By Karen Kelly
Staff Writer
Instead of giving approximately 300 students entitled to parking rebates their money, the Student Communitv Council voted to use the money to fund the Student Awareness Campaign.
Instead of writing out checks of SI .69 for each of the students involved, auxiliary services turned the money over in a lump sum of about S800 to the council, said Richard Rodriguez, a council member.
Many residents of Cardinal Gardens, Century Apartments and Troy Hall who purchased parking permits last semester are entitled to partial rebates because inadequate facilities created insufficient parking space, said Kevin Polk, a council member.
"I'm furious about what happened at the meeting. I urge all students involved to call the Office of Residential Life and get their monev back," said Andy Goodman,
DOUBLE TAKE—The eight stories of Birnkrant become sixteen in a rain puddle reflecting poo!
Prof’s access ruled no violation of privacy act
By Teresa Watanabe
Staff Writer
A universitv administrator has ruled that the examination of students' confidential files by a professor of international relations was not a violation of the Buckley Amendment
The amendment, formally called The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, is a law guaranteeing students the right to see their educational records and prohibiting unauthorized parties from doing so.
The professor was discovered examining student applicant files for research positions in the School of International Relations. It was unclear at the- time whether he had legal access to the files
James Appleton, vice-president of student affairs, implements the university's policy regarding the amendment. He ruled that the professor was "sufficiently designated as a person representing an official commission within the school."
The amendment allows examination of students' confidential files by university officials when it is necessary in the "normal performance of their assigned duties," Appleton said. Appleton acted on the recom-
mendation of John Marburger, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, who said the professor was acting along appropriate guidelines for official personnel.
Appleton recommended that more caution be taken in opening student files. Prior to opening files, Appleton said a decision must be made as to whether the person in question is acting as an official representative of the university. Jay Savage, acting director of the School of International Relations, would probably assume this responsibility, but Appleton said he had not spoken to Savage about this.
The amendment, sponsored by James L. Buckley, former New York senator, originalh provided only parents of elementary and secondary school students with "the right to inspect and review any and all official records, files and data directly related to (them)."
It was designed as a response to complaints by parents and students that thev should be allowed to see what goes into academic files since the data could influence a student's occupational and educational opportunities.
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Students’ rebate money turned over to campaign
a member of ihe awareness campaign.
Ron McElhanev, president of the council, urged the council members to vote on the proposal without giving student representatives the opportunity to contact students to find their opinions on the situation, Goodman said.
A proposal was made during the meeting to readjust its budget and allocate $650 to finance the Student Awareness Campaign, said George Will, a council member
The Student Awareness Campaign is a program designed to involve students to become more informed of protecting themselves.
The problem arose when a separate issue — whether the council had the right to decide what to do with the money belonging to students — got tied into the proposal. Will said.
"I feel very strongly that people in the complexes should decide what to do with the money," he said.
If the students want their rebates, the money could be given to the student governments of the three buildings and they could distribute it, he said.
Another possibility is that if the students decide they don't want the money it could be put into their apartment's activity fund.
Will said the students may also decide
thev want to let the council use the money to fund the Student Awareness Cam-paign.
No representatives from Cardinal Gardens were present at the meeting and only one was present from Tro\ Hall. The decision was made primarily by students from housing complexes not affected by the proposal, Goodman said.
"I don't feel the council should have voted on allocating it (rebate money) out, simply because it wasn’t our money,” Rodriguez said.
He said he is confident that anyone who wants their rebate will receive it.
He added that student representatives from Cardinal Gardens, Troy Hall and Century Apartments are attempting to get lists of everyone who purchased parking permits. If 50% of the students want their rebates, the council would probably institute a program to get the money back to them, Rodriguez said.
trojan
Volume LXXVI, Number 28	University of Southern California Wednesday, March 21,1979
Boards argue over appropriations
Chairmen disagree on methods
The Campus Activities Allocation Board and its review board are blaming one another for problems caused in the appropriation of programming funds.
The allocation board is often not humanistic enough in its dealings with groups, said Larry Pezor, chairman of the review board
Stan Kiyota, chairman of the allocation board said he might not have as much tact as other people, but he was a lot more candid.
The Student Senate has recommended that the allocation board and the review board be abolished. The new system would create seven umbrella groups that would each allocate student programming fees to various organizations.
"The allocation board does not open channels of communication with groups requesting funding,' "Pezor said.
The Trojan Knights were not informed when the allocation board took their money away, Pezor said, llie Knights have incurred a $1,000 debt, he said.
The allocation board rarely bothers to inform groups when their funding proposals are approved, Pezor said.
'The board figures the groups should call and find out for themselves. The personal contact is missing — that's what everyone is complaining about, ' he said.
Kiyota has said that some groups have tried to pressure the allocations board into giving them funds.
Members of MEChA charged that the allocation board is unsympathetic, biased and discriminatory.
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Members accused the allocation board of giving them an unfair hearing. Like many other groups, MEChA appealed to the review board, which has the power to override the allocation board.
The review board's job is to see both sides objectively and to interpret the allocation board's rules as they apply to unique groups, Pezor said.
Kiyota said that outside ties of some review hoard members might have influenced the group’s decisions.
Sometimes the allocation board is too concerned with bylaws, Pezor said.
The allocation board gave MEChA s newspaper, El Nuei’o Sol, funds for printing. El Nuevo Sol used part of this money to buy printing supplies.
The allocation board refused to fund El Nuevo Sol this semester because the staff bought these supplies without going through a formal line item
change.
''We bought these supplies to cut down our printing costs and figured they were part of the printing process," said Richard Tostado, editor of El Nuevo Sol
If the allocation board didn't enforce rules students might misuse funds, Kiyota said.
The review board accepts a group's word too readily, Kiyota said.
The review board believed the Trojan Parallel was selling about 2,000 newspapers each issue. It was revealed later that only about 1.000 papers were being sold, Kiyota said.
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OTIS CHANDLER
s’ coverage fair Otis Chandler
By Karen Holloway
Staff Writer
"Several trustees have told me that if it wasn't for the coverage of the Times, they wouldn't have known what was going on,' said Otis Chandler, publisher of theLc* Angela Times.
Chandler spoke Tuesday before an audience in Annenberg auditorium.
Chandler denied allegations that the Times coverage of universitv news, such as the establishment of the Middle East Center and President John Hubbard's resignation, was unfair or inaccurate.
"USC has been sheltered from the media spotlight for a long time," Chandler said.
The universitv was not subject to the close press coverage given to other colleges and universities during the turmoil of the 60s, and is unaccustomed to treatment bv the media, he said.
"The trustees weren't used to seeing their names in the paper," said the 51-vear-old chief administrative officer of the l imes Mirror Corp.
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