University of Southern California
Volume LXXII, Number 43	Los	Angeles, Coiifornia	Friday,	November	18,	1977
Senators, trustees have first meeting
SPIKER SPIRIT — Tom Murrin, head yell leader, calls the shots from the steps of Tommy Trojan as Teri Dion, left, and Ellen Sweeney, song girls, raise their
pompoms in victory at a rally for the onlooking volleyball team. DT photo by Doug Gray.
Faculty Senate endorses proposal for new group life insurance plan
By Lynn Sprenger
Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate endorsed a proposal for a new group life insurance plan for university employees at a meeting Wednesday afternoon in the Faculty Center.
The proposal calls for the university to provide free base coverage for faculty and staff, with an option for employees to pay for additional life insurance at group rates.
The current life insurance plan is voluntary and covers only 40 to 45' < of all university employees, said Don Yett ofthe Faculty Environment Committee. The present plan costs 46 cents per $1,000 of insurance, with employees contributing 25 cents and the university 21 cents.
The proposed plan would cost the university an average of 33 cents per SI.000 of insurance or about S275.000 a year. Yett said. However, total fringe benefits to faculty and staff, such as salary hikes, would not be increased since the proposal only calls for redistribution of compensation.
The proposal passed the In-
surance Benefits Commission of the President’s Advisory Council and the Faculty Environment Committee. The Faculty Senate's show of support for the plan will be forwarded to the administration according to Lloyd Welch, secretary of the'
senate.
In other action Wednesday, the Faculty Senate discussed the proposed 1978-79 operating budget, faculty advisement for undergraduates, honorary degrees and a proposed federal bill on retirement.
Senate member Howard Taylor proposed the university faculty take the responsibility for advising students, with the ultimate goal of assigning each undergraduate a faculty advisor who will advise or arrange for proper counseling for the student.
At present, no university-wide mechanism for faculty advisement of students exists. “Many students aren’t getting faculty advisement,” Taylor said. "I think this is something the faculty has a duty to do.”
The senate referred Taylor's motion to the senate executive board for study.
In discussion of next year’s budget, one of the senate’s main points of contention was the university’s practice of transferring operating surpluses to the endowment fund.
Underestimates of revenues led to the surpluses, said Leslie
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By Marc Corman
Staff Writer
Members of the Student Senate met Wednesday with members of the Board of Trustees for the first time ever in what Bill Dauster. chairman of the senate, described as a constructive meeting.
Five ofthe six members of the senate's exectuive committee discussed many problems of the university with the members of the board's executive committee.
Ten trustees were present, including John R. Hubbard, university president.
Dauster was pleased about the meeting.
‘I have a somewhat positive reaction,” he said. “We have opened few7 doors, but I don’t expect any concrete solutions to the problems we raised in the near future.
"I don't see this as the board reaching out to the students. It was more like us reaching out to them,” Dauster said.
The major topic of discussion was money, Dauster said, because that’s where many problems exist and that’s where the board members are experts.
“You're not a trustee unless you have money or power or both,” he said. “So, their emphasis is on money and financial resources.”
Members of the senate raised questions concerning rising tuition and its effect upon the makeup of the student body at the university in the future and problems concerning financial aid.
On the tuition issue, members ofthe board said that their primary concern was balancing the budget, according to Dale Head, undergraduate vice chairman of the senate, who was present at the meeting.
Forrest Shumway, chairman of the board's Finance and Budget committee, emphasized his committee’s primary goal as a balanced budget.
"The streets are strewn with dead bodies of schools that can’t balance their budget,” he said. He added that the problem is particularly acute at USC because the university does not have a large endowment.
"We couldn’t care less what the students said, what the faculty said, or what anyone said ... as long as we balance the budget,” Shumway said.
He said when his committee makes the final budget decisions, expenditures are already set and income from gifts and grants are set.
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University holds land endowments
By Carla Schalman
Staff Writer
A villa in Mexico, an industrial building in Los Angeles and a parcel of raw land in Orange County are examples of property donations that have been made to the university.
Instead of giving a cash endowment, a donor may choose to give land to the university. In most cases the donor does not want to sell the property and finds it easier to give it to the university, said Paula Thomas, director of administrative controls. The donations can also be written off as a tax deduction, she said.
The university does not retain the land, but sells it to both individuals and corporations, she said.
The university will usually sell the land through a real estate broker, she said. Occasionally a “for sale" sign will be put on the land.
Th university has received gifts of property in
California, Oregon, Washington and Texas. The only foreign property is a Mexican villa outside of Acapulco, which is now for sale.
The university now holds less than 20 properties.
Properties in the United States are mostly in the desert or rural areas. The university has received gifts of storefronts and vacant lots in south central Los Angeles. The only house in the United States now held by the university is one near Idyllwild. It is also for sale.
Land donated by Torrey Webb, who financed Webb Tower, was sold last year to a development fim. The land, located in Orange County, will be used for tract homes.
In 1940, the Allan Hancock family donated a parcel of land in the Fairfax area, which was sold in 1941 and is now part of the Park La Brea housing development.
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Student brings smile to breakfast tables
By Rori Benka
Staff W riter
Although the university has lost its bid for the Rose Bowl, there’s a consolation in knowing the school has earned fame in another: the Cereal Bowl.
Last year it was Alex Capello. touting his fondness for milk on a television commercial, that grabbed the spotlight.
Now, Jenilee Harrison, a sophomore, has become the star of breakfast tables across America by appearing on the Kellogg's Corn Flakes box.
Harrison is in her first semester at USC majoring in education after transferring from Occidental College. In her spare time, she models, does commercials. enters beauty contests and tries out for parts in motion pictures.
Last month. Harrison made it to the final 40 girls out of about 600 who vied for parts at Burbank Studios for Ziegfeld: The Matt and His Women. But in the final
rounds, she was eliminated and told, “Honey, you're awfully pretty but you're too baby-faced.”
And she is. Her face glows with a cheerleader’s smile and big, blue eyes that open wide when she punctuates her sentences. The tumbling Farrah Fawcett-Majors curls don’t mask her youthful look.
But that's fine with Jenilee. who is also trained as an actress. “I can achieve any type of character or age I have to. But in the Ziegfeld tryouts, they were looking for girls who just look older and sexier.” Harrison is from Northridge, where she earned the title of Miss Granada Hills and. later. Miss San Fernando Valley. In all, she has entered 12 contests and won or placed in three-quarters of them.
It was through one contest that she was asked to join Commercials Unlimited, an agency that finds work in commercials
for actors. Among her credits are Dean’s Foods Cottage Cheese and A & W Root Beer ads and now the corn flakes promotion.
This summer she represented the U-nited States in the Miss Young International Beauty Pageant in Tokyo and recently participated in the Roaring 20s Contest at Knott’s Berry Farm.
As Christmas Seals princess of the American Lung Assn., Harrison will be in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena and other holiday events around Southern California.
But as Harrison will tell you, she’s not a winner every time and the show business life is demanding, competitive and takes a certain type of person to survive in it.
“I have to be egotistical. There's a job that maybe 50 girls are up for and I have only one minute for the interview. I must (continued on page 2)
JENILEE HARRISON