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Volume CXVII, Number 16
University of Southern California
Thursday, February 6, 1992
Steering group selected
Committee will join departments for restructuring
By Bronagh Byrne
Staff Writer
To help the university reshape what it is and define what it wants to become, university President Steven Sample selected a group of 10 professors to form the Strategic Planning Steering Group, according to the group's chairman, Provost Cornelius Pings.
The steering group, composed of professors and deans from various fields, is intended to unite different departments behind a vision of a more prominent university, Pings said.
The group, which met for the first time in January, will work with individual departments to develop plans for improvements.
The final plans will be presented to the Board of Trustees in April 1993, and then to Sample, Pings said.
"Rather than each of the twenty schools saying '1 want to be this, I want to be that,' making up a wish list, we have to get some working consensus on the nature of the institution," he said.
The departments are being asked to consider what the world will be like in 10 years and what actions need to be taken to put the university at the forefront of higher education.
"The impact will be felt, certainly,
Applications for senate due today
By John April
Staff Writer
Applications for USC Student Senate candidates are due tomorrow at the Student Senate Office located in Student Union 106.
All applications must be turned in by 5 p.m. There are no exceptions to this rule.
All undergraduate students currently enrolled at the university with at least 12 units are eligible. A minimum grade point average of 2.0 is also required.
Sixteen senators will be chosen from the applicants to represent four constituencies: the Greek community, the student community living within the 90007 area code, commuter students living outside the 90007 area code and students living in residence halls.
Each constituency will have equal representation in the senate, and senate president, vice-president and committee chairs will be elected through the new senate members.
Jeff Sherwood / Dally Trojan
Provost Cornelius Pings heads USC’s Strategic Planning Steering Group.
longer that 10 years," said Alice Parker, an electrical engineering professor and member of the group.
The group will address such issues as student demographics, federal research funding and tuition, Pings said.
"I don't know the answers but it is important that those questions be
out on the table."
Pings said there "was a deliberate plan" to raise the tuition more than the cost of living in the past decade to make the university comparable to other private schools.
"Compared with the private institutions that we think we should be (See Pings, page 11)
Being a Trojan will be cheaper in the long run
News Analysis
By Ray Delgado
Staff Writer
While many of California's public universities have raised tuition due to lack of funding, officials in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid are optimistic that these actions will benefit both the university and its students by way of higher enrollment and increased funds for financial assistance.
Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Times reported that students are finding a college's tuition cost and offers of financial aid increasingly more important when deciding which college to attend. With Cal State and UC schools increasing their tuition by as much as 40 percent for the next school year, students may find it possible that USC could cost less through the university's guarantee of meeting 100 percent financial need.
Catherine Thomas, director of financial aid, hopes that students will recognize the advantages that USC holds over state schools and decide to enroll, giving the Office of Financial Aid more resources to give away.
"It's easier when there are a larger amount of students to award aid to," Thomas said. "If we don't have the tuition revenue that we need, we all have to do more with less. If there are more students with need, they bring more funds to the university, and hat makes it easier (to give aid).
"We will want all students to look at us and if they meet all the deadlines, we'll have the aid to give to hem," Thomas said. "If there's a student who had to ?ay everything at a UC school, certainly they would not want to pay more to come here. But perhaps that
(See Woes, page 10)
Senate funds arts festival/3
Fraternities see great spring rush
Houses pull same number of bids despite fewer rushees due to low enrollment and recession
By Eric Hamish
Staff Writer
In what has been called the most successful turnover rate in recent rush history, 200 students pledged fraternities out of 240 participants during Spring Rush
1992,	said Dave Cohen, vice president of rush for the Interfratemity Council.
Though the number of students registered for Spring Rush dropped by almost a half from last year, the number that ac-
cepted bids remained almost the same, said Mike Reinstein, president of IFC.
The drop in rushees was expected due to recession and declining enrollment, Reinstein said.
However, the rushees were more informed than they have been in past years, and this may have been one reason why more men pledged, he said.
"We were fairly successful in getting
guys involved in the system,” Reinstein said.
Several new programs were implemented to assist the process, including additional informational symposiums and rush counselors.
"They kept us accessible to any rushees who had questions," Reinstein said.
The number of pledges per house was not available due to a new IFC policy that keeps those statistics confidential.
"We don't want there to be a bias against a house simply because the house didn't get very many pledges this time around," Cohen said.
Politician supports radical platform
Poverty a key issue for independent candidate
By Nikki Surles
Staff Writer
Ron Daniels, an independent candidate for president, called for a 50 percent cut in military spending, an overhaul of the tax system and free college education in a Tuesday night speech at the Norman Topping Student Center.
"We must build a new society based on new values like truth and justice and create a system where the floor will not fall," Daniels said.
Poverty, health care, education, environmental problems and racism were five problems Daniels listed that he intends to work on.
He said military spending should cut by at least 50 percent, and the savings used to solve important problems.
"The greatest weapons in this world are not weapons, the greatest weapon is a vision and we must bring that vision to our struggle," Daniels said.
Money should be spent restoring our
environment because everyone has to live in it, said Daniels.
He also proposed progressive taxation, which would not allow some people to pay less than their share.
"Public education should be free at the college level, and equal everywhere. It should be the finest possible,” Daniels said.
In the past, change in the United States has occured by people refusing to conform to the system in society, he said.
(See Daniels, page 11)