BRUCE LE DAILY TROJAN
As part of their rigorous training. Navy ROTC members participate in the annual "Toys For Tots” month — or, in this case, eat at Tommy’s. As you can see this type of mission isn’t for the week of heart — or stomach.
Senate president creates task force to examine raising programming fee
By Denise Hendricks
Staff Writer
A Programming Fee Evaluation Task Force was created Tuesday by the Student Senate president to examine the possibilities of raising the present $14 programming fee.
"This task force is charged with evaluating current funding policies for the programming fee and will evaluate current and future programming needs," said Wally Bobkiewicz, Student Senate president.
The task force will consider what the student body wants out of programming, Bobkiewicz said.
Bobkiewicz said he first realized the need for an evaluation of the estimated S620,000 programming fee budget while he was a member of the senate's allocation board.
"There was a large difference between what was allocated and what was requested. . . .On the surface it looked like it needed to be raised," he said.
Bobkiewicz said he discussed the matter with the Board of Trustees to see if an increase was feasible since the board would have to approve it. The senate can only recommend such an increase.
The Board of Trustees said that if the senate could justify it, an increase mav be allowed, Bobkiewicz said.
If allowed, he said the programming fee would be raised by S4 to $10.
Bobkiewicz said he doesn't think students will object to an increase.
Noting that the university's programming fee is one of the smallest in the nation, he said that due to inflation, the programming fee must be raised
just to continue providing the same quality of programming as in the past.
The point is "we don't want to be caught with our pants down two years from now. We want to be prepared," he said.
The programming fee pays for the operation of the student senate, campus dances, intramural sports, concerts, and organizations such as Trojan Pride.
Bobkiewicz said the fee increase, if approved, would go toward increasing the amount of money spent on campus activities and providing more services for students.
The task force will not necessarily be calling for an increase in the programming fee, but will be taking into consideration whether students want to pay for big name entertainers and rock groups, or if they want concerts at all, he said.
The task force will be chaired by Bryan Robb, financial affairs research / action unit chair. Other members include Bob Crissman, senate treasurer; Michael Niemann, finance / administration director of the Program Board, and Paul Goldman, chairman of the graduate Program Board.
The task force will also include four senators, who will be selected by Mark Decker, senate vice president, and four program board directors, who will be selected by Carol Silberman, executive director .
These appointments will come before the senate for approval on Nov. 19.
The task force will present its findings and recommendations for action the senate and the Program Board at a special joint meeting on Jan. 14.
Volume Cll, Number 53	University of Southern California	Friday, November 14, 1986
Seventy-Fifth Year of Publication
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Pair elected to fill senate
Two graduate students have been elected to fill the two vacant seats on the Student Senate, giving the senate a full membership for the first time this year.
Daniel Salzer and Silvia Herzog, both College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences students, were elected yesterday to fill the two seats left vacant by Ahmad Ghaith Al-Sowaldi and Mike Aronson.
Al-Sowaldi resigned two weeks ago after missing a number of meetings. Aronson was a senator last year but did not return to the university this fall.
The music just keeps on coming as the USC Jazz Band livens up the Tommy Trojan area with the sounds and tunes of jazz.
University Village merchants concerned about the imminent closing of 30th Street
By Bryon Okada
Staff Writer
Merchants at University Village and a representative from Councilman Robert Farrell's office met Thursday to discuss whether 30th Street can be saved from redevelopment.
As of now, the Los Angeles City Council, at Farrell's request, has already voted to build a housing tract on the area, which would mean the closure of 30th Street.
Percy Pinkney, special assistant to Councilman Farrell, said he came to the meeting to hear the views of the small businessmen who operate in the University Village.
He said this was the first time he has met with the University Village Merchants Association, the group seeking to keep the street that winds around the back of the shoppir ; center open.
The plan to close the street was in the works in 1982, said a member of the group who declined to
give her name. Although representatives of University Village were present at the original planning meeting, the member said they were given only two days notice.
The member said the development would be "detrimental to the community." Individual members of the group were wan,' of being identified, saying they didn't want to risk damaging negotiations with Councilman Farrell's office.
According to the member, a number of studies by fire departments, the police department and the Department of Transportation indicate that the closing of the street would create a serious safety hazard in the area.
She said access to the area would be limited, thus slowing response to emergencies.
Traffic congestion, more difficulty in crime prevention, a loss of revenue for the local merchants, and a "depressed atmosphere" would result, the
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Parental pessimism cited
Ex-university professor seeks to assist disabled
By Anh Do
Staff Writer
For a disabled child, having a disability may not be as much of a problem as having a parent who may be pessimistic or unwilling to accept the reality of the child's disability.
This finding is currently circulating in scholarly articles and lectures by Dr. Carol Gill, clinical psychologist and former teacher of a university course titled "The Psychology of Disability."
Gill, who bases her findings on extensive professional and personal observations, reported that she often hears a shocking answer when asking her disabled patients and friends to describe the earliest unpleasant memory they have about their condition.
"Instead of citing any physical aspect of disability, they describe the psychological pain unintentionally inflicted by the negative reaction of a parent," Gill said.
"All too often, disabled children are traumatized by the distorted reflection they see of their condition in a parent's eyes. What thev see is pessimism, despair and the rejection of disability," she said.
Gill feels that from the start, such attitudes of a parent can teach a child that his disability is a tragic loss that renders him inferior in some way. This can result in a low self-esteem which can present a barrier to later achievement and fulfillment.
Gill said that from the various research studies of her colleagues as well as her own observations, she has noted that "a parent's negative or unrealistic feeling about a child's future can become self-fulfilling. Unintentional distancing and controlling parental behaviors can jeopardize a child's emotional and intellectual development," she said.
Various studies indicate that adults, "in their own grief and stress, may distance themselves from the child physicallv and emotionally. They may talk to the child less and engage in less play than they would with another child. In controlling, an overprotective parent may frustrate the child's sense of initiative and curiosity by rigidly directing — and limiting — the child's daily routine," Gill said.
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