Daily
Trojan
Volume LXVI, Number 50
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, December 4, 1973
$210 Limit Voted on Tuition Hike
CALLS FOR REVIEW—Peter Scolney, chairman of the Student Caucus of the University Council, argued Monday for the adoption of the minority report of the tuition commission. The council voted to place a limit of $210 on an increase. DT photo by Danny Alaimo.
BY KEVIN McKENNA
Assistant City Editor
A compromise resolution recommending that tuition be increased no more than $210 for next year was adopted Monday by the University Council.
The recommendation, if accepted by the Board of Trustees next week, would hold tuition to no more than $2,910 for the 1974-75 academic year.
THE COMPROMISE re solution originated in a meeting of the council's executive committee amid serious speculation that the Board of Trustees might raise tuition by more than $300 ifthe council did not recommend otherwise.
Martin Levine, chairman of the council, said after the meeting he could not predict whether the trustees would accept the council's resolution.
“I'm sure it will have an influence on the board, and that the tuition hike will be lower than it would otherwise have been.” he said. “But I can't predict whether
Court, Obscenity Is Forum Topic
“The Supreme Court's Obscenity and Pornography Decision—Is It Working?” will be the subject of a forum tonight at 7 in Founders Hall 129.
Among the speakers will be Ralph Amado. Los Angeles deputy city attorney, wrho specializes in obscenity cases; Ray Gauer, from Citizens for Decency through Law, and Fred Ok-rand, a member of the American Civil Liberties Union.
they will adopt the $210 figure.”
THE RESOLUTION ap
proved Monday replaces separate motions from the majority and minority factions of the Commission on Tuition and Fees.
The commission recommended last month by a 7-4 vote that tuition be increased $210. A report by the dissenting members recommended that no decision be made on tuition at this time.
Proponents of both proposals spoke Monday in favor the compromise resolution, which recommended that President John R. Hubbard and his budget staff consider both the majority and minority recommendations.
ALAN ROWE, chairman of the tuition commission, said the proposal “is acceptable from the majority standpoint." although it makes the $210 figure a ceiling, rather than a specific recommendation.
Peter Scolney, a student member of the commission and proponent of the minority report, said that an increase in tuition seemed inevitable and that the compromise resolution was not inconsistent with the minority report.
SCOLNEY SAID after the meeting that the recommendation puts pressure on the
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Editorial Director
Edmund G. (Gerry) Brown, Jr., listed disclosure of all campaign finances, limitations on campaign spending
trustees to hold the tuition increase to no more than $210 or the council would lose credibility.
The council is finally going out on a limb on an issue that means something.” Scolney siad. “The trustees can still raise tuition as much as they want, but if they do, they would expose the council as nothing more than a debating society.”
SEVERAL MOTIONS were made to amend the resolution. A proposal by Rosario P. Armato, associate professor of comparative literature, to strike the $210 figure from the resolution wras defated by voice vote.
“I don’t believe in making recommendations without full information, and I don't feel we have that information,” Armato said.
Speaking against Armato's amendment. Scolney said the amendment “would imply the council is giving the Board of Trustees a blank check to raise tuition as much as it wants.”
ANOTHER PROPOSED
amendment to change the $210 figure to an increase no more than the rise in the national cost-of-living index for 1973 was also defeated by voice vote.
Two amendments to the resolution were approved. One added a clause recommending the establishment
and publicly subsidized campaigns Monday as the most important reforms in the initiative sponsored by Common Cause and the People's Lobby.
Brown, a Democratic candidate for governor, spoke before a packed audience in Founders Hall. He talked about the initiative and responded to several questions on the energy crisis and land-use planning.
The initiative was written in his office, with the help of Common Cause and the People’s Lobby.
The initiative would authorize $1 million to fund an elections commission of five members. It would have the powjer to issue cease-and-desist orders, audit campaign finances, require testimony, and issue regulations.
It would allow citizens to file suit against candidates who did not report contributions and to sue for three times the amount of the undisclosed funds.
THOUGH HE admitted that this situation would foster w'hat Brown termed bounty hunters, he said this would cause the politicians to follow' the law more
of a permanent panel on tuition and fees to begin study at once. Such a proposal was made in both the majority and minority reports of the commission.
closely, and that they could use a little harassment.
He said only one lawsuit could be brought successfully against a candidate, and that if the citizen who brought the suit against a candidate lost, the citizen would have to pay the legal expenses.
In this way, excessive harassment or bounty hunting would be averted, but there wrould still be enough
BY SHERRIE STRAUSFOGEL
A new course evaluation guide will come out May 1. in time for preregistration for fall, 1974.
Gordon Dossett. a junior in English, is editing the Course Guide for the second consecutive year, but he’s seeking volunteers to complete the staff.
Last year's 25-cent, student-written analysis of courses and professors sold well among students but w as
Another amendment resulted in a change of wording. The recommendation is now a consensus of the council, not “campus representatives.”
incentive for politicians to disclose their campaign finances.
Under the initiative, expenditures would be limited. Otherwise, said Brown, candidates would spend money like drunken sailors. “The spector of unemployment looms very large in the last few days of a campaign,” said Brown, and that results in a rash of fund-raising.
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not as wrell received by the faculty.
THE PURPOSE of the course and professor reviews, as expressed in last year’s introduction, is to give students the benefit of another student’s experience.
This is done by summarizing student evaluations of courses and the professors who teach them. The source of information for the evaluations are questionnaires filled out by students.
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EDMUND G. BROWN, JR.
B rown Lauds Reform Initiative
Publication Date Set For "Course Guide’