Tuition hike inevitable
Hubbard
“With all the luck in the world.'* President John Hubbard said, “we do not see how to avoid a tuition increase next year."
The president is full of assurances that other sources of income are being examined, but
By NANCY MYERS SMITH
Although the proposed tuition hike has not been officially accepted by the Board of Trustees — and is dependent on the federal government's wage-price freeze — most administration sources think it is inevitable.
Results withheld in freshman vote
By DAVE DANIELSON
Results of the freshman representative runoff between Bob Glushon and Dan Strong have not yet been announced because of a late-night controversy overGlushon’s campaign finances.
The Student Court at about 1:30 this morning acquitted Glushon of charges of over-expenditure of campaign funds. The charges had been brought to the court by the ASSC elections commission, which had recommended that Glushon be disqualified as a candidate.
After hearing the court’s decision, Nader Oskoui, elections commissioner, then told the court that the commission would not yet release the election’s results. According to Oskoui, the commission has until 5 p.m. today—24 hours after the polls closed—to hand over the results.
The court agreed with Oskoui and scheduled another meeting for 4:30 p.m. today.
refrained from saying that the $370 figure has much of a chance of being lowered.
The proposal for a $370 tuition hike that would take effect during the 1972-73 school year was presented to the board at its Oct. 6 meeting. The board, according to Hubbard, accepted the recommendation from the university Tuition and Fees Committee and forwarded it to the board's Financial and Budget Committee.
Although the board did not formally accept the increase, it voted to allow the finance committee to make the final decision as to any increase for next year. Hubbard said.
More than $5 million in anticipated cost increases — many of which the university has no control over — are cited as reasons for the tuition hike.
According to the current proposal 100 percent of those increases will be covered by the $370 increase.
University of Southern California
DAILY @ TROJAN
VOL LXIV NO. 23	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA	FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1971
		
LIGHT SHOW — When the sun sets, the city ot Los Angeles presents a startling contrast to its daytime drab grays and browns. Here several
downtown buildings reflect their nighttime splendor in the Water and Power Building fountain. DT photo by Wilhelm Bleckmann.
ATTACKERS ESCAPE
Two coeds assaulted
An unknown assailant tried to attack a young woman in the Administration Building yesterday. Earlier in the week a junior in physical education was attacked while she was jogging around the Cromwell Track.
Yesterday's attempted attack occurred while a woman, whose name was not released, was working in the xerox room at
2	p.m. on the second floor of Bovard.
She was operating the xerox machine with her back to the door, the official campus report said, when an unidentified male came in and tried to attack her.
The young woman ran out of the office in hysterics. She spotted a man standing in the hallway and told him to chase the assailant who by then had run to the stairwell. The assailant escaped.
John Lechner, head of campus security and parking, said the
description given in the official campus report could fit virtually anyone.
He continued, “It’s similar to someone running by and grabbing your purse. This kind of thing happens every day."
Lechner said no formal report was sent to the Los Angeles Police Department because of the lack of evidence on the suspect.
The assault earlier this week occurred Tuesday night while a junior in physical education was completing her daily laps around the Cromwell Track.
The girl, who asked that she remain anonymous, said a youth approached her and asked to borrow a quarter. “I was in my track clothes. I obviously had no money, and I told him so,” she said. The assailant reportedly then grabbed the girl and said “What did you say to me?”
“I put my fist into his chest and pushed him away, and kept jogging.” said the girl. “The next thing I hear is someone running up behind me.” The girl said the original assailant approached her with a knife. He was accompanied by two friends. The trio appeared to range in age from 14 to 16.
“One of the boys spun me around and clobbered me in the jaw. By the time I came to, they were running off the track toward McClintock Avenue,” she said.
The girl did not report the incident to the campus police.
No classes on Veterans Day
Monday, Oct. 25 is Veterans Day, an official university holiday.
No classes will be held and all offices will be closed.
The $5.3 million cost increases reported by the university Tuition and Fees Committee and confirmed by Carl Franklin, vice president for financial and legal affairs, are outlined as follows :
-	- $1.1 million in salary increas es for 1971-72. These are increases that were pledged for this year but frozen by President Nixon's 90-dav wage-price freeze that is still in effect.
-	- $325,000 for operations and maintenance of new buildings completed during 1971-72.
-	- $400,000 for state unemployment. University employees were not covered by this insurance before. It will take effect Jan. 1, 1972 and represents a new and uncontrollable expense for the university.
-	- $250,000 for National Science Foundation grants. These are matching grants where the university provides the same amount of money as NSF as part of the agreement for the grant.
-	- A $200,000 expenditure on land near campus bought from the Hoover Redevelopment Agency.
-	- About a $600,000 increase in wages due to an expected jump in the California minimum wage rate. Although an increase has not yet been approved,the university expects this increase to come before 1972.
-	- $190,000 increase in payments for Social Security benefits for university employees. This too is not firm yet, but the university expects their payments to be increased to 5.4% of the individual's wages, from the previous 5.2%.
Although other sources of revenue are being examined, minutes from the meetings of the Tuition and Fees Committee indicate the entire increase will be covered by students.
“The members reviewed the $370 increase proposed by the Financial Affairs Committee. The consensus was that the $370 figure appeared reasonable. since $370 should generate approximately $5.2 million additional income (assuming constant enrollment and credit hours).*' the minutes of the Aug. 18 meeting read.
But it is not certain that enrollment and credit hours will remain constant. If the cost of
tuition is increased too much, the demand will taper off. If demand increases, so could the quality of the students accepted—the fewer students who apply. the less selective the university can be in its acceptances and rejections.
Zorhab Kaprielian. vice president for academic planning, reported to the president's office that a $300 tuition increase was probably the breaking point for enrollment drop off. At $300, the tuition increase would not shy students away because of high tuition. But above $300, it would.
But Dr. Hubbard pointed to the board's actions in looking for other sources of revenue. The Board of Trustees has pledged to double its efforts in fund raising and has appointed Dr. Norman Topping, chancellor and former president of the university, as the chairman of the board’s Development Committee a fund raising group.
But as it stands, the money will probably come from a tuition increase from students who already pay 38% of the university’s total bill. This is the largest single contribution to university budget. Research accounts for 32% and the remainder of the income is divided among support groups, gifts and endowment income.
Student participation in the proposal to increase tuition has, to this point been minimal. The proposal was made by the Tuition and Fees Committee, a seven-member committee which had one student member when the decision on the proposal was made.
Two additional students were appointed to the committee last Friday.
Dr. Hubbard indicated Joel Rosenzweig. ASSC vice president for programs, and Lee Blackman. ASSC vice president for academic affairs, were consulted about the increase.
However, Blackman indicated earlier this month that he and Rosenzweig were advised of the financial problems of the university, but they had not had any input into the committee decision.
Neither Rosenzweig or Blackman were available for comment yesterday.
Tuition hike not so bad
The $370 tuition hike that is currently proposed to USC’s Board of Trustees may seem unpleasant to many students and even unreasonable to others. But compared to other universities, USC’s tuition increases have been low.
Over the past4hree years tuition at USC has increased an average of $116 a semester. This compares favorably to the $266 a year tution increase Harvard students have felt.
The university’s Office of Institutional Studies, directed by Robert Linnell, conducted a survey of tuition increases at various universities and the results show USC coming in 17th out of 19 schools questioned.
The results of the study showed:
	Three year tuition	Current
	increase (1968-69	tuition
	to 1971-72)	(1971-72)
Harvard University*	$800	$2,800
Yale University*	$750	$2,900
University of Denver	$720	$2,400
Johns Hopkins University*	$700	$2,700
Stanford University*	$690	$2,610
Northwestern University*	$675	$2,700
University of the Pacific	$660	$2,610
Princeton University*	$650	$2,800
Cornell University*	$450	$2,800
Vanderbilt University	$440	$2,200
American University	$420	$2,200
Notre Dame	$400	$2,300
University of Chicago*	$375	$2,475
University of Southern California	$350	$2,150
Catholic University*	$300	$2,475
Boston University	$260	$2,100 w • i
* members of the Association of American Universities.