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Volume XCIII, Number 14	University of Southern California	Monday, January 31, 1983
THURGOOD MARSHALL
Justice Marshall presides over crowded Moot Court proceedings
By Douglas Lytle
Staff Writer
Norris Theater was filled to capacity Friday afternoon with faculty members and law students eager to hear Thurgood Marshall, associate justice of the United States, preside over the final round of the university Law Center’s Hale Moot Court Competition.
The competition brought to a climax almost six months of preparation by 40 second-year law students, 36 of whom were eliminated in the first three competition rounds.
Despite the seriousness of the competition, the 74-year-old Supreme Court justice kept a light touch on the proceedings by interjecting humorous comments w and asides during the two-hour court session.
£. However. Marshall appeared at times to be short of ■o breath, and he wiped his face repeatedly with a hand-2. erchief.
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=■ In his comments. Justice Marshall reflected the lib-;a eral attitude he has assumed through most of his 15 §• years as a Supreme Court justice. Marshall related his “ feelings about what he sees as the lack of leadership » the United States has shown in pursuing global human
5	rights, and questioned the present generation’s sense of values, saying “I get worried about our values, about our real needs and our real wants.”
Marshall voiced his opposition to the death penalty, saying “I can't understand how we as humans can say that we can kill a man on a certain hour, a certain date.”
Marshall said he feels that far too many students are lured into the legal profession not out of a desire to better mankind, but because of its monetary and social rewards.
The Supreme Court justice, who worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, closed with some thoughts on his own attitudes on the condition of the United States.
“I hope I don't sound too pessimistic,” he said, “but if anyone asks me — I am."
Seated this year along with Justice Marshall were U.S. Circuit Court Judges Stephen Reinhardt and Jon Newman.
Before an observant and alert crowd, the three judges listened as Suzanne Edgar and Abraham Hutt presented the petitioner's side of the case, with Daniel Grover and Anthony Morrone delivering the respondent’s case.
The four student finalists in the annual competition argued a hypothetical civil suit that involved a municipal zoning ordinance and suggested violations of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
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$ ISSUES
Joint resolution sought
By Steve De Salvo
Assistant Gty Editor
Student, faculty and staff leaders will discuss this week the possibility of joining ranks and supporting a joint resolution concerning proposed tuition and salary increases for the 1983-84 school year.
Dan Dunmoyer. president of the student senate, said he has agreed to meet with Donald Lewis, chairman of the faculty senate, and Margaret Harrington, president of the staff assembly, in an effort to take a “collective stand” on the tuition and salary increases.
"We’ll negotiate in order to reach common ground,” said Dunmoyer. “For example, the student senate might support the salary increases if the faculty and staff support a tuition increase of no more than eight percent.”
Harrington said, “We’ll see where we share common concerns. I think the meeting is a good idea. The biggest source of the university’s revenue is tuition and the university’s biggest expense is salaries.” Lewis, a professor of psychology, was unavailable for comment.
Dunmoyer said a definite time and place for the meeting has not been set.
The three leaders may come up with a joint resolution if any agreement is reached, he said.
Last Wednesday, the student senate passed its own resolution stating it would not accept a tuition increase of more than eight percent. The resolution also called the university budget office’s preliminary projection of an 11 percent increase “disproportionate” and "unreasonable.”
The faculty senate has asked for a 6.5 percent salary increase, while the university's preliminary budget calls for a six percent salary hike.
The staff assembly has yet to request a specific percentage of salary increase. Harrington said the administration has not surveyed other colleges this year to determine if salaries are comparable, as they have been in the past. Because this critical information is not available, the staff assembly has chosen to remain silent on the issue, she said.
So far. the student senate has not stated an official position on faculty or staff pay raises. Likewise, neither the faculty senate nor the staff assembly has taken an official stance concerning tuition increases. If the three parties adopt a joint resolution, it will be the first time the student senate has voiced an opinion on faculty and staff salary increases.
Currently, the university’s budget office is still preparing the next school year’s budget and is not expected to reach a final decision concerning tuition and salary increases until the end of March.
$100,000 may leave student hands in fall
By Michael Molinski
Assistant Cits- Editor
A “difference in definitions" between administrators may cause as much as Si00.000 in student services funds for ongoing programs to be cut from the general university budget next fall.
Among the services facing possible cuts are the fall orientation and freshman experience programs, the Course Guide, the Learning Skills Development Center and the Career Development Center.
An additional S80.000 in uncommitted funds for one-time proposals may also be cut. This year, these funds were responsible for such widely used services as the Westwood tram and Escort Service.
“It is a problem of a definition of terms,” said Jim Dennis, acting vice president of student affairs. “They (the office of the budget) have indicated that they would not discontinue our base commitments (ongoing programs).”
The problem is that the office of the budget, whose director is John Curry, defines “base programs” differently than the office of student affairs. Dennis said.
“He’s choosing to use a different figure than we are.”
As stated in the inertial budget for next fall, “which is only tentative,” Curry said, only four student services are considered base programs by the office of the budget. They are Student Programs, the Student Union Bond, Student Legal Services and Residential Life. The sum of these four services comes out to an annual cost of $344,629.	(Continued on page 2)
Three sketches: late night on campus
By Barry Kaufman
Staff Writer
Editor's note: The material that follows was collected as a result of one writer's late-night wanderings in search of loiterers on campus. The three sketches are not intended to make a general statement. They merely reflect a slice of nocturnal life in University Park. All of the characters are real — not composites.
There he sits, the night mist glittering off his long, jet-black hair. At almost 1 a.m., he is so entranced by the glistening wet pavement behind Seaver Science Center that he does not flinch when a campus security car speeds by.
The young man. Abel Rivera, is one of many nocturnal loiterers who spend an occasional evening on the university campus. Rivera and the others are here for a reason, whether real or imagined. While some say they seek refuge from an angry spouse, others manifest more threatening pretenses. Decidedly in the former group, Rivera is one in the evolving species of battered husbands.
“Have I got a wife,” Rivera said as he slapped himself on the head. “You see. I do the cooking because I get home earlier than she does. I’m no king chef ... I make mistakes. Sometimes I burn things. Tonight I left the burritos frying too long, and she screamed and yelled and told me to get out of the house. It happens all the time."
Rivera calls the campus his "home away from home,” though he usually avoids it on nights when there are noisy events. “It’s hard to take a nap with those rock bands blaring and all those people shouting and screaming. I can get that at home." he complained. “I like it here because it's so quiet. I come to get away from yelling.”
But if Rivera is able to evade campus security so easily, is he disturbed by others like himself? “Oh. not at all. Security here is so good that nobody can get in to bother me. I've only seen one or two shadv-looking characters here in the last four months,” he said.
There are more people like Rivera on campus, and though Rivera himself may not pose a threat, other trespassers are of more questionable inspiration.
At midnight the next evening, there stood Josephine McQ (not his real name).
“I'm gonna rape me some woman," the tall man said with a smile. Sporting Devo sunglasses, a seafarer's hat and a yellow tie. he spoke of his reputation as he strolled down Jefferson Boulevard in front of Residence West.
“You've heard of me," he said. “I'm famous. I've been over at UCLA, WCC (West Los Angeles City College), but the finest ladies are over there at that EVK dorm.”
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