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Volume XCIV, Number 5	University of Southern California	Monday, September 12, 1983
Olympic housing still undecided
By Joann Galardy
Assistant City Editor
Students, faculty and staff in need of university housing during the Olympics will be left in limbo at least until the end of November since the administration has not yet decided its housing priorities.
The university currendy has
6,076	rentable housing spaces, with the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee planning to use 4,250 of these spaces to house approximately 7,000 athletes during the Games.
In addition, the LAOOC has asked for approximately 600 housing units to accommodate administrative personnel.
After the needs of the LAOOC are met, the remaining space can be used at the university's discretion to house students, faculty and staff who need to be on campus during the Games.
"There will be a very limited number of spaces available for faculty and staff," said Guy Hubbard, executive director of auxiliary services.
To determine exactly what the housing need will be during this time, Cornelius Pings, provost
and senior vice president of academic affairs, recently contacted each department and asked for a list of those employees which the department heads feel are essential to their program.
"Pings's office issued a cam-pus-wide memorandum asking all academic units to indicate their interest in programs and activities during the Games by the middle of October," said Anthony Lazzaro, vice president of business affairs.
Once the departments respond to the memo, the university can determine its housing needs. It is expected the priorities for assigning housing will be based on the importance of a person's university function and his ability to travel to and from the campus.
"There are some uncertainties at this point," Hubbard said. "Decisions have not been made about the allocation of spaces."
High on the university's list of priorities will be finding housing for those international students who make the university their home on a year-round basis, Lazzaro said.
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Athletes wanted — The La Sorbonne apartments, located at Jefferson Boulevard and Orchard Street, have been purchased by the university for use during the 1984 Olympic Games.
University ranks 55th in nation, 9th in California in recent study
By Marc Igler
Editor
The university is the 55th most expensive academic institution to attend in the country and the ninth costliest in California, according to a recent study of 2,600 public and private colleges.
The rankings, published last month in the The Chronicle of Higher Education, also shows that university tuition hikes in the last few years have been consistent, and sometimes less, when compared with those of other schools.
The most expensive school to attend in the country is Bennington College, a small liberal arts institution in Vermont, which carries a yearly price tag for tuition and added fees of $10,750.
In California, Stanford is the most expensive university to attend with an annual cost of $9,027, followed by the California Institute of Technology ($8,781), Claremont's Pitzer College ($8,702) and Harvey Mudd
College ($8,260).
A full-time student at this university will pay $7,925 for tuition, books and other supplies, according to the study compiled by the financial aid division of the New York-based College Board.
The estimates are based on information provided by the 2,600 public and private institutions that partidpated in the College Board's annual survey. In general, only tuition increases announced before June 1 were induded.
George Abdo, executive assistant to the president, declined to comment on the university's ranking. He said the university should be compared with other private schools within the Association of American Universities, a highly selective group of 50 schools, of which the university is a member, rather than a group as large the one polled.
"I would prefer to see how we rank compared with our peers,"
Abdo said. "That would be more appropriate. This study also doesn't take geographic considerations into account. It's more expensive to go to school in California and New England than it is in the Midwest or South."
The study found that the average tuition and fee cost at private four-year institutions checked in at $4,627, an 11 percent increase from last year. Tuition at the university last year rose 10.6 percent from $237 per unit to $263.
The rankings, however, do not take living expenses into consideration. Room, board and other expenses were found to cost an average of $3,800 for students who live on campus at private institutions, an increase of
11	percent from last year.
University room and board costs jumped 10 percent last year to $3,442 annually in the 10 dormitories on campus, although this figure does not include costs such as transportation and other personal expenses.
In addition, the study determined that students who commute to school will pay between $900 and $1,100 less than campus residents.
Guy Hubbard, executive director of auxiliary services, said he is "not surprised" at the university's ranking, adding that he believes the administration has "done almost everything it can to keep costs down, and at the same time, maintain quality."
"Of course. I'm not pleased it costs so much to attend, but when you consider the rapid expansion of housing units and other structures that have been built in recent years, I figure we're doing pretty good."
10 most expensive schools in	California
Stanford University	$9,027
Cal. Institute of Tech.	$8,781
Pitzer College	$8,702
Harvey Mudd College	$8,260
Pomona College	$8,110
Univ. of Pacific	$8,015
Claremont McKenna	$8,010
Scripps College	$7,965
USC	$7,925
Occidental College	$7,899
Aid, living expense shortage faced by Nigerian students
By Carmen Chandler
Assistant Qty Editor
Nigerian students will be denied admission to the university if they are unable to prove they can pay their tuition, and those who are admitted may not have money to buy essentials such as food and books despite assurances to the school that they will.
The National Assodation for Foreign Student Affairs recommended that colleges and universities across the country refuse to provide the forms necessary to apply for student visas, or deny admission to those students whose countries have failed to pay their bills, said an artide in the Sept. 7 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. The university is a member of the assodation and Robert Kaplan, professor of applied linguistics, is president of the organization.
Nigerians may get a student visa if they are able to pay in advance and give assurances they will have suffident funds to meet their living expenses, the artide said.
'Probably about 300 to 500 students depend on their country for financial aid. Only about 1 to 5 percent will be able to come up with private funds.'	—Mary Berg
Nigerian students have had difficulty meeting their college expenses because of the lack of money being sent from their country. Nigeria, because of the oil glut, is in the throes of a finandal crisis.
Forty-nine Nigerian students were enrolled at the university last fall. The numbers for this fall will not be available until the end of registration but the office of international students and scholars estimates the figure will range between 35 and 50 students.
The university cannot refuse admittance and therefore is refusing to provide forms for visas, said Mary Berg, assodate director of admissions and director of international admissions.
"We will not send (the students) 1-20 forms, which the (U.S.) government needs to grant them a visa to travel to the United States. Until we receive a finandal letter we cannnot finalize the process (of admissions)," she said.
The letter must be from a bank or sponsoring agency guaranteeing the student is able to meet the tuition and has enough money for living expenses, Berg said.
The university will not accept a letter from the student's country because many countries have not been meeting their financial obligations, she said.
"Probably about 300 to 500 students depend on their country for finandal aid. Only about 1 to 5 percent will be able to come up with private funds," Berg said.
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