof minority representation on the interim board will not affect the board’s allocations for this semester.
“If we were to wait for the other four to be elected, we’d be
waiting until after Thanksgiving to even start making allocations,” he said. “Even now, trying to fund programs, is, in many cases, a lost cause, but we’re going to do the best job we can.”
Peterson said one of the difficulties the interim board board will face is thatthe bylaws call for every allocation to be approved by at least five members. As there are only five on the interim board, each allocation will have to be unanimous.
Peterson said that besides a few allocations made over the summer, no allocations have been made yet this year. He assumed that organizations have been borrowing money to fund their activities, and that reimbursements would be made by the interim board.
Peterson estimated that between $70,000 and $90,000 had been collected from the mandatory $4.50 student activity fee, and that 90% of this would be allocated to organizations through the board this year. The other 10<7r will go to the New Student Activities Agency, which was formed to explore new programs of student interest.
Budget proposal forms for organizations requesting funding can be obtained in Student Union 301, 306 and 309. They should be filled out and returned as soon as possible, so that hearings can be arranged by the board.
Deadline for cancellation of unpaid fee bills extended
The deadline for the cancellation of unpaid fee bills has been extended for at least this week because of the delay in awarding financial aid. said Jack Wagner, director of student accounting services.
Unpaid fee bills normally would have been cancelled earlier.
Students who have not paid their fees bills because of pending aid or loans should arrange for a waiver of payment through the Office of Credit and Collections, Owens Hall 104.
Payment after the deadline and without a waiver will re-qu ire a special petition and a late fee, Wagner said.