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University of Southern California
Volume LXVI, Number 24	Los Angeles, California_	Friday, October 19, 1973
Ruling Due Today
On 2 Tuition Suits
BY KEVIN McKENNA
Assistant City Editor
The future of the two suits against the university for alleged illegal tuition increases will be decided at a Superior Court hearing today.
The plaintiffs in the case will present oral arguments to show cause for further legal action.
general demurrers filed by the university’s lawyers and granted by the court. The demurrers acknowledge the complaints in the suits but contend there are no grounds for eegal action.
IF SUPERIOR COURT Judge David Eagleson does not accept the plaintiffs' response to the demurrers, and does not allow them to further amend their suit,
their only recourse would be to appeal.
However, if the plaintiffs’ arguments are accepted, and the demurrer is overruled, the university’s lawyers will file an answer to the complaint.
The two class-action suits, filed last March by the Tuition Action Committee, a group of law students, ask a total of more than $5 million for alleged illegal tuition increases over the past five years.
One suit was filed on behalf of law students and
Tuition Group Hears Financial Information
Mayer discussed the university's present tuition and rate of increase in the past several years in com-
Homecoming Is Updated
Even at relatively-conservative USC, the changing times have had an effect on some activities.
In the past, Homecoming, to be held tomorrow, has been an event shared by students and alumni. However, within the past few' years, students have ceased their active role in Homecoming activities.
THE FINAL separation came with the dropping of the selection of a Homecoming Queen. The queen was always a representative of some student group, a sorority or residence hall, for example.
Thomas E. Smith of Pasadena, an alumnus, is the chairman for this year’s Homecoming. The event will be run by the Alumni Special Events office.
The theme is “Where Western Sky Meets Western Sea.” It is a line from “Cardinal and Gold”, the 50-year-old alma mater.
Al Wesson, the lyricist and Frank D. Lanterman, composer of the music, will be guests at the Annual Homecoming Picnic, tomorrow’ at 10 a.m., in Aliimni Park.
ABOUT 15,000 alumni are expected to take part in the event. Each year there is a special celebration of the graduating class of 25 years ago. The class of 1948 will have a special booth at the picnic.
Each graduating class and professional alumni group, such as dental or medical alumni, will have its own booth, for members of the classes to get in touch with each other.
Two alumni bands will provide entertainment. The Trojan Marching Band will also be present, as well as Traveler II. the Trojan mascot, the song girls and yell leaders.
The picnic will be informal, with alumni either bringing their own lunches or purchasing them in the Grill, Commons or from catering trucks.
Following the picnic, the alumni will head for the Coliseum, to see the Trojans play the University of Oregon Ducks.
Gaddafi of Libya.
David Psalms, a member of the sect’s South Gate commune, said their leader, Moses David, had received a revelation from God that Gaddafi is going to unite the Arab world to take a stand against both capitalism and communism. He said that Gaddafi’s magic lamp is oil.
IN FALL 1971, the Children of God came on campus and persuaded two juniors to join them. The two left without telling anyone and it was almost one week before their parents and friends could contact them and, in the case of one, abduct her back.
Alvin Rudisill, university chaplain, said, “They use pretty overt tactics in pressing their claims on others.”
He said that although he would defend anyone’s right to freedom of religion, he is troubled by outside groups comingon campus when they haven’t been invited.
“I want to know, why are they here?” he asked.
RUDISILL	SAID,
“Personally I don’t agree with anything that they represent, as I understand their position.
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The Tuition Commission, appointed by President John R. Hubbard to study the possibility of a tuition increase, met Thursday to hear inputs on university finances.
Presentations were made by Colin MacLeod, director of financial services: Joe Mayer, of the Office of Institutional Studies: and William Crawford, interim dean of the School of Dentistry.
The commission also decided it w ould prepare an interim report with a tentative tuition proposal for the University Council’s Nov. 5 meeting.
MacLEOD enumerated the various irrevocable commitments the university faces for the 1974-75 academic year. He estimates that the total increase, which includes rising costs in operating the physical plant, would be about $2 million.
parison with other private and public institutions.
Of the 24 private universities that belong to the Association of American Universities, USC now ranks 17th in cost of tuition.
CRAWFOKD EXPLAINED differential tuition as one possible source for increased university revenue. This is a means by which students instead of paying a flat rate of $1,350 for 16 units, would pay more or less depending upon wh ether they were undergraduates—lower or upper division—graduates or in a professional school.
“One of the real dilemmas we have on this commission,” said Alan Rowe, commission chairman and associate dean in the School of Business Administration, “is that what we recommend will determine, to a great extent. the university’s budget.
another on bhhalf of undergraduates. Although two students are named in each suit as plaintiffs, all those in a position to be affected—in this case, the students—are for purposes of the trial considered to be plaintiffs.
THE SUITS contend that the university is guilty of breach of contract because students were not consulted before the tuition hikes and that no itemization ofthe expenditure of tuition monies has been made.
Jack Levine, of the law7 firm Levy, Van Bourg, and Hackler, and lawyer for the committee, said he w’ill contend that an adhesion contract exists between the students and the university.
An adhesion contract is one in which one party has the upper hand.
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RECRUITING FOR GOD—David Psalms, a member of the South Gate community of the Children of God sect, approached students Thursday in front of the University Bookstore, offering the group's literature. DT photo by Danny Alaimo.
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