CHECK ON IRANIAN STUDENTS
Visa guidelines to be set
Immigration and Naturalization Service officials are working with university administrators to set up guidelines for checking the visa status of Iranian students.
President Carter announced Sundav that Iranian students will be deported if they are found to have violated the terms of their visas.
INS officials planned to begin interviewing Iranian students on campus Wednesday but legal problems had to be resolved before the interviews could begin, said Paul Moore, an administrative associate in the Office of Student Affairs.
The university must be cer-
tain it can legally release information requested on a student, Moore said.
The university follows guidelines for releasing student information set up in the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, commoniy known as the Bucklev Amendment.
Moore said the university wants to cooperate with the INS but also wants to adhere to amendment guidelines.
"We want to help the government but we also want to protect the rights of our students," Moore said.
University and INS officials will meet today to work out final arrangements for the visa
checks. Interviews between Iranian students and INS officials may begin tomorrow or next week.
Actions by students which would qualify as visa violations include changing schools without permission, failure to enroll, irregularities in passports and documents and working, said Joe Howerton, a spokesman for the INS.
Foreign students are not allowed to work unless they have the permission of the INS, he said.
According to the International Admissions Office there are between 850 and 900 Iranians enrolled at the university, .
Volume LXXXVII Number 43 University of Southern California Thursday, November 15, 1979
Nuclear arms race provoked by U.S., not Russia, says Ellsberg
Student budgets expected to rise
Figures to affect financial aid for 1980-81
Student budgets are expected to rise substantially next year, according to a tentative report issued by the California Student Aid Commission.
The new figures, presented to members of the student affairs committee of the President’s Advisory Council Wednesday, will have an impact on financial aid awarded bv the university for 1980-81.
The report shows increases ranging from 10% to 22%, and these figures are expected to increase when the commission votes to finalize the recommendations in December, said Linda Berkshire, associate director of financial aid at the university.
The state's estimate of student expenses is used to determine the amount of financial aid a student qualifies for from state, federal and university funds.
The major areas of change are in the estimated costs of food and housing for students. Other areas increased include transportation, personal
items and books and supplies.
Not included in the figures were the price of tuition and fees. This cost will be determined when actual costs are set by the university.
Single commuter students will get the largest increase, with their budget expected to rise to $2,639 for living expenses, a 22% increase. Single off-campus students will get a 17% adjustment to $4,124.
Single students residing on campus will be budgeted at $1,109 plus the actual cost of room and board. Independent and married students, in all categories, will get a 16% adjustment: single students to $5,408 single students with one child to $7,976, and married students to $7,976.
Hutchinson also reported the results of a Student Administrative Services survey of textbook costs, which will be used to determine the books and lab fees portion of the student budget next vear.
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Staff photo by Doug Hoover
HOSTILE SIGN — A 'Walk — Don't Walk'' signal located on 32nd Street was changed yesterday to bear this angry message.
Presidential candidates narrowed down to three
The number of front-running candidates to replace President John Hubbard has been narrowed to three, said J. Robert Fluor, chairman of the presidential search committee and Board of Trustees.
A second candidate will visit the campus sometime next week, with the final candidate due to visit at the end of this month, sources said.
While the dates of the visits were not officially released, there were a number of sources who confirmed them.
Sources previously said that there would be at least four candidates to visit campus for the last stage in the selection process, but the number was reduced because one candidate no longer wanted to be considered for the position.
The candidate dropped out because of family considerations, one source said.
The two candidates previously announced are Thornton F. Bradshaw, president of the Atlantic Richfield Co. and Richard Atkinson, president of the National Science Foundation. However, Bradshaw has been the only one to visit campus.
DANIEL ELLSBERG
Bv Roger Wedberg
Staff Writer
Weapons development has made Americans their own worst enem'es, said Daniel Elis-berg Wednesday before an audience in Hancock Auditorium.
Between 1945 and 1968, the military had 33 major accidents with nuclear weapons during combat exercises and arms transport that citizens were not told of, he said.
"We dropped more bombs on ourselves and our allies in the 1960s than the Russians had in store to use," he said. ''We were tne only threat to our rational security.
That's no longer true. There are now two countries that can wipe us out — ourselves and Russia."
Bui Ellsberg said the Russians are not close to the United States in military power.
"It s as untrue that the Russians have any prospect of getting military' superiority today as i? was untrue that thev were going to get that superiority' in 1961," Ellsberg said.
Americans ignored a test-ban offer by the Soviet Union in
1956 and the world exploded in an arms race, he said.
"The Russians had no ICBMs (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles) and had we bought that proposal, there would be no ICBMs today — none," Ellsberg said.
"That was '56. In 1970, they wert still working on a comprehensive test ban. But the pec pie from the University of California, like Edward feller, said no, we need tests. That allowed the Russians to test, too," he said.
"This illustrated verv shockingly that the people who made the decisions in the arms race said. 'We don't care hov. many weapons the Russians get as long as we get more and get them faster " EUsberg said.
The Soviet Union, following tne United States began to produce multipit?-warhead missiles that now threaten all cities with populations over two million.
Ten years ago this month Ellsberg, although unauthorized, delivered the top-secret Pentagon Papers to Sen. Wiliam Fullbright, touching otf
major controversies relating to national security, freedom of the Press, and civil liberties.
Ellsberg, a member of the special task force set up in 1967 by Secretaiy of Defense Robert McNamara to studv U.S. mili-tarv involvement in Indochina from 1945 to 1969. copied the documents alter removing them from files of the Rjnd Corporation in Santa Monica where he was employed.
Subsequent charges ot theft, conspiracy and espionage against him were dismissed because his actions exposed "improper government cor. duel "
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