FRIDAY MORNING
Volume XCI Number 3f
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University of Southern California
Friday, October 23, 1981
Budget cut may affect Cal Grants
Decreased enrollment possible
By Barry Sloan and Alan Grossman
Staff Writers
Although state legislation passed over the summer affecting accreditation policies and financial aid procedures will probably not have much direct impact on the university. Gov. Jerry Brown’s recent two-per-cent budget cut may handicap Cal Grant awards.
While Ralph Wolf, associate director of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the organization which determines accreditation status to universities in Calif., said Senate Bills 272 and 612 "should have no impact on USC,” Michael Halloran, director of Automated Systems, said Senate Bill 880 only makes things easier for the public to understand state financial aid guidelines.
Brown’s cut, on the other hand, could result in spring package reductions of expected Cal Grant awards or a decrease in aid recipients at the university, Halloran said.
The governor’s additional budget reduction, which called for a two-percent cut across the board for all state programs for fiscal year 1982, means the Student Aid Commission will have to trim Si.7 million from its $85-million budget. The commission is responsible for
assessing financial need for students and distributing Cal Grants.
This budget reduction may have future repercussions, but the effect of previous cuts may have a more immediate impact, Halloran said. If this year's budget needs to be reduced.
the state may have to decrease the spring portion of the students’ financial aid awards, he noted. And this may have a bigger psychological impact on students because it would mean taking away money al-
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Victim of shooting shows improvement
By Jim Radcliffe
Staff Writer
The victim of last Sunday’s shooting incident near the university continues to improve at the County-USC Medical Center while police search for three suspects.
The victim, Curtis Gutierrez, 20, was placed in minimum security after persons fitting the description of the suspects were seen at the hospital, said Jay McManigal, Gutierrez’s roommate and a university student.
Gutierrez is “doing pretty well,” McManigal said. “They’ve taken him off morphine and are just giving him aspirin and stuff now. He’s still in some pain, but talking fine. He's been up walking around. Everything considered, he's in good condition.”
Gutierrez did not suffer internal injuries, McManigal said, but has some bone chips and “quite a bit” of skin damage. The roommate said he did not know when Gutierrez would return home. “It could be anywhere between a week and two weeks.”
The shooting took place at about 2:25 a.m. on the corner of Men-
lo	Avenue and 29th Street where Gutierrez and two university students, Stephanie Hoiman, 24, and Charles Hall, 20, were talking.
Three youths, one reportedly carrying a shotgun, approached them. The armed youth ordered Gutierrez and his companions to lie down. Holman and Hall obeyed, but Gutierrez refused, turned around and was shot in the back, apparently with shotgun pellets.
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Students object to Senate policies
By Ken Alexander
Assistant City Editor
A perception exists among some students that the Student Senate is not aware of many of the concerns of the student community. But Andrew Littlefair, chairman of the senate, said his group will address any issue, whether of immediate concern to the university, if the senate feels enough students really care about it.
This is not, however, the belief of graduate students Cynthia Eller and Mathew Babick. Babick and Eller say the senate has adopted unwritten rules against the consideration of issues that are seemingly irrelevant to running the university — the so-called social issues. Littlefair termed this to be incorrect.
The chairman said he could understand why Babick and Eller would be upset, but took exception to a letter they wrote that appeared in the Daily Trojan on Oct. 20.
At issue are two resolutions presented to the Student Senate this fall. The first, resolution 8102, dealt with university investments in companies that do business with, or in. South Africa. The resolution asked that the university dissolve its ties with a number of companies, including Exxon, Chrysler and Kodak.
The resolution, presented to the senate by Tom Mowbray, who has since resigned from the senate, was defeated by a vote of 16-1.
According to Senator Mark Slavkin. the senate was, and remains. very concerned about the number of resolutions — condemning everything from abortion to the hunting of whales — that might be introduced if the senate passes those similar to 8102.
In their letter to the Daily Trojan, Babick and Eller stressed that the senate simply does not care about social issues, but only “that students (only) care about receiving a service in return for their fee.”
Both Slavkin and Littlefair said they are concerned by the issue, but that the senate was not the proper place to discuss it.
Slavkin admitted that student funds being invested in companies with ties to South Africa might be more relevant to many students than the slaughtering of whales, but said the senate is without power to question university investments.
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