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Volume XCIX, Number 4
University of Southern California
Friday, September 6, 1985
Angela Lansbury, star of the CBS television series ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ takes a minute off from filming Thursday near Bovard Auditorium.
MIKE MELSON DAILY TROJAN
Senate holds rally for RAs protesting new aid policy
Alumni president named
assessed $3,750 in additional self-help for their room and board. This is added to the $1,200 of self-help that all students who receive financial aid are responsible for.
Judy Christensen, assistant director of financial aid, said the change in policy came about when the financial aid office determined it was necessary for compliance with federal law.
Decker said the purpose of the rally was to raise awareness and support for RAs. He asked that there be a rethinking of the financial aid packaging philosophy.
“Every university has basic guidelines (concerning financial aid) that set down their own philosophy in regards to self-help or gift aid," he said.
"We want to tell the university not to hurt students who want to become RA's," he added.
"(The administration) is working day and night to try to increase those packages,” Ng said, and the financial aid office is working to soften the blow to the RAs.
They have agreed to increase the RAs' student aid eligibility by about $1500 and will continue to review the financial aid packages of RAs, according to a letter to the RAs from Logan Ha-zen, director of Residential Life.
The letter said the financial
aid office plans to have all aid adjustments completed by the end of September.
The letter also detailed changes that give RAs more flexibility in meal plans, allowing them to use their dining cards in Commons, Trojan Snack Bar and Cafe '84.
Standing in front of a banner inscribed, "RA's: It's not just a job. It's a way of life," Erick Goldberg, the spokesman for the RAs, said that RAs have not walked out on the job and that no RA has had to quit because of the financial changes.
"We need your support and encouragement,” said Goldberg, a fourth-year RA from Troy Apartments.
"STU-Q and Residence Hall senators have kept really close contacts (with the RA's)," Ng said.
Ng said student senators have also had their tuition credits and stipends included in their aid packages for a couple of years. "It affected several of our research action unit chairs," she explained.
Jon Burdick, a former RA and now an admissions counselor, was another speaker.
Burdick said RAs were required to pay full compensation up front and there would be a lack of incentive to become an RA. Consequently, he felt stu-(Continued on page 2)
By Catherine Miller
Assistant City Editor
John Davis Jr., a 1949 graduate of the USC School of Business Administration, was named by the General Alumni Association Board of Governors to serve as president of the GAA for the 1986-87 school year.
Davis, who will replace current GAA president David Atha, was named presidentelect of the GAA in June.
As president-elect, he will sit on the university's board of trustees for a three-year term.
Davis, an Orange County business consultant, will assume the presidency June 1, 1986.
The GAA, the public relations organ for university alumni, acts as an information service and contact for alumni.
In addition to serving on the university's board of trustees, Davis will serve on the executive committee and help carry out the plans and programs of the GAA board of governors.
After completing his term as president of the GAA, Davis
vis has also chaired a USC Alumni Day and is a member of Cardinal and Gold, the university's athletics support group.
Davis has also served as a trustee of the Southwestern University School of Law and as president of the Young Republicans of Glendale.
While attending the university, Davis was student body president of the Class of 1949. He was also affiliated with Skull and Dagger, Trojan Knights and Blue Key, and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Davis has served as president and chief executive officer of the Reed Tool Co., and now works as a self-employed consultant to the petroleum services industry.
He is also a director of Trico Industries Inc. and of PDA Engineering.
Davis and his wife, who is also a 1949 graduate of the School of Business Administration and was member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, founded the John P. and Alice H. Davis Endowment Trust with the university in 1980.
Academic policies changed
By Dana Glad
Assistant City Editor
Beginning next semester, students on academic probation will not be allowed to register before providing proof of mandatory advisement and having their schedules signed by the director of their respective school or department, said Janet Chaudhuri, vice provost.
Other changes in academic policy have resulted in the discontinuance of the grade of withdraw-to-audit, or WV, and a shortened residency requirement of 48 units for students hoping to graduate with honors, Chaudhuri said.
Janelle Ho watt, director of undeclared advisement for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
said she thought the advantage of the new mandatory advisement program is "being able to sit down and talk."
She said this would help students on probation vary their course loads and choose more realistic classes.
When asked if this might limit these students' choices in constructing their schedules, Howatt admitted that in an extreme case she "might not sign the advisement sheet if the student wanted to sign up for three sciences."
However, Chaudhuri said she thought the advisers would in no way encourage students on probation to take only light loads or easy classes.
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John Davis
may continue to serve as an associate alumni trustee on the board of trustees.
When selecting possible candidates for the GAA presidency, the GAA board of governors usually looks for someone who is or has been involved in volunteer work for the university.
Presently a member of the Future Planning Committee of the GAA's board of governors, Da-
MIKE MELSON DAILY TROJAN
Erick Goldberg, RA spokesperson, at Thursday’s rally.
By James Lee
Staff Writer
Pauline Ng, president of the Student Senate, opened a rally supporting resident advisers yesterday by telling the crowd assembled in front of Tommy Trojan that "RAs do a lot more than you really thought."
"We hope to show RAs that we do appreciate and love them. Without them, this campus would not operate," she said, adding, "The purpose of the whole rally is to show that they're needed."
"I love my RA," said Mark Decker, a student senator, who also added, "RAs are very important."
Decker acts as an informal senate liaison for the RAs.
The rally came about after the recent revelation that the room and board RA's receive as compensation from the university would be calculated as part of their financial resources, reducing their financial need figure accordingly.
The financial aid office has calculated that each RA will be