HOUSTON FLOURNOY
Politics not part of future for Flournoy
By Scott Brown
After the 1974 California gubernatorial election, when a then largely-unknown Jerry Brown walked away with the governorship by about 175,000 votes, Houston Flournoy, the Republi-
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can candidate and former state Controller for seven years, walked away from politics.
However, Flournoy, the only person to hold the recently created university position of vice president for governmental affairs, says he has few regrets about losing the election and absolutely no intention of returning to politics.
"I enjoy the academic atmosphere here and like working with government from the outside," Flournoy said. "It would be loathsome now to go to Washington for anything at all."
He joined the university in 1975 as a professor of political science and became vice presi-
dent of governmental affairs in July of 1978. He said his job is to look out for the university on a federal, state, and local level.
Currently, his office is working on legislation that would increase the ceiling limits on student aid and on getting the Grunsky bill passed. The bill would reimburse the university's School of Medicine for tuition of thor-. ; students admitted under a state program that was later declared unconstitutional.
Several other duties that cross the former state assemblyman's desk include trying to keep a lid on the high cost of tuition and trying to balance the athletic budget under the auspices of Title IX, which demands equal. funding for men's and women's athletics.
"A great portion of the athletic budget is devoted to student scholarships," Flournoy said. "They are higher here at USC."
In order to comply with Title IX, universities will probably
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Volume LXXXVIII, Number 6 University of Southern California Monday, February 11, 1980
Senate asks payment changes
Sees difficulty of one-sum rent
By Kathy McDonald
Staff Writer
A Student Senate committee is investigating the possibility of changing the method of rent payment for students living in the dormitories.
At present, students must pay the total amount for rent once at the beginning of each semester.
"Payment in one lump sum is often difficult for students, especially when their financial aid is late," said Paula Tripp, chairman of the Housing Activities task force, at the Student Senate meeting Friday.
Methods of payment could be changed to twice a semester or even monthly, she said.
The alternate method of payment could be offered as an option to students said Colette Benton, a senator on the task force.
Guy Hubbard, executive director of Auxiliary Services, said that while he could understand this desire on the part of students, the change would increase the costs of collecting payments.
He added that implementation of the proposal would greatly increase the workload necessary to process and collect two or more payments per semester.
Collection difficulties exist right now with just the single payment procedure, he said. "We still have a number (of housing payments) we're trying to collect that were due in December."
"Collection enforcement would be more difficult," said Michael McCarthy, assistant director of Auxiliary Services. "We have more of a problem with the apartment people, who pay rent on a more staggered basis, with paying rent on
time." If more frequent payments were implemented for the residence halls, he would anticipate a similar problem extending to the dorms.
"I would like to see a unified system of housing payments," said Ronald Wilkinson, manager of Assignments and Collections for the residence halls. "Either everybody pays twice a year, or everybody does it monthly. However, it would definitely be more expensive for the students, because of all the paper work involved."
7 would like to see a unified system of housing payments. Either everybody pays twice a year, or everybody does it monthly. However, it ivould definitely be more expensive for the students, because of all the paperwork involved.'
Tripp acknowledged that "it undoubtedly will add to administration costs, but it may decrease the costs involved with late fees."
Anticipating opposition from the administration, Benton said that enrollment may have declined because people are not allowed to pay in split shifts instead of in one lump sum.
Tripp said that the task force plans to take a survey of the students in the residence halls for their comments and ideas on changing the payment method.
"We think that students would be willing to pay a little more for the convenience of more frequent payments," she said.
Senate calls search process ‘harmful’
By Susan Pedersen
Assistant Gty Editor
The Student Senate unanimously passed a resolution Friday stating that the Board of Trustees' action to create a new selection committee may be detrimental to the presidential search process.
The motion said the new selection committee > may be "harmful to the future of the university" as it could "potentially exclude the university community from participation in the selection of the new president."
In introductory remarks to the resolution, Jeff Gates, senate chairman, said he did not feel that confidentiality was an important enough factor in creating the selection committee.
J. Robert Fluor, chairman of the Board of Trustees, had previously mentioned that confidentiality might be insured if a smaller number of trus-
tees handled the majority of the search process. He also stressed that a small committee would provide a speedier means for selecting a president.
Richard Katzman, graduate student senator, held the opposite opinion. "My inclination is that what's really going on is not due solely to news leaks, but paraplay among board members. Confidentiality is only being used by the board as a vehicle to change the process that was originally created."
The formation of the new committee was announced by the board on Wednesday, giving it the sole responsibility of acquiring a candidate for the university presidency. The committee has access to any available resources, including the search committee, for use in selecting a candi-(Continued on page 12)
JEP needs more students to work in Spanish-speaking schools Interaction with children from surrounding areas
By Holly Houston
Staff Writer
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