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Volume LXXI, Number 3
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, Californio
Thursday, February 10, 1977
By Gary Maloney
Staff Writer
Total enrollment for the fall 1976 semester was up 2.15% over the same period in 1975, the director of Student Administrative Services said Wednesday.
In all. 24.478 students enrolled last semester, compared to 23.961 for fall of 1975, said James Jones, recently appointed permanent director of Student Administrative Services.
The 2.15% figure represents the enrollment increase in part-time and graduate students, as well as full-time students. The enrollment of full-time students rose by 2.45%, from 15,787 in fall, 1975 to 16,175 last semester.
Enrollment figures are a major factor in the budget recommendations of the President’s Advisory Council (PAC), which suggested a 6.78% tuition increase for the 1977-78 academic year. The PAC’s Resource Management and Planning Committee earlier had proposed an 8.47% increase.
The final PAC recommendation, passed by a 66-19 vote, w as based on the assumption of a 3^2% enrollment increase over the fall, 1975 figure, with a projected 6% increase for 1977-78 over the projected figures for this year’s budget said Glenn Sonnenberg, Student Senate chairman.
“The PAC proposal, which came from a faculty-student compromise, overestimated the increase in enrollment,” he said.
Sonnenberg expressed concern that the Board of Trustees, which is formulating a decision on the final budget, would increase tuition by the earlier proposed amount (8.47%) or even higher, having seen the lower-than-expected enrollment increase on which the 6.78% compromise proposal was based.
But Zohrab Kaprelian, executive vice-president, whose early estimate of a 2% enrollment increase proved accurate, warned, “Something has to give in if a balanced budget is to be achieved.”
The Board of Trustees is considering not only tuition proposals, but faculty-staff salaries, teaching-assistant compensation and budget appeals from all university departments.
“We take an attitude to survive and not to lose,” Kaprelian said.
Kaprelian, who spoke Wednesday before the Budget and Finance Committee of the board, said many differing ideas are being considered in this year’s budget discussions.
No clear decision would be announced from President John R. Hubbard’s office until late this week at the earliest, Kaprielian said.
Nazir Ahmad, chairman of the faculty Senate Committee on Employment Remuneration and main advocate of the faculty salary proposals, was unavailable for comment.
Fall enrollment up 2.15% over same period in 1975
Rate, coverage changes made in faculty, staff health insurance plans
By Gary Linehan
Staff Writer
Major changes in faculty and staff health insurance options were announced Wednesday. Rate and coverage changes and the addition of a new plan were detailed by John H. Schneider, director of personnel.
The university has increased its allocation for each full-time employee from $25 to $33 per month, so that coverage under all of the five plans is provided at.no cost to the individual.
Part-time employees and dependents may be enrolled in the programs but they must pay full premiums. Schneider said.
Previously, four health plans were available: Blue Cross, Pacific Mutual, Ross-Loos and Kaiser Permanente. This year a new' option has been added — the Pacific Mutual Health Plan II.
This plan was designed for families that expect few medical expenses but who want to be covered for extensive medical care. “People who choose this plan are insuring against a catastrophe, against a disaster
that could wipe them out,” Schneider said.
The plan's advantage is that it costs at least $20 less per month than any other plan for full family coverage, Schneider said,
JOHN H. SCHNEIDER
while the disadvantage is that the first $500 of medical costs must be paid by the individual. The plan pays 80% of the first $2,500 of eligible medical expenses per person per year, and 100% thereafter.
All medical expenses are subject to a lifetime maximum of $1 million under this plan.
Ross-Loos hospital benefits have been increased from 80% to 100%, and the Kaiser plan now offers pharmacy, immunization and eyeglass benefits.
“February has been set aside as a reopening, so that people who have not previously joined a plan can join without difficulty,” Schneider said. Also, employees may change from one plan to another during that time.
Insurance coverage becomes effective March 1. The deadline for enrolling in a plan or changing coverages is March 11.
Employees must personally enroll in one of the plans to be covered. No one is automatically covered, Schneider said.
Orientations conducted by representatives from the insurance companies will be held as follows: Feb. 23 in Student Activities Center 201 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Feb. 24 in Student Activities Center 201 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.; and Feb. 25 in Hoffman Medical Research Center lobby from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
BUSINESS REGISTRATION
Mixed reactions greet new system
From grammar school to college, students and teachers almost always seem to be in disagreement.
This time the apparent conflict is over a new class admission and registration system introduced by the School of Business Administration.
Preliminary faculty reaction to the system is favorable, said Paul Shay, director of student affairs in the School of Business Administration. A random questioning of students, however, indicates their response is not so positive.
Rick Dickerson, a junior in accounting, said registration workers won’t allow more students in a class even if a professor is willing.
“Half of the teachers don’t know what’s going on
and half ofthe students are trying to get in class the old way, while the other half is trying to figure out the new rules,” he said.
On the other hand, Roy Herberger, associate dean of student affairs in the school, reported that
—	despite student complaints — he thinks the new system is a “hell of a success.”
The majority of business students experienced no problems, he said, and the students with complaints were generally those who tried to register against the ways of the system, those who didn’t bother to be preadvised and preregistered at any of the five opportunities to do so and those who were
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WATER SOURCE—This fountain to the side of Hoffman Hall was considered in the efforts to divert additional liquids to water-hungry Northern California. Engineers, however, believed it would cost too much to dig an aqueduct through the Law Center. DT photo by Paula Daniels.
Community, minority office plan rejected
By John Hughes
Staff Writer
A plan to reorganize all community and minority affairs programs under one office was rejected Wednesday by the Executive Committee of the President’s Advisory Council (PAC) following its acceptance of a report by the Task Force on Community and Minority Affairs.
In passing the report on to President John R. Hubbard, the committee unanimously disapproved of the establishment of such an office, said John Griffith, executive assistant to the chairman.
Griffith explained that the committee had accepted but not approved the report, agreeing with the report’s broad rationale. The report stressed the importance ofthe community and minority affairs programs and the need for sound organization.
At present there are more than 70 programs that fall under community and minority affairs. The programs are under different administrations rather than a central office. Griffith said the committee believed a single office would be too pervasive.
Glenn Sonnenberg, Student Senate chairman, said he felt the individual programs would suffer under a single office.
“The programs would lose their personal touch if consolidated,” Sonnenberg said. “I don’t think it would be beneficial.” He added that the programs’ integrity and their ability to meet the needs of those they are trying to reach would also be affected.
The report will now be reviewed by Hubbard and his assistants. This will include a review of the types of programs and how they are administered.
There will be a general administrative review on a small scale ifthe committee’s recommendation is accepted, Griffith said.
One program that would have been affected by the proposal was the Joint Educational Project (JEP).
“JEP is an academic program and it doesn’t make sense to include it with community programs,” said Barbara Gardner, the program’s director.
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