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Volume XCIII, Number 47	University of Southern California	Monday, March 21, 1983
Student senate to put forth compromise on seating issue
By Ellen Plotkin
Assistant Managing Editor
Tom between the demands of university donors and the concerns of students over seating assignments for next season's football games, the student senate will present a compromise Wednesday to the three plans under consideration by the administration.
Senate President Dan Dunmoyer would not elaborate on the specifics of the counter proposal, although he said that it would result in some loss of student seating for the coming football season.
Students for several weeks have been struggling to keep their prime football seats because of the university's attempt to adopt a new game seating plan. The issue has pitted the concerns of faculty, students and staff against those of alumni and "special donors."
Because the administration's priorities lie with the universi-
ty's "special donors," a conflict has arisen forcing the senate and the administration to develop a compromise.
The administration defines "special donors" as those major support groups that donate about $12,000 annually to the university.
Patricia Tyner, director of tickets and game management, devised three alternative seating plans after the Coliseum Commission announced its plan to move the football field 4.7 yards east for the 1984 Olympics.
Members of other university support groups — namely Cardinal and Gold — donate a minimum of $1,500 each year to get "preferred" seating, said Dave Rush, administrative assistant for the development office.
Although the university does not keep statistics on the breakdown of student attendance of football games, the ticket office
Students must pay more, Reagan says
By Carmen Chandler Staff Writer
College students may be paying 40 percent — or at least $800,	whichever is
more — toward their college education if a 1984-85 budget proposal submitted by President Reagan to Congress Thursday is approved.
The 40 percent would be in addition to the 18 percent to 25 percent parents are expected to contribute to their children's education.
Reagan's proposal would affect those students receiving federal aid under the Pell Grant program.
In a message accompanying the proposal, the president said, "Federal student aid will help more low-income persons meet the burden of education costs and will help restore confidence in the fairness of our system of education."
The students who will benefit the most from the proposal would be those with low income families attending a low-cost educational institution, said John Haines, an officer in the Department of Education.
Also benefitting would be those students with low-income families attending a high-cost education institution.
Those students expected to feel the adverse effects of the proposal would be those with middle-income families attending a low-cost educational institution.
Students with low-income and students with middle-in-come families currently receive the same amount of monetary awards.
"Those students whose families can contribute . . . would probably lose out if they went to low-cost schools. Those students whose families have incomes from $12,000 to $25,000 will now get lower awards," Haines said.
Under the proposed legisla-
tion, when students submit appplications for a Pell Grant, 40 percent of their estimated college costs will be "set aside and not be taken into account in determining need," Haines said.
Haines said he anticipates the 40 percent will come from work-study employment or loans or other aid.
Because fewer awards would be granted, the maximum amount of the individual Pell Grants would be increased from $1,800 to $3,000.
Also under the proposal, money allocated for the grant program and work study would increase by $300 million each.
The money would come from the elimination of three current student-aid programs receiving a total of $600 million in funding. Those programs are the National Direct Student Loans, supplemental education oppor-
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keeps track of activity book sales.
Student activity book sales have declined by more than 38 percent in the past five years. Sales dropped from 15,029 in
1978	to 9,261 last year.
In contrast to the decline in sales, the cost o|f the books has increased by 40‘percent during the past five seasons. In 1978 a book cost $25, while last year it cost S42.
An activity book includes five home game tickets, coupons for both the UCliA and Notre Dame games, a;punch card for basketball, baseball and other university athletic events and an El Rodeo coupon.
The university will not determine next year's price until the coliseum seatijig problem is resolved, Tyner said.
While student ticket sales have dropped, Cardinal and Gold membership has remained constant during the past several years at about 1,400, Rush said.
He said the reason membership has not increased is because "we (alumni) don't have good seating."
The university needs alumni to support the team because without their money, the athletic program would suffer. Rush said.
"This could be a good chance for the university to raise some more funds," Dunmoyer said, adding that football is quite a "marketable sport” for the university.
Dunmoyer said that the three plans proposed by the administration were unacceptable.
The yet-to-be disclosed fourth plan, although it is more closely related to Plan 1, is a compromise between the three plans, he said.
Strauss had favored Plan
2	— elimination of all student seating in the prime sections 22 and 23, yielding more than 1,500 seats to "special donors." As anticipated, this plan received much opposition from students.
"(But) no clne's thrown a brick through my window,” Strauss said. "I personally think that that's the right thing (Continued on page 2}
Nezv dean appointed after 5-montn search
By Steve De Salvo
Assistant City Editor
Sherry May has been appointed as the new dean for the college of continuing education, replacing Rosalind Lorir[ig, who resigned from the position last October to take another University post.
The change in leadership, the result of a five-month nationwide search, comes at a time when the CCE is undergoing changes in its role and direction in the university.
May, who has served as acting director of the |CCE for the past five months, said these changes are necessary as increasing numbers of older, adult students are returning to college.
"The number of traditional college students — those in the 17 to 21 age group — is declining, while at the sarhe time, a large number of adults interested in changing careers are coming back to school," she said.
"We need to be more aggressive in meeting the needs of the part-time student by changing the program and offering courses adults want to take."
May said major changes in the CCE's research bnd development will take place.
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ATHER ALI/DAILY TROJAN One of few, Cabareth Kolakonski, a junior in aerospace engineering, votes in last week's student senate election. The senate attributed computer problems and rainy weather to a 2-percent drop from last year's 11-percent voter turnout.
Campaign violations mar election results
By Jeffrey Tylicki
Staff Writer
Questionable campaign tactics involving an incumbent senator up for re-election in the student community have led to an appeal of the fourth seat from that constituency' in last week's student senate elections.
Graham Tingler, chairman of the senate's joint elections and credentials committee, would not give details of the appeal but did say it involved student community' senator Mark Decker, who was attempting to retain his seat for a second term.
However, a source on the Stu-Q boaid said that over 50 complaints were lodged concerning violations of campaigning policies. Several students reported seeing Decker's campaign fliers posted over those of other candidates in the last days of the election.
Apparently Decker left his campaign in the hands of someone else Wednesday when he left Los Angeles to attend an international students conference on the East Coast. He did not return until Sundav evening and was unavailable for comment.
Tingler said the appeal will be heard today by the elections appeal board, which is chaired by Nadine Felix, director of student life, and consists of two undergraduate and two graduate senators who did not run for re-election.
Of the two other senators up for re-election, commuter senator Richard Scotti, who was running in the resident hall constituency, was returned to a seat by dormitory voters. Sonia Savoulian, also a commuter senator, was defeated.
Only two other women besides Savoulian were running in the election, and both were elected. Sherrie Keys was elected by commuter voters, and Lori Becker will represent the student community.
Voter turnout was down by approximately 2 percent from last year with about 8 or 9 percent of the student body participating in the elections, Tingler said. He attributed the low turnout to technical difficulties and last week's poor weather. The elections were postponed one day when a shutdown at the university computer center prevented the senate from getting a consitituency print-out of students until Tuesday morning, he said. Although he believed Thursday's campus performance bv the Royal Lichtenstein Circus may have attracted a few more voters than normal, he said rain on Friday was a major contributor to the low voter turnout.
The elections for graduate senators, originally scheduled for last week also, were changed.
The three seats in the graduate school will be decided April 11-13, and the other schools with graduate representation will be conducting elections on their own time through the chairman or secretary of their departments.
Tingler said there will be a joint senate meeting Wednesday with out-going senators and undergraduates just elected in which the new senators will recieve information about in-house elections for the cabinet positions. At the regular senate meeting April 13, the new senate will select a president, graduate and undergraduate vice presidents, and graduate and undergraduate representatives to the cabinet.
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