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Volume XCVIII, Number 19
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University of Southern California
Wednesday, February 6, 1985
Man arrested in Fluor opts to plea-bargain
By Dina Heredia
Staff Writer
Calvin Harris, the man who allegedly committed several burglaries and was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon in Fluor Tower while masquerading as a university student, pleaded guilty to one count of receiving stolen property at his preliminary trial on Jan. 28.
As a result of plea-bargaining, Harris pleaded guilty to only one of the charges and could possibly get one year in county jail, said Det. John Campbell of the Los Angeles Police Department.
The Superior Court will dispose of the rest of the charges: one count of concealing a weapon, one charge of burglary and two more counts of receiving stolen property.
Harris was not registered or attending classes at the university, said Sgt. Michael Kennedy of University Security.
In addition, University Security has found about S3,000 worth of electronic equipment that was allegedly taken from Row residents at the Kappa Alpha Order and Phi Gamma Delta houses during the semester break, Kennedy said.
Kennedy said he did not know how Harris got into the Cardinal and Gold complex or why he was living in university housing.
However, he said Harris had been impersonating as a student using his roommate's name and feebill. Security had a previous run-in with Harris, but it was unrelated to the arrest.
University Security and LAPD were not aware of Harris' deception until he was spotted by a housing protection representative and a LAPD patrol, prowling near the Cardinal Gardens area on Jan. 7.
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Reagan's proposed budget snips student financial aid
By Jennifer Cray
Assistant City Editor
Almost half of the students at the university could be affected by President Reagan's budget, which was submitted to Congress yesterday and included plans for $2.3 billion in cuts to federal financial aid programs.
The financial aid programs that could be affected include the Guaranteed Student Loan program. National Direct Student Loan program. Pell Grants, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, work study and state incentive grants.
Student aid cost the federal government almost $7 billion during fiscal year 1985.
Reagan's budget proposals specifically call for:
—	Restriction of eligibility for GSLs to students from families with incomes of $32,500 or less a year.
—	A limit of $4,000 per student in federal financial aid, including GSLs and work study.
—	Restriction of eligibility for Pell Grants to students from families with incomes of $25,000 or less a year.
—	Elimination of state incentive grants, which subsidize Cai Grants and SEOGs.
—	Major reductions in NDSLs and work study.
The proposals to cut student aid are part of the
Reagan administration's attempts to cut $32 billion in domestic spending from the federal budget. The $973.7 billion budget includes provisions for an increase in defense spending of 5.9 percent after inflation.
Michael Halloran, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, said it is "very unlikely" Congress will pass all the proposed cuts.
However, if the aid reductions do pass "it's hard to see how the university could come up with a large enough pool to make up the difference," he said.
The cuts would "definitely impact private education to a greater extent than public education," with middle-income families being hurt the worst, Halloran said.
Halloran said the Reagan administration attempted to cut student aid spending four years ago, but Congress increased the budget instead. In the past, there has been bipartisan support for federal student aid, and that legislators on key education and spending committees have been "generally supportive," he said.
But with Congress trying to significantly reduce the federal deficit this year, there are no guarantees the budget will not be reduced, Halloran said.
"It's a return to the uncertainties of four years ago, but there are pressures to make these kinds of cuts that didn't exist four years ago," he said.
Halloran emphasizes that any guesses as to the outcome of the budget process are "purely speculative."
"It's a time for students to be concerned, but not a time for students to panic and think about transferring," he said.
The budget submitted to Congress for fiscal yeai
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Journal executive editor on issues, media effects
DT interview: Tells of future journalists face
By Richard Hatem
Staff Writer
Last March, the Wall Street Journal was involved in a case where one of its reporters had been part of a ring that allegedly made as much as $675,000 by trading securities of companies that were to be featured in a stock market column.
The reporter, R. Foster Winans, was eventually indicted on charges of securities fraud and conspiracy. The Winans case raised another vital question in media ethics. Do journalists have special ethical responsibilities in their personal lives that go beyond their duties to report the news fairly and accurately ?
Also, during late 19S4, the Mobil Co. declared a news boycott on the Wall Street Journal culminating approximately five years of problems between the two organizations. The Mobil boycott called for a complete restriction on interviews, answers to questions and the provision of data to Journal reporters.
As stated in the New York Times, “The company gave no specific reason for why a boycott was declared now, but the action apparently followed a Nov. 16 article in the Journal describing Mobil's plan to build an office tower in Chicago in conjunction with a real estate company that employs a son-in-law of Rawleigh Warner Jr., Mobil's chairman."
During a visit to the Daily Trojan Tuesday afternoon, Frederick Taylor candidly discussed some of the issues concerning his publication and their effect on the media tody.
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case, what changes in attitude or perspective do you think will appear in journalists and newspapers?
Taylor:. I think it probably sensitized a lot of newspapers of the problems or potential problems . . . like us, they may think they have the question (of reporter's ethics) well in hand. I know some of them are re-ex-amining how they're handling this potential violation of ethical policies or personal policies.
I suspect there won't be similar problems in the near future because editors are going to be so concerned about the possib-lity they'll be bending over backwards to avoid the problem. I don't know how to avoid the problem altogether — a dishon-
est person is pretty hard to guard against.
The journal has taken some steps to strengthen its policy. Winans admits that he knew he was violating policy when he started and that he would lose his job if we found out about it. That's hard to avoid, when he deliberately set out to do something.
DT: You mentioned that the Journal had taken steps to insure against this kind of problem in the future. What were those steps?
Taylor: We've made sure that everybody sees the policy and understands the code of ethics. Not only read it, but sign it when they"re hired. And we're making sure that everyone sees
it at least annually from the time they're hired.
Editors themselves are preaching to new writers that they're serious about this, they're not just paying lip service. They always have been serious. It's kind of ironic — you don't need to do much preaching because the subject is so much on everyone's mind . . . (the preaching) is probably needed less now than at any other time.
DT: Which case do you think will cause the most reader skepticism: the Mobil Co. boycott or the Winans case?
Taylor: Well, I would think the Winans case would cause the most skepticism because it (Continued on page 17)
Wise guru ’ Taylor speaks in GFS at 5 p.m. today
Frederick Taylor, executive editor of The Wall Street Journal, will speak on campus today at 5 p.m. in the journalism conference room on the third floor of Grace Ford Salvatori Hall.
Bryce Nelson, director of the School of Journalism, said Mary Ann Dolan, editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, calls Taylor "a wise guru in American business journalism (who) can make even the most illustrious group of business journalists fall into a reverential hush."
Taylor began his formal newspaper career on the Astoria Budget in Oregon in 1950.
After serving as a public information officer at McChord Air Force Base in Tacoma, Wash, in 1955, Taylor began working at the Journal as a reporter, page one rewriteman and Detroit bureau chief from 1959 to 1964.
In late 1964, Taylor was transferred to the Washington, D.C. bureau where he worked on the "Letter Labor," a Journal column he originated with John Grimes.
Taylor was transferred again, this time to San Francisco as the newspaper's assistant managing editor in charge of West Coast operations.
He returned to New York in 1970 and was named managing editor, and finally, executive editor in December 1977.
—	Richard Hatem