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Volume XCV, Number 24	University of Southern California	Friday, February 10, 1984
Positive university aspects praised at Zumberge talk
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JAMES ZUMBERGE
By David Jefferson
Assistant Qty Editor
University President James Zumberge stressed the positive aspects of the university at a meeting of the Council of Presidents Thursday evening in Hoose Library in Mudd Hall of Philosophy.
"Every time I go outside of the university 1 get a question from someone who's liable to ask me how things are going at the campus," Zumberge said. "At USC, our state of health is robust. I can't think of any other way to describe it."
Zumberge was the guest speaker at the meeting, which was attended by about 45 presidents and representatives from a variety of campus organizations.
"There are an awful lot of men and women who want to come to USC," Zumberge said, explaining that the number of applications received by the university this year is 10 percent higher than last year.
"The quality of the applications is significantly
better overall than a year ago," he added.
Zumberge also pointed out that the amount of donations the university has received thus far this school year is higher than last.
"We are unable to balance our books on the amount of money we collect from students, as high as tuition is,"'he said.
As compared to this time last year, the university is SI million ahead in total cash donations which it has received, Zumberge said. He noted that last year's total was $55 mjllion, or approximately SI million a week.
Making the last point of his speech, Zumberge stressed the quality of the faculty at the university.
"We are able to attract the best quality faculty in the land," he stated. "Faculty people by nature are very choosy."
Zumberge summed up his speech with a suggestion to the group.
"If someone should ask you, 'Hey, how are
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Drama division finds new home
More elbow room for classes, offices thanks to Community Sen/ices Center
By Glen Quon
Qty Writer
The Community Services Center, located between Marks Tennis Stadium and the practice tennis courts, will now be used to house the division of drama, providing much needed office space for faculty members and giving drama students additional classroom space, university officials announced.
All organizations which currently occupy the center will be relocated to other campus facilities.
W. Duncan Ross, director of the drama division, said he was approached by the administration in mid-November with the idea of converting the Community Services Center, and the division, in turn, expressed its approval.
Karen Schmidt, manager of the division, said she was taken completely by surprise by the administration's announcement because the idea of converting the center was the plan of the administration.
Ross was optimistic that the new facility would add to the division's status within the university.
"In my opinion, the allocation of the Drama Center to the drama division gives us an opportunity to establish a stronger, clearer identity on campus," Ross said.
Schmidt also said that until a new building is approved, funded and built, the facility will serve as a partial interim solution to the space problems the drama division has recently faced.
In the last five years, she said, the size of the drama division has tripled. There are currently between 350 and 400 graduate and undergraduate students in the department.
Consequently, the division presented the university administration with a number of needs that had to be met, which included faculty office space and a "home" for the division.
Robert Biller, vice provost, expressed the university's firm commitment to upgrade the drama division.
"Los Angeles, along with
New York City and London, is probably one of the major drama centers in the world," Biller said. "(Therefore) it would be very fitting and proper that USC have an increasingly strong program in drama.
"USC is unique in that it offers a program which focuses on the history, criticism and research of drama as an intellectual field as well as a program made for actors, designers and directors," he added.
Biller said the idea of converting the Community Services Center came from two different directions.
One factor has been the acknowledgement of the drama division's recent increase in the number of graduates and the size and activity of its faculty.
Another factor has been the attempt by the administration to consolidate the classes in the College of Continuing Education into operating academic units such as the the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the School of Business. This shift has left the center vacant for other programs.
However, Schmidt said the center will require considerable renovation before it will be suitable for faculty and student use. She would not elaborate on the amount of money needed to complete the renovations.
In the meantime, the division has been using facilities scattered across campus like the Stop Gap Theater, Bing Theatre and the Green Room as classrooms. Some members of the faculty currently use the Parkview Building for office space.
Schmidt said preliminary plans indicate that two of the center's large rooms will be converted into offices for the 15 of the division's tenured faculty members. Another room will be renovated and turned into an auditorium-type classroom.
The plan will also call for the implementation of additional telephone lines into the facility. There are currently six lines hooked into the center, and by the time the renovation project is complete, Schmidt said that there may be as many as 30 lines.
Although the facility will be solely used to house the drama division, parts of the renovation project will be completed in time for it to be used as a hospitality suite for members of the press during the Olympic Arts Festival to be held prior to the start of the Olympic Games in July.
Schmidt expressed praise for the cooperation on the part of the administration and other university services and is looking forward to the division having a permanent facility on campus.
"The administration was presented with a rather large problem which had been faced by the drama division for many years," she said. "This is the problem of space. With the division's rapid growth in the past five years, the problem became acute.
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New input proposed for budget review plan
By Karen Kucher
City Writer
The Student Senate is proposing a new budget review procedure which will require student and staff input in addition to the traditional faculty input before making departmental budget decisions.
The Revenue Center Budget Advisory Committees, proposed by the senate, will allow students, faculty and staff the chance to get involved in budget recommendations, said Mark Sloane, chairman of the Student Senate financial affairs research action unit.
The system currently used — the University Budget Advisory Committee — is made up of several deans, as well as faculty, staff and student representatives who review the entire budget.
The proposal "recommends the implementation of a university-wide policy requiring each revenue center to form, utilize and respond to a revenue center budget advisory group consisting of students, faculty and staff."
Currently, each dean suggests budgets for his own school, occasionally with the help of his faculty members or budget advisers.
By having a Revenue Center Budget Advisory Group, other perspectives and viewpoints could help the deans to prepare their
budgets, Sloane said.
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Housing, food service cost increase is lowest in years
By Diane Olivo
Qty Writer
Auxiliary services is estimating a 9 percent increase in housing costs and an 8.8 percent increase in food services for the 1984-85 school year, said Guy Hubbard, executive director of auxiliary services.
Hubbard said that this increase is less than in previous years.
"The 1982-83 academic year had an 11.1 percent increase in housing and an 11.4 percent increase in food services. This was mostly due to the fact of additional costs in construction, such as Parkside Towers," Hubbard said.
Factors that were considered when determining the increases included a 3.5 to 4.5 percent increase in salaries and wages, a 22 to 27 percent increase in fringe benifit costs and a 33.8 percent increase in telephone costs.
The increase of 33.8 percent in telephone costs is mainly due to the cost of telephone rental.
"Even though the students do pay for their own telephones, the telephones in the dorm lobbies, access telephones and telephones in the department offices have to be taken into consideration," Hubbard said.
"At the present time $36,000 is what the university has spent for telephone rentals. In fact, I have heard that the university is thinking of buying the telephone equipment (to reduce costs)," he said.
He also cited utility increases which include a 121.1 percent increase m water costs, a 34.6 percent increase in electricity charges and 59.4 percent increase in gas expenditures.
He added that there would be a 26.2 percent increase from the physical plant department — which includes costs for gardening, trash collection, broken items and overall maintenance.
The increases for utilities and physical plant were taken from figures of the 1982-83 academic year. Costs of two years before have to be taken into consideration in order to determine the increases to be put into the budget.
"Other universities also consider costs of previous years and not the last year mostly because universities are still in their last academic year when the budget is being estimated," Hubbard explained.
Compared to Stanford — another private university — the increase is about the same, Hubbard said.
"Stanford forecasted in December that there would be an 8.75 percent increase in room and board," he said.
At the present time Stanford's housing is $3,812, compared to the university's $3,442 for typical room and board accommodations, Hubbard said.
"Damages that occur in housing are taken into consideration for the increases, but about $100,000 is recovered from the students who do the damages, so an increase due to damages is not a large factor," he said.
"An earlier report suggested that the housing and food services (increase) would be higher. But at the moment our budget has determined the average increase. The Board of Trustees will determine the final increases," he said.