Spending, staff reductions needed for ,82-’83 budget
By Eric Onstad
Staff Writer
Cornelius Pings, senior vice president of Academic Affairs, warned a budget advisory group Wednesday that sweeping reductions in staff and spending will be necessary next year because “we’ve overextended ourselves in the past.”
Wednesday’s meeting of the advisory Resource Management and Planning Committee was the first meeting student members attended since they walked out on the committee a month ago for what they called inadequate input into the budget process.
He also proposed the appointment of an ombudsman to help with student problems, in response to a Student Senate memorandum which listed 10 areas at the university needing improvement
Pings called the budget problem “difficult and real,” and blamed it on “an expenditure base larger than the income base.”
This is the year a lot of the slack that has built up over the years has to go,” Pings said.
“I’m talking about large amounts of people and large amounts of money
(that will have to be cut).”
Recently announced federal student aid cutbacks add to the problem, and will force the university to raise its contribution to financial aid by 80 percent. Pings said.
“We’re going to have to find as much as $2 million extra for student loans, he said, “it’s a very trying circumstance.”
The administrator said the university may have to dip into quasi-endowment funds to meet the need.
President Zumberge appointed an emergency task force to advise adjustment and response strategies to the federal cuts Wednesday afternoon.
"They will look at various political responses, and also look internally to develop our resources,” Pings said.
The final budget plans are being delayed five to six weeks because of the difficulties in the new budget process, and in making the unprecedented staff cuts.
The formal confirmation of the budget will probably not occur until the June trustees' meeting.
"I delivered some very bad news to some deans,” Pings said, and specified the Business, Engineering schools and (Continued on page 3)
Staff photo by Jon Soo Hoo
TRICK OR FEAT? — A lone skeleton hangs from the globe at the top of the Von KleinSmid Center. No one knows for sure, but it looks like AMOEBA has struck again.
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Mutual Ticket shop opens; undercuts Ticketron costs
By Alan Grossman
Staff Writer
The Student Senate opened a Mutual Ticket Office on campus Wednesday which will sell tickets to students for most concerts, sporting events and performing arts at a lower cost than Ticketron.
"The reason for the Mutual office is to provide additional student services at a minimal cost to students,” said Larry Fox, president of So Cal Student Agencies, Inc., a subdivision of the senate.
Kirby Tanimura, manager and organizer of the Mutual agency, which is located at the Ticket Office in Student Union Building 200, said this type of service has been on campus before, but was dropped by the Ticket Office because patronage was too low.
But Tanimura, also a member of the student agency, said he researched the idea and found that there was a need for the office on campus.
Fox and Tanimura said So Cal chose Mutual Ticket Office because it is less expensive than Ticketron. They said Ticketron charges its member offices $500 a month to rent the ticket computer.
At that rate. Fox said, “we could not stay in business.”
“I talked to people at UCLA Ticketron, and they told me they’re losing money,” Fox added.
Tanimura said the non-profit Mutual Ticket service saves customers money because there is only a $1 charge per order rather than Ticketron’s $2 per ticket. The fee pays for telephone bills and two work-study students who work the booth.
The Mutual Ticket service charge is lower because of the different way customers receive tickets to events, Tanimura said. When a person comes to a Mutual booth to purchase tickets, the clerk calls the location where the event is scheduled and reserves the desired seats.
The clerk then presents a guaranteed voucher in place of an actual ticket, and purchasers bring the voucher to the Will Call booth at the event. Mutual also allows customers to exchange the voucher for a ticket at their downtown headquarters in the Los Angeles Jewelry Exchange at any time prior to the event.
Tanimura said the agency will average 30 to 60 tickets for major events. When demand exceeds supply, he said a lottery will be held the day tickets go on sale to determine who gets tickets.
“People will pay us ahead of time, we’ll put the money in an envelope and give the person a stub for the lottery. After we draw the winners’ names, we’ll post them in front of the Ticket Office so that people will know if they get a ticket and make other plans if necessary,” Tanimura said.
The losers of the lottery will be refunded money on the following day, he added.
Tanimura said seating is especially good for the Long Beach Arena and the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. In addition, Forum
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APPLICATION INCREASE EXPECTED
New housing system created
By Yolanda Austin
Staff Writer
While enrollment is projected to drop by 2 percent next year, the Housing Office — after suffering a loss of $200,000 this semester due to 175 vacancies in student housing — does not believe the decrease will cause problems.
In fact, the Housing Office is looking forward to an increase in housing applicants due to its new priority procedure.
Sharon Kettler, Housing Relations administrator, said her office has implemented new procedures in order to present a more positive picture to students seeking housing.
For the past 10 years, housing applicants living outside of a 20-mile radius from school were given top priority for housing assignments. Those students who lived within the
circle were given what was left, and those who did not receive housing were placed on a waiting list.
The new priority system removes the 20-mile radius requirement from the priority system, allowing applicants from each housing group (freshmen, transfer students, graduates and continuing students) to be assigned housing on a first come, first served basis.
The new system will affect students who are new to university housing. Priority for these students is given first to freshmen and is “followed by transfer students, graduates and continuing students.
The Housing Office also hopes to fill its vacancies by securing the number of spaces available to all transfer students. In the past, (Continued on page 5)
AWAITING RESIDENTS — Construction on the Parkview Tower dormitory continues despite a projected decrease in enrollment for the fall semester. The housing office says there will be no problem filling available spaces because of the new priority policy that has been implemented.