AN EYE ON CAMPUS
Yes Virginia, there is a Christmas in Southern California
By Denis Welcott
Assistant SoCal Editor
It appears as if Christmas is not upon us, contrary to popular belief.
I dare you to find a single red and green decoration on this campus. No silver ribbons. No flashing lights. Not even a Santa Claus perched atop the Von KleinSmid Center tower.
Back at Ohio State University, the students literally cover the campus with holiday ornaments. But in Southern California, what do we find? Cars with ski racks, T-shirts and leftover Thanksgiving decorations.
Maybe it’s hard to get into the festive mood. Some teachers have given midterms this week and some of the nasty ones have assigned fifty-page term papers due the day after vacation. You won’t find an abundance of snow, especially around the palm trees.
However, there have been instances of the old-time
Christmas spirit, the respect for St. Nick, egg nog and mistletoe.
One night recently, there seemed to be a prankster at the Hoover end of the Row, singing Christmas songs through a loudspeaker.
But as the voice got louder and closer, it turned out to be a couple of Los Angeles policemen having some fun with their patrol car loudspeaker as they cruised down 28th.
The would-be carolers somewhat changed the verses to a favorite holiday song. “Dashing through the streets, in a one-horse black and white.” They occasionally broke up their suprisingly in-tune singing with a shout of “Merry Christmas” to passing bicycle riders.
It was a shame the festive pair didn’t turn on their red lights and add to the spirit.
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Meanwhile, there was the case of the missing Christmas tree on the fourth floor of Elisabeth Von KleinSmid Resi-
dence Hall.
It appears that two sorority pledges who live on the floor needed a tree for their room, so they decided the big one sitting in the floor lounge was good enough. Besides, it wasn’t too far to carry it down the ball to their room.
However, the rest of the floor residents were not pleased, especially when they found four chairs stacked up in place of the tree and a note attached stating, "Who in the hell stole our tree?” It was easy to find out who did.
There was a trail of pine needles leading from the lounge to the culprits’ room. A team of floor investigators followed the needles to the door where they proceeded to write, in ink, a few nasty comments on the door.
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One student reported a shortage of mistletoe in Southern California. She said she traveled to 10 different locations, including Christmas tree lots, and came up empty handed and presumedly out of kisses.
Daily t® Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXXII, Number 57 Los Angeles, California Wednesday, December 14, 1977
University proposes aid program to decrease tuition, scholarships gap
MODEL MAN — Fred Johnson, shown above, handmade this model of a drilling rig in the 1920s. The Department of Petroleum Engineering is sponsoring the exhibit that will continue through 2:30 p.m. today in the Student Activities Center. DT photo by Sue Adams.
Judicial committee hears complaint in open forum
By Gail Asayama
surr Writer
The belief that the university does not fully disclose what will occur at a judicial hearing was voiced at an open forum Tuesday.
The Judicial Revision Committee, a special task force appointed by the Student Affairs Committee to revise the Campus Judicial Code, conducted the meeting. The task force is a subcommittee responsible for student judicial-related affairs stated in SCampus.
Only one student attended the meeting who had a grievance and it was discussed for the entire hour.
Philip Cozens, a third-year law student, had represented a student who had come before the Judicial Council, as an adviser. It was at this hearing that Cozens felt a number of clarifications should be made in the judicial system.
Cozens felt the university does not fully disclose what will occur at the hearings.
Defendents are told they have the right to have an adviser present. but that the hearing will be informa!. If the student chooses an attorney as an adviser, the university must be notified 72 hours in advance of the hearing and. ifthe student cannot find an
adviser, the university will provide one.
Cozens felt these restrictions are misleading to students. He felt the restrictions as stated discourage the use of an attorney and the use of the word informal connotates a relaxed atmosphere.
“Students are intimidated when they walk into the hearings and find a third-year law student (continued on page 2)
By Marsha Johnston
Staff Writer
A proposal to increase the percentage of student aid that covers the widening gap between scholarships and rising tuition will be presented next week by the Office of Student Aid to Lawrence Raful, chairman of the Student Administrative Services Commission.
“We’re asking that they (administration) consider budgetary funds that would be used to bring greater equity in university scholarship supplements for continuing students,” said Linda Berkshire, director of student programs.
Currently, if a student gets $740 in university scholarships as a freshman, he would continue to get that amount for the next four years unless his need decreased.
But the student who got the maximum university scholarship ($740) and the maximum state scholarship ($2,500) to pay for tuition in fall, 1975 ($3,240) now faces a possible gap in fall, 1978 of $1,000.
“For 1978-79, we (the office) are asking that any student with a remaining financial need after state scholarships would be funded at a minimum of 20% of tuition costs, Berkshire said.
“We can’t keep pace dollar for dollar with tuition, but possibly with a percentage of tuition increases.
“This is a basic effort to face the need of the continuing student, not the new kid who is being of-
fered an aid package,” she said. “We don’t cut aid now, but the scholarship stays the same, so it appears to have been cut. If we can absorb some of the gap in scholarships, it will be good for everyone.”
Which students receive the increases will depend on what they had in financial aid the year before, the size of tuition increase and their level of need.
Berkshire said the problem of implementing this kind of a proposal before now has probably been a budgetary constraint. The funds were not really available to award new scholarships and to increase old ones.
There has always been a heavy emphasis on recruiting new students, but Berkshire said she feels the administration is starting to pay more attention to re-
taining students.
“It seems as though the administration would accept the concept. Maybe not to the same percentage I’m talking about, but I think they would really try to find a way to get the funds." she said.
The question of where the funds will come from will be answered if the proposal is accepted.
Berkshire said she didn't think the administration would take funds away from the- allotments used for aid packages for new students.
The Student Administration Services Commission will probably meet on the proposal in January and the next step will be the student affairs committee of the President's Advisory Council.
DT starts Christmas break
Today is more than just the last day that the Daily Trojan will be published before Christmas vacation. It is also the first day that H cards for Spring Semester classes can be obtained at the various department offices.
Also, students who have not yet received their registration packets can pick them up today at the Registrar’s Office.
And. finally, today is the first day that students can turn in their packets to be eligible for the R card lottery. The drawing for R cards will be Friday.
So, until classes resume on Jan. 3. and the Daily Trojan resumes publication on Jan. 4. we, the DT staff, would like to wish all our readers Happy Holidays.
Alleged con artist’s Row stopover less than welcome
By Carla Schalman
Staff Writer
The saga of Edwin Ingram, the alleged con artist who was arrested on the Row Nov. 29, began at the university over two weeks before his capture.
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity received a phone call on Nov. 16 from a man who claimed l;e was doctor and a fraternity alumnus in Boston, one fraternity member said.
The doctor claimed to have a friend in Los Angeles, also a fraternity member, whose parents had been killed in an auto accident. The doctor asked if two of the fraternity members could go to the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, where his friend was staying, and bring him back to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
The doctor left a phone number where he could be reached. After the fraternity member hung up the phone, he im-
mediately called the doctor back but there was no answer.
Two members of the fraternity went to the Phi Gamma Delta house and brought the friend, who identified himself as Edwin Ingram, back to the fraternity. Ingram claimed he had taken Thorazine and did not seem upset about the death of his parents, the fraternity member said. Ingram spent two nights sleeping on the floor of the fraternity.
The fraternity member said he was suspicious of Ingram. He said Ingram was overly curious about the fraternity and was unfamiliar with the fraternity handshake
The two fraternity members asked Ingram to leave the morning of Nov. 18. They looked through his suitcases before he left and found an ID under the name of Edwin Ingram, an honorable discharge (continued on page 6)
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