Staff photo by Robert Heller
MORE AID — President James Zumberge talks to Cathy Murino, a Daily Trojan staff writer, about university efforts to bolster the sagging financial aid program. Zumberge said administrators have "acted quickly to counter cuts in grants by Washington."
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Volume XCII Number 4
University of Southern California
Friday September 10, 1962
New plan defers tuition payment
Helps students avoid late fees
By George Aguilar
Ass stam City Editor
Students with unpaid fee bills have until Saturday to take advantage of the university’s deferred tuition policy which can help them avoid costly late fees.
Starting next week, students with unpaid fee bills will be charged $50, and the fine could eventually reach $100. The way around the penalties is a service which is largely unknown to the university community, said Jerry Kenney, manager of student accounts.
Under the university’s deferred tuition policy, Kenney
said students are given up to 60 days to pay fee bills without charge if they are having legitimate financial aid or loan problems.
If a student is just plain short on cash, the university will give the student up to $500 in credit and allow 60 days for repayment There is a $20 charge for this service, Kenney added.
So far, hundreds of students have been granted deferments, and Kenney sees the need rising because of increasing tuition.
“I think the need for deferment is growing,” he said. “A
lot of people who in the past did not need it have found the need for deferment a lot more paramount”
Kenney said his department will also aid students who have trouble meeting university housing payments.
“It (deferment) serves two (Continued on page 7)
Zumberge discusses plan
to bolster financial aid
By Bill Truman
Staff Writer
Speaking to the first fall session of the Student Senate, university president James Zumberge said Wednesday evening that a primary goal for the university this year will be to increase unrestricted funds in order to bolster a sagging financial aid program.
Zumberge also praised this semester’s shift of budget development power from the vice presidents' offices to the deans of respective departments.
Zumberge said that an increase in unrestricted donations which could be used for financial aid would decrease the strain on funds generated by the endowment
The president explained that the current 4 percent to 5 percent rate of return, which comes from unrestricted funds generated by the endowment, could be increased to 8 percent or 9 percent
The increase would expand financial aid availability.
“We acted quickly to counter the cuts in grants by Washington,” Zumberge said, referring to the Century II Telefund success and a push to find alumni willing to contribute to the university. Zumberge said that at the beginning of last summer, there were 70,000 alumni whose current addresses were unknown.
Of these “lost” alumni, 30,000 were located during the summer break
A program is now under way to contact those former Trojans, many of whom, Zumberge said, have never contributed to the university. “Parental interest in giving gifts to the university used to be strong. But this interest has collapsed entirely,” Zumberge said.
The president also stated his surprise that such a great percentage of students returned to the university this semester, despite “whopping jumps in prices, the NCAA problems and the over-inflated ‘crime wave' of last semester."
Zumberge said that early enrollment totals show that the university will not collapse. He attributed this to the flow of students from public to private institutions.
Responding to a question from a senator concerning the policy change which requires students taking 12 units to pay a flat-rate tuition rather than last year's 15 to 18 units. Zumberge said he wanted more students to take full loads and used “the leverage of tuition to do it”
Zumberge explained the decision was made to make the payment system “more fair and equitable." He indicated the increase is not designed to increase tuition monies collected, but rather to take in a more accurate rate. “We can’t overdo the free-unit area,” he said.
Another budget-related question dealt with potential program cuts in order to balance the budget Zumberge said that because of a slumping economy and a consolidation movement in America’s educational institutions, program elimination is a real possibility.
Although he admitted that programs will probably be cut over the next five years, the president emphasized that “No one will wake up one morning and read in the Daily Trojan that ‘x’ program will be cut out this semester or next semester. If one starts a course of study here, he will be able to complete it”
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Campus ballot pamphlet praised
Phi Delta Theta fraternity forced to pay $3,000 tine
By Kathy Libby
Staff Writer
The university’s Peer Review Board has ruled that the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house has to pay out $3,000 to the owner of a car which was vandalized in front of the house.
Stacy Fields, president of the Phi Delta Theta house, claims that the July ruling was unfair to his fraternity because the board had a “guilty until proven innocent” attitude.
In May, a report was submitted to the Peer Review Board by an individual who said his car was moved from the curbside in front of the house into the middle of the street and then vandalized.
University Security’s report said that the car’s interior and exterior had been damaged as well as having its two license plates removed.
The review board, composed of two administrators and one student, studied the man’s accusations and the fraternity’s defense, and found the house responsible for the cost of repairs.
The fraternity said the damages totaled $3,000.
“It wasn’t an individual in the house who was responsible for the damages, but either summer residents or visitors,” said Cece Freeman, program coordinator for student conduct at the office for residential life.
Freeman said that even if members of the fraternity were not involved, “the group automatically has to take the responsibility.
“There is no hostility between any fraternity (and the Peer Review Board),” she added.
But Fields maintains the ruling was unfair. Alleging that the board was “illegal,” he said, “They put themselves above the law.”
Fields claimed that the evidence used in the case was all circumstantial and a photograph of a beer cup in the car and other cups on the fraternity’s front lawn were used as proof.
He said the board also talked with a girl who said she had been driving by and saw people in front of the house.
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By Belma Johnson
Staff Writer
A San Francisco radio station has suggested that the university’s Institute of Politics and Government be used to write pamphlets about statewide ballot propositions.
KCBS, in an editorial first aired June 24, said the present methods of preparing the information may be biased but a university institution would be free of those biases.
The institute, under the direction of professor Larry Berg, presently compiles a pamphlet about statewide initiatives that is distributed to voters by the Town Hall of Los Angeles. Joan Margalith,
editorial director for the CBS affiliate, said the pamphlet has been praised for its objectivity.
But a state senator has suggested over the airways that the idea may be a bad one, claiming that an academic institution could be politically influenced by its donors.
The pamphlets being used in November’s elections are prepared by the legislative members who are authors of the initiatives. Margalith says that the potential for bias is greater under the present system
The current pamphlets have disclaimers at the bottom of each page which read: “Arguments
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Staff photo by Andrew Innerarity
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