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Student Senate must trust KSCR with its funds
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A preview of the hottest films coming this summer
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Tennis teams begin play at the Pac-10 Championships
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Volume CIV, Number 65	University	of	Southern	California	Thursday,	April	21,	1988
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Robert Mannes (left), dean for student life, and Joan Schaefer, dean of women, present awards to some of the university’s most accomplished seniors Wednesday afternoon. See story, page 7.
Save KSCR, chop legal clinic severely
Senators make cuts in budgetary brawl
By Gale Lance
Staff Writer
A funding tug-of-war between KSCR and a new legal clinic ended in frustrated compromise after three hours of debate Wednesday night, as the Student Senate approved the distribution of its $807,000 budget for 1988-89.
At one point both the radio station and the proposed legal service faced total elimination, as Program Board directors cried out against dipping into their accounts- to support the new projects.
In the original budget proposal, KSCR was to receive $16,000
and the legal clinic $28,621. After six votes marked by confusion and several heated debates, the radio station retained its original allocation but the clinic's funding plummeted to $7,500.
Senators agreed, in a 16-4 vote, to cut about $23,500 from other programs for the radio station and clinic. Those reduced programs include the Intramu-ral-Recreation account, which lost more than $4,000; the Program Board discretionary account, which lost about $8,000; and Campus-Wide Events, which lost more than $6,000 for organizing concerts, speakers (Continued on page 9)
Inherits troubled station
New KSCR leader plans to rebuild
By Karl Kahler
Staff Writer
The staff of KSCR, the university's student-run radio station, elected a new general manager Wednesday night whose goals are to make the station more visible, increase its listenership and improve its overall quality.
John Eberhardt, 19, an undeclared sophomore, will also inherit a host of financial and technical problems that have plagued the station since its inception.
"Next year is going to be a rebuilding year," he said. "With good recruitment of people who have been here in the past, and with active recruitment of incoming freshmen, there's hope to build a new KSCR for the future."
The KSCR of the past has-been locked in a struggle for funding to replace old studio equipment and to extend its listening range.
Mark Miller, the current general manager, said, "I think it's real tough for a leader to lead an organization when he's always fighting for its survival."
The station now broadcasts to the Student Union Building, several on-campus residence halls and nearby apartment buildings, sending its signal through telephone lines that connect to transmitters in the buildings. Next year, the station will also be aired in the Commons, guaranteeing a large daily audience that it badly needs.
Inside the buildings to which it transmits, KSCR can be picked up on any radio at 530 AM, on the far left end of the dial. Its position on the dial gave rise to the slogan, '7am it to the left."
The struggle for funding
For the past two years, KSCR's operating costs have been paid by Student Publications, the office that also oversees the finances of the DoUy Trojan, El Rodeo and the Student Directory.
Those three publications, however, pay their own production costs with the sale of advertising. Because KSCR does not, it is kept afloat financially by the others.
The Catch-22 frustrating the station's efforts to grow is that merchants won't advertise on a station with such a small listening base, but without advertising dollars KSCR can't afford to buy more transmitters or pay the higher telephone bills that would be incurred by broadcasting to more buildings.
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Deadline for divestment nears
Committee on S. Africa to reassess investments
By Kathleen Berry
Staff Writer
To meet its own 1988 deadline for divesting from South African corporations "that have not demonstrated a commitment to racial justice," the Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility will meet Monday to re-examine the university's investments in that nation.
The committee, established by President James Zumberge in 1985, outlined an investment policy
based on the Sullivan Principles that was approved by the Board of Trustees in October 1986.
The university now has about $24 million — 8.3 percent of its total $291 million endowment pool for 1987 — invested in corporations doing business in South Africa.
Although 90 percent of current South African investments are in corporations "making a strong commitment to ending apartheid'' as defined by the Sullivan Principles, the committee chairman said the university policy has been misinterpreted on campus.
"What I find offensive about discussion on campus is it inaccurately portrays this as an issue of a policy of divestment," said Abraham Lowenthal, professor of international relations and committee
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PETER ZAKHARY / DAILY TROJAN
A student lines up Wednesday at the Student Administrative Services building to pick up unofficial transcripts, free for the first time this week. They had previously been available for $2 each.