Volume XCI Number 2
University of Southern California
Wednesday, January 13, 1982
Officials foresee tuition increase
By Charla Foster
Staff Writer
University administrators projected a possible 11 percent rise in tuition costs for the administration's 1982-83 university budget — an increase that would propel current tuition costs to $228 per unit.
In a meeting with the Student Senate Tuesday, vice presidents Cornelius Pings and Jon Strauss called the estimate a tentative and initial projection for the fall semester, adding that this percentage would be coupled with a 7 percent salary increase for university employees.
Andrew Littlefair. senate chairman, and Mark Slavkin, chairman of financial affairs for the Student Senate, said they appreciated the administration’s early budget disclosure. Both senators, in a prepared statement, reiterated their opinion that few improvements in university services have accompanied tuition increases, and that students are finding it increasingly difficult to justify the escalating costs.
“Until some major improvments in services and programs for students are made on this campus, we cannot imagine students agreeing to such a large tuition increase." Littlefair said.
The administration has done little to show students how it intends on bettering the university, he said.
Slavkin, who is currently organizing a tuition steering committee which will invite widespread student feedback regarding tuition, said the projected tuition increase may not necessarily create a better university.
“Students are unhappy and the announcement of an 11 percent tuition increase certainly will not make anyone feel better,” he said, adding that the administration must placate students by publicly explaining how their tuition dollars will be spent.
Slavkin said that he and Littlefair asked both Pings and Strauss to increase communication between top administrators and the student body.
The senator speculated that few students would recognize Pings walking across campus.
“(The administrators) have been on the run since they got here and they’ve been locked up in their offices,” Slavkin said.
“They now have a responsibility to sell the student body on a tuition increase of whatever magnitude, and we (the Student Senate) have a direct responsibility as elected representatives to ensure that student dissatisfaction is clearly communicated to the
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Staff photo by Rich Levine
‘RUSH HOUR — A w^arv Oai Teian, undeclared freshman, patiently waits to reach the cash register. See related story on page 11.
RESPONSE TO STUDENT PROTESTS
President says no to apartheid
By Eric Vincent
Staff Writer
The first formal university policy concerning investments and the social and moral considerations involved in making those investments will be con-
LAPD officers to patrol campus
Designed to help alleviate fear of crime
By Mark Ordesky
Staff Writer
The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to grant an interim proposal by Police Chief Daryl Gates recommending that uniformed, off-duty police officers patrol on campus and adjacent student-housing areas.
The use of these officers, in conjunction with
Memorial service set for today
A memorial service for Zohrab A. Kaprielian, an influential university administrator and the dean of the School of Engineering, will be held this afternoon at 3:30 in Bovard Auditorium.
The service will be attended by the university Chamber Singers, and Father Arshag Khat-chadourian will present a selection of Armenian chants in memory of the 58-year-old, Syrian-born researcher who died Dec. 30.
Former university President John R. Hubbard and Cornelius Pings, senior vice president for Academic Affairs, will be among seven speakers offering thoughts and reflections about the late administrator.
As a political refugee. Kaprielian came to the United States in 1949 and joined the university in 1957 as an assistant professor in engineering. He was appointed dean in 1970 and is credited for significant improvements in the School of Engineering during the last decade.
University Security, is designed to alleviate the fear of crime among students and faculty. Gates said the proposal “will no doubt contribute to a measurable decrease in reported crime.”
The proposal was the result of a request by President James H. Zumberge to Gates' office.
While saying that the university has not experienced a substantial increase in major crime, Gates did admit there have been a number of incidents which have contributed to increasing concern over crime.
The approval of the board was required because of the various problems involved with the actions and liability of off-duty police. With the confirmation of this interim proposal, representatives of the university and the Southwest Division of the Los Angeles Police Department will now start work on a contractual agreement dealing with the various aspects of hiring officers for off-duty work.
Ken Hickman, commander of Operations, South Bureau, along with Carl Levredge, director of University Security and Parking Operations, will work together to complete the agreement.
Some of the problems that may arise in the course of this work include determination of salary, workman’s compensation and other related matters. The board is also concerned about the status and liabilty of uniformed, off-duty policemen working in a private manner.
Marie Blits, assistant City Attorney, said the city must usually take responsiblity for the actions of off-duty policemen. However, in this case there would be no city liability, for the officers would be considered employees of the university. Consequently, the university would deal with their actions. Blits said.
Whether these off-duty policemen will have the same power as their on-duty counterparts is yet to be determined. Also, the number of this force must be decided.
sidered by the university Board of Trustees.
Investments in South Africa, a subject of recent student protests, influenced the decision to create the policy.
The announcement of the policy formulation came in a statement issued by President James H. Zumberge on Tuesday. Also included in the statement was a specific announcement on the university’s position concerning investments in South Africa.
The president’s statement was in two parts. The first indicated the university is “unequivocally opposed to the policy of racial discrimination, identified as apartheid, existing in South Africa.”
In the second portion the president said the university rejects the idea that, by investing in companies involved with South Africa, the university is indirectly supporting racism.
“We have been talking off and on over the past several months about the issue of how to respond to the questions concerning South African investments.” said Jon Strauss, senior vice president. Administration.
It became clear in December that the South Africa issue was just one aspect of the broader problem of university investments and responsibility for social and moral concerns, Strauss said.
“It was felt the best way to handle this was to take the broader issue to the Board of Trustees and to have the president make a statement on the South African issue.”
Strauss indicated that there is no doubt that recent protests by student groups on the issue of South African investments had an influence in the deci-
sion to create a formal policy in this area.
"I am encouraged to see such an immediate response from President Zumberge to the expression of student concern regarding university investments in South Africa,” said Andrew Littlefair, chairman of the Student Senate.
Littlefair was not pleased with Zumberge's statement that university investments in companies involved in South Africa do not constitute a support of racism.
The Student Senate supports divestment of interests by the university from South Africa.
Generally, the Board of Trustees does not receive direct input from various student groups on campus when involved in formulating policy. “Typically, administrative staff prepares policy recommendations for the trustees and these recommendations are influenced from all areas," Strauss safd.
Littlefair, however, indicated that the Student Senate would lik« to have a greater role in influencing the creation of the policy. "They (the administration) are dealing with it because we had the sense enough to bring it to their attention,” he said.
Strauss could not indicate specifically what the final policy would contain because it is in the early planning stages. “I would imagine that such a formulation of policy would not name issues, but rather refer to the general collection of issues and propose a procedure for dealing with them.”
In reference to the second portion of the president's statement, Strauss said he could not interpret whether it meant that the university will not (Continued on page 5)