University spending to exceed budget
SCOMIX ANYONE? — Since the Daily Trojan no longer prints comic strips, several campus cartoonists got together and published their own
Staff photo by Stove Hyman
comic book entitled SComix. The book costs 75 cents and is being sold by the artists in front of Tommy Trojan.
By Brandon Bailey
Assistant City Editor
The university will spend over S16 million over the budget for this academic year. This does not mean the university will go in the red for the first time, however, since total income also exceeded the original budget by more than SI6 million.
A report submitted to the resource management and planning committee of the President’s Advisory Council explains why revenues and spending will exceed the levels originally planned.
A major part of the extra income is due to higher interest rates, changes in federal regulations and changes in university accounting procedures.
Most of this additional income was absorbed by contingency spending, unexpected debts and unexpected spending for items related to the physical operations of the university. Spending for academic purposes generally stayed within the levels originally planned. Some academic expenses contributed to over-spending the budget, but these were primarily related to special academic programs which are not regularly scheduled.
Budget officials first began reporting the variation between planned and actual spending about three years ago, said David Shawaker, the university's executive director of fiscal planning and control.
Shawaker. who presented this year's report to the committee, said the first report was made after committee members noticed that actual levels of income and spending seemed to be more than the levels in the planned budgets.
About $3.3 million of this year’s extra income comes from
government-sponsored research, donations given for specific purposes and income earned from investing endowment funds established for specific purposes. This amount had to be spent without the discretion of the administration. since it is restricted for specific uses.
The university was able to spend the remaining excess, close to SI 3 million, at the discretion of the administration.
Fringe benefits, primarily tuition remission and health costs, went over the budget by more than S2 million. Maintenance and renovations drew $1.2 million of the excess income and much of this went toward replacing a SI million reserve fund which the university maintains for unbudgeted renovation projects.
Shawaker said that the budgets of the 25 regular academic units varied in comparison of actual and budgeted spending, but these variations averaged out to an overall spending level within the original budget.
The largest amount of unexpected expenses ($5.2 million) fell in the “other” category, including one-time expenditures and accounts which ran over budget. Some accounts included Student Administrative Services, telephone service, the computer service and consulting services.
The largest single item in the “other” category amounted to a little over $1 million for operating costs of the Century II fundraising campaign. Shawaker and Jay Schoenau, assistant budget officer, said the Board of Trustees had authorized the campaign to pay off its costs with donations given for unrestricted purposes.
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Volume LXXXVII, Number 48
University of Southern California
Wednesday, November 28, 1979
Students hiss at Darth Vader
Actor shows scenes from Star Wars
By David Rompf
Staff Writer
When David Prowse showed a film clip from his latest movie in Bovard Auditorium Tuesday, the audience hissed.
“What a lovely reaction. Please — more." Prowse
said.
The film was Star Wars and the particular shot was of Darth Vader.
Prowse, a 6’6”, 270-poundScotsman, played the role of the masked villain in the space fantasy that has grossed the most box office earnings in history.
“Wherever I go, especially science fiction conventions, I have 15 Darth Vaders turn up, all shapes and sizes,” Prowse said.
Prowse, dressed in a gray suit, said he was not always brawny. At 13 he was involved in athletics, but doctors sent him to a tuberculosis sanitarium because they thought he had TB on the knee.
“I didn’t know you could have TB on the knee until I found out you could get it anywhere on your body,” he said.
A year older and four inches taller, he was released.
Prowse did not have TB, but his knees had swelled in reaction to his growing taller.
When he was 17 years old at 6’3” and 155 pounds, Prowse enrolled in a Charles Atlas correspondence course with hopes of building up his body.
After nine years of training he weighed 240 pounds and participated in the Mr. Universe competition in London.
But Prowse did not like flexing his muscles in front of a panel of judges, and began competing in weightlifting.
In 1962 he won the British weightlifting championship but did not qualify for the 1964 Olympics in Japan.
He later decided to aim beyond being a muscle man.
His height and muscles helped him land several acting roles including Clockwork Orange and several monster movies.
Prowse once played the part of Super Pooh, a giant version of Winnie the Pooh, in the film Casino Royale. But his part was later cut from the movie.
“Until 1976 things were good, but I was always broke. Star Wars made a major change in my life,” he said.
Candidate to visit with campus constituencies
Richard Atkinson, the second announced candidate for the university presidency, will be on campus today to meet with representatives of several campus constituencies.
Atkinson, director of the National Science Foundation, is one of the three candidates on the Presidential Search committee’s final list.
His visit is part of Phase III in the presidential selection process to replace John Hubbard, who will retire next August.
During his visit Atkinson will have the opportunity to evaluate the university, and the faculty and staff will have the chance to evaluate him.
ALIAS DARTH VADER — Actor David Prowse Auditorium on Tuesday. He will also star in The signs autographs before presenting his film clips Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars III. from Star Wars and his speech in Bovard
Birnkrant calms down with addition of coeds
By Chuck Nicholson
Last spring Birnkrant Dormitory was declared a fire hazard by the Los Angeles Fire Department. Paper and debris filled the hallways. A rooster lived on the fourth floor and a pig lived on the sixth. Obscenities were bleached into the carpeting.
But that was last spring. This fall, the floors are not littered and the walls are not crumbling. Beer bottles go into trash cans instead of out the windows.
Last year Birnkrant was all male. This year it is coed.
“The guys submitted the dorm to torture,” said Leonard Borrmann, a resident advisor at Birnkrant last semester. “They had paper piled up to the ceiling in some places, and the walls were full of craters.”
But since the decision to return Birnkrant to a coed building, things have quieted down, said Gail Bomberg, resident advisor this year on the dormitory's third floor. "The dorm has really calmed down as far as damage and noise are concerned," she said.
“This year the programming is much better," Bomberg said. “There's a lot more exchange within the building — champagne breakfasts and pregame picnics and that kind of thing goes over really well."
Borrmann, an R.A. at Touton Hall this year, says he thinks the problem last year was a lack of leadership. Some of the R.A.’s weren't doing their jobs and the guys got rowdy as hell, he said.
Whether or not the big chance at Birnkrant comes from better leadership, from the addition of the women’s floors, or from a combination of both, one thing is certain — living conditions in the dorm are vastly improved this year. “All dorms should go coed,” Bomberg said. “The girls really calm the guys down a lot.”