Can Todd win the Heisman?
Sports, page 28
University parking is still a bargain
Viewpoint, page 4
Weekend: Art Golf drives hole-in-one
Life / Arts, page 11
Catchin’ some air
Krls Chun / Dally Trojan
Ahmad De Shae, a sophomore majoring In fine arts, shows off some slick tricks in front of Fisher Gallery on Wednesday afternoon.
Students play waiting game for financial aid
rector, and to expand present counseling services.
A new service called the peer counseling program, which was implemented in the summer with three student counselors, aims at being sensitive to aid recipients' needs through student interaction, By Janet Cavallo	she said.
and Anjanette Schouwe	This program, scheduled to expand
Staff Writers	this year, will co-exist with present coun-
Students read newspapers, sipped free seling services, she said, lemonade, watched movies and listened Thomas also said she wants to move to live guitar music while trying to pass up the deadlines for processing papertime Wednesday standing in four-hour work, provide better correspondence zig-zag lines for financial aid at the An- with students during the school year, col-nenberg School of Communications.	lect all needed information at once and
Because of the long lines and delays in give an overview of the student popula-aid packaging, the university extended tion and each group's particular needs, the tuition payment deadline to Friday The problems can be attributed to a for financial aid recipients, said Catherine lack of stringent deadlines and vacation-Thomas, the university's new director of ing students who were not home to re-financial aid.	ceive the paperwork that did get sent,
The department's recent problems said Edward Trickey, a financial aid have included misplaced offer letters, er- counselor.
rors in aid packages and computer sys- But Trickey said the university is one of tem overloads, financial aid few institutions who will process paper-administrators said.	work within 48 hours of receiving it.
Thomas will begin meetings next week The university's entire computer sys-for planning the improvement of a sys- tem went down for more than three tem that administers over $170 million in hours last Tuesday, causing hundreds of undergraduate and graduate financial aid students to return Wednesday with tick-annually.	ets that gave them priority access to the
Thomas plans to build on ideas already front of that day's lines, Trickey said, begun by Tom King, the former acting di-	(See Extension, page 19)
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Volume CXIII, Number 3
University of Southern California
Thursday, September 6,1990
Admissions figures stop their downward plunge
Officials pleasantly surprised by raised transfer enrollment
By Glen Justice
Staff Writer
After a summer highlighted by anxiety over the possibility of a drastic decline in student enrollment, university officials were relieved to see an unexpected surge in the number of transfer students enrolled for fall, officials said Wednesday.
The transfer enrollment increase may ease recent efforts to cut the budget by $10 million because of an anticipated loss of tuition dollars, administrators said.
But despite the transfer student increase, the number of freshmen fell as predicted — the class size is down 15.7 percent compared to last year and 21 percent compared to the university's intended goal of 3,050 freshman students, said Howard Saperston, the university's executive registrar.
(See Admissions, page 16)
Salary increase process disputed by some faculty
By Glen Justice
Staff Writer
During this period of budgetary belt-tightening at the university, faculty dissatisfaction with salary increases and the process by which increases are awarded is becoming increasingly apparent, two faculty members said.
"I think the salary raise for the present year is lower than the faculty anticipated," said Robert B. Kaplan, former president of the Faculty Senate. "The reason is the financial difficulty the university is having."
Though the 1990-91 fiscal year began in July, this year's salary increase figure was
unavailable. The faculty's average salary increase for the 1989-90 fiscal year was 7.4 percent, a slight decrease from the previous year.
But the problem seems to be more than just the slowed rate of salary increase. Some faculty members are not satisfied with the administration's process of doling out those increases.
"There is total dissatisfaction with the process among the faculty," said Henry Slucki, president of the USC chapter of the American Association of University Professors. He said that faculty members are not "informed or involved (in the pro-(See Faculty, page 16)
Prevention /s worth a pound of_ cure
Rape education emphasized
By Erin Nordby
Staff Writer
The Los Angeles Police Department refused to comment on any new leads in their investigation of an alleged rape Thursday night at the Theta Xi fraternity house.
But on campus, officials said they felt University President James Zumberge and other administrators were forthright in dealing with the student concerns that almost invariably come in the aftermath of sexual crimes.
Zumberge responded to the incident
with an open letter to all students stating that sexual crimes against women would not be tolerated.
"I want it understood by everyone in this community that we will not tolerate assualts against women," Zumberge said. "Those found guilty of such violations through our student conduct system may be suspended or expelled. Those found guilty in the criminal courts may well go to prison."
(See Rape, page 19) Theta XI fraternity house
Katarina Zarkas / Dally Trojan