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Volume LXXXVIII, Number 31	University of Southern California	Wednesday, March 19, 1980
Trustees talk money in weekend meeting
By Robin Oto
Editor
The 21st Annual Board of Trustees Conference in Rancho Mirage, Ca. opened with a serious financial note last weekend.
Due to rising fuel and staff benefit costs, the possibility of declining enrollment, deferred maintenance costs, and an "epidemic" staff turnover due to low salaries, "we're spiralling and can't do anything about it," said Forrest Shumway, a trustee.
"While we technically have balanced the budget (such costs) within four or five years will become catastrophic," he said.
Shumway, head of the board's finance committee and president of the Signal Companies, Inc., presented a resolution that would limit construction of university buildings.
The resolution, to be presented to the board in June, states that the administration will not accept any gifts for capital construction unless the gift is sufficient to construct and maintain the building in perpetuity or, if the amount is not sufficient, the donor will solicit a supplement to the funds to insure complete construction. If funds are not sufficient, the gift will be returned to the donor.
The university is short approximately $11 million on new buildings now under construction due to gifts that did not cover the entire cost of these buildings.
"If we can raise the funds we're all for it (construction). But we cannot continue this deficit financing of capital projects," Shumway said. He added that the committee is "very, very serious about it (resolution)."
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Athletes to be denied credit for crash speech class
Cheating on final, low quality work claimed
Some of the discrepancies include the following:
By Richard Bonin
Associate Investigations Editor
Eighteen of 19 football players who took a crash course to make up credit for a speech class they did not attend last fall will not receive credit for the course.
The football players, all members of the 1979 Rose Bowl championship team, including Heisman Trophy winner Charles White, took a crash course in Speech Communication 380, a forensics laboratory open only to members of the debate team, during Christmas break.
Credit has been denied because it seems people other than the football players themselves took the final examination, sources revealed.
Other football players will not earn credit because, in some cases, the quality of work done was too low. In other cases, the
football players never attended the crash course.
It appears that as many as five to seven people may have signed the evaluations in place of the athletes for the final exams, sources said.
Previously, John DeBross, who taught the forensics laboratory the athletes were not required. to attend, had attempted to award the football players from one to four units for completing the crash course. DeBross was forced to resign last month.
"If the speech communication department considers the quality of work inadequate, I accept that judgment," said John Marburger, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. "This so-called crash course was graded vigorously. The
work must not have been of a quality sufficient for a passing grade." Marburger would not comment on the question of who took the final exam.
John Robinson, coach of the football team, and Richard Perry, director of athletics, could not be reached for comment.
Eight athletes from other intercollegiate sports who also were enrolled in the laboratory will not receive credit. One other will be given an "incomplete" grade, sources revealed.
As part of the crash course, the athletes had to evaluate six debates in tournaments held at the university and UCLA in January. It was on the basis of these written evaluations and the attendance of lectures held
in December that DeBross passed the football players.
But university administrators doubt the football players actually authored at least 14 of these evaluations, sources revealed.
They came to doubt the authenticity of these evaluations because of a discrepancy concerning signatures on work turned in.
In December, the athletes were required to sign their names when attending lectures for the crash course. These signatures, and others taken after the January debates, were checked against signatures on the evaluations turned in.
The signatures did not match in most instances, sources said.
—	on two evaluations submitted, one signature of the football player differed from another, and neither corresponded with the athlete's signature taken in December.
—	on three evaluations turned in by another football player, one of the signatures did not match the other two. Although an analysis of a debate was required, none was submitted.
—	on four evaluations turned in by one player, one of the signatures did not match the other three. An analysis was turned in with the unmatching signature, but no analyses were turned in with the ballots that had the three corresponding signatures.
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HIKES OF 10-20%
Tuition to increase nationwide
Administrators dispute survey on universities
By Holly Houston
Staff Writer
By all accepted canons of academic procedure, the results of The Gourman Report are unquestionably useless, said Vance Peterson, director of Academic Relations. Peterson is one of many university academicians who disagree with the results of the report, a study of the academic undergraduate programs at major universities in the United States.
Jack Gourman, a professor of political science at Cal State Northridge, rated the university low academically compared to other universities in his study. Gourman said one of the major reasons for the low results pertained to an apparent athletk/academic imbalance here.
"He didn't contact anyone at this university for data," Peterson said. "His information is sadly wrong as characterizing the university's priorities and
realities. We do spend a good deal (of money) on athletics, but it doesn't take away on the amount of spending on academic programs."
Many academicians have questioned Gourman's methodology and feel his survey should not be given any credit. Gourman said much of his information came from people within the university and that he verifies it through his research methods.
"He could hardly have any good methodology. Some of our departments are ranked much higher," said Zohrab Kaprielian, executive vice president. "Our academics take top priority. In the past ten years we have made real academic strides. It's terrible what he said. No author should make comments (blaming the academic standings on athletics) like that. He didn't talk to anyone at the university. I would (Continued on page 2)
Staff photo by Katy Smith
LIVE FROM TOMMY TROJAN — Max Edwards, of KSCR radio station, sat in front of Tommy Trojan yesterday promoting a drawing being held by the station and Tam’s Bookstore to raise money.
By David Romero
Staff Writer
Tuition increases for the coming year at universities across the nation will be the severest yet, though the increases will not match the rate of inflation.
Increases ranging from 10% to 20% have been passed or are expected next year at many institutions, yet there is still concern among university administrators that operating budgets will run a deficit.
Administrators at several universities said there is. grudging acceptance of tuition hikes by officials and students but that most agreed little could be done to avoid the increases. Double digit tuition increases have been rare at most universities.
The university's own budget, which includes a 14.9% tuition hike, was passed by the Board of Trustees' Finance Committee Wednesday, according to John Curry, director of Management Planning.
Curry said he expects the trustees to pass the budget when they make a final decision in April.
Financial officers at several major universities said faculty salary hikes, which were still short of cost-of-living increases, and high energy costs are the main causes of higher tuitions. Most said the raised tuitions are the maximum they thought they could ask students to pay.
Charles Bockelman, deputy provost at Yale University, said officials there tied increased tuition to increases in disposable income rather than the consumer price index.
"I'm just a little hesitant to say that there is a one-to-one relationship between faculty salary hikes and tuition increase," Bockelman said.
Harvard University .plans many cutbacks in-, i-ing faculty and staff, but will still run a deficit next year, according to Robert Kaufmann, associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences there.
"There is no time in this nation's recent history that we have encountered inflation like this," Kaufmann said.
"The northeast part of this country is taking an enormous beating in energy costs. Even though other areas have energy problems, energy here has a more significant impact on tuition increase than faculty salaries.''
Harvard is raising basic undergraduate tuition 13.2%, from $5,300 to $6,000.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) incurs many energy-related costs because of operation of much research equipment. John Currie, director of Financial Operations, said MIT plans a 17% tuition hike due to inflation.
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