Three boards to disburse student programming fee
The Student Senate is launching a new method of allocating student programming funds this semester after controversy caused the Campus Activities Allocation Board to be disbanded last year.
Last year's board was embroiled in controversy because critics thought board members allowed personalities to come through more than fairness when it came to allocating the funds.
The new allocation process should eliminate that problem, because groups seeking funding discuss the allocations among themselves, said Scott Brown, undergraduate vice chair of the Student Senate.
The entire process will be governed by a programming team consisting of three boards: the audit board, programming board, and the policy board.
Those three boards will govern eight assemblies, where the groups seeking funding will discuss how the money will be split up among themselves.
Each assembly will have a portion of the programming fund to be allocated to the groups.
The amount each assembly was given was determined by both Student Senate voting and results tabulated from a survey the senate took last semester.
Students were asked which areas they wanted to see expanded through extra funding, and those results helped determine
which groups should get more money.
Duplication of effort by the programming groups will now be almost totally eliminated under the new programming system, Brown said.
For example, if one group plans an activity they need funding for, and a different group plans another activity that serves the same purpose but also requires funding, one of the two activities could be dropped after the groups discuss it.
Alike groups meeting under the various assemblies are coordinated into the same networks to discuss which groups need more funding and what projects are planned by each organization.
The main goal of the new programming team is to make sure the available money is used more efficiently, Brown said.
The university has a small programming fund in relation to its size, so it has to be utilized as thoroughly as possible, he said.
The university charges a $7 programming fee, an amount less than most other universities charge, and consequently some, such as UCLA, have a programming fund twice as large.
Typically, $165,000 in programming fees are available to be allocated compared to $500,000 at UCLA, Brown said.
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Five fraternities fined for violating dry rush
By Richard Bonin
Staff Writer
The Interfraternity Council has fined five fraternity houses $500 each for serving liquor at pledge parties, said Victor Vandergrlff, council president.
Three of the fraternities fined are Kappa Sigma, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said Scott Anderson, council treasurer.
Vandergriff, who refused to name any of the fraternities until they were notified in writing of the fine, would not identify the other two houses.
The five fraternities, however, have been notified by telephone, he said.
The council will meet with officers of the five fraternities next week when other fraternities may also be fined. Fraternities that served liquor at more than one party may be penalized for each violation, Vandergriff said. He wasn't sure which other fraternities, if any, would be fined.
University policy prohibits fraternities and sororities from serving alcoholic beverages at parties. It also forbids the consumption of liquor in public places, including the living room of a fraternity or
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STAFF FORUM—A forum on university governance, held Tuesday in the Student Activities Center and sponsored by the Staff Club, featured (left to right), Stan Young, Susan Brown, Jeff Gates, John LeBlanc, David Mars, and Leonard Wines as
Staff Photo by Pete Wtulich
panelists discussing the President's Advisory Council, university governance, and the feasibility of a staff senate to replace the staff caucus as representative body for the staff.
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Volume LXXXVIII, Number 8 University of Southern California Wednesday, September 26, 1979
Group acts as representative for faculty members’ interests
By Joe Boyle
Staff Writer
Everyone, at one time or another, needs to be advised or represented, and university professors are no exception.
The American Association of University Professors is a professional organization that represents the interests of 75,000 faculty members throughout the nation. The AAUP has approximately 400 university members.
The Association, often misunderstood as a union, strives to project its image as a professional organization. "I'm offended that the AAUP is compared to a union," said Wesley Robb, professor of religion and the association's former state president.
The history of the organization indicates it is a professional organization interested in the rights and responsibilities of the faculty as well as the wellbeing of the university, Robb said.
"The technical term is not union,'' said Edward Borgers, co-chairman of the university chapter. The AAUP is committed to the principles to "make collegiality work," he said.
Borgers said unions are separate from management but the association does not want to take any positions resembling a union.
"We want to keep a relationship of friendly cooperation in a democratic fashion," Borgers said. He hopes the relationship will never become a "show
of force" on either the member or non-member side.
The closest the two have come to such a show of force occurred three years ago when the faculty failed to obtain the necessary number of votes needed to win a collective bargaining agent, Borgers said.
"If 15% or more of the faculty indicate an interest in collective bargaining they could petition the National Labor Relations Board to supervise and schedule an election,' said John Elliott, former president of the association's university chapter and professor of economics.
In the event of an election the faculty would vote for an agent to represent them. Any agent such as the AAUP, the National Education Association or the American Federation of Teachers, can put their name on the ballot. The other ballot would be for no agent.
If the faculty votes for an agent then the university is required under law to meet with the Collective Bargaining Agents and for example, the AAUP to negotiate.
If the association wins the election then negotiations are conducted by the faculty rather than outside bargainers. Dues would have a "conscientious objection" clause for any member with moral convictions against them, Elliott said.
"It's a stronger position than we have now since at the present time there is no obligation to negotiate," Elliott said.
Employee reports low sales of activity books
Activity book sales are down from last year — much to the surprise of officials at the university ticket office, said Patricia Tyner, manager of the office.
As of Tuesday the office sold 12,330 activity books, 3,000 less than the same time last year.
Tyner said activity book sales have increased by 2,000 each year for the past four years. "I had anticipated another jump by 2,000 sales for this year," she said.
Tyner said the implementation of a new computer system in the ticket office may be preventing students from buying more than one activity book.
The system checks if a student has already purchased an activity book with a particular fee bill number or name.
Tyner said, "we have tried to crack down" on students buying more than one activity book.
But "it's hard for me to believe" the computer is the only impediment, she said.
"It could be that students aren't as interested in football this year Or maybe they weren't interested in the first game," sahe said.
Tyner also said students may be getting a late start in buying activity books because of money problems and the hectic schedules of the first weeks of school.
Activity books will be on sale until the second week of October. Tyner predicted that by that time, the actual number of sales will be 1,000 less than that year.
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SLOW TIME FOR TICKETS — What was a long line for student activity books last week has turned to a
dribble in the Ticket Office this week.