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Volume Cl, Number 9	University of Southern California	Wednesday, July 16, 1986
JULIE M. SEIDEL DAILY TROJAN
The fountain in front of the Andrus Gerontology Center, which received a $750,000 gift.
Program Board tightens money allocations policy
By Melissa Morrison
Staff Writer
The Program Board has tightened its money allocations policy this fiscal year to eliminate flagrant spending by university groups, including the board itself, said Carol Silberman, Program Board Executive Director.
"I'm going to say no to unnecessary expenditures and I'm going to be really stubborn about it," Silberman said.
The revised policy requires more approval signatures on each group's request for funds, putting ultimate decision power into fewer hands. The signatures required are those of a program adviser or the senate consultant, the finance administrative chair, and Silberman.
Both the senate and the Program Board designed spending restrictions for board money. The Program Board budgetarv policies require that no money is to be spent on "food / beverage not relating to a certain program, alcoholic beverages, office decor, and T-shirts not related to specific events."
The stricter policy was tested when the Gay and Lesbian Student Assembly requested S400 for monev spent on a limousine for entry into the Christopher Street West parade, held in Los Angeles in June.
Silberman regarded the expense as excessive and refused to reimburse the assembly. The GLSA did not submit the required budget proposal for Program Board approval before renting the limousine, she said.
The policy revision occured partly in response to student outrage at the monev spent bv the Program Board for pizza dunng its meetings.
Alumni give $1.5 million
By Rhoda Fukushima
Staff Writer
Alumni Ronald and Alda Mills Stever of Pasadena and Montecito donated $1.5 million to the university in May, it was announced officially by President James Zumberge.
$750,000 of the gift will be used to establish the James E. Birren Chair in Gerontology at the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center.
Birren, the university's first dean of gerontology, came to the university in 1965 and retired June 30. He was named a Brookdale Distinguished Scholar last month and will continue to conduct research on theories of aging and health policy.
$250,000 will go to the Norman Topping Endowed Research Fund at the university's Comprehensive Cancer Center, said Thomas Raycraft, director of development for the Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital and Research Institute.
"The money will be going into the endowment fund that supports research in the cancer center," Raycraft said. Deciding how the money will be used -p i!Iv if left to discretion of the center's director, Dr. Brian Henderson, Raycraft said.
The university 's Cancer Research Associates support group established the fund in April 1983.
The remainder of the gift will be designated later, said Sherry Thorell, vice president of Alumni Relations.
The Stevers have been active as alumni since they graduated in 1926 and 1928, respectively.
"Both were active as studencs and this carried on when thev became alumni," Thorrell said.
Mr. Stever was president of the General Alumni Association in 1948-49. He is a board member of the GAA's Half Century Club and has received its Outstanding Alumnus Award.
"In every way Ron Stever has been involved in the fabric of everyday alumni life," she said.
He is a past chairman and present member of the Andrus Center's board of councilors and is on the board of directors of the Cancer Research Associates.
Stever is chairman of Stever,
Klove and Bradway Inc., and a lifetime general agent of Equitable Life Assurance Society.
Mrs. Stever has been active in Pasadena community affairs, especially in the field of education.
Student Senate mails 350 financial aid questionnaires to senators, representatives
By Bryon Okada
Staff Writer
The Student Senate sent out letters to members of the state and federal governments Tuesday, asking for their views on financial aid to inform university students for the upcoming elections.
"We feel it's our obligation to find out where these current legislators and candidates for these offices stand on these financial aid issues," said Wallv Bobkiewicz, president of the Student Senate.
Bobkiewicz said the purpose of the letter is to "disseminate this information to USC students so that they know where these candidates stand when they vote in November."
Separate letters were sent out to California's members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the two U.S. senators, the state assemblymen, the state senators, the Governor, and the candidates for these positions.
. . . the purpose of the letter is to "disseminate this information to USC students so that they know zvhere these candidates stand."
About 350 letters were sent out.
For each level of office, a different letter was sent concerning the role of that office in current financial aid legislation.
The U.S. senators were asked about federal handling of the financial aid issue, including the funding for Title IV campus-based student aid programs, proposals to tax scholarships and graduate tuition remission, and proposals to raise interest rates on Guaranteed and National Direct student loans.
State officials were given letters concerning state level policies which affect financial aid, such as Assembly BILL 559, which proposes to decrease the financial need difference between Cal Grant A and Cal Grant B, and Senate Bill 417, which proposes a new state college work-study program through which students could hold jobs in the profit sector as long as the work is related to their academic study.
Bobkiewicz said the senate plans to print the responses to these letters in the fall Daily Trojan, if most are returned by then. The letters were sent out in July when most legislators and candidates are net overloaded with campaign plans and more able to answer.
A September follow-up to this letter is being planned, since this
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Earthquake causes minor flooding
By Bryon Okada
Staff Writer
The Howard Jones football practice field was saturated with water last week. Pipes that formed a maze-like system underneath the field burst because of the excessive shaking of last Tuesday’s earthquake, said Lee Simpson, plumbing foreman at Physical Plant.
The flooding, which comes just four weeks before football practice starts, required the replacing of all the dirt on the field, which had become mud, Simpson said.
However, the field should be ready by the time pre-season training rolls around for the football team.
“The wounds should be healed by then," said Burl Mid-dendorf, supervisor of landscape and grounds services
Middendorf said a single pipe beneath the football field caused the flooding.
He said the university campus used to be a residential area, and when the houses were cleared away, the water pipes were capped off and left underground. •
Though many reasons, including age, could have caused the network of pipes to burst, Middendorf said, "The only excuse we got was that it was the earthquake."
Simpson, who personally' supervised the cleanup, agreed. "I feel it was definitely earthquake related."
The restoration of the football field took place on Wednesday, starting at noon and stretching until dusk.
Ten laborers worked for six hours replacing about 4 12 feet of dirt. About 500 square feet of new sod was brought in to cover the area, Simpson said.
Fixing the the problem was not very costlv. Middendorf estimated the labor and equip-
ment costs at $800.
Hoffman Hall also suffered leakage of water last week, although Simpson said that the water had started to leak before the earthquake and was probably caused by faulty irrigation systems in the lawn outside Hoffman.
"The water has subsided somewhat," Simpson said of the area outside Hoffman Hall, from where a small amount of water leaked into the basement.
Middendorf said that he doubted it was the irrigation system though, because it had been turned off more than a week ago.
"Nobodv knows what it is," he said.
Some areas around the building were isolated to find the cause of the leakage but one has not been found yet.
Middendorf stressed that it was not a serious situation, (Continued on iage 2)