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Volume XCIX, Number 20
University of Southern California
Monday, September 30, 1985
Senate to reject $20,000 Program Board gift
Auditors recommend separate fund
By Frank Buckley
Staff Writer
The Student Senate Audit Board will recommend that a $20,000 gift to the senate from the Program Board be rejected because of its unconstitutionality, and that an ad hoc committee be formed to legally accept the gift for allocation to certain student services.
The audit board Friday approved the proposal from Kevin Bogart, senate treasurer. Bogart's proposal calls for the creation of an interim Service Discretionary Account Board made up of two senators and two members of the Program Board. Bogart will chair.
The senate sent the issue to the audit board after realizing that accepting a $20,000 gift would violate the student government's constitution. The section prescribing senate operating funds states: "...an Administrative Account of 14% of student programming budget, after salaries, shall be established." The gift would put the account over the legal limit.
"This fund will be between the Student Senate and the Program Board,"
Bogart said. He said the new board will accept the $20,000 gift to fund services that have previously been supported through senate and other means.
"This allows the senate to, in a constitutionally correct manner, provide for student services that were not originally accounted for when the 14% was established (in the constitution)," said Line Hiatt, chairman of the financial affairs committee.
Bogart said he plans to formally submit the plan to the Program Board Tuesday, asking that the $20,000 gift now be allocated to the new discretionary account. Pending its approval, the proposal will then be presented to the senate. Pauline Ng, senate president, said she plans to use executive privilege to create the committee.
Kathy Stewart, staff adviser to the Program Board, expects that the board will support the senate recommendation.
"When Bogart approached the board on Tuesday night, they were in support of (the plan)," Stewart said.
She said the board may want clarification of who will sit on the ad hoc board and what the funds will go toward.
The audit board recommended that the new account give special priority to services such as the Course Guide, Student News Service, and Helpline.
Traditionally, the senate has published a course guide in the spring which listed some of the more popular classes on campus and student reaction to them.
The Student News Service has recently been endangered by lack of funding.
"We've previously been using administrative money for non-adminis-trative functions," Hiatt said. "We're taking care of that now."
The services can't be funded through the previous means, said Mark Decker, a student community senator, because last year's senate didn't leave any money.
"We usually start with a $20,000 car-ry-forward. Instead, we started three thousand dollars in the hole," Decker said.
Meanwhile, Ng responded to questions about the senate's three-day, ex-penses-paid orientation retreat to Palm Springs, attended by 60 people including committee chairs, the executive members, senators, and other student leaders.
Ng said the $8,000 weekend was justified.
"We wanted to take them away from the city so their sole purpose is development and orientation," Ng said. In a memorandum to the senate's consultant, Ng wrote: "The senate reviews the current status of student issues and sets forth their working agenda; strategies are developed for the university governance process in which we represent student concerns and monitor university performance in regards to the quality of education it provides."
The memo also noted that costs totalled $135 per person for the entire weekend at Palm Springs, chosen as a site because of its off-season rates. The retreat used 1.32% of student program fees and 6.84% of the senate administrative budget, the memo said.
STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF FILL NEW CAMPUS PUB
please 'Traditions'
JULIE M. SEIDEL
A chef at Traditions readies himself to serve sliced ham and beef to hungry people during happy hour.
'No space available,7 says Housing
By Terry Allen
Staff Writer
"No space available," reads the makeshift sign attached to the door of Housing Services.
"We haven't had anything for two weeks," said David Blackmar, assistant director of housing and residence halls. "Nobody seems to be cancelling. This is very different from previous years."
Almost 800 students entered this year's annual housing lottery — which ran from Aug. 26 to Sept. 6 — and just over 550 obtained university housing. Many of the remaining 250 have yet to find permanent residencies.
One such housing applicant, Peter Kaminski, a freshman from New York, is living with relatives in Marina Del Rey, and must commute daily to attend class.
"It's really a drag," Kaminski said. "Basically, all I can do is wait — which is pretty awful. I've been looking ever since I got here. It's ridiculous. We're pay- , ing all this money and nothing goes right."
Part of the dilemma stems from the sheer numbers of freshman enrollment. This year's freshman class, which includes some 3,000 students, is the largest in the university's history. Seventy percent of these students applied for limited university housing.
"Admissions does a very good job,” said Blackmar. "This vear and the last couple of years they have brought in more freshmen than ever before. Basi-
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Services
By Stacy Sadowski
Staff Writer
Faculty, staff, administrators and students have filled Traditions, the new student pub, over the past four nights, said Don Wilson, marketing and promotions manager for dining services.
"It's busy," a bartender said. "Last night was standing room only," she said, referring to Thursday night. "I think it's great — students can use their Validines here."
'It was nicer than 1 thought it would be and the video screen is way better than I expected. It's not campusy at all.'
Students said the pub looks more like a nightclub with its high-tech interior design and music videos.
The beige, circular-backed chairs with chrome trim and matching tables, sea-green booths, colorful art motifs and black glassy bar give the pub a classy look, a waitress said.
"It w'as nicer than I thought it woub be," one student said, "and the video screen is way better than I expected. It's not campusy at all."
"It's nice, and almost cozy, but not quite," another student commented. "It doesn't give the feeling that you're in a casual party atmosphere. I expected more bar space, a dart board or
pool table and long tables with benches so people could socialize or play quarters."
Whether it is what you expected or not. Traditions has proven to be a long- awaited addition to the university. Within the first week, many people have taken advantage of the free happy hour buffet, said Rick
Newman, manager of Traditions.
The pub offers roast beef, turkey and chicken sandwiches, hot and cold hors d'oeuvres and a vegetable platter between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Because of the university's position on alcohol consumption. Traditions serves complimentary food rather than
patrons
lowering the drink prices during happy hour, Wilson said.
Full dinners, nightly specials and snacks, including breaded shrimp and nachos, may also be ordered.
The music is prerecorded by a licensed corporation to avoid royalty problems, Wilson said. "It's contemporary, very cool and danceable." Eight speakers line the outer wall and four larger ones hang from the combination airduct/sprinkler £vstem ceiling aiming inward toward
The pub offers roast beef, turkey and chicken sandwiches, hot and cold hors d'oeuvres and a vegetable platter . . .
the tiled center floor.
This center area will be fenced off by chrome railings, and stand-up bars will be built along the walls, Wilson said.
The pub is usually closed on weekends, but will be open between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. for Homecoming Saturday.
The videos will be replaced by large screen television Monday and Thursday nights for football and Wednesday nights for "Dynasty."
Shirt, shoes and proof of age are required.
Under-21 nights are being explored for non-football weekends or Sundays, Newman said, but no decisions have been
I	made yet.