USC-UCLA rally planned despite financial setbacks
Daily
Trojan
University.of Southern California Volume LXX, No. 39 Los Angeles, Ca.	Wednesday, Nov. 17, 1976
BY DIANE SLEZAK
Assistant City Editor
In the little village of Anatevka, home of impoverished peasants in the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, tradition lived on when all else failed.
And in the not-so-little village of Troy, tradition, in the form of the annual USC-UCLA football rally, will continue despite a financial setback that threatened to cancel it.
The Trojan Knights, a junior and senior men’s service organization, will sponsor the rally on Thursday as scheduled, even though the group did not receive the funding it requested from the Campus Activities Allocation Board
“I hope the money will come from somewhere,” said Mel Lewis, president of Knights. ‘"It’s too much money for the Knights to afford, but we’ll support it and hope something else comes through.”
The rally will begin at 6 p.m. with a parade by the Trojan Marching Band starting at the corner of 28th Street and Figueroa Street. The band will proceed down 28th Street to University Avenue, south on University Avenue to campus, south on Hoover Avenue to Childs Way, then west on Childs Way to Tommy Trojan.
The university’s song girls and yell leaders will perform, seniors on the football team will be introduced and a bon-
fire will be lit by the Knights.
The time of the rally has been moved up from what it has been in past years to accommodate commuter students who might not be able to stay later, Lewis said.
The group had requested $561 from the allocation board for expenses. The largest chunk of the budget, $400, is earmarked for operation and maintenance costs. The rest will go toward wood for a bonfire, a public address system, lighting and rental of a truck to haul the wood.
“Maybe we can get someone to donate some ofthe stuff, like a truck,” Lewis said.
The board is not funding any portion of Troy Week activities, contrary to what was reported in an article in Monday’s Daily Trojan. Lewis said the Troy Week decorations contest and now the rally, are selffunding.
The issue may come before the allocation board in the future. Lewis said. The proposal failed by one vote and one member ofthe board was absent when the vote was taken. The Knights plan to pursue the issue before the board.
The board funded the rally last year, Lewis said. It decided not to fund the rally this year because of the expense involved and because not enough students would participate to make the funding worthwhile, said Hunt Braly; chairman, last week. Braly was unavailable for comment Tuesday.
proposes 5%- 6% tuition hike
Report finds students lack voice in residential affairs
BY PETER FLETCHER
Assistant City Editor
A lack of student input into decisionmaking processes and communication difficulties are the main findings in a Student Senate report on problems in the Office of Residential Life, said Glenn Sonnenberg, senate chairman.
The report will be issued Thursday.
The senate set up a special task force last spring to investigate complaints it had gotten about the office, Sonnenberg said.
He stressed that the report is not an indictment, but that it was conducted to help clear up some of the problems students have complained about.
The group will release a second report dealing with budgetary questions, but the thrust of the first report will deal with resident adviser selection and head resident selection and the defining of their jobs. Sonnenberg said students are consulted in the process, but when the last step of hiring the advisers is reached, students have little input.
The report will also deal with the role of the Residence Halls Coordinating Council, which Sonnenberg said also needs to have more input. He said that, often decisions are made too often by the office without consulting the coordinating committee.
Sonnenberg added that the fault lies
partially with the students.
The report will deal with priority in room selection. Sonnenberg said there has been a great deal of concern with the lotteries and how they are set up.
Suggestions will also be offered to improve the process of selecting the student community coordinator, whose function in off-campus housing is like a resident adviser’s.
The report will also look into staffing and fees charged by the office. Two areas that the task force studied are whether there is a need for a resident adviser on every floor and the institution of the $30 nonrefundable cleaning fee in the apartments this year.
The most important goal of the report is to increase communication between the staff, the Office of Residential Life and the students at the university, Sonnenberg said.
He added that this report studied the problems in the office last year. He did not want to imply that this year’s Residence Halls Coordinating Council wasn’t doing its job.
“It’s one of the areas (the Office of Residential Life) where the students have been constantly voicing concern. The seeds are there for improvement. The reports is only a series of recommendations, which I hope RHCC and ORL (Office of Residential Life) will build on,” he said.
crease of 7% (Daily Trojan. Nov. 12). The commission voted to recommend increases of 7% to 10%, Wiley said.
Margaret Harrington, commission member and a Staff Caucus representative, said Tuesday that the question of staff salary increases may be raised in the Resource Management and Planning Committee of the PAC, the next step on the road to final approval of the budget.
“We (of the Staff Caucus) were more than a little disappointed with the final vote. There are other members of the caucus though, who serve on the resource committee and on the PAC, so there should be some reactions from them.” she said.
Harrington said the caucus has not yet taken an official stand on salary increases, but will probably make its position known soon.
“The faculty and staff groups approached the commission in the same manner, by comparing present salaries with those ofthe local market place,” she said. “It was surprising to us that while we asked for a higher increase than the faculty group originally did, they received the higher increase.
“This is especially disturbing for our constituency because the dollar impact is so much greater than for the faculty.”
Nazir Ahmad, associate professor of anatomy and chairman of the faculty
group, said the Faculty Senate would hear a progress report on the proposed increase recommendation.
“Our group is merely advisory to the senate,” he said. “Only the senate can make an official recommendation on behalf of all of the faculty for a salary increase.”
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Hubbard’s wife hit by car; leg fractured
Lucille Hubbard, wife of the university’s president, was hit by a car on Wilshire Boulevard near the Beverly Wilshire Hotel Tuesday.
She was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital with a fractured leg, said G.A. Richter, admitting supervisor at the hospital.
Richter said Mrs. Hubbard was admitted at 4:20 p.m. Tuesday, and John R. Hubbard arrived at the hospital soon thereafter.
She said Mrs. Hubbard is expected to remain in the orthopaedic unit for at least a week.
President Hubbard told Richter that the driver of the car was not identified.
WORKING UP A SWEAT — It's not just the football team that's working hard for Saturday's culmination of Troy Week. These Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members are
building their entry in the house decoration competition held during Troy Week. DT photo by Rick Stern.
KUSC program director, sits with Gail radio shows.
KUSC hosts grand opening of new off-campus offices, studios
At a grand opening Tuesday night, KUSC, the university-owned and operated station, showed off its new office at 3717 S. Grand Ave. about a block from campus.
Now located in Hancock Auditorium, the old KUSC offices had only 1,000 square feet of working area, while the new offices on Grand Avenue will offer a potential 12,000 square feet of working area.
There are two interviewing studios, one for group interviews and a library-studio, as well a master control room that will also be used in production and recording capacities.
The new studios will provide 10 million listeners with classical music, exclusive and original programming and programs produced by National Public Radio in stereo from 6 a.m. to midnight without commercial interruption, said Wallace Smith, KUSC’s general manager.
Some unique aspects of KUSC programming include the announcer Tom Royal’s Saturday night musical theater specials, in which he usually plays two Broadway musicals and interviews the writers and lyricists who worked on the productions from their conceptions.
“I steer away from ‘name’ personalities. My approach is from the creative process. I think the listeners find it more informative than listening to the adapter of play
scripts,” Royal said.
KUSC’s nightly special programs, like the musical theater program, ranges from Hispanic music to works by the New York Philharmonic.
Commission
BY GARY MALONEY
Staff Writer
The Budget Commission voted to recommend a tuition increase of 5.08% to 5.93% for the 1977-78 academic year, representing an increase of $5 to $7 per unit, in a marathon session that ended at 1:20 Tuesday morning.
The Financial Affairs Unit of the Student Senate had earlier recommended an increase of 4.24% (Daily Trojan, Nov. 3).
The commission, operating under the Resource Management and Planning Committee of the President’s Advisory Council, also recommended a 99c to 12% increase in faculty salaries for next year. The Faculty Senate Committee on Employment Remuneration had recommended 12.5% to 15.5% increase, said Jerry W’iley, associate dean of the Law Center and chairman of the commission.
Commission members, unofficially representing the Staff Caucus, had recommended a 10% to 16y2% staff salary increase, with a rock-bottom minimum in-
RADIO PERSONNEL — Abram Chasins, Eichenthal, an intern who helps produce