Housing rate increases
Hike due mainly to utility costs
By Kathy McDonald
Staff Writer
University housing rates for residence halls and apartments are expected to increase by 12% next year, largely due to an expected general increase in housing costs.
Utility rate increases account for most of the expected rent hike, said Guy Hubbard, executive director of Auxiliary Services.
"According to the figures the Department of Water and Power gave us, utilities — electricity, water and fuel — are going up by about 56.1%," he said.
He also dted an increase in wages and fringe benefit payments for residence halls personnel as a secondary cause in possible rent increases.
Other factors such as supplies, telephone, gardening and physical plant costs, along with a health and welfare union agreement, will also figure into housing payments.
"This is a preliminary budget w# are going by right now," Hubbard said. "It was computed in October of 1979 by the Board of Trustees with both Housing and Food Services contributing a great deal of input." He said that the final budget
and housing prices would be coming out soon.
"We have to stick by the rate index we set in the spring. If the Department of Water and Power should raise their rates again over the summer, we'll just have to cut costs elsewhere, such as a freeze upon new staff hiring or equipment purchasing."
The expected increase will mean that a dormitory resident next year will pay about $135 to $140 more per semester than a student in the same dorm pays this year. For example, a Bimkrant resident who now pays $1,115 per semester will pay $1,250 next year.
The 12% rent increase would generally apply to all students in university housing. However, residents in the apartments pay their own utilities and food bills, and the apartment staffs are not as extensive as in the dormitories.
"Hopefully, the increase for students who will be living in apartments will be less (than for those in the dorms)," Hubbard said.
Student Senate representatives said that apartment residents should not experience the same increase as those in the dorms.
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CLOUDS OVER CROMWELL — Construction continues at Cromwell Field in preparation for Saturday’s scheduled track meet. Here, a construction worker puts together the
Staff photo by Michael Yada
railing on one of the bleacher seats. With more rain expected to come, the track meet may be cancelled as two days are needed to dry the track before events can be held.
Volume LXXXVIII, Number 13
Faculty salary hike approved by senate
By David Romero
Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate overwhelmingly approved a resolution Wednesday calling for higher faculty salary allocations and the setting of guidelines for allocation.
The resolution calls for 1980-81 salary increases of at least 11.5% for all regular, full-time and continuing faculty, with at least an additional .5% allocated for increases in fringe benefits, including a dental program.
John LeBlanc, chairman of the senate, said faculty salaries are a critical budgetary consideration because of a 15.7% rise in the cost-of-living index in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area during 1979.
The budget for 1980-81 is currently in the formative stages. The Board of Trustees will make the final decision on the budget at the end of March or early April.
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University of Southern California_
Friday February 22, 1980
Committee to examine enrollment of athletes
By Susan Pedersen
Assistant City Editor
President John R. Hubbard has formed an ad hoc committee to investigate student-athlete advisement in response to allegations that 34 football players enrolled in classes which they did not have to attend.
The main goals of the committee will be to examine current academic counseling procedures for student athletes, and to report the findings and recommendations to Hubbard by May 1.
The controversy over athlete enrollment began in December when university officials discovered that 19 of the football players were enrolled in Speech Communication 380, a laboratory class open only to members of the debate squad. It was also found that
11	others enrolled in another 400-level speech class, receiving incomplete grades without having attended class.
In addition, there were two other student athletes who illegally registered in a directed research course in speech communication with only about two weeks left in the fall semester.
Sources have said that the committee will also look into what the athletes were told about these classes before they enrolled, and will review the 1978-80 bank accounts held by the debate squad director, John DeBross.
DeBross was charged by debaters as having accepted a $65 organizational fee from the football players to become "official" team members. However, Richard Perry, director of athletics, has said that this has not been proven.	(Continued on page 9)
Staff ptiolo by Wayna Levina
ROME, 1980 A.D. — Engineering students participated in chariot races Wednesday as part of the annual Engineering Week. The fun and games day attracted camera crews from two local television stations. The week's events concluded with a dance in the Trojan Grill last night. See story page 7.