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Volume XCV, Number 63	University of Southern California	Tuesday, April 17, 1984
Tuition to increase 11 percent next year
By Sheldon Ito
Assistant City Editor
Tuition will increase 11 percent next semester from $263 to $292 per unit, said Jon Strauss, senior vice president of administration.
The Board of Trustees approved the third double-digit tuition hike in as many years Sunday at its annual conference held this year in La Quinta, a desert resort near Palm Springs.
The flat rate for undergraduates taking between 12 and
18	units per semester, inclusive, will also rise 11 percent from $7,770 to $8,625 next year.
Strauss said the additional $21 million raised by the increase is necessary to cover inflationary and policy-directed expense increases and to fund planned improvements.
He said the $7.27 million to be used for quality improvements would have caused a 3.7 percent tuition increase by itself. He defended the 11 percent figure by saying that a 10 or 9 percent increase would have only cut down the amount of improvements.
According to the 1984-85 Budget Plan, authored by Strauss and John Curry, executive director of the university budget, the improvements will include appointment of new faculty, an increase in student aid, funding for the Provost's Research and Innovation Fund and mainte-
TUITION AND FEE INCREASE
1983-84 1984-85 Percent
Tuition	$7,770	$8,625	11.0
Student fees —			
Health	130	139	6.9
Government	28	36	28.6
Total	$7,928	$8,800	11.0
nance costs for the new cinema complex.
The major inflationary and policy-directed expenses include salary increases of between 4.5 and 6 percent for faculty and staff, a 27 percent increase in the cost of fringe-benefits, an 8.7 percent increase for library books and periodicals and a 22.3 percent increase in telephone equipment charges.
Mark Sloane, chairman of the Student Senate's Financial Affairs Research Action Unit, said he was not surprised the 11 percent increase was approved.
"Eleven percent was expected," he said, adding that there was not much the senate could do after the budget figures were set in November and December.
He said the Budget Advisory Committee, a committee composed of faculty, staff and students set up to review the preliminary university budget, tried initially to keep the figure below double-digits, but failed.
He said the senate did not focus on keeping the increase at any one percentage, instead it tried to see to it that students would benefit from the increase in some way.
"We were more concerned with things within the budget — the services the students would be receiving and the quality improvements," he said.
Sloane said he, personally, did not believe the 11 percent increase has been justified.
"They're blaming it on faculty raises and that's only part of it," he said. "They (also) did some real bad predictions on fringe-benefit rates."
The Budget Plan states that the cost of fringe benefits increased 24.9 percent this past year, and calls for a 27 percent increase next year.
Sloane said predictions on the costs of fringe benefits made years ago were wrong and no contingencies were provided in case such errors were made.
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CRAIG STEWART DAILY TROJAN
Pipes galore sit waiting outside the Annenberg School of Communications building until they will be planted for plumbing.
University student receives Harry Truman Scholarship
By Karen Kucher
City Writer
For the first time a student from this university has won the Truman Scholarsrup, a $20,000 award given to students across the nation wrho show promise in public administration, political science and public service related careers.
Craig Simmons, a political science and communications major, found out last Thursday about his selection as a Truman Scholar.
"I was really surprised. I knew I was down to the final group," he said.
The scholarships, which carry an annual maximum stipend of $5,000 a year were awarded to 105 college sophomores. Upon evidence of satisfactory academic performance, the awards will be renewed for the last year of college and two years of graduate study.
The awards are granted to students who have demonstrated a "firm commitment to a career in public service at the
federal, state or local levels," as described in a written statement from the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.
The scholarship, which has been awarded for the past eight years, is available annually to at least one student from each state. In addition, 13 Regional Review Panels can recommend up to four additional scholars per state for the awards.
The recipients will be flown on an all-expense paid trip to the Truman Library in Indepen-
dence, Mo. to receive their awards in a ceremony on Sunday, May 13. The awards will be presented bv Margaret Truman Daniel, the late president's daughter.
The selection process began last October, with the faculty representatives from over 1,900 participating colleges and universities interviewing the prospective candidates.
The regional Review Panel, composed of leading civic, busi-(Continued on page 13)
Security deals with many problems besides crime
By James Lee
Investigations Writer
We see them all the time. They are either walking or driving by us. We call them when we need help. We may often have mixed feelings about them.
Who are they? They are University Security officers.
Security has responsibility for the safety and welfare of the staff, students, faculty and visitors of the university, said Steve Ward, University Security Chief.
Ward has been chief of security for six years now and he can recall times when security was not well liked by students or members of the nearbv community.
"Six to seven years ago there was a lot of hostility between community residents and security officers. There were complaints alleging brutality," Ward said.
"We've had (no brutality complaints) in the last
several years," he said.
Ward described relations with the community as better than they were before. He said the same situation applied to security's relationship with students.
"Students at large are supportive of a good security agency," he said.
However, "we get several (student) complaints per year," Ward said, noting that complaints average four to five a year and "most don't allege brutality."
"Most (complaints) are concerned with being stopped and questioned by officers," Ward said. A number of the complaints come from minority and international students.
Dixon Johnson, director of the office of international students and scholars said he has not heard of any complaints. The only exception being an incident he recalled concerning a black student who was stopped in front of the Dental School because
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With a sweep of his hand, student awes people with magic
By Karen Castro
Feature Writer
Evel Knievel or Clark Kent he is not.
"The bond of intimacy you have between an audience and the magician when you're close up is a lot stronger than watching David Copperfield levitate over the Grand Canyon, we've all seen Superman do that! It's really abstract and far-fetched."
Those are the words of Drew Dellahoussaye, 21, a magician who specializes in close-up magic — in awing people with mystic tricks and illusions right before their eyes.
While most magicians will settle for sawing ladies in half and pulling rabbits out of hats, this entrepreneur/marketing major has tackled and perfected such tricks as making a fist full of salt disappear, enlarging coins, shrinking knives and, his personal favorite, changing checks into money.
"I print money for people and they freak when I do that," Dellahoussaye said. "I take a few checks out of my checkbook and rearrange the ink on them while they watch, and they visually change from checks to dollars. Then I borrow a dollar from one of them and change it into a $100 bill and then back to SI. But I stopped doing that trick because someone kept the $100 bill!"
By performing in a magic show at a fund-raising recognition dinner April 27 Dellahoussaye will help make money for graduating Norman Topping scholars and directors of the program. A graduate of Hollywood High School where he was a veil leader and student body treasurer, Dellahoussaye received a scholarship from the Norman Topping Student Aid Fund to help finance his education at this university. The scholarships are reserv ed for students who have demonstrated high financial need, community involvement and academic potential.
When a magic craze swept the country in the last decade, it took a 9-year-old boy by surprise. "In the '70s there was a big magic boom in
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