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Volume CV, Number 13	University of Southern California	Monday. September 21, 1987
Zumberge says adequate faculty compensation is ‘high priority’
By Mika Manty
Staff Writer
MICHAEL KM I DAILY TROJAN
ADDRESS TO IMPRESS — President James Zumberge said Friday a possible purchase of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena “would not be a diversion of funds from academic purposes."
To achieve its goals in its “Leadership for the 21st Century" campaign, the university must retain its present faculty and carefully choose new members, recruit quality students and continue its successful fund raising. President James Zumberge said on Friday.
Emphasizing the faculty's role in building the "substance of the university," he said problems of adequate compensation and minority representation are "matters of high priority."
In his annual address to the faculty, Zumberge also expressed concern about "the competition between private and public sectors of higher education'' and blamed government regulations for the rising cost of education.
"The past year has seen an extraordinary attack on independent higher education by the Secretary of Education, and he has precipitated a public debate on tuition and the cost of higher education," Zumberge said.
Because of drastic cuts in federal funds for student aid in the
1980s, Zumberge said, the university has had to supplant the funds with its own resources, which forced private universities to charge more for tuition.
"Federal aid cuts caused higher tuition," he said.
Zumberge had harsh words for Secretary of Education William Bennett, who "has contended that universities are gouging students and unreasonably raising tuition rates beyond
any justification."
He blamed the lack of distinction between the cost and the price of education for such opinions
"Tuition is the price. . .universities charge students It is not the cost of educating them. The cost of qualitv higher education invariably exceeds the price at both public and private universities," he said.
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No guarantee for arena
By Mika Mantv
Staff Writer
In response to recent cnticism. President James Zumberge said that buying the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena 'would no* be a diversion of funds from academic purposes ’
During his address to 450 faculty members Friday, Zumberge said there is no guarantee that the university will purchase the arena.
"1 want to reassure you," he said, "that any funds spent for this purchase would be deferred by income from the use of the facility.
"In every instance, we seek the best financial arrangement to provide the space necessary for our programs at the lowest possible cost to the university
"With the arena, as with parking structures, residence halls or
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Football tickets, hotel reservations for UC Berkeley may still be available
By Michael Cary
Staff Writer "
Students who failed to purchase tickets and make reservations for the UC Berkeley weekend, Sept. 25-27, may still have a chance. A limited number of game tickets and travel packages were available Friday and may be available today.
Kevin Ash, assistant director of the Ticket Office, said tickets vrill be available until they are sold out. It had about 4,000 student tickets and about 8,000 regular reserved tickets. Not all of them have been purchased, Ash said.
The USC Travel Service is offering two Cal Express packages. The $70 land-only package includes two nights at the Bellevue Hotel in San Francisco and a round-trip bus transfer to the game. The $184 air-and-land package provides round-trip air transportation on group flights, round-trip bus transfers and the items offered in the land-only package.
Air travel packages are still available and land-only packages may be requested. For the land-only package, students must pay in advance and wait 24 hours for confirmation. If they are not confirmed, the money will be returned.
Ian Thomas, director of the Travel Service, said about 1,000 students and 500 faculty and staff purchased the packages or made reservations through the service.
Thomas said sales were "a little down" because the game was scheduled earlier in the year than in past years. The season-opening loss to the Michi-
gan State Spartans also affected sales, he said.
Many San Francisco hotel managers are not concerned about unruly student behavior, Thomas said, because they now know what to expect. In previous years, university students have arrived in the Bay area en masse and caused considerable damage.
"Greedy managers think they want (the business) and don't . . .understand students want to have a good time," Thomas said. "The problem is naive hotel managers, not unruly students.
"We only use Bellevue for group packages because it's a perfect location — Union Square
—	at a reasonable price," he said.
Thomas said the hotel has not raised its prices over the last five years that it has cooperated with the Travel Service.
He said Bellevue hires additional security for the weekend. "They know what to expect."
"Bellevue has the only sensible management. They work on their past five years’ experience," he said.
Bellevue has suffered only minor damages in past years, Thomas said. He said they do not require a deposit prior to check-in and have never asked the service for help or financial compensation.
However, students are required to sign a contract accepting responsibility for damages incurred when they purchase the package from the Travel Service.
Thomas said these conditions apply in any travel agency contract.
"More agents are getting peo-
ple to sign disclaimers," he said, adding that if something breaks, the agency should not be expected to pay for it.
Shirley Drysdale, reservations manager for Bellevue, said she expects a good crowd. About 90 rooms were booked for members of the university, she said.
"We deal with this every year," she said, "and so far, no trouble."
Drysdale said the hotel was initially hesitant to take the students five years ago.
"As a whole, they've been
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The bookstore is coming!!!
Preparation for building marked by asphalt, fences
By Yamil Berard
Staff Writer
Preparation for the construction of the $7.5 million four-story bookstore began last Tuesday when new asphalt was applied, and a trailer and dividing fences were placed on Child’s W'av.
Despite a four-month construction. delay stemming from minor changes in architectural drawings and efforts to gam citv approval, initial steps have been taken to build the 28,000-square-foot bookstore. Groundbreaking will begin in approximately 2 12 to three weeks, said Jack Arnold, bookstore director.
The trailer, construction headquarters and fences marking the construction's perimeter should not pose "a major problem as far as traffic is concerned," Arnold said.
Space problems may develop during upcoming registration periods, Arnold said, and noise from bulldozers and drills may be dts-
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UNES, UNES, EVERYWHERE LINES — Friday was tha last day to Student Administrative Services Building. One student said ha had to wait half.
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