University football team barred from Rose Bowl 1981
By Jane Zachary
Managing Editor
There will be a Rose Bowl in 1981, but USC will not be part of it.
Pacific 10 presidents and chancellors voted unanimously Monday to exclude this university and four other Pac-10 members from conference championship eligibility and from any post-season bowl games.
These penalties were levied against UCLA, Oregon State, University of Oregon and Arizona State in addition to USC, as a result of “violations of conference rules and standards in the areas of unearned credits.
falsified transcripts and unwar-rented intrusion of athletic department interests into the academic processes of the respective universities," according to a statement issued at Monday's meeting in Denver.
The final specification was aimed only at this university, a Pac-10 spokesman said. "That's rather vague but that's what it is going to be," said spokesman Jim Muldoon.
The "unwarrented intrusion" apparently refers to incidents revealed by the Daily Trojan last February involving 34 athletes, mostly football players, who were slated to receive credit for speech courses they did not
attend.
University Athletic Director Richard Perry said the university has no intention of appealing the restriction, but expressed surprise at the ruling: "We were the only one of the five (cited) that was self-reporting and self-policing in the football area and were quite surprised and a whole lot more than disappointed at the severity of the sanction."
"This is something we can't control now. So do you complain or make the best of what you have? You make the best," said John Robinson, head football coach.
Incoming university president
James H. Zumberge said he regretted the violations and promised "to work diligently to put our house in order."
He said the university "takes full responsibility for the circumstances that led to to these sanctions," and has taken steps to correct "many of the conditions."
Financial repercussions do not appear to be severe, Perry said. "The only financial implication I could imagine would be if the network (ABC) were to find us less attractive, but I don’t think that is too likely."
The possibility remains that the National Collegiate Athletic Association could apply further
penalties to the schools involved, but such action is not considered likely.
"I wouldn't give it a high probability," Perry said, noting that the NCAA generally allows conferences to police themselves.
Penalties were also levied against the university track and field team as a result of transcript irregularities concerning former NCAA 44-meter dash champion Billy Mullins.
Mullins was accepted into the university in 1978 with 28 credits from four different junior colleges widely seperated geographically. He was also one of
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Joint committee proposes changes in governance
R. Jane Zachary
Managing Editor
A self-appointed "Joint Committee" submitted a new plan for university governance to President Zumberge last week. The committee, composed of representatives from the Student Senate, the Council of Deans, the Staff Caucus and the Faculty Senate, proposed, among other things, expanding the powers of the Faculty Senate and renaming it the "Academic Senate."
The relationship between the proposed governance system and the current system,including the President's Advisory Council, is not clearly stated in the document, however, "PAC will eventually be replaced by a new governance system," said Rick VVacula, chairman of the Student Senate and one of the members of the committee.
The chairman of PAC was not on the Joint Comittee.
"The timing for this proposal is ridiculous, its clearlv a political manuver," said Jay Savage, a former chairman of PAC. "The plan is obviously designed to increase the role of the Faculty Senate in university governance."
See page 8 for the text of the proposed university governance plan. "There are certain areas where the Faculty Senate has an important role to play, concerning faculty needs and the academic aspects of the university, for example, but the Faculty Senate should not plav a dominant role in university governance, it must be an equal partner with the other concerned groups," Savage said.
Wacula said he is aware of the "difficulties" between the Faculty Senate and PAC, but "that does not mean that this plan is merely an effort by the Faculty Senate to gain power. Every move that the Faculty Senate makes, we're on guard.
"The committee has tried very' diligently to represent a stable presentation of what has been discussed in the past year concerning university governance. This document represents in spirit and thrust what was presented last October,"Wacula said.
Savage does not perceive the plan as being representative of the desires of all factions involved in university governance. "This is
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BEOG grants reduced
By Matthew Kane	Administrators where he was
Staff Writer	briefed on the effect legislation Basic Economic Opportunity now in congress will have on Grant funds for the upcoming financial aid.
school year will be reduced by	The major piece of legislation
S140 million dollars. "The re-	in congress affecting financial
suit of that in terms of individ-	aid is a bill currently in confer-
ual student grants has ended	ence committee, the Education
up being a S50 reduction in the	Amendments of 1980. The bill
amount of money that each	would amend the Higher Edu-
student gets from what the ori-	cation Act of 1965, which has
ginal authorization plan called	already been amended numer-
for, according to Mike Hallor-	ous times, and would extend
an, director of financial aid.	its authorization.
Halloran said the money	The bill is expected to come
would be used by the Basic	out of conference committee
Grant program in iater years.	with most financial aid pro-
Students who applied for Bas-	grams largely unchanged, Hal-
ic Grants get a Student Eligibili-	ioran said. However, the com-
ty Report that tells him how	mittee is considering a Senate
much money he's supposed to	plan which would make a ma-
get. "All of the SERs that were.	jor change in the Guaranteed
issued before some cutoff time	Student Loan program,
will therefor tell the student	As the Guaranteed Student
that they’re getting $50 more	Loan program now stands, stu-
than they will in fact get," Hal-	dents do not have to pay the
Ioran said. "And furthermore,	interest accrued while they are
the offer letters that we sent to	in school and for a nine month
students prior to mid-July will	grace period after leaving
be telling students that they're	school. Loan payments also do
getting $50 more than they will	not start until the end of the
actually get for the BEOG.'	grace period. The student's
Halloran recently attended a	ioan payments are the same as
meeting of the National Asso-	if he took out the loan nine
ciation of Student Financial Aid	(Continued on page 7)
The Winners — Sports Club "Gong Show" winners perform their version of "Summer Nights."
Sports Club reaches local youth
Four hundred local voung people spent six weeks on the university campus this summer participating in a variety of sports and activities as part of the federally funded "Sports Club."
The program, held on 300 college campuses across the nation every summer, involves voung people ages 10 through 18 and "seeks to expose them to a college environment through sports," said Lesleigh Franklin, a graduate student at Purdue University who participated in the program as an aquatic specialist.
"In addition to helping them gain profiency at athletics, the Sports Club seeks to teach these kids that if they work for something hard enough they can do it; they can go to college," Franklin said.
Franklin estimated that "about 75 percent" of the participants in the club were affected positively by the program.
The young people participated in five diferent sports activites per day and also listened to var-
ious guest speakers. "Guest lectures ranged from drug abuse to self defense,” said Demetra Marvis of the Intermural ofiice.
"One of the best things about this program is the closenes that developes between the staff and the kids. The kids get to know college students first hand and the counselors become big brother and sisters to the kids," Marvis said.
Die program was staffed by college students and college-age men and women from many dif-frent areas. Several university students participated.
The final day of the Sports Club was highlighted by a "Gong Show" held last Thursday. The participants in the club invited their parents and they and the program staff performed varoius musical and dramatic segments.
Prizes donated by University Village were awarded. "Every act was a winner. Even the ones that were gonged were brought back on stage," Franklin said.
The Temptations — Sports Club staffers imitated the famous singing group during the club's "Gong Show" last Thursday.