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Volume XCIII, Number 42	University of Southern California	Monday, March 14, 1983
Search abandoned Student aid to stay the same
fOV classroom space	$2 million in funds may be added
By Carmen Chandler
Staff Writer
The university has abandoned its search for a classroom location to house the various educational programs it offers in Orange County.
Over 300 students involved in the programs will, therefore, continue to attend classes at sites that range from hotel rooms to synagogues.
Last year, the university- decided to establish an Orange County campus at the Corona Del Mar Elementary School. The location suited the university's needs, the rent was low and it required few renovations.
The Newport-Mesa Unified School District, which includes the elementary school, supported the university's desire.
However, the decision was met with opposition from local residents, who said the campus would cause parking problems, congestion, noise and crime. Legal action was taken on both sides.
The California Coastal Commission settled the matter when it denied the university a permit to use the elementary' school in March of last year.
Katy Corsaut, a public information officer with the CCC, said at that time the commission agreed with the residents' complaints.
Now', instead of looking for a classroom, the university is looking for an office suite where people can get information on admission and classes
"We may have a smaller increase to continue to be able to meet the full needs of entering students next year, as well as continue to maintain current student's packages,” he said.
The Reagan administration's proposed cuts for the 1983 fiscal year — which would have eliminated the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, the National Direct Student Loan and other programs — were rejected by Congress. However, the government is now trying to push other cuts and changes through for the 1984-85 academic year.
"The (1984-85 federal budget) is that w'hich is now being negotiated," Hessinger said. "The news coming out of Washington discussing student financial aid is really for two years from now."
He said the proposed budget for that year "eliminates some programs, but it beefs up other programs fr>- a slight dollar increase of requested funds.
"The probable debate now in Washington will be on the content and the types of programs rather than focusing as much on the dollar amounts," Hessinger said, adding that the new stable funding patterns for the next year w'ill help financial aid offices in planning for the future.
Hessinger said that last year the university did not discover how much federal assistance it
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possibility that the university will reopen its search for a classroom site in Orange County.
"We are trying to determine whether it is really useful to have a central meeting place for all the classes," she said.
Loring said she is considering sending out questionnaires to the students, primarily in graduate and part-time studies, to find out where the most central and convenient place to hold classes would be.
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By Laura Castaneda
Assistant City Editor
University: students w'ill probably recjeive the same amount of federal financial aid next year as they have for the past two years, said Fred Hessinger, director of finandal aid.
"I w'ould presume that the individual student packages will be approximately the same (next year) as they were this year," he said.
But, he added that since tuition may rise again, the administration will have to find alternate ways to meet each student's financial aid needs.
In the past when federal assistance levels have not matched rising tuition costs, the gap has been filled with university money. Last year, for example, the university produced $10 million — which was divided into S6 million for grants and $4 million for loans — to bring the undergraduate aid total to $20 million.
Michael Halloran, associate dean of admission and financial aid, said the university may again donate an additional $2 million in institutional funds to help meet student needs.
sponsored by the university in Orange County.
"It will have office fadlities for people working on education programs in Orange County on a temporary basis, and it w'ill be a place where the university alumni relations (office) can have a person," said Rosalind Loring, associate provost for the university. "W'e w'ill be able to have people get together and meet and talk about any plans for the future."
The university is looking for an office suite in Costa Mesa or near the John Wayne Airport. It would be open on a year-to-year basis.
Loring said there is still a
Attempt to save Idyllwild works—for now
By Belma Johnson
Investigations Editor
This is the first in a series of reports about the condition and future of the university's fine arts school in i the San Jacinto Mountains.
A last-ditch plan to keep the Idyllwild fine arts school open appears successful for now, but crucial questions l|oom unanswered about the school's run-down condition and ownership of its land.
Last month the university board of trustees told J Idyllwild officials that if they did not improve their unprofitable track record, the university would break the 19-year pact with the school, which is located 150 miles southeast of the main campus.
Pat Clark, Idyllwild's interim director, responded to the university's threat to cut off funds to the school bv \Lorking out and presenting a budget-shearing proposal to save the school.
SAC Advisory Board angered by student senate appointments
By Jeffrey Tylicki
Staff Writer
Student senators and administrators at the Student Activity Center are at odds over who has the right to appoint SAC board members.
The conflict erupted last Wednesday when the student senate voted to select three new board members itself, amending an earlier resolution which gave that power to the board.
Two weeks ago, the senate voted to give the current six-member SAC advisory board — a group that gives advice to the administration of the Student Activity Center — the power to interview and select three additional student members.
However, senator Mark Slavkin — author of Wednesday's amendment — and five sponsoring senators determined that letting the board select
its own members w'as contrary to the senate bylaws.
They cited Article II, Section 2!. G. which reads: "The (senate) cabinet will nominate students to committees and commissions o|f the President's Advisory Council and to any bther bodies for which nominees are requested, j
Undergraduate vice president Tony Manos, who chaired the meeting, said {hat section gave the senate the prerogative to appoint students to all university committees.
However, Sonia Savoulian, a senator w'ho sits on the SAC board, said during the debate that she could not think of a reason why the senate feels it needs to appoint the three positions.
But Slavkin seemed to sum up the attitude of the senate by saying, "We can't have people on that board who we don't have icontrol over."
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In a closed meeting last Monday, Clark apparently convinced an important universitv official that the plan can work.
Jon Strauss, senior vice president of administration, said the plan proves what he thought all along — "that w'ith good management," the program can at least break even.
The budget plan essentially calls for more cutbacks and redirection — cutbacks to spend less monev and managerial redirection to spend it more wisely, Clark said.
Clark described some of the changes under way or planned:
—	Adrian Sunshine, a conductor well known in Europe for his work with young musicians, w'ill not teach this summer.
—	A long-standing student exchange program with Australia W'as canceled.
—	Teachers are being told to recruit students if enough do not enroll in their classes or face a choice between a pay cut and a program cut.
—	The school will seek sponsors to pay professors' salaries so tuition revenue can go toward extensive building repairs.
—	Idyllwild and the university's school of music have hired a recruiter to beef up enrollment.
—	The Idyllwild School of Music and The Arts (ISOMATA), a summer youth program, may be condensed to allow’ more time for fund-raising performances. Clark estimates this measure will save over $200,000 in w'ages.
—	An amphitheater under construction will be completed. Last year the school earned over $10,000 on performances in the Bow'-man Arts Center, with a seating capacity of 400. The new amphitheater will hold 5,000.
Clark and Strauss agreed that besides the above changes, the university and Idyllwild must still negotiate a new contract.
"The contract as it now stands is not a good one for USC," Clark said.
Strauss said a new' deal must be made because the current one does not favor the university.
"I think we've got all the down side," he said.
Strauss said the current contract gives Idyllwild the option to purchase the land at an inexpensive price if the university ever cuts back its support — even if the campus is losing money.
That ties the university's hands, Strauss said, because "we can't profit by ownership."