Officials to make unpopular cuts due to decrease in federal funds
JAMES ZUMBERGE
By Marc Igler
Staff Writer
President James H. Zumberge said Monday that university administrators will be forced to make many extremely unpopular decisions in coming years as a result of the imminent decrease in student aid from Washington, D.C.
Speaking at an informal discussion with graduate students at the Faculty Center, Zumberge of-ferred few solutions to students who may be forced to leave school because of federal budget cuts.
He added that the university is currently working on an aid package designed to alleviate part of the cutoff in federal support, but he refused to discuss the details of the package.
“All I can say is that it (the aid package) is beginning to shape up. But the university has very limited loan funds — nowhere near what’s being cut off by Washington. We're never going to be able to replace dollar for dollar what we’re losing,” he said, adding that the university will lose more than $7 million as a result of federal reductions.
Zumberge stressed that the university administration is doing all it can to convince congressmen to reject President Reagan’s proposed reductions in student aid.
University representatives will join the Asso-
ciation of American Universities in a full-scale lobbying effort of Congress beginning April 20, Zumberge said.
“I don't want to disillusion anyone into believing that we’re optimistic. Optimism just wouldn’t be justified. For the last 30 years private universities have become hooked on federal support,” Zumberge said.
“Withdrawing from that support will have the same sociological consequences on our university as withdrawal pains would from drug addiction to an individual. It's that bad.”
But Zumberge quickly added that if the university can overcome its reliance on federal handouts, it will be “stronger and better off.” He warned, however, that some parts of the university will have to be trimmed or eliminated in coming years because of the loss of federal support.
“We simply cannot continue to spend more than we take in. In the next few years, many very unpopular decisions will have to be made — decisions that may very well be more unpopular than tuition increases,” he said.
While he didn’t reject the idea, Zumberge said that, if possible, the university will not lower its admission standards to bring in students who can fully pay their own way at the expense of students who need financial aid.
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Volume XCI Number 48
University of Southern California	Tuesday March 23, 1982
NCAA sanction rumors criticized
Appeal question not yet answered
By Charla Foster
Staff Writer
University administrators criticized Monday early reports that the NCAA has imposed sanctions on the athletic program. President James H. Zumberge would not say if the university would appeal the NCAA investigation but did say he would at least respond on or near March 29, also the deadline for appeal.
Although university administrators have maintained a nocomment policy toward the contents of the NCAA report, they have “in no way wished to appear mysterious about the report,” the president said.
Zumberge received the report on March 15, but had a meeting out of town which forced him to delay his review of and formulation of a response to the report.
The report details what sanctions the NCAA will impose as a result of an investigation of questionable procedures within the athletic department made by the NCAA Infractions Committee. Its findings will not be revealed until the president submits his response to NCAA authorities, Zumberge said.
“Right now we are reviewing the report, but this is something we intend to spend a lot of time on, despite the rumors
that we’ve already come to a decision to appeal,” the president said.
Jim Perry, sports information director, added that the president and NCAA authorities remain obligated to maintain a no-comment policy until the NCAA officially receives and announces the university’s response.
“There is really no one available to comment on it, and to speculate what the sanctions are or how the university will react is foolish at this point,” Perry said.
In a Los Angeles Times article which appeared Sunday, a (Continued on page 3)
Permit denied for new Orange County campus
By Alan Grossman
Staff Writer
The California Coastal Commission denied the university a permit to use the Corona del Mar Elementary School as an extended evening campus Thursday, thus agreeing with local residents who have said the campus would cause numerous traffic problems.
Kaiv Corsaut. a public information officer with the CCC. said that after hearing testimony and going over the committee's findings about the area, the commission decided the Citizens for Responsible Use of Neighborhood Schools (and their 800 signature-petition protest) were right.
"It had to do with parking and traffic," Corsaut explained. “We had a lot of unhappy residents there concerned about traffic and the loss of recreational space.
“We found the additional traffic would have a bad effect on the community," she said.
Since the university announced plans in January to remodel the elementary school into a satellite campus, the neighborhood group has contended its community could not support the added flow of traffic.
The university decided to establish the campus after it became expensive to rent hotels and classrooms in the area, and because Orange County alumni wanted a university facility nearby.
Joe Stewart, the spokesman for the coalition which opposed the school, has said the narrow streets and already limited parking space around the school cannot accommodate the expected influx of students — especially for night classes when residents and students would vie for parking spots.
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WEAKNESSES CITED, QUALITY STANDARDS REQUESTED
Student Senate seeks improvements in library system
By Yolanda Austin
Staff Writer
In an effort to gain “a firm and visible commitment” from the administration to improve the library system, the Student Senate issued a report pinpointing weaknesses in the system and passed a resolution requesting that it be brought up to university quality standards.
Last Wednesday’s resolution called for short- and long-term physical and organizational improvements in the Doheny Memorial and Von KleinSmid Center libraries.
Short-term library improvements include climate control, repainting and lighting of carrels (study areas in the stacks), increased security in the stacks, reorganization of books in the stacks and maintaining cleanliness by, among other things, eliminating the rodents known to be in the library.
Another short-term recommendation
is to reorganize the library committee of the President’s Advisory Council.
Peyton Fisher, who wrote the resolution, said the PAC library committee is “basically inactive in terms of concrete improvements in the library.”
John Schutz, chairman of the PAC library council, said the committee has “tremendous influence” on library policy decsions.
“It depends on what the problems are at that time. We’ve reviewed the budget and offered advice on the new cataloging and reference systems,” Schutz said.
“I don't know what the committee would do other than what the librarian and his staff are doing. What more would the committee do than to get in its way?” the dean said.
“I think the librarian and his staff are doing a great job. Are we just setting up
a committee to rubber stamp — to approve what the libraries do? We (the PAC library council) hear what is being done and offer advice.” Schutz said.
Schutz said the committee meets monthly to discuss recommendations and hear complaints of students and faculty.
“We hear the complaints and urge the library to go to the administration,” Schutz said.
Fisher said the senate took the action because of complaints from students about the libraries, and because the quality of the libraries should reflect the amount of money coming into the university.
Fisher said, “We feel the libraries are of central importance to the university. If tuition is going to be this high, we need to prioritize funds.
“The fact that our libraries are so inadequate is an embarrassment to what
should be a priority in the university. The library should be of central importance, but instead it is left on the back burner to take care of itself,” Fisher said.
Fisher said the problem is mismanagement of money, not necessarily the lack of it.
“Work-study people who check out books can reorganize stacks,” she said.
The senate’s long-term recommendations included providing storage facilities for books, establishing a book-sharing program with UCLA, Occidental College and the Claremont Colleges and developing a computer system to facilitate the finding and checking out of books for students.
The resolution draws on some of the recommendations in the report, but it differs in its emphasis of goals, said Kirby Tanimura, chairman of the senate (Continued on page 8)