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Volume CXVII, Number 10
University of Southern California
Wednesday, January 29, 1992
Senate debates program changes
Political housing will be offered as option in fall
By Tracy Wilson
Assignment Editor
The House of Public Life, brainchild of Student Senate and the Jesse Unruh Institute of Politics, will take over Stardust apartments next fall.
The first of its kind at USC, the House of Public Life will be a residence designed for students interested in politics and public service.
It will be included in Priority Period housing for next fall, but its rent and associated costs have not yet been determined.
Kristine Dillon, associate vice president for Student Affairs, said the project "sits neatly within the faculty and student community programs," which include the Greek Honors House, Deans Hall, Junior / Senior Honors House and Faculty In Residence programs.
"The House of Public Life is being treated as a program among these," Dillon said. "We're really looking at it as an academic enrichment program because of the Unruh Institute's involvement."
Dillon met with Student Senate Presi-
Jeffrey Yakubik / Dally Trojan
Stardust: The House of Public Life.
dent Sam Sheldon and Unruh Institute Director Eric Schockman before winter break to discuss possible locations for the project. Sheldon and Schockman met last summer to discuss the possibility of forming a House of Public Life, and it was their combined efforts that brought the (See Stardust, page 2)
Sheldon offers monetary caps on allocations
By Sean Polay
City Editor
Student Senate may soon explore the option of putting a cap on the amount of funding it allocates to student assemblies in light of its recent efforts to become a more efficient, tightly-organized body, said Senate President Sam Sheldon in an interview Friday.
Sheldon hopes to introduce a proposal within the next month — after consulting with Program Board directors — that would cap funding to the eight assemblies on campus at $10,000 each.
Sheldon said he is trying to reduce the effect of a trend to increase the number of assemblies, such as a possible Jewish Students Assembly or Arab-American Student Assembly.
"After speaking to my colleagues at UCLA and other universities across the nation, I've learned that we rank among the top universities in the funding we give to minority assemblies," he said.
"For example, at UCLA they have 18
assemblies and allocate no more than $8,000 based on guaranteed programming," he said. "If the assemblies need funding after that they can come back for more."
Sheldon said he is afraid that if the trends continue, the senate budget will be entirely focused on funding student assemblies.
For the 1990-91 budget, senate allocated $25,500 to the International Students Assembly, $24,500 to Black Student Assembly, $24,000 to the Latino Student Assembly, and $23,000 to Trojan Pride.
Senate also allotted $21,000 to the Asian-American Student Assembly, $13,000 to the Academic Honors Assembly, $11,500 to the Gay and Lesbian Assembly for Student Support, and $9,600 to the Women's Assembly.
"We've got to stop allocating money based on the fact that a group got $10,000 the year before and therefore deserves an increase," Sheldon said.
Residence hall Senator Leslev Pack
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agreed.
"(The assemblies') budget proposals just keep increasing," Pack said. "It will get out of control if we don't do something. The assemblies can still ask for more money event by event."
Pack said there needs to be tighter controls on how the senate's money is
(See Assemblies, page 2)
Jeff Wachner / Daily Trojan
Left to right: Martin Levine, Faculty Senate president, Paul Knoll and Frank Mason, co-chairmen on the senate's Rules Committee.
Faculty Senate in flux
Change to departmental councils, downsizing of group are proposed
By Oma Zadeh
Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate has adopted proposed reforms that would create individual faculty councils for each department in an at-tempt to concentrate decision-making within the departments.
The senate will also be polling faculty on a proposal to downsize the senate by having one
representative from each department rather than the traditional senate representation of one member for every eight faculty.
"The first change was encouraging each school to have its own council, in order to give the faculty a more effective voice and to better represent the whole faculty," Martin L. Levine, the Faculty Senate president, said after the senate action
last week. 'The schools are now voting to elect faculty councils."
The elected faculty members of each school's faculty council or assembly will be able to serve on the universitywide senate as well, Levine said. "We believe that each school's faculty will elect their most trusted colleagues to their local council, thus guaranteeing the highest quality representation on the central body."
Jean Kenne, administrative coordinator of the Faculty Sendee Faculty, page 14)
KSCR account mixed-up
$23,000 overcharge put on station’s phone bill
By John April
Staff Writer
A mix-up in account numbers is to blame for the almost $23,000 in long distance calls, installation and equipment charges incorrectly billed to KSCR's phone account, University Communications Network (UCN) officials said.
Alvin Hopkins, director of UCN, said UCN searched through KSCR's old phone bills and found the charges that were wrongly billed to KSCR.
The task now will be to uncover which account numbers those charges actually pertained to, he said.
"I know the telephone charges to KSCR are in-
correct, but I don't know all the accounts they should be charged to. If I'm going to credit KSCR's account, I have to debit another," Hopkins said.
Hopkins said several telephone numbers found on KSCR's bills were not KSCR calls.
UCN was able to use some of the phone numbers to track down account numbers because the caller's number was also on the bill. However, other calls had only extension numbers or long distance calling codes, making the task more difficult, Hopkins said.
He said the KSCR billing mistake will not be remedied overnight.
The phone billing mix-up began in October 1990 when the university overhauled its telephone system, Hopkins said..
When all the offices on campus ordered a new telephone service, account numbers may have been mixed up in the process, Hopkins said.
Expulsion weighed in felony drug case
By Lisa Braverman
Staff Writer
The Office of Student Affairs is waiting for law enforcement documents before deciding what action to take against a student who was arrested on multiple charges that included selling drugs through the mail, according to Valerie Paton, assistant dean of student affairs.
Paton said because the case is being handled by the U.S. Marshal, "we made a request via USC Security to receive
the documentation relative to the case so that we can evalu-ate our interest in jurisdiction."
She said that university policy in the case of a felony committed by a university resident would provide for immediate expulsion from university housing.
Gregory Wendel Fawcett,
24,	was arrested at his Seven Gables apartment on Friday.
Fawcett received $1,350 in exchange for the drugs, Leong said.