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Volume C, Number 61	University of Southern California	Wednesday, April 16, 1986
JOEL ORDESKY OAILY TROJAN
Fire trucks responded to a report of smoke from an electrical source in the cinema post production building Tuesday. The building was searched, but no fire was found.
Gramm-Rudman Act cited
Tuition to increase by 9 percent in fall
By Gordon Gary
Staff Writer
John Curry, executive director of the university budget, said a tuition increase of just under 10 percent for the 1986-87 academic year can be attributed to a variety of different factors, including the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act and giant insurance rates.
Students paid $319 per unit this year, or a flat rate of S4,718. Next year, the cost for one unit of credit will be S351, with a flat rate of $5,220.
Curry said, Gramm-Rudman's effect on the increase is twofold.
“We anticipate that Pell Grants and Guaranteed Student Loans will decrease in availability next year by about SI million. As a consequence, we have added about SI million to the student aid budget,” he said.
The SI million the university will use to cover the decrease in loans to students will be covered by the tuition hike, Curry said.
"A second Gramm-Rudman effect is that the revenues that we anticipated for next year and the fall will be about S3 million to S4 million less than they would have been without (the act)," he said.
Research grants that the university faculty obtains from the federal government will be "up a bit from the present year, but not up by nearly as much as we'd been counting on," Curry said. Therefore, this will not immediately affect the tuition increase.
Gramm-Rudman, if declared constitutional, will effectively cut research monies made available to the university.
Curry said the increase in tuition can also be attributed to wage and salary increases for university personnel.
"Our budget is, in the words of economics, labor intensive, meaning most of our budget goes to faculty and staff," he said.
"Part of that tuition increase wrill go to achieve a normal, market-based salary increase for faculty and staff. We expect (the increase) to range between four and seven percent," Curry said.
The student aid budget, which allocates monies for aid based on need for each person who enrolls at the university, is expected to increase next year as well, he said.
"We are adding roughly $7.5 million to the student aid budget next year, which is extraordinary," he said.
Curry said the money will be added to provide additional loan resources to students and to accomodate the tuition increase itself.
Higher freshman enrollment is also one of the reasons for the tuition increase.
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GURI DHALIWAL DAILY TROJAN
The Grill is scheduled to be renovated this summer. Those students who regularly make the trip downstairs for hamburgers and fries, will have go upstairs.
Renovation planned for Grill
Facelift prompts fast food service to move upstairs
By Katherine Dyar
Staff Writer
This summer the Commons Grill will be receiving a major facelift.
As the second phase of the changes Dining Services began last semester with the opening of Traditions, the Grill will be moving its Mexican food and yogurt services downstairs into a larger, open serving area and dining room and switching its fast food service upstairs to the Sidewalk Cafe.
"Basically, we'll be enhancing all the qualities that people like," said Gene Lawless, direc-
tor of Dining Services.
With construction beginning after graduation this May, the downstairs area will be remodeled with a more open service area to handle the heavy lunch and dinner traffic.
While the main countei 1' be used solely for Mexican fooc the soup and salad bar will b-moved out into the small dining area to become the central focus of the re-designed room.
The yogurt service will be placed just inside the entrance of the Common's dining area across from the Copy Center downstairs.
Lawless said that Dining Services decided to separate the different services "so people could easily shop around for what they want."
The Mexican food selection will be expanded, and barbecue
chicken will be added to the menu for the downstairs area. The sandw'ich meats section will be dropped, Lawless said, because of low sales and customers' complaints, that they aren't getting their money's worth.
The dining area itself will undergo a complete transformation, with new flooring, high-tech furniture styles, and artful wallpaper accented by neon lights in muted colors.
The larger dining room will (Continued on page 3)
Chairman honored by French
Efforts in diffusing culture recognized by consulate
By Daphne Nugent
Staff Writer
Moshe Lazar, chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature, has been honored by the French government with the title Chevalier des Palmes de L’Ordre Acadetnique.
According to officials at the French Consulate in Los Angeles, this award is given to candidates for their efforts in diffusing French culture and civilization. Only a small number of the awards are reserved for foreigners.
The title will be awarded on Thursday, April 17 at 3 p.m. in a reception at the faculty center.
Lazar was born in Romania and emigrated to Belgium at the age of two months. When World War II broke out in Europe, his family moved to France, where he grew up and studied.
"I got involved with theater in France, right after the war," Lazar said. "I started out as a youngster, doing pantomime with Marcel Marceau from 1945 to 1946."
In 1949 he went to Israel and earned a master's degree in French civilization and romance philology, with a minor in history. In 1952 he returned to the Sorbonne, and in 1957 he received a doctorate in medieval courtly love literature.
He later returned to Israel to teach at Tel Aviv University in the Department of Romance Studies, where he became a full professor in 1971.
From 1971 to 1977 he established and developed a full-fledged department for visual and performing arts, academic and professional, there. He also served as dean of the school during that time.
In 1977 he came to the university as a visiting professor in the drama division. In 1979 he became chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature.
"When I was in the division of drama, we produced a lot of French plays there," Lazar said.
In 1980 he hosted an international symposium at the university on Eugene Ionesco, a French playwright.
"I've been working with him a lot, because I've known him for many years," Lazar said. "We published a volume called The Dream and the Play out of the conference."
Some of his other contributions to the diffusion of French culture are his many translations of medieval French literature into Hebrew.
"I also did a lot of producing and translating of modern French plays in Israel, and I translated the poetry of Chagall, which is written in Russian and Yiddish, into French," Lazar said.
MOLLY HUNTSMAN DAILY TROJAN
MOSHE LAZAR