Volume XCII, Number
trojan
University of Southern California
Wednesday, November 3, 1982
Student organizations: is it volunteer work?
Campus leaders discuss compensation for their responsibilities
Students warned of danger after 8 cars burglarized
tors. He receives 1/4 tuition remission.
It was the decision of the Student Senate’s 1978 cabinet to grant tuition remission to Course Guide, said Dan Dunmoyer, president of the senate.
“Considering the amount of time the Course Guide editor puts in, he should receive three times the amount he does. He has to manage a staff, work with professors and make sure it comes out a few weeks before registration.
“That is why the Course Guide editor gets tuition remission. He has to maintain a staff of five and a volunteer staff of 15,” Dunmoyer said.
The director of the Student News Service, Darlene Delanoy, is also compensated for her time.
“The director gets the stipend. It doesn’t come out of the university. This year, it comes out of the Trojan Fourth Estate,” said William Faith, faculty adviser to SNS and chairman of the public relations sequence in the school of journalism.
The Trojan Fourth Estate is a support group for the journalism school.
“The Trojan Fourth Estate will support it only for one year. Any future funding will have to be explored,” Faith added.
Delanoy said that when she was hired, she was told she would receive between $1,400 and SI,500 a semester.
“As kind of an incentive for reporters, I will be taking a performance report and I’ll hand it over to Dr. Faith. It’s kind of like extra credit,” she said.
However, Faith said not all students who work for SNS will receive extra credit in their jounalism classes.
“What it really is is that I will strongly recommend that the superior work in the Student News Service will be recognized,” he said.
Some students who work on various university publications do not receive tuition remission. Instead, some receive honorariums that serve as a to-. (Continued on page 3)
By Alan Grossman
Assistant City Editor
Eight university students had their cars broken into Monday, resulting in the loss of S3,680 worth of radios and tape decks, a University Security spokesman said.
Most of the vehicles were parked off-campus, Sgt. Art Blair, said.
Auto burglaries, which account for nearly 22 percent of all campus crime, can possibly be prevented if vehicle owners carefully choose where they park and what they leave in their cars, Blair said.
Four of the stereos were valued at $600 or more, with the rest valued at $200 to $350.
Blair said that commuters who tend to park off-campus, and especially west of Vermont Avenue, face a great chance of finding their valuables missing when they return to their vehicles.
“There’s usually available parking west of Vermont, and the majority of burglaries from motor vehicles which occur off-campus are in this area,” he said.
Blair said that criminals share a basic method of operation for this particular offense.
“A suspect will walk through parking lots, or where cars are parked, and look inside car windows for something to steal, like cameras, leather jackets and Blaupunkt stereos.
"Once he finds something, he usually uses a rock or another hard object to smash a window and enter the vehicle. He then rips out the car stereo, usually with a long screwdriver or other pry tool,” Blair explained.
He advised car owners not to leave anything valuable in plain sight in their vehicles after parking.
“Unfortunately, we have taken reports of vehicles broken into because of an empty paper bag on the front seat.”
Statistically, burglaries from motor vehicles account for 21.9 percent of all crime at the university, and 24.6 percent of all crimes against property on campus.
Blair said, that in 1981, 561 vehicles owned by students, faculty or staff were burglarized in the university community, with 211 of those occurring in on-campus parking facilities.
"Even though we still have burglaries from motor vehicles on campus, you and your car are still safer parking here than off-campus,” he said.
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Staff photo by Dan Canales
V FOR VICTORY — Nancy Qilamn, graduate student in music, lays down her instrument and wages war on her studies. She has succeeded in finding a quiet place in which to do this near Norris Theater
By Brenda Wong
Assistant City Editor
Although participation in most campus student organizations is strictly voluntary, some students — such as student senators and those who work for student publications— are being financially reimbursed by the university for their efforts.
The amounts reimbursed
vary from organization to organization, and the criteria used to determine who gets what is the amount of time and responsibility involved.
The student group which receives the largest amount of financial renumeration from the university is the Student Senate. Members of the cabinet receive 1/4 tuition remission, with the president of the sen-
ate receiving 1/2 tuition remission per semester.
Compensation
Only one student editor working on a student-staffed publication receives tuition remission: Anish Trivedi, editor of Course Guide, a handbook published by the Student Senate that lists evaluations of university courses and instruc-
Fair to educate foreign students
By Melinda Smolin
In an effort to educate international students on the process of academic advisement. International Peer Advocates plan to sponsor a fair scheduled for next week.
The fair, entitled Academic Advisement Outreach Day, is sponsored by the advocates, a group consisting of mostly international students who help their peers to adjust to a foreign environment. It is designed to familiarize international students with university programs and advisement policy.
It is part of an effort that the group is promoting in conjunction with international student advisers in LAS.
“We really want to reach international students to let them know how important advisement is,” said Mary Ellen No-grady, director of international student advisement in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“We're trying to avoid the consequences of not having the right information, (by) giving students every option,” No-gradv said.
“There is a general effort right now to get students to see an adviser. They (students) only come when they’re in a crunch. Then it is very hard to unravel it,” she said.
Representatives from various schools and departments such as the business school, the school of public administra-
tion, academic review and international admissions will have tables at the fair.
“The big thing is to make everyone aware of where that service (advisement) is,” Nogrady added.
The fair will be held on Nov. 10, beginning at 11:30 a.m. in Alumni Park.
Additional attempts to inform international students will be made by the advocates
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