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Volume XCII, Number 65	University of Southern California	Tuesday, December 14, 1982
Tuition dollars keep university finances ahead of decline in student enrollment
By George Aguilar
Assistant City Editor
The university’s financial report for the fiscal year 1982 has been released showing the university in the black despite declines in government funds and student enrollment.
The figures show the university hauling in over S395 million in revenues from tuition, endowment income and private gifts in the fiscal year that ended June 30. Expenditures totalled almost S371 million, almost all of it entailing instruction and research.
The report, which was released last week, also details the successes and problems of the much bantered about revenue center management budget concept which was initiated by the administration last year.
The university is making a concentrated effort to circulate the report. It was mailed to over 2.300 people and businesses last Tuesday and Wednesday. It was sent to faculty members, alumni support groups and corporations.
“As this financial report will bear witness. USC closed fiscal 1982 in the black. We anticipate the same for 1983. USC has successfully responded to the immediate shocks without weakening the foundations." wrote President James Zumberge in the report.
A detailed look at the figures show the university compensated for declines in student enrollment and government grants by increasing the revenue received from student tuition and fees.
In 1981, tuition and fees totalled S131 million, while $152 million was collected in tuition and fees in 1982. The tuition increase of almost 14 percent was more than enough to make up the potential deficit. It appears the university is becoming increasingly tuition dependent.
Income from investments and endowments showed a marked increase, soothing the disappointing returns from 1981. However, the university portfolio of investments declined (Continued on page 9)
Search for alumni generates problems
among fund-raisers
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KSCR may get off the ground after all
By Kathy Libby
Sta* Wntor
KSCR, the university's student-run radio station, should be on the air by early next semester with the help of a new faculty adviser and a new journalism class designed specifically for students of radio.
Radio Management Fundamentals, an upper-division journalism elective, wTill teach students the various aspects of radio management, including finances and format, said Joe Saltzman. director of the broadcast sequence in the journalism school.
The course will be offered Tuesday evenings from 7:00-9:40 and is open to both journalism majors and non-majors.
The lecturer for the spring course and the adviser to the station will be Robert Moore, a university graduate. He will return to his alma mater and the station he founded in 1975. in hopes of a resurrection.
Moore, the research director at KNXT television, the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles, plans to teach students how to manage a radio station and then to let them apply what they have learned by working at KSCR.
“Giving the people what they want," Moore said, stating the number one priority for a successful station, television or radio.
Moore said the class will also focus on how to get a job in radio
after graduation.	„ .	__-
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By Brenda Wong
Assistant City Editor
Nearly half of the university’s alumni are lost for fund-raising purposes. The university does not have their current names and addresses and cannot reach them.
Graduates become lost in various ways. They may move and/or marry without notifying the university of their new status or address.
Cornelius Pings, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, said the 44 percent figure is comparable to other universities.
“I think it's unrealistic to say that we don't know where our alumni are. We do very well by many regards. We re not doing very badly but we could do considerably better,” Pings said.
Problem Acknowledged
Rick Nordin. director of annual giving, acknowledged the existence of a problem.
“We have a fairly sizable problem with lost alumni. We would like to communicate with them in the Trojan Family as opposed to asking for a gift right away.” he said.
John Robinson, senior vice president of university relations, agreed.
Staff photo by Robert Heller
SEARCH — Marilisa Bradford and John Roitz. students employed by the university, look through records of alumni in order to locate them. The university has lost contact with almost half of all alumni, a figure that seriously damages fund-raising efforts.
University denies request to give away Validine food
By Belma Johnson
Sta« Writer
Two students who chose to spend their extra meal-plan credits on a feast for local poor families this Christmas were put off by the university and finally denied their yuletide dream.
Kami Cotier and Hanna Weg. both 17, shrugged off the urge to waste their credits on unwanted sweets.
“There is no way in hell that we can eat all that food.” said Cotier, who played red-haired Elizabeth in “The Waltons” television series.
Instead, their idea was to use the spare 40,000 Validine points or so that they have between them to give a banquet to people who cannot afford one.
The exact reason for the den-
ial is unknown as no one from food services would comment.
The women contacted university professor J. Wesley Robb of the school of religion when they first got the idea.
“He gave us the names of people at the Salvation Army. They said they would distribute (the food) to people in the area,” Cotier said.
Next, they decided to try to coordinate writh other students with extra points to finance a larger banquet.
They said they talked to their student senator. Gigi Fairchild, an undergraduate representative, who suggested taking the matter to food services.
That is when they first talked to Bob Mear of food services, Cotier said. “To him it sounded like a very good idea,” she added. That was af-
ter their hour-long meeting on Monday, but by Friday the story had changed, they said.
“He explained to us that food services decided that it couldn’t do this mostly because it was illegal,” Cotier said.
‘‘It’s illegal for one nonprofit organization (the university) to give to another one (the students with Validine),” Cotier said they were told.
Cotier and Weg said they do not believe that the university is donating anything.
“The students are buying food, food we're entitled to, and students are giving food away. How is the university involved?” Cotier asked.
“But (Mear) said it could be construed as a donation,” she said.
They said they were also
told the university does not wrant to set a precedent by allowing the banquet.
“Their precedent has nothing to do with us. We are entitled to (the food).” Cotier said.
Mear refused to comment on the incident at all. And Irene Ballands, food services director, said she had no comment. ‘‘I haven’t heard anything about it,” she said.
The students said they were told they would be charged extra for the food because of labor costs. They agreed to pay.
On Friday, Mear said the plan would be fine with him. but that he would have to approve the idea with his bosses, the students said. He reportedly said he would reply by Monday.
After six days of waiting, and no word from^Mear. the
students recontacted him, they said. That is when Mear told them the university vetoed their plan.
“It seems to me it would be better for them because when people eat at the snack bar. they don't have that overhead,” Weg said. “They purchase it. They transport it. That’s it. No servicing, no nothing.”
Last DT
This is the last Daily Trojan under the editorship of Casey Wian. It will resume publication under the editorship of Mark Gill on Jan. 11, 1983.