Daily
Trojan
vol. Ixv
no. 65
University of Southern California
los angeles, California
friday, january 12, 1973
Tuition will be raised again starting next fall
By Al Freisleben
staff writer
Bad news in the form of an announcement from the university of the fifth consecutive tuition increase will be sent to students during the coming week, Phillips Copeland, executive assistant to President John R. Hubbard, said Thursday.
Speculation from informed sources places the hike at a figure higher than the $210 per year originally estimated, with the amount now settled on said to be somewhere between $230 to $250 per year.
The estimate applies only to undergraduates enrolled in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, but serves as a good indicator of where the fees for other schools will end up.
Pam Walbom. director of the Student Aid Office, said that an increase in tuition would have a
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“drastic effect” on her office and would be “disastrous for students,” adding that she hoped that the university would make available more funds for student aid.
The pending increase will bring the annual tuition rate to right around $2,700 per year, with units costing approximately $90 each.
In the fall of 1968 students paid $1,500 per year or $50 per unit. Tuition rose to $1,800 in 1969. $1,950 in 1970, $2,150 in 1971, and ended up at $2,460 in September.
With the expected increase, tuition has risen about $1,200 over the fall, 1968. level, or about $40 when calculated in units.
As of Thursday afternoon, neither Hubbard nor any of his staff would consent to make any on-the-record comments concerning the actual figure of the increase or the rationale behind it.
CACC expecting strong support
By Bob Evans
The Community Action Coordinating Council (CACC), often a political football under the ASSC, expects strong support from the Interim Student Programming Board.
Four ofthe board’s nine voting members are. or have been, CACC leaders.
The board will allocate funds for next year (Fiscal Year 1973) for student-run programs, including CACC, before its term
expires in April. Under the ASSC, CACC had to fight for whatever funds it could get.
“Last year we (CACC) had constant hassles with politics,” said Bruce Mitchell, board chairman. “Would ASSC allocate the money we needed? Would they take away our equipment? Would they take away our offices?”
One of the reasons he ran for president in the disputed ASSC elections last spring, said Mitch-
Confusion, infighting arose in provost hunt
By Peter Wong
associate editor The two-year search for a can-didate to assume what was intended to be one of the most important university positions —the provost, or chief academic officer—illustrates some facets of the decision-making process.
Though no such appointment will be made, the story indicates the often-confusing nature ofthe process, the need to change directions upon reevaluation of goals, and the infighting that takes place away from public scrutiny.
In a statement Jan. 8, President John R. Hubbard said, “We are not currently planning such an appointment. But we are always looking for first-class individuals who would strengthen the university.”
This may leave room for a future appointment of a provost —but not much.
LAS structure The search for a provost came out of efforts to provide a better administrative structure for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—one of Hubbard's long-time goals.
As vice-president and provost, (formerly VP for academic affairs). Hubbard, on May 28. 1970, appointed a four-member
DT ends for fall; will start Feb. 6
This is the last Daily Trojan for the fall semester. Publication for the spring semester will start on Feb. 6.
Tuesday will be the last day of classes.
faculty committee to study.the administrative structure of the college.
This was not the first such committee. In 1967 a panel was named to recommend some improvements. Further work was done in 1968-69, before Robert H. Linnell was appointed dean.
William G. Spitzer, then chairman of the Physics Department, was the chairman ofthe committee. Other members, all department chairmen, were Richard C. Dales, history; Donald J. Lewis, psychology; David H. Malone, comparative literature.
The resignation of Linnell as LAS dean to become the first director of the Office of Institutional Studies was announced in August, 1970. John E. Cantelon, vice-provost, became interim dean of LAS.
Provost-dean
In early October, 1970, the Spitzer committee recommended that LAS be headed by a provost-dean, or supervising dean, reporting directly to Hubbard, and four divisional deans —humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and instruction and advisement.
But somehow the role of the provost-dean was enlarged in the time between the report of the Spitzer committee and the establishment of the office of provost Oct. 14, 1970, by the Board of Trustees, in Hubbard s first major reorganization.
The official announcement was that the provost, now a vice-presidential-level position, was to oversee not only LAS but the Graduate School. University
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ell, was that one ofthe other candidates planned to cut CACC’s budget by more than half.
He expressed confidence that the Interim Student Programming Board, with over one-third of its voting members already in support of CACC, will respond more favorably toward the organization.
Bob Shiota, board member and CACC director, also is optimistic about support from the board. He is expected to submit a budget proposal the spring that will be considerably higher than the $14,764 allocated to CACC for the current fiscal year.
He is certain to ask for more money for Troy Camp, CACC’s biggest and best-known project. Although Troy Camp is, in theory, student-funded, less than 14% of its funding comes from the ASSC and student contributions combined.
The burden of raising the remaining money falls on the project’s chairmen and student counselors, who solicit contributions from alumni and the community. They usually can’t raise enough.
Toward the current $35,000 goal, only $2,700 was allocated by the ASSC, and another $2,000 was contributed by individual students. “This year,” Shiota predicts, “Troy Camp will be very fortunate to find itself within $10,000 of its goal.”
He will probably also ask for increased funding for some of the other CACC projects.
How much the Interim Student Programming Board will be able to accomplish remains to be seen. Much will depend on how much influence it will have with the administration.
Within its own province of student affairs, the board can act directly.
Programs board to review funding
The Interim Student Programming Board will reconsider the expenditure of student funds to purchase business cards for board members at an open meeting at 10:30 a.m. today in Student Union 311.
James R. Appleton, vice-president for student affairs, asked the board to reconsider the action after receiving a complaint from a student.
ACCUSED RAPIST—Juan Jose Zapata, left, talks with interpreter
during his trial in Superior Court. Zapata is accused of raping nine
women, four of whom were USC coeds.
DT photo by Mary Ann Galante
Man charged with rape of four coeds awaits jury verdict
By Mary Ann Galanfe
Two deputy district attorneys said a verdict is likely to be reached today in the case of Juan Jose Zapata, the man police investigators claim may be responsible for as many as 30 rapes in and around the USC area.
William Gustafson and James E. Heins, prosecuting attorneys, said today also is the earliest possible date a verdict could be expected in the trial. Zapata is charged with 20 counts of rape, oral copulation, burglary, robbery, and attempted kidnapping. Four of the nine kidnapping victims in the current trial were USC students at the time of the offenses in 1971.
The trial, which began Dec. 14, was concluded Wednesday, Jan. 10. When the sequestered jurors reach a decision, it will conclude a case which has involved 42 witnesses, 37 exhibits, and a possible 68 separate verdicts.
Zapata’s case involves offenses allegedly committed between January and December of 1971 in the Wilshire. Hollywood. Ramparts and Southwest divisions of Los Angeles.
His arrest for the current charges were described as a “fluke” by Randa Steele, complaint investigator for the Los Angeles Police Department.
“One of our burglary investigators had a mug shot of Zapata on the corner of his desk because he was suspected of receiving stolen property,” said Steele. “Another investigator who had seen a composite of Zapata drawn from rape victims’ descriptions just happened to walk by. He thought the mug photo looked like the composite drawingofthe rapist. and sure enough, some of the girls identified Zapata in a lineup.”
The girls' description ofthe attacker is fairly consistent: a male Latin with acne scars between 54” and 510 ”. The attacker generally wore a
white baseball cap and carried a white-handled knife or an ice pick. He entered through the front door and said, “Give me money,” and “Shut up, shut up.” He raped the girls, then left, without getting unnecessarily violent.
The prosecution began pre-senting the case against Zapata on Dec. 7, 1972, when the first of nine victims testified. The 26 year old woman, a mail carrier, said she was delivering letters at 10:20 a.m. at an apartment building on W. 28th Street. She said she was approached by a man with a knife.
She testified the assailant forced her to climb into a nearby trash bin where he raped her.
The second witness to testify against Zapata was a former USC library science major, a petite dark haired girl. She said she was leaving for work at 10:30 on a rainy morning, when a man matching Zapata’s description approached her with an ice pick. She gave the attacker $4 before she was able to knock on her neighbor’s window, attracting attention.
After the trial, the girl noted. “I can understand now why people close their drapes and watch people get killed. I felt the entire time like I was the one on trial, not the criminal.”
The third prosecution witness was a former USC art major who was alone in her W. 30th Street apartment on Dec. 28. 1971. She had invited friends for dinner, so she assumed they had arrived when she heard a knock at her door. Instead, she was confronted by a Latin male with a white-handled knife.
The victim testified she didn't have any money, but offered the assailant a check instead. He responded by raping her, then asking if she had any cigars.
The fourth victim stated she had just finished taking a shower at her home in
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