Artists record U.S. version of Band-Aid — see page 9
CRAIG ARAKAKI DAILY TROJAN
Chris Schaller, chairman of the Senior Development Committee and
Yvonne Cole, co-chairwoman of the SDC, help to officially break ground Wednesday afternoon to begin building the Senior Park,
which will replace the old cinema buildings near Bimkrant. The Senior Park is the Class of 1985's gift to the university.
Resolution to ax lab fee fails majority senate vote
By Aaron Van Curen
Assistant City Editor
A resolution was introduced at Wednesday's Student Senate meeting that would recommend undergraduate students no longer pay extra course fees in addition to tuition, but the resolution failed to pass for lack of a majority vote.
Jon Burdick, chairman of the Student Senate's financial affairs research action unit, introduced a resolution that called for the elimination of the fees, lender a plan by t te office of the University Budget and the senate.
Many departments now charge students extra fees, often called lab fees, for various services that are used in a course.
"Cinema is only the most notorius example," Burdick said. He said a cinema student on the financial affairs committee brought this problem to his attention.
Burdick also pointed out that all language classes require a $25 fee that supports the humanities language lab, even though use of the lab is not required by all classes.
These fees are allocated directly to the departmental budgets — unlike tuition — which is fed into a pool and then allocated to departmental budgets.
This system, the senate resolution said, "effectively constitutes setting a higher tuition rate for students in those disciplines."
The resolution also said that the fees, which sometimes exceed $200 per semester, may discourage students from entering a particular major.
Some students, Burdick said, find that they must pay large fees for the spring semester that their financial aid package — which was prepared in the fall — will not cover.
Though Burdick said departments may not levy fees without approval and authorization, the resolution said strict accountability for the fees has never been stringently enforced.
"Students don't know where the fees are going," Burdick said.
At the request of the administration, the university's budget office has devised a plan that will gradually eliminate additional course fees beginning in fiscal year 1986-87, the resolution said.
Under the plan, fees for lower division courses would be eliminrt-ed for the first year, and fees for upper division courses would follow the next year.
The expenses that the fees now cover would be assimilated into the tuition, and would cause tuition to rise. The increase would only be 1 percent over the two years, Burdick said.
Eliminating the fees would also erase a lot of administrative headaches, Burdick said. He added that it would simplify the accounting process associated with fee bills.
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Over 70 corporations participated in the second Career Day on campus Wednesday, providing information to hundreds of business students and passers by. Companies seeking the help of future Trojan alumni included Clorox, Litton, and Procter & Gamble. The Career Day was sponsored by the Career Development Center and the Office of Student Affairs.
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Mismanagement, not apathy, blamed for 'Jesus' cancellation
By Carol Ann Coates and Aaron Van Curen
Assistant City Editors
The confusion and controversy surrounding the cancellation of Jesus Christ Superstar continued Wednesday with more accusations and clarifications.
According to Alana Bernardi, co-chairwoman of the Working Theater, the production was canceled because of poor management on the part of Benet Garcia, production manager, and his brother, Sean, the show's producer.
Bemardi stressed that a lack of student interest had nothing to do with the show's cancellation.
She said the Garcia brothers knew they were lying when they told the Daily Trojan on Tuesday that Scott Evers was chairman of the Working Theater. She also said the comments they made were just an attack on Evers' character.
Although Evers founded the Working Theater, he is no longer in charge. Evers is, however, chairman of the Program Board, said Vernon Scott, co-chairman
of the Working Theater.
Evers said Sean and Benet Garcia told him that they were misquoted in Wednesday's Daily Trojan article.
The student musical was not canceled solely because of lack of student support, as Benet Garcia had said on Tuesday, or because Evers "had to take the heat," Bemardi said.
"One of the main reasons it did not succeed — and we did not think it would succeed from the outset — was that it was very poorly organized," Scott said.
Jesus Christ Superstar was also canceled because there were not any university students in the lead roles, only in the ensemble, Bemardi said.
Since it is the students' money, they feel they should get to-perform and have the first chance at roles, she said.
"It's their money that goes into these shows," Scott said.
Linda Milliken, a member of the show's production staff, said she told Evers on Jan. 23 "what was going on" with the mismanagement of the show. It
was then that Evers started investigating the production.
Evers said he asked Kirby Ward, the director of the show, to re-cast it. Ward refused. Evers canceled the show on his own accord on Jan. 29.
The decision to cancel or continue the show was up to Evers, Bemardi said.
"The decision was made based on complaints. That was basically the only alternative in the end.
Evers said in a memo issued Tuesday that the cancellation was due to "lack of student involvement, student support and because of varying complaints from the student body."
Evers added that he had never been pressured by the administration to cancel the show because of a lack of student participation, and said he would not respond if any such pressure was applied.
"I don't think the Program Board has lost credibility,” Evers said.
Benet Garcia said Tuesday he decided to run advertisements (Continued on page 3)
'Last chunk' added to aid budget
By Charisse Jones
Staff Writer
The university will add its "last chunk of money" to the financial aid budget this year to complete the last phase of its full-need financial aid policy.
"This (upcoming year) is the last year that there will have to be a special supplement," said Michael Halloran, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid.
Although there will be no supplemental income to the financial aid budget in the future, the full-need policy will still be in effect.
Since 1982, the university has had to add nearly SI million each year to the budget to meet the full financial aid needs of each incoming class, said John Curry, executive director of the university budget.
After this year, money will only have to be added to the financial aid budget as tuition increases, he said.
"(The class of 1982) is now coming into its senior year," Curry said. "So, we no longer have to add those big chunks of money because all four classes will be under the full-need policy."
The full-need policy was established because "students who were coming (to the university) basically would only get grant money if they had a
3.0	GPA," Halloran said.
Therefore, many students would get the maximum amount of "self-help" aid —money that doesn't have to be repaid to the university — and have "no more resources to turn to," Halloran said.
Halloran said that when James Zumberge became university president in 1982, the financial aid program was examined and the administration decided to implement the full-need policy.
The university also devised the full-need policy’ to counteract the fears of many students who felt
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