8.47% tuition increase approved by trustee committee
By Gary Maloney
Staff Writer
An 8.47% tuition increase and a 6% salary pool increase for faculty, staff and teaching assistants for 1977-78 has been approved by the Finance and Budget Committee of the Board of Trustees.
The committee also authorized an additional $225,000 pool for professors and associate professors, a $60,000 adjustment pool for staff employees and a $30,000 adjustment pool for teaching assistants. The $225,000 pool is the second annual installment of a three-year commitment by the board.
The committee also recommended that the 6% salary increases and the $225,000 pool be allocated on the basis of merit.
“The committee stressed the economic and demog-'raphic uncertainties of the future, finding the 6% enrollment figure too optimistic,” read a statement from President John R. Hubbard. “The committee further felt that too little attention had been given to programmatic improvements at USC.”
The committee accepted
the 8.47% tuition increase — an additional $10 per unit — approved earlier by the Resource Management and Planning Committee of the President’s Advisory Council (PAC). That figure was later rejected by the full council in favor of a 6.78% increase proposal.
The Council of Teaching Assistant Representatives decided Wednesday to make an appeal to the full board, threatening to strike if its request for an 18% TA salary pool increase is not met.
Scott Brady, a TA spokesman, emphasized that Friday’s approval by the finance committee is not necessarily binding on the full board, though he expressed displeasure with the decision, which he conceded will probably be approved by the board.
“Frankly, it’s a joke. We are so far behind in our income that our proposal is the only way out. We have effectively lost one-third of our purchasing power over the last eight years, with a 44.9% cost-of-living increase and only 10.2% increase in TA stipends since 1969.
Teaching assistants here have one more chance to get their requested salary increases even though the Finance and Budget Committee of the Board of Trustees has voted to recommend to the full board a lesser percent increase. The full board will make the final decision.
The committee suggested that TA’s receive between $398 and $440 per month beginning next fall, a 6% increase. Before the decision, TAs were prepared to strike if they didn’t receive an 18% increase, in addition to a general faculty and staff salary
raise, said Rick Blevins, a German TA.
“I don’t think they will strike,” said John H. Marburger, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, before the announcement Friday afternoon about the committee’s decision. “But everybody is pushing fora salary increase — why shouldn’t they, too?”
If teaching assistants had there way. they would be earning $570 per month. That is the salary teaching and research assistants currently draw at UCLA.
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“I’m not happy with the decision, but we’ll see what the full board does before taking any strike action.”
Glenn Sonnenberg, Student Senate chairman, was distressed and dismayed with the tuition increase figure. “The decision digs an additional 3% from the students pocket, after inflation is subtracted. Let’s all cross our fingers and hope it won’t be another step towards pricing USC out of the middle-class student’s market,” he said.
Sonnenberg said he hoped the revenue for programming would go in part towards an increase in student aid, in particular, more merit scholarships for exceptional students. “We must actively pursue the top applicants from all parts of the country, while continuing to supplement fully the California State Scholarships,” he said.
Nazir Ahmad, chairman of the Faculty Senate Committee on Employment Remuneration and spokesman for the 12Vfe% to 15%% faculty salary increase recommended earlier by the senate, said the 6% increase would leave USC lagging far behind other uni-
versities with the same output of Ph.D’s and areas of academic discipline.
“The latest figures indicate a 6.6% local inflationary rate
—	the increase, even with the $225,000 salary pool addition, doesn’t cover that,” Ahmad said.
Jay Savage, chairman ofthe PAC, said the decisions were “regrettable in that the PAC or resource management committee’s recommendations were not followed more closely. However, the board’s committee had more up-to-date enrollment figures than we had and had to deal with more programmatic areas than the two reports.
“The board’s committee took a more conservative view of future enrollment than the PAC or its groups. They seem to have a different perception of income and expenditure than the faculty, staff, or student constituencies.”
While the recommendation of the Finance and Budget Committee is usually adopted intact by the Board of Trustees, the full board must still officially approve it before the budget goes into effect.
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Volume LXXI, Number 5
Los Angeles, California	Monday, February 14, 1977
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designate plans by Architectural Services for a central plaza, complete with a brick and concrete pattern and retaining-wall benches. DT photo by Scott Footlik.
Committee proposes more review of $8 health service fee increase
By Gigi Golden
More review of the proposed health service fee increase for fall 1977 was one of several student-related recommendations made by the Student Affairs Committee in a meeting Friday.
Anita Siegman, associate director of student health and Counseling Services, outlined some of the reasons forthe proposed fee increase of$8. The main consideration was the rise of costs in both maintenance and the expansion of existing health services and programs.
The committee plans to review the justifications for such an increase and will then pass the proposal on to the President’s Advisory Council for futher consideration.
The committee also proposed the formation of a subcommittee that would gather information regarding the fee increase. Such a subcommittee would serve to facilitate the actual consideration by the committee.
Several other recommendations made by both the Campus Life Commission and the Commission on Student Rights, Responsibilities and Policies were considered.
To improve the safety on Dedeaux Field and the football practice field, the Campus Life Commis-
sion recommended that the university open the areas for use by intramural teams on weekends or when the collegiate teams are not practicing.
The committee endorsed the recommendation and proposed that a letter be sent to Richard Perry, athletic director, requesting information about the possibility of opening the fields to intramurals.
The Campus Life Commission also recommended that a committee be formed to gather information about the possibility of students using Memorial Pool in Exposition Park.
Finally, the Commission on Student Rights, Responsibilities and Policies made three recommendations regarding discrepancies in the two university publications, SCampus and the faculty handbook. They advised that the two publications be made consistent in content, that SCampus be changed to show that student suspension is not recorded on official records, as it states in the faculty handbook, and that the faculty handbook be changed to indicate the two-week time limit on student appeals for charges of academic dishonesty.
The commission’s recommendations are simply clarifications of existing policy, not recommendations for new regulations. The committee agreed with the commission’s recommendations.
Snowball incites gunshots on Row
By David Black
Assistant City Editor
A stray snowball was blamed for one of two unrelated shooting incidents that occurred on the Row Thursday afternoon and early Friday morning, Campus Security said.
No one was injured in either ofthe incidents, but one plate glass window was shattered in the second shooting.
The first incident occurred shortly after 2 p.m. in front of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at 647 W. 28th St. when a stray snowball struck a passing eastbound car, occupied by three male blacks, Capt. William Burke said.
The snow had been trucked in and placed on the fraternity’s front yard as part of fraternity and sorority Rush week.
The driver of the car stopped in front of the house and all three occupants got out, Burke said. A shouting match over the snowball reportedly ensued between the three and a group of students on the front lawn with the driver asking, “Does anybody want trouble?”
The man then walked around and opened the trunk of his car and-pulled out a small black gun, Burke said.
He then reportedly fired one shot in the air, one at the ground and a third point-blank at an unidentified male student, missing him.
A second occupant of the vehicle then made a fist and struck another student in the jaw, Burke said. The student was not injured.
The three men then got back in the car, described as an early model dark-colored Pontiac, and left eastbound on 28th Street.
Burke said a check of the area revealed no slugs or damage to the property. “He must have had blanks in the gun or it was a starter pistol,” Burke said.
An investigator for the Los Angeles Police Department said no report of the shooting had been filed.
The second incident took place about 1:30 a.m. Friday in front ofthe Phi Kappa Tau fraternity at 904 W. 28th St.
Campus Security officers said a member of the house — later identified as Jerry Ferri, a football yell leader—was standing outside in front of the building when the incident’occurred.
Ferri told officers he saw an early model station wagon with three male Caucasians driving eastbound at a slow rate of speed.
As the car passed by the house, one of the men, sitting in the back seat, pulled up what appeared to be a rifle and fired one shot through the open left window, Ferri said.
Ferri told officers he heard a rush of air by his head followed by the sound of glass shattering behind him.
The car then left the scene and continued eastboun 1, officers said.
Eric Georgatos, fraternity president, said a plate glass window in front of the house was destroyed in the incident. He estimated damge at about $150.
TAs’ desired salary hike has one more chance