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Volume XCI Number 51	University of Southern California	Thursday, November 12, 1981
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Staff photo by Junji Yasuda
SECURITY DIRECTOR - Appearing with President Zumberge yesterday, Carl Levredge, director of University Security and Parking Operations, told the Student Senate that security cannot be responsible for preventing ever-thing that happens.
Zumberge tells of measures to alleviate crime
By George Aguilar
Staff Writer
In a statement to the Student Senate Wednesday, University President James H. Zumberge presented the administration’s policy to counteract the increase in crime in the past year.
President Zumberge, who recently returned from his visit to the Far East, and University Security administrators announced new steps, enacted within the past two weeks, aimed at alleviating the concerns of the university community about crime in the area.
“As president of the university, I want to emphasize that it is, and will continue to be, this university’s policy to do whatever may be necessary to insure that USC is a safe and hospitable environment for scholarship and learning,” Zumberge said.
“I understand that at USC this fall, crime is up approximately 5.5 percent over last year,” he added. “This increase has raised new questions about what USC is doing or planning to do to combat this trend.”
Zumberge, with the help of Carl Levredge, director of University Security and Parking Operations, and Steven Ward, chief of University Security, outlined the steps undertaken recently to fight crime.
“In the last two weeks, 12 newly trained officers have been assigned to the security force and are working regular shifts,” the president said.
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Staff photo by Junji Yasuda
WAR ON CRIME - Recently returning from his visit to the Far East, President James H. Zumberge said in an addreess to the Student Senate that in order to counteract the crime increase, he has approved 12 newly-trained security officers as well as the purchase of an additional escort vehicle and two police dogs.
Board appoints younger trustees
Four new members are under 50
By Mitchell Rossi
Staff Writer
Although four of the five recently appointed Board of Trustee members are under 50 years of age, the consensus indicates that this in no way illustrates a youth movement within the executive body.
Chosen by the present board members, the new trustees are Ernest Hahn, John King, Jerry Neely, Sam W'illiams, and William Wrigley.
“I used to think 45 was old. I don’t now,” commented Neely, chairman of the board.
chief executive officer and president of Smith International Inc. of New'port Beach, which manufactures drilling tools for oil companies.
"I would say that it must have been a consideration, but I’m not aware of that,” said King, 48. president of First Interstate Bank of California. King is also an alumnus of the university and the president of the Trojan Associates, a university support group.
“In my particular case,” King added about the selections, “you are talking about
the involvement with the associates and related trusteeship to that. In addition to that, you find most of the people that you have there are either fairly well positioned in business or fairly comfortable financially.
“I know that in Wrigley’s (case, he) had been a donor. Ernie Hahn is certainly a very influential person in the community. In all cases we will be able to contribute and help the university with the missions it w'ants to achieve over the next three years,” King said.
William Wrigley Jr., 48, head of the international chewing gum company of the same name, said he did not know why he was selected. When asked if he thought his age played any part in the selection, Wrigley said, “I didn’t think I was young anymore. To tell you the truth I really never looked at the board with ages applied to each name.”
As of yet, none of the three men have any ideas to propose to the board. “I think it (is) a little premature,” Wrigley said about his ideas. “I have always believed that you should learn as much as you can about something before you start making pretentious remarks of any kind. It (the board) is an enormously complex operation. It is obviously going to take some time to get a good feeling with regard to everything that is involved.”
Both Williams, 45, and Hahn, 62, were out of town and unavailable for comment.
Playwright criticizes U.S. political system
By Mitchell Rossi
Staff Writer
Speaking on “The Decline and Rebirth of the American Republic,” Gore Vidal touched on many issues that plague the United States. Both a successsful novelist and playwright, Vidal is an unoffical California candidate for the U.S. Senate.
“There is something extremely wrong with the United States of America," Vidal said to over 300 people in Bing Auditorium Tuesday. “And there has been something wrong for quite some time. We h^ had a one party system that is the creation of those great financial interests that have controlled our country off and on — mostly on — since 1786,” the author said. “Our single party system is currently divided into two fractions. Republicans and Democrats.”
Sponsored by the University Speakers Committee, the novelist approached several issues from new angles.
Preparing to run for the Senate in 1982, Vidal separated himself from the bureaucracy by labeling elected officals as “professional politicans.”
The politicans, Vidal said, “remind us that life in Russia is worse than it is here. This is quite true, but so what? What does that have to do with the fact that schools are being shut down,
50,000	businesses have gone bankrupt this year, city streets are a battleground and the air and water grow poisonous?
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Panel suggests more tuition endowments
By Katy Smith
Assistant City Editor
The Presidential Advisory Council committee for admissions unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday suggesting that the university's fundraisers place a high priority on scholarship endowments.
The resolution was in support of the Student Senate’s drive to prevent tuition increases.
“It is a very, very critical situation,” said William Weber, the committee’s chairman who expressed the committee’s concern that it would be difficult to maintain “the twin goals of high admissions and excellence” if students cannot afford to attend the university.
“The quality and diversity of the students we could draw will be severely limited,” the chairman said, referring to the 65 percent of the student body who receive some kind of financial aid. Future cuts in state and federal aid and inflation will place a further burden on the students’ ability to finance an education at this university.
Peter Brown, associate director of admissions, told the committee that the students who turned down the university’s acceptance gave high tuition costs as the major reason.
John Kennedy, a student representative on the committee, said the present university scholarship awards do not correspond to tuition inflation. Using his own experience as an example, he said his scholarship award has stayed the same while tuition has steadily risen.
With outside financial support for students depleted, the committee recommended that the university put more effort into raising money for scholarships than other projei , such as construction. Larger scholarships would narrow the gap between available funds and students' needs, said H. David Henry, a student representative, in the resolution he wrote for the committee.
Although the resolution w'as not on the agenda, the committee said it was important to encourage the university to begin fund raising as soon as possible.
One reason for the urgency was that private corporations are flooded with requests for money, especially after the federal government cut its budget.
“The future is bleak on lots of fronts,” said Doyce Nunis, a faculty representative.
Contributions for scholarships, faculty endowments and library books always have been hard to come by because they must be obtained each year. Nunis suggested scholarship funds be used to establish stable endowment funds.