Daily II Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVIII, Number 82	Los Angeles, California	Friday, February 27, 1976
Muscles bulge at armwrestling classic
Two of the 47 competitors in the first annual Trojan Armwrestling Classic shook hands and compared bulging muscles Wednesday at the University Hilton.
A crowd of about 150 watched the first collegiate tournament of its kind in the country sponsored by the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
The classic was sanctioned and refereed by
the World Professional Armwrestling Assn. and participants vied for trophies in four weight divisions.
First-place winners were Joe Nicholau. Chris Carlson, Craig Cooper and Rich Dimler. who defeated Marvin Cobb in the finals for the heavyweight crown. The championship trophy Tor the best team showing went to the Phi Delta Theta entry. DT photo by Steve Sesma.
Housing rates to rise at least 9%
By Patti Wolf
Rates charged at housing facilities owned by the university will increase by at least next year because of higher utility costs, said Guy D. Hubbard, director of auxiliary services. Thursday.
Room rates for the men's and women's complexes will rise by S145 per year while rates for Webb Tower and Men s Residence West will increase at least l(Ff.
One-bedroom units in Troy Hall, a new university-owned apartment facility in the university mall, will rent for $140 per month per person. Two-bedroom units will cost S125 per month per person. Troy Hall will be primarily for freshmen.
Cardinal Gardens, a new apartment complex near Jefferson Boulevard and McClintock Avenue, will rent one-bedroom apartments for $140 per month per person and two-bedroom facilities for $115 per month per person.
“The cost of land, building construction and the G^r-plus interest rate on the loan are the reasons for the high apartment rates,” Hubbard said.
But the increased rates for existing housing facilities are due to a number of reasons, primarily higher utility costs, he said.
Repairs, maintenance and food prices also contributed to the rate hike, but Hubbard said these increases were lower than expected, thereby keeping resi-
dence costs lower than was earlier anticipated.
“This is the lowest price increase we could afford," Hubbard said.
The rates for Touton Hall. Harris Plaza and Men s West are based on the elimination of maid service. Students living in the facilities must approve this measure.
The price differences at the new apartment buildings are due to different features.
Square footage in the Troy facility will be slightly larger. Two-bedroom units will have two full bathrooms.
Both complexes will have dishwashers and parking facilities.
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No plans made to counter termination of FISLs by banks
Bv Diane Sle/ak
Stall Writer
The university has no special plans to accommodate students who will not be able to rely on Federally Insured Student Loan funds next year, said Michael J. Scarpelli. director of the Student Aid Office.
Both United California Bank and Security Pacific Bank have begun terminating their participation in the loan program and will not make loans to new borrowers. Students who have borrowed from the program in the past will continue to be able to.
Although Scarpelli said there was no definite way to tell, he estimated that f rom 2.000 to 3.000 of the 6.000 FISL loans processed by the office each year were for new borrowers.
He said would-be borrowers will just have to know and rely on other alternatives to obtain assistance.
“Students will know by April what their resources will be from our office." Scarpelli said “They will have to be aware of the many alternatives open to them—and there are many.”
Scarpelli said that money trom summer jobs, parents and part-time jobs during the school year should be considered.
He also suggested students try to obtain loans from relatives and then pay the relatives the lc\ interest that would have gone to the bank.
Problems with government administration of the loans and with students who default on the loans have caused many banks to withdraw from the program.
Bank of America will continue to participate in the program but is expected to announce policy changes in early March.
The problems have not gone unnoticed by the Office of Education in Washington. D C.
One of the problems the banks
mentioned was that of processing. The off ice is therefore planning to implement a data management system within the next year that it will use to process applications.
A proposal by the administration to increase the present 7r> interest rate to ?> < is before Congress.
Although this might entice more banks to renew their participation in the program, it will probably have an undesirable effect on the student. Scarpelli said.
"The f irst reaction would be to say that it most certainly would have an adverse effect. But it is still the cheapest loan you can
get.
"Priority must also be taken into account. If a student wants an education badly enough, he will pay it (the increased interest rate)." he said.
Another way in which the Office of Education is trying to get more banks to rejoin the program is proposing an increase in the special allowance that is paid to the lenders on a quarterly basis.
This allowance of up to 3r/r is on top of the interest paid by the student, but there is no additional charge to him.
The government proposes to raise it to 4r't. This would increase the maximum yield on a loan from the present IO'y (7^
and 3rf) to 12^ <8r; and 4^ ).
Another of the banks' complaints is that if a student defaults. reimbursement by the government can take up to 18 months and usually takes at least six.
The government is instituting a program in which claims would be checked and approved on a regional basis, then paid directly by the Treasury.
Dick Gregory gives analysis of ‘crazy world
By Marcus 0\ iatt
Stall Writer
"This w hole world's gone crazy."
Dick Gregory gave that analysis during a three-hour speech Thursday in Bovard Auditorium.
"We are the mightiest nation in the world.” the comedian said. “Nobody would mess with us. No nation on this planet would So you would think we d have a sense of ‘safetyness.’
“But the whole nation is afraid o(Jairs. A shark. Not even a shark—an animated sardine. 1 know people who can t even swim w ho are worried about Jaivs.
“I've got a cousin and the only water he ever gets close to is when he sits on the commode. He th inks Jaivs is gonna reach up and get him.
"If we just need something to be afraid of. how about the economy? It's in bad shape.”
Gregory said one sign of bad times for the economy was Henry Ford's arrest for drunken driving recently.
“He owns all the Lincoln Continentals, all the Mark IVs and all the Thunderbirds.” Gregory said, “and he gets busted in a Pinto.”
Gregory said something unusual is going to happen if the price of sugar continues to rise.
"I predict that ifthe price of sugar goes up in the next 18 months the way it has in the last 12. the people who have been pushing dope on the streets are going to stop pushing dope and start pushing sugar." he said.
“People will be sitting out on the street with a cup of coffee trying to get a fix. The hip thing people will be
doing at parties will be sniffin' sugar. There'll be sugar busters who will break your door down and set loose a thousand cockroaches to find your sugar. "
A Her discussing what the future may hold. Gregory took time to discuss current affairs, including former President Richard M. Nixon's trip to China.
"He’s sitting over there w ith an expression on his face like he didn't do it.” Gregory said. “You had better under-
stand what that trip is all about. It's the only thing in the last 20 years 1 haven't been able to understand
"It's like inv iting the head of the malia to represent a school teachers' association. Nixon is the A1 Capone of politics. 1 just hope they didn't agree to set up World War 111 to solve this economy thing."
He also talked about Nixon's presidents and Watergate.
"A lot of people read Nixon w rong." Gregory said. "He told us a long time ago he was going to take crime off the street.
"Once he got in tlu- White House he didn't want to be Dick Nixon anymore. He w anted to be Napoleon.
“In America, we love you it you just be yourself. LBJ proved that. He had a firm grip on the country. He was a ba rbe c u e-1 i c k i n' co wboy.
"He wouldn't have lied and hidden and had his friends thrown in jail for 18 months.
“He would have gone on TV that night and said. Damn right! 1 done it. Now. vvhat re y’all gonna do about it?
“1 never agreed w ith Nixon's politics, but 1 didn't like the way he was removed from office. He didn't know about Watergate. He was just involved in the cover-up.
“But I don't w ant to know who covered the body. 1 want to know who committed the murder.
"Watergate was a plot of the government and Nelson Rockefeller to uet Nixon out of office. Gerald Ford was only supposed to be a temporary stand in When he decided he wanted to stay, they started shooiing at him.”
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DICK GREGORY