Staff photo by Alexis Ignatieff
IN THE RUNNING — Rep. Pete McCloskey. currently running for a U.S. Senate seat brought his campaign to the university Wednesday, addressing potential voters in front of Tommy Trojan.
McCloskey brings his campaign for U.S. Senate seat to campus
By Andrew O’Brien
Offering beer to anyone who can beat him in a
10	kilometer race, U.S. Senate candidate Paul “Pete” McCloskey Thursday challenged the entire university to a March 6 run.
But the 54-year-old McCloskey, appearing before Tommy Trojan after his address to a political science class, added that anyone he beats will have to register Republican.
The congressman is campaigning for one of California’s senate seats and expressed his views to the politically oriented class.
“He put the budget into perspective for people, and explained why things have to be done,” said Don Harrison, a senior in public administration who attended the lecture.
Harrison said that McCloskey explained the development of the national deficit, which exceeded $100 billion in 1981, by showing the parallels between the economy, government spending and the consumption of oil.
McCloskey is proposing a $60 billion budget cut by slicing $13 billion in taxes. $13 billion in military spending and $34 billion in social spending.
Divorced and the father of four college graduates, McCloskey explained that he supports giving student aid to those who have given service to the country either in the military or civilian service.
“We gave $4.4 billion in student aid last year, and I feel that those in the services should get the first shot at it,” McCloskey said.
A 15-year veteran of the U.S. House of Representatives, McCloskey said he led efforts against the Viet Nam War. He is uncertain in his view of American intervention in El Salvador.
“I have doubts about El Salvador. I support the Monroe Doctrine, but I am against the 30 Americans in El Salvador,” McCloskey said.
In regards to the Right-to-Life Amendment, McCloskey said, “I don’t think men should vote on this issue. What if there was a bill proposed that all men should get a vasectomy after having two children, and it was brought before an allfemale Congress? Well, I think you understand, I’m pro-choice.”
McCloskey attended the university for one year in 1946, at which time he went out for baseball and made the third team.
He then transferred to Stanford University where he completed his undergraduate work and also received his law degree. He has a home in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and a home in Menlo Park, Calif., where he is the congressional representative for the 12th District.
According to a campaign worker, McCloskey is zeroing in on Southern California, and has made it to 54 of the 58 counties in the state. His agenda for the coming months before the June 8 primary will bring him to various centers of the population, and he is particularly concentrating on college campuses.
McCloskey hopes to take a “Row Walk” during which he will visit all of the campus fraternities and sororities, his campaign spokesman said.
McCloskey was approached by a member of the Campus Speakers Committee in regards to a possible all-Republican candidate debate March
6	with the Los Angeles League of Women Voters and he responded, “I’ll debate them all.”
He will also be returning to campus to address a mock convention for all Southern California college Republicans.
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Volume XCI Number 23
University of Southern California
Friday February 12, 1982
ACKNOWLEDGES PROBLEMS WITH STUDENT SERVICES
Administration sees tuition hike of at least 11.5 percent
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By Eric Onstad
Staff Writer
In a special appearance before the Student Senate Wednesday night, Jon Strauss, senior vice president, administration, predicted a tuition hike of at least 11.5 percent, although he admitted that the senators have every right to be dissatisfied with student services.
"I would be very surprised to see a lower number than
11.5 percent,” Strauss said to the stunned senators.
An 11.5 percent increase would boost tuition to $228 a unit.
“How can you be so out of touch with students,” said Mike Thorton, a senator responding angrily to the announcement. “Students are outraged with $205 a unit, not to speak of $228.”
Strauss justified the hike by comparing the increase to the income of families of students who attend the university.
“It (tuition) costs no more, as
a percentage of disposable income, than it has in the past,” Strauss said.
The vice president also commented indirectly on the student walkout of a budget advisory group earlier that afternoon.
He called that group, the Resource Management and Planning Committee, “silly.”
“It may seem even more silly when one looks at what has transpired within the last two weeks,” Strauss said.
University refuses to pay fee hike for employee Blue Cross coverage plan
By Wendell Mobley
Assistant City Editor
Staff members learned Thursday at a staff meeting that the university will discontinue Blue Cross of Southern California health insurance coverage of employees beginning March 1.
Persons who attended the meeting said they were unaware if there would be a lapse of insurance coverage while the new insurance company is obtained. They said they had not heard about the discontinuation prior to the gathering .
Toni Angelo, a specialist in the personnel department, said from her office, that there would be no lapse in coverage, and that Blue Cross had sent letters to its clients, informing them of the cut in service. She
said the university plans to inform staff members by placing advertisements in various publications.
Margaret Harrington, vice president of the Staff Assembly who also presided over the meeting, said she thought the company had priced itself out of the university’s range.
Blue Cross presented a new insurance rate to the university
—	a rate the university refused to pay. “Blue Cross got fed up with putting out more money than it was bringing in,” Harrington said.
Other issues discussed during Thursday’s staff meeting included the retention of staff members, inequities in sa’ai structure (among men and women members), changes in sick leave, tuition remission,
potential for promotion, supervisor training and market place parity.
Market place parity (whether or not the university’s pay scale and benefits are competitive with other schools and businesses) received the most attention. Harrington said the results of a university-con-ducted survey addressing the question of salaries is scheduled for release no later than next Wednesday.
The staff members who attended the meeting expressed notable concern about their salaries.
One person in the audience appeared disgruntled with the university’s attempts to raise the salaries of staff members. "We get a raise if the football (Continued on page 5)
Student members of the committee had failed in their attempts to get detailed budget information during committee sessions during the last two weeks. The students indicated that the information was necessary in determining the justification of a tuition hike.
Strauss also responded to the “student agenda’’ of the 10 most important areas of the university that need improvement.
He got a chuckle of approval from the senators when he agreed with them that student services are inadaquate.
“To say they (student services) are bad is to be too kind,” he said. “It’s ridiculous to have four financial aid counselors for 8,000 students.”
He predicted an announcement next week that would name the new director of financial aid and admissions, along with a plan for improving the departments and providing more money.
Strauss was unable to provide an answer to the Student Senate's complaint about the library.
He said upgrading the library will take more money but, “I don’t have a specific prescription for the improvement of the library.”
After Strauss left the meeting, the senate made plans to head off the tuition hike.
Andrew Littlefair, chairman of the Student Senate, reported
that he had delivered a total of 400 letters on the tuition issue from students to President James H. Zumberge’s office. Littlefair said that when he entered the office with his bundle of protest letters, the staff gave him some "dirty looks.”
“I think it may be having some effect on him,” Littlefair said.
Dental school senator Caren Deeb brought 200 letters from students who heard Wednesday that dental school tuition will rise $750 a trimester, making yearly tuition over $12,000.
In other business, Ingrid Caile, chairman of Student Affairs Research Action Unit, revealed plans for a postal center on campus to supplement the two-day-a-week visit of the post office van.
The center, scheduled to be built over the summer in Fagg Park, would include stamp machines, change machines and a scale.
The senate also adopted a stand on plus/minus grading that called for a mandatory implementation of the system, but rejected a call for an A plus grade.
According to Patty Minor, one of the resolution’s sponsoring senators, the A plus would hurt more than help students.
Graduate schools seeing a 4.3 gradepoint might lower all the transcript’s figures to fit the 4.0 scale, she said.