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Volume XCIX, Number 15
University of Southern California
Monday, September 23, 1985
Donation questioned
Gift to senate may be returned
By Diane Diaz
Assistant City Editor
The Program Board has donated $20,000 to the Student Senate, but such an action may be in conflict with the Student Senate's constitution.
"An administrative account of 14 percent of student programming budget, after salaries, shall be established," the constitution reads but the donation from the Program Board will put the Student Senate's administrative account above the 14 percent, since that amount has already been budgeted by the senate.
"If there is a problem with the 14 percent, the $20,000 may be given back to the Program Board and we will probably ask Helpline, the Student News Service and The Course Guide to ask for the $20,000 to fund them," said Pauline Ng, senate president.
The senate had planned to use some of the $20,000 to fund those organizations from their administrative account.
The issue will be discussed by the senate's audit board this week and that board will decide what is to be done with the money, Ng said.
"The Program Board directors unanimously agreed to allocate $20,000 to the Student Senate for their informative events which we consider programs, but more in the realm of senate organized programs," said Michael Benton, acting chairman of the Program Board.
The allocation does not reduce the amount of money available for Campus-Wide Events or the Inter-Ethnic Executive Board, because the funds will be taken from the Program Board's administrative account, its reserve account and its discretionary acount, Benton said.
This, however, may be another source for problems with the senate's constitution.
Benton said that about $5,000 will probably be taken from the discretionary fund.
The constitution reads: "A discretionary fund shall be established for student organizations that are recognized by the Office of Student Activites but are not members of the Program Board .... Proposals for $1,000 or less may submitted."
He said taking the money from the administrative account will mean cutting out some of the luxury items the board could have and he said the money in the reserve account is money that anyone in the senate system has a right to apply for.
Benton explained that the senate and the board in the past have cosponsored events that have been of common interest.
"We did not ask them to allocate any money," Ng said, describing the senate as one big family. "The programming side of the family saw that we, the administrative side, needed and lacked resources."
She said the donation was given "in the spirit of teamwork to give students more for their money."
"Last year the Program Board was in debt and the senate allocated some funds to them," she said.
The senate is not in debt, but Ng explained that it has had to pay off the debt that last year's senate created and therefore does not have enough money to fund all of the programs that it did last year.
"The Student Senate has put on so many hats," Ng said. "We are a lobbying group, we put on programs and we also have student services.
"Our primary interest is in serving the students," Ng said.
She cited Helpline as an example of an organization that was funded by the senate last year and is in need of funds again this year. Other organizations that need funding from the senate are the Student News Service and the Course Guide.
"We put on a lot of programs that are service oriented. Traditionally, Helpline was funded by the senate, so of course they are going to come back to us," Ng said.
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After many delays, the student pub ‘Traditions’ is set to open today.
Tavern Traditions' opens today
By Rita Choi
Staff Writer
The new student pub, "Traditions," will open today at 4 p.m. in the basement of Commons next to the Grill.
The facility will feature a full bar, offering about 15 different kinds of beer, 31 different kinds of wine and various non-alco-holic beverages, said A.J. Mim-maugh, general manager of Commons.
During operating hours, 4 p.m. to midnight, Monday through Friday, dinner entrees
will be available until 10:00 p.m. and appetizers will be offered until midnight.
All customers will have to show proof of age at the door to enter the new pub. No one under 21 will be allowed to enter.
Because students under 21 cannot visit "Traditions" during its weekday operating hours, Mimmaugh said he is pursuing a project with Tiffany Smith, the director of the Program Board's Nightclub Trojan, that will allow those under 21 to enter "Traditions" on Saturday nights with no alcohol served.
Mimmaugh said the cost of drinks will be"somewhat lower than the surrounding community."
"Traditions," which seats 100 people, will be decorated with pictures and belongings of famous alumni, and has a video and stereo system.
The facility had missed two previous scheduled openings on August 27 and September 11.
Although construction work was scheduled to begin July 1, it actually began the last week of July, Mimmaugh said.
Scarce funds endanger news service
By Stacy Sadowski
Staff Writer
The Student News Service is running out of money and may be faced with extinction if support isn't found, said Mary Beckwith, director of the news service.
"We haven't had any funding this year," Beckwith said, "but we're trying to get some from Student Senate."
Martha Harris, executive director of public relations, said her department partially funds the service by providing paper, office supplies, a copy machine and a typewriter.
The Office of Student Affairs found the service a new office in the Student Union building and has agreed to meet the one-time start-up costs if they secure operational funds, said Kristine
Dillon, associate vice president of Student Affairs.
The Student News Service is designed to notify the people back home of students' achievements. They send press releases to hometown newspapers and families.
"To act as a true functional operation and to have a continuing viable service you have to (Continued on page 2)
'I'm secotid in line.'
Dillon promoted to new post
space, student housing and financial aid.
"If the vice president is the first troubleshooter, I'm second in line," Dillon said.
Dillon said she conducts research on students through a program of student surveys.
Her studies include the university's periodic surveys on student retention and dropout rates, the student opinon survey and a survey of Senior Class members begun in the spring semester of 1985.
Results from the first senior survey are now being compiled and the study will probably be repeated annually, she said.
Dillon said the university has developed from a school composed primarily of commuter students into a (Continued on page 2)
By Stephen Lawson
Staff Writer
Kristine Dillon, assistant vice president for student affairs, has been promoted to the new post of associate vice president.
The difference between assistant and associate is small but significant, Dillon said.
"It's an acknowledgement of some of the added responsibilities I was asked to assume in the last year," she said. "The most obvious difference is that I am clearly the next administrator in line behind Vice President Dennis."
The promotion gives Dillon, who came to Student Affairs in 1982 to work mainly on budgeting and research, more responsibility for "the full breadth of student affairs." She said she will now be more aware and involved in issues such as classroom
KRISTINE DILLON
GURI DHALIWAL DAILY TROJAN