Social Work dean appointed
By Da»id Romero
Staff Writer
Robert W. Roberts has been named dean of the School of Social Work and will succeed Maurice Hamovitch. who will retire in July 1980.
Roberts said when he assumes the position, he will drop his present duties as the school's associate dean for curriculum, director of the doctorate program, and instructor of a research methods course for doctoral students.
June Brown, one of two chairmen of the search committee, said the committee interviewed three nominees and submitted its recommendation to the university at the end of October. Roberts said he received notice of his appointment on Nov. 21.
Roberts said he doesn't expect any major changes in the school after he takes over, but he has some new plans.
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Volume LXXXVII, Number 50	University of Southern California
Friday, November 30, 1979
PLANS FOR OLYMPICS BEGIN
Hubbard yet to appoint liaison
B\ Tim Lynch
Staff Writer
President John R. Hubbard has yet to officially appoint a university liaison to the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, but a source close to the president said Herold Sherman would assume the position, probably by the first of the year.
As special assistant to the president for Olympics, Sherman, currently the executive director of safety systems management, would be responsible for coordinating all groups and services on campus that would be involved with the 1984 Olympics. The position is fulltime.
The university and the committee have conducted informal discussions at several levels, but no formal negotiations have taken place, said Hank Rieger, director of communications with the Olympics committee.
“We will have plenty of time next year to negotiate.” Rieger said.
Some departments on campus already have begun planning their particular involvement in the Olympics. Housing, security and food services have taken preliminary looks at what their responsibilities might be.
Although sites around the university (the Coliseum and Shrine Auditorium, for example) have been considered for athletic competition by the Olympics com-
mittee, none can be designated without approval from the international federations responsible for each sport.
Those decisions will not be made until after the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
Earlier this year, the Environmental and External Affairs committee of the President’s Advisory Council expressed concern that Hubbard had not named an Olympics liaison.
“We felt we were floundering early, but the situation has been resolved,” said Mary W and, a student member of PAC.
The affairs committee will be making recommendations to Sherman next year concerning the university's overall Olympics participation, Wand said.
One problem Sherman and the affairs committee must deal with is the potential difficulty of scheduling a summer session around the Olympics, which will take place in August, 1984.
As liaison, Sherman will report directly to Hubbard, who is the university’s highest representative in dealing with the Olympics committee.
Hubbard is also a member of the Olympics committee. but he acts in that capacity as a private citizen, Rieger said.
Income ceiling limits state aid
By Cliff Tan
Staff riter
State student aid has increased approximate!} S4 million this school year, but an income ceiling in one of the aid programs has closed off funds to many university students, said Jonathan Brown, associate director of the Association of California Colleges and Universities, a lobby group for the private universities in the state.
Although the average grant to university students in the Cal Grant A Program has increased to S2.700 this year from S2.562 last year, the total amount of money granted to the university has decreased to $10.6 million from SI 1.1 million because there have been fewer winners of awards. Brown said.
The number of university students who are Cal Grant A winners had increased steadily over the las' five years, but decreased this year, said Linda Berkshire, associate director of financial aid.
Fewer university students have qualified for the Cal Grant A
Program because of a family income ceiling of S29.900. above which a student cannot qualify for assistance. Brown said.
The ceiling was established during the 1974-75 school year. A family income of S29.900 in 1974 is approximately equivalent to a family income of S45.000 today, Berkshire said.
But the $29,900 ceiling income of today is only worth SI7,000 in 1974 dollars, Brown said.
Students who do not qualify for Cal Grant A funds because of the income ceiling have had to take out larger loans, or work more to attend private universities. Brown said.
The income ceiling has affected other private state universities, some of them dramatically, he said. The amount of Cal Grant A aid dropped nearly $300,000 at Stanford University, with an 11% decrease in the number of winners there.
Loyola Maryniount University suffered a 7% decrease in Cal Grant A funds this year, and the
University of Pacific's Cal Grant A funds dropped from $ 1.5 million to SI.3 million this year.
The income ceiling may be adjusted upward soon, however. Brow n said. The state Student Aid Commission will be meeting Dec. 6 and 7 to consider an adjustment, possibly raising the ceiling to $40,-000.
University students also participate in other state aid programs, including the Cal Grant B Program. University students received $54,000 more in Cal Grant B this year. Brown said.
More Cal Grant B funds were awarded this year because the program is in its last year of an upward adjustment in awards made two years ago.
Another relatively small state aid program in which university students participate is the Graduate Fellowship Program. University students received nearly $8,000 less in aid from the program this year. Brown said.
Group calls for aid, relief for Cambodia
SIGNS SPEAK THE TRUTH — Members of the Campus Crusade for Christ and Christians for Cambodia carried signs such as this one in the rally to make people aware of the Cambodia situation.
By Craig Gima
Staff Writer
Carrying signs declaring “Morality Before Politics" and “10.000 People will die in Cambodia today," members of the Campus Crusade for Christ and Christians for Cambodia held a rally Thursday to focus attention on the pligh* of Cambodians.
The rally, held in front of Tommy Trojan, drew over 100 students, including Campus Crusade members from other campuses.
Speakers included Vek Huong and Sameoun Taing, who lived four years in Cambodia under the Pol Pot regime, Ratha Yem, a law student in Cambodia at the time of the communist takeover, and representatives from the Christian groups.
Dean Rallis, spokesperson for Campus Crusade, opened the rally saying “As Christians we can no longer remain silent.”
The latest state department figures show that 3 to 4 million Cambodians have died and that 2.5 million more will die if massive relief is not provided, said a spokesperson for Christians for Cambodia.
The spokesperson said the relief that comes into Cambodia is not adequate and that most of it stays within Phnom Penh although the majority of people are outside the city. Because of the recent Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, relief cannot go directly into the
northwestern area of the country, he said.
Persons at the rally passed petitions urging the governments involved to put politics aside and let relief efforts in.
Some of the speakers recently participated in a march and rally at the United Nations and in Washington, D.C. where a petition bearing 78.000 signatures was presented.
Frank Dickerson, an Ohio State University student, said, “ft (the problem) is only symptomatic, the real issue is a spiritual crisis."
“I don’t believe that it is our problem, that we should try to feed the world. It is an atrocious situation,” said Lisa Priester, a university student.
Taing. who was a missionary in the city of Phnom Penh when Cambodia fell, was interviewed bv the Daily Trojan Wednesday.
He said that when the city fell most of the inhabitants were forced into the surrounding countryside. He told stories of people taken out of hospitals and a pregnant woman who gave birth along the way. Many people died during the march, which took Taing 12 days, he said.
Once in the country the people were given as little as one spoonful of rice a day to live on. They were asked to fill out biographies from which the communists picked out those to be executed. Taing said it (Continued on page 6)
Staff photo by Steve Hyman
GAME CONTESTS — An upcoming contest, featuring billiards, chess, pinball and football, will be held in the game room at SAC. Sign-ups will be taken at the SAC desk.