CARTER ASKS NASA TO REOPEN STUDY
UFOs: 15 million report close encounters of first kind
University of Southern California
Volume LXXII, Number 51 Los Angeles, California	Tuesday,	December	6,	1977
Student groups allowed to submit recommendations on costs budget
By Merilynne Cohen
Staff Writer
Students can now aid the university in calculating a fair and accurate student costs budget by taking the opportunity to submit input before an actual budget is set.
A proposed budget of student costs compiled by the Office of Institutional Studies has been sent to several student groups on campus to obtain student consent on the budget before it is sent for final approval to Linda Berkshire, director of student aid programs.
The proposed budget for the 1978-79 school year lists an estimate of all student costs besides tuition. The amount of financial aid given a student is based on this budget, which is revised yearly. Because the budget can determine whether or not a student will receive financial aid, the need to devise an accurate budget is crucial, said Lawrence Raful, chairman of the Student Administrative Services Commission.
The following figures were released by the Student Administrative Services Commission as a proposed budget of student costs for 1978-79. The estimated figures include housing, food, utilities, health insurance, medical, transportation and personal expenses.
A single, on-campus, dependent student will pay $2,940 for a nine-month period, an increase of about 7% over last year.
A single, off-campus, dependent student’s expenses for a nine-month period will be $3,033, an increase of about 7% over last year.
A single, dependent commu-
ter can be expected to have costs amounting to $2,525, an increase of about 5%.
A single, independent student could end up paying $4,170 over a 12-month period, an increase of about 7%.
On-campus, married students will pay $5,832, with an added allowance of $800. Off-campus, married students will pay $6,753 in a one-year period plus
$800 for each child a student may have.
This budget, once all feedback from student groups is in. will go to the President’s Advisory Council, then to Berkshire for approval before it is sent to the California Scholarship Service as a basis to determine financial aid eligibility.
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2 publications claim right to Row newspaper name
By Gigi Golden
Staff Writer
Drew Lawler, the editor of The Row Run, has taken action to stop a new Row paper from using the name The Row Street Journal. Lawler said that name was invented by his paper.
Lawler has filed a “Do Business As" (DBA) permit With Los Angeles County for the name. He said the permit, which a business files when using, a ficticious name, entitles him to the rights of that name.
The Row Run started publication in 1974. It basically deals with social events around the Row. in what Lawler calls a "humorous and satirical manner.”
This year, however, Joe Gamsky and David Snyder, both students on the Row. felt there was a need for a more serious Row publication, which dealt with various house activities and included editorials, sports and classified.
Gamsky and Snyder want to call the paper The Row Street Journal, but Lawler claims that name is the property of The Row Run. To prove his point, he filed the permit Monday morning.
If the newspaper uses The Row Street Journal as its name. Lawler said he will press charges.
‘The Row Run has had a column under that name which has run about five or six times," Lawler said. “The name belongs to us."
“We can just as well call it anything.. .They're trying to thump up some way to keep us from using a name, which is an insignificant point,” Gamsky said.
“A DBA is simply to notify the public about any fictitious name a business might be using,” he said. There is no way, from what he has researched, Gamsky believes, that the DBA will hold in court.
He intends to proceed with the publication under the name The Row Street Journal. despite Lawler’s action.
The first edition of The Row Street Journal is expected to appear Monday.
Jim Davio. an undeclared freshman, said. “The project should be well-organized so a lot of government money isn't wasted.”
Some students doubted the importance of the investigation and whether the results would be made known to the public.
Gustavo Parodi, a freshman in architecture. said, “I think the proposal is legitimate, but if they're going to spend our money on the investigation, then we should also be told the results. The Air Force has a habit of hiding the facts, but the public has a right to know.”
Most students were in favor of Carter’s proposal.
Amy Wong, a sophomore in predentistry, said, "UFOs should be investigated. You can’t say that something doesn't exist just because there’s no physical evidence. Electrons weren't known until a device was discovered to see them."
Some students said they believed in UFOs because they had seen them.
One student said, “Our family was in Minnesota visiting some friends and while we were outdoors, we saw a blotch of light hovering in the sky. The blotch stayed in the same place for about two hours and went through several color changes.”
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Trojan
Suspect sought by police in attempted sexual attack
Police have not yet found a man who assaulted a 20-year-old female student, who rejected the man’s sexual advances early Sunday morning.
The victim was reportedly not hurt badly because she suffered no visible injuries or bruises, according to a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department Southwest Division.
The suspect was described as a black male in his midtwenties, about 6 feet 2 inches tall and 180 to 200 pounds.
The spokesman said the victim noticed the suspect had been following her for one week.
He approached the woman on the corner of 28th Street and University Avenue when she left a party shortly afler midnight Saturday. He told her she was pretty and that he wanted to have sex with her. The man put his arms around the student’s waist and began kissing her on the neck, the spokesman said.
He struck the woman in the face and stomach after she pushed him away. She managed to break away from him and ran to some people who called the police.
By Carole Long
Fifteen million Americans have officially reported seeing an unidentified flying object. Among the believers is President Jimmy Carter who said, “I don’t laugh at people anymore when they say they’ve seen UFOs because I’ve seen one myself.”
Carter reported sighting a UFO in 1973 near Griffin. Ga. He described the object as “bluish at first, then reddish, then luminous but not solid.”
Carter’s interest in UFOs has prompted him to ask the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to reopen government investigation of UFOs. But Dave Williamson, NASA assistant for special projects, isn’t too happy about the proposal.
“There is no measurable UFO evidence such as a piece of metal, flesh or cloth. We don’t even have any radio signals." he said. “A photograph is not a measurement...
“Give me one little green man — not a theory or memory of one — and we can have a multimillion-dollar program. It’s a scientific dilemma. How do you prove something that doesn't exist?”
The Air Force closed its UFO investigation. Project Blue Book, 10 years ago because of the absence of significant findings. Carter's proposed UFO panel of inquiry will resume in-
PLEASANT PRESENT—The annual Christmas Crafts Faire offers many unusual items for gift-givers. The faire will continue today and Wednesday. See pictures and story on page 7. DT photo by Mark Kariya.
vestigation where the Air Force left off.
By the end of the year, Robert Frosch, a NASA administrator, will submit nis decision to the White House on whether it will reopen the investigation. An article in the Los Angeles Tunes stated that setting up a panel of inquiry would cost a lot of money and that Frosch suggested his technical staff make a study to see if
it is justified.
A number of university students also expressed concern about the financial cost of reopening the investigation.
Eugene Hall, a sophomore in political science, said “If it s not too much money it's all right. It’s naive of mankind to think he’s the only creature in the universe. So I’m all for it if it s not too much money.”