Bomb threats cause 2	dorm evacuations
It was hardly a pajama party early Saturday and Monday morning when two bomb threats prompted a mandatory evacuation of all residents in both Elizabeth Von KleinSmid and Col-lege-University Residence Halls.
About 500 sleepy students took refuge for an hour on both mornings in the lounge of Bimkrant Residence Hall and outside in front of the buildings while University Security and the Los Angeles Police Department searched for possible bombs.
No bomb was found in the buildings on either morning.
Dawn Roe, a desk clerk at Elizabeth Von KleinSmid Residence Hall and a Freshman in business administration, received the first telephone threat at 2:14 a.m. on Saturday.
On Friday night there had been a dance in Bimkrant cafeteria.
Roe said the caller was "a male with a college-level sounding voice. He said/I want you to know that I went to that dance and got up to the second floor and planted a bomb in EVK.'
Roe immediately called University Security. By 2:20 a.m. resident evacuation had begun.
On Monday at 2:45 a.m. Roger Lewis, an undeclared freshman, while working at the same dormitory desk received the second bomb threat. Lewis said the caller who sounded like a male said, " Friday night was just a joke. I just wanted to see how everyone would react. The bomb goes off tonight."
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TUITION HIKE
Student Senate plans protest
While in the Falklands, a string of islands owned by Great Britain, Fuhrman saw huge penguin rookeries. He had seen rookeries of a few hundred penguins while in the Galapagos Islands, but that experience could not compare with the site of thousands of black-and-white birds crowded on the Falklands' barren land-
By Linda Suzuki	grade Student Administrative
Staff Writer	Services, which one senate
The Student Senate an-	member called "shamefully in-
nounced plans Monday to hold	adequate."
a demonstration in protest of	The second concern is that
the proposed 14.9% tuition	the university respond to the
hike if they are not satisfied	decline in enrollment which
that student services will in-	might result from a tuition
crease proportionately.	hike, said Jeff Gates, chairman
Senate officers will attend a	of the senate. Gates noted the
budget proposal meeting of the	nationwide drop of 15% pre-
Resource Management and	dieted over the next 10 years in
Planning Committee today to	the number of 18-year-olds
present five initial resolutions	graduating from high school,
they feel must be included in	and questioned the university's
next year's budget.	preparedness to deal with the
The first, given highest priori-	eventuality of inadequate en-
ty, is the demand for a commit-	rollment.
ment by the university to up-	The senate's third request is
Committee OK’s budget; may include tuition hike
By Tim Lynch
Staff Writer
The age of austerity has hit the university.
After months of studying, debate and fact-finding, the Resource Management and Planning Committee today will have to give its authorization for next year's budget — a budget that likely will include a $23-per-unit tuition hike, staff and faculty salary increases at less than the inflation rate, and no significant improvements in curriculum.
Administrators who have participated in meetings of the President's Advisory Council committee cite a wide range of problems, from runaway inflation to escalating energy costs to a inestimable enrollment rate as the causes for the budget crisis.
"We're living in a very perverse economy," said John Curry, director of management planning. "In previous years, personal disposable income (money left after taxes) has usually exceeded inflation, but last year that income fell 4% below the inflation rate."
To compensate for the skyrocketing cost of living, faculty and staff will receive salary increases of about 12%, and tuition is the prime source of revenue to cover the increase.
'Trom a purely financial point of view, the tuition rate (up to $177) is justified," Curry said. "Students may have a management argument (about what their money is going for), but the increase is needed to cover our costs, just to keep this place operating."
Utility rates also have been a major problem, sometimes increasing faster than they could be forecasted, he said.
"None of us last year had any idea that we would see energy costs go this high," Curry said. "We projected a hefty energy increase, but nothing like what has hit us."
University officials have implemented an extensive conservation program, but the reductions have not kept pace with the price hikes, and some large waste still exists.
Most buildings remain open on weekends, and their entire energy systems must remain on even though only a small portion of the facility is utilized. Also, a large number of classes are traditionally scheduled between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. — hours of peak electricity usage when the utility rate is four times higher than early morning or late nieht.
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MEN AMONG BIRDS — Joey Fuhrman (left) and his un-	guins in Falkland Islands at South America’s tip. He vis-
de (right) Arnold Small stand in front of the many pen-	ited the islands on his way to Antarctica.
scape.
Since the birds do not have any land-walking predators and fear only predatory birds while they are on land, they sat calmly as Fuhrman walked about them. A skua, a hawk-like bird with a wing span of about six feet and a beak that could open a tin can, treated Fuhrman differently.
Fuhrman unknowingly walked near a skua's nest and the bird swooped down on him. Although he "almost got my nose ripped off," he lifted up his arm in time to protect his face and made a hasty retreat.
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that, in the future, it have a voice in setting budget priorities. Presently, priorities are set by the Office of the President, priorities which do not always coincide with the order of senate priorities, Gates said.
The senate also intends to suggest the committee begin preparation of the budget earlier in the year, to provide time to review the effectiveness and implementation of the previous year's budget before proposing the new budget.
The final request is for a general upgrading of all student services.
Gates said plans for the demonstration "in reaction to the lack of concern" would be canceled if the senate received "an
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Volume LXXXVIII, Number 20 University of Southern California Tuesday March 4, 1980
Student travels world in sailboat
Visits Antarctica on his latest quest
By Steve Padilla
Feature Editor
On a cold December day the rough seas of Drake's Passage pitched the M.S. World Discoverer up and down until the ship's bow tilted up at a 45 degree angle. Joey Fuhrman clung to the observation deck while trying to focus his camera.
Though he had "never been in such seas before and hope to never again," Fuhrman thought the dangerous ride on the observation deck was worth it. The senior got his photograph and added the shot to the several hundred others he took while traveling about Antartica in December.
Traveling to exotic places is not new for Fuhrman who, in addition to Antarctica, has journeyed to Alaska and Africa. His next trip will be to Australia, and once he gets through the As, there is no telling where he will go next.
A geography major and ornithologist, Fuhrman spent three weeks on the World Discoverer as it sailed about the Antarctic. The experience was not a vacation — he dislikes the word — but an
"expedition" that let professional and amateur scientists from around the world study wildlife in the area. The trip — Fuhrman is leary about that word, too — was sponsored by Scientific Expeditions, a group that plans tours to places ranging from the Galapagos Islands to Mongolia.
The expedition was not sponsored by the university and Fuhrman did not receive credit for time spent on the trip. The private venture cost Fuhrman about $5,000.
"There was a lot of history and that's what I liked about it." Fuhrman said, referring to the ship's route that went through the Straights of Magellan and followed the route of Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle.
Pointing to what he called a "primitive Chilean atlas" he received on his trip, Fuhrman traced the route he traveled with his finger. "The area resembles Norway," he said. "There are beach forests, undeveloped country, and wales (ridges). It certainly doesn't look like Malibu. I can't hardly wait to get back."
Aside from his appreciation for historical sites, Fuhrman is an avid bird watcher and studied a variety of birds while in the Falkland Islands, one of several stops on his way to the Antarctic Peninsula. Fuhrman said "birders" keep a record, or "life list" of the birds they see and he addd 156 new birds to his list while on the trip.
Aside from his escapade on the observation deck, Fuhrman did not run into trouble in the rough seas of Drake's Passage, the stretch of water separating the Antarctic and South America. He never got seasick and the only problem he had was when an 80 mph wind blew a mitten off his hand and into the Pacific Ocean.
The winds and waves, however, did not rest well with the other 130 passengers. "Many of them ran up high bar bills," Fuhrman said, "especially the Germans."