New federal policy affects student loans
Faculty awards for academic excellence announced
Dozen awards spread over wide spectrum of disciplines
Off-campus students receiving student loans now have to go through a more inconvenient procedure to get their checks, according to Mike Hal-loran, director of financial aid.
A change in federal regulations has necessitated a change in the procedure for releasing Federally Insured and Guaranteed Student Loan (FISL and GSL) disbursement checks to students attending off-campus programs.
Until recently, off-campus students have been allowed to sign power of attorney forms allowing an on-campus departmental representative to pick up and negotiate these loan disbursement checks for the student and to send them the balance of the check after tuition has been paid. This procedure is no longer recognized as being legal.
Halloran explainefOld that the old procedure left students vulnerable to being cheated by the person to whom they gave power of attorney. To protect students, the federal government now requires a more inconvenient but safer procedure.
A memo from the financial aid office explains the new procedure:
"For students who will not be on campus at the time their check arrives, but who will be at an overseas center or an established USC campus elsewhere in the United States, the department will authorize a specific person on campus to pick up their disbursement checks and mail them to a specified staff person (also authorized by the department) on the satellite campus. The satellite campus contact should be the person most aware of registration procedures and tuition payment procedures ...
"Upon receipt of the authorization signed by the student and receipt of the bank check, the on-campus person will mail the disbursement check to the satellite campus contact, who will verify the student's eligibility before releasing the check to the student ...
"The satellite campus contact will have the student sign for the check, and return to the lo-
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GETTING SOME EXERCISE — Paul Casey gets in a set at the McClintock tennis courts.
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Volume LXXXIX, Number 3 University of Southern California	Friday, June 20, 1980
By Leigh Spear
Staff Writer
Twelve faculty members at the university received awards recently for teaching and research excellence.
Those faculty' members who received Excellence in Teaching Awards are:
More than 160 teachers and scholars, representing a wide spectrum of academic disciplines within the university, have been honored by the associates since 1960. Winners of the group's Excellence in Teaching Award are nominated by graduating students, and recipients of its Creative Scholarship and Research Award are selected by a special committee.
The awards were given by USC Associates, a support group composed of more than 1,000 men and women de-dicted to the advancement of academic excellence.
o	David Albert Berman, professor of pharmacology and nutrition, who has received 14 teaching awards since 1964.
Berman received both his master's and doctoral degrees from USC, and joined the university's medical staff in 1952. His teaching techniques make use of word games and game show question-and-answer formats to illustrate concepts.
o	Edward Finegan, associate professor of English and linguistics, received his master’s and doctoral degrees from Ohio University where he also taught. He also taught at Case Western Reserve University and Case Institute of Technology before coming to USC. He recently published a book, "American Attitudes toward English Usage."
o	Gwendolyn Koldofsky, head of USC's program in accompanying and a noted pianist, joined USC as a lecturer in 1947, and became an associate professor of piano in 1952. Koldofsky, a native of Canada, has previously taught atthe Toronto Conservatory of Music, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, and Western Washington College of Ed-
ucation. Koldofsky has received two other awards from USC — the Ramo Faculty Award aand the Friends of Music Award.
o	Arthur B. Laffer, the Charles B. Thornton Professor of Business Economics, is the director of the university's Center for the Study of Private Enterprise. Laffer attended the University of Munich and Yale, where he received his bachelor's degree in economics. He received an MBA and a doctorate from Stanford. He has previously taught at the University of Chicago, University of Virginia and the Brookings Institution. Laffer is a member of the Los Angeles Times board of economists, and has co-authored two books — International Economics in an Integrated World and The Economics of the Tax Revolt." He is best known for the "Laffer Curve," which depicts an inverse relationship between tax rates annd government revenues.
o	Frank J. Lockhart, professor of chemical engineering, has also received
the distinguished faculty award from the School of Engineering and its Engineering Alumni Association. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Texas and a doctorate from the University of Michigan. He is especially noted for his’contributions in air pollution control.
o	Joseph L. Nyomarkay, professor of political science, has been honored by the associates for the second time. His first Excellence in Teaching Award was received in 1965. He also received the Associated Students' Finest Teacher Award in 1968. He is currently conducting a study on political executives and their role in post-industrial societies.
o	Kenneth Lewis Trefftzs, professor of finance and business economics, also received his second Excellence Award, the first time being in 1976. Trefftzs has been a member of the university faculty since 1941. He has previously taught at the University of Illinois, where he re-(Continued on page 6)
Summer session sports a new variety of classes
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CATCHING A LITTLE SUN — Sharon Morris, left, and Lorraine Johnson take a break from their staff duties during lunch in Alumni Park.
If summer session 1980 has a new look about it, it doesn’t take too much looking to see why. All you have to do is start at the top.
This year's summer session is benefiting from the newly established Summer Session Development Fund, enabling the program to offer seven new courses which are designed to appeal to adults in the community as well as to the continuing students here at the university, said Sherry May, director.
"We would like these courses to interest people in the community, maybe even graduates who feel a course could help them in their careers. Just the other dav, a businessman talked to me about the possibility of enrolling some of his employees in one of our courses," said May.
One such course is a special one-unit course offered by the English Department especially for students and professionals in law, business and education. The course content includes editing and grammar instruction needed for standardized tests like the LSAT, in addition to instruction on writing more fluent reports and memos.
However, not every new class is solely intended for career advancement. Some classes are offered for the student who just doesn't have room in his fall or spring schedules. One such class is Sailing and Navigation, taught Captain Ron Remsburg.
This two-unit course offers class instruction on navigational and sailing techniques with some basic oceanography. There is also a special two-day cruise that students will take on the Atlantis, which is a ship Remsburg built himself when he lived in the northeast United States.
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