University seeks two percent of alumni’s annual incomes
By Holly Houston
Assistant City Editor
If you are a university alumnus you may be one of the 100,00(1 persons selected to pledge as much as tw > percent of your annual income to the university over the next five years.
Toward Century II Telefund Campaign workers are contacting alumni who have not given to the university before to help raise the remaining $25 million of the $265 million goal set by the Toward Century II Campaign. The funds will be used to meet the capital needs of the university.
The Telefund program begins bv sending letters to prospective donors from Montgomery Fisher, chairman of the Toward Century II Executive Committee, requesting they pay either 2 percent of their annual income for five vears or to contribute according to their age brack-ett.
The Telefund program lists suggested contributions based on the alumnus' age. An alumnus over 50 should contribute at least $3,000 over five vears. Those between the age of 30 and 50 should pledge $2,000 over five years.
Those under 30 years should pledge a minimum of $500 over five years.
The lowest amount the callers are to negotiate is the $500. All pledges, however, are accepted.
The letter reminds the alumnus of the role the university has played in shaping his career and defining his goals. The alumnus is asked to determine his measure of gratitude to the university. "In fact, I would hope you might have only two questions: 'How much should I give?' and 'What is expected of me?' " say the letters.
The callers are given a package containing every pamphlet possibly needed to answer questions or objections alumni may raise against the donation. "It is designed to help you get more and larger gifts,” according to one of the pamphlets. Callers are told to "answer the best you can and then work around the objection by offering positive statements about the university."
One of the pamphlets contains common complaints of the alumni and some suggested explanations for callers to use
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Volume LXXXIX, Number 21	University of Southern California	Tuesday, October 14, 1980
Staff photo by Hugh Robinson
PICKIN' — Mike van Slooten, a graduate student in international public administration, relaxes by playing his banjo near the Norns Cinema Theatre.
Zumberge reorganizes school year calendar
President James H. Zumberge has changed the calendar for the 1980-81 academic year to shorten the fall examination week and balance the length of the fall and spring semesters.
The old calendar was initially established with an imbalance between the lengths of the fall and spring semesters. The fall semester was 80 days long and the spring semester was 72 days long.
The imbalance, plus excessive time allowed for fall semester final examinations, resulted in a late start for the spring semester.
This late start, according to the report, would have reduced the 1981 summer session to 11 weeks, with the 11th week overlapping the registration period of the fall semester 1981.
In order to gain a week in the 1981 summer session "it is necessary to apply extraordinary measures for the 1980-81 year only," Zumberge said.
These measures will involve shortening the current semester bv two days, which means classes will end on Jan. 16 instead of Ian. 20.
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COMPUTER MONITORED CALLS
45 take blame for phone misuse
By Mary Meloch
Staff Writer
Some 45 students have turned themselves in to university officials for abusing the university's telephone code system. Only 12 of the 45 students, however, were on the university's original list of unauthorized callers.
Last week the university announced that it had compiled a list of 56 students who used university codes to make longdistance personal calls. The students were traced through a special computer system that allows calls to be monitored as they are made. Officials plan to notify students on the list and
give them an opportunity to pay for their calls. The students will then face the Student Conduct Review Board.
Charles Keith, assistant director Administrative Services, Business Affairs, said that students who turn themselves in and offer to pay for their calls before they are contacted would not be turned over to the Student Conduct Review Board.
"The biggest bill by one student was $1,300," Keith said. "All those calls were made in the United States and over a period of three to four months. Some of them were extremely long calls."
Keith said that when students contact him saying that thev have made calls using the code he researches the call through the computer svstem. If he can verify that the call was made, the student is charged. If there is no record of the call, the student is not charged.
When students turn themselves in, Keith takes down their name, the code number they used and details about their calls. He will not tell callers if their names are on the original list.
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British diplomat supports U.N.
Meets with students in open forum
By Ronni Ross
Staff Writer
"In our attitude to many foreign problems, it should not be our purpose to look towards victory, but rather towards international success." With these words the former minister of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs for England described his view of international relations.
The Right Honorable Lord Caradon, who was also the United Kingdom representative to the United Nations, discussed the potential need for new initiates in world affairs and the political situations in Africa and Arabia during an open forum Monday with students.
"I am a great believer in the machine of the United Na-
tions," he said. "There is nothing wrong with the U.N. except its members."
The talk was one of many stops on a tour by Lord Caradon of American universities this year.
"1 have been to more universities in the U.S. than any other man, I've been to hundreds of them," said the 73-vear-oid lord.
Lord Caradon, formerly Sir Hugh Foot, was educated at a Quaker school and graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge. He was president of Cambridge Union, and three of his brothers and his son, Paul, have been presidents of the Union at Oxford.
"When I went to my first school, I went with my older
brother. I decided I did not want to be compared to him, so when he went into politics and law, I immediately went overseas, and I haven't returned vet,” Lord Caradon said. "I have spent my life overseas, going from Africa to Nigeria to the Carribean."
Lord Caradon s work as a British administrator in Palestine, Jamaica, Nigeria and Cyprus and later as an Ambassador and a Minister at the United Nations, has made him and expert in foreign relations, or as he said, "an expert in international frustration."
Fie added, however, "1 have no illusions, but am not disillusioned.
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LORD CARADON