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Volume XCV, Number 37	University of Southern California	Friday, March 2, 1984
SUSAN CARTER DAILY TROJAN
Sounds of the South Pacific echoed about Tommy Trojan as Keanue Anue entertained crowds Thursday.
Panel wants boost in library’s budget to upgrade system
By David Jefferson
Assistant Qty Editor
The University Library Committee, in its Feb. 17 report to university President James Zumberge, has recommended that the administration adopt a plan which would add $101 million to the library budget by 1989-90 and would put the library system on a par with those at other institutions of higher learning.
“The impending development campaign affords an opportunity for great achievement in improving our library resources and securing USC's place among respectable peers," the committee said in the report's conclusion.
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State aid hike will have slight effect
By Catalina Camia
Assistant Qty Editor
Although a 10 percent increase in funds for state scholarships has been proposed for the 1984-1985 school year by Gov. George Deukmejian, this university will only be slightly affected, said Michael Halloran, interim dean of admission and financial aid.
Lois McNally, information officer of the Student Aid Commission in Sacramento, said the governor's state of the state address in January included the proposal for an increase in the
Cal Grant program, but was overshadowed by his decisions on junior college tuition and elementary school education.
"I expect the percentage of the toted awards will decrease for the independent universities," Halloran said. "(But) I am counting on the Cal Grants to keep the tuition increases low."
If the state budget is approved, Cal Grant A recipients will be eligible to receive a maximum of S3,740 next year, an increase of $340 from the 1983 maximum award of $3,400.
Any increase in funds for Cal
Grant B recipients will be awarded in the living expenses stipend, with the possible maximum being $1,210 throughout the school year, she said.
In 1983, the university had 2,532 Cal Grant A recipients, receiving approximately $8.5 million and an average award of $3,368. The university had 311 Cal Grant B recipients, receiving $1 million, and an average combined tuition and living award of $3,384, McNally said.
Halloran said the expected increase for next year will mean an additional SI million dollars for
the university's Cal Grant A recipients.
Cal Grant A, the largest state scholarship available, is awarded on the basis of grades and financial need.
McNally said most recipients have maintained at least a B average, and are from middle or low income families.
Cal Grant B, available only to low income students, provides a living allowance for new recipients as well as tuition assistance for renewal applicants.
The Student Aid Commission (Continued on page 3)
Six Western states ‘brown out’ but university has little trouble
By Cornell Barnard
Qty Writer
Millions of people were left powerless on Wednesday as six Western states "browned out," but the university, whose power also faded to black, reported few emergencies and little panic or crime thanks to many automatic power generators located at various locations throughout the campus.
"Quite a few buildings possess emergency generators which respond automatically when voltage drops below a certain point, then bring the lights up on line," said Gary Pitassi, electrical supervisor at Physical Plant.
University Security reported little trouble, injuries or panic on campus during the approximate 18-minute span when power was lost.
At University Village the majority of shops and stores were closed temporarily. The 32nd Street Market shut its doors and customers were asked to leave because of shoplifting, a representative from Bothella Security, which polices the shopping mall, said.
The outages were caused when a 500,000-volt power line blew out in Northern California. The cable, based between the Round Mountain and Cable Mountain power stations near Redding, is used to transfer electrical power from the Northwest to California, said Charles Peterson, public information spokesman for Pacific Gas and Electric in San Francisco.
"When the cable went out, the region's interconnected power system was divided into three 'islands,' " Peterson explained. "Computerized power relays immediately began to cut off some customer relays in six Western states in order to prevent a major blackout."
Just what caused the Round Mountain substa-
tion breakdown remained unknown Wednesday night as Pacific Gas and Electric technicians scrambled to find the answer.
"We don't now what caused it to go out. It just quit working, essentially. Right now we're trying to locate the problem," Peterson said.
He speculated, however, that the cause may have been an overload or even a mechanical problem.
At least 2 million homes and businesses in California, including more than a million customers in Los Angeles County, lost power during the brownout.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reported that 300,000 of their customers were browned out, most for less than half an hour.
The main Los Angeles sections hit were the Sar Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys and the neardowntown areas of Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Atwater, Highland Park, Mt. Washington and Montecito Heights, as well as scattered portions of South-Central Los Angeles and the Harbor Region, said Elizabeth Wimmer, public information specialist for the DWP.
Wimmer also reported that hundreds of people were without power for a time in Orange and San Diego counties, Phoenix, Tucson, Reno, Albuquerque, Santa Fe and El Paso.
Other parts of Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah also were browned out, she said.
Wednesday's brownout was the second major outage to hit Los Angeles in recent years. In December 1982 high winds downed main transmission lines near San Francisco, darkening millions of homes in California, Nevada and Arizona for approximately an hour.
In addition, local power failures browned out part of downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica last year.
and staff, the committee was appointed by Zumberge last October to study the library system and recommend changes.
Under the plan titled "Leadership," one of three detailed in the report, the university's budget allocation for the library system would be raised in six annual increments from the 1983-84 sum of S9 million to $20 million by the 1989-90 school year, making the total increase $101,138,000.
In the committee's study of the percentage of other university budgets allocated to library’ expenditures, this institution ranked 86th out of 91 schools.
The study also found the amount of money per student devoted to library expenditures is $360 at this university, $1,356 at Harvard University and $1,433 at Stanford University.
In order to achieve the level of quality that exists at other university libraries, the committee said the university "must acquire the most advanced technological means of storing, sharing, retrieving and disseminating scholarly information, and . . . accelerate the growth of its collections of books and journals."
The plan calls for the library to increase its collection of volumes to 4 million — about double the present holding — and to hire a total of 88 new staff members at a yearly salary of (Continued on page 3)
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Possible future Trojan appears entranced by a sparkling water fountain on a sunny afternoon in the Engineering quad.