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Volume XCIV, Number 31	University of Southern California	Tuesday, October 18, 1983
Administration considers proposed monthly fee bills
By Joann Galardy
Assistant City Editor
A proposal that would streamline the university's accounting process by including housing payments and student charges on a monthly fee bill is being considered by the administration.
The new concept, which would likely eliminate the traditional issuance of a fee bill once a semester, is designed so that all student charges — such as tuition and housing — will be listed on the same fee bill, said Jon Strauss, senior vice president of administration.
Under the proposal, a fee bill listing dormitory or apartment charges as well as tuition would be issued at the beginning of the semester. Thereafter, monthly fee bills would be issued, listing the month's rent and any other charges carried over from the previous bill.
Like the current system, students can still pay either the complex manager or housing office.
"This is basically a rewrite of the enrollment and registration system," Strauss said. "The goal is ultimately to have all student charges on one bill."
The development of the new fee bill is part of a large-scale reorganization of student records and accounts known as the Student Information System, Strauss said.
"Financial Services is in a constant state of change and has been for three years since Jon Strauss came to the university," said Jimi Bingham, director of student financial operations.
He explained the proposed changes in the en-
rollment system, if approved, would allow financial services to keep complete records on each student including total tuition charges, housing charges, and transcript information.
Students would then receive one bill each month from one office rather than accumulating bills from several different university offices.
"The fee bill itself will probably change in appearance, looking more like a monthly credit card statement."
Bingham said the transition might be difficult for administrators but should create no problems at all for students.
The program is subject to a final approval by Strauss and is being targeted for implementation in the fall of 1985.
"Each major office involved currently meets once a week and will probably continue to meet once a week for the next two years," Bingham said.
Earlier in the system's planning stages, administrators considered forcing students to pay their housing costs in one lump payment at the beginning of the semester, as dormitory students do. But because the proposal met opposition from some administrators and students, the idea was dropped.
"We anticipated that people would be so upset by the plan that we would have a lot of apartment vacancies because students wouldn't put up with it," said David Blackmar, manager of housing services.
"The thinking behind this plan is to simplify the procedure so students can settle their fees in one office," Blackmar said.
Master disaster plan awaits final approval
Sorority aids stab victim, family; organizes fund-raising campaign
By Joann Galardy
Assistant City Editor
When 23-year-old Dan Schultz was brutally stabbed in front of Lucy's Drive-In restaurant late last month, his family has had to deal with more than the tragedy . It has had to face an insurmountable financial burden as a result of his hospitalization.
However, a group of university students now have taken it upon- themselves to lend support, both moral and financial, to the Schultz family.
Schultz, a student at Cal State Northridge, has remained in serious condition since the Sept.
28	attack, one that occurred as he stood in front of Lucy's with his girlfriend, university student Joan Leishman.
In the weeks since the attack at the local eatery, Schultz's family has been confronted with mounting" medical costs — expected to exceed $100,000.
And although a suspect was arrested in the attack which injured another, that has served as little comfort to Schultz's family. Schultz, staying in USC-County Medical Center, isn't covered by medical insurance. As a part-time student, Schultz isn't eligible for coverage at Cal State Northridge. And he is too old to be covered by the family insurance policy.
Now, with hospital bills expected to exceed 5100,000, the Delta Delta Delta sorority, of which Leishman is a member, have undertaken a fund-raising campaign to help defray the medical costs.
"Dan is a personal friend of a
lot of the girls in the house, since he and Joan have been dating for about two years," said Suzanne Fowler, a member of the Tri Delts and the organizer of the fund-raising effort.
Leishman added that "the whole incident is so hard on Dan's mother. Dan's father is deceased and (Dan) has no insurance to pay for the hospital bills, which keep growing every day."
The sorority has been planning events which will raise money to help meet the medical expenses which confront the family.
The Tri Delts have ap-
proached other fraternities and sororities about co-sponsoring fundraising events, and have planned a barbecue for Nov. 5 which will open to the public. All the money collected will be given to the Schultz family.
The sorority has also started a blood drive. Schultz, who lost 35 units of blood, has undergone several blood transfusions since he entered the hospital. Fowler said the sorority has asked people to donate blood in Schultz's name.
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Procedures to cover accidents, crises outlined
By Carmen Chandler
Staff Writer
A university disaster plan — one designed to prepare the university for any type of disaster, from earthquakes to accidents involving radioactive materials
—	is awaiting final approval from the administration.
The plan, first submitted to President James Zumberge's office two years ago, will establish evacuation procedures for the various buildings on campus and will train faculty and staff to deal with disasters. The exact details of the plan will not be released until the entire plan is approved, said John Pickering, university safety officer.
Since it was given to Zumberge, the plan has gone through several revisions. Pickering said the plan should be approved soon, but he did not know when. However, he said sections of the plan are slowly being put into effect as they are approved.
"We're waiting for signatures now," he said.
The plan is not limited to the campus, he said. The university will respond to any disaster "that has effects on the propety and personnel of the university."
Though each disaster is different, the procedure in dealing with them is basically the same, Pickering said.
"Evacuating the people is the first concern in all of them, and providing first aid medical treatment," Pickering said. "Our first concern is the people."
Each building will have its own evacuation plan and an overall plan will be designed for the campus.
Signs detailing evacuation procedures are being posted now in more than one location on every floor of the various "high-rises" on campus, Pickering said. Eventually every floor on every building on campus
will have the signs. In addition, a permanent copy of the disaster plan will be placed in each building and each department will have a copy of the evacuation procedures.
Fire drills will be held in each building at least twice a year, he said, so that people will be prepared in case of an emergency.
"Even if they feel nervous, at least they have an idea of what to do and they don't have to think about it," he said
All permanent faculty and staff in each building will be trained in the evacuation procedures and first aid. Students will be given general instructions of what to do in case of a disaster.
One faculty or staff member on each floor will be selected as a fire marshal and will be trained in what to do in case of a fire. Several people on each floor will be trained in first aid, Pickering said.
Because students are on campus only temporarily, from four to eight years, they will not receive any of the training, though they will receive general instructions, evacuation plans, in case of an emergency.
However, if there is a serious disaster, the students will be called on to help, Pickering said.
"They're valuable additional resources," he said.
In case of a nuclear attack, however, the university will depend on plans developed by the dty of Los Angeles.
"We come under the city's plan. We will adopt the section that applies to us," Pickering said, adding that the university would share its resources — food, medical supplies and equipment — with the dty in the event of such an attack?.
The dty's plans in case of a nudear attack have not been completed yet, said a spokesman for Los Angeles' Office of Civil Defense.
Currently Los Angeles has two methods of dealing with a nuclear attack, depending on how much warning there is, said Lt. Col. Stanley Sludikoff of the U.S. Army Reserves, stationed in the Office of Civil Defense.
Helpline awaits funding boost
By Danielle Masterson
Staff Writer
Helpline, the student-operated telephone counseling service, is aw'aiting a budgetary boost of $2,500 as a result of a 25 percent increase in demand this semester for the service.
Jeremy Stringer, vice president of student affairs, would not directly say if the two student suicides already this semester played a part in Helpline's request for additional funds.
However, he said, "I do feel that Helpline is a resource for all students and particularly for those who can be considered suiddal."
The grant, pending administration approval, will be used to help recruit and train volunteers and for the purchase of addi-
tional phones and the resulting phone bills.
Helpline is currently operating off a $500 student senate grant used largely for advertising and promotional campaigns. The crisis line has 13 student volunteers on staff.
Michael Reilly, director of Helpline and a junior in business, said that demand for the telephone counseling service amounts to about a 100 calls a month, a 25 percent increase over last semester. The service, which has been in existence approximately six years, operates Sunday through Thursday from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.
"It's a definite increase from last year," Reilly said.
Helpline, once part of the university counseling center, was cut this year because "counsel-
ing felt it could redirect its resources to better help students in other ways," said James Dennis, dean of student affairs.
Reilly attributes the large influx of calls to newspaper advertisements, the posting of fliers and that offidals started the service at the beginning of the semester, rather than in October or November as in the past.
He said several other reasons can be attributed for the increase in demand for telephone counselors—severe stress because of the crosscurrent of poor job prospects, weakening family support, or just depression from being in strange environment.
Mary Anne Rust, a clinical psychologist from Endno, has called this set of drcumstances "student shock."
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