KSCR awarded $95,000 for new construction
By Stephen Lawson
Staff Writer
KSCR, the university's student-operated campus radio station, has been granted $95,000 from the president's discretionary fund.
Kelly Porter, KSCR station manager, said the grant will be used to construct a production studio and expand the station's broadcast range into more university residences.
"The purpose of the grant is to get us to the point where we're self-sufficient, and not always asking for money," Porter said. "This will do it."
The station manager originally asked for approximately S106,000, but said he is "tremendously satisfied" with the grant Zumberge provided.
The grant is made of two installments: $55,000 provided in June and $40,000 to be given to the station at the beginning of January.
In a June 21 memorandum to Porter announcing the grant, university President James Zumberge gave his reasons for supporting the station.
"1 am supporting KSCR because of its value as an educational tool . . . and because of KSCR's potential to become something like an electronic equivalent of the Daily Trojan, a primary campus information, entertainment, and opinion medium," the memorandum said.
Zumberge called the aid "the largest grant I have
made from my discretionary funds for a student organization since coming to USC."
The president has sole control over the discretionary fund, which is made up of budgeted and surplus money, and gifts specified for his discretion.
Porter said the new production studio, which has almost been completed, will be used to produce commercials and news shows while the station's existing broadcast studio is being used around the clock.
Previously, he said, all commercials were made in the broadcast studio when the station went off the air, and all news shows had to be produced live.
News shows pre-produced in the new studio will be more in-depth. Porter said.
Terry Nelson, music director for the station, said the new studio will also be used to produce better tapes for broadcast from albums lent to the station. He added new broadcast equipment will further improve the sound quality of the music on the air.
Part of the grant will be used to provide transmitters to bring the station's signal — which is sent on a "carrier current" system — into buildings where it is not yet available.
In the carrier current system, the signal is transmitted through the wiring in the residence halls of South Complex and other student residences.
George Abdo, executive assistant to the president, said the grant was made with the understanding that
transmitters will be provided for Century Apartments and Fluor and Webb towers before the end of the year.
Abdo said this will give about 2,000 more students access to the station.
In 1985, with the second of two installments on the grant, at least 10 more residences, housing about 3,000 students, will be provided with transmitters, Abdo said.
"I'm just ecstatic about it," said Porter. "This is what I've been working for."
The station manager said he had been seeking major development funding for the station since last September, starting out by presenting grant proposals to sources outside the university.
"I essentially went through the university's L.A.S. development office (a fund-raising office)," Porter said. "They did a very good job of helping us write grant proposals but then got swamped with work on the university's academic plan."
Porter gave Zumberge a tour of the station last February and asked for funds for construction. He said the president asked at that time for letters of recommendation from university vice presidents Irwin Lieb and James Dennis; Paul Bohannan, dean of social sciences; and Luther Luedtke, then interim director of the School of Journalism.
Zumberge also asked for evidence that the station had a sound organization for continuity.
Volume XCVII, Number 2
University of Southern California	Wednesday,	September	5,	1984
Student Senate will fight to save pub plans
By Craig Hotti
Staff Writer
Although the university administration has stopped plans for a campus pub, the Student Senate is going to fight to keep the idea alive.
The senate today will probably put the pub down as a proposal on its agenda, said Nancy Calle, chairwoman of the Student Senate's student affairs research action unit, and the senate's leading proponent for a campus pub.
"In general, people want a pub on-campus," Calle said. "The idea has been on the sen-
ate agenda for the past two years, and I feel certain it will be an issue again."
Calle said university students want a pub and would use it often enough to make building it worthwhile. She said a senate survey showed about 90 percent of the student body would use a campus pub.
But when asked if she thinks the administration will accept the idea of a pub, Calle said the chances are "slim to none."
Administrative officials dispute the senate's findings. Gene Lawless, director of food service, said a university study of
the pub's potential customers showed that only 2,800 students at the university are over 21.
Such a small number, he said, would not give the pub a large enough market, adding he does not think a campus pub will bring people on-campus.
Lawless also said that when he visited some local pubs he found their business was marginal.
Calle said plans to use the upper floor of the new Frank L. King Olympic Hall of Champions (west dining complex) for the pub were stopped last July when the administration decid-
ed the facility would not draw enough business to make it profitable.
She said the senate was not consulted on whether to halt the plans for the pub.
"They told us no over the summer because they felt fewer people would cause friction then," Calle said. 'They really never gave us a chance to argue whether or not the students would use it, it was just no."
Calle said the administration would not meet with the Senate over the summer because they were too busy with the Olympics.
But the administration has contended there were no plans to build the pub in the dining hall. Anthony Lazarro, vice president of business affairs, has said plans have not been drawn and that his office is awaiting input from Calle's committee and the office of student affairs before they decide what to do with the upper floor of the dining complex.
Other university officials were not available for comment.
Calle thinks that to overcome any lack of customers, the pub should use some kind of system (Continued on page 13)
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Although the administration has nixed plans for a student pub at the Frank L. King Olympic Hall of Champions (west dining hall), the Student Senate vows to fight against
the adminstration to get the pub plans reinstated.